World Time Line

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This is just a basic time line with approximate dates taken from different sources on the internet. The main focus is on the Egyptian periods since so much ancient history revolves around this early kingdom. This is a work in progress...

9600 BC

- 9600 Gobekli Tepe

4100 BC

- 4100 The Sumerian kingdom thrived (in modern day Iraq) between 4100 - 1750

3500 BC

- start of early bronze age 3500 - 2000 BC

3100 BC

- 3100 beginning of first Egyptian dynasty under Narmer (who was possibly Menes)

3000 BC

- 3000 - 2700 EGYPTIAN EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD ( 1 - 2 dynasties)

2900 BC

- 2nd Egyptian dynasty 2890 Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy

2800 BC

2700 BC

- 2700 - 2200 EGYPTIAN OLD KINGDOM (3 - 6 dynasties)
- 3rd dynasty 2686 Pharaoh Djoser, comminnioned 1st major stone building
- the step pyramid at Saqqara

2600 BC

- 2560 great pyramid completed

2500 BC

- ~2500 Stonehenge
- 5th dynasty 2494 Pharaoh Userkaf

2400 BC

- 6th dynasty 2345 Pharaoh Teti

2300 BC

2200 BC

-2200 - 2000 EGYPTIAN FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD (7 - 10 dynasties)
- 7th and 8th dynasties debated 2181 ?
- 9th dynasty 2160
- 10th dynasty 2130

2100 BC

2000 BC

- 2000 - 1800 EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM (11 - 12 dynasties)
- start of middle bronze age 2000 - 1600
- era of Abraham? Somewhere between 2100 and 1900 BC

1900 BC

1800 BC

- 1800 - 1550 EGYPTIAN SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD (13 - 17 dynasties)

1700 BC

- 1660 Jacob and sons move to Egypt

1600 BC

- start of late bronze age 1600 - 1200 BC
- 1550 - 1075 EGYPTIAN NEW KINGDOM (18 - 20 dynasties)

1500 BC

1400 BC

- king Tut 1332 18th dynasty

1300 BC

1200 BC

- iron age 1200 - 500 BC

1100 BC

- 1075 - 664 EGYPTIAN THIRD INTERMEDIATE PERIOD (21 - 25 dynasties)
- age of Biblical Samuel?

1000 BC

- King David ruled 1010 - 970 BC

900 BC

800 BC

- Homer (aprox 750)
- 722 Assyrian conquest of Israel
- 701 Sennacherib puts Jerusalem under siege, Hezekeah was king

700 BC

- 664 - 342 EGYPTIAN LATE PERIOD (26 - 31 dynasties)

600 BC

- 586 Babylon conquered the southern kingdom of Israel (Judah)
- 550 beginning of Persian empire under Cyrus the Great
- 539 Cyrus conquers Babyon

500 BC

- Socrates 470 - 399
- Plato 428 - 348

400 BC

- 342 - 30 EGYPTIAN HELLENISTIC PERIOD (32 - 33 dynasties)
- Aristotle 384 - 322
- Alexander the Great 356 - 323

300 BC

200 BC

100 BC

- Cleopatra 70 - 30 BC last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
- 27 BC Roman empire officially established

0

- birth of Jesus
- New Testament written

100

- peak of Roman territorial expansion

200

- Crisis of the Third Century 235 - 284 instability of Rome

300

- 306 Constantine proclaimed emperer of western Roman empire
- 324 Constantine becomes emperor of all of Rome
- 325 1st Council of Nicea

400

- 476 collapse of the Western Roman Empire

500

- Muhammad 570 - 632

600

- 610 Muhammad begins receiving the revelations of the Quran
- 632 death of Muhammad, 1st Islamic Caliphate is established
- 691 Dome of the Rock constructed
- 680 Maya civilization flourishes in central America

700

- 732 Battle of Tours, Frankish leader Charles Martel defeats advancing Umayyad army halting the northern expansion of Islam (France)
- 793 Viking age begins

800

- coronation of Charlemagne, laying foundation for the Holy Roman Empire

900

1000

1100

1200

1300

1400

- 1453 collapse of Eastern Roman empire (the Byzantine empire)
- 1492 Columbus discovers the Bahamas, Cuba, etc.

1500

- 1517 - Marting Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door
- 1519 -1522 Ferdinand Magellan completes first recorded world circumnavigation

1600

- Jamestown founded May 14, 1607

1700

- Declaration of Independence adopted July 4, 1776

1800

- April 21 to August 12, 1898 Spanish American war

1900

- WW1 - July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918
- WW2 - September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945
- Japan bombed August 6 and August 9, 1945

2000