Timeline: Mesopotamia
Years: c. 12,000 years ago - 2006 | Subject: Encyclopedias, Geographical reference |
Publisher: HistoryWorld | Online Publication Date: 2012 |
Current online version: 2012 | eISBN: 9780191736032 |
Year | Event |
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c. 12,000 years ago | Go to Mesolithic in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 8000 BCE | Go to Jarmo, Iraq in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
7000 BCE | Go to Ali Kosh, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 4000 BCE | Go to Land Transportation in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Land Transportation in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Beer and Brewing in The Oxford Companion to Archaeology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 3100 BCE | Go to Sumer in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sumer in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to writing in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 3000 BCE | Go to Egyptian and Mesopotamian technology in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to potter's wheel in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Sumer in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 2800 BCE | Go to Bronze Age in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to lyre in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 2500 BCE | Go to Ur in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ur, Iraq in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Enuma Elish in A Dictionary of Creation Myths (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Ur, Iraq in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 2400 BCE | Go to Mari, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 2350 BCE | Go to Sargon in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2000 BCE | Go to Ashur in The Oxford Companion to World Mythology (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1830 BCE | Go to Babylon in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1800 BCE | Go to Abraham in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1750 BCE | Go to Assyria in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Babylonia in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mari, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to banks in The Oxford Companion to Classical Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to place value notation in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Mathematics (4 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1740 BCE | Go to Mari, Iran in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1728 BCE | Go to Hammurabi in A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to HAMMURABI in The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1720 BCE | Go to HAMMURABI in The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to HAMMURABI in The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1700 BCE | Go to HAMMURABI in The Oxford Dictionary of the Jewish Religion (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mari Tablets in The Oxford Companion to the Bible (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Mari Tablets in The Oxford Companion to the Bible (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Assyria in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1531 BCE | Go to Babylon in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1000 BCE | Go to abacus in The Oxford Dictionary of Phrase and Fable (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
883-859 BCE | Go to Assyrian civilization in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 870 BCE | Go to Nimrud in The Oxford Classical Dictionary (3 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Assyrian civilization in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 850 BCE | Go to battering ram noun in Oxford Dictionary of English (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to ceramics in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 800 BCE | Go to steel in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
710 BCE | Go to Sargon II (705 bc) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 700 BCE | Go to Nineveh in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
689 BCE | Go to Sennacherib (d.681 bc) in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 650 BCE | Go to Ashurbanipal’s library in The Oxford Companion to the Book (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Gilgamesh, The Epic of in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 645 BCE | Go to Nineveh in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
612 BCE | Go to Nineveh in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
605 BCE | Nebuchadnezzar comes to the throne of Babylon, beginning a prosperous reign of more than forty years Go to Nebuchadnezzar in A Dictionary of the Bible (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
586 BCE | Go to diaspora in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 580 BCE | Go to Hanging Gardens of Babylon in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to synagogue in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 550 BCE | Go to Messiah in A Concise Companion to the Jewish Religion (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
539 BCE | Go to Cyrus in The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
323 BCE | Go to Alexander III (“The Great”) in The Oxford Guide to People and Places of the Bible (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
312 BCE | Go to Seleucia (Iraq) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 100 BCE | Go to Parthians in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 540 | Go to Khosrau I (579 ad) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Khosrau I commissions a spectacular Spring Carpet for the floor of his hall of audience in Ctesiphon Go to Carpets and flatweaves in The Grove Encyclopedia of Islamic Art and Architecture (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
627 | Go to Heraclius I (575–642) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
637 | Go to Sassanian Period in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
656 | Go to Camel, Battle of the in The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
680 | Go to Husayn ibn Ali (680) in The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 750 | Go to Karaism in The Oxford Companion to the Book (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
762 | Go to Tigris in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 800 | Go to mathematics in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Syriac in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of the Christian Church (2 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Arabian Nights Entertainments, or The Thousand and One Nights in The Concise Oxford Companion to English Literature (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 850 | |
c. 1050 | Go to Baghdad (Iraq) in The Concise Dictionary of World Place-Names (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1055 | Go to Sultan in The Oxford Dictionary of Islam (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1100 | Go to Greek in A Dictionary of English Manuscript Terminology 1450–2000 (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1258 | Go to Mongol empire in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1831 | Go to Mameluke in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1845 | Go to Nimrud, Iraq in The Concise Oxford Dictionary of Archaeology (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1853 | Go to Nineveh in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1914 | Go to Basra in World Encyclopedia (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1915 | Go to Mesopotamian campaign in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1916 | Go to Sykes–Picot Agreement (1916) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kut, Siege of (December 1915–April 1916) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1917 | Go to Mesopotamian campaign in The Oxford Companion to Military History (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1920 | Go to Mandate in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1921 | Go to Faisal I (1885–1933) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
c. 1927 | Go to Woolley, Sir Charles Leonard (1880–1960) in Who's Who in the Twentieth Century (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1958 | Go to Faisal II (b. 2 May 1935) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Kurdistan in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
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1979 | Go to Hussein, Saddam (28 Apr. 1937) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1980 | Go to Iran–Iraq War (1980–8) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1985 | Go to Reagan, Ronald (6 Feb. 1911) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1988 | Go to Iran–Iraq War (1980–8) in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hussein, Saddam (28 Apr. 1937) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1990 | Go to Kuwait in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hussein, Saddam (28 Apr. 1937) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1991 | Go to Gulf War (1991) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Gulf War (1991) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
1999 | Go to Ṣadr, Muḥammad-Ṣadiq al- in The Oxford Encyclopedia of the Islamic World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2003 | Go to Iraq War (2003) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hussein, Saddam (28 Apr. 1937) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Iraq War in Oxford Encyclopedia of the Modern World (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hussein, Saddam (28 Apr. 1937) in A Dictionary of Political Biography (1 rev ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2004 | Go to detention without trial in The New Oxford Companion to Law (1 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2005 | Go to Iraq in A Dictionary of Contemporary World History (3 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |
2006 | Go to Hussein, Saddam (1937–2006) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: Go to Hussein, Saddam (1937–2006) in A Dictionary of World History (2 ed.) See this event in other timelines: |