Most of these dates are approximate. All BC.
| 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. |
| 3100-2686 | Early dynastic period in Egypt. |
| 3000-1400 | Minoan civilization in Crete. |
| 2900 | Elamite settlement with ziggurat at Tepe Sialk, central Iran |
| 2500 | Great pyramid and sphinx built in Egypt. |
| 2000 | Stonehenge in Britain, first phase. |
| 1400-1200 | Mycenaean civilization in Greece. |
| 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. |
| 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 |
| 700 | Building of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix (Yemen) |
| 612 | Medes destroy Assyrian capital at Nineveh |
| 590 - 580 | Conquest of Judaea by Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II. Destruction 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. |