The Bronze Age
Explore The Bronze Age on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Invention of writing (Sumer) (3200 BCE)
- Great Pyramid of Giza (2560 BCE)
- Bronze Age collapse (1200 BCE)
- Stonehenge (3000 BCE)
- New Kingdom of Egypt (1550 BCE)
- Code of Hammurabi (1754 BCE)
- Epic of Gilgamesh recorded (2100 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation (3300 BCE)
- Minoan civilisation (2000 BCE)
- Invention of the wheel (3500 BCE)
- Old Kingdom of Egypt (2686 BCE)
- Mycenaean civilisation (1600 BCE)
- Bronze Age begins (3300 BCE)
- Eruption of Thera (1600 BCE)
- First Dynasty of Egypt founded (3100 BCE)
- Ötzi the Iceman dies (3300 BCE)
- Trojan War (1260 BCE)
- Akkadian Empire under Sargon (2334 BCE)
- Hieroglyphic writing emerges (3200 BCE)
- Oracle bone script in use (1250 BCE)
- Mohenjo-daro at its peak (2500 BCE)
- Hammurabi (1810 BCE)
- Battle of Kadesh (1274 BCE)
- Shang dynasty (1600 BCE)
- Indus Valley Civilisation begins (3300 BCE)
- Reign of Ramesses II (1279 BCE)
- Invention of the chariot (2000 BCE)
- Hittite Empire (1600 BCE)
- Sea Peoples raid the Late Bronze Age (1200 BCE)
- Tutankhamun's tomb sealed (1323 BCE)