By Series - Great Events from History: The Ancient World, Prehistory-476
- Creation of the Roman Imperial Bureaucracy
- Creation of the Wujing
- Cyrus the Great Founds the Persian Empire
- Darius the Great Conquers the Indus Valley
- Dead Sea Scrolls Are Composed
- Death of Socrates
- Death of Vardhamāna, Founder of Jainism
- Dedication of Aelia Capitolina
- Delphic Oracle Provides Guidance for City-States
- Destruction of Pompeii
- Development Begins at Teotihuacán
- Diadochi Divide Alexander the Great’s Empire
- Diodotus I Founds the Greco-Bactrian Kingdom
- Diogenes Popularizes Cynicism
- Discoveries of Archimedes
- Dissemination of the Book of the Dead
- Dong Son Culture Appears in Vietnam
- Dong Zhongshu Systematizes Confucianism
- Dorset Culture Extends into Labrador, Newfoundland, and Greenland
- Draco’s Code Is Instituted
- Druidism Flourishes in Gaul and Britain
- Early Dynastic Period Flourishes in Southern Mesopotamia
- Early Europeans Create Lascaux Cave Paintings
- Early Villages Form in Oaxaca
- East African Trading Port of Rhapta Flourishes
- East Asian Grain Cultivation Begins
- Eastern Zhou Dynasty Begins in China
- Elamite Empire Rises in Near East
- Enheduanna Becomes First Named Author
- Era of the Nine Saints
- Establishment of the Canuleian Law
- Establishment of the Cursus Honorum
- Establishment of the Julian Calendar
- Establishment of the Kingdom of Israel
- Establishment of the United Kingdom of Israel
- Exploitation of the Arch
- Ezana Expands Aksum, Later Converts to Christianity
- Failure of Akhenaton’s Cultural Revival
- Failure of Julian’s Pagan Revival
- Fall of Babylon
- Fall of Rome
- Fall of Troy Marks End of Trojan War
- First Great Expansion of Berber Peoples Across North Africa
- First Intermediate Period Begins in Egypt
- First Major Text on Hinduism’s Great Goddess Is Compiled
- First Punic War
- First Roman Aqueduct Is Built
- Flowering of Minoan Civilization
- Folsom People Flourish in New Mexico
- Founding and Flourishing of the Achaemenian Dynasty
