Bronze Age begins
c. 3300 BCE · Event
Smiths learn to alloy copper with tin, producing bronze and the harder tools and weapons that named an age.
On these timelines: The Bronze Age, Master
More from The Bronze Age
- Trojan War (1260 BCE)
- Invention of the chariot (2000 BCE)
- The Uluburun shipwreck (1320 BCE)
- Lion Gate of Mycenae (1250 BCE)
- The Standard of Ur (2500 BCE)
Around 3300 BCE
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- The Creation (4004 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Stonehenge (3000 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire (2334 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)