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FLAG FEN TIMELINE

The wooden causeway and platform at Flag Fen was built between 1,350BC and 900BC and was thought to be in use for 1,000 years after its final construction. These are some of the major events that took place during the useful lifespan of the Flag Fen causeway.

1324BC: The young Egyptian pharoah, Tutankhamun dies.
1250BC: The city of Troy is destroyed by Mycenaean Greeks.
1200BC: Stone tablets, engraved by Moses to signify God’s Covenant with his people, are placed in a sacred chest – the Ark of the Covenant.
960BC: Solomon, the king of Israel, builds the first temple in Jerusalem.
776BC: The first athletic contest at Olympia is staged.
753BC: The founding of the city of Rome.
750BC: The warrior society of the Spartans is established.
689BC: The Assyrian king, Sennacherib, destroys the city of Babylon.
650BC: The earliest known coins are minted in Ephesus.
513BC: The Chinese become the first people to work with iron.
500BC: The Celts, moving west from central Europe, settle in France and northern Spain.
480BC: The last stand of the 300 Spartans against the Persians at Thermopylae.
447BC: The Athenians begin building their famous Parthenon.
424BC: Gautama Buddha preaches his first sermon.
356BC: Alexander the Great is born.
320BC: The greatest library in the world is established at Alexandria.
312BC: The first Roman road, the Via Appia, links Rome with Capua.
300BC: The Celts move into Britain from France and soon become dominant.
218BC: Hannibal crosses the Alps with his elephants to begin the second Punic War.
200BC: The mysterious Nazca lines are created.
100BC: The practice of acupuncture is first described in a Chinese text.
55BC: Julius Caesar makes the first of two invasions of Celtic Britain.
37BC: Marc Anthony and Cleopatra marry in Antioch.

1: Christians decide (long after the event) that this is the year of Jesus Christ’s birth and make it AD1 in the Christian chronology.