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Events

• 4860 BC - Mount Mazama in Oregon collapses, forming a caldera that later fills with water and becomes Crater Lake, the deepest lake in the United States.
• 4713 BC – The epoch (origin) of the Julian Period described by Joseph Justus Scaliger occurred on January 1, the astronomical Julian day number zero.
• 4004 BC – The universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23 according to the chronology of Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh. In the fictional Good Omens by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, the date is given as October 21, within a quarter of an hour of 9 in the morning.

Mount Mazama is a destroyed stratovolcano in the Oregon part of the Cascade Range. ... State nickname: Beaver State Other U.S. States Capital Salem Largest city Portland Governor Ted Kulongoski (D) Official languages None Area 255,026 km² (9th)  - Land 248,849 km²  - Water 6,177 km² (2. ... Crater Lake, Oregon A caldera is a volcanic feature formed by the collapse of a volcano into itself. ... For the general term of a geological feature that goes by the same name, see crater lake. ... The word epoch can mean either an interval of time, or a particular point in time used as a reference point. ... Joseph Justus Scaliger (1540-1609) was the tenth child and third son of Julius Caesar Scaliger and Andiette de Roques Lobejac. ... January 1 is the first day of the calendar year in both the Julian and Gregorian calendars. ... The Julian day or Julian day number (JDN) is the number of SI days that have elapsed since 12 noon Greenwich Mean Time (UT or TT) on Monday, January 1, 4713 BC in the proleptic Julian calendar 1. ... The deepest visible-light image of the cosmos. ... October 23 - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... The Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar is a 17th century chronology of the history of the world formulated from an interpretative reading of the Bible by James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh (in what is now Northern Ireland). ... James Ussher (also spelled Usher) (January 4, 1581–March 21, 1656) was Archbishop of Armagh and Primate of All Ireland between 1625–1656 and a prolific religious scholar who most famously published a chronology which dated creation from 4004 BC. Ussher was born in Dublin, Ireland into a well-to... Armagh is a city in Northern Ireland, the capital of County Armagh. ... Good Omens: The Nice and Accurate Prophecies of Agnes Nutter, Witch (1990) is a fantasy novel written in collaboration between Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett. ... Neil Richard Gaiman () (born November 10, 1960 in Portchester, England) is the author of numerous science fiction and fantasy works, including many comic books. ... Terence David John Pratchett OBE (known to some fans as Pterry – following the convention he used in his book Pyramids where characters were given names such as Ptraci and Pteppic) is an English fantasy author (born April 28, 1948, in Beaconsfield, Bucks), best known for his Discworld series. ... October 21 is the 294th day of the year (295th in leap years) in the Gregorian Calendar, with 71 days remaining. ...

Cultures

• c. 4800 - 4600 BC; arrangements of circular ditches are built in Central Europe
• c. 4500 BC – Civilization of Susa and Kish in Mesopotamia and Khuzestan (see Sialk)
• Cucuteni culture
• the chalcolithic Sredny Stog, Samara and early Maykop cultures, candidates for the early Proto-Indo-Europeans

About 150 arrangements of prehistoric circular ditches are known to archaeologists spread over Germany, Austria and Slovakia and the Czech Republic. ... Historical lands and provinces in Central Europe Central Europe is the region lying between the variously and vaguely defined areas of Eastern and Western Europe. ... See Susa, Italy for the city in Piemont. ... Kish (Tall al-Uhaymir) was an ancient city of Sumer, now in central Iraq. ... Mesopotamia [mesuputāmēu] (Greek: Μεσοποταμία, translated from Old Persian Miyanrudan the Land between the Rivers or the Aramaic name Beth-Nahrin House of Two Rivers) is a region of Southwest Asia. ... Map showing Khuzestan in Iran // Introduction Domes like this are quite common in Khuzestan province. ... The remains of the Sialk ziggurat in Kashan, Iran. ... The Cucuteni culture (also Cucuteni-Tripolie, after the Romanian Cucuteni and the Ukrainian Trypillia villages) is an early 5th millennium BC neolithic culture of Central Europe, in the area of modern-day Romania, Moldova, and Ukraine, in the Dniestr-Dnjepr region. ... The Chalcolithic (Greek khalkos + lithos copper stone) period, also known as the Eneolithic or Copper Age period, is a phase in the development of human culture in which the use of early metal tools appeared alongside the use of stone tools. ... The Sredny Stog culture dates from 4500-3500 BC. It was situated just north of the Sea of Azov betweeen the Dnieper and the Don. ... Samara culture, an aeneolithic (copper age) culture of the 5th—4th millennium BC at the Samara bend region of the middle Volga, discovered during archaeological excavations near the village of Syezzheye (Съезжее) in Russia. ... The Proto-Indo-Europeans are the hypothetical speakers of the reconstructed Proto-Indo-European language, a prehistoric people of the late Neolithic and early Bronze Age. ...

Periods

• c. 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the Nile
• c. 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile

The Nile in Egypt Length 6 695 km Elevation of the source 1 134 m Average discharge 2 830 m³/s Area watershed 3 400 000 km² Origin Africa Mouth the Mediterranean Basin countries Uganda - Sudan - Egypt The Nile (Arabic: النيل an-nÄ«l), in Africa, is one of the two... The Badarian culture provides the earliest direct evidence of agriculture in Upper Egypt. ...

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

• from ca. 5000 BC: development of proto-writing systems, possibly ideographic: Vinca script, Tartaria tablets.
• ca. 4500 BC – Introduction of the plough in Europe
• Domestication of the Water Buffalo in China
• Development of beer-making