History of Civilisation (Neolithic to Modern) timeline

Period: 10,000 BCE to 3000 BCE

Neolithic age
9600 BCE

Establishment of Göbekli Tepe

First use of Göbekli Tepe, oldest megalithic site known.
9600 BCE

Establishment of Jericho

First evidence of settlement activity at Jericho.
Period: 9600 BCE to 8000 BCE

Göbekli Tepe use
8000 BCE

Appearance of tokens

Clay tokens of different shapes and sizes are used to convey information such as quantities.
8000 BCE

Construction of Jericho tower

A massive project for its time that took many, many work hours to build, it's function is still unclear.
7500 BCE

Establishment of Çatalhöyük

Based in Southern Turkey, Çatalhöyük didn't appear to practice much agriculture, yet still supported thousands of people - possibly through trade and religious pilgrimages.
6000 BCE

Painting of 'Running Horned Woman'

Painting of 'Running Horned Woman' at Tassili n’Ajjer, Algeria
5500 BCE

Establishment of Tepe Yahya

A key neolithic manufacturing and trade center in the Near and Middle East.
5000 BCE

Establishment of Aleppo
4500 BCE

Establishment of Uruk
3500 BCE

Tokens begin inspiring writing in Sumer
Period: 3500 BCE to 1100 BCE

Minoan civilisation
Period: 3300 BCE to 1200 BCE

Bronze Age
3200 BCE

Earliest known Egyptian Hieroglyphs

A "billboard" of hieroglyphs carved into the rocks near the Egyptian village of El-Khawy.
3200 BCE

Clay tablets emerge with early writing in Sumer

The history of writing
3180 BCE

Establishment of Skara Brae

Neolithic settlement found on the Orkney Islands north of the Scottish isles.
3100 BCE

Earliest Stonehenge foundations

Evidence of pits dug to hold up wooden pillars, possibly for a building. Stones would later replace the wood.
Period: 3100 BCE to 30 BCE

Egyptian dynasties
2890 BCE

1st Egyptian Dynasty founded

First Egyptian dynasty founded by Menes (Narmer).
2650 BCE

Establishment of Mohenjo-daro

Key city in the Indus valley and early example of extensive water management systems.
2600 BCE

Pyramid of Khufu

Approximate founding of the Great Pyramid of Giza.
2400 BCE

First Blue Stones raised at Stonehenge
2070 BCE

Establishment of Xia Dynasty

Establishment of Xia Dynasty in North East China by Yu The Great, generally accepted as the first dynasty emerging from China's yellow river valley.
Period: 2070 BCE to 1912

Chinese dynasties
1750 BCE

Settlement of La Venta

The Olmec settle their capital, La Venta, just north of the Mesoamerican isthmus.
Period: 1750 BCE to 1050 BCE

Mycenaean civilisation emerges

Civilisations that arose on mainland Greece and would eventually conquer the surrounding areas, climaxing with the fall of Troy and disappeared during the bronze age collapse.
1600 BCE

Establishment of Shang Dynasty

Start of Shang dynasty, the first Chinese dynasty supported by significant historical evidence. The Xia dynasty id defeated at the Battle of Mingtiao by a warlord named Tang.
1600 BCE

Eruption of Thera

Massive eruption that destroyed part of the Thera and sparked the decline of the Minoan civilisation on Crete.
Period: 1600 BCE to 400 BCE

Olmec civilisation emerges

Earliest signs of the Olmec as a civilisation, appearing in Mesoamerica.
Period: 1600 BCE to 1046 BCE

Shang dynasty (China)

First historically verified Chinese dynasty and a substantial influence on Yellow River (later Han) culture ever since.
1300 BCE

First Chinese oracle bones

Special bones used by Shang dynasty diviners to read the future. An early form of writing that still echoes in the modern Chinese alphabet.
Period: 1200 BCE to 750 BCE

Late Bronze Age collapse

A dark age caused by multiple factors including natural resources running out, prolonged droughts and growing political instability, culminating to a collapse of the economies and most major civilisations of the Eastern Mediterranean, North Africa and Middle East.
1178 BCE

Defeat of Sea Peoples at the Battle of Djahy

The battle that defeated the infamous 'Sea People', a still undefined group of marauders or refugees that attacked coastal settlements. The battle was fought against the Egyptians, who won and subsequently recorded the event.
900 BCE

Scythian civilisation

Believed to be one of the first 'horse' societies later popularised by civilisations such as the Huns and Mongols.
Period: 900 BCE to 200 BCE

Scythian civilisation
753 BCE

Establishment of Rome

The accepted date of Rome's establishment, though little but myth remains on what happened.
Period: 509 BCE to 27 BCE

Roman republic

The period after the Romans kicked out the Etruscan kings and before it was changed into a permanent dictatorship under Augustus' reign.
209 BCE

Creation of Xiongnu federation
Period: 27 BCE to 476

Roman Empire

From Augustus, the first Roman Emperor, to Romulus Augustulus, who was deposed by a Germanic warlord.
Period: 330 to 1453

Byzantine (Eastern Roman) empire

From the revitalisation of Constantinople by Constantine the Great until the city is captured by the Ottoman empire.
Period: 793 to 1066

Viking age

Approximate period during which Norwegian sailors raided, traded with and provided mercenary forces to the British Isles and Western Europe.
1120

Establishment of Angkor Wat (Aprox)

Established by Suryavarman II as a Hindu site, but started conversion to a Buddhist site after his death.
Period: 1206 to 1368

Mongol empire

The empire created by Genghis Khan through to slowly dissolving after the deaths of his grandchildren.
1252

Establishment of Shangdu (Kaiping)

Kublai Khan's famous city (also called Xanadu) that was central to the golden age of his reign in western China.