- Younger Dryas period
- 3100 beginning of first Egyptian dynasty under Narmer (who was possibly Menes)
- 3000 - 2700 EGYPTIAN EARLY DYNASTIC PERIOD ( 1 - 2 dynasties)
- 2nd Egyptian dynasty 2890 Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy
- 2700 - 2200 EGYPTIAN OLD KINGDOM (3 - 6 dynasties)
- 3rd dynasty 2686 Pharaoh Djoser, commissioned 1st major stone building
- the step pyramid at Saqqara
- Pharaoh Khufu 2589 - 2566
- 2560 great pyramid completed commissioned by Khufu
- 2490-2472 - King Menkaura (Mycennus) 4th dynasty
- ~2500 Stonehenge
- 5th dynasty 2494 Pharaoh Userkaf
- 6th dynasty 2345 Pharaoh Teti
-2200 - 2000 EGYPTIAN FIRST INTERMEDIATE PERIOD (7 - 10 dynasties)
- 7th and 8th dynasties debated 2181 ?
- 9th dynasty 2160
- 10th dynasty 2130
- 2000 - 1800 EGYPTIAN MIDDLE KINGDOM (11 - 12 dynasties)
- start of middle bronze age 2000 - 1600
- era of Abraham? Somewhere between 2100 and 1900 BC
- 1800 - 1550 EGYPTIAN SECOND INTERMEDIATE PERIOD (13 - 17 dynasties)
- 1706 - Jacob and sons move to Egypt ?
- start of late bronze age 1600 - 1200 BC
- Thutmose II (1493 - 1479) - Pharaoh of Moses?
- Hatshepsut (1478 - 1458) one of few female rulers
- Pharaoh Akhenaten (1353 - 1336) abandoned polytheism to monotheism
- Akhenaten married to Nefertiti
- son King Tut (1332 - 1323) changed back to polytheism
- Tutankhamun famous for burial site being discovered undisturbed
- Ramses II (1279 - 1213) - Pharaoh of Moses?
- iron age 1200 - 500 BC
- age of Biblical Samuel?
- King David ruled 1010 - 970 BC
- Pharaoh Siamun (978 - 959) gave daughter to King Solomon?
- Homer (aprox 750)
- 722 Assyrian conquest of Israel
- 701 Sennacherib puts Jerusalem under siege, Hezekeah was king
- 586 Babylon conquered the southern kingdom of Israel (Judah)
- 550 beginning of Persian empire under Cyrus the Great
- 539 Cyrus conquers Babyon
- Socrates 470 - 399
- Plato 428 - 348
- 342 - 30 EGYPTIAN HELLENISTIC PERIOD (32 - 33 dynasties)
- Aristotle 384 - 322
- Alexander the Great 356 - 323
- Cleopatra 70 - 30 BC last active ruler of the Ptolemaic Kingdom of Egypt
- 27 BC Roman empire officially established
- Classical Antiquity or Late Antiquity Period (0 - 500 AD)
- birth of Jesus
- New Testament written
- peak of Roman territorial expansion
- Crisis of the Third Century 235 - 284 instability of Rome
- 306 Constantine proclaimed emperer of western Roman empire
- 324 Constantine becomes emperor of all of Rome
- 325 1st Council of Nicea
- 476 collapse of the Western Roman Empire
- Early Middle Ages (500 - 1000 AD)
- Muhammad 570 - 632
- 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
- 732 Battle of Tours, Frankish leader Charles Martel defeats advancing Umayyad army halting the northern expansion of Islam (France)
- 793 Viking age begins
- coronation of Charlemagne, laying foundation for the Holy Roman Empire
- 1453 collapse of Eastern Roman empire (the Byzantine empire)
- 1492 Columbus discovers the Bahamas, Cuba, etc.
- Early Modern Period (1500 - 1800 AD)
- 1517 - Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door
- 1519 -1522 Ferdinand Magellan completes first recorded world circumnavigation
- Jamestown, first permanent American settlement founded May 14, 1607
- Declaration of Independence adopted July 4, 1776
- April 21 to August 12, 1898 Spanish American war
- WW1 - July 28, 1914 - November 11, 1918
- WW2 - September 1, 1939 - September 2, 1945
- Japan bombed August 6 and August 9, 1945