29th century BC

Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	30th century BC 29th century BC 28th century BC
Decades:	2890s BC 2880s BC 2870s BC 2860s BC 2850s BC 2840s BC 2830s BC 2820s BC 2810s BC 2800s BC
Categories:	Births – Deaths Establishments – Disestablishments

The 29th century BC is a century which lasted from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC.

Events

File:Prometheus Wheeler.jpg

The grove in which the Prometheus Tree grew, with the Wheeler Peak headwall in the distance.

• c. 2900 BC: Beginning of the Early Dynastic Period I in Sumer.
• c. 2900 BC – 2400 BC: Sumerian pictographs evolve into phonograms.
• 2900 BC – 2334 BC: Mesopotamian wars of the Early Dynastic period.
• c. 2900 BC – 2600 BC: Votive statues from the Square Temple of Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) were made. One of them is now in the Oriental Institute of the University of Chicago. Excavated 1932–1933.
• 2897 BC: Hùng Vương established the Hồng Bàng Dynasty in Vietnam (then known as Văn Lang).
• 2890 BC: Egypt: Pharaoh Qa'a died. End of First Dynasty, start of Second Dynasty. Pharaoh Hotepsekhemwy started to rule.
• 2880 BC: Estimated germination of the Prometheus Tree
• c. 2874 BC: The 365-day calendar year was installed in ancient Egypt, with fixed lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days.
• 2852 BC: The beginning of the period of the Three August Ones and Five Emperors in China.
• 2832 BC: Estimated germination of the Methuselah Tree, the oldest known living organism
• 2807 BC: Suggested date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on an analysis of flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.
• Ur becomes one of the richest cities in Sumer