Ok, so you may still be interested and i will carry on.
Point to note.
From 3000 BC to 0 ... So much is happening it is quite and extensive list.
With the invention of writing, log keeping, diaries, census's and everything else these ancient civilisations started doing.. it isn't as easy as saying "Here is the time between 3000 BC and 2000 BC"
So, i have divided it up into 100's of years.
(I don't know how many posts i can do on here in one go so i will carry it on later)
Stay tuned.
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The Post Track, an ancient causeway in the Somerset Levels, England, is built,
ca. 3838 BC. It is one of the oldest engineered roads discovered in Northern Europe.
The Sweet Track, an ancient causeway also in the Somerset Levels, the oldest timber
trackway discovered in Northern Europe, is built in 3807 BC or 3806 BC,
tree-ring dating (Dendrochronology) enabled very precise dating.
Plough in use.
5.9 kiloyear event, one of the most intense aridification events during the Holocene.
Before 3000 BC: Image of a deity, detail from a cong recovered
from Tomb 12, Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made. Neolithic period.
Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou.
3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa
3000 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley
c. 3000 BC: Neolithic period ends
3000 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of united Egypt, starts to reign
3000 BC: Caral, the first city in the Americas, starts to be built.
c. 3000 BC: Troy is founded
c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version,
it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.
(National Geographic, June 2008).
3000 BC – 2350 BC: Scarlet Ware vase, from Tutub (modern Tell Khafajeh, Iraq)
is made, it is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad
3000 BC – 2000 BC: World population about 30 million.
c. 3000 BC: Epidamnos civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts
c. 3000 BC: Minoan civilization starts
c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts
c. 3000 BC: Norte Chico civilization in Northern Peru starts
c. 3000 BC: The Angono Petroglyphs are carved in the Philippines.
c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.
c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.
c. 2955 BC: Djer, second pharaoh of Egypt, dies
c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian
First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.
2925 BC – 2776 BC: First Dynasty wars in Egypt.
c. 2920 BC: Djet, third pharaoh of Egypt.
2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Mesopotamia.
c. 2900 BC – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.
2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
c. 2900 BC – 2600 BC: Votive statues, from the Square Temple,
Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) was made. Excavated 1932–1933.
2897 BC: Hùng Vương established the Hồng Bàng Dynasty in Vietnam
(then known as Văn Lang)
2890 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of
Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.
2880 BC: Estimated germination of the Prometheus Tree
c. 2874 B.C.: The 365-day year was installed in ancient Egypt, with fixed
lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days.[1]
2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors
in China.
2832 BC: Estimated germination of the Methuselah Tree, the oldest known
living organism
2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between
Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based
on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and
Fenambosy Chevron.[2][3]
Ur becomes one of the richest cities in Sumer[4]
c. 2800 BC – 2700 BC: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made.
2775 BC – 2650 BC: Second Dynasty wars in Ancient Egypt.
Around 2773 - the 365-day calendar is introduced in Egypt.
2750 BC: End of the Early Dynastic I Period, and the beginning of the
Early Dynastic II Period in Mesopotamia.
c. 2750 BC: Estimated ending of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region
of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine
c. 2715 BC: Old Kingdom starts in Ancient Egypt (another date is 2660 BC).
2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
2775 BC – 2650 BC: Second Dynasty wars in Egypt.
2750 BC – 2600 BC: Ancient burial sites with human Skeletons are created;
they are later discovered in Ibbankatuwa, Dambulla in Sri Lanka.
2737 BC: Invention of tea as a beverage by Shennong, according to a
Chinese legend.
2700 BC: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period ended in Ancient Egypt
(according to French Egyptologist Nicolas Grimol). This period includes 1st
and 2nd Dyasties.
c. 2700 BC: Old Kingdom started in Ancient Egypt. 3rd–6th Dynasties.
c. 2697 BC:Yellow Emperor started in China.
c. 2686 BC: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period ends in Ancient Egypt
(other date is 2700 BC).
c. 2686 BC: Old Kingdom starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2700 BC).
2686 BC: Egypt: End of Second Dynasty, start of Third Dynasty. Pharaoh Khasekhemwy
died. Pharaoh Sanakhte started to reign.
c. 2685 BC: Bull lyre, from the tomb of Queen Puabi, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was made.
c. 2681 BC – c. 2662 BC: Reign of Djoser, Pharaoh of Egypt, Third Dynasty.
2668 BC: Pharaoh Sanakhte died.
c. 2667 BC: Pharaoh Djoser starts to rule (other date is 2681 BC).
2660 BC: Archaic period ends in Ancient Egypt.
c. 2660 BC: Old Kingdom in Ancient Egypt started (Another date is 2715 BC).
c. 2648 BC: Pharaoh Djoser dies (another date is 2662 BC).
c. 2640 BC: The cultivation and weaving of silk starts to be a closely guarded secret in China.
2630 BC – 2611 BC: Imhotep, Vizier of Egypt, constructs the Pyramid of Djoser
2627 BC – 2000 BC: Construction of the Caral metropolis in Peru
2613 BC: Egypt—End of Third Dynasty, start of Fourth Dynasty. Pharaoh Huni died.
Pharaoh Sneferu started to reign.
c. 2613 BC – 2494 BC: The Great Sphinx at Giza is built. Fourth Dynasty.
c. 2601 BC – c. 2515 BC: Great Pyramids at Giza are built for Menkaure, Khafre and
Khufu. Fourth Dynasty.
c. 2601 BC: Khufu started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
2600 BC: Mature Harappan phase of the Indus Valley Civilization begins.
The cities of Harappa and Mohenjo-daro become large metropolises and the
civilization expands to over 2,500 cities and settlements across the whole of Pakistan,
much of northern India, and parts of Afghanistan and Iran, covering a region of
around one million square miles, which was larger than the land area of its
contemporaries Egypt and Mesopotamia combined, and also had superior
urban planning and sewage systems. The civilization began using the mature
Indus script for its writing system.
2600 BC: End of the Early Dynastic II Period and the beginning of the Early
Dynastic IIIa Period in Mesopotamia.
2700 BC: Mesoamericans begin to plant and domesticate corn.
c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic
period continue.
c. 2600 BC: The Harappan civilization rises to become a powerful civilization.
c. 2600 BC: Pre-Palace Period, phase I, in Crete (Mellersh 1970)
c. 2600 BC – 2500 BC: Wild horses still provide hunting feasts in
Denmark. (Clutton-Brock)
c. 2600 BC – 1900 BC: Large water tank, possibly a public or ritual bathing area,
Mohenjo-Daro, Indus Valley Civilization, Harappan, is made.
c. 2589 BC: Pharaoh Khufu starts to rule (other date is 2601 BC).
c. 2578 BC: Khufu died.
c. 2575 BC: Old Kingdom in Egypt 4th Dynasty Snofru is Pharaoh.
(Atlas of Egypt 1989)
c. 2570 BC: Khafra started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
c. 2566 BC: Pharaoh Khufu dies (other date is 2578 BC).
c. 2558 BC: Pharaoh Khafra starts to rule (other date is 2570 BC).
c. 2550 BC: Estimated date of completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
c. 2550 BC: Egyptian rulers contact Western Desert oases, such as
Dakhla Oasis.
c. 2550 BC: About this time, Mesannepada is king of Ur (followed by his son,
A-annepadda) who founds the First dynasty of Ur and overthrows the last
king of Uruk, as well as Mesalim of Kish. [Roux 1980]
c. 2550 BC – 2400 BC: Great Lyre with bull's head, from the tomb of King
Meskalamdug, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq, is made
c. 2544 BC: Khafra died.
c. 2533 BC: Menkaura started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
c. 2532 BC: Pharaoh Khafra dies (other date is 2544 BC).
c. 2532 BC: Pharaoh Menkaura starts to rule (other date is 2533 BC).
c. 2515 BC: Menkaura died.
c. 2510 BC – 2460 BC: Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti,
Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt, is made. Discovered by
French archeologist Auguste Mariette in 1865.
c. 2503 BC: Pharaoh Menkaura dies (other date is 2515 BC).
c. 2500 BC: The legendary line of Sanhuangwudi rulers of China
is founded by Huang Di.
c. 2500 BC: the construction of the stone circle at Stonehenge begins and
continues for the next five hundred years.
c. 2500 BC: "Menkaura and a Queen, perhaps his wife, Queen Khamerernebty II"
sculpture, later found at Giza. Fourth Dynasty.
c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
c. 2500 BC: Rice was first introduced to Malaysia
c. 2500 BC: Scribal schools flourish throughout Sumer.
c. 2500 BC: Cylinder seal from Sumer and its impression are made..
c. 2500 BC: Excavation and development of the Hypogeum of Ħal-Saflieni at
Paola, Malta, a subterranean templex complex subsequently used as a necropolis.
c. 2500 BC: Valley Temple of Khafra, Giza, is built.
c. 2500 BC: Khafra from Giza Valley, Temple of Khafra is made. Fourth dynasty of Egypt.
Discovered by Auguste Mariette. It is now kept in Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
c. 2500 BC: People in Peru rely on fish and mussels for food.
c. 2500 BC – 2000 BC: Mohenjo-Daro is about 7 square miles (18 km2) in
size and has a population of c. 20,000 to 50,000.
c. 2494 BC: End of Fourth Dynasty, start of Fifth Dynasty in Egypt.
Construction of the Pyramids begins.
c. 2494 BC – 2345 BC: "Sculptors at work", relief from Saqqara, Fifth Dynasty.
c. 2494 BC – 2345 BC: "Seated Scribe" from tomb of vizier Kai [Saqqara, sculpture,
Fifth dynasty of Egypt is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.
2492 BC: Traditional date for the legendary foundation of the Armenian nation (see Haik).
2467 BC: According to Chinese tradition, in this year Huangdi (the Yellow Emperor)
rose from the tribes of Zhongyuan. This is traditionally considered the starting point of
Chinese Civilization.
c. 2450 BC: End of the Early Dynastic IIIa Period and beginning of the Early Dynastic
IIIb Period in Sumer.
c. 2450 BC: Kish is lost to Khamazi tribesmen of the Kurdistan mountains; Elamites
from Awan occupy parts of Sumer. (Roux 1980)
c. 2410 BC: By this time, kings in Sumer have ceased to be automatically high priests
of the city deity. (Roux 1980) Semitic infiltration and conquest of Mesopotamia begins.
(1968 RD Almanac)
Megalithic Culture begins to spread through Europe and the western Mediterranean.
(1968 RD Almanac)
Celts begin invading Europe from the east. (1968 RD Almanac)
Earliest signs of Battle Axe Culture from the Caucasus. (Encyc. Americana)
Southeastern Spain is settled from the Mediterranean, by people using
Predynastic Egyptian-style pottery. (Encyc. Americana)
Amorites and Canaanites occupy Syria and Lebanon. (Encyc. Americana)
c. 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early
Dynastic period continue.
c. 2400 BC-2000 BC: Large Painted Jar with Border Containing Birds, from
Chanhu-Daro, Indus Valley Civilization, is made.
c. 2360 BC: Hekla-4 eruption.
c. 2350 BC: End of the Early Dynastic IIIb period in Mesopotamia.
c. 2350 BC: First destruction of the city of Mari.
c. 2345 BC: End of Fifth Dynasty. Pharaoh Unas died.
c. 2345 BC: Sixth dynasty of Egypt starts (other date is 2460 BC).
c. 2340 BC – 2180 BC: Akkadian Empire.
c. 2334 BC – 2279 BC: Semitic chieftain Sargon of Akkad's
conquest of Sumer and Mesopotamia.
City of Lothal founded under the Indus valley civilization.
2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest
of Mesopotamia.
2333 BC: Beginning of the Gojoseon, the first dynasty and government system
in Korea.
c. 2300 BC: Bronze Age starts.
c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: Disk of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made.
c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: Head of a man from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made.
c. 2300 BC: Canal Bahr Yusuf (current name) is created when the waterway
from the Nile to the natural lake (now Lake Moeris) is widened and deepened to create a canal.
c. 2288 BC – 2224/2194 BC: Pepy II and his mother, Queen Merye-ankhnes,
Sixth dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.
c. 2278 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II starts to rule (other date is 2383 BC).
c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in
Susa (modern Shush, Iran), is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.
c. 2240 BC: Akkad, capital of the Akkadian Empire, becomes the
largest city in the world, surpassing Memphis, capital of Egypt.[1]
c. 2215 BC: Comet Hale-Bopp appeared. A Guti army swept down from
the Zagros Mountains and defeated the demoralized Akkadian army.
They took Agade, the capital of Akkad, and destroyed it thoroughly.
c. 2300 BC: Metals started to be used in Northern Europe.
4.2 kiloyear event – a severe aridification event that probably lasted the entire
22nd century BC and caused the collapse of several Old World civilizations.
2217 BC – 2193 BC: Nomadic invasions of Akkad.
2200 BC: Sixth dynasty of Egypt ended.
c. 2190 BC: Caused by a severe drought, Old Kingdom finished in Ancient Egypt.
Start of First Intermediate Period. 7th–10th Dynasties.
c. 2184 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II Neferkare dies (other date is 2289 BC?).
c. 2181 BC: Old Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2190 BC).
c. 2181 BC: First Intermediate Period starts in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2190 BC).
2181 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Nitocris died. End of Sixth Dynasty, start of Seventh Dynasty.
Pharaoh Neferkara I started to reign.
2180 BC: Old Kingdom ends in Ancient Egypt. First Intermediate Period of Egypt starts.
c. 2180 BC: Akkadian Empire fell under attack by the Guti (Mesopotamia),
a mountain people from the northeast.
2173 BC: Egypt: End of Seventh Dynasty, start of Eighth Dynasty.
2160 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Neferirkara died. End of Eighth Dynasty, start of
Ninth Dynasty. Pharaoh Neferkare started to reign.
c. 2160 BC: Beginning of Middle Minoan period in Crete.
c. 2150 – 2030 BC: Gilgamesh epic was written.
c. 2150 BC: Lagash.
c. 2144 BC: Gudea, the ruler (ensi) of the city of Lagash, started to reign.
2138 BC: Babylon: A solar eclipse on 9 May and a lunar eclipse on
24 May occurred and are believed to be the double eclipse that took place 23 years
after the ascension of king Shulgi of Babylon by those holding to the long chronology.
2130 BC: Egypt: End of Ninth Dynasty, start of Tenth Dynasty. Ninth Dynasty wars in
Egypt started.
c. 2125 BC – 2055 BC: "Model of a house and garden, from Thebes".
Eleventh dynasty of Egypt. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2124 BC: Gudea, the ruler (ensi) of the city of Lagash, died.
c. 2120 BC: Votive statue of Gudea from Lagash (Iraq) was made.
It is now in the Musée du Louvre.
2119 BC – 2113 BC: (middle chronology), Utu-hengal, first king of the
third dynasty of Ur.
2116 BC – 2110 BC: Uruk–Gutian war.
2112 BC – 2095 BC: Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu.
2104 BC – 2103 BC: Date of the Biblical flood according to the
Hebrew Calendar.
c. 2100 BC – c. 2050 BC: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was built.
2091 BC: Beginning of the Patriarchal Age was traditionally set in this year.
2080 BC: Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt.
2080 BC: First Intermediate Period of Egypt ended. Middle Kingdom
began in Ancient Egypt.
2071 BC: Magh Ithe, first recorded battle in Ireland myths.
2070 BC (disputable): Yu the Great set up the Xia Dynasty, which isn't verified by
archeological findings, some propose the Erlitou culture.
c. 2064 BC – 1986 BC: Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
c. 2055 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt (another date is 2040 BC).
c. 2055 BC: Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2040 BC).
c. 2055 BC: Mentuhotep II from Thebes managed to reunite Ancient Egypt and
began to rule (other date is 2040 BC).
c. 2055 BC – 1985 BC: Funerary Stele of Amenemhat I was made. Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt.
Excavated in 1915–1916. It is now kept in Egyptian Museum, Cairo.
The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
c. 2049 BC: Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
c. 2040 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt.
Start of Middle Kingdom. 11th–14th Dynasties.
2040 BC: Beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty and government
system in China.
2040 BC: Pharaoh Merykare died. End of Tenth dynasty of Egypt.
Pharaoh Mentuhotep II started to rule. Start of Eleventh Dynasty.
2034 BC – 2004 BC: Ur–Amorite wars.
c. 2009 BC – 1997 BC: Funerary temple of Mentuhotep III was built.
Eleventh Dynasty.
2004 BC: Elamite destruction of Ur.
c. 2004 BC: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II, Eleventh dynasty of Egypt dies.
c. 2000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age ended.
3000 1st Dynasties of…
Mesopotamia
Minoan / Mycenaean
3000 Furthest back as Cuniform Script describing
the world… Cuniform Script is first written text
usually on Clay tablets or on walls.
2800 Imhotep Built Pyramid @ Sakkara
2800 - 2205 Chinese Dynasties 1st
2700 Egypt Started Hieroglyphs
2600 Earliest Mayan Culture recorded
Central America
2600 Kings 4th Dynasty build Giza pyramids
2500 Britains discover cooking utencils and cutlery
2500 - 1500 Indus Vally Civilization formed
2400 Stonehenge and Neolithic
cultures start in Britain
first useage of animal hides as housing.
2300 The name of God put on
a list of Gods and known as the
Ruler of the Gods… EL… aka… Deity… Jovah
2200 - 500 Bronze Age Europe
2200 - 1500 The Xia Dynasty China,
First known use of writing
Agriculture and Irigation in Asia.
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