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Year BC	Days
1000 – 4000	Development of settlement into cities and development of skills, such as wheel and pottery making and improved methods of cultivation
5500 – 3000	Earliest recorded date of Egyptian calendar; first phonetic writing appears; Sumerians develop a city state civilization
3000 – 2000	Pharaonic rule begins in Egypt; completion of the construction of the Great Pyramid at Giza
900 – 800	Phoenicians establish Carthage: The Iliad and Odyssey was composed by the Greek poet Homer
400 – 300	Pentateuch first five books of the Old Testament evolve in final form.
300 – 251	Invention of Mayan calendar in Yucatan – more exact than older calendars
101-51	Jeleus Caessar (100-44 BC) invaded Britain (55 BC) and conquers Gaul, France.
776	First Olympiad in Greece.
753	Rome founded.
490	Battle of Marathon, the Greeks defeated the Iranians/Persians.
327-26	Invasion of India by Alexander, Battle of Hydaspes.
221	Chin-Hung Ti ‘Universal Emperor’ in China, Great Wall of China completed.
55	Invasion of Britain by Julius Caesar, the Great Roman General.
44	Assassination of Julius Caesar by Brutus.
4	Birth of Jesus Christ.