Stonehenge erected
3,000 BCE–1,500 BCE* · Work
Megalithic monument on Salisbury Plain; aligned to the solstices.
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Around 3000 BCE
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Hieroglyphic writing emerges (3200 BCE)
- Skara Brae inhabited (3180 BCE)
- Newgrange built (3200 BCE)
- Caral / Norte Chico civilization (3000 BCE)
- Maya Long Count calendar baseline (3114 BCE)
- Beaker culture spreads (2800 BCE)
- Caral / Norte Chico civilization begins (3000 BCE)