Cain and Abel
~3900 BCE (traditional) · Event
Genesis 4: Cain murders his brother Abel and is marked and exiled — 'am I my brother's keeper?'
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- The Crucifixion (33)
- The Resurrection (33)
- The Nativity: Jesus is born in Bethlehem (5 BCE)
- The Creation (4004 BCE)
- The Life of Jesus (5 BCE)
- The parting of the Red Sea (1446 BCE)
- Moses the lawgiver (1526 BCE)
- The Ten Commandments at Mount Sinai (1446 BCE)
Around 3875 BCE
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Sumerian civilisation (4500 BCE)
- Neolithic (Agricultural) Revolution ends (4000 BCE)
- Stonehenge (3000 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Uruk period in Mesopotamia (4000 BCE)
- Austronesian expansion begins (3000 BCE)
- Domestication of the horse (3500 BCE)