The Persians - Timelines

  • Origins
  • Achaemenids
  • Greeks
  • Parthians
  • Sasanians
  • Arabs to present

  • Outline - earliest times to 558 BC

  • From Cyrus to Darius III 558 - 330 BC

  • Alexander to Demetrius II 330 - 125 BC

  • Arsaces I to Artabanus IV c247 BC to 225 AD
  • Ardashir I to Yazdegird III 224 AD - 651 AD

  • 642 AD to present

Before Cyrus: timeline to 558 BC

Most of these dates are approximate. All BC.

 

3600-3200 City of Ugarit flourishes as centre of Canaanite culture in Syria. Invention of alphabet.
3600-2450 Occupation of settlement at Skara Brae, Orkney, Great Britain.
3100-2686 Early dynastic period in Egypt.
3000-1400 Minoan civilization in Crete.
2900 Elamite settlement with ziggurat at Tepe Sialk, central Iran
2500 Great pyramid and sphinx built in Egypt.
2000 Stonehenge in Britain, first phase.
1400-1200 Mycenaean civilization in Greece.
1250 Israelite settlements in Canaan.
1220 Destruction of Troy.
1200-1000 Iranian peoples (Medes, Persians and others) begin migration into Iran
1100 Possible date for birth of Zarathustra (Zoroaster) - but could be much later (600 BC)
1000-750 Phoenician expansion overseas.
836 Assyrians begin subjugating Medes and Persians
814 Traditional date of founding of Carthage.
776 First Olympic Games.
775 Euboean Greeks establish a trading post in Bay of Naples.
753 Traditional date of founding of Rome.
753-510 Period of the kings in Rome.
750 Greek alphabet, based on a Phoenician version of the Canaanite alphabet, begins to be used.
720 Conquest of kingdom of Israel by Assyrians - deportation of Jews to Media.
705-681 Sennacherib king of Assyrians.
700 Medes win independence from Assyria
700 Building of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix (Yemen)
612 Medes destroy Assyrian capital at Nineveh
590 - 580 Conquest of Judaea by Babylonians under Nebuchadnezzar II. Destruction of temple and deportation of Jews to Babylon.
568-488 Life of Buddha.
558 Cyrus becomes king of Anshan/Persis
551-479 Life of Confucius.
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