List Of Decades
The list below includes links to articles with further details for each millennium, century and decade from 15,000BC to AD3000. Notes See also * Lists of years by topic * List of timelines * Chronology * See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years * See history, human history and periodization for different organizations of historical events * For earlier time periods beyond the Earth, see: ** Timeline of the universe ** Chronology of the universe * For earlier time periods on the Earth, see: ** Geologic time scale The geologic time scale or geological time scale (GTS) is a representation of time based on the rock record of Earth. It is a system of chronological dating that uses chronostratigraphy (the process of relating strata to time) and geochro ... ** Timeline of the evolutionary history of life ** Timeline of prehistory ** Timelines of world history * For future time periods, see: ** Timeline of the far future, events beyond the y ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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15th Millennium BC
The 15th millennium BC spanned the years 15,000 BC to 14,001 BC. This millennium is during the Upper Paleolithic period. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened during this millennium, and all dates associated with this millennium are estimates mostly based on geological analysis, anthropological analysis, and radiometric dating. Inventions, discoveries, and innovations * United States: Probable presence of humans at the Cactus Hill site in Virginia, where stone artefacts and possibly hearths dating to before the Clovis culture have been found. * Middle East: Probable domestication of the dog. * Italy: Development of Gravettian civilisations in Italy and Eastern Europe. * Europe: Peak of rock art. * France, Spain: Development of magdalenian civilisations (development of craftsmanship based on bone materials and the quality of furniture and wall art). References Holocene Late Pleistocene Millennia, -85 {{year-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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3rd Millennium
In contemporary history, the third millennium is the current millennium in the ''Anno Domini'' or Common Era, under the Gregorian calendar. It began on 1 January 2001 ( MMI) and will end on 31 December 3000 ( MMM), spanning the 21st to 30th centuries. Ongoing futures studies seek to understand what will likely continue and what could plausibly change in this period and beyond. Predictions and forecasts not included on this timeline * Climate change * Extinction * List of dates predicted for apocalyptic events * List of future astronomical events ** List of lunar eclipses in the 21st century ** List of solar eclipses in the 21st century * List of time capsules * Near future centennial (bi, tri, etc.) events. * Near future in fiction * Predictions and claims for the Second Coming * Projections of population growth ** Representative Concentration Pathway ** Shared Socioeconomic Pathways 21st century 2000s * See: 2000 * 2001 * 2002 * 2003 * 2004 * 2005 * 2006 * 2007 * 20 ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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28th Century BC
The 28th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2800 BC to 2701 BC. Events *c. 2800 BC – 2700 BC: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York. *2775 BC – 2650 BC: Second Dynasty wars in Ancient Egypt. * c. 2750 BC: Estimated ending of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine. Inventions, discoveries, introductions * Tyre is founded in 2750 BC (according to Herodotus Herodotus (; BC) was a Greek historian and geographer from the Greek city of Halicarnassus (now Bodrum, Turkey), under Persian control in the 5th century BC, and a later citizen of Thurii in modern Calabria, Italy. He wrote the '' Histori ...). References -2 -72 {{BC-year-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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29th Century BC
The 29th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC. Events * BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer. * BC – 2600 BC: Votive statues from the Square Temple of Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) were made. One of them is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933. * – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms. *2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period. *2900 BC- First Mariote Kingdom founded. *2890 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule. *2890 BC – Akkadian language names are recorded from about this time period. *2880 BC: Estimated germination of the Prometheus Tree, previously thought to be the world's oldest living organism until it was cut down in 1964 AD. *2879 BC: Hùng Vương Kinh Dương Vương established the Hồng Bàng dynasty in Vietnam (then known as ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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30th Century BC
The 30th century BC was a time period that lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC. Events * Before 3000 BC: An image of a deity (detail from a Cong (jade), cong) recovered from Tomb 12 in Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made during the Neolithic period by the Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou. *c. 3000 BC: Earliest remains from Aniba (Nubia). * c. 3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa. * c. 3300 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley. * c. 3000 BC: Camels are domesticated in Egypt. * c. 3000 BC: There is an intense phase of burial at on the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland. * c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version, it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts. * c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts. * c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts. * c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts. * c. 3000 BC: Austronesian peoples, Austron ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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31st Century BC
The 31st century BC was a century that lasted from the year 3100 BC to 3001 BC. Events *c. 3100 BC: Polo () was first played in Manipur state. *c. 3100 BC?: The Anu Ziggurat and White Temple are built in Uruk. *c. 3100 BC?: Predynastic period (Neolithic) ends in Ancient Egypt. *c. 3100 BC?: Early Dynastic (Archaic) period starts in Ancient Egypt. *c. 3100 BC?: The first temple of Tarxien is in use by the Neolithic inhabitants of Malta. *c. 3100 BC?: First stage in the construction of Stonehenge. *c. 3100 BC: Oldest adobe building in the Americas was built in Peru. *c. 3100 BC – 2600 BC: Skara Brae, Orkney Islands, Scotland is inhabited. *c. 3090 BC: Narmer (Menes) unifies Upper and Lower Egypt into one country; he rules this new country from Memphis. *c. 3051 BC: The oldest currently living organism, a Great Basin bristlecone pine, undergoes germination in the White Mountains of California. Inventions, discoveries, introductions * Drainage and sewage system in the Indu ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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32nd Century BC
The 32nd century BC was a century lasting from the year 3200 BC to 3101 BC. Events * c. 3190–3170 BC?: Reign of King Double Falcon of Lower Egypt. There is a strong possibility that he appears on the Palermo stone, although half his name is chipped away. * c. 3195–3165 BC?: King Iry-Hor reigns from Abydos over most of Egypt.P. Tallet, D. Laisnay: ''Iry-Hor et Narmer au Sud-Sinaï (Ouadi 'Ameyra), un complément à la chronologie des expéditios minière égyptiene'', in: BIFAO 112 (2012), 381–395available online/ref> * c. 3165–3141 BC: Reign of King Ka in Ancient Egypt. * c. 3138 BC: Ljubljana Marshes Wheel is a wooden wheel that was found in the Ljubljana Marsh in Slovenia. Radiocarbon dating showed that it is approximately 5,150 years old, which makes it the oldest wooden wheel yet discovered. * c. 3141–3121 BC: Reign of Scorpion II in Upper Egypt.. * c. 3121 BC?: Beginning of the reign of Narmer, first pharaoh to unify Ancient Egypt and founder of the 1st D ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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33rd Century BC
The 33rd century BC was a century that lasted from the year 3300 BC to 3201 BC. It is impossible to precisely date events that happened around the time of this century and all dates mentioned here are estimates mostly based on geological and anthropological analysis. The Bronze Age started in the 33rd century BC. Events * Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants; atmospheric temperatures fall * Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert * Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of proto-writing * Indus Valley civilisation (also known as Harappan civilization) begins in Harappa *c. 3300 BC: Archaeological evidence suggests the transition from Copper to Bronze took place around 3300 BC *c. 3300 BC: Harappan script is developed in Indus Valley *c. 3300 BC: Pictographs in Uruk * 3300 BC: to 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made; it is ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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34th Century BC
The 34th century BC was a century that lasted from the year 3400 BC to 3301 BC. Cultures *Stage IIIa2 of the Naqada culture in Egypt (dated in 1998). *In the early part of Naqada III in Upper Egypt, the ruler, Horus-A, is coronated as the ruler or king of Thinis (c. 3315 BC) *Archaic forms of cuneiform emerge in the late Uruk period in Mesopotamia Mesopotamia is a historical region of West Asia situated within the Tigris–Euphrates river system, in the northern part of the Fertile Crescent. Today, Mesopotamia is known as present-day Iraq and forms the eastern geographic boundary of .... *Burial of a child at Ashleypark Burial Mound, Ireland (c. 3350 BC) References -6 -66 {{BC-year-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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35th Century BC
The 35th century BC in the Near East sees the gradual transition from the Chalcolithic to the Early Bronze Age. Proto-writing enters transitional stage, developing towards writing proper. Wheeled vehicles are now known beyond Mesopotamia, having spread north of the Caucasus and to Europe. Cultures * Susa (Iran since 7000 BC) * Uruk period (Sumer) * Naqada IIb (Ancient Egypt) * Early Minoan I * Sredny Stog culture (final phase) * Yamna culture (early phase) * Cucuteni culture * Vinča culture * Megalithic Europe ( Atlantic fringe) * Nuragic civilization (Sardinia) * Comb Ceramic culture * Funnelbeaker culture * Yangshao culture Artifacts Only approximate dating is usually possible for mid-4th millennium artifacts. * Kish tablet * Bronocice pot * Ginger (mummy) * Knap of Howar Events *The Sahara desert starts to form from semi-arid savannah, through desertification. *c. 3500 BC: First known zoo at Hierakonpolis. *c. 3400 BC: Sumerian temple record keepers redesign the s ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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36th Century BC
The 36th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3600 BC to 3501 BC. Events * Civilization in Sumer (Uruk period). * Beginning of the construction of the megalithic Ggantija temple complex in Malta. * Mnajdra solar temple complex, Malta. * Colombia, first rupestrian art at Chiribiquete ( Caquetá). * Maize is domesticated at Balsas River by the Tehuacán culture * In Egypt, evidence found of mummification around this time at a cemetery in Nekhen (Hierankopolis). * Fortified town at Amri on the west bank of the Indus River. Cultures * Baden culture (present-day Moravia, Hungary, Slovakia and Eastern Austria) * Funnelbeaker culture (north central Europe and southern Scandinavia) * Boian culture, Phase IV or Spanţov Phase (also known as the Boian-Gumelniţa culture) (lower Danube river) * Chasséen culture (present-day France) * Pfyn culture (present-day Switzerland) * Cucuteni-Trypillian culture (present-day Romania, Moldova and Ukraine) * Beginning of ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |
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37th Century BC
The 37th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3700 BC to 3601 BC. Events * In the south of England, a rapid expansion of monument building occurred around 3700 BC. * In the city of Uruk, southern Mesopotamia, groups of tokens representing commercial transactions begin to be enclosed in hollow clay balls and kept in archives. * The Maykop culture, a major Bronze Age archaeological culture in the Western Caucasus region of Southern Russia, began around 3700 BC. * Indus Valley civilisation in South Asia South Asia is the southern Subregion#Asia, subregion of Asia that is defined in both geographical and Ethnicity, ethnic-Culture, cultural terms. South Asia, with a population of 2.04 billion, contains a quarter (25%) of the world's populatio ... (3700 BC). References -3 -63 {{BC-year-stub ... [...More Info...]       [...Related Items...]     OR:     [Wikipedia]   [Google]   [Baidu]   |