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These pages contain the trends of millennia and centuries. The individual century pages contain lists of decades and years. See history for different organizations of historical events. See Calendar and List of calendars for other groupings of years.

For earlier time periods see cosmological timeline, geologic timescale, evolutionary timeline, pleistocene, palaeolithic and logarithmic timeline.

• 10th millennium BC
• 9th millennium BC
• 8th millennium BC9th millennium BC 8th millennium BC 7th millennium BC other millennia) The Chalcolithic period (Copper Age); rise of agriculture Events Catalhoyuk. An archaeological dig is in progress. Circa 8000 BC Settlements at Nevali Cori in present-day Turkey are es
• 7th millennium BC8th millennium BC 7th millennium BC 6th millennium BC other millennia) Events Agriculture appears in Europe ( Greece, Italy) Pastoralism and cultivation of cereals (East Sahara) First pottery in Mesopotamia Gold and native copper begin to be used circa 70
• 6th millennium BC7th millennium BC 6th millennium BC 5th millennium BC other millennia) Events Agriculture appears in the valley of the Nile Rice cultivated in Asia Wheel and plough invented circa 5600 BC According to the Black Sea deluge theory, the Black Sea floods with
• 5th millennium BC6th millennium BC 5th millennium BC 4th millennium BC other millennia) Events 4713 BC The epoch (origin) of the Julian Period described by Joseph Justus Scaliger occurred on January 1, the astronomical Julian day number zero. circa 4500 BC Civilization of

• 5th millennium AD
• 6th millennium AD
• 7th millennium AD
• 8th millennium AD
• 9th millennium AD
• 10th millennium AD
• 11th millennium AD
• 12th millennium AD
• 13th millennium AD