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1200 BCE – 500 CE

Dated moments of antiquity

236 dated moments dated inside this band, grouped by region and listed in order.

Europe · 104

Sardis 1200 BCE Trojan War & Late Bronze Age Conflicts 1194 BCE Cádiz 1100 BCE Ephesus 1000 BCE Neo-Assyrian Resurgence 911 BCE Ancient Corinth 900 BCE Carthage 814 BCE Butrint 800 BCE Delphi 800 BCE Derinkuyu Underground City 800 BCE Olympia 776 BCE Trebizond 756 BCE Biskupin 750 BCE Sargonid Assyrian Conquests 745 BCE Messenian Wars 743 BCE Cimmerian & Scythian Invasions 720 BCE Lelantine War 710 BCE Fall of the Assyrian Empire 626 BCE Epidaurus 600 BCE Herculaneum 600 BCE Marseille 600 BCE Pompeii 600 BCE First Sacred War 595 BCE Lydian–Median War 590 BCE Temple of Artemis at Ephesus 550 BCE Roman–Etruscan Wars 509 BCE Roman Forum 500 BCE Greco-Persian Wars 499 BCE Ionian Revolt 499 BCE Battle of Marathon 490 BCE Battle of Salamis 480 BCE Battle of Thermopylae 480 BCE Sicilian Wars 480 BCE Parthenon 447 BCE Statue of Zeus at Olympia 435 BCE Peloponnesian War 431 BCE Ostia Antica 400 BCE Corinthian War 395 BCE Theban–Spartan War 379 BCE Battle of Leuctra 371 BCE Third Sacred War 356 BCE Mausoleum at Halicarnassus 350 BCE Samnite Wars 343 BCE Latin War 340 BCE Conquests of Alexander the Great 334 BCE Battle of Issus 333 BCE Battle of Gaugamela 331 BCE Lamian War 323 BCE Antioch 300 BCE Pergamon 300 BCE Colossus of Rhodes 282 BCE Pyrrhic War 280 BCE Galatian Invasion of Greece and Anatolia 279 BCE Chremonidean War 267 BCE Punic Wars 264 BCE Cleomenean War 229 BCE Illyrian Wars 229 BCE Battle of Cannae 216 BCE Roman Conquest of Greece 214 BCE Roman–Numidian Wars 206 BCE Battle of Zama 202 BCE Baelo Claudia 200 BCE Dougga 200 BCE Numantine War 154 BCE First Servile War 135 BCE Cimbrian War 113 BCE Jugurthine War 112 BCE Second Servile War 104 BCE Social War (Italian War) 91 BCE Mithridatic Wars 88 BCE Sulla's Civil Wars 88 BCE Third Servile War (Spartacus) 73 BCE Gallic Wars 58 BCE Caesar's Civil War 49 BCE Final War of the Roman Republic 44 BCE Battle of Actium 31 BCE Mérida (Augusta Emerita) 25 BCE Roman–Germanic Wars 12 BCE Battle of the Teutoburg Forest 9 CE Pont du Gard 40 CE London 43 CE Roman Conquest of Britain 43 CE Aqueduct of Segovia 50 CE Boudica's Revolt 60 CE Garni Temple 77 CE Colosseum 80 CE Djemila 96 CE Timgad 100 CE Dacian Wars (Trajan) 101 CE Hadrian's Wall 122 CE Pantheon 125 CE Marcomannic Wars 166 CE Crisis of the Third Century 235 CE Sassanid-Roman Wars of the 3rd Century 260 CE Gamla Uppsala 300 CE Göreme Open-Air Museum 300 CE Civil Wars of the Tetrarchy 306 CE Constantinople 330 CE Hunnic Invasions of Europe 370 CE Fall of the Western Roman Empire 376 CE Battle of Adrianople 378 CE Battle of the Catalaunian Plains 451 CE Kyiv 482 CE Frankish Conquest of Gaul 486 CE

Middle East · 43

Aramean Migrations & Wars 1100 BCE Wars of David & Solomon 1010 BCE Temple of Solomon 957 BCE Heracleion 800 BCE Meroe 750 BCE Kushite Conquest of Egypt 747 BCE Thonis 700 BCE Neo-Babylonian Conquests 612 BCE Hanging Gardens of Babylon 600 BCE Conquests of Cyrus the Great 559 BCE Pasargadae 546 BCE Persian Conquest of Egypt 525 BCE Behistun Inscription 520 BCE Persepolis 515 BCE Aden 500 BCE Adulis 500 BCE Axum 400 BCE Church of Our Lady Mary of Zion 400 BCE Siege of Tyre 332 BCE Alexandria 331 BCE Wars of the Diadochi 322 BCE Petra 300 BCE Lighthouse of Alexandria 280 BCE Berenice 275 BCE Syrian Wars (Ptolemaic–Seleucid) 274 BCE Jerash 200 BCE Palmyra 200 BCE Maccabean Revolt 167 BCE Qumran 150 BCE Ctesiphon 120 BCE Hegra (Mada'in Salih) 100 BCE Roman–Parthian Wars 53 BCE Masada 37 BCE Western Wall 19 BCE Western Wall Tunnels 19 BCE Jewish–Roman Wars 66 CE Bar Kokhba Revolt 132 CE Early Sassanid–Roman Wars 224 CE Aksumite–Himyarite Wars 270 CE Palmyrene Empire 270 CE Church of the Nativity 326 CE Church of the Holy Sepulchre 335 CE Yazd Atash Behram 470 CE

South Asia · 26

Taxila 600 BCE Lumbini 563 BCE Bodh Gaya (Mahabodhi Temple) 528 BCE Sarnath 528 BCE Anuradhapura 500 BCE Seleucid–Maurya War 305 BCE Ai-Khanoum 300 BCE Sanchi Stupa 300 BCE Sanchi Stupas 300 BCE Somnath Temple 300 BCE Swayambhunath 300 BCE Kalinga War 262 BCE Mahabodhi Temple 250 BCE Ajanta Caves 200 BCE Amaravati Stupa 200 BCE Dambulla Cave Temple 100 BCE Kushan Empire Conquests 30 CE Sri Ranganathaswamy Temple 100 CE Temple of the Tooth 300 CE Tirumala Venkateswara Temple 300 CE Gupta Campaigns of Samudragupta 335 CE Polonnaruwa 368 CE Pashupatinath Temple 400 CE Hephthalite Wars 420 CE Sigiriya 477 CE Kashi Vishwanath Temple 490 CE

East Asia · 27

Sanxingdui 1200 BCE Shang–Zhou War (Battle of Muye) 1046 BCE Spring and Autumn Period Wars 771 BCE Great Wall of China 700 BCE Plain of Jars 500 BCE Temple of Confucius, Qufu 478 BCE Warring States Period 475 BCE Yoshinogari 400 BCE Xianyang Palace 350 BCE Battle of Changping 260 BCE Qin Wars of Unification 230 BCE Terracotta Army 210 BCE Chu–Han Contention 206 BCE Chang'an 200 BCE Guangzhou 200 BCE Han–Xiongnu Wars 200 BCE Gyeongju Historic Areas 57 BCE Ise Grand Shrine 4 BCE White Horse Temple 68 CE Yellow Turban Rebellion 184 CE Battle of Red Cliffs 208 CE Three Kingdoms (China) 220 CE Nanjing 229 CE Wars of the Sixteen Kingdoms 304 CE Mỹ Sơn Sanctuary 400 CE Longmen Grottoes 493 CE Shaolin Temple 495 CE

Africa · 9

Leptis Magna 1000 BCE Nok 1000 BCE Cyrene 631 BCE Bandiagara Escarpment 300 BCE Volubilis 300 BCE Djenné-Djenno 250 BCE Jenne-Jeno 250 BCE Osun-Osogbo Sacred Grove 200 BCE Koumbi Saleh 300 CE

Americas · 19

Ha'amonga 'a Maui 1200 BCE Pulemelei Mound 1100 BCE Chavín de Huántar 900 BCE Calakmul 600 BCE Caracol 600 BCE El Tajín 600 BCE San Agustín Archaeological Park 600 BCE Tierradentro 600 BCE Tikal 600 BCE Monte Albán 500 BCE Nazca Lines 500 BCE Great Serpent Mound 300 BCE Maya City-State Wars 250 BCE Copán 200 BCE Teotihuacan 200 BCE Tiwanaku 200 BCE Cobá 100 CE Mitla 100 CE Palenque 226 CE

Oceania · 1

Teouma Lapita Cemetery 1000 BCE

Elsewhere · 7

Afrasiab (Ancient Samarkand) 500 BCE Bukhara 500 BCE Samarkand 300 BCE Dunhuang 200 BCE Jiaohe Ruins 200 BCE Kashgar 200 BCE Mogao Caves 366 CE