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Period: 700 BCE to 400 BCE
Aksum was established in the beginning of the pre-Axumite period.
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500 BCE
The peoples who settled in the region around Aksum in about 500 BCE seem to have been a mixture of Semites from Yemen and settlers from the empire of Kush.
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Period: 200 BCE to 650
Aksum was a kingdom located in present-day Eritrea and northern Ethiopia.
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Period: 100 to 600
Aksum dominated Ethiopian and Eritrean
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200
Aksum began to make coins of gold, silver, and copper that made it easier to trade with other lands.
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320
Ksum straddled Africa and Asia, from southern Egypt to the Gulf of Adan to the Kushite Kingdom of Meroë.
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325
Ezana, the leader of Aksum, a powerful kingdom and important trade center in present-day Ethiopia, converts to Christianity and makes it the official religion of his kingdom.
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325
A force under King Ezana marched north to destroy the Kushite capital of Meroë.
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500
the most powerful kings of the northeast African state of Aksum in the sixth century CE was Caleb who was also known as Kaleb Ella Atsbeha
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517
Yusuf asar a himyarite king embraced Judaism against both the Aksumite presence and Christianity
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525
caleb launched a large scale campaign.The outcome was that Yusuf Asar Yathar was killed and christianity and Aksumite influence in Himyar were protected
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525
King Kaleb sent a large force to Najran on the arabian peninsula to avenge a massacre of christians.
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600
The Persians had permanently driven the Aksumites off the Arabian Peninsula.
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800
Aksum lost its political superiority in the Ethiopian plateau, the coastal plains, and the Red Sea.
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1137
The emperor of Aksum was overthrew by leader Lasta.
