circa 9600 BCE — The most recent Ice Age ends
The most recent Ice Age – or more precisely, the most recent glacial maximum of the current Ice Age –...
November 20, 2023
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9564 BCE — Atlantis sinks
It’s Atlantis. Everyone knows the basics: an advanced civilisation on a large island or small continent in the Atlantic Ocean,...
November 15, 2023
circa 3400 BCE — The Sahara Desert assumes its modern form
It wasn’t always a desert. The Saharan plain was once open grassland with occasional forests. As late as the time...
August 1, 2023
circa 2600 BCE — Gilgamesh becomes King of Uruk
Gilgamesh is the title character of one of the oldest known literary works, the Epic of Gilgamesh, which dates from...
July 22, 2023
circa 2500 BCE — Gilgamesh ends his reign as King of Uruk
Gilgamesh was the king of Uruk for many years, but was not well-loved by his subjects, as he was an...
July 12, 2023
1117 BCE — Delilah cuts Samson’s hair
Samson is one of the great heroes of Judges era of the Israelites. A judge and priest, he was also...
January 19, 2023
circa 605 BCE — The Hanging Gardens of Babylon are constructed
One of the Seven Wonders of the World (the original seven, now usually called the wonders of the Ancient World),...
December 19, 2022
469 BCE — Socrates is born
Socrates is one of the most influential, and also most enigmatic, figures in Western Philosophy. An Athenian who lived at...
December 14, 2022
1172 — St Christina the Astonishing experiences her first visions
Christina was still young, in just her early twenties, when she experienced her first vision – accompanied by a massive...
April 19, 2022
1212 — The Children’s Crusade sets out for the Holy Land
The Children’s Crusade is the name given to a variety of fictional and factual events which happened in 1212 that...
April 4, 2022
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