All given dates are BC and approximate estimations, only.
| 3000 | Foundation of the Egyptian empire. |
| 2000-1400 | Minoan culture on Crete |
| 1600? | Minoan Eruption on Thera/Santorini |
| 1600-1190 | Mycenaean culture |
| 1200? | Destruction of Troy |
| 1227-1191 | Attacks of the Sea Peoples on Egypt until the victory of pharaoh Ramesses III. |
| 1200-1000 | Dorian Invasion? |
| 1150-800 | The "Dark Ages" |
| 1200-800 | Height of the Phoenician culture |
| 1100 | The Phoenicians reach the straits of Gibraltar for the first time |
| 900/800? | Emergence of the Etruscans |
| 814 | Foundation of Carthage by the Phoenicians |
| 8. Jhdt. | Homer's epics are put to the written form |
| 8. Jhdt. | First Greek colonies in southern Italy |
| 753 | Legendary foundation of Rome |
| 710 | Invention of the Trireme |
| 600 | Circumnavigation of Africa by the Phoenicians on behalf of the Pharaoh |
| 590 | Solon in Egypt |
| 450 | Herodotus in Egypt |
| 399 | The Death of Socrates |
| 395? | Plato in Egypt? |
| 388/366/361 | Plato in Syracuse/Sicily |
| 360? | Writing of the dialogues Timaeus and Critias by Plato |