29th century BC
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Millennium: | 3rd millennium BC |
Centuries: | 30th century BC · 29th century BC · 28th century BC |
Decades: | 2890s BC 2880s BC 2870s BC 2860s BC 2850s BC 2840s BC 2830s BC 2820s BC 2810s BC 2800s BC |
Categories: | Births - Deaths Establishments - Disestablishments |
[edit] Events
- c. 2900 BC–2400 BC — Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.
- 2900 BC–2334 BC — Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
- c. 2900 BC–2600 BC; Votive statues, from the Square Temple, Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) was made. It is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933.
- 2897 BC — Hùng Vương established the Hồng Bàng Dynasty in Vietnam (then known as Văn Lang).
- 2890 BC — Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.
- 2852 BC — The beginning of the period of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors in China.
- 2832 BC — estimated germination of the Methuselah tree.
- c. (2874 B.C.?) the 365-day year was installed in ancient Egypt, with fixed lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days [1].
- 2807 BC — Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood myths. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron. [2]
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