(1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – 2nd millennium – other millennia)
1st millennium - Events.
Beginning of Christianity (30s)
London founded by Romans as Londinium
Diaspora of the Jews (1st century)
The Olympic Games observed until 393
The Library of Alexandria, largest library in the world, burned
High point, and fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century)
Rise of the Byzantine Empire
Germanic kingdoms established in Northern ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
3rd century BC - Events.
The first two Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome over dominance in western Mediterranean
Rome conquers Spain
Gaulish migration to Macedon, Thrace and Galatia
281 BC Antiochus I Soter, on the assassination of his father Seleucus becomes emperor of the Seleucid empire.
273 BC to 252 BC Ashoka the Great ruled the Mauryan Empire
261 BC Antiochus II Theos, 2nd son, at the death o ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
5th century BC - Overview.
The 5th and 6th centuries BC are a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations. Ancient Greek philosophy develops during the 5th century BC, setting the foundation for Western ideology. In Athens and elsewhere in the Mediterranean world, the 5th century marks a high point in the development of political institutions, art, architecture,and literature.
5th century ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
4th century BC - Overview.
4th century BC - Events.
Invasion of the Celts into Ireland
Battle of the Allia and subsequent Gaulish sack of Rome
383 BCE Second Buddhist Councel at Vesali. 100 years after the Parimirvana.
312 BCE Seleucus I Nicator established himself in Babylon. Begins the Seleucid Empire.
323 BCE Alexander the Great conqueres the Persian ...
(1st millennium – 2nd millennium – 3rd millennium – other millennia)
2nd millennium - Events.
European crusades in Middle East
Mongol Empires in Asia
The Black Death
The Renaissance in Europe
The Protestant Reformation
The agricultural and industrial revolutions
The rise of nationalism and the nation state
European discovery of the Americas and Australia and their colonization
European colonization and decolonization in Afri ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
2nd century BC - Events.
175 BC - Antiochus IV Epiphanes, took possession of the Syrian throne, at the murder of his brother Seleucus IV Philopator, which rightly belonged to his nephew Demetrius I Soter.
168 BC - Battle of Pydna - The Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans
164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the fe ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
6th century BC - Overview.
The 5th and 6th centuries BC were a time of empires, but more importantly, a time of learning and philosophy.
Mediterranean: Beginning of Greek philosophy, flourishes during the 5th century BC
East Asia: Chinese philosophy become the "religion" of China. Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, and Moism flourish.
Middle East: During the Persian empire, Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra, founded Zoroastrianism ...
(2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – other millennia)
1st millennium BC - Events.
The Iron Age spread to Western Europe
Egypt declined as a major power
The Tanakh was written
Buddhism was founded by Siddharta Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (6th century BC)
Jainism was founded by Mahavira (6th century BC)
Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire (6th century BC)
Sparta and Athens fought the P ...
The Kingdom of Cambodia (for the various names of the country in Khmer, see naming section below) is a constitutional monarchy in Southeast Asia with a population of more than 13 million people. A citizen of Cambodia is usually identified as Cambodian. Most Cambodians are Theravada Buddhists of Khmer extraction, but the country also has a substantial number of Cham and small hill tribes.
Cambodia is the successor state of the mighty Khmer Empire, which ruled most of the Indochinese ...
The anthropomorphic stone stelae found in the Ukrainian steppe, with some finds extending the area to Moldavia, the northern Caucasus (Southern Federal District) and the area north of the Caspian Sea (western Kazakhstan), date from the Copper Age (ca. 4000 BC–2000 BC), through the Cimmerian period and Scythian and Sarmatian times to the early Slavs of the 1st millennium CE. They were first described by Erik Lasote, ambassador to emperor Rudolf, in 1594, who recorded
"seven beacons, images cut from stone, and they ...
The Canaanite languages are a subfamily of the Semitic languages, spoken by the ancient peoples of the Canaan region, including Canaanites, Hebrews, Phoenicians, and eventually Philistines. All of them became extinct as native languages in the early 1st millennium CE, although Hebrew remained in continuous literary and religious use among Jews, and was revived as a spoken, everyday language in the 19th century by Eliezer Ben Yehuda. The Phoenician (and especially Carthaginian) expansion spread their Canaanite language to the Western M ...
In Welsh language, a caer or kaer was a royal residence during the 1st millennium AD or earlier. Caer can be loosely translated castle or palace or fort but no one English word captures the essence of a caer. A caer was home to a king, his royal family, his warband of loyal knights (teulu) who were his primary defenders in conflict, his druid(s) who were his chief advisors and the spiritual leaders of his people, and his bards who provided entertainment in music and poetry; together with their retinu ...
The Balts or Baltic peoples (Latvian: balti, Lithuanian: baltai), defined as speakers of one of the Baltic languages, a branch of the Indo-European language family, are descended from a group of Indo-European tribes who settled the area between lower Vistula and upper Dvina and Dneper. Because of geographical isolation, the Baltic languages retain a number of conservative or archaic features. Among the Baltic peoples are modern Lithuanians and Latvians as well as the Prussians, Yotvingians and Curonians, whose lan ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
8th century BC - Overview.
8th century BC - Events.
Assyria conquers Damascus and Samaria
Nineveh destroyed (789 BC)
First recorded Olympic Games held in Greece (776 BC)
Zhou Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang (771 BC); The Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BC) began.
According to tradition, Rome founded (753 BC, 21 April)
Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyrian ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
9th century BC - Overview.
9th century BC - Events.
Kingdom of Kush (900 BC)
Battle of Karkar (853 BC) - An indecisive engagement between Assyrian king Shalmaneser II and a military alliance of the king of Damascus and lesser powers including the prince of Tyre
Carthage founded by Phoenicians (813 BC)
Beginning of the Iron Age in Central Europe, spread of the Proto-Celtic Hallstatt culture< ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
7th century BC - Overview.
7th century BC - Events.
the Cimmerians ravage Phrygia in 696 BC, possible migration of the Armenians
Scythians arrived in Asia
Collapse of Susa, end of Elamite Empire
Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC - 670 BC)
Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC)
7th century BC - Significant persons.
Hezekiah of the ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
10th century BC - Overview.
10th century BC - Events.
Partition of ancient Israel into the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel (c. 925 BC)
Foundation of Sparta
The kingdom of Ethiopia is founded by Menelik I, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. (according to legend)
First extant evidence of written Aramaic language
The earliest known settlement in Plymouth, England dates back to this e ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
The 1st century BC starts on January 1, 100 BC and ends on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. This AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. Scientific notation does, however, and uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'.
1st century BC - Events.
The Roman Republic becomes the Roman Empire
Birth of Jesus of Nazareth See: Chronology of Jesus' birth and deat ...
Krishna (IAST kṛṣṇa, the Sanskrit for "the all-attractive one") is according to common Hindu tradition the eighth avatar of Vishnu. In Gaudiya Vaishnavism, however, he is seen as the Supreme Personality of Godhead, and the fountain head of all avatars.
Krishna appears in a number of stories in different cultures and traditions. Sometimes these contradict each other, though ther ...
Tocharian is one of the most obscure branches of the Indo-European language group. It consisted of two languages, Tocharian A (Turfanian, Arsi, or East Tocharian) and Tocharian B (Kuchean or West Tocharian). These languages were spoken roughly from the 6th to 8th centuries, before they became extinct, their speakers being either wiped out or assimilated by the expanding Uighur tribes.
Both languages were once spoken in the Tarim Basin in Central Asia, now the Xinjiang province of China. The name of the language is ...
