23rd century BC
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| Millennium: | 3rd millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 24th century BC · 23rd century BC · 22nd century BC |
| Decades: | 2290s BC 2280s BC 2270s BC 2260s BC 2250s BC 2240s BC 2230s BC 2220s BC 2210s BC 2200s BC |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 23rd century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC.
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[edit] Events
- 2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia.
- 2333 BC: Beginning of the Gojoseon, the first dynasty and government system in Korea.
- c. 2300 BC: Bronze Age starts.
- c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: Disk of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made. It is now in University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.
- c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: Head of a man from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad.
- c. 2300 BC: Canal Bahr Yusuf (current name) is created when the waterway from the Nile to the natural lake (now Lake Moeris) is widened and deepened to create a canal.
- c. 2288 BC – 2224/2194 BC: Pepy II and his mother, Queen Merye-ankhnes, Sixth dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.
- c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.
- c. 2278 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II starts to rule (other date is 2383 BC).
- c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in Susa (modern Shush, Iran), is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.
- c. 2240 BC: Akkad, capital of the Akkadian Empire, becomes the largest city in the world, surpassing Memphis, capital of Egypt.[1]
- c. 2220 BC Scord of Brouster farmstead established in Shetland, Scotland
- c. 2215 BC: Comet Hale-Bopp appeared. A Guti army swept down from the Zagros Mountains and defeated the demoralized Akkadian army. They took Agade, the capital of Akkad, and destroyed it thoroughly.
- c. 2300 BC: Metals started to be used in Northern Europe.
[edit] Significant persons
- Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian Empire and the earliest empire builder in recorded history
- 2279 BC—Death of Sargon I
[edit] Decades and years
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[edit] References
- ^ Rosenberg, Matt T. "Largest Cities Through History". http://geography.about.com/library/weekly/aa011201a.htm. Retrieved 2009-11-11.
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