BC & BCE By 2lo38 160,000 BCE Earliest Homo sapiens found in Ethiopia 100,000 BCE Homo sapiens move out of Africa 11,000 BCE Rye is grown east of Aleppo, Syria 5400 BCE Farming and irrigation appear in Mesopotamia 3200 BCE Earliest hieroglyphics date from this time 2550 BCE Great Pyramid at Giza is built for Khufu 2100 BCE Stonehenge is built in England 1750 BCE The Epic of Gilgamesh is written down 1333 BCE King Tut comes to power in Egypt. 1220 BCE Israelites leave Egypt 1006 BCE David rules over the Kingdom of Israel 750 BCE Great epics of Homer are composed 563 BCE Birth of Siddhartha Gautama 551 BCE Birth of Confucius 323 BCE Alexander the Great dies 214 BCE The Great Wall of China is completed 164 BCE Maccabeans rededicate Temple in Jerusalem 44 BCE Julius Caesar is assassinated 30 BCE Queen Cleopatra commits suicide 2 Population of the Han Empire is 57 million 30 Jesus of Nazareth is crucified 476 Fall of the Last Roman Emperor in the West 793 Vikings attack Lindisfarne Monastery 1193 Age of Robin Hood 1492 Columbus's Voyage to the Americas 1620 Pilgrims land at Plymouth Rock 1776 Jefferson wrote Declaration of Independence 1865 Abraham Lincoln was assassinated 1939 World War II began 2020 Joe Biden elected President of the USA