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:	– ; Establishments –

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. 3000 BC: Austronesian Expansion started.
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.

3000–2000 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.
3000–2000 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]