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.