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Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	27th century BC · 26th century BC · 25th century BC
Decades:	2590s BC 2580s BC 2570s BC 2560s BC 2550s BC 2540s BC 2530s BC 2520s BC 2510s BC 2500s BC
Categories:	Births - Deaths Establishments - Disestablishments

Contents 1 Events 2 Significant people 3 Deaths 4 Inventions, discoveries, introductions 5 Decades and years

[edit] Events

• c. 2900 BC–2334 BC — Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period continue.
• c. 2600 BC — The Harappan civilization rises to become a powerful civilization.
• c. 2600 BC — Pre-Palace Period, phase I, in Crete (Mellersh 1970)
• c. 2600 BC–2500 BC — Wild horses still provide hunting feasts in Denmark. (Clutton-Brock)
• c. 2589 BC — Pharaoh Khufu starts to rule (other date is 2601 BC).
• c. 2578 BC — Khufu died.
• c. 2575 BC — Old Kingdom in Egypt 4th Dynasty Snofru is Pharaoh. (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
• c. 2570 BC — Khafra started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
• c. 2566 BC — Pharaoh Khufu dies (other date is 2578 BC).
• c. 2558 BC — Pharaoh Khafra starts to rule (other date is 2570 BC).
• c. 2550 BC — Estimated date of completion of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
• c. 2550 BC — Egyptian rulers contact Western Desert oases, such as Dakhla Oasis.
• c. 2550 BC — About this time, Mesannepadda is king of Ur (followed by his son, A-annepadda) who founds the First dynasty of Ur and overthrows the last king of Uruk, as well as Mesalim of Kish. [Roux 1980]
• c. 2544 BC — Khafra died.
• c. 2533 BC — Menkaura started to rule in Ancient Egypt.
• c. 2532 BC — Pharaoh Khafra dies (other date is 2544 BC).
• c. 2532 BC — Pharaoh Menkaura starts to rule (other date is 2533 BC).
• c. 2515 BC — Menkaura died.
• c. 2510 BC – 2460 BC — Ti watching a hippopotamus hunt, tomb of Ti, Saqqara, Fifth dynasty of Egypt, is made. Discovered by French archeologist Auguste Mariette in 1865.
• c. 2503 BC Pharaoh Menkaura dies (other date is 2515 BC).
• c. 2500 BC — The legendary line of Sanhuangwudi rulers of China is founded by Huang Di.
• c. 2500 BC — the construction of the stone circle at Stonehenge begins and continues for the next five hundred years.
• c. 2500 BC — "Menkaura and a Queen, perhaps his wife, Queen Khamerernebty II" sculpture, later found at Giza. Fourth Dynasty. It is now in Museum of Fine Arts, Boston.

[edit] Significant people

• c. 2601 BC–2578 BC — reign of Pharaoh Khufu of Egypt's Fourth Dynasty

• 2599 — Huni is Pharaoh. (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
• 2575 — Old Kingdom in Egypt; 4th Dynasty; Sneferu is Pharaoh. (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
• 2528 — Ra'djedef is Pharaoh. (Atlas of Egypt 1989)
• 2520 — Khep-heren (Ra'kha'ef) is Pharaoh. (Atlas of Egypt 1989)

[edit] Deaths

[edit] Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• Rock drawings at Rødøy in Norway show the use of skis
• Bactrian Camel and Dromedary are domesticated

[edit] Decades and years

v • d • e Decades and Years

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