Stonehenge Timeline

Date	Event
c 8500 – 7000 BC	Earliest evidence of monument building in the Stonehenge area: four or five pits, 3 of which contained pine posts
c 7,500 – 4,700 BC	Vespasian’s Camp is occupied
c 4000 BC	People in Britain start to grow domestic crops and to keep livestock
c 3600 BC	Robin Hood’s Ball is created, an early example of the Neolithic practice of causewayed enclosures
c 3600 BC	Megalithic temples, Malta
c 3500 BC	Winterbourne Stoke long barrow is created; initially a single long barrow construction, more and different round barrows were added between c 2200-1600 BC
c 3400 BC	Stonehenge Cursus and Lesser Cursus are created
c 3300 BC	Carnac stones erected, France
c 3200 BC	Newgrange passage tomb, Ireland
c 3200 BC	Grooved Ware pottery first appears in Orkney, Scotland before rapidly spreading through Britain
c 3000 BC	Stonehenge earthwork is created
c 2500 BC	Durrington Walls camp is settled, possibly the place where the builders of Stonehenge lived
c 2500 BC	Stonehenge stones appear
c 2500 BC	Avebury stone circles and henge, Wiltshire
c 2500 BC	Great Pyramid, Egypt
c 2400 BC	People start to bury their dead (usually only the men) in individual graves, and with objects included in the burial, including Beaker pottery and early metal tools and weapons
c 2400 BC	The first metal objects, copper and gold ornaments, appear in the area around Stonehenge
c 2400 BC	Earliest known burials containing Beaker pots and metal objects
c 2400 BC	Silbury Hill, Wiltshire
c 2300 BC	Stonehenge Avenue is built
c 2300 BC	Woodhenge
c 2200 BC	Metalworkers discover how to make bronze by mixing copper and tin, and the Bronze Age commences
c 2200 BC	Stonehenge Bluestones rearranged
c 1900 BC	Bush Barrow, Normanton Down barrows cemetery
c 1750-1500 BC	Carvings appear on the stones
c 1500 BC	The area around Stonehenge is divided into farmland
438 BC	Parthenon, Athens, Greece
220 BC	Great Wall, China
80 AD	Colosseum, Rome, Italy
c 1000-1700 AD	Easter Island statues, Polynesia
31 December 1900	Stone 22 from the Sarsen Circle falls over, along with one of the lintels it had been supporting.