Indo-European Chronology - Time Line
I period: Breaking Up (60th BC - 25th BC)
There are many versions about the original Indo-European homeland.
Each linguist tries to find his own:
About 6000 BC - About 4000 BC
Proto-Indo-European unity and common language
About 4000 BC - About 3500 BC
Proto-Indo-European areal dialects
About 3500 BC
Anatolian branch moves apart
About 2500 BC
Indo-Europeans appear in Europe
II period: Settling Apart (25th BC - 13th BC)
2250 BC
Achaeans come to Greece
2100 BC
Hittites and Luwians settle in Central Asia Minor
2100 BC
Celtic tribes in Europe
2000 BC
Italic tribes come to Italy
2000 BC
Doric Greek tribes settle in Illyria
1900 BC
Mycenae founded by Achaeans in Greece
1750 BC - 1250 BC
Ancient Hittite (Nesian) texts from Asia Minor
1700 BC
Aryans come to North India and destroy Mohenjo-Daro
1700 BC - 1350 BC
Aryans as one of the nations of Mitanni Empire
1600 BC
The Old Hittite Kingdom founded
1475 BC
Achaeans invade and conquer Eastern Crete
1450 BC
The New Hittite Kingdom founded
1450 BC - 1050 BC
The Linear B script used in Greece
1450 BC
The first Veda created in India
1400 BC
Celts arrive in Spain
1400 BC
Achaeans appear on Cyprus
1400 BC
Slavs - a separate nation
1350 BC - 750 BC
Luwian and Palaic texts in Asia Minor and North Syria
1300 BC
Illyrians spread from Pannonia to Dalmatia
III period: Primary Migrations (13th BC - 7th BC)
1250 BC
Phrygians from Balkans to Asia Minor: the first Great Movement of Nations begins
1250 BC
First mentioning about Lycians
1250 BC
Baltic peoples move north and east
1230 BC - 1150 BC
"Sea Peoples" destroy Hittite Kingdom, invade Syria, Palestine, Egypt
1230 BC
Achaeans conquer Troy
1200 BC
Achaeans start migrating to Crete, Cyprus, Asia Minor
1200 BC
Celtic cultures in Gaul and Germania
1200 BC
Illyrians arrive at South Italy
1200 BC
Doric tribes invade Greece; soon they destroy the Mycenaean civilization
1100 BC
Thracian peoples arrive to Balkans
1100 BC
New wave of Italics comes to Italy
900 BC
Etruscans in Italy
800 BC
Avesta created in Iran
753 BC
Rome is founded by Latins
750 BC - 250 AD
Phrygian inscriptions
750 BC
Greeks begin their Great Colonization
738 BC
Phrygian Kingdom founded in Asia Minor
730 BC
Cymmerians invade Europe and Asia and reach Pannonia and Lydia
720 BC
Armenian Kingdom
700 BC
Lydian Kingdom founded in Asia Minor
700 BC
Median Kingdom founded in Iran
690 BC
Cymmerians destroy the Phrygian Kingdom
675 BC
Scythians arrive to Asia and eliminate Cymmerians
650 BC
Celts settle in Britain and Ireland
IV period: Secondary Migratio
ns(7th BC - 1th BC)
650 BC - 350 BC
Lydian and Carian inscriptions in West Asia Minor
650 BC
Scythian invasion into Europe
639 BC
Elam loses its independence
600 BC
First Italic inscriptions
600 BC
New Celtic invasion to Spain
600 BC
Lydians extrude Greeks from Asia
590 BC
Scythian Kingdom in Asia destroyed by Medians
559 BC
Persian Kingdom founded
550 BC - 330 BC
Old Persian Texts and Inscriptions
550 BC - 250 BC
Thracian inscriptions
550 BC - 50 BC
Messapic and Venetic inscriptions
546 BC
Lydia and Asia Minor conquered by Persians
510 BC
Rome gains independence from Etruscans
495 BC
Macedonia under Greek influence
493 BC
Persians capture Miletus
483 BC
Indo-Aryans come to Ceylon
480 BC
Thracian Kingdom of Odrisses
474 BC
Etruscan expansion stopped in Italy
450 BC
Celtic tribes come to Italy
449 B
C
Greek decisive victory over Persia
380 BC
Illyrian Kingdom founded
350 BC - 70 BC
Scythian Kingdom in Steppes
330 BC - 250 BC
Greeks spread all over Asia
322 BC - 64 BC
Armenian Kingdom
320 BC - 187 BC
Maurya Kingdom in India
280 BC
Celts arrive to the Balkans and Asia Minor
267 BC
Italy conquered by Rome
250 BC
Sarmatians come to Europe
250 BC - 135 BC
Bactrian Kingdom
247 BC - 225 AD
Parthian Kingdom
146 BC
Greece conquered by Rome
135 BC
Iranian, Tocharic, Turkish tribes destroy Bactria
133 BC
Spain conquered by Rome
100 BC - 20 BC
Hellenic and Iranian people leave Bactria and Sogdiana
50 BC
Gaul conquered by Rome
31 BC
Thrace conquered by Rome
9 BC
Illyria and Pannonia conquered by Rome
V period: The Great Movement (1 AD - 500 AD)
1 AD
Germanic alliance in Europe
39 - 236
Romans try to conquer Germany
43 - 142
Romans conquer Britain
55
Kuchans occupy Northern India
112
Dacia conquered by Rome
150
Slavic expansion south
180
Gothic migration to Eastern Europe
224
Sasanide Kingdom founded in Iran
233
Roman expansion stopped
250 - 950
Ogham inscriptions in Ireland and Scotland
270
Romans leave Dacia
320 - 495
The Gupta dynasty in India
350
Wulfila's Bible
375
The Great Movement Begins
395
Roman Empire divided
409
Romans leave Britain
410
Germanic tribes in Spain
413 - 436
Kingdom of Burgunds
418
Kingdom of Wisigoths founded
429
Kingdom of Vandals founded
449
Anglo-Saxon conquest of Britain
450 - 550
Celtic migrations to Brittany
450 - 750
Tocharic texts and inscriptions
450 - 1050
Classical Armenian texts
476
Fall of the Roman Empire
486
Kingdom of Franks founded
488
Romans leave the Danube region
493
Kingdom of Ostrogoths founded
VI period: Fixing Borders (500 - 1000)
500
Singhal and Tamil
527
Justinian restores the Roman Empire
530
Slavic invasion to the Balkans
546-745
Turkish Realm in Central Asia
555-796
Avars
560-774
Kingdom of Langobards
623
The First Slavic State
623-628
The last war between Byzantine and Sasanide Empires
627-969
Khazar Kaganate
629-751
Arab Conquest
681
Kingdom of Bulgaria
685
Anglo-Saxon expansion stopped
700
Era of Vikings
712
Arabs conquer Spain
768-814
Charles the Great
821
Takhiride dynasty in Iran
829
Anglo-Saxon kingdoms unified
830
Great Moravian Kingdom
843
Frankish Empire divided
844
Kingdom of Scotland
862
Kiev Russia
863
Cyril and Methodius act among Slavs
870
Iceland discovered
875
Armenian Kingdom restored
896
Hungarians in Europe
907
Russian raids to Constantinople
911
Normandy
963
Kingdom of Poland
982
Greenland discovered
988
Christianity in Eastern Europe
999
Seldjuk Turks in Central Asia
1000
America discovered