5th millennium BC

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.

4004 BC – The universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23 according to the chronology of Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh.

c. 4500 BC – Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia
Cucuteni culture
Periods
c. 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the Nile
c. 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile
Inventions, discoveries, introductions
Introduction of writing. Tartaria tablets in the lower Danube Valley date from around 5000 BC and first examples of Sumerian writing in Mesopotamia date from around 4000 BC.
c. 4500 BC – Introduction of the plough in Europe
Domestication of the Water Buffalo in China

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