C. 2000 - 1990 BCE - glass as a basic product started to appear.
1876 BCE - the Israelites enter Egypt after two years of famine, it is suggested that this event may also be dated as 1986 BCE.
1800 BCE - Iron Age starts in India and the Nordic Bronze Age starts.
1800 - 1700 BCE - between these dates is a the decline of the Indus Valley civilisation.
1750 BCE - a large volcanic eruption in Alaska occurred, whilst nomadic shepherds (known as the Aryans) migrated to India from Asia and the Russian Steppes, this could be due to a change in the localised weather patterns after the volcanic eruption.
1700 BCE - the Bronze Age starts in China.
1627 BCE - the eruption of Thera or the eruption of Mount Vesuvius led to a period of world climatic cooling, this period has been recorded by dendrochronologists (they study tree rings).
1600 BCE - this is a proposed date of the earliest discovery of a rubber ball.
1500 BCE - Mercury, the element, was discovered in an Egyptian tomb and it was dated back to this time. This is also the period of when there are early traces of the Mayan civilisation (recorded in present day Belize). It is also the time when the Phoenicians start to develop an alphabet as well as the earliest evidence of a settlement at Aylesbury. There is also evidence that a millet-bean-rice form of agriculture is found in an area (now known as the Korean peninsula).
1400 BCE - bronze helmets were found in Knossos in Crete. This century was also the time of when the tumuli civilisation (burying people beneath burial mounds) started to spread across Central Europe.
1300 BCE - although a lot of people were born and died, nothing of significance with reference to Whatlington and Vinehall Street was found in the 1300's. But maybe you can tell me something different.
1251 BCE - a lunar eclipse that occurred was supposed to mark the birth of Hercules.
1206 BCE - this is the approximate date of the collapse of the Bronze Age that led to the migration, destruction and unrest in the Eastern Mediterranean and the Near East.
C. 1200 BCE - there is evidence that chariots have been used in China at around this time.
1194 BCE - the start of the Trojan War.
1184 BCE - April the 24th is the end of the Trojan War.
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1100 BCE - the alphabet is still being further developed by the Phoenicians.
1050 BCE - the Philistines capture the Ark of the Covenant from Israel in a battle.
1000 BCE - the Iron Age starts in the India.
965 BCE - David, the king of the Israelites dies and is followed by Solomon in 962 BCE
Late 900's BCE - artefacts from the Bronze Age to the Middle Iron Age are found at Mount Batten in Plymouth, Devon that marks it out as one of the first trading posts in England at the time. The late 900's was also the time of when the first examples of written Aramaic were created.
c. 800 BCE - is the beginning of the Iron Age in Central Europe and a form of a proto-Celtic language (also known as Common Celtic) was recorded.
776 BCE - is thought to be the date for the first Olympiad, although the date is up for some disagreement between scholars.
753 BCE - is the date of when Rome was founded by Romulus
600 BCE - Milan was founded by the Celts and Marseilles was founded by the Phoceans whilst the Chinese have invented printing.
510 BCE - 496 BCE is the lifetime of the Chinese writer Sun Tzu, who wrote the Art of War.
510 BCE - the Roman Republic is established.
Late 500's BCE - the art of lost wax casting spread to Ancient Greece.
Early 400's BCE - Greek philosophy starts to spread as well as Zoroastrianism (a form of dualistic philosophy).
490 BCE - Phidippides runs 40 kilometres to deliver some news,this is the origin of the marathon long distance race.
470 BCE - Socrates the Philosopher is born - "I am the wisest man alive, for I know one thing, and that is that I know nothing" and "By all means marry. If you get a good wife, you'll become happy; if you marry a bad one, you'll become a philosopher" are two of his quotes.
440 BCE - Democritus, another Ancient Greece philosopher, proposes the existence of indivisible particles, which he calls atoms.
430 BCE - In Athens, an illness in the city is thought to have been started by an epidemic typhus.
429 BCE - A plague kills over a third of the city's population.
427 BCE - Plato, the Greek philosopher is born "A good decision is based on knowledge and not on numbers" and "As the builders say, the larger stones do not lie well without the lesser" are two of his quotes.
c. 400 BCE - it is said that London as a settlement can be dated back to this date, but maybe earlier, so can you prove me wrong?
312 BCE - Rome devised the first aquaduct, the Aqua Appia.
c. 4th century BCE - it was thought that during the 4th Century burnt bricks became more common in the construction industry, after being first used in Greece.
c. 3rd century BCE - Erasthosthenes calculated an accurate diameter of the Earth and may have invented the leap day. Also during the third century, silk is exported to Europe from China.
c. 2nd century BCE - the Silk Road or Route becomes an established route between Europe and Asia; the Chinese are the first to produce paper; meanwhile the Romans are the first to use a form of concrete called Pozzolana, it is similar to Portland cement. Polybius created a form of fire based semaphore using a form of cryptography based on the Polybius square.
73 BCE - there was a slave rebellion led by a gladiator that led to the Third Servile War - his name was Spartacus.
55 BCE - on August the 22nd or the 26th, Julius Caesar invaded Britain, thought to be a reconnaissance mission.
49 BCE - on January the 10th, Julius Caesar crosses the Rubicon. This is now used as a metaphor for a point of no return...
44 BCE - Julius Caesar is murdered.
c. 6-4 BCE - the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
It was during this last century that sunspots were first recorded by the Chinese and that glass blowing was invented in Roman Syria.
Next time...on this blog...the first century of Anno Domini or Common Era.
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