3200 BC - Definition and Overview

(33rd century BC - 32nd century BC - 31st century BC - other centuries)

(5th millennium BC - 4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC)

Events

• Ancient Egypt: Earliest known Egyptian hieroglyphs
• Crete: Rise of Minoan civilization
• Neolithic settlement built at Skara Brae in the Orkney Islands, Scotland
• New Stone Age people in Ireland build the 250,000 ton Newgrange solar observatory

Significant persons

• Krishna

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• 3114 BC — Starting date of current Long Count in the Maya calendar
• 3102 BC — Year 0 of the Kali Yuga.