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Long Range Chronology.


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Long Range Chronology

The following is a list of climatic, cultural, and celestial events. Please see my note at the top of the [Chronology] chapter regarding astronomical notation and BC/AD notation, as well as the differences between eastern Mediterranean 'BC' dates and the calculated dates for China and Mesoamerica. Some of the dates from the "Annals of Shu" and the Palenque inscription from the Altars of the Cross, as shown below, are corrected. See the text for the reasons for this.

-=-=- BC notation -=-=-

ca 11,000 BC
  • First mixed farming and hunting in Levant.
  • Cultivation of first grains in Anatolia.

    9,600 BC
  • A 200 year long dry and cold period in Levant.
  • Middle East abandoned; Farming moves to Black Sea basin from Anatolia and nearby Eastern Europe.

    9,500 BC
  • Northern glaciation gone.

    9,400 BC
  • Weather improves, farming returns to Middle East.

    9,000 BC
  • Hypsithermal climatic period starts.
  • Earth drops down from a lateral location near Saturn.
  • End of Younger Dryas.

    8,500 BC
  • English channel flooded

    ca 8,500 BC
  • First use of tokens in northern Mesopotamia, Anatolia.

    8,347 BC
  • Start of first calendar of Olmecs, the noted event is the appearance of "the turtle."

    ca 8,000 BC
  • Jericho walls in Palestine (abandoned by 6,800 BC).

    ca 7,400 BC
  • Catal Huyuk in Anatolia (abandoned 6,200 BC).

    ca 6,700 BC
  • No more male figurines at Catal Huyuk.

    ca 6,500 BC
  • Lepenski Vir graveyard along the Danube (to ca 5,500 BC).

    6,200 BC
  • A 400 year long dry and cold period.
  • Middle East abandoned; Catal Huyuk abandoned.
  • Farmers return to Black Sea area.

    ca 6,000-3,000 BC
  • Neolithic Period

    5,800 BC
  • Farming returns to Middle East.
  • Warm, moist period starts.

    ca 5,600 BC
  • Black Sea floods, farmers disperse in every direction. This flood is most likely the "flood before the flood" of the Gilgamesh Epic.
  • Earth below Saturn.

    ca 5,400 BC
  • Black Sea farmers have reached deep into Europe, Anatolia, Russia, Central Asian lakes region.
  • Early Ubaid period in Mesopotamia (to ca 4000 BC).

    after 5,600 BC
  • Figurines in Anatolia become abstract.

    ca 5000 BC
  • Peratt Column at south pole (the possum), estimate.
  • Wood henges appear in Central Europe.
  • Carnac causeways constructed.

    4939 BC
  • Saturn starts to appears in the sky as an egg.
  • Creation is dated from here by some people.

    ca 4700 BC
  • First Barrow graves in Portugal.

    ca 4500 BC
  • First barrow grave at Carnac.
  • Pit graves (kurgans) in eastern Europe (to 2000 BC)

    ca 4400 BC
  • Asian herders (nomads) show up in Eastern Europe, Middle East, penetrate to Western Europe. They will reach Persia and India in 2000 - 1500 BC. After 2000 BC these include horse nomads.

    4219 BC
  • Saturn lights up; 'time' starts, creation.
  • First descent of Mars.
  • 8 Kings reign 1072 years by the King List.

    4004 BC
  • Ussher, OT creation (1655 years to the flood of 2349).

    ca 4000 BC
  • Carnac 'Grand Menhir' constructed.

    3944 BC
  • Creation date per Massoretic Bible (1948 yrs, Adam to Abram).

    ca 3800 - 3400 BC
  • Barrow graves in France, Ireland, England.

    3761 BC
  • Creation date of the current Jewish calendar.

    ca 3600 - 3400 BC
  • Most European stone henges are started (West Kennet 3600 BC; Avebury since 3900 BC, the ditch in 3300 to 2630 BC).

    ca 3400 - 2400 BC
  • Passage graves in France, Ireland, England.

    ca 3200 BC
  • Other dates for New Grange 3200 BC, Avebury 3000 BC.

    ca 3147 BC
  • Actual date of the end of the "Age of the Gods" based on subtracting 6 Baktuns from 747 BC.
  • Saturn removed; "The Flood" of Gilgamesh legend.
  • The negotiations of the Gods starts (to last 80 years).
  • Warm moist period (from 5800 BC) ends.
  • 200 year Jemdet Nasr period in Mesopotamia and Anatolia: the developing script is abandoned, counting tokens are in use again, and trade regresses.
  • Jupiter assumes a steep mountain shape.
  • Year to 240 days.

    3114 BC
  • Retrocalculated starting date of Maya calendar (actual is 3147 BC).

    ca 3067 BC
  • Most likely first regular appearance of Mars/Horus; inferred to have happen 10 times by Egyptian records, some 10 or 11 times by the "Kings List," 10 times by the Maya "Chilam Balam." Lasts to ca 2700 BC.

    ca 3100 - 3000 BC
  • Last Sumerian influences in Egypt.
  • Construction of barrow graves falls off.

    ca 2950 BC
  • Jupiter enters the asteroid belt, drops its mountain coma shape, and assumes the 'shen' shape.

    2896 BC
  • Earliest calculated date (creation) of the "Annals of Cuahitlan."

    ca 2800 BC
  • King 13 of Kish, Etana the shepherd, first historical king. Other information has that Etana is a god, thus may be Mars seeming to lead a herd of debris (the 'Followers of Horus').

    ca 2750 - 2700 BC
  • Most likely the end of visits by Mars/Horus.
  • Egyptian Old Kingdom (third dynasty) - to 2200 BC.
  • Gilgamesh, dated King of Uruk, in contact with Aga the 23rd King of Kish, builds walls of Uruk (actually rebuilds the walls).

    ca 2686 BC
  • Step pyramid of Zoser completed.

    ca 2690 - 2550 BC
  • First three Egyptian true pyramids at Meidum and Dashur completed.

    2630 BC
  • Last of the Horus Kings in Egypt, thus the visits by Mars/Horus have ended perhaps a hundered years earlier.

    2627 BC
  • Pyramids started in the Andes.

    ca 2595 BC
  • Jupiter flares up and resumes a mountain shape.

    ca 2590 - 2500 BC
  • Giza pyramids in Egypt completed.

    2490 BC
  • Silbury Hill chalk mountain built in England (2490 - 2340 BC).

    ca 2400 BC
  • Stonehenge is reconstructed, causeway added.

    2360 BC
  • 'Birth' of Jupiter, Venus, Mars - inscriptions at Palenque.

    ca 2350 BC
  • Jupiter looses its mountain shaped coma.

    2349 BC - September 8
  • Disturbance by Venus, September 8 (Olmecs)
  • Noachian Flood (Fall of the Absu).
  • Old Kingdom reduces agriculture and construction.
  • Dating of flood legend in China.
  • Stonehenge reconstruction stops.
  • Year to 260 days.
  • Jupiter again develops a mountain shaped coma.

    ca 2347 BC or after
  • First records of the "Annals of Shu."

    2345 BC
  • First "pyramid texts" which first mention Osiris and his resurrection.

    ca 2338 BC and after
  • Sumer conquered by Sargon of Akkad.

    2337 BC
  • Moon appears as a regular Earth satellite, Palenque (Annals of Shu: 2277 BC).

    ca 2300 - 2200 BC
  • First transcribed records of the "King List."

    2247 BC
  • "Tower of Babel" event (dated by Ussher).
  • Yao, first emperor of China (Jupiter) dies.
  • Jupiter flares up and extinguishes, "Chilam Balam."

    2205 BC
  • Shun (the Moon) retires or 'dies,' "Annals of Shu."
  • Yu, first king of the Xia Dynasty.

    2193 BC (156 years after the Fall of the Absu)
  • A third disturbance by Venus.
  • Severe climatic turndown.
  • 200 years of drought worldwide.
  • Fall of Akkad, end of Old Kingdom.
  • Malta depopulated.
  • Year goes to 273 days.

    2192 BC
  • Atland sinks, according to the "Oera Linda".

    ca 2100 BC
  • Stonehenge completed after a 200 year delay.

    2052 BC
  • Start of Egyptian Middle Kingdom.

    ca 2000 BC
  • composition of the "Enuma Elish" creation myth.

    1996 BC
  • Abram born - Bible record (350 years after the OT flood).

    1887 BC
  • Monte Alto founded

    ca 1750 BC
  • "Code of Hammurabi."

    1492 BC - April 19
  • Disturbances of Earth by Venus, April 19 (Olmec).
  • Exodus of Moses.
  • Abrupt end of the Middle Kingdom.
  • Chinese Xia dynasty suddenly ends.
  • Twenty years of dense cloud cover.
  • Year to 360 days.

    1440 BC
  • Destruction in Mesoamerica.
  • (1442 BC) The sun stands still for Joshua.

    1367 BC
  • Monte Alto abandoned.
  • San Lorenzo established.

    ca 1500 - 1200 BC
  • Indo-european Hittites settle in central Anatolia.

    ca 1350 BC
  • Santorini explosion, one of a number of possible dates.

    ca 1200 BC
  • Battle of Troy as claimed by Herodotus.

    1125 BC
  • The Shang Dynasty ends.

    ca 1100 BC
  • Fractional math based on the Eye of Ra is in use.

    1027-221 BC
  • Chou Dynasty.

    900 BC
  • The Ark is moved to the temple in Jerusalem.

    847 BC
  • San Lorenzo destroyed.
  • Tres Zapotes established.

    806 BC
  • First appearance of Mars near Earth (9 times to 687 BC).

    776 BC
  • A visit by Venus, Mars, and Mercury (the ball game), events recalled in the "Iliad" and the "Popol Vuh."

    772 BC
  • First Olympic Games.

    before 747 BC
  • La Venta takes the 'may'

    747 BC - February 27
  • Mars jars Earth, changes the Earth orbit, February 26.
  • Nabonassar introduces a new chronology, February 26.
  • Olmecs set Long Count to 6.0.0.0.0, February 28.
  • Calendar reforms follow worldwide (Rome February 28).
  • Founding of Rome (there are other dates).
  • Recorded close calls by Mars over next 60 years (Olmec).
  • (before 747 BC) Rome adds two months to the calendar.

    ca 750 BC
  • Hesiod and Homer write (traditional).

    689 BC
  • Destruction of the temple of Marduk at Babylon.

    686 BC - March 23
  • March 23: Mercury jars Earth.
  • Sennacharib's army disaster.

    685 BC - June 15, July 25
  • Temple of Marduk rebuilt at Babylon.
  • Venus and Mercury start to blaze, June 15.
  • Jupiter develops a coma, July 9.
  • Jupiter releases a plasmoid bolt, July 14.
  • Jupiter's plasmoids lands at the Sun, July 25.

    684 BC (astronomical)
  • Earth's perihelion changes, polar axis relocates in space.

    670 BC
  • Earth's orbit suddenly becomes circular.

    628-588 BC
  • Zarathustra, Zoroastrianism (Mazdaism).

    612 BC
  • Library of Assurbanipal at Nineveh burns down.

    607 BC
  • Calendar revised, Monte Alban.

    604-531 BC
  • Lao-tse (China), Taoism.

    597 BC
  • Jews exiled to Babylon.

    563-483 BC
  • Siddhartha Gautama, the Buddha, (India).

    536 BC
  • Cyrus allowed the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
  • Jewish world history compiled, Bible edited.

    551-479 BC
  • Confucius (China).
  • "Annals of Shu" collated by Confucius.

    430-404 BC
  • Peloponnesian Wars.

    334 BC
  • La Venta destroyed.
  • Monte Alban established

    ca 331 BC
  • Alexander receives celestial records from the Chaldeans.

    332 BC
  • Death of Alexander.

    ca 280 BC
  • "King List" published by Berossus in Greece.

    275 BC
  • Monte Alban rebuilt.

    272 BC
  • Mithraism in Partia.

    239 BC
  • "Canopus Decree" attemps calendar reform.

    213 BC
  • Book burning in China.

    128 BC
  • Hipparchus calculates the precession of the equinox.

    ca 100 BC
  • Date for which Josephus claims the electric fire stopped.

    AD 179
  • Teotihuacan established.

    ca AD 700
  • Monte Alban in decline.

    AD 692
  • Teotihuacan destroyed.

    ca AD 726
  • Tula established.

    ca AD 1170
  • Tula abandoned early.

    ca AD 1219
  • The 'may' at Cholula.

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