Timeline of world history (Cel)

The following list describes major events in the human history of the world. This is not a comprehensive list, but merely a summary of some of the more important events in world history.

Prehistoric Era

c. 2 million BU

• First signs of modern humans (in central Notius)
• First usage of stone tools

c. 1 million BU

• First signs of controlled fire usage
• First signs of art (cave handprints)
• Arrival of humans in southern Argestes and western Caecia

c. 10,000 BU

• Domestication of wheat
• Formation of the first semi-permanent settlements (in northern Notius)
• First temple/shrine (at Hajar Qadim, northern Notius)

Pre-Classical Era

c. 7,000 BU

• First writing system is used in northeast Notius by the Mena people
• Construction of walled city-states by the Mena people
• Domestication of rice in eastern Caecia by the Hegu River culture
• Settlement of northern Argestes (Gütland and northern Časrhinna) by the Old Stoneware Complex

c. 4,000 BU

• Unification of Mena city-states under the warlord Themhotep, who is declared the Emperor of the Mena
• Mythical foundation of the city of Rasna by Capu Celi Clanthi, an orphan supposedly adopted by the god Tinia

2500s BU

Argestes

• 2566: Beginning of the Mena-Rassenic War; conflict between a league of Rassenic city-states and the Mena Empire
• 2561: Rassenic victory in the Mena-Rassenic War, dissolution of the Rassenic League
• 2558: Beginning of the Intra-Rassenic War between the former league members
• 2551: Victory of Zusle over Rasna in the Intra-Rassenic War; beginning of the "Rassenic Dark Ages"
• 2511: Conquest by Rhinnic warlord Hartkerl the Great of the southern Rhinnland

Caecia

• 2578: Establishment of the Jin Dynasty in modern-day Jinchun
• 2574: Jin conquest of modern-day Rakosien
• 2571: Dissolution of the Jin dynasty after the death of Emperor Jin Xing; formation of competing successor states
• 2563: Jin Civil War begins between Jin rump states
• 2508: End of the Jin Civil War in a stalemate