History of Frescoes from Santorini, Crete, Thebes, Tarquinia, Paestum, Rome, Pompeii & Herculaneum


3200 BC	Beginning of first phase of Cycladic civilization
2700 BC	Beginning of Egyptian Old Kingdom
2650 BC	First Egyptian pyramid built at Saqquara
2150 BC	Collapse of Egyptian Old Kingdom
2040 BC	Establishment of Egyptian Middle Kingdom
2300 BC	Beginning of full European Bronze Age
	2000 BC FORMATION OF STATES ON MINOAN CRETE, WITH THE CONSTRUCTION OF PALACES AT KNOSSOS, MALIA, ZAKRO AND PHAISTOS, EACH THE CENTRE OF A TOWN
1783 BC	Fall of Egyptian Middle Kingdom
	1500 BC VOLCANIC ERUPTION ON SANTORINA (ANCIENT THERA)
1550 BC	Beginning of the Mycenean period in Greece
1570 BC	Rise of powerful Egyptian New Kingdom. Rulers buried in rock-cut tombs in the Valley of the Kings
	1400 BC THEBES, EGYPT: NEBAMUN’S BANQUET
1450 BC	Mycenaens take over Minoan Crete
1000 BC	Iron industry established in the Aegean and Central Europe
850 BC	First settlement at Rome; cluster of huts on Palatine Hill
800 BC	Rise of the Etruscan city-states in central Italy
750 BC	Earliest Greek colonies set up from the western Mediterranean to the eastern shores of the Black Sea. (Magna Grecia?)
600 BC	Poseidonia (modern Paestum) founded by Greeks
600 BC	Rome becomes an urban centre
400 BC	Poseidonia (modern Paestum) conquered by Lucanians
	600-400 BC THE CREATION OF THE NECROPOLIS OF MONTEROZZI, TARQUINIA, ITALY
273 BC	Paestum (ancient Poseidonia) conquered by Romans
50 AD	Rome the largest city in the world with a population of one million
	79 AD POMPEII, HERCULANEUM, OPLONTIS (TORRE ANNUNZIATA), BOSCOREALE, BOSCOTRECASE ENTOMBED BY THE DEVASTATING ERUPTION OF VESUVIUS