30th century BC

Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	31st century BC; 30th century BC; 29th century BC;
Timelines:	31st century BC; 30th century BC; 29th century BC;
State leaders:	31st century BC; 30th century BC; 29th century BC;
Decades:	2990s BC; 2980s BC; 2970s BC; 2960s BC; 2950s BC; 2940s BC; 2930s BC; 2920s BC; 2910s BC; 2900s BC;
Categories:	Births – Deaths ; Establishments – Disestablishments

The 30th century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3000 BC to 2901 BC.

Events

Stele bearing the name of Djet

Before 3000 BC: Image of a deity, detail from a cong recovered from Tomb 12, Fanshan, Yuyao, Zhejiang, is made. Neolithic period. Liangzhu culture. It is now kept at Zhejiang Provincial Museum, Hangzhou.
3000BC-Earliest remains from Aniba (Nubia).
c. 3000 BC: Early agriculture in North Africa.
3000 BC – 2600 BC: Early Harappan period continues in the Indus Valley
c. 3000 BC: Neolithic period ends.
c. 3000 BC: Camel are domesticated in Egypt.
c. 3000 BC: There is an intense phase of burial at Duma na nGiall on the Hill of Tara, the ancient seat of the High King of Ireland.[1]
c. 3000 BC: Stonehenge begins to be built. In its first version, it consists of a circular ditch and bank, with 56 wooden posts.[2]
c. 3000 BC: Cycladic civilization in the Aegean Sea starts
c. 3000 BC: Helladic period starts.
c. 3000 BC: Aegean Bronze Age starts.
c. 3000 BC: Middle Jōmon period starts in Japan.
c. 2999 BC: Jawa, Jordan is founded
c. 2975 BC: Djer, third pharaoh of the First Dynasty of Egypt, dies
c. 2975 BC: Djet, fourth pharaoh of First Dynasty of Egypt.
c. 2950 BC: first definitive use of a Nebty name by Egyptian First Dynasty pharaoh, Semerkhet.
c. 2920 BC: Troy is founded on this date, if the interpretation of Manfred Korfmann is followed.

Djer, Nakhtneith, Djet, Merneith, Herneith, Den, Anedjib, Semerkhet—Pharaohs of the First dynasty of Egypt.
Ötzi, a man whose mummified remains were found in the Ötztal Alps

3000 BC–2000 BC; Hieroglyphic writing in Egypt, potter's wheel in China, first pottery in the Americas (in Ecuador).
c. 3000 BC—Sumerians establish cities.
c. 3000 BC—Sumerians start to work in various metals.
c. 3000 BC—Knowledge of Ancient Near Eastern grains appears in Ancient China.
3000 BC-2000 BC – Settled villages are widespread in Mesoamerica.
The shekal was introduced in Mesopotamia as a monetary and weight unit; see ancient weights and measures, Shekel.
The Sydney rock engravings date from around 3000 BC (Sydney, Australia).[3]

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