A clickable Ancient History Timeline which also includes the Prophets mentioned in the Quran, to enable the children to understand what was happening in the particular region and the rest of the world when the Prophets arrived. Content will be added slowly, please be patient.

Please note that many of the dates are approximations based on various sources, there is no true record of the earliest creations or of the first human beings and there is ample debate on this. Most sources put it as prior to 7,000 BC, while others say it was millions of years ago. The reason for mentioning the Year as 10,000 BC is a mere simplification to indicate that it happened a long time ago. For the other dates, various Islamic and Biblical sources have been used, but these are also approximations and exact dates should not be taught to children. Rather, it is enough to know a broad timeline rather than exact dates.

Click on a Timeline Category or Event to read more about it.

Category	Year			Event
Prophets	10000	BCE		Creation of the Earliest Creations
Prophets	10000	BCE		Creation of the Heavens and Earth
Prophets	10000	BCE		Creation of Adam (as)
Mesopotamia	10000	BCE		Cultivation of wild cereals in the Fertile Crescent.
Far East	9000	BCE		Jamon people of Japan hunt and fish for food.
Australasia	9000	BCE		People known as Aboriginals arrive in Australia.
Mesopotamia	8000	BCE		Jericho is a wealthy town.
Egypt	7000	BCE		Settlement of Nile Valley begins.
Mesopotamia	6800	BCE		Stone walls built at Jericho.
Mesopotamia	6000	BCE		Nineveh is first settled.
Egypt	6000	BCE		People in the Sahara tame cattle.
Greece	6000	BCE		Farming begins in Greece, spreads across Europe.
America	6000	BCE		Farming begins in Central America.
Mesopotamia	5400	BCE		The City of Eridu is founded.
Mesopotamia	5000	BCE		Sumerian civilization starts in Fertile Crescent.
Egypt	5000	BCE		Farming begins in the Nile Valley.
Far East	5000	BCE		Farming begins in China.
Africa	4000	BCE		Sahara becomes a desert.
Mesopotamia	3500	BCE		The Wheel is invented in Sumer.
South Asia	3500	BCE		Farmers settle in the Indus Valley.
Africa	3500	BCE		Climate changes in the Sahara.
Prophets	3300	BCE		Writing invented by Idris (as) in Sumer.
Egypt	3100	BCE		Kingdoms of Upper and Lower Egypt unite.
Europe	3000	BCE		Stonehenge is built in Britain.
Mesopotamia	2900	BCE		Devastating flood in Sumer.
Far East	2700	BCE		Silk is first made.
Far East	2690	BCE		Huang Di rules China.
Egypt	2686	BCE		The Old Kingdom begins in Egypt.
Egypt	2530	BCE		Construction of the Great Pyramids at Giza.
South Asia	2500	BCE		Indus Valley people are at their most successful.
Prophets	2457	BCE		The Great Flood of Nuh (as).
Mesopotamia	2334	BCE		Sargon of Akkad rules Mesopotamia for 50 years.
Greece	2200	BCE		Peak of Minoan Civilization.
Prophets	2167	BCE		Ibrahim (as) was born.
Mesopotamia	2150	BCE		The Epic of Gilgamesh written on clay tablets.
Mesopotamia	2100	BCE		Ismail (as) was born.
Mesopotamia	2100	BCE		First ziggurats in Ur, Eridu, Uruk, and Nippur.
Mesopotamia	2100	BCE		The Code of Ur-Nammu is written.
Prophets	2067	BCE		Ishaq (as) was born.
Egypt	2040	BCE		The Middle Kingdom begins.
Prophets	2007	BCE		Yaqub (as) was born.
Mesopotamia	2000	BCE		The Hittites settled in Anatolia.
Egypt	1980	BCE		Amenemhet becomes pharoah of Egypt.
Greece	1900	BCE		Minoans build palaces on Crete.
Prophets	1877	BCE		Israelites move to Egypt to join Yusuf (as).
Egypt	1800	BCE		Hyksos rule Egypt.
Mesopotamia	1792	BCE		King Hammurabi builds walls of Babylon.
Mesopotamia	1772	BCE		The Code of Hammurabi is written.
Far East	1766	BCE		The Shang dynasty rule China.
Mesopotamia	1755	BCE		Hammurabi rules Mesopotamia from Babylon.
South Asia	1750	BCE		Exodus of Indus Valley.
Egypt	1720	BCE		Hyksos invade Egypt, Middle Kingdom ends.
Greece	1600	BCE		The Myceneans become powerful in Greece.
Egypt	1570	BCE		The New Kingdom begins.
Egypt	1567	BCE		Ahmose expels Hyksos from Egypt.
Egypt	1524	BCE		Thutmose I becomes pharoah.
Mesopotamia	1500	BCE		Egyptian empire extends to the Euphrates.
South Asia	1500	BCE		The Aryans arrive in the Indus Valley.
Australasia	1500	BCE		People begin settling on islands in the Pacific Ocean.
Egypt	1473	BCE		Hatshepsut rules as pharoah.
Egypt	1450	BCE		Egyptian Empire at its largest under Thutmosis III.
Greece	1450	BCE		The Mycenaens invade Crete.
Prophets	1447	BCE		Exodus from Egypt with Musa (as).
Mesopotamia	1400	BCE		The first alphabet is invented in Canaan.
Far East	1400	BCE		People in China write on bones.
Egypt	1357	BCE		Tutankhamen dies at age 18.
Mesopotamia	1350	BCE		The Hittite Empire is at its peak.
Mesopotamia	1300	BCE		Spread of Assyrian Empire.
America	1280	BCE		The Olmecs build temples, Chavin way of life begins.
Prophets	1250	BCE		The Israelites arrive in Canaan.
Mesopotamia	1200	BCE		The Phoenicians are successful sailors, traders.
Greece	1100	BCE		The Greek Dark ages begin.
Far East	1027	BCE		The Zhou kings take control of China.
Prophets	1020	BCE		Talut (Saul) becomes King.
Mesopotamia	1000	BCE		Assyrians build up a strong empire.
Prophets	1000	BCE		Philistines are defeated by Dawood (as).
America	1000	BCE		The Adena build earth mounds.
Prophets	967	BCE		Suleiman (as) rules Israel.
Prophets	967	BCE		1st Temple is Built in Jerusalem.
Prophets	931	BCE		Divided Kingdom – Israel and Judae.
Prophets	858	BCE		Ilyas (as) starts to preach.
Prophets	852	BCE		Al Yasa (as) starts to preach.
Africa	814	BCE		The city of Carthage is built by the Phoenicians.
Mesopotamia	800	BCE		Greek city-states begin to arise.
Prophets	800	BCE		Yunus (as) preaches in Ninevah.
Europe	800	BCE		The Celtic way of life spreads across western Europe.
Greece	800	BCE		Homer lives during this time.
Greece	776	BCE		The first Olympic games.
Mesopotamia	760	BCE		Major earthquake in Canaan.
Rome	753	BCE		Legend of the city of Rome.
Mesopotamia	745	BCE		Reign of Tiglath-Pileser III
Mesopotamia	722	BCE		Peak of the Assyrian empire under Sargon II.
Mesopotamia	722	BCE		Sargon II conquers Samaria, the capital of Israel.
Mesopotamia	700	BCE		Time of the earliest Persians
Egypt	669	BCE		Assyrians from Mesopotamia conquer and rule Egypt.
Mesopotamia	668	BCE		Ashurbanipal’s reign as King of Assyria.
Mesopotamia	612	BCE		Downfall of the Assyrian empire.
Mesopotamia	605	BCE		Nebuchadnezzar II is king of Babylon.
Mesopotamia	586	BCE		Nebuchadnezzar attacks Judae, enslaves Israelites.
South Asia	560	BCE		Siddhartha Gautama (The Buddha is born).
Mesopotamia	559	BCE		King Cyrus II rules Persia and builds an empire.
Far East	551	BCE		Confucius is born.
Mesopotamia	539	BCE		Cyrus conquers Babylon, allows Israelites to return.
Egypt	525	BCE		Persian conquest of Egypt.
Rome	509	BCE		Rome becomes a republic.
Greece	500	BCE		The Greeks are at their most successful.
Far East	500	BCE		Farming begins in Japan.
Africa	500	BCE		The Nok way of life begins.
South Asia	500	BCE		Aryan civilization in India reaches high point.
Greece	490	BCE		Wars between the Persians and Greeks.
Greece	490	BCE		First marathon run by Athenian.
Mesopotamia	485	BCE		Babylon is destroyed by Xerxes, King of Persia.
Greece	480	BCE		Battle of Salamis.
Far East	481	BCE		The Warring States period in China.
Prophets	450	BCE		Uzair (as) rewrites the Torah.
Greece	431	BCE		The Peloponnesian War between Sparta, Athens.
Greece	356	BCE		Alexander the Great is born.
Greece	338	BCE		Phillip of Macedonia conquers Greek city-states.
Greece	336	BCE		Alexander rules Greece.
Egypt	332	BCE		Alexander conquers Egypt, founds Alexandria.
Mesopotamia	331	BCE		Alexander defeats the Persians.
Mesopotamia	330	BCE		Alexander controls Canaan.
Mesopotamia	323	BCE		Hellenistic (Greek) thought, culture infuses with locals.
South Asia	321	BCE		The Mauryan Empire of India.
Mesopotamia	312	BCE		Duration of the Seleucid Empire.
Mesopotamia	312	BCE		Seleucos conquers Babylon, founds Seleucid dynasty.
America	300	BCE		The Hopewell take over from the Adena.
South Asia	272	BCE		Asoka rules the Mauryan Empire.
Rome/Carthage	264	BCE		Punic Wars.
Far East	221	BCE		Qin Shi Huangdi becomes China’s first emperor.
Rome/Carthage	218	BCE		Hannibal’s invasion of Italy.
Far East	214	BCE		Construction of the Great Wall of China begins
Far East	212	BCE		Qin Shi Huangdi orders book burning.
Far East	202	BCE		The Han Dynasty begins.
Mesopotamia	200	BCE		Canaan falls to the Seleucids.
South Asia	200	BCE		Ajanta caves bugun.
America	200	BCE		The Nazca start to draw lines in the desert.
Mesopotamia	166	BCE		Maccabees revolt in Canaan.
Rome/Carthage	146	BCE		The Romans destroy Carthage.
Mesopotamia	129	BCE		Parthians conquer Mesopotamia, control Silk Road.
Mesopotamia	110	BCE		Israelites are strong under Hasmonean kingdom.
Rome	100	BCE		Julius Caesar born.
Egypt	69	BCE		Cleopatra born.
Rome	64	BCE		Romans conquer parts of Middle East.
Rome	55	BCE		Caesar’s campaign in Britain takes place.
Mesopotamia	50	BCE		Ctesiphon becomes Parthian capital.
Egypt	48	BCE		Caesar arrives in Egypt.
Rome	44	BCE		Julius Caesar is murdered.
Rome	43	BCE		Octavian becomes a consul in Rome.
Egypt	31	BCE		Romans conquer Egypt, Cleopatra commits suicide.
Rome	30	BCE		Egypt is part of Roman empire.
Rome	27	BCE		Augustus becomes the first Emperor of Rome.
Prophets	3	BCE		Isa (as) was born to Mariam (ra).
America	1	CE		The Moche are ruled by warrior priests.
Rome	14	CE		Death of Augustus Caesar, Tiberius now Emperor.
Prophets	30	CE		Isa (as) was raised up into the sky.