Events
Displaying events 601 - 900 of 1136 in total
ID | Category | Subcategory | Date | Summary |
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5154 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandonment in Mesopotamia/Iran |
5155 | Archeology | Volcanic Eruption Evidence | 1650BC | Eruption of Thera Changed World |
5156 | Archeology | Tsunami Evidence | 1650BC | Tsunami generated by Theran eruption |
5157 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 1650BC | Earthquake caused by Theran Eruption |
5158 | Archeology | Epigraphic Evidence | 1650BC | Worldwide effects of Theran Eruption - China |
5159 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 1650BC | Theran eruption/possible comet/asteroid event related |
5160 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 1650BC | Dating the Eruption of Thera |
5161 | Archeology | Mass Migration Evidence | 1650BC | Mass displacement of populations resulting from Theran eruption |
5162 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 717BC Jul. 5 | Solar eclipse, Descending cloud, blasts of wind and rain, disappearance/ascent of Romulus |
5163 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2300BC | Adverse Climate Changes in Anatolia and Cyprus |
5164 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandonment in Anatolia (Troy incl.) |
5165 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 753BC Apr. 21 | Founding of Rome |
5166 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 2300BC | Earthquake and crustal warping in Anatolia, Black Sea, and Rhodes |
5167 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 709BC Jul. 17 | Solar eclipse, total crosses northern Italy |
5168 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandoment in southern and central Greece |
5169 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2100BC | Earthquakes in Anatolia |
5170 | Society | Mass Death | 2300BC | Adverse Climate Changes in Egypt, dynasty collapse, severe famine, cannibalism |
5171 | Environment | Drought | 2300BC | Adverse Climate Changes in Egypt, desertification |
5172 | Society | Mass Migration | 2300BC | Exodus event? |
5173 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 2300BC | Dust from unknown source |
5174 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 2300BC | Widespread destruction event, possible Tunguska-like |
5175 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Pre-Harappan civilization disappears from Indus region |
5176 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Widespread site abandonment in Central Asia |
5177 | Archeology | Mass Migration Evidence | 2200BC | Harappan culture migrates from Western Asia to Indus region |
5178 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 791BC Jun. 24 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Mediterranean |
5179 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 778BC Apr. 4 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Mediterranean |
5180 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 775BC Jan. 31 | Solar eclipse, partial, visible from central and southern Europe |
5181 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 771BC Nov. 8 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Mediterranean |
5182 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Earthquakes, crustal movement, floods, Indus Valley |
5183 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1900BC | End of Harappan Civilization, floods, earthquakes |
5184 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 1175BC | Earthquakes destroyed Bronze Age civilization |
5185 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 2300BC | Land subsidence, Sri Lanka |
5186 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 2300BC | Rakshasos, falling meteoroids, associated with "terrible clamor" and sea level rise in Southern India |
5187 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 765BC Feb. 10 | Solar eclipse, total, crosses Mediterranean |
5188 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 763BC Jun. 15 | Solar eclipse, total, crosses Arabia |
5189 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 744BC Dec. 9 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Central Europe |
5190 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 737BC Jul. 26 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses north Africa |
5191 | Society | Famine | 612BC | Famine in Babylon reported with lunar eclipse observation |
5192 | Society | Famine | 610BC | Famine in Babylon reported with lunar eclipse observation |
5193 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 3123BC Jun. 29 | Overhead comet/asteroid explosion; Köfels’ Impact |
5194 | Society | War | 539BC Oct. | Fall of Babylon to Cyrus the Great |
5195 | Society | Massacre | 490BC Sep. 12 | Battle of Marathon |
5196 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 480BC Oct. 2 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses north Africa |
5197 | Society | War | 492BC | First Persian Invasion of Greece |
5198 | Society | War | 480BC (Spr.) | Second Persian Invasion of Greece |
5200 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 1188BC | Fall of Troy |
5201 | Celestial | Comet | 1188BC | Pleiades-Arctic comet "trails out for a long distance" associated with the fall of Troy recorded in Roman texts |
5202 | Celestial | Comet | 1140BC | Very large, bright comet or meteor with tail like a scorpion observed in Babylon |
5203 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 975BC | Terrible comet-like ball of fire seen over Ethiopia and Egypt |
5204 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 426BC Oct. | Rivers and springs stopped flowing for several days, land sinking and rising prior to Malian Gulf tsunami |
5205 | Society | War | 397BC | Siege of Syracuse by Carthaginians |
5206 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 388BC | Thunderbolt falls killing several men |
5207 | Society | Mass sickness | 379BC | "Supernatural disaster", turmoils and fears causing panic and discord in Carthage |
5208 | Geology | Earthquake | 373BC (Win.) | Great earthquake; Bura disappeared in a chasm of the earth, and Helice was wiped out by a wave from the sea. |
5209 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 373BC (Win.) | For five days before great earthquake and tsunami, creatures flee region |
5210 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 360BC | Volcanic eruption on the Island of Vulcano |
5211 | Society | People | 484BC | Herodotus |
5212 | Society | People | 470BC | Socrates |
5213 | Society | People | 570BC | Pythagoras |
5214 | Society | People | 522BC | Pindar |
5215 | Society | People | 345BC | Timaeus of Tauromenium |
5216 | Society | Prodigy | 332BC | "Bloody bread", vision of Apollo leaving city during siege of Tyre |
5217 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 332BC | Alexander's Siege of Tyre |
5218 | Geology | Earthquake | 325BC Nov. | Earthquake associated with tsunami that destroyed much of Alexander's fleet in India |
5219 | Society | People | 673BC | Reign of Tullus Hostilius, third King of Rome |
5220 | Society | People | 715BC | Reign of Numa Pompilius, second King of Rome |
5221 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 250BC | Giant ancient water basin found in Rome |
5222 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 700BC | Temple from the time of Numa Pompilius found |
5223 | Society | People | 771BC Mar. 28 | Traditional Birth of Romulus, founder and King of Rome |
5224 | Society | People | 350BC | Diocles of Peparethus, author of earliest known Roman history |
5225 | Society | People | 270BC | Quintus Fabius Pictor, earliest Roman historian |
5226 | Society | Laws and legal system | 272BC | Creation of the Hebrew Bible Primary History |
5227 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 707BC | "Shield" falls from the sky during pestilence |
5228 | Society | People | 624BC | Thales of Miletus philosopher and mathematician, one of the Seven Sages of Greece |
5229 | Society | People | 610BC | Anaximander |
5230 | Society | People | 585BC | Anaximenes of Miletus |
5231 | Society | People | 570BC | Xenophanes |
5232 | Society | People | 341BC | Epicurus |
5233 | Society | People | 535BC | Heraclitus of Ephesus |
5234 | Society | People | 750BC | Homer |
5235 | Society | People | 515BC | Parmenides of Elea |
5236 | Society | People | 490BC | Zeno of Elea |
5237 | Society | People | 490BC | Empedocles formulates 4 elements and 2 powers of the cosmos |
5238 | Society | People | 480BC | Leucippus |
5239 | Society | People | 460BC | Democritus, philosopher |
5240 | Society | People | 490BC | Protagoras, first relativist |
5241 | Society | People | 430BC | Xenophon |
5242 | Other | Other | 2100BC | Epic of Gilgamesh stories composed |
5243 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 7250BC | 'Ain Ghazal Neolithic site near Amman, Jordan, settled |
5244 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 6850BC | Sesklo culture, Thessaly, Greece used advanced agriculture and made pottery |
5245 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 279BC | Tempest, hail, severe cold, snow, during Gallic invasion of Greece |
5246 | Society | Massacre | 279BC | Gallic invasion of Greece, Battle of Thermopylae |
5247 | Society | War | 390BC | Gallic invasion of Rome, Battle of the Allia |
5248 | Society | People | 428BC | Plato |
5249 | Society | People | 642BC | Reign of Ancus Marcius, fourth King of Rome |
5250 | Society | People | 616BC | Reign of Lucius Tarquinius Priscus, Tarquin the Elder, fifth King of Rome |
5251 | Society | Massacre | 218BC Dec. 21 | Battle of the Trebia, Roman army massacred by Hannibal |
5252 | Society | People | 334BC | Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism |
5253 | Archeology | Volcanic Eruption Evidence | 1780BC | Vesuvius Vented Its Wrath during Bronze Age |
5254 | Society | Massacre | 215BC | Roman consul, Postumius Albinus, beheaded; entire army destroyed by the Boii |
5255 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 198BC | Haloes around the sun and moon |
5256 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Chalcis-on-Belus in northern Syria swallowed by earthquake |
5257 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Sidon extensively damaged by earthquake; nearly two-thirds "engulfed" |
5258 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 198BC | Fountains of Arethusa in Chalcis stopped and gushed up elsewhere |
5259 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 198BC | Chasm opened in Lelantine Plain, Euboea, erupting a river of fiery lava |
5260 | Society | People | 361BC | Titus Manlius Torquatus single combat with gigantic Gaul - David and Goliath type story |
5261 | Society | War | 343BC | First Samnite War |
5262 | Society | War | 326BC | Second Samnite War, Roman expansion |
5263 | Society | War | 298BC | Third Samnite War, peoples of Italy unite against Rome |
5264 | Society | Massacre | 291BC | Capture and colonization of Venusia by Romans |
5265 | Society | Massacre | 293BC | Battle of Aquilonia; Romans vs. Samnites |
5266 | Society | Massacre | 298BC | Etruscans and Gauls invade Rome, Battle of Volterra |
5267 | Society | Massacre | 305BC | Battle of Bovianum, end of second Samnite War, Rome acquires more territory |
5268 | Society | Massacre | 310BC | Battle of Lake Vadimo; Romans vs. Etruscans; Rome acquires more territory |
5269 | Society | War | 321BC | Battle of the Caudine Forks, humiliation of the Romans by Samnites |
5270 | Society | War | 640BC | First Latin War; Rome against the Latins; people captured and made citizens of Rome |
5271 | Society | War | 588BC | Second Latin War; Rome acquires more territory |
5272 | Society | War | 508BC | Lars Porsena War between Clusium and Aricia; Rome acquires survivors as citizens |
5273 | Society | War | 503BC | The Pometian revolt against Rome |
5274 | Society | War | 499BC | Battle of Lake Regillus; thirty cities revolt against Rome |
5275 | Society | War | 495BC | Volscian invasion; Rome's plebs refuse to fight without reforms and debt relief |
5276 | Society | Politics | 493BC | Foedus Cassianum, military alliance between the Latin cities with Rome |
5277 | Society | War | 386BC | Defection of the Latins from Rome, Volscians help the Antiates invade the Pomptine territory |
5278 | Society | Assassination | 384BC | Marcus Manlius Capitolinus martyred - thrown off the Tarpeian Rock - for trying to help the poor |
5279 | Society | War | 382BC | War between Rome and Praeneste |
5280 | Society | Mass sickness | 383BC | Pestilence in Rome |
5281 | Society | Massacre | 381BC | M. Furius Camillus' victory at Satricum |
5282 | Society | War | 381BC | Roman annexation of Tusculum |
5283 | Society | War | 380BC | Dictatorship of T. Quinctius Cincinnatus; capture of Praeneste and nine towns |
5284 | Society | War | 378BC | Invasion of Volscii; revolt of plebs against patricians in Rome; Romans plunder Volscii territory |
5285 | Society | War | 377BC | Defeat of Antium and destruction of Satricum |
5286 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 377BC | Battle of Satricum interrupted by severe rainstorm |
5287 | Society | Prodigy | 377BC | Voice heard from temple of Mater Matuta during burning of Satricum |
5288 | Society | Politics | 375BC | Period of anarchy in Rome |
5289 | Society | War | 360BC | Rome defeats coalition of Tiburtes and Gauls; Q. Servilius Ahala allegedly appointed dictator |
5290 | Society | War | 357BC | Privernum and Velitrae raid Roman territory; Gaius Marcius Rutilus defends successfully |
5291 | Society | War | 358BC | Renewal of treaty between Rome and the Latins; invasion by Gauls; C. Sulpicius Peticus appointed dictator, defeats Gauls |
5292 | Society | Politics | 354BC | End of the early Latin Wars; Rome prevails |
5293 | Society | People | 519BC | Cincinnatus, patrician opponent of justice and equality under the law |
5294 | Society | People | 462BC | Gaius Terentilius Harsa, plebeian tribune and advocate of formal law code for all |
5295 | Society | People | 439BC | Spurius Maelius, advocate for the people, falsely accused and assassinated by Gaius Servilius Ahala |
5296 | Society | War | 346BC | Second Defeat of Antium and destruction of Satricum |
5297 | Society | War | 345BC | Romans capture Volscian town, Sora |
5298 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 253BC | Violent hail storm in Babylon |
5299 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 248BC Jan. | Severe cold in Babylon |
5300 | Society | People | 276BC | Eratosthenes of Cyrene |
5301 | Society | Science | 200BC | Eratosthenes of Cyrene accurately calculates the circumference of the Earth |
5302 | Society | People | 356BC Jul. 20 | Alexander III of Macedon, the Great |
5303 | Society | People | 300BC | Aristo of Chios, stoic and companion of Zeno of Citium |
5304 | Society | People | 316BC | Arcesilaus, founder of the Middle Academy and Academic skepticism; opposed Stoics |
5305 | Society | People | 310BC | Callimachus, catalogued the library at Alexandria |
5306 | Society | People | 278BC | Ptolemy III Euergetes, first known example of decrees published as bilingual inscriptions, invented leap years, builder of the Serapeum, expanded the Alexandrian library |
5307 | Society | People | 310BC | Apollonius of Rhodes, author of the Argonautica, librarian at Alexandria, Homeric scholar |
5308 | Society | People | 262BC | Ptolemy IV Philopator, builder of largest human-powered vessel ever built, major antagonist of 3 Maccabees |
5309 | Society | People | 289BC | Archimedes: mathematician, physicist, engineer, inventor, and astronomer |
5310 | Society | People | 680BC | Archilochus: earliest known Greek author to compose almost entirely on the theme of his own emotions and experiences |
5311 | Society | Assassination | 578BC | Assassination of Tarquinius by the sons of Ancus Marcius |
5312 | Society | People | 578BC | Reign of Servius Tullius, the Etruscan 'Mastarna', sixth King of Rome; building of defenses, division of Rome into districts, other reforms |
5313 | Society | People | 534BC | Reign of Lucius Tarquinius Superbus, seventh and last King of Rome |
5314 | Society | Politics | 509BC | Expulsion of Tarquinius Superbus, Founding of Roman Republic; Consuls: Lucius Iunius Brutus and Lucius Tarquinius Collatinus |
5315 | Society | War | 192BC | Roman-Seleucid War, Treaty of Apamea |
5316 | Society | War | 200BC | Second Macedonian War fought between Philip V of Macedon, and Rome |
5317 | Society | People | 222BC | Reign of Antiochus III the Great |
5318 | Society | People | 238BC | Philip V of Macedon |
5319 | Society | People | 204BC | Reign of Ptolemy V Epiphanes; Rosetta Stone |
5320 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 204BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
5321 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 190BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
5322 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 188BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
5323 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 186BC | Possible eruption of Vesuvius |
5324 | Society | War | 171BC | Third Macedonian War between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon |
5325 | Society | Massacre | 168BC Jun. 22 | Battle of Pydna: Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Corculum against Perseus of Macedon |
5327 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 168BC | At Anagnia it rained earth |
5328 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 168BC | At Calatia in public land for three days and two nights blood flowed |
5329 | Celestial | Halo | 163BC | Moon surrounded by halo observed from Babylon |
5330 | Celestial | Halo | 163BC | Sun surrounded by halo observed from Babylon |
5331 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 163BC | Severe cold and hail in Babylon |
5332 | Environment | Plasma Event | 163BC | Flock of goats killed by lightning |
5333 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 163BC | At Formiae two suns were seen during the day. |
5334 | Celestial | Fire in the sky | 163BC | The sky blazed with fire |
5335 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 163BC | At Gabiae it rained milk |
5336 | Environment | Strange Sounds | 163BC | In Cephallenia a trumpet seemed to sound in the sky |
5337 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 163BC | A tempestuous storm destroyed buildings and created carnage on the land |
5338 | Society | Politics | 657BC | Expulsion of the Bacchiadae from Corinth |
5339 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 166BC | Rained earth in Campania |
5340 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 166BC | In Praenestine territory showers of blood fell |
5341 | Environment | Plasma Event | 166BC | At Tarracina, three women seated in the Temple of Minerva killed by lightning; Many places at Cassinum were shattered by lightning |
5342 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 166BC | Water poured from foot of Equestrian statue; on the Quirinal hill blood drenched the earth |
5343 | Celestial | Wrath of God | 166BC | Temple of Salus was struck from the sky |
5344 | Celestial | Comet | 166BC | Sun was seen at night for some hours |
5345 | Society | War | 166BC | The Ligurian Gauls were destroyed |
5346 | Society | People | 705BC | Reign of Sennacherib, king of Assyria |
5347 | Society | War | 701BC | Assyrian Siege of Jerusalem; a calamity has come down from the Lord |
5348 | Society | War | 701BC | Siege of Lachish |
5349 | Archeology | Epigraphic Evidence | 715BC | Archaeologists Find Biblical-Era Seal Of King Hezekiah In Jerusalem; winged sun and ankhs |
5350 | Society | People | 747BC | Reign of Nabonassar, King of Babylon |
5351 | Society | Science | 747BC | Beginning of Babylonian Chronicles; first step in development of ancient historiography |
5352 | Society | Science | 747BC | Beginning of Babylonian Astronomical Diaries recording 21 years of instability of the orbit of Venus |
5353 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 100BC | Early compositions of Jewish Sibylline Oracles in Alexandria |
5354 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1200BC | Late Bronze Age collapse; almost every significant city in the eastern Mediterranean world destroyed |
5355 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1190BC | Mycenaean Greece perishes with the collapse of Bronze-Age culture in the eastern Mediterranean |
5356 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1180BC | Hattusas burned to the ground; Hittite kingdom vanishes from the historical record |
5357 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1190BC | Syrian Cities destroyed in conflagration during collapse of the Late Bronze Age |
5358 | Society | War | 1274BC | Battle of Kadesh and subsequent peace treaty |
5359 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1189BC | Cities of the Levant destroyed by fire during Late Bronze Age collapse |
5360 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1190BC | Cities of Cyprus destroyed during Late Bronze Age collapse |
5361 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1190BC | Cities of Anatolia destroyed during Late Bronze Age collapes; many never re-occupied |
5362 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1185BC | Areas in Mesopotamia that marginally survived Late Bronze Age collapse |
5363 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1070BC | Egyptian empire falls during Late Bronze Age collapse |
5364 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 6200BC | The 8.2 kiloyear "Bond" event; Misox oscillation; Finse event; sudden decrease in global temperatures |
5365 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 10900BC | The Younger Dryas; sharp decline in temperature over most of the northern hemisphere |
5366 | Archeology | Volcanic Eruption Evidence | 1021BC | Hekla 3 eruption causes 18 years of global cooling; tree ring and ice core evidence |
5367 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Younger Dryas impact hypothesis; Clovis comet cause Holocene extinction, global cooling |
5368 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 10900BC | Ice core data supports ancient space impact idea |
5369 | Archeology | Volcanic Eruption Evidence | 10900BC | Laacher See formed by a Plinian eruption; widespread destruction; two decades of environmental disruption |
5370 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 3900BC | The 5.9 kiloyear "Bond" event; intense aridification, cooling; triggered worldwide migrations |
5371 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2200BC | The 4.2 kiloyear "Bond" event; aridification, cooling; empire collapse; cultural upheaval; mass migrations |
5372 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 7400BC | The 9.4 kiloyear "Bond" Event |
5373 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 8300BC | The 10.3 kiloyear "Bond" event |
5374 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 9100BC | The 11.1 kiloyear "Bond" event |
5375 | Archeology | Mass Migration Evidence | 600BC | The 1.4 kiloyear "Bond" event; mass migration period |
5376 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex |
5377 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10800BC | Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 years ago |
5378 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago |
5379 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Evidence from central Mexico supporting the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis |
5380 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10800BC | Comprehensive Analysis of Impact Spherules Supports Theory of Cosmic Impact 12,800 Years Ago |
5381 | Society | Mass Migration | 1180BC | Phrygians appear in historical record; migrate from southern Balkans to Anatolia upon collapse of Hittite empire |
5382 | Society | Mass Migration | 1180BC | Mushki appear in historical record, migrating from the West, following collapse of Late Bronze Age |
5383 | Society | Economy | 1300BC | Urnfield Culture appears in Central Europe; grows out of Tumulus culture |
5384 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 800BC | Hallstatt culture becomes predominant Central European culture; spread to western Iberian peninsula, Britain, and Ireland |
5385 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 1100BC | The Greek Dark Age following widespread collapse of Bronze Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean |
5386 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 2600BC | Umm an-Nar culture in northern Oman and Abu Dhabi; beehive tombs with pottery vessels of Mesopotamian origin |
5387 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 2350BC | Akkadian Empire created by Sargon controlled Mesopotamia, the Levant, and parts of Iran |
5388 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 11000BC | Göbekli Tepe predates pottery, metallurgy, and the invention of writing or the wheel |
5389 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 7640BC | Tollmann's hypothetical bolide impact event |
5390 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 2400BC | Gutian people in Zagros mountains; pale in complexion and blonde; rapacious barbarians from east central Asia |
5391 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 500BC | La Tène culture develops from Iron Age Hallstatt culture; Celtoi, Galli; expands to Hispania, Italy, the Balkans, Asia Minor |
5392 | Archeology | Mass Migration Evidence | 950BC | Dorian invasion hypothesis becomes Dorian migration and settling after collapse of Bronze Age |
5393 | Archeology | Epigraphic Evidence | 2500BC | Linear A writing system; Minoan language connected to Etruscan? |
5394 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2600BC | Cretan hieroglyphs, artefacts of Minoans |
5395 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1450BC | Linear B: syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek |
5396 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1500BC | Kingdom of Mitanni aristocracy shows Indo-Aryan roots |
5397 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1250BC | Bryges or Briges related to Phrygians, migrated to Balkans from Lausitz culture of Poland |
5398 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1300BC | Lusatian culture of Eastern Europe develops from preceding Trzciniec culture |
5399 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1700BC | Trzciniec culture of Eastern Europe develops around Łódź; spread to parts of Poland and Western Ukraine; from Corded Ware culture |
5400 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2900BC | Corded Ware culture, Battle Axe Culture, Single Grave Culture; major north and central European culture from the Rhine to the Volga; related to Yamna |
5401 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3600BC | Yamna or Yamnaya culture; Pit Grave Culture; Ochre Grave Culture, develops on the Pontic Steppes |
5402 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 22000BC | Mal'ta-Buret' culture west of Lake Baikal similar to coeval cultures of Western and Eastern Europe |
5403 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1450BC | Kaskians, peoples living in mountainous Pontic Anatolia during Hittite times; unknown origins |
5404 | Society | People | 1114BC | Tiglath-Pileser I; made Assyria the leading power of the Middle East |
5405 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 900BC | Kingdom of Tabal; neo-Hittite, Luwian speaking, south central Anatolia |
5406 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 860BC | Urartu, Ararat, Vannic Kingdom, successor of the Late Bronze Age Hurrian state of Mitanni |
5407 | Society | Politics | 1570BC | Kassites rule of Babylon |
5408 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1600BC | The Tumulus culture dominates Central Europe |
5409 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 6000BC | Cucuteni-Trypillian culture centered on modern-day Moldova with small villages to "vast settlements" |
5410 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 900BC | Golasecca culture, Northern Italy |
5411 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1280BC | Canegrate Culture, Northern Italy; first migratory wave of the proto-Celts |
5412 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 900BC | Villanovan culture of central and northern Italy related to the Central European Urnfield culture |
5413 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 6300BC | Bug-Dniester culture, Moldavia and Ukraine |
5414 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 6200BC | Starčevo–Kőrös–Criş culture, central and south central Europe, Romania to Serbia, Montenegro |
5415 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2112BC | Third Dynasty of Ur, Neo-Sumerian Empire, Law Code of Ur-Nammu |
5416 | Society | Politics | 2214BC | Gutian dynasty of Sumer, destruction of Akkad |
5417 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2181BC | First Intermediate Period of Egypt, Divided Egypt, famine, chaos |
5418 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 12500BC | Natufian culture of the Eastern Mediterranean; domestication of dogs |
5419 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8400BC | Nevalı Çori, Anatolia; temples and monumental sculpture; Einkorn wheat first domesticated; ceramic firing |
5420 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 10200BC | Mureybetian culture, Pre-Pottery Neolithic A, northern Syria; early agriculture, animal domestication |
5421 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8700BC | Tell Aswad settlement, Syria, invented bricks, trade network, domesticated emmer wheat |
5422 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 7500BC | Çatalhöyük, southern Anatolia, proto-city, trade network |
5423 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 9000BC | Karaca Dağ, eastern Turkey, site of first domestication of einkorn wheat |
5424 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 10900BC | Holocene extinction; The Sixth Extinction; Younger Dryas Impact Event |
5425 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2800BC | Bell-Beaker maritime culture, spread over Europe, emerged from the lower Rhine and North Sea regions |
5426 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5700BC | Vinča culture, Balkans, earliest copper metallurgy |
5427 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5000BC | Khvalynsk on the Volga culture |
5428 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5025BC | Samara culture, middle Volga; Dnieper-Donets culture |
5429 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 4000BC | Sredny Stog culture on the Dnieper river, origin of Indo-Europeans? Horse domestication, corded ware pottery |
5430 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5500BC | Dnieper–Donets culture, north of Black Sea, late Cro-Magnons contemporaneous with Samara culture, succeeded by Yamna |
5431 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2800BC | Catacomb culture, Ukraine, corded ware pottery, polished battle axe, cranial deformation |
5432 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3500BC | Afanasevo culture, south Siberia, Altai mountains, mixed Europoid, wheel, metals, Tarim mummies |
5433 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2000BC | Srubna culture; along the N. shore of Black Sea; precursors of Cimmerians? |
5434 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2000BC | Andronovo culture in W. Siberia, W. Asiatic steppes; early Indo-Aryans/Iranians; Cimmerians and Saka/Scythians; Thracians |
5435 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3950BC | Maykop culture W. Caucasus between Black Sea and Caspian; ties to the Iranian plateau and to South Central Asia |
5436 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1500BC | Karasuk culture; Central Asian steppes; advanced, industrial metal workers |
5437 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 800BC | Tagar culture south Siberia; bronze-smelting; Scythian circle |
5438 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3000BC | Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex civilisation of Central Asia; monumental structures; evidence of wheeled transport |
5439 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5500BC | Early metallurgy: copper smelting, Belovode, Serbia: Vinča culture |
5440 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1500BC | Yaz culture; early Iranian culture as described in Avesta; sky burial |
5441 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8000BC | Stonehenge complex early stages of development |
5442 | Archeology | Mass Migration Evidence | 3200BC | Ancient Irish ancestors came from Middle East, Pontic steppe |
5457 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 4350BC | Leyla-Tepe culture; S. Caucasus Azerbaijan; amphora burials |
5458 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5000BC | Uruk of Sumer; early state formation and urbanization |
5459 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5400BC | Eridu: earliest city in southern Mesopotamia |
5460 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 6000BC | Choga Mami, Samarran culture site, S. Iraq; first evidence of canal irrigation |
5461 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5500BC | Sumer: first urban civilization in Mesopotamia |
5462 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 3250BC | Piora Oscillation sudden cooling: volcanic eruption or a meteor or an asteroid impact event |
5463 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3300BC | Egyptian hieroglyphs |
5464 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 7500BC | Neolithic subpluvial wet period begins; wet and rainy N. Africa for 2K years |
5465 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1800BC | Tarim mummies; tall, red-haired Europoids in W. China |
5466 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3300BC | Indus Valley Civilisation; urban planning, metallurgy, wheeled transport, trade network, writing |
5467 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1806BC | Ipuwer Papyrus, turmoil, arrival of the Asiatics |
5468 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2300BC | Urukagina; first law code in recorded history |
5469 | Archeology | Pestilence Evidence | 1686BC | Early Divergent Strains of Yersinia pestis found in Kytmanovo, Russia |