| 10,000 - 7,300 |
First evidence of farming in Chogha Golan, Ilam, Iran |
| 9130 - 8800 |
Earliest structures at Göbekli Tepe, Turkey |
| 5500 |
Earliest signs of civilised life at Tepe Sialk, Kashan,Iran |
| 5000 |
Evidence of wine-making in Neolithic village at Hajji Firuz Tepe in Zagros mountains, Iran |
| 3800 |
Earliest objects made of bronze (copper + arsenic) found at Tepe Yahya, southern Iran
|
| 3600-3200 |
City of Ugarit flourishes as centre of Canaanite culture in Syria. Invention of alphabet. |
| 3600-2450 |
Occupation of settlement at Skara Brae, Orkney, Great Britain. |
| 3500 |
Jiroft in south central Iran becomes established as a wealthy trading centre |
| 3100-2686 |
Early dynastic period in Egypt. |
| 3000 |
Evidence of advanced civilisation in "The Burnt City", Shahr-e Shookteh, in eastern Iran |
| 3000-1400 |
Minoan civilization in Crete. |
| 2900 |
Elamite settlement with ziggurat at Tepe Sialk |
| 2750 -2550 |
Corded Ware/ Bell Beaker people spread rapidly through Europe and NW Africa replacing up to 90% of previous inhabitants |
| 2500 |
Great pyramid and sphinx built in Egypt. |
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Flourishing cities in Mesopotamia (Uruk, Ur, Eridu) Egypt and Indus Valley (Mohenjo-daro, Harappa) |
| 2000 |
Stonehenge in Britain, first phase. |
| 1750 |
Oldest fragments of Epic of Gilgamesh, earliest surviving literature, from Mesopotamia. |
| 1400-1200 |
Mycenaean civilization in Greece. |
| 1275 - 1000 |
Migrations of the 'Sea Peoples' |
| 1274 |
Battle of Kadesh between Egyptians and Hittites |
| 1250 |
Building of ziggurat at Chogha Zanbil by Elamites. |
| 1250 |
Israelite settlements in Canaan. |
| 1220 |
Destruction of Troy. |
| 1200-1000 |
Iranian peoples (Medes, Persians and others) begin migration into Iran |
| 1100 |
Possible date for birth of Zarathustra (Zoroaster) - but could be much later (600 BC) |
| 1000-750 |
Phoenician expansion overseas. |
| 836 |
Assyrians begin subjugating Medes and Persians |
| 814 |
Traditional date of founding of Carthage. |
| 776 |
First Olympic Games. |
| 775 |
Euboean Greeks establish a trading post in Bay of Naples. |
| 753 |
Traditional date of founding of Rome.
|
| 753-510 |
Period of the kings in Rome. |
| 750 |
Greek alphabet, based on a Phoenician version of the Canaanite alphabet, begins to be used. Homer's Iliad and Odyssey. |
| 720 |
Conquest of kingdom of Israel by Assyrians - deportation of Jews to Media. |
| 705-681 |
Sennacherib king of Assyrians |
| 700 |
Medes win independence from Assyria |
| 640 |
Elamite centre at Chogha Zanbil destroyed by Assyrians under Ashurbanipal |
| 612 |
Medes destroy Assyrian capital at Nineveh |
| 590 - 580 |
Conquest of Judaea by Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II. Destructiion of temple and deportation of Jews to Babylon. |
| 568-488 |
Life of Buddha. |
| 558 |
Cyrus becomes king of Anshan/Persis |
| 551-479 |
Life of Confucius. |
