Mesopotamia Master Timeline

By lizabeth.schmits
  • 3000 BCE

    Written History Begins

  • 2800 BCE

    First Ruler of Uruk

  • 2750 BCE

    Gilgamesh

  • 2700 BCE

    First King recorded to Date- Enmebaragessi

  • 2550 BCE

    First Cuneiform tablet

  • 2334 BCE

    Sargon build empire

  • 2166 BCE

    Abram leaves Ur

  • 2150 BCE

    Fall of Agade

  • 2112 BCE

    Third Dynasty of Ur

  • 2004 BCE

    Fall of the Third Dynasty

  • 1792 BCE

    Hammurabi becomes King

  • Period: 1787 BCE to 1749 BCE

    Babylon conquers Mesopotamia

  • 1595 BCE

    Hittites conquer Babylon

  • 1500 BCE

    Beginning of Eusebius's table of ancient time

  • Period: 1340 BCE to 1321 BCE

    Assyrians and Hittites conquer Mitanni

  • Period: 1115 BCE to 1077 BCE

    Tiglath- Pileser I reign

  • Period: 1074 BCE to 1056 BCE

    Ashur-bel-kala's reign

  • 1032 BCE

    Hittite Collapse

  • Period: 966 BCE to 935 BCE

    Tiglath Pileser II's reign

  • Period: 945 BCE to 924 BCE

    Sheshonq I's reign

  • Period: 945 BCE to 712 BCE

    Dynasty 22

  • Period: 934 BCE to 912 BCE

    Ashur-dan II's reign

  • Period: 911 BCE to 859 BCE

    Ashurnasirpal's reign

  • Period: 870 BCE to 850 BCE

    Osorkon II's reign

  • Period: 858 BCE to 824 BCE

    Shalmaneser III's reign

  • 853 BCE

    Troop from Ahab's and Damascus's army meet in Qarqar

  • 840 BCE

    Shalmaneser marched north over the 5top of the Armaean - dominated lands

  • 824 BCE

    Shamashi-Adad becomes king after Shalmaneser dies

  • Period: 823 BCE to 812 BCE

    Shamshi- Adad V's reign

  • 811 BCE

    Shamshi-Adad dies

  • 811 BCE

    Sammu- Amat, Shamshi's queen, takes rule

  • Period: 783 BCE to 774 BCE

    Shalmaneser IV's reign

  • Period: 771 BCE to 745 BCE

    Ashur-dan III reign

  • Period: 753 BCE to 746 BCE

    Ashur-nirari V reign

  • 746 BCE

    Pul claimed the throne

  • 740 BCE

    Tiglath- Pileser III spent time in Arvad after conquering

  • 735 BCE

    Assyrians march towards center of Uratu, force king out of capital

  • 728 BCE

    Tiglath Pileser III swore alligeince to Babylonian God Marduk

  • 726 BCE

    Tiglath Pileser III dies

  • 721 BCE

    Sargon concurred Samaria, need his short order assault

  • Period: 721 BCE to 704 BCE

    Sargon II reign

  • 714 BCE

    Sargon ready to invade mountains which lead himself

  • 710 BCE

    Sargon turns south

  • 705 BCE

    Sargon II dies

  • Period: 704 BCE to 680 BCE

    Senna Crib reign

  • 701 BCE

    Campaign of 701

  • 700 BCE

    Scythian arrive in records of Assyrians

  • 681 BCE

    Sennacherib was killed by two youngest sons at temple in Nineveh to Nabu God

  • Period: 680 BCE to 668 BCE

    Esarhaddon Reign

  • 676 BCE

    Esarhaddon was force into war with cimmerian nomads because of phrygia

  • 675 BCE

    Deioces's son Phraotes inherited rule of Ecbatana

  • 671 BCE

    Esarhaddon drove through outer defenses of Egypt to Tirhakah and army where they would make last stand

  • Period: 668 BCE to 626 BCE

    Ashurbanipal reign

  • 663 BCE

    Ashurbanipal joined forces with psammetichus and laid waste to the delta

  • 658 BCE

    Psammetichus sent secret messages to Gyges, king of Lydia

  • 653 BCE

    Psammetichus ready to stake future on success of rebellion

  • 653 BCE

    Phraotes made alliance with wild cimmerians

  • 652 BCE

    Eshmash-shum-ukin resentment influenced his leading of Babylonian soldiers against cuthah

  • 640 BCE

    Teispes died and left overlord position to son, Cyrus

  • 630 BCE

    Ashurbanipal beginnings to fall ill

  • Period: 630 BCE to 627 BCE

    Ashur-etillu-ilani governs Assyrian empire on Ashurbanipal behave

  • 627 BCE

    Ashurbanipal dies

  • 627 BCE

    Disorder salvos empireupon Ashurbanipal death

  • Period: 627 BCE to 621 BCE

    Fighting occurs with Assyrians in Ninevah and Babylon while Nabopolassar sieged near by cities

  • 620 BCE

    Nabopolassar crowns himself king of the Chaldeans

  • 612 BCE

    Assault troops ready to take the cities along the Euphrates

  • 612 BCE

    Fall of Ninevah

  • 610 BCE

    Nabopolassar marched towards Haran

  • 605 BCE

    Nabopolassar turned his attention back to resistance

  • Period: 605 BCE to 562 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar reign

  • 602 BCE

    Necho II meets Nebuchadnezzar in battle

  • 601 BCE

    Another battle of Necho II and Nebuchadnezzar in battle

  • 597 BCE

    Jehoiakim died

  • 595 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar puts down rebellion

  • 595 BCE

    nacho II dies

  • Period: 590 BCE to 585 BCE

    Lydian army meets and fights Medes army

  • 589 BCE

    Psammetichus II dies

  • 587 BCE

    Fall of Jerusalem

  • 587 BCE

    Zedekiah leave people to face wrath of babylonians

  • 585 BCE

    Nebuchadnezzar organizes ceasefire between armies

  • 559 BCE

    Cyrus II the great reign begins

  • Period: 556 BCE to 539 BCE

    Nabondius reign

  • 540 BCE

    Cyrus sends assaults troops into skirmishes with Babylonians

  • 539 BCE

    Babylon falls

  • 539 BCE

    Cyrus the great take Babylon

  • 530 BCE

    Babylon falls to unknown queen

  • 530 BCE

    Cambyses II reign begins

  • 530 BCE

    Tomyris lead people against Persians, armies meet

  • 512 BCE

    Darius acclaimed king of Persia

  • 310 BCE

    Eusebius, bishop in Palestine put together ancient time calendar

  • 139 BCE

    Mithridates I captures King Demetrius Nicator in battle

  • 123 BCE

    Mithridates II comes to power

  • 53 BCE

    Publius facing defeat kills himself

  • 53 BCE

    Marcus Crassus marches towards Euphrates River

  • 40 BCE

    under Orodes II, Parthians capture Hyrcanus

  • 20 BCE

    Caesar Augustus makes peace with king Phraates IV

  • 2

    Phraates IV is killed by son Phraates V

  • 2

    Phraates V drove into exile

  • 6

    Vonones I killed/ drove out Artabanus

  • 66

    Vologases I sends troops and captures Armenia

  • 113

    Trajan marches to Parthia to conquer and captures capital

  • 161

    Vologases IV marches through Armenia and invades Syria

  • 212

    Ardasdir wages small campaigns on vassal kingdoms

  • 222

    Artabanus V takes back capital of Parthia

  • 224

    Ardashir marches army to fight Parthians , kills Artabanus V , Parthian Empire ends