600 BC to 400 BC

 600 BC to 400 BC: A history timeline with items being added.

 600 BC

600 BC: By this time the people of the island of Hellenic culture Miletus had become a maritime culture. Might the Milesians arrived in Ireland around this time?

~ Zoroaster  lived at this time. He was an Iranian/Persian prophet and close associated with the Zend Avesta and the worship of Ormagd.

~ to 200 AD: North America: Tchefuncte Culture links Marksville Culture to to Poverty Point culture. Tchefuncte pottery found from Texas to Florida.

~ Ireland: By this time a culture which has been called Gaelic was present in the Island.

~ Ireland: Evidence of a beginning of an ongoing arrival of  "Celts" and their ongoing dominance of the earlier people who were a non Indo-European Bronze Age people.

~ Wales: By this time there may well have been Celtic Irish settled among the Welsh. About this time Desi and Ui Laithain traveled to Cornwall and Wales from Munster. About this time they were writing Ogham on standing stones there. Ogham was used a bit earlier in Munster. 

500 BC, Ireland: La Tien civilization was apparent.

~ Ireland: The people we have called Celts came early and continued arriving for long. By this time they were probably dominant in the land.

586 BC to 526 BC: Lifespan of Anaximander, philosopher and teacher of Anaximenes. Anaximenes was a Miletus Greek.

586 BC to 526 BC: Lifespan of Anaximander, philosopher and teacher of Anaximenes. Anaximenes was a Miletus Greek.

 

580 BC: to 500 (?) BC: China: Laozi, articulate apologist for Taoist ideas.

 

563 BC: Birth of Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha. 

556 BC to 468 BC: Greek: The approximate life span of Simonides, son of Leopropes and a decedent of Hychus. He was born in Ioulis on the important little island of Ceos, said to be the birth place of Apollo. Simonides is said to have influenced Socrates.

 

551 BC to 479 BC: lifespan of Kung-Fu-tzu, Confucius. He was also a man of great stature

550 BC to 340 BC, Carthage: For these years the Magonids were a political dynasty. 

~ Mago I takes power in Carthage. 

~ to 340 BC: For these years the Magonids were a political dynasty in Carthage.

~ Mago I takes power in Carthage.

~ There were probably to have been Celts, Keltoi in Ireland by this time.

540 BC to 535 BC, Greek Territory: The Battle of Sardinia Sea/Battle of Alalia took place sometime between these dates. It was a sea battle off the coast of Corsica between the Phocaean Greeks VS Carthage and Etruscans. I am uncertain of the results, but in part it may be said that it included a Greek Cadmean victory and an Etruscan - Carthaginian strategic victory and has much to say about the state of affairs in that part of  Med. Greek power seem to have been weakened. By the 9th century Phoenician power was already growing and by the 8th century Etruscans were a local power. Still Greeks were still planting colonies in 750 BC and onward and dominating the Tyrrhenian coast and by 630 had returned to Iberia. So the Greeks stayed powerful long and through strong opposition. The Irish certainly felt the Greek - Phoenician conflict. 

~ Corsica: A Carthaginian/Etruscan alliance had expelled  the Greeks from Corsica after the battle of  Alalia fought near Alalia between Carthaginians and Etruscan Greeks(?).

~ A Carthaginian/Etruscan alliance had expelled the Greeks from Corsica after the 

battle of  Alalia.

~ Hanno's reign ends. It has under him whom a large part of Africa was added to Carthage's dominion and more of the the Atlantic coast of Africa was explored and settled!  

~ Hamilco takes power in Carthage.

535 BC to 500 BC: The sea battle of Alalia was fought near Alalia between Carthaginians and Etruscan Greeks.

530 BC: Mago dies and Hasdrubal takes power in Carthage.

520s BC: During this time Hasdrubal with his brother Hamilcar I Launches an expedition against Sardinia.

510 BC: Hamilcar takes power in Carthage. 

500 BC to 400 BC: There is strong evidence that the Carthaginians were carrying on trade with of the islands beyond the Pillars of Hercules and that it included Ireland.

~ Estonia: The Iron Age began here about this time. 

~ Ireland: This date may mark the beginning an Iron Age. There was certainly a relatively large amount iron being worked.  

 500 BC, Ireland: La Tien civilization was apparent.

551 BC to 479 BC: lifespan of Kung-Fu-tzu, Confucius. He was also a man of great stature physically.

550 BC to 340 BC: For these years the Magonids were a political dynasty in Carthage.

~ Mago takes power in Carthage. 

~ There were public libraries in Athens. 

545 BC: Thales, the great philosopher of Miletus died. Do not let the magnitude of his d be diminished by the following. He was the first to predict an eclipse in the West. He knew that a magnet attracted iron and understood that rubbed amber produced a similar attraction.

 

542 BC to 288 BC: Ireland: Labraid Loingsech's reign as high king fell within this long period of time. Please help me to be more precise. He is also known as Labraid Lore son of Ailill Aine and grandson of Loegaire Lore. He was considered and ancestor of the Laigin who gave their name to the province of Leinster. It is believed that he was once exiled to Munster for 30 years where the Morca ruled at the time. The king before him was Cobthach Coel Berg. the king following him was Meilge Molbthach.

540 BC: A Carthaginian and Etruscan alliance had expelled Greeks from Corsica after the battle of Alalia.

539 BC to 331 BC: Persia/Iran was the dominant empire of the Middle East. Many Persians of the time followed the teaching of Zoroaster.

 

538 BC to 529 BC: The Persian/Iranian ruler, Cyrus made it possible for Exiled Jews to return to Judah. Jeshua and Zerubbabel were active during his reign. Jeshua  and Yeshua may have been an origin of the name Jesus. Jeshua was a high priest in Judah. Zerubbabel was a governor of Judaea of the time.

535 BC to 500 BC: Carthaginians and Etruscans v. Greeks in a sea battle near Alalia.

530 BC: Carthage: Mago dies and Hasdrubal I takes power.

~ to 490 BC: The kings of Rome are Etruscan.

~ Pandemic hit Athens during the Pelopennesian War.

 

522 BC: Darius the great describes his speedy first triumph the Magi who revolted against his rule. Magus=a member of an ancient Persian clan specializing in cultic activities. The plural of Magus is Magi = a priestly cast (Vendidad).

~ 486 BC: Darius the great, King of Persia, invaded Greece in 490 BC and was follow by Cambryes.

 

520s BC: Hasdrubal, with his brother Hamilcar I, launched an expedition against Sardinia.

~ to 480 BC: Etruscan kings of Rome. 

~ A certain Hanno made a voyage from the Straights of Gibraltar to beyond Gambia to reinforce certain Carthaginian trading stations. Periplus of Hanno, Hanno the Navigator.

 510 BC: Hamilcar takes power in Carthage.

 

509 BC: A treaty signed between Carthage and Rome indicates a division of influence an commercial activities. This is the first know source indicating that Carthage had gained control over Sicily and Sardinia, as well as Emporia and the area south of cape Bon in north Africa. It also indicates the growing power of Rome.

508 BC: Cleisthenes introduces democracy in Athens.

500 BC: At this time Kochab was the N. star. 

~ The Carthaginian navigator and explorer, Himilco explored the Atlantic coast of Europe to the Sargasso Sea.

~ Herodotus, the Greek historian lived.

~ La Tien civilization apparent in Ireland.

~ Estonia: The Iron Age began along with cultural disturbances. (the arrival of  many newcomers of an Iron Age culture?)

500 BC to 330 BC: The Archimedean Empire ruled in Mesopotamia and the Royal Silk Road was in use.

 ~ to 400 BC: There is strong evidence that the Carthaginians were carrying on trade with of lands beyond the Pillars of Hercules and that included the people of Ireland. 

~ "Celtic:" Where the canal Thiele enters lake Neucharel in Switzerland is La Tene site. In1858 the water levels were lowered there and remains of ancient timbers were reveled. Around them were many objects identified as Celtic. Since then similar objects have been La Tene. La Tene came to name a culture which began about this time.

500 BC to 330 BC: The Archimedean Empire ruled in Mesopotamia and the Royal Silk Road was in use.

 ~ to 400 BC: There is strong evidence that the Carthaginians were carrying on trade with of lands beyond the Pillars of Hercules and that included the people of Ireland. 

~ "Celtic:" Where the canal Thiele enters lake Neucharel in Switzerland is La Tene site. In 1858 the water levels were lowered there and remains of ancient timbers were revealed. Around them were many objects identified as Celtic. Since then similar objects have been La Tene. La Tene came to name a culture which began about this time.

490 AD to 562 AD: The likely life span of the Byzantine histo

rian Procopius.

 483 BC:Carthage launches the First Sicilian war against Greece in an attempt to gain control of Sicily.

480 BC: Carthage suffers a disastrous loss at the battle of Himera i which Hamilcar is killed, ending the firs Sicilian War. Hanno II, also known as Hanno the Navigator, takes power. The Tribunal of 104 is established severely weakening the power of Kings. Carthage becomes a republic.

480 BC: Xerxes, the Persian king, on his way to destroying the Acropolis at Athens, stopped at Troy to sacrifice 1,ooo oxen at the temple of Athena Herodotus.

~ to 470 BC: Ireland: Irereo Fathach the wise was High King. He was son of Molbthach.

470 BC to 430 BC: Has been called the Age of  Pericles.

468 BC to 376 BC: Mohist under Mozi advocated ''free love." Mozi has bee called a good strategist. ?

460 BC to 377 BC: Was the lifespan of Hippocrates, the father of western medicine who laid the foundation for clinical observation.

450 BC? to 404 BC: Alcibiades: Athenian politician and general.

~ There were probably Celts, Keltoi in Ireland by this time.

440 BC: Hanno's reign ends. Under him a large part of Africa was added to Carthage's dominion and more of the Atlantic coast of Africa was explored and settled! 

~ Himilco takes power in Carthage.

435 BC ?: Life span of Isocrates, Athenian orator, rhetorician, and teacher whose writings an important source of historical data on the Athenians of his day. Useful historian. No great intellect.

 

429 BC: The Plague of Athens ravaged all of Greece and much of Persia, Palestine, Egypt, Syria, Italy, Germany, and Gaul!

427 BC to 348 BC: Plato wrote The Republic. Plato, pupil of Socrates and teacher of Aristotle,

~ Criticas was a historian. Timaeus was an astronomer.

423 BC to 348 BC: Life span of  Plato.

440 BC: Hanno's reign ends, under whom a large part of Africa was added to Carthage's dominion. More of the coast of Africa was explored and settled! Trade with Ireland. Himilco takes power in Carthage.

423 BC to 348 BC: Life span of Plato.

 

410 BC: Carthage: Hannibal takes power and in the same year invades Sicily.

409 BC: Carthage: Hannibal's invasion of Sicily ends in the destruction of the city of Selinus, ally of the powerful Greek city of Syracuse.

407 BC to 399 BC: Plato became the pupil of Socrates.

 

406 BC: Carthage: Himilco II took power after Hannibal died of disease. 

 406 BC: Himilco II takes power after Hannibal dies of disease.

 

 

 

400 BC: to perhaps as early as 500 BC: A disruptive change occurred in the Mississippian Wood land culture. The change was marked by increased reliance on corn agriculture, increased use of  bow and arrow, and less reliance on with atlatl. Other markers of the change are long nosed god, shell and copper masks, bi-lobed arrows, and "chunky" playing.

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 2,200 BC to 2,000 BC

2,200 BC to 700 BC: Poverty Point earthworks people near what is now Epes, Louisiana, U.S. Imports from Tennessee, Georgia, lower Mississippi, and along the Gulf of Mexico coast found. About 1,50 possible trading sites located in the area. I need more positive dates for the flourishing of people at this site. 

~ t0 1,800 BC: Is called the Archaic Mound-Building period in the US. There is some evidence of it having begun on the lower Mississippi river in what is now called Carroll and Monroe parishes of the state of Louisiana

2150 BC: New people came to Ireland at this time, perhaps from the region of Belgium. These newcomers may have been Fir Bolg##, who may have been Celts.

~ Egypt: The Old Kingdom collapsed around this time.

~ There is evidence Aryans "invade" the Indus Valley.

~ Ireland: Evidence of well developed copper mining in west Cork. Evidence of tin.

~ dating near this time in Ireland and parts of Europe there was a useful copper rapier made before there was a bronze slashing sword!

2,129 BC: Gudea ruled Lagash.His ''personal deity" was Ningishzida.

2,110 BC to 2,o90 BC, Ur: Lifespan of Nammu of

2,100 BC: Abraham migrates from Ur.

~ to 2,000 BC, Near East: Akkadian Empire disintegrates after nearly 2,000of riding high.

~ In the city states of Lagash, Gudea rebuilds many temples and installs finely carved diorite statues of himself to demonstrate his piety. So Mesopotamia is reunited under the kings of Ur. Ziggurats built.

~ Abraham leaves Ur in Chaldea.

 

2050 BC: Theban princes subdued the Heracleopolitans.  

 

 2,000 BC to 1650 BC: Middle Hellenic period: Slower development of Megaron type dwellings. Was this related to the culture called Dananns by Homer and Danaya by Egyptians?

~ to 1450 BC: The Minoan culture base on Crete flourished greatly. They had an extensive seagoing trading network. The Cretan city of Knossos had a peak population of about 100,000 persons. 

~ to 1,000 BC: Has been called the Archaic Period in North America. Others have called it the Formative Stage.

~ to 1,000 BC: The Old Copper Complex of Great Lakes in North America dated to this time.

~ Ireland: Strong evidence of mining and metal work in Ireland by this time. Bronze and gold objects were made. Axe heads, pottery, and jewelry are also found.

2,000 BC to 1,700 BC, Ireland: Milesians## were already active in Ireland; documentation is available. 

~ Ireland: By this time some of the people whom we have called were already living on the island.

~ Ireland: Strong evidence of mining and metalwork, bronze and gold objects were made. Axe heads, pottery, and jewelry found dating to this time and before. 

~ to 1650 BC, Ireland: Danaan still active. They were called Danann by Homer and Danaya by Egyptians. Dan reminds me of a tribe of the Jews.

~ to 1650 BC: Greece: Middle Hellenic period. There was slower development during this time. Megaron type of dwellings used. Was this culture called Danann by Homer and Danaya by   ?

~ Who says that there is evidence of Celtic visits to New Zealand about this time?

~ The Northmen and Saxons were calling Ireland  Ir-land or Ir-landa.

~ Ireland: About this time to between 1600 BC and 1290 BC, Eber Finn was High King of Ireland. He was the son of Mil Espaine(Milesious)##. It seems he was an immigrant who landed at Bantry Bay. He and his brother fought the de Danann and drive them into the hills. The name Hibernia, used by Julius Caesar as a name for Ireland, might me derived from Eber or Heber.

~ to 1450 BC: The Minoan culture based in Crete flourished greatly. They had an extensive seagoing network. Their city of Knossos had a peak population of about 100,000 persons. 

~ to 1,000 BC, North America: The old copper complex of people around the Great Lakes was active

~ t0 1,700 BC, Ireland: "Milesian Genealogies." Strong evidence is available.

~ to 1650 BC: Middle Hellenic period. Slower development; use of Megaron dwellings. May be the time of a culture called Dananns by Homer and Danaya by the Egyptians.

~ Ireland: From about this time until between about 1,600 and 1290 BC, Eber Finn was a High King and a son of Mil Espaine, Milesious. It seems that he was an immigrant who landed at Bantry Bay. He and his brother fought the de Dannan and drove them into the hills. The name Hibernia, used by Julius Caesar, as a name for Ireland, might be derived from Eber or Heber. (The Northmen and Saxsons came to call the land Ir-land or Ir-landa.)

~ to 1,700 BC, Ireland: Strong evidence for Milesian.

~ to 1,650 BC: Middle Hellenic period. Slower development; use of Megaron type dwellings. This may also have been the time the culture called Dananns by Homer and Danaya by Egyptians.

~ to 1,450 BC, Crete: The Minoan culture flourished greatly. They had an intensive seagoing network. The city of Knossos had a peak population of about 100,000 persons.

~ to 1,000 BC, North America: The Old Copper Complex of the Great Lakes was active.

~ Ireland: Strong evidence for mining and metal work by this time and that bronze and gold objects were made. Much jewelry and pottery found.

~ to 1,000 BC: "Formative stage in North America"

~ Anatolia/Turkey: An ancient people came to north-central Anatolia in the Bronze Age, perhaps before 2,000. They may have come from the area of Ukrainian. By 1,600 BC they had begun an empire on the Hattusa.

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1,400 BC to 1,200 BC

 1,400 BC to 1,200 BC: archaeology, prehistory, history timeline including: Bronze Age, Greece, Troy, Ireland, Europe, Ireland, Thailand, South East Asia. More here and more coming.

  1,400 BC to nearly 700 BC: There was an expansion of farming/agriculture in Ireland. Less Trauma and lots of babies.Trees were cut down and grains planted.
~ to 800 BC: A kind of Dark Age fell over much of Europe until the development of pre-Classical Greece and Phoenicia. During these same years a sort of Gold and Bronze Age began in central and northern Europe. Also during these same years there was a movement of a horse culture people southwest into the eastern Mediterranean area. This movement may have contributed to the fall of great Bronze Age cultures such as the Hittites and Mycenae. These people might have been Iron Age "Celts."

~ Ireland: An advanced Bronze Age active on the island. 

~ Ireland: At this time Ireland gold work was probably more advanced than that of most of Europe.

~ to nearly 1,000 BC Eastern Mediterranean culture suffered from incursions from the east and northeast. There was a rise in instability at this time accompanied by the the development of new and better weapons.

~ North western Europe: At this time the metal, gold, and bronze work was on the rise.

1377 BC to 1360 BC: Reign of Akhenaten/Ikhnaton, Egypt's monotheistic Pharaoh, "Hymn of the sun."

1362 or 1261 BC: Birth of Herakles.

1360 BC to 1350 BC: Ireland: Setna Airt was High King. He was a direct descendant from Mil Espaine.
1360 BC to 1330 BC: Ireland: Fiachu Finscothach was High King (what's a black fleet?)

~ to 1250 BC: About the duration of the first Assyrian Empire.

1340 BC: Birth of Theseus.

1326 BC or 1241 BC: Purification of Herakles.

 
1320 BC to 1280 BC: Ollom Fotlal scholar was High King during this time. He was a son of Fiachu Finscothach.
 

1300 BC: Hittites conquered Mesopotamia.
~ Finland: The Bronze Age in Finland began about this time with the production of domestic axes. There were profound contacts with Bronze Age cultures before this time.

~ A kind of dark age fell over Europe until the advent of pre Classic...........

~ Greek Achaean/Mycenaean period in progress.

~Shang king in northern China was literate and urbane. "Probably influenced by Near Eastern culture."

~ Origen of the Phaistos dish (?) on Cyprus. Appears ancestral to Minoan

1290 BC, Earth: Precession at 11.750

  
1287 BC to 1286 BC, Ireland: It seems that at this time there was a High King of Ireland who has been called Eber Finn. He is said to have been a son of Mil Espaine and Scota.
~ Ireland: This is the time which Eremon and Eber Finn perhaps shared the High Kingship.
 
1286 BC: Ireland: This may be the year that Eremon alone succeeded to the High Kingship.

1250 BC: Phoenicians import tin from mines in England (and Ireland?)
 
1,238 BC: Thailand: This date the Buddhist kingdom of Sukhothai  was founded and is often considered the first Thai state. By 1,440 BC the kingdom was known throughout South East Asia and beyond.

1225 BC to 1190 BC: about this time Wars against Peoples of the Sea by Egyptians.

1,200 BC to 900 BC: Greek Dark Ages.
~ Thailand: A Thai kingdom centered on Chaing Saen in the northern highlands existed and was a predecessor of Lanna.
~ Ireland: Evidence of more immigration, greater variety of weapons and artifacts
~ Ireland: Evidence of dwellings built on artificial islands on lakes. These dwellings have been called crannogs.
~ Olmec in Mexico. The Olmec civilization flourished in Central America. An Olmec culture centered at San Lorenzo on the fertile plain overlooking the Chiquito River thrived.
~ About this time the time the Trojan War was waged between Greece and Hittite Troy and won by Greece. It included the "Siege of Troy."
1,200 BC: Neolithic culture begins in ancient Near East.
~ Near East: First stone structures at Jericho built.
~ Kame grave people and perhaps red ocher people were making pottery and putting copper beads into man-made mounds.
~ to 539 BC: Phoenician culture was active in Lebanon and shared around the Mediterranean sea and beyond probably to the Irish isle.
~ to about 1,000 BC: Middle Woodland culture extent in North America.
~ Devastation throughout most of Asia Minor due to acts of man.
~ Mexico: The Olmec were there. The Olmec were flourishing in Central America. That civilization seems to have been centered at San Lorenzo on the fertile plain overlooking Chiquito river.
~ Late Bronze Age, perhaps a re-initiation of the Early Bronze Age, with many kinds of weapons, tools, and art.

~ Ireland: Evidence of more immigration and a greater variety of weapons and artifacts.

~ Sea People repelled by Egyptians. Sea People became the Philistines of the Old Testament. Some of the Sea People may

~ Ireland: Increase immigration of an Iron Age people disturbing the culture of the country. Bronze Age Culture well developed. Weapons produced. Fine bronze daggers in evidence and even some fine bronze rapiers.