The ancient world

37 historical events from the ancient world. Antiquity – 299 CE

• 3100 BCEEarly Dynastic Egypt Consolidates
• 2500 BCEGreat Pyramid of Giza Built
• 1754 BCECode of Hammurabi Inscribed
• 1279 BCERamesses II Begins His Reign
• 585 BCENebuchadnezzar II Rules Babylon
• 539 BCECyrus Captures Babylon
• 508 BCEAthenian Democracy Reforms
• 490 BCEBattle of Marathon
• 480 BCEBattle of Thermopylae
• 480 BCEThemistocles Leads Athenian Navy
• 479 BCEBattle of Plataea
• 438 BCEThe Parthenon Is Completed
• 432 BCEParthenon Construction Advances
• 404 BCEAthens Surrenders in Peloponnesian War
• 338 BCEChaeronea: Philip II Defeats Greek League
• 331 BCEBattle of Gaugamela
• 323 BCEDeath of Alexander the Great
• 323 BCEWars of the Diadochi Begin
• 264 BCEFirst Punic War Begins
• 218 BCEHannibal Crosses the Alps
• 216 BCEBattle of Cannae
• 202 BCEBattle of Zama
• 168 BCEBattle of Pydna
• 146 BCECarthage Destroyed
• 73 BCESpartacus Revolt Escalates
• 52 BCESiege of Alesia
• 49 BCECaesar Crosses the Rubicon
• 44 BCEAssassination of Julius Caesar
• 31 BCEBattle of Actium
• 27 BCEAugustus Becomes Rome's First Emperor
• 9 CEBattle of the Teutoburg Forest
• 43 CERoman Conquest of Britain Begins
• 79 CEMount Vesuvius Erupts
• 80 CEColosseum Completed in Rome
• 117 CERoman Empire at Greatest Extent
• 220 CEThe Han Dynasty Ends
• 235 CECrisis of the Third Century Deepens