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Period: 500 to
Mesopotamia
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Sep 7, 612
Chaldeans defeat Assyrians
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Sep 7, 660
Zoroastrianism is founded
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Sep 7, 700
Assyrians use iron weapons
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Sep 7, 722
Assyria conquers Israel
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Sep 7, 1070
New Kingdom ends
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Sep 7, 1200
Hittite Empire collapses
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Sep 7, 1200
Israelites become distinct people
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Sep 7, 1213
Ramesses II dies
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Sep 7, 1229
Ramesses II becomes pharoah
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Sep 7, 1347
Amenhotep IV dies
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Sep 7, 1364
Amenhotep IV becomes pharoah and converts Egypt to the worship of Aten
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Sep 7, 1450
Hatshepsut dies
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Sep 7, 1480
Hatshepsut becomes first female pharoah after regent to Thutmos III
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Sep 7, 1550
New Kingdom begins
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Hittite Empire begins
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Middle Kingdom ends
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Hammurabi's code
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Hammurabi is born
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Darius becomes king and extends the Persian empire to the Indus river in India
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Solomon is king of Israel
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Solomon dies
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Chaldeans conquer Judah
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Cyrus and the Persians defeat the Chaldeans at Babylon
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Darius dies
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Middle Kingdom begins
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Old Kingdom ends
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Sargon and the Akkadians defeat Sumerians
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Old Kingdom begins
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Sumerian city-states appear
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Menes unites lower and upper Egypt