21st Century BC - Events

Events

Note: all dates from this long ago should be regarded as either approximate or conjectural; there are no absolutely certain dates, and multiple competing reconstructed chronologies, for this time period.


  • c. 2100 BC – c. 2050 BC: Nanna Ziggurat, Ur (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) was built.
  • 2091 BC: Beginning of the Patriarchal Age was traditionally set in this year.
  • 2080 BC: Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt.
  • 2080 BC: First Intermediate Period of Egypt ended. Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt.
  • 2071 BC: Magh Ithe, first recorded battle in Ireland myths.
  • 2070 BC (disputable): Yu the Great set up the Xia Dynasty, which isn't verified by archeological findings, some propose the Erlitou culture.
  • c. 2064 BC – 1986 BC: Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
  • c. 2055 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt (another date is 2040 BC).
  • c. 2055 BC: Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt (other date is 2040 BC).
  • c. 2055 BC: Mentuhotep II from Thebes managed to reunite Ancient Egypt and began to rule (other date is 2040 BC).
  • c. 2055 BC – 1985 BC: Funerary Stele of Amenemhat I was made. Eleventh Dynasty of Egypt. Excavated in 1915–1916. It is now kept in Egyptian Museum, Cairo. The Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
  • c. 2049 BC: Oak trees for Seahenge felled.
  • c. 2040 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt. Start of Middle Kingdom. 11th–14th Dynasties.
  • 2040 BC: Beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty and government system in China.
  • 2040 BC: Pharaoh Merykare died. End of Tenth dynasty of Egypt. Pharaoh Mentuhotep II started to rule. Start of Eleventh Dynasty.
  • 2034 BC – 2004 BC: Ur–Amorite wars.
  • c. 2009 BC – 1997 BC: Funerary temple of Mentuhotep III was built. Eleventh Dynasty.
  • 2004 BC: Elamite destruction of Ur.
  • c. 2004 BC: Pharaoh Mentuhotep II, Eleventh dynasty of Egypt dies.
  • c. 2000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age ended.

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