28th century BC

Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	29th century BC; 28th century BC; 27th century BC;
Timelines:	29th century BC; 28th century BC; 27th century BC;
State leaders:	29th century BC; 28th century BC; 27th century BC;
Decades:	2790s BC; 2780s BC; 2770s BC; 2760s BC; 2750s BC; 2740s BC; 2730s BC; 2720s BC; 2710s BC; 2700s BC;
Categories:	Births – Deaths ; Establishments – Disestablishments

The 28th century BCE was a century which lasted from the year 2800 BCE to 2701 BCE.

Events

c. 2832 BCE: Methuselah, a Great Bristlecone pine and the longest living single-stem tree in the world, begins germinating in Inyo County, California. [1]
c. 2800 BCE – 2700 BCE: Seated Harp Player, from Keros, Cyclades, is made. It is now at the Metropolitan Museum of Art, New York.
2775 BCE – 2650 BCE: Second Dynasty wars in Ancient Egypt.
Around 2773 BCE - the 365-day calendar is introduced in Egypt.
2750 BCE: End of the Early Dynastic I Period, and the beginning of the Early Dynastic II Period in Mesopotamia.
c. 2750 BCE: Estimated ending of the Cucuteni-Trypillian culture in the region of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and southwestern Ukraine
c. 2715 BCE: Start of the Old Kingdom of Egypt (another possible start date is 2660 BCE).

According to Herodotus, somewhere around 2750 BCE, the city of Tyre was founded.

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