Events
Displaying events 1 - 300 of 1136 in total
| ID | Category | Subcategory | Date | Summary |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| 2760 | Environment | Animal Mass Death | 137BC | Mass death of cattle in Babylon; unspecified cause but associated with comet observations |
| 2785 | Environment | Animal Mass Death | 112BC | Cattle pestilence in Babylon |
| 5209 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 373BC (Win.) | For five days before great earthquake and tsunami, creatures flee region |
| 2707 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 332BC (Spr.) | During siege of Tyre sea monster tossed up by large wave |
| 1327 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 215BC | A cow gave birth to a horse |
| 659 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 203BC | Roof-eating ravens, gnawing mice, locust infestation and a deformed colt |
| 670 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 56BC | A wolf entered Rome |
| 1447 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 54BC | Portents in Rome: owls, dogs, wolves |
| 1464 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 49BC | Sighting of wolves and owls in Rome, animals bring forth creatures outside of their own species |
| 1475 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 48BC Aug. 9 | Bees swarming military standards in the camp of Pompey; sacrificial victims ran away |
| 4527 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 60AD | A heifer gives birth to a lamb |
| 1560 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 367AD | A donkey mounts the tribunal |
| 5311 | Society | Assassination | 578BC | Assassination of Tarquinius by the sons of Ancus Marcius |
| 5278 | Society | Assassination | 384BC | Marcus Manlius Capitolinus martyred - thrown off the Tarpeian Rock - for trying to help the poor |
| 5532 | Society | Assassination | 133BC | Murder of Tiberius Sempronius Gracchus: sought agrarian reforms to transfer wealth from the wealthy, patricians and otherwise, to the poor. |
| 5584 | Society | Assassination | 132BC | Publius Cornelius Scipio Nasica Serapio: murdered his cousin, Tiberius Gracchus; himself murdered by supporters of the Gracchi |
| 5605 | Society | Assassination | 100BC | Saturninus: popularist reformer proposes land reform using Tolosan gold; murdered by mob of aristocrats |
| 5521 | Society | Assassination | 52BC | Assassination of Popularist Publius Clodius Pulcher by Milo; mob violence overtakes Rome; Pompey takes charge |
| 5529 | Society | Assassination | 52BC Jan. 18 | Titus Annius Milo Papianus murders Clodius triggering anarchy in Rome |
| 5517 | Society | Assassination | 48BC Sep. 29 | Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus murdered by servants of Ptolemy XIII |
| 5687 | Society | Assassination | 44BC Mar. 13 | Assassination of Julius Caesar, the archetypal model of the passion of Jesus Christ |
| 1314 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 461BC | Rained flesh that did not turn bad |
| 1325 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 223BC | Three moons visible from Italy |
| 648 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 204BC | Two suns seen, ring around moon |
| 656 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 203BC | Sun halo at Frusino |
| 5255 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 198BC | Haloes around the sun and moon |
| 1288 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 174BC | Three suns seen in the consulships of Spurius Postumius and Quintus Mucius |
| 5333 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 163BC | At Formiae two suns were seen during the day. |
| 5484 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 137BC | 'Many places shattered by lightning'; praetor M. Claudius burst into flames from a thunderbolt |
| 1289 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 118BC | Three suns seen at once during consulships of Quintus Marcius and Marcus Porcius |
| 1311 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 115BC | Thunderbolt strikes temple of Juno during consulship of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus |
| 1297 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 114BC | Halo around the sun in the consulships of Gaius Porcius and Manius Acilius |
| 1312 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 49BC | Many towers destroyed by thunderbolts in Italy during civil war |
| 4509 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 358AD Aug. 23 | Sudden heavy black clouds and intense darkness descend over Nicromedia |
| 429 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 806AD Aug. 30 | Circle around the Sun |
| 4914 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 919AD (Win.) | Aurora over Kievan Rus' and Byzantium |
| 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 |
| 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 |
| 5167 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 709BC Jul. 17 | Solar eclipse, total crosses northern Italy |
| 5196 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 480BC Oct. 2 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses north Africa |
| 5365 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 10900BC | The Younger Dryas; sharp decline in temperature over most of the northern hemisphere |
| 5374 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 9100BC | The 11.1 kiloyear "Bond" event |
| 5373 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 8300BC | The 10.3 kiloyear "Bond" event |
| 5464 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 7500BC | Neolithic subpluvial wet period begins; wet and rainy N. Africa for 2K years |
| 5372 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 7400BC | The 9.4 kiloyear "Bond" Event |
| 5364 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 6200BC | The 8.2 kiloyear "Bond" event; Misox oscillation; Finse event; sudden decrease in global temperatures |
| 5370 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 3900BC | The 5.9 kiloyear "Bond" event; intense aridification, cooling; triggered worldwide migrations |
| 5462 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 3250BC | Piora Oscillation sudden cooling: volcanic eruption or a meteor or an asteroid impact event |
| 1154 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2349BC | Tree ring evidence, Ireland, "Noah's flood" |
| 5163 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2300BC | Adverse Climate Changes in Anatolia and Cyprus |
| 5151 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2300BC | Abrupt Climate Change Syria and Palestine |
| 5153 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2300BC | Adverse Climate Changes Mesopotamia/Iran |
| 5371 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2200BC | The 4.2 kiloyear "Bond" event; aridification, cooling; empire collapse; cultural upheaval; mass migrations |
| 2420 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 210BC | Historical, ice core, tree ring evidence for at least two volcanic eruptions between 212 and 200 |
| 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 |
| 133 | Celestial | Comet | 1059BC | Comet, broom star with tail observed in China |
| 135 | Celestial | Comet | 974BC Mar. | Bushy Star Comet in the north polar region; observed in China |
| 1253 | Celestial | Comet | 674BC Oct. | Comet observed by Babylonians |
| 19 | Celestial | Comet | 632BC | Broom Star, Auriga |
| 20 | Celestial | Comet | 611BC Aug. | Broom Star Great Bear, Big Dipper - possible Halley's sighting? |
| 38 | Celestial | Comet | 532BC (Spr.) | Comet or nova in Aquarius, China |
| 39 | Celestial | Comet | 525BC (Win.) | Bushy Star, Antares, China |
| 40 | Celestial | Comet | 516BC | Broom Star, China |
| 41 | Celestial | Comet | 500BC | Broom Star, China |
| 42 | Celestial | Comet | 482BC Oct. | Bushy Star observed in China |
| 43 | Celestial | Comet | 481BC Oct. | Sparkling star, Bushy Star observed in China |
| 44 | Celestial | Comet | 480BC Sep. | Horn shaped Comet, Battle of Salamis |
| 46 | Celestial | Comet | 469BC | Broom Star observed in China |
| 49 | Celestial | Comet | 466BC | Meteorite falls at Aegospotami while bright comet is passing; Halley |
| 51 | Celestial | Comet | 433BC | Broom Star, China |
| 52 | Celestial | Comet | 425BC (Win.) | Comet during the plague of Athens |
| 58 | Celestial | Comet | 361BC | Broom Star, China |
| 59 | Celestial | Comet | 345BC | Timoleon's Torch; a 'Mane-shaped' comet changed into a spear |
| 60 | Celestial | Comet | 340BC | Comet coincided with storm at Corinth |
| 61 | Celestial | Comet | 305BC | Broom Star, China |
| 4 | Celestial | Comet | 303BC | Broom Star, China, also recorded on the Parian marble of Greece |
| 170 | Celestial | Comet | 296BC | Broom Star, China |
| 9 | Celestial | Comet | 240BC May | Broom star; Comet Halley |
| 25 | Celestial | Comet | 238BC May | Broom Star stretched across the heavens, China |
| 26 | Celestial | Comet | 234BC Jan. | Broom Star, and a great fall of fire, observed in China and Babylon |
| 513 | Celestial | Comet | 217BC | Multiple comets: bright hair of more than one comet... showed its baleful glare |
| 27 | Celestial | Comet | 214BC Aug. | Bright Star, Broom star in the West |
| 28 | Celestial | Comet | 210BC Jun. | Comet in the process of breaking up: "surrounded by stars" |
| 29 | Celestial | Comet | 204BC Aug. 14 | Sparkling or Bushy Star near Arcturus |
| 30 | Celestial | Comet | 172BC | Tailed Star Comet observed in China |
| 5344 | Celestial | Comet | 166BC | Sun was seen at night for some hours |
| 15 | Celestial | Comet | 163BC Sep. | Comet Halley observed from Babylon and possibly Rome |
| 17 | Celestial | Comet | 162BC Feb. 6 | Comet like a celestial magnolia tree observed in China; possibly Halley's |
| 16 | Celestial | Comet | 162BC Sep. 5 | Comet, and meteor observed in Babylon |
| 18 | Celestial | Comet | 157BC Oct. 2 | Sparkling star with "trunk laid straight" observed in Babylon and China |
| 31 | Celestial | Comet | 154BC Jan. | Broom Star observed in China |
| 21 | Celestial | Comet | 154BC Sep. | Broom Star observed in China |
| 22 | Celestial | Comet | 153BC Feb. | Tailed Star Comet observed in China |
| 24 | Celestial | Comet | 148BC Apr. 29 | Comet, Bushy star; observed in China |
| 32 | Celestial | Comet | 146BC May 13 | Broom Star observed in China |
| 33 | Celestial | Comet | 146BC Aug. | Tangle Star observed in China |
| 34 | Celestial | Comet | 146BC Oct. | Broom star, Bushy star observed in China |
| 36 | Celestial | Comet | 137BC Apr. 9 | Circumpolar Sparkling Star in Hydra observed by Chinese |
| 37 | Celestial | Comet | 137BC May 28 | Sparkling star in Hercules 'as if the Sun appeared at night' observed by Babylonians, Chinese, poss. Romans |
| 63 | Celestial | Comet | 136BC Sep. 22 | Comet 'spread out to unlimited size'; beginning of the reign of Attalus III |
| 64 | Celestial | Comet | 135BC Jul. 3 | Bushy Star |
| 65 | Celestial | Comet | 135BC Aug. 31 | Giant comet stretched across the heavens at the birth of Mithradates; entire sky 'on fire' |
| 97 | Celestial | Comet | 120BC Feb. | Comet burned brightly, filled a quarter of the heavens, sky seemed to be on fire |
| 99 | Celestial | Comet | 119BC May 8 | Sparkling star, Long-tailed star observed in China |
| 101 | Celestial | Comet | 110BC | Bushy Star in Gemini, Ursa Major, observed in China and Babylon |
| 104 | Celestial | Comet | 108BC | Bushy Star in Canis Minor, Gemini observed in China |
| 713 | Celestial | Comet | 104BC Jul. 19 | Comet during eclipse, Posidonius |
| 106 | Celestial | Comet | 102BC | Bushy Star in Bootes observed in China |
| 2880 | Celestial | Comet | 94BC | Comet and eclipse of Posidonius |
| 107 | Celestial | Comet | 87BC Aug. 10 | Comet Halley observed in Babylon and China |
| 122 | Celestial | Comet | 84BC Mar. 12 | Sparkling Star observed in China |
| 123 | Celestial | Comet | 83BC | Tangle Star in Hercules observed in China |
| 1279 | Celestial | Comet | 76BC | In the western sky, comet with a terrible glare during the consulship of Gnaeus Octavius |
| 209 | Celestial | Comet | 69BC Aug. 20 | Guest Star, Comet Swift-Tuttle |
| 1441 | Celestial | Comet | 63BC | Comet: A fiery javelin stretched to the sky from the west; firebrands seen in the west in the night time |
| 212 | Celestial | Comet | 61BC Jul. 24 | Bushy Star, sparkling star, eastern quarter; observed in China |
| 1280 | Celestial | Comet | 49BC | A terrifying star during the war between Pompey and Caesar |
| 213 | Celestial | Comet | 49BC Apr. 14 | Guest Star, Bushy star, Cassiopeia; observed in China |
| 1710 | Celestial | Comet | 60AD | A comet is seen for an entire year |
| 1406 | Celestial | Comet | 60AD | A comet runs across half the sky for six months |
| 253 | Celestial | Comet | 79AD Mar. 22 | Vespasian's comet |
| 2329 | Celestial | Comet | 130AD | Star of Antinous |
| 634 | Celestial | Comet | 336AD Feb. 16 | Comet of unusual size seen across the world |
| 615 | Celestial | Comet | 363AD Aug. | Comets are seen during the day, other bad omens |
| 639 | Celestial | Comet | 363AD Aug. 26 | A sparkling star comet is seen in Virgo, and thought to presage the death of the Roman emperor Jovian |
| 642 | Celestial | Comet | 390AD Aug. 22 | A Comet appears |
| 722 | Celestial | Comet | 400AD Mar. 19 | A comet of extraordinary magnitude |
| 725 | Celestial | Comet | 539AD Dec. | A comet with goodly length and very sharp at the point appears |
| 4718 | Celestial | Comet | 563AD Oct. 1 | A comet like a sword appears |
| 1230 | Celestial | Comet | 582AD Jan. 15 | A bright comet is seen with a long tail like smoke |
| 4260 | Celestial | Comet | 595AD Jan. 9 | A comet is seen |
| 4989 | Celestial | Comet | 607AD Feb. 28 | 1P/Halley returns |
| 1704 | Celestial | Comet | 607AD Oct. 21 | A comet appears - Halleys? |
| 137 | Celestial | Comet | 676AD Aug. 15 | A comet with a "pillar of radiant flame" visible for three months |
| 1759 | Celestial | Comet | 684AD Sep. 6 | Comet blamed for months of heavy rain, lightning, and deaths of many people and animals |
| 488 | Celestial | Comet | 729AD Jan. | Two comets appear for 14 days to the great terror of the beholders |
| 5011 | Celestial | Comet | 768AD (Spr.) | A broom star appears in the northeast during spring |
| 1653 | Celestial | Comet | 817AD Feb. 5 | A comet resembling a sword is seen |
| 493 | Celestial | Comet | 892AD Apr. 25 | Hairy Star appears |
| 496 | Celestial | Comet | 905AD Oct. 20 | A comet appears |
| 503 | Celestial | Comet | 995AD Aug. | A comet appears - Halleys? |
| 5379 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Evidence from central Mexico supporting the Younger Dryas extraterrestrial impact hypothesis |
| 5367 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Younger Dryas impact hypothesis; Clovis comet cause Holocene extinction, global cooling |
| 5376 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Palaeolithic extinctions and the Taurid Complex |
| 5378 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago |
| 5377 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10800BC | Evidence for deposition of 10 million tonnes of impact spherules across four continents 12,800 years ago |
| 5380 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10800BC | Comprehensive Analysis of Impact Spherules Supports Theory of Cosmic Impact 12,800 Years Ago |
| 5389 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 7640BC | Tollmann's hypothetical bolide impact event |
| 5186 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 2300BC | Rakshasos, falling meteoroids, associated with "terrible clamor" and sea level rise in Southern India |
| 5159 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 1650BC | Theran eruption/possible comet/asteroid event related |
| 5474 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 147BC | Acidity spike in Greenland ice core; persistent red sky phenonomenon reported |
| 2544 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 147BC Aug. | Comet shone brightly as fiery, reddish circle; persistently red sky; observed from Babylon to Rome |
| 5402 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 22000BC | Mal'ta-Buret' culture west of Lake Baikal similar to coeval cultures of Western and Eastern Europe |
| 5489 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 14000BC | Giant Megaliths in Siberia Largest in the World |
| 5488 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 14000BC | Sunduki the Siberian Stonehenge |
| 5418 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 12500BC | Natufian culture of the Eastern Mediterranean; domestication of dogs |
| 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 |
| 5419 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8400BC | Nevalı Çori, Anatolia; temples and monumental sculpture; Einkorn wheat first domesticated; ceramic firing |
| 5441 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8000BC | Stonehenge complex early stages of development |
| 5422 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 7500BC | Çatalhöyük, southern Anatolia, proto-city, trade network |
| 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 |
| 5460 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 6000BC | Choga Mami, Samarran culture site, S. Iraq; first evidence of canal irrigation |
| 5409 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 6000BC | Cucuteni-Trypillian culture centered on modern-day Moldova with small villages to "vast settlements" |
| 5426 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5700BC | Vinča culture, Balkans, earliest copper metallurgy |
| 5430 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5500BC | Dnieper–Donets culture, north of Black Sea, late Cro-Magnons contemporaneous with Samara culture, succeeded by Yamna |
| 5461 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5500BC | Sumer: first urban civilization in Mesopotamia |
| 5439 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5500BC | Early metallurgy: copper smelting, Belovode, Serbia: Vinča culture |
| 5459 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5400BC | Eridu: earliest city in southern Mesopotamia |
| 5428 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5025BC | Samara culture, middle Volga; Dnieper-Donets culture |
| 5458 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5000BC | Uruk of Sumer; early state formation and urbanization |
| 5427 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5000BC | Khvalynsk on the Volga culture |
| 5457 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 4350BC | Leyla-Tepe culture; S. Caucasus Azerbaijan; amphora burials |
| 5429 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 4000BC | Sredny Stog culture on the Dnieper river, origin of Indo-Europeans? Horse domestication, corded ware pottery |
| 5435 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3950BC | Maykop culture W. Caucasus between Black Sea and Caspian; ties to the Iranian plateau and to South Central Asia |
| 5401 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3600BC | Yamna or Yamnaya culture; Pit Grave Culture; Ochre Grave Culture, develops on the Pontic Steppes |
| 5432 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3500BC | Afanasevo culture, south Siberia, Altai mountains, mixed Europoid, wheel, metals, Tarim mummies |
| 5466 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3300BC | Indus Valley Civilisation; urban planning, metallurgy, wheeled transport, trade network, writing |
| 5463 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3300BC | Egyptian hieroglyphs |
| 5438 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3000BC | Bactria–Margiana Archaeological Complex civilisation of Central Asia; monumental structures; evidence of wheeled transport |
| 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 |
| 5431 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2800BC | Catacomb culture, Ukraine, corded ware pottery, polished battle axe, cranial deformation |
| 5425 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2800BC | Bell-Beaker maritime culture, spread over Europe, emerged from the lower Rhine and North Sea regions |
| 5394 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2600BC | Cretan hieroglyphs, artefacts of Minoans |
| 5468 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2300BC | Urukagina; first law code in recorded history |
| 5415 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2112BC | Third Dynasty of Ur, Neo-Sumerian Empire, Law Code of Ur-Nammu |
| 5434 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2000BC | Andronovo culture in W. Siberia, W. Asiatic steppes; early Indo-Aryans/Iranians; Cimmerians and Saka/Scythians; Thracians |
| 5433 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2000BC | Srubna culture; along the N. shore of Black Sea; precursors of Cimmerians? |
| 5465 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1800BC | Tarim mummies; tall, red-haired Europoids in W. China |
| 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 |
| 5408 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1600BC | The Tumulus culture dominates Central Europe |
| 5396 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1500BC | Kingdom of Mitanni aristocracy shows Indo-Aryan roots |
| 5436 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1500BC | Karasuk culture; Central Asian steppes; advanced, industrial metal workers |
| 5440 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1500BC | Yaz culture; early Iranian culture as described in Avesta; sky burial |
| 5395 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1450BC | Linear B: syllabic script used for writing Mycenaean Greek |
| 5403 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1450BC | Kaskians, peoples living in mountainous Pontic Anatolia during Hittite times; unknown origins |
| 5398 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1300BC | Lusatian culture of Eastern Europe develops from preceding Trzciniec culture |
| 5411 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1280BC | Canegrate Culture, Northern Italy; first migratory wave of the proto-Celts |
| 5397 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1250BC | Bryges or Briges related to Phrygians, migrated to Balkans from Lausitz culture of Poland |
| 5473 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1100BC | Latins: Indo-Europeans migrated to Italy after collapse of Bronze Age |
| 5470 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1000BC | Ligures: earliest Indo-European speakers of the European West; direct descendants of Cro-Magnon? |
| 5412 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 900BC | Villanovan culture of central and northern Italy related to the Central European Urnfield culture |
| 5405 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 900BC | Kingdom of Tabal; neo-Hittite, Luwian speaking, south central Anatolia |
| 5410 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 900BC | Golasecca culture, Northern Italy |
| 5406 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 860BC | Urartu, Ararat, Vannic Kingdom, successor of the Late Bronze Age Hurrian state of Mitanni |
| 5437 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 800BC | Tagar culture south Siberia; bronze-smelting; Scythian circle |
| 5471 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 550BC | Lepontic Language |
| 5353 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 100BC | Early compositions of Jewish Sibylline Oracles in Alexandria |
| 5388 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 11000BC | Göbekli Tepe predates pottery, metallurgy, and the invention of writing or the wheel |
| 5368 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 10900BC | Ice core data supports ancient space impact idea |
| 5423 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 9000BC | Karaca Dağ, eastern Turkey, site of first domestication of einkorn wheat |
| 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 |
| 5386 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 2600BC | Umm an-Nar culture in northern Oman and Abu Dhabi; beehive tombs with pottery vessels of Mesopotamian origin |
| 5390 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 2400BC | Gutian people in Zagros mountains; pale in complexion and blonde; rapacious barbarians from east central Asia |
| 5387 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 2350BC | Akkadian Empire created by Sargon controlled Mesopotamia, the Levant, and parts of Iran |
| 5160 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 1650BC | Dating the Eruption of Thera |
| 5385 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 1100BC | The Greek Dark Age following widespread collapse of Bronze Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean |
| 1613 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 910BC | Early construction at Rome |
| 5384 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 800BC | Hallstatt culture becomes predominant Central European culture; spread to western Iberian peninsula, Britain, and Ireland |
| 5165 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 753BC Apr. 21 | Founding of Rome |
| 5222 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 700BC | Temple from the time of Numa Pompilius found |
| 5391 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 500BC | La Tène culture develops from Iron Age Hallstatt culture; Celtoi, Galli; expands to Hispania, Italy, the Balkans, Asia Minor |
| 5221 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 250BC | Giant ancient water basin found in Rome |
| 5171 | Environment | Drought | 2300BC | Adverse Climate Changes in Egypt, desertification |
| 4685 | Environment | Drought | 24BC | Perpetual droughts in Syria an Judea |
| 4512 | Environment | Drought | 305AD | Drought |
| 4940 | Environment | Drought | 400AD | Fierce droughts and fiery whirlwinds descending from above |
| 4917 | Environment | Drought | 994AD | Drought in Kievan Rus' |
| 4920 | Environment | Drought | 1000AD | Severe drought in Western Europe |
| 4921 | Environment | Drought | 1001AD | Drought in Western Europe |
| 4922 | Environment | Drought | 1008AD | Drought in Kievan Rus' |
| 4949 | Environment | Drought | 1014AD Apr. 5 | Drought in Germany |
| 4951 | Environment | Drought | 1022AD (Sum.) | Drought in Western Europe |
| 4952 | Environment | Drought | 1025AD | Drought in Western Europe dries up streams and springs |
| 5173 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 2300BC | Dust from unknown source |
| 511 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 217BC | Light was suddenly withdrawn, and the Calabrian mariners, plunged in darkness |
| 410 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 188BC | Daytime darkness sets in at Rome |
| 5476 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 147BC | Sun halos associated with comet, glowing red sky, possible comet dust |
| 5480 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 137BC (Win.) | Sun veiled in dust, 'looked like the moon' |
| 2775 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 125BC | Sun and moon haloes |
| 1296 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 122BC | Sun veiled in dust; haloes; darkness for several days following Etna eruption |
| 2895 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 88BC (Sum.) | Rain of ashes at Athens |
| 5057 | Geology | Earthquake | 4000BC | Earthquake Palestine - Jericho |
| 5058 | Geology | Earthquake | 3300BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5059 | Geology | Earthquake | 2700BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5060 | Geology | Earthquake | 2100BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5061 | Geology | Earthquake | 1560BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 5062 | Geology | Earthquake | 1050BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 2920 | Geology | Earthquake | 680BC | Earth quaked for a whole day during Esarhaddon's reign |
| 2706 | Geology | Earthquake | 656BC Mar. | Earthquake recorded by Assyrians |
| 2512 | Geology | Earthquake | 544BC | Earthquake predicted by Pherecydes of Syros |
| 5063 | Geology | Earthquake | 525BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 2644 | Geology | Earthquake | 480BC Sep. 20 | Earthquake on the day of the Battle of Salamis |
| 1386 | Geology | Earthquake | 464BC | Sparta destroyed by earthquake, rocks fall from mountain peaks |
| 2653 | Geology | Earthquake | 431BC | Earthquake at Delos warning of the beginning of the Peloponnesian War |
| 1398 | Geology | Earthquake | 426BC (Sum.) | Multiple earthquakes in Greece during Peloponnesian War |
| 2660 | Geology | Earthquake | 424BC Mar. 31 | Earthquake within 10 days of solar eclipse |
| 2663 | Geology | Earthquake | 420BC (Sum.) | Earthquake felt at Athens and Corinth while Alcibiades ranting against Spartans |
| 2664 | Geology | Earthquake | 414BC (Spr.) | Spartan military expedition against Argos abandoned due to earthquake |
| 2665 | Geology | Earthquake | 413BC (Win.) | Earthquake in Sparta |
| 2674 | Geology | Earthquake | 400BC | Earthquake - divine displeasure - halts invasion of Elis |
| 2679 | Geology | Earthquake | 388BC | Earthquake at Argos deters invasion |
| 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. |
| 1217 | Geology | Earthquake | 373BC (Win.) | Earthquake at Delos just before great earthquake and tsunami |
| 2701 | Geology | Earthquake | 360BC | Earthquakes Heraclea Pontica and Orphyneum |
| 2696 | Geology | Earthquake | 354BC | Phocian generals attempt to loot the temple at Delphi, earthquake occurs, terrifying everyone |
| 2905 | Geology | Earthquake | 350BC | First recorded Persian earthquake; numerous cities, 2000 villages destroyed |
| 2408 | Geology | Earthquake | 350BC | Earthquake at Prieni, Asia Minor; city totally destroyed |
| 5218 | Geology | Earthquake | 325BC Nov. | Earthquake associated with tsunami that destroyed much of Alexander's fleet in India |
| 2716 | Geology | Earthquake | 303BC | Earthquakes in Ionia recorded on Parian marble, Greece |
| 2898 | Geology | Earthquake | 287BC | Lysimachia destroyed by earthquake killing many residents |
| 2893 | Geology | Earthquake | 279BC (Win.) | Earthquake during Gallic invasion of Greece; thunderbolts and rocks fall from Parnassus |
| 2719 | Geology | Earthquake | 252BC Feb. 19 | Earthquake followed by hailstorm in Babylon |
| 2897 | Geology | Earthquake | 226BC | Major Rhodes earthquake causes colossus to collapse, three meters uplift |
| 1394 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC | Fifty-seven earthquakes in the year of the Battle of Lake Trasimene; cities overthrown, rivers diverted, cliffs torn away |
| 515 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC | The Alps did not keep their place, and the Apennines were never still day or night among their vast gorges |
| 1326 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC Jun. 24 | Mountains cleft asunder, rivers blocked by earthquake during Battle of Lake Trasimene |
| 5257 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Sidon extensively damaged by earthquake; nearly two-thirds "engulfed" |
| 5256 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Chalcis-on-Belus in northern Syria swallowed by earthquake |
| 2747 | Geology | Earthquake | 171BC | Earthquake in Babylon |
| 5064 | Geology | Earthquake | 140BC | Earthquake Palestine |
| 2796 | Geology | Earthquake | 94BC Jul. | Earthquake in Babylon |
| 5500 | Geology | Earthquake | 91BC | Earthquake at Regium; part of the city and walls destroyed |
| 2917 | Geology | Earthquake | 89BC | Earthquake at Apamea |
| 2902 | Geology | Earthquake | 69BC | Earthquake in Syria; a hundred and seventy thousand people, and several cities, were destroyed |
| 1443 | Geology | Earthquake | 63BC | Earthquakes mentioned by Cicero, probably in Italy |
| 718 | Geology | Earthquake | 56BC | Temple of Juno turns from east to north in association with earthquake |
| 1465 | Geology | Earthquake | 49BC | "Bellowing" earthquakes in Rome |
| 2925 | Geology | Earthquake | 31BC Sep. | Earthquake kills ten to thirty thousand men and brings destruction upon cattle |
| 2233 | Geology | Earthquake | 19AD | An earthquake killed more than 100,000 people |
| 5066 | Geology | Earthquake | 33AD | Earthquake Palestine |