6th millennium BC
(7th millennium BC – 6th millennium BC – 5th millennium BC – other millennia
Events:
- Agriculture appears in the valley of the Nile
- Rice cultivated in Asia
- Wheel and plough invented
- circa 5600 BC – The Black Sea floods with salt water
- September 1, 5509 BC – day of creation of the world (according to the Byzantine Empire) and beginning of their calendar [1]
- circa 5500 BC – pottery at Mehrgarh in South Asia
- 5400s BC – Irrigation in Mesopotamia;Chinese astrologers record a nova in the constallation Taurus, it will become known as the Crab Nebula
- 5100s BC – Templess founded in South Mesopotamia