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| c. 1500 BC |
| | | The camel, in both its single-humped and double-humped varieties, is domesticated in north Africa and Asia | |
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| c. 1450 BC |
| | | Rich Egyptian households have the latest luxury items, small bottles of coloured glass to hold cosmetics | |
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| c. 1400 BC |
| | | Chopsticks are in use in China, with bronze versions featuring in Shang tombs | |
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| 399 BC |
| | | Socrates, convicted in Athens of impiety, is sentenced to death and drinks the hemlock | |
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| c. 350 BC |
| | | Tea, now well established as a drink, features in a Chinese dictionary | |
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| c. 343 BC |
| | | Hephaestion, Alexander's closest lifelong friend, may have been among the small group taught by Aristotle | |
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| 324 BC |
| | | When the army reaches Ecbatana, Hephaestion dies of a fever and the grief-stricken Alexander erects shrines in his memory | |
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| 188 BC |
| | | Sparta's ancient political system comes to an end, but the ordeal by flogging lingers on as a tourist attraction in the temple of Artemis | |
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| 41 BC |
| | | Keeping her appointment with Mark Antony in Tarsus, Cleopatra arrives in a golden barge, dressed as the goddess of love – and he proves susceptible | |
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| 37 BC |
| | | Antony and Cleopatra, accompanied by their three-year-old twins, marry in Antioch | |
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