BC 15th century - The Gaelic-speaking
Goidel (Milesian)
invaded Ireland from Spain and defeated
the Danann at the
battle of Taillcenn.
BC 15th century - Warriors of the
Pictish culture sailed from
Thrace to Wexford Bay in Ireland.
BC 15th century - The Pictish chieftain
Cruithnechan led his
followers from Ireland to Scotland.
BC 15th-12th century - Warriors of the
Tumulus-Urnfield
cultures raided into the Near East and
were sometimes
referred to as the Sea People by the
Egyptians.
BC 15th-13th century - Warriors of the
Tumulus-Urnfield
cultures travelled from Turkey across
Europe where they
settled mainly in Germany, Switzerland
and France.
BC 1470 - The Mycenaean island of Thera
(Santorini) blew up
in a volcanic explosion that caused
massive tidal waves in
the Aegean. Ash from the eruption has been found as far
away as Greenland.
BC 1450 - The Mycenaeans captured Crete
and destroyed the
royal residences of Knossos.
BC 1400 - The Assyrian city of Ashshur
(Kalat Sherghat) was
built on the west bank of the Tigres
river at the confluenc
with the Zab in Iraq. The site was an old frontier post of
the Akkadian Empire.
BC 1400 - The Babylonians became subject
to the more
aggressive Assyrian Empire.
BC 1400 - Glass was being mass-produced
in Iraq and Egypt.
BC 1400 - A phonetic alphabet developed
by the Canaanites was
widely used in the area of present-day
Syria, Lebanon and
Israel. The Phoenicians were using a
cuneiform version of
this alphabet.
BC 1400 - The bronze-producing
industrial site of El Argar
began to decline.
BC 1400-1000 - The middle Bronze Age in
Britain was
characterized by axes (palstaves),
rapiers, leaf-shaped
spearheads, settlements with palisades,
crannogs, hill-
forts, and "Celtic fields".
BC 14th century - A tomb of the Atridae
was constructed at
Mycenae.
BC 1318 - The second Suez canal was cut
in the time of Seti I
and was utilized until AD 770.
BC 1300 - The glaciers begin to expand,
lowering the water
levels in the oceans. A shortage of rainfall caused lakes,
springs and rivers to dry up.
BC 1300 - Summer heat waves began to
reach catastrophic
proportions, igniting forests which
destroyed wildlife and
burned human habitations.
BC 1300 - The Assyrians established a
library in their
capital city of Calah in present-day
northern Iraq. The
books were clay tablets engraved with a
cuneiform script of
the Semitic language.
BC 1300-800 - The Bronze Age Urnfield
culture influenced most
of Europe with its burial practices.
BC 13th century - Hittite artisans
executed a carving
depicting bagpipes.
BC 13th century - Warriors of the
Pictish culture established
themselves in England.
BC 13th century - Earthquakes disrupted
the settlements along
the coast at the eastern end of the
Mediterranean. Volcanic
eruptions occurred as far apart as
Iceland, Sicily and the
Sinai, causing great tidal waves.
BC 13th century - The dramatic climatic
change throughout the
century brought cooler temperatures and
severe droughts.
The great rivers of Europe and North
Africa began to shrink
and the savannah of Libya became a
desert.
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