20th century BC

20th century BC

The 20th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2000 BC to 1901 BC.

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 cmFact|date=July 2007

In Fiction

*See Stonehenge (novel)

Decades and years


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