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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800 BC to 600 BC

800 BC to 600 BC: archaeology, prehistory, history timeline including: Etruscans, metallurgy, alchemy, Olmec, Homer, Andes, Amazon, solar eclipse, Iron Age, Mexico, and more here: and more to come.

 

800 BC to 702 BC: There was a sort of industrial revolution. During this 100 years the Irish flourished and so did mining, metallurgy, and alchemy. Some Celts might have arrived. That revolution began a resurgence of mining, metallurgy, and alchemy.

~ Etruscans move into "Italy" bringing urban civilization of a high order about this time.

~ About this time an Olmec pyramid exists at La Venta, Mexico.

~ About this time Homer refers to highly developed battle-field surgery.

~ to 100 BC: Chavin Religious Cult is important to our understanding of the Chavin Culture of 900 BC to 200 BC. The culture developed mostly in what is now Peru and had wide influence. Their religious center was probably in the Andean highlands at about 10,000 feet. Its called the main culture of the Early Horizon period. They built large and fine; they worked in copper and gold; worked well in textiles; a higher understanding of acoustics, irrigation, and drainage. They traded widely from the sea over the Andes to the Amazon.

~ I have this as a period of "itinerant  singers" and believe that they had to do with rhapsodies. I would like to know where they sang and much more. Help. There is a comment section below. Could they have sung in the Greek of the time?

~ Homeric poems. Iliad and Odyssey take their 'final' shape.

~ to 790 BC: Ireland: Ai lill High King.

~ to 700 BC, Ireland: Ireland flourishes again during this period. There was a kind of industrial revolution which began about 800 BC. That revolution began a resurgence of mining, metallurgy, and alchemy.

~ Ireland: Iron Age in the land. Both Iron and Bronze were being worked at this time.

776 BC: The first Olympics.

775 BC: Sept 6th. I have this as the first authenticated date in Chinese history. There must be earlier documented dates. We don't need the day or month just the approximate year and is documentation.

763 BC: On about June 15th a solar eclipse in the northern  hemisphere.

 

753 BC. According to Roman legend the empire (?) was founded by the brothers Romulus and Remus.

750 BC: the title/name Mago was used by Carthaginian Phoenicians and in evidence as early as this time and perhaps earlier.

~ to 690 BC: Completion of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

~ Hesiod, Greek poet from Boeotia known for  Theogony, creation of the world and gods of mythology.  

 

750 BC: Ireland: the name Mago was used by Carthaginian Phoenicians and in evidence as early as this time and perhaps earlier.

~ to 690 BC: Completion of the Iliad and the Odyssey.

~ Hesiod, Greek poet from Boeotia known for  Theogony, creation of the world and gods of mythology.  

735 BC: Greeks were active in Marseilles and Sicily at this time.

720 BC to 680 BC: Hezekiah of Judah lived at this time

~ Ireland: There was a focus on defense. Ulster began a Iron Age around Tara.

~ Celts brought Iron Age weapons just after this date. 

~Nineveh: Translations of Sumerian texts into Semitic found at the library of Nineveh.

~ Mexico: Oxtotitlan paints dating to about this found north of Acapulco in Juxtlahuaca cave. Paintings are some of the most sophisticated of their time in the New World.

700 BC, Ireland: Celts arrived from parts of Gaul and Britain.`

~ Ireland was divided into provinces.

~ After this date there was change and unrest in Ireland.

~ In Ulster there began an Iron Age in the land around Tara.

~ Celts brought a significant amount of iron weapons just 

~ Ireland: Very shortly after this time came a period of change and unrest. Many "Celts," too many for comfort. 

~ Ireland: Celts arrived via parts of Gaul and Britain. The Island was divided into provinces.

~ Ireland: Celts brought an Iron Age culture and weapons. That culture spread from Tara in Ulster.

~ Ireland: after this time there was change and unrest in the land. There was a focus on defence. Ulster began an Iron Age in the land around Tara.

~ Ireland: Celts brought Iron Age weapons after this date.

~ Ireland: Greeks were in Ireland by this time. Others like them were probably much earlier.

 BC: Hezekiah of Judah lived at this time.

720 BC to 680 BC: Hezekiah of Judah lived at this time

~ Ireland: There was a focus on defense. Ulster began a Iron Age around Tara.

~ Celts brought Iron Age weapons just after this date. 

~Nineveh: Translations of Sumerian texts into Semitic found at the library of Nineveh.

~ Mexico: Oxtotitlan paints dating to about this found north of Acapulco in Juxtlahuaca cave. Paintings are some of the most sophisticated of their time in the New World.

 

720 BC to 680 BC: Hezekiah of Judah lived at this time

~ Ireland: There was a focus on defense. Ulster began a Iron Age around Tara.

~ Celts brought Iron Age weapons just after this date. 

~Nineveh: Translations of Sumerian texts into Semitic found at the library of Nineveh.

~ Mexico: Oxtotitlan paints dating to about this found north of Acapulco in Juxtlahuaca cave. Paintings are some of the most sophisticated of their time in the New World.

700 BC: Ireland. Very shortly after this time came a period of change and unrest in Ireland. Many new Celts came, perhaps too many. 

~ After 700 BC there was a change and unrest came to Ireland. More

700 BC: Disappearance of Elam. Elamites passed on a tradition and civilization at least as old as that of the Sumerians. Their capital was at Susa.

~ Assyrians destroy Babylon and divert the Euphrates to cover it.  

~ Assyrians invaded Egypt and about 25,000 of them died of typhus.        

~ to 601 BC: Annual elections of the Areopagites in Athens. Members of the Athenian juridical council elected. An action of republicans.

~ to 200 AD: Mysteries at Eleusis; dating back to the Mycenaean period.

~ Ireland: Celts arrive from parts of Gaul and Britain. Ireland divided into provinces. Change and unrest in the country. An Iron Age began in Ulster and Ireland became defensive. It seems Celts brought a technology of iron weapons which spread from Tara in Ulster to much of Ireland.

~ Persians: Their classical history begins about this time. They were probably working the Silk Road before the Great Chinese silk trade, and traded by horse and horse drawn vehicles between the Near East, and China and India, and later the people around the Mediterranean Sea.

~ Ireland: After this date a period of change and unrest began in Ireland. Ulster began an Iron Age in and around Tara.

~ Celts brought Iron weapons to Ireland just after this date.

~ Ireland: Very shortly after this time came a period of change and unrest. Many new Celts came, too many for comfort.

~ Ireland: An Iron Age began in Ulster and Ireland became defensive.    

~ Ireland: Celts brought an Ire Age culture weapons to the island. The culture spread for Tara to much of what became Ulster.

~ Greeks came to Ireland again. By this time Irish knew Greeks and Greeks knew Irish. There was contact between Irish and Greek much earlier. Some Greeks probably became Irish, even some from the Island of Milasia.

~ Ireland was divided into provinces 

~ Ireland: very soon after this 700 BC date there was change and unrest on the Island. There came to be greater focus on defence. An Iron Age began in Ulster around Tara. Celts had brought Iron Age weapons. What could be more precise? Not Greeks or Milesians.       

694 AD 

 

672 BC: Rome: End of Romulus' ten month Calendar by Numa Pompilius 2nd King of Rome. January and February were added.

660 BC: Zoroaster lived at about this time, Zarathustra. Iranian who is closely related to the Avesta and probably its writer.

650 BC to 55 BC: The Negative of the "Golden Rule" is written into The Analects of Confucius.

~ Jews begin their exile in Babylonia.

650 BC to 600 BC: Etruscans on the move(?)

640 BC to 558 BC: the approximate lifetime of Solon.

638 BC to 559 BC: the approximate lifetime of Solon: Athenian statesman and poet. Is said by Plato to have heard to Atlantis from Egyptian priests.

 

 

630 BC: The Assyrians withdrew from Philistia and Egypt moved in.    

~ to 553 BC: Lifespan of Zarathustra. 

~ Assyria: Assur bani pal threw a great festival whereat 69,000 people consumed the content of more than 10,000 wins-skins in ten days.

~ to 640 BC: Ireland: Sometime during this period Ugaine Mor ruled as high king of Ireland for about 30 years. He was the son Eochu Buadac and grand son of Dui Ladrach. He was the foster son of Cimbaeth and Macha Mong Ruad. He may have had rule beyond Ireland. He was preceded in his kingship by Rechtaid Rigderg and followed by Loegaire Lore (his son?) perhaps after a short term by Bodbehad.    

 

626 BC to 604 BC: Nabopolassar: The Babylonian ruler of Chaldean ancestry declared Babylon independent of Assyria rule in 625 BC. Then allied with the Medes,  he conquered the Assyrian cities each in turn.

624 BC to 545 BC: Approximate life span of Thales of  of Miletus, Greek Philosopher (now my favorite). Miletus is on the Anatolian mainland coast just south of Ephesus, north of the isle of Cos, and east of Delos in Caria.    

 

604 BC to 603 BC: Major Philistine cities conquered by Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon.

~ -531 BC: Lao-tse, Chinese philosopher.

 

600 BC: Greeks came to Ireland again. Still some relationship between Irish and Greek.  

~ Ireland: Evidence of ongoing arrival of Celts and of their dominance of earlier people. These "Celts" seemed to be of an Indo-European culture of the day.

~ Ireland: Some interaction with Greek seems to have continued.

~ to 200 AD, USA: Tchefuncte culture links Marksville culture to Poverty Point culture. Tchefuncte pottery found from Texas to Florida.  

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 ~ 600 BC: Greeks came to Ireland again.

~ By this time Irish knew Greeks and Greeks knew Irish. Their certainly was contact between Irish and Greek much earlier.

~  Still some relationship between Irish and Greek.

~ Ireland: Evidence of ongoing arrival of "Celts" and their ongoing dominance of the earlier people who did not seem to be of  Indo-European cultures were the Celts.

~ Still some relationship among Irish and Greek.

                                                                            Richard Sheehan