B.C. Time Period

200,000 B.C. Homo sapiens, the first modern humans, appear in Africa.
62,000 B.C. Bow and arrows with stone points (arrowheads) are used.
30,000 B.C. Cro-Magnon man is flourishing, moving from the Near East into Europe, lives by hunting and gathering. Cro-Magnon’s painted caves with drawings of the animals they killed.
25,000 B. C. Bering Strait is crossed by humans, connecting Asia to the Americas.
18,000 B.C. Clay pottery ware is created. Humans begin to use raw metals.
10,000 B.C. Humans make it to the southern most point of South America.
8,000 B.C. The Neolithic Revolution and an agriculture way of life is discovered in the Fertile Crescent/Middle Eastern area. Cows and sheep were domesticated and crops where manipulated and tended. (interesting fact: first domesticated dog ever was found in Idaho, USA 8400 BC).
7000 B.C. A great earthquake destroys the city of Jericho.
6,500 B.C. The oceans and sea’s rise, England is now cut off from Europe by land.
6000 B.C.. First beer is brewed from grain in the Near East.
5,500 B.C. First settled societies in the Mesopotamia region.
4,500 B.C. Humans learn how to use the plow.
4,250 B.C. Development of copper and bronze metallurgy.
4,242 B.C. The very first year on the Egyptian calendar.
4,000 B.C. The wheel is invented and begins to be used. Rice farming in China is developed.
3,400 B.C. Beginning forms of writing. Earliest ziggurats are built.
3,300 B.C. Indus Valley Civilization established in South Asia.
3,200 B.C. Boats use sails on the Nile river.
3,113 B.C. First date in the Mayan calendar.
3,100 B.C. Egypt’s 1st Dynasty created by the joining of the upper and lower kingdoms of Egypt.
3,000 B.C. Bricks are used widely(and made by a fired process). First city-states are created, palaces are starting to be build. Temples are usually build at the center of the cities. There were large military campaigns by ethnic groups of people.
2,750 B.C. Rule of Gilgamesh. King of Uruk.
2,686 B.C. Beginning of the Old Kingdom of Egypt, and also known as the “Age of the Pyramids”.
2,667 B.C. Very first pyramids were built in Egypt.
2,500 B.C. First written legal codes.
2,400 B.C. The construction of Stonehenge in England starts.
1,792 B.C. Hammurabi begins his rule as king.
1,766 B.C. Beginning of the Shang dynasty in the Lower Yellow River Valley (China).
1,570 B.C. Beginning of the New Kingdom of Egypt.
1531 B.C. The Hittites conquer Babylon.
1,500 B.C. Earliest known civilization in Mesoamerica, the Olmecs flourish.
1,333 B.C. A young boy named Tutankhamun succeeds Akhenaten, he restores the nation to worshiping the old Egyptian gods.
1,250 B.C. Ziggurat in Khuzestan, in present day Iran is built. Moses leads the Israelites on an exodus out of Egypt.
1,200 B.C. Moses leads his people out of Egypt.
1140 B.C. The First North African city of Utica (Tunisia) is established by the Phoenicians.
1,126 B.C. Nebuchadnezzar I begins his rule as king of Babylon.
1122 B.C. The Chou Dynasty is formed in China by Emperor Wu Wang. The feudal system follows.
1077 B.C. The New Kingdom phase in Egypt is over when Rameses XI dies. Smendes ascends to Pharaoh and forms the XXIst Dynasty.
1,070 B.C. The Kingdom of Kush in Nubia begins.
1050 B.C. Israel is invaded and defeated by the Philistines.
1020 B.C. Saul is anointed king of Israel by the one of the last remaining Israelite judges.
1000 B.C. In the battle of Gilboa, Saul is killed and David ascends to the throne.
961 B.C. David dies and his throne is replaced by his son Solomon.
953 B.C. The Dedication of Temple at Jerusalem is built by Solomon.
922 B.C. Solomon dies and his throne is replaced by his son Rehoboam who faces a rebellion soon after his ascension.
814 B.C. Carthage is founded by the Phoenicians, not far from Utica.
800 B.C. The great poet Homer writes “The Iliad” and “The Odyssey“.
776 B.C. The very first recorded Olympic Games are established in Greece.
770 B.C. The Eastern Chou Dynasty in China begins.
483 B.C. Buddha dies in India.
460 B.C. Hippocrates is born.
431 B.C. Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta begins.
404 B.C. The Government of the Thirty Tyrants begins. Spartans defeat the Athenians to end the Peloponnesian War.
394 B.C. Spartan forces win the Battle of Coronea.
390 B.C. The city of Rome is ransacked by The Gauls from France.
386 B.C. Antalcidas of Sparta forms a peace pact with Persia.
377 B.C. Hippocrates dies.
371 B.C. Sparta and The Athenian League form a peace pact.
367 B.C. Rome elects its first plebeian council member.
356 B.C. The Third Sacred War begins.
339 B.C. The Fourth Sacred War begins.
336 B.C. Philip II of Macedonia is assassinated.
332 B.C. Alexander the Great invades Egypt and founds the city Alexandria.
264 B.C. The First Punic War begins.
221 B.C. China is united under the reign of Shi Huangdi, China’s first emperor.
218 B.C. The Second Punic War begins – also known as the War Against Hannibal.
214 B.C. Construction begins on The Great Wall of China.
204 B.C. Construction is completed on The Great Wall of China.
180 B.C. Great alter of Zeus and Athena built in Pergamon.
168 B.C. Roman forces defeat Perseus at the Battle of Pydna.
149 B.C. The Third Punic War begins.
141 B.C. Jewish people liberate Jerusalem.
140 B.C. Wu (Liu Che) becomes “Martial Emperor” of China.
89 B.C. First Mithridatic War.
63 B.C. Judea is captured by the Roman empire.
53 B.C. The Battle of Carrhae, between Parthian and Roman empires.
50 B.C. France is conquered by Julius Caesar.
45 B.C. Caesar becomes dictator of Rome.
44 B.C. Caesar is assassinated.
30 B.C. Egypt is absorbed and becomes a province of the current Roman empire.
27 B.C. Augustus begins his rule of the Roman Empire as the first Roman emperor.
5 B.C. Jesus is born in Bethlehem.