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"11800"? | Foundation of Egypt, pharaoh Menes (mistaken assumption of the Greeks, cf. Herodotus, Plato, Diodorus etc.!) |
"10350" | Minimum age of Egypt (mistaken assumption of Plato, The Laws II 656e) |
"9600" | War of Atlantis against Egypt and primeval Athens (mistaken assumption of Plato) |
"Later" | First flood disaster, Atlantis and Athens (mistaken assumption of Plato) |
"8600" | Foundation of Sais (mistaken assumption of Plato) |
No date | Second flood disaster (mistaken assumption of Plato) |
3000 | Foundation of the Egyptian empire (pharaoh Menes) Invention of writing, introduction of the Solar calendar. |
2600 | Building of the pyramids at Gizah |
2000-1400 | Minoan culture on Crete |
1600? | Minoan Eruption on Thera/Santorini |
1600-1190 | Mycenaean culture |
"1529/8" | Third flood disaster, Deucalion (according to Parian Chronicle; Plato's third flood) |
1227-1191 | Attacks of the Sea Peoples on Egypt until the victory of pharaoh Ramesses III |
"1200"? | Destruction of Troy |
1150-800 | The "Dark Ages" |
1200-1000 | Dorian Invasion? |
1200-800 | Height of the Phoenician culture |
1100 | The Phoenicians reach the straits of Gibraltar for the first time |
900/800? | Emergence of the Etruscans |
814 | Foundation of Carthage by the Phoenicians |
8th cent. | Homer's epics are put to the written form |
8th cent. | First Greek colonies in southern Italy |
"753" | Legendary foundation of Rome |
710 | Invention of the Trireme |
600 | Circumnavigation of Africa by the Phoenicians on behalf of Pharaoh Necho II |
590 | Solon in Egypt |
450 | Herodotus in Egypt |
399 | The Death of Socrates |
395? | Plato in Egypt? |
388/366/361 | Plato in Syracuse/Sicily |
360? | Writing of the dialogues Timaeus and Critias by Plato |