Ancient History Timeline Figures

c. 3100 BC

Cuneiform – ancient writing using symbols on clay tablets 2686-2160 BC

c. 3100 BC

AD 1799

Menes unites Upper and Lower Egypt c. 1792-1750 BC

Rosetta Stone discovered

Old Kingdom c. 1250 BC

King Hammurabi rules Babylon c. 800 BC

Troy is destroyed

The fiercest warriors in Greece came from Sparta.

c. 1500 BC

Stonehenge completed c. 776 BC

First Olympic Games

753 BC

605 – 562 BC

Romulus kills Remus & establishes Rome

Nebuchadnezzar II rebuilds Babylon

551 BC

221 – 210 BC

Confucius is born

Qin Shi Huangdi rules as China’s first emporer

509 BC

336 – 323 BC

Rome becomes a republic

Alexander the Great rules Greece

c. 560 – 480 BC

Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) lives 500 – 300 BC

The Golden Age of Greece 300 BC – AD 550

The Hopewell People

146 BC

AD 72 – 80

49 BC

Hannibal of Carthage leads fight against Rome

Colosseum is built

Julius Caesar takes control of Rome

27 BC

c. 4 BC – AD 30

AD 79

Jesus lived on Earth

Mt Vesuvius erupted burying Pompeii alive

AD 476

431 BC – 404 BC

Visigoth chief, Odoacer, is King of Italy – ending the Roman Empire

Peloponnesian War – Sparta vs. Athens

Augustus becomes the first Emperor of Rome AD 312

Emperor Constantine makes Christianity legal

384 – 322 BC

427 – 347 BC

460 BC

Aristotle

Plato

Hippocrates

c. 800 BC

470 – 399 BC

70 – 19 BC

Homer

Socrates

Virgil

c. 168 BC

581 – 497 BC

Judas Maccabaeus

Pythagoras