(33rd century BC - 32nd century BC - 31st century BC - other centuries)
(5th millennium BC - 4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC)
Events
- Egypt: Start of First Dynasty
- Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization
- Neolithic settlement built at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
- New Stone Age people in Ireland build the 250,000 ton Newgrange solar observatory
Significant persons
- Menes, unites Egypt into the Old Kingdom and founds Memphis, Egypt as his new capital.
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- 3114 BC - Starting date of current Long Count in the Maya calendar