Mesopotamia (Empire) Timeline

By rhiwilson
  • Period: 11,000 BCE to 6000 BCE

    Mesopotamian landscape changes due to rising temperatures which helped to create streams in the region and change the way of life for the people there.

  • 3200 BCE

    The 13th king after the deluge Etana has a more detailed description of kings in the list before.

  • 3000 BCE

    Written history begins

  • Period: 2900 BCE to 28,000 BCE

    Early Dynastic I

  • Period: 2800 BCE to 2600 BCE

    Early Dynastic II

  • 2700 BCE

    The first king with a recorded date, known as Enmebaragessi.

  • 2600 BCE

    Gilgamesh becomes a legend

  • 2500 BCE

    Other cities of Sumer began using the title Kish.

  • 2166 BCE

    Abram leaves Ur and travels into the western semitic lands.

  • 2150 BCE

    Fall of Agade

  • 2150 BCE

    Fall of Agade

  • 2112 BCE

    Third Dynasty of Ur established.

  • Period: 2037 BCE to 2004 BCE

    Third Dynasty of Ur is conquered.

  • 2004 BCE

    Fall of Ur

  • 1792 BCE

    Hammurabi becomes King of Babylon

  • Period: 1787 BCE to 1749 BCE

    Babylon conquers Mesopotamia

  • 1712 BCE

    Babylon declines

  • 1595 BCE

    Hittites conquer Babylon

  • 1500 BCE

    Mitanni Kingdom conquers Mesopotamia

  • 1500 BCE

    The beginning of Eusebius's table of ancient times.

  • Period: 1340 BCE to 1321 BCE

    Assyrians and Hittites conquer Mitanni

  • Period: 1119 BCE to 1032 BCE

    Hittite collapse

  • Period: 945 BCE to 712 BCE

    Dynasty 22

  • 735 BCE

    Assyrians marched towards the center of Uratu and forced the Urartian king out of the capital.

  • 721 BCE

    Sargon II conquered Samaria which ended his short order assault.

  • Period: 721 BCE to 704 BCE

    Sargon II's reign

  • 620 BCE

    Nabopolassar crowns himself king of the Chaldeans.

  • 612 BCE

    Fall if Nineveh.

  • 587 BCE

    Fall of Jerusalem

  • 559 BCE

    Cyrus II the Great's reign begins.

  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus the Great takes the city of Babylon

  • 539 BCE

    Babylon falls.

  • 521 BCE

    Darius was acclaimed king of Persia.

  • 53 BCE

    Marcus Crassus marches towards the Euphrates with 70 thousand foot soldiers and 4 thousand cavalry.

  • 53 BCE

    Romans meet Parthians at Carrhae and commence with battle.

  • 20 BCE

    Caesar Augustus makes peace with Parthian King Phraates IV.

  • 66

    Parthian King, Vologases, I sends troops to capture Armenia.

  • 113

    Roman Emperor Trajan marches troops across the Euphrates into Parthia, proceeds to march into Mesopotamia, occupies Babylon, and captures the Parthian capital of Ctesiphon.

  • 310

    Eusebius, a bishop of Caesarea in Palestine, put together a chronological table of ancient times.