• Early man walks the Earth and are hunter-gatherers and dinosaurs are extinct by now.
• Beginnings of ritualistic funerals and understanding of the Earth.

• Use of crude stone tools like hand-axes

• Neanderthal carvings on Wooly Mammoth tooth found near Tata in Hungary

• Early hunting weapons like the Laurel Leaf spear

30000

• Ivory horse is the oldest known animal carving of mammoth ivory -Vogelherd Germany
• Venus of Willendorf made between 30000 and 25000 and is thought to be a Goddess statue. Interest in Her as well as other Venus Figures have resurfaced due to Neopaganism
• The Bering Strait gives access to the Americas to many migrating tribes.

• Cro-Magnon markings of phases of the moon found on a carved bone discovered at Blanchard France.

• Dolni Vestoni

• More"Venus" figurines emerge in Europe. The data collected about these figurines from both within Europe and the Near-East suggest that the figurines could have been used for a variety of purposes. The most supported theory utilizes the figurines for reasons of trade rather than for any religious or magical use.

• Chauvet cave France

• Lascaux cave paintings

• Altamira Cave Paintings

• First agricultural villages
• Invention of the bow and arrow
• Engraved antler baton depicting a seal salmon and plants discovered in Montgaudier France.
• First animals are domesticated -dog and reindeer
• Earliest pottery found in Japan

• Dravidian Religion is practiced. The earliest roots of Hinduism. They practice stone worship later called Sivalinka.

• Agricultural Revolution begins: the development of settled societies due to the discovery of agriculture. Each area of the world has it own dates as when it began

• In Mesopotamia tokens for accounting and recording keeping existed.

• Peoples in the Ancient Near East develop agriculture

• Catal Hulyuk Mesopotamian agriculture settlement.

• Jericho
• Crop-growing and stock rearing is a regular part of existence
• Large communities have formed-towns and cities.

• Rice cultivation in China

• Yangshao culture China

• Neolithic Revolution in Western and central Europe

• Harappan developed farming Communities in the Indus Valley

• Hinduism one of the oldest religions is practiced

• Indo European migration begins; starting in the regions around the Caspian Sea.
• The Culture of Vra

• Sumerians settle in Mesopotamia
• Writing - pictographs of financial accounts written on clay tablets exist in Sumer

• Longsham culture China

• Inscription on Mesopotamian tokens overlaps with pictography

• Upper and Lower Egypt united by Menes the First Pharaoh
• Harappan urbanization begins somewhere between 3200 and 2600

• Early Egyptian Dynastic Period

• Domestication of sheep, cattle and water buffalo in China
• Pharoah is worshipped by the Egyptians

• Late Archaic Period in the Americas

• Irrigation and drainage projects in Egypt

• Beginnings of Sumerian classification of city-states.
• Innin and Tammuz are the chief Sumerian deities

• Stonehenge in England was built in stages. The earliest inner ring of the Blue stones predates the Egyptian Pyramids.

• The Old Kingdom in Egyptian history

• Hieroglyphics become standardized

• Pyramid building begins.
• Scribes employed in Egypt.

• Harappan Civilization well established culture

• Great Pyramids built and the Sphinx altered at Gizah
• The beginnings of the Isis and Osiris in Egypt.
• The Snake and the Bull are chief religious symbols in Minoan Crete
• Ishtar worship prominent in Mesopotamia

• In India: Engraved seals for identifying the writer

• Weakening of pharaoh's central authority

• Copper working

• Date of the oldest found document written on papyrus

• Abraham the founder of Judaism

• Marduk is worshipped as the chief god of Babylon
• The "Book of the Dead" 18th dynasty of Egypt

• Aryans invade the cities of the Indus Valley

• Harappan Civilization collapses

• The Babylonian Empire

• Celto-Ligurian culture

• Bronze Ages
• After the fall of the Harappan Civilization, between 1600 and 1000 saw the great architecture of Mahabharata, Viz, Hastinapur, Dwarka and Hulas. It was also the time of the great epics like Vedas.

• Shang dynasty

• Phoenician alphabet
• Bronze Age in Scandinavia
• Brahmanism

• Poverty Point Culture

• Oldest record of writing in China inscribed on bone.

• Ikhnaton attempts to establish monotheism in Egypt with the worship of Anton the sun god, however he failed.

• Syrian scholar compiles an encyclopedia

• Moses receives the 10 Commandments on Mount Sinai

• Urnfield lts

• The Age of the Judges in Israel

• The Era of the Smaller Civilizations

• Zhou dynasty

• Aryans migrate into Ganges Valley
• Proto Germanic people settle in the general area of modern Scandinavia and begin to develop a linguistic /cultural / religious identity separate from that of general Indo-European stock.
• Development of the traditional Greek pantheon.

• China has an organized postal service for government use

• Homer's Illiad and Odyssey

• Hesiod's Theogony

• Greeks develop a phonetic alphabet that is written from left to right

• Later Zhou dynasty

• The Prophet Isaiah

• Zarathustra (Zoroaster) founder of Zoroastrianism in Persia

• Anaximander and Anaximenes

• Mahavira founder of Jainism

• The Prophet Jeremiah
• Thales of Miletus begins the development of philosophy by speculating about the nature of the"cosmos."

• The Life and Teaching of Sidhartha Gautama

• Lao Tzu founder of Taoism

• Heraclitus of Ephesus

• Xenophanes of Colophon
• A library in Greece

• Iron Age begins in Scandinavia
• Greek telegraph system: via trumpets, drums, shouting, beacon fires, smoke, signals, and mirrors.
• Persia has a long distance communication in a form of a pony express.
• Chinese scholars write on bamboo with reeds dipped in pigment inks.

• Pythagoras of Samos

• Celtic rule throughout most of Continental Europe
• East Germanic peoples (Goth, Burgundians ...) migrate from Scandinavia to Eastern Europe, settling in the Steppes and Black Sea area.
• West Germanic peoples migrate south into the area of modern Germany, displacing the Celts who had previously ruled the region.
• The Proto-Germanic language is dividing into North Germanic (Old Norse which becomes Danish, Swedish, Norwegian, Icelandic, Faroese and others); West Germanic (Continental Germanic and Anglo Saxon: which becomes English, Yiddish, and Dutch) and East Germanic (Gothic with no surviving modern language)

• Parmenides

• Socrates

• Plato

• Chinese write on silk and wood.

• "Western Europe" concept enters History between 390 to 500 AD

• Aristotle

• The Reign of Asoka: India

• development of the runes

• End of the Han Dynasty

• Books written on parchment and vellum.
• Tipao gazettes are circulated to Chinese officials. (First Newspaper?)

• Crisis of Third century Rome

• The Buddhism Canon is put to writing

• Germans meet the Romans mutually hate.

• Han China at its largest territorial extent under the Emperor Wu Ti.

• Rome establishes its dominion in the Mediterranean

• Cimbri and Teutones invade Italy

• Rise of Mahayana Buddhism
• between 100 BC to 500 AD sacrificing/executing people in bogs is carried out regularly in Scandinavia especially Denmark

• Roman Empire at its largest territorial extent under the Emperor Trajan.

• Julius Caesar orders postings of Acta Diurna

• Julius Caesar military expedition into Britain

• Varro's Human and Divine Antiquities