List of events / people for dating
3000 BC Old
Kingdom begins with the uniting of Upper and Lower Egypt
2550 BC Great pyramid of Cheops built in Egypt
2040 BC Middle
Kingdom of Egypt
2000 BC Harappan civilization in India
1792 BC Hammurabi and his code of law in Mesopotamia
1766 BC Shang Dynasty in China
1720 BC New Kingdom of Egypt
1450 BC Minoan civilization falls, Mycenaean civilization
rises in Greece
1200 to 900 BC
Olmec Civilization in the Americas
1200 to 700 BC Dark Ages in Greece
800 BC Homer in Greece
668 BC Ashurbanipal in Mesopotamia
605 BC Nebuchadnezzar in Babylon, Mesopotamia
563 BC Siddhartha Gautama (Budha) born in India
559 BC Cyrus the Great in Persia
551 BC Confucius in China
500 BC Persian War in Greece
500 BC Aryan civilization in India
500 BC “Warring States” in China
490 BC Battle of Marathon in Greece
480 BC Battle of Salamis in Greece
430 BC Peloponnesian War in Greece
336 BC Alexander the Great in Greece
321 BC Mauryan Empire in India
264 BC First Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome
221 BC Qin Dynasty in China
218 BC Hannibal Invades Rome
214 BC Great Wall of China begun
200 BC Nazca Civilization in Americas
44 BC Julius Caesar Assassinated in Rome
27 BC Octavian becomes Caesar Augustus, emperor of Rome
3 BC Jesus Christ born, Jewish people
70 Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem, Jewish people
284 Diocletian divides the Empire into East and West, Rome
300 Yamato Dynasty in Japan, Far East
312 Constantine, Christian emperor of Rome
320 Gupta
Dynasty in India
410 Visigoths sack Rome
449 Anglo Saxon invasion of England
453 Attilla the Hun dies
570 Muhammad born, Islam and Ottoman Empire
581 Sui Dynasty, China
600 Mayan Civilization in Americas
618 Tang Dynasty in China
732 Battle of Tours against Muslim invasion, Europe
771 Charlemagne in Europe
800 Maori in New Zealand, Far East
871 Alfred the Great in England, Europe
1000 Leif Ericsson to America, Norsemen
1000 Kingdom of Ghana, Africa
1031 Reconquest of Spain begins, Europe
1054 Great Schism with Catholic and Orthodox Churches,
Europe
1066 Battle of Hastings where William conquers, Europe
1096 First Crusade, Europe
1167 Genghis Khan dies, China
1215 Magna Carta, Europe
1279 Kublai Khan emperor of China, Yuan Dynasty, China
1347 Plague, Europe
1415 Battle of Agincourt, Europe
1421 Forbidden City, China
1453 Turks take Constantinople, Ottomans
1455 Guttenberg Bible, Europe
1462 Ivan the Great of Russia, Europe
1469 Ferdinanand and Isabella of Spain marry, Europe
1470 Sonhay Empire, Africa
1492 Columbus sails, Europe
1492 Columbus sails, America
1493 Incas
1497 Vasco de Gama around Cape of Good Hope, Europe
1497 John Cabot to Newfoundland, America
1517 95 Theses by Luther, Europe
1519 Cortez conquers Incas, America
1520 Suleiman sultan of Ottoman Empire
1520 Magellan around South America at Straits
1534-39 Cartier and de Soto explore North America
1453 Copernicus, Europe
1545 First Council of Trent, Europe
1556 Mongul Empire, India
1558 Elizabeth I Queen of England
1564, Shakespeare born, Europe
1585 Walter Raleigh founds first English colony in Americas
in modern Virgina
1588 Defeat of the Spanish Armada
1609 Galileo
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