The list of some historical events

3248 (753 BC): Founding of Rome (traditional date)

3256 (745 BC): Tiglath-Pileser III becomes the new king of Assyria. With time he conquers neighboring countries and turns Assyria into an empire

3273 (728 BC): Rise of the Median Empire

3279 (722 BC): Spring and Autumn Period begins in China; Zhou Dynasty's power is diminishing; the era of the Hundred Schools of Thought

3348 (653 BC): Rise of Persian Empire

3389 (612 BC): Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.

3400 (600 BC): Sixteen Maha Janapadas ("Great Realms" or "Great Kingdoms") emerge. A number of these Maha Janapadas are semi-democratic republics.

c. 3400 (c. 600 BC): Pandyan kingdom in South India

3402 (599 BC): Mahavira, founder of Jainism is born as a prince at kundalavana, who ruled magadha empire.

3438 (563 BC): Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha), founder of Buddhism is born as a prince of the Shakya tribe, which ruled parts of Magadha, one of the Maha Janapadas

3450 (551 BC): Confucius, founder of Confucianism, is born

3451 (550 BC): Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great

3455 (546 BC): Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia

3457 (544 BC): Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.

3462 (539 BC): The Fall of the Babylonian Empire and liberation of the Jews by Cyrus the Great

3472 (529 BC): Death of Cyrus

3476 (525 BC): Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt

c. 3489 (c. 512 BC): Darius I (Darius the Great) of Persia, subjugates eastern Thrace, Macedonia submits voluntarily, and annexes Libya, Persian Empire at largest extent

3492 (509 BC): Expulsion of the last King of Rome, founding of Roman Republic (traditional date)

3493 (508 BC): Democracy instituted at Athens

3500 (500 BC): Panini standardizes the grammar and morphology of Sanskrit in the text Ashtadhyayi. Panini's standardized Sanskrit is known as Classical Sanskrit

3500 (500 BC): Pingala uses zero and binary numeral system

3511 (490 BC): Greek city-states defeat Persian invasion at Battle of Marathon

3521 (480 BC): Invasion of Greece by Xerxes; Battles of Thermopylae and Salamis

3526 (475 BC): Warring States Period begins in China as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead; China is annexed by regional warlords

3532 (469 BC): Birth of Socrates

3536 (465 BC): Murder of Xerxes

3541 (460 BC): First Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta

3554 (447 BC): Building of the Parthenon at Athens started

3577 (424 BC): Nanda dynasty comes to power.

3597 (404 BC): End of Peloponnesian War between the Greek city-states

3602 (399 BC): February 15—The Greek philosopher Socrates is sentenced to death by Athenian authorities in Athens, condemned for impiety and the corruption of youth. He refuses to flee into exile and is sentenced to death by drinking hemlock.

c. 3615 (c. 385 BC): The Greek philosopher Plato, a former disciple of Socrates, founds a philosophical school at the Akademia in Athens—later famously known as the Academy. There, Plato, and the later heads of the school, called scholarchs, taught many of the brilliant minds of the day, including the famous Greek philosopher Aristotle

3666 (335 BC): The Greek philosopher Aristotle founds his philosophical school—known then as the Lyceum (named because it was located near the site of the Lyceum gymnasium in Athens)--and begins teaching there

3670 (331 BC): Alexander the Great defeats Darius III of Persia in the Battle of Gaugamela

3675 (326 BC): Alexander the Great defeats Indian king Porus in the Battle of the Hydaspes River.

3678 (323 BC): Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon

3680 (321 BC): Chandragupta Maurya overthrows the Nanda Dynasty of Magadha.

3694 (307 BC): The Greek philosopher Epicurus founds his philosophical school, the Garden, outside the walls of Athens

3696 (305 BC): Chandragupta Maurya seizes the satrapies of Paropanisadai (Kabul), Aria (Herat), Arachosia (Qanadahar) and Gedrosia (Baluchistan) from Seleucus I Nicator, the Macedonian satrap of Babylonia, in return for 500 elephants.

3700 (301 BC): Zeno of Citium founds the philosophy of Stoicism in Athens (the philosophy derives its namesake from the fact that Zeno and his followers would regularly meet near the Stoa Poikile ("Painted Porch") of the Athenian agora.

3728 (273 BC): Ashoka the Great becomes the emperor of the Mauryan Empire

3744 (257 BC): Th?c Dynasty takes over Vi?t Nam (then Kingdom of ?u L?c)

3769 (232 BC): Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire

3780 (221 BC): Qin Shi Huang unifies China, end of Warring States Period; marking the beginning of Imperial rule in China which lasts until 5912. Construction of the Great Wall by the Qin Dynasty begins.

3794 (207 BC): Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from North Vi?t Nam to Canton

3799 (202 BC): Han Dynasty established in China, after the death of Qin Shi Huang; China in this period started to open trading connections with the West, i.e. the Silk Road

3799 (202 BC): Scipio Africanus defeats Hannibal at Battle of Zama

c. 3800 (c. 200 BC): Chera dynasty in South India

3816 (185 BC): Sunga Empire founded.

3852-3855 (149 BC–146): Third and final Punic War; destruction of Carthage by Rome

3855 (146 BC): Roman conquest of Greece, see Roman Greece

3861 (140 BC): The first system of imperial examinations was officially instituted in China by the Han Dynasty emperor Han Wu Di.

3890 (111 BC): First Chinese domination of Viet Nam in the form of the Nam Viet Kingdom.

c. 3900 (c. 100 BC): Chola dynasty rises in prominence.

3948 (53 BC): Battle of Carrhae, the Roman Republic's bloodiest defeat. The army of Roman Republic led by Marcus Licinius Crassus was destroyed by parthian Spahbod Surena. Crassus and his son were killed during the battle and almost all of Roman army were killed or captured. Even the golden aquilae (legionary battle standards) was captured by Parthian's army (It was first and last time that aquilae was captured by Roman's enemy).

3952 (49 BC): Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great

3957 (44 BC): Julius Caesar murdered by Marcus Brutus and others; End of Roman Republic; beginning of Roman Empire

4009: Battle of the Teutoburg Forest, the Imperial Roman Army's bloodiest defeat.

4014: Death of Emperor Augustus (Octavian), ascension of his adopted son Tiberius to the throne

4068: Year of the four emperors in Rome