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| Millennium: | 2nd millennium BC |
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| Centuries: | 21st century BC · 20th century BC · 19th century BC |
| Decades: | 1990s BC 1980s BC 1970s BC 1960s BC 1950s BC 1940s BC 1930s BC 1920s BC 1910s BC 1900s BC |
| Categories: | Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments |
The 20th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC.
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Events
- 2000 BC — Arrival of the ancestors of the Latins in Italy.
- 2000 BC — Town of Mantua is presumably founded.
- 2000 BC — Stonehenge is believed to have been completed.
- 2000 BC — Farmers and herders travel south from Ethiopia and settle in Kenya.
- 2000 BC — Horses are tamed and used for transport.
- c. 2000 BC — First of the Minoan palaces on Crete.
- c. 2000 BC — Decline of Harappan civilization starts.
- c. 2000 BC — Bronze Age starts in north Ancient China.
- 2040–1556 BC — Xia Dynasty in China, Olmec civilization (Mesoamerica).
- 2064–1986 BC — Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt.
- 1991 BC — Egypt: Pharaoh Mentuhotep IV died. End of Eleventh Dynasty. Pharaoh Amenemhat I started to rule. Start of Twelfth Dynasty.
- c. 1985 BC–1795 BC — Rock-cut tombs at Beni Hasan were made. Twelfth Dynasty.
- c. 1985 BC–1795 BC — "Hippopotamus", from the tomb of Senbi (governor) (Tomb B.3) at Meir was made. Twelfth Dynasty. It is now in the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
- 1953 BC February 27 — A very close alignment of the naked-eye planets takes place in which these planets are together in a span of 4.3 degrees.
- 1942 (+/-10) BC — The so-called king of Leubingen (today part of Sömmerda) is buried in a large barrow within a 66 foot wide stone cairn inside a ring ditch.
- 1932 BC — Amorite conquest of Ur.
- c. 1928–1895 BC — "Harvest scene", tempera fascimile by Nina de Garis Davies of wall painting in the tomb of Khnumhotep, Beni Hasan. Twelfth Dynasty.
- 1913–1903 BC — Egyptian-Nubian war.
Births
- 1973 BC — Reu, son of Peleg, according to the Hebrew Calendar
- 1941 BC — Serug, son of Reu, according to the Hebrew Calendar
- 1911 BC — Nahor, son of Serug, according to the Hebrew Calendar
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
- 2000 BC — First written accounts of Schizophrenia
- 1950 BC — The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as 51.72 cmcitation needed
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Decades and years
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