World History of Africa:
- AD Africa AD
- AD 1100-1500 Bantu, Arab, and Indian cultures blend in Swahili civilization along eastern coast
- AD 1224 Decline of the Kingdom of Ghana
- AD 1270-1478 Imperial revival in Ethiopia
- AD 1300-1500 Mali empire in middle Niger region
- AD 200 Camels first used for trans-Saharan transport
- AD 200-900 Expansion of Bantu speakers in Africa
- AD 636-651 Muslims conquer Syria, Persia and Egypt
- AD 1325 Ibn Battuta, famous North African traveler, begins 29-year, 75,000 mile world tour
- AD 1330 University of Tmbuktu
- AD 250 Kingdom of Axum (Ethiopia) controls Red Sea trade
- AD 300 Kingdom of Axum (Ethiopia) accepts Christianity
- AD 450 Rise of Ghana in West Africa
- AD 600-1500 Extensive slave trade from sub-Saharan Africa to Mediterranean
- BC 200 Use of iron in Sub-saharan Africa
- Egypt BC
- BC 31 BC Battle Of Actium
- BC 45 Caesar Defeats Pompey's Sons
- BC 47 Fire destroys the great library at Alexandria
- BC 47 Fire destroys the great library at Alexandria
- BC 48 Julius Ceasar Puts Down Rebellion In Egypt
- BC 60 Pompey, Crassus & Julius Caesar form alliance to rule Rome
- BC 63 Pompey Captures Jerusalem
- BC 65 Pompey's Conquest defeated Mithridates VI
- BC 217 Fourth Syrian War
- BC 245 Third Syrian War
- BC 289 Ptolemy Builds First Light House 400 feet high, seen from 40 miles .
- BC 321 Ptolemy, ruler of Egypt defeated Antigonus battle of Gaza
- BC 323 Death of Alexander, division of his empire including Egypt
- BC 334-323 Conquests of Alexander the Great
- BC 464 Third Messenian War
- BC 525 Cambyses, the Persian ruler, conquers Egypt
- BC 525 Persians Conquer Egypt, end of the New Kingdom
- BC 546 Cyrus Captures Lydia
- BC 700 Earliest Greek settlement in Egypt's Nile delta
- BC 700 Earliest Greek settlement in Egypt's Nile delta
- BC 722 Samaria Falls after a three-year siege
- BC 730 Egyptian Dynasty XXV Founded-
- BC 736-716 BC First Messenian War
- BC 945-730 BC Libyans Rule Egypt
- BC 1090 New Kingdom Dissolves
- BC 1090 Nubia Becomes Independant-
- BC 1200 Moses leads Hebrews from Egypt to Palestine
- BC 1300 Transparent glass invented in Egypt
- BC 1300 Use of Papyrus, pen, and ink for writing in Egypt
- BC 1375 Akhenaton introduces monotheism in Egypt
- BC 1375 Akhenaton introduces monotheism in Egypt
- BC 1375 Naturalistic art in Egypt
- BC 1375 Naturalistic art in Egypt
- BC 1540 Nubians Defeated By Egyptians-
- BC 1560-1087 New Kingdom in Egypt
- BC 1580 New Kingdom Of Egypt
- BC 1580-1090 Temple building in Egypt
- BC 1720-1570 BC Hyskos Dynasties XV& XVI Rule Egypt
- BC 1800 Egyptian belief in personal immortality
- BC 1900 Middle Minoan Culture Begins
- BC 1991-1786 BC Amenemhet I Founded Middle Kingdom strong central government.
- BC 2000 Extensive commerce between Egypt and Crete
- BC 2000 Solar Calendar in Egypt
- BC 2000 Terra-cotta pottery in Egypt
- BC 2050-1786 BC Middle Kingdom in Egypt
- BC 2150 Mentuhotep II Reunifies Egypt nobles and the Kings
- BC 2350 - 2180 BC Dynasty VI Of Egypt -Piopi and Piopi II among the longest reigning Pharaohs)
- BC 2500 Basic forms for furniture, wind instruments in Egypt
- BC 2650 Construction of first pyramid in Egypt, first monumental columnar forms
- BC 2770-2200 BC Old Kingdom in Egypt
- BC 2900 Egypt's 4th Dynasty (Pharaoh Snefru, built the Pyramid at Dahshur)
- BC 2900 The Great Pyramids Built (Giza)
- BC 2980 Egypt's Third Dynasty ( Pharaoh Djoser built 1st first pyramids)
- BC 3000 BC Egypt's First Dynasty (King Menes)
- BC 3000 Egyptians develop weaving from plant fibers (flax)
- BC 3100 Egyptian hieroglyphic writing
- BC 3200 BC Hieroglyphic Writing
- BC 3200 Unification of Upper and Lower Egypt
- BC 3250 BC Paper Made Of Papyrus Reed
- BC 5500 BC Egyptians Weave Flax Into Fabric
- Egypt AD
- AD 251-356 Anthony of Egypt reputed father of hermit monasticism
- AD 641 Muslim conquest of Egypt
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