7th Millennium BC
Year(s) | Event(s) | |
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Start | End | |
c. 6600 BC | Jiahu symbols, carved on tortoise shells in Jiahu, Northern China | |
c. 6500 BC |
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c.6440±25 BC | Kurile volcano on Russia's Kamchatka Peninsula has VEI 7 eruption. It is one of the largest of the Holocene epoch | |
c. 6400 BC | Lake Agassiz drains into oceans for the final time, leaving Lakes Manitoba, Winnipeg, Winnipegosis, and Lake of the Woods, among others in the region, as its remnants. The draining may have caused the 8.2 kiloyear event, 200 years later | |
c. 6200 BC | 8.2 kiloyear event, a sudden significant cooling episode | |
c. 6100 BC | The Storegga Slide, causing a megatsunami in the Norwegian Sea | |
c. 6000 BC |
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Read more about this topic: Timeline Of Environmental History
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