Events

Ruins of the pyramid complex of Pepi II, the longest reigning monarch in recorded history

• 2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia.

• 2333 BC: Beginning of the Gojoseon, the first dynasty and government system in Korea.

• c. 2300 BC: Bronze Age starts.

• c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: Disk of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made. It is now in University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia.

• c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: Head of a man from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad.

• c. 2300 BC: Canal Bahr Yusuf (current name) is created when the waterway from the Nile to the natural lake (now Lake Moeris) is widened and deepened to create a canal.

• c. 2289 BC: Pepi II Neferkare, the longest reigning monarch of all time, dies at the age of 100 after 94 years of rule.

• c. 2288 BC – 2224/2194 BC: Pepy II and his mother, Queen Merye-ankhnes, Sixth dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York.

• c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born.

• c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in Susa (modern Shush, Iran), is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris.

• c. 2278 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II starts to rule (other date is 2383 BC).

• c. 2240 BC: Akkad, capital of the Akkadian Empire, becomes the largest city in the world, surpassing Memphis, capital of Egypt.

• c. 2215 BC: A Guti army swept down from the Zagros Mountains and defeated the demoralized Akkadian army. They took Agade, the capital of Akkad, and destroyed it thoroughly.

• c. 2300 BC: Metals started to be used in Northern Europe.

Significant persons

• Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian Empire and the earliest empire builder in recorded history

Births

• The sons of Noah: Japheth (2254 BC), Shem (2212 BC), and Ham (2204 BC) according to the Hebrew Calendar

Deaths

• 2279 BC—Sargon I

Decades and years