Prehistoric China
| Date | Emperor | Events | Other people/events |
| 400,000 BC | Peking Man of Zhoukoudian (est.) | ||
| 19-20,000 BC | First evidence of creation and use of pottery found in Xianren Cave in Jiangxi province. | ||
| 7600 BC | Zhenpiyan culture | Archaeological evidence on domestication of pigs for the first time. | |
| 7500 BC | Pengtoushan culture | Analysis of Chinese rice residues show that rice had been domesticated by this time. | |
| 7000 BC | Peiligang culture | ||
| 6600 BC | Jiahu script: still under debate whether this can be considered as a form of writing | ||
| 6000 BC | Cishan culture | Archaeological evidence on domestication of dogs and chickens for the first time. | |
| 5000 BC | Baijia culture | Archaeological evidence on domestication of oxen and sheep for the first time. | |
| 4500 BC | Approximate end of Hemudu culture. | ||
| 4000 BC | Banpo script; scholars still debate if it is actual writing or not. | ||
| 3630 BC | Approximate date of the oldest discovered silk in China, found by archaeologists in what is now Henan province in what was the late Yangshao period. | ||
| 3000 BC | Longshan culture | During the Longshan Neolithic period, the buffaloes are domesticated for the first time in China, and the plow may have been used. | |
| 2570 BC | Approximate date for the silk and other items found at the Liangzhu culture site at Qianshanyang in Wuxing District, Zhejiang; silk items found there included a braided silk belt, silk threads, and woven silk. |
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