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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.

4300 BC - Theta Boötis became the nearest visible star to the celestial North Pole . It remained the closest until 3942 BC when it was replaced by Thuban .

4121 BC - Eduard Meyer 's date for the creation of the Egyptian Calendar , based on his calculations of the Sothic Cycle .

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 in Central Europe

the Chalcolithic Sredny Stog , Samara and early Maykop cultures, candidates for the early Proto-Indo-Europeans

PERIODS

c. 4570–4250 BC – Merimde culture on the Nile

c. 4400–4000 BC – Badari culture on the Nile

INVENTIONS, DISCOVERIES, INTRODUCTIONS

from ca. 5000 BC: development of proto-, Tartaria Tablets .

ca. 4500 BC – Introduction of the Plough in Europe

Domestication of the Water Buffalo in China

Development of Beer Brewing

Development of the Wheel in Mesopotamia and Europe

FICTIONAL/THEORETICAL EVENTS

In the 2000 film '' Bedazzled '', Elizabeth Hurley (as the Devil ) says as of November 16 she will have "been doing this for 6000 years," implying that the Devil fell (or Hurley took the position, somehow) November 16th (likely somewhere around 4000 BC, as the film was set in roughly current time as of the release).

4004 BC – The Universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23 according to the Ussher-Lightfoot Chronology of Archbishop James Ussher of Armagh .