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centuriesA century is one hundred consecutive years.Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages .-Start and end in the Gregorian Calendar:...
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millenniaA millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years...
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The pages listed below contain information about trends and events in particular
centuriesA century is one hundred consecutive years.Centuries are numbered ordinally in English and many other languages .-Start and end in the Gregorian Calendar:...
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millenniaA millennium is a period of time equal to one thousand years...
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Past
- Early prehistory
- Pleistocene
The Pleistocene is the epoch from 2.588 million to 12 000 years BP covering the world's recent period of repeated glaciations. The name pleistocene is derived from the Greek and ....
- Upper Paleolithic
The Upper Paleolithic is the third and last subdivision of the Paleolithic or Old Stone Age as it is understood in Europe, Africa and Asia...
- 10th millennium BC
The 10th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Mesolithic and Epipaleolithic period, which is the first part of the Holocene epoch. Agriculture, based on the cultivation of primitive forms of millet and rice, occurred in Southwest Asia...
| 9th millennium BCThe 9th millennium BC marks the beginning of the Neolithic period.Agriculture spreads throughout the Fertile Crescent and use of pottery becomes more widespread. Larger settlements like Jericho arise along salt and flint trade routes. Northern Eurasia is resettled as the glaciers of the last...
| 8th millennium BCIn the 8th millennium BC, agriculture becomes widely practiced in the Fertile Crescent and Anatolia.Pottery becomes widespread and animal husbandry spreads to Africa and Eurasia. World population is approximately 5 million.-Events:*c. 8000 BC—Ice Age ends.*c. 8000 BC—Upper Paleolithic period...
- 7th millennium BC
During the 7th Millennium BC, agriculture spreads from Anatolia to the Balkans.World population is essentially stable at around 5 million people, living mostly scattered across the globe in small hunting-gathering tribes...
| 6th millennium BCDuring the 6th millennium BC, agriculture spreads from the Balkans to Italy and Eastern Europe and from Mesopotamia to Egypt. World population is essentially stable at ca. 5 million people.-Events:...
| 5th millennium BCThe 5th millennium BC saw the spread of agriculture from the Near East throughout southern and central Europe.Urban cultures in Mesopotamia and Anatolia flourish, developing the wheel. Copper ornaments become more common, marking the Chalcolithic. Animal husbandry spreads throughout Eurasia,...
Future
- 5th millennium
The fifth millennium is a period of time that will begin on January 1, 4001, and will end on December 31, 5000.-Astronomical events:* 4285 August 6: Venus occults Regulus.* 4296 November 22: Venus occults Antares....
| 6th millenniumThe sixth millennium is a period of time that will begin on January 1, 5001, and will end on December 31, 6000.-Astronomical events:* 5001 September 11: Mercury occults Regulus* c...
| 7th millenniumThe 7th millennium is a period of time that will begin on January 1, 6001, and will end on December 31, 7000.-Astronomical events:These are astronomical dates, so they are given in the astronomical format of Year Month Day, which allows them to be ordered....
- 8th millennium
The eighth millennium is a period of time that will begin on January 1, 7001, and will end on December 31, 8000.-Astronomical events:All these dates are in a uniform time scale such as Terrestrial Time. When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time, which is decidedly non-uniform, via...
| 9th millenniumThe 9th millennium is a period of time that will begin on January 1, 8001, and will end on December 31, 9000.-Time capsule:* The Crypt of Civilization, a time capsule located at Oglethorpe University in Atlanta, Georgia, is scheduled to be unsealed on May 28, 8113.-Astronomical events:All these...
| 10th millenniumThe tenth millennium is a period of time that will begin on January 1, 9001, and will end on December 31, 10000.-Astronomical events:All these dates are in a uniform time scale such as Terrestrial Time. When converted to our ordinary solar time or Universal Time, which is decidedly non-uniform, via...
- 11th millennium and beyond
The 11th millennium and beyond is a period of time that will begin on 1 January 10001 CE. Several predictions have been made concerning this future time period...
See also
- List of decades
- Chronology
Chronology is a chronicle or arrangement of events in their order of occurrence in time, such as a timeline. It is also "the determination of the actual temporal sequence of past events".Chronology is part of periodization...
- See calendar
A calendar is a system of organizing days for social, religious, commercial, or administrative purposes. This is done by giving names to periods of time, typically days, weeks, months, and years. The name given to each day is known as a date. Periods in a calendar are usually, though not...
and list of calendars for other groupings of years.
- See history
History is the study of the human past, with special attention to the written record. Scholars who write about history are called historians. It is a field of research which uses a narrative to examine and analyse the sequence of events, and it often attempts to investigate objectively the patterns...
, history by periodHistorical Eras, or classification of history, culture, and such into thematic groups involving time, so as to generate a history by period are intellectual constructs consisting of certain sets of common characteristics used by researchers, teachers, and academics when communicating about the...
, and periodizationPeriodization is the attempt to categorize or divide time into named blocks. The result is a descriptive abstraction that provides a useful handle on periods of time with relatively stable characteristics...
for different organizations of historical events.
- For earlier time periods, see cosmological timeline, geologic timescale, evolutionary timeline, and logarithmic timeline
A logarithmic timeline is a timeline laid out according to a logarithmic scale. This necessarily implies a zero point and an infinity point, neither of which can be displayed. The most natural zero point is the Big Bang, looking forward, but the most common is the ever-changing present, looking...
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