Search for events relating to: Year:
 
For exact match use "quotation marks" 		     
 		Go 
 
Google by default Text search   Google by default Related images   Narrative or article HistoryWorld   Place or object Link   See in Google maps Map
Click the icons to visit linked content. Hover to see the search terms
  Ethiopia timeline
     
c. 3.2 million years ago
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
A female of the species Australopithecus Afarensis (nicknamed Lucy when her skeleton is found), lives in the Afar Depression in Ethiopia within 50 miles of where her predecessor Ardi was unearthed      
c. 500 BC
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld      
The rulers of Aksum, the first Ethiopian kingdom, claim descent from Solomon and the Queen of Sheba        
c. 350
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
Frumentius, brought to Ethiopia as a slave, becomes the kingdom's first Christian bishop      
1329
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
A friar, who has failed to find Prester John in the east, publishes a book proving that the fabulous king lives in Ethiopia      
c. 1450
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld   
Coffee, derived from wild plants in Ethiopia, is cultivated in Arabia     
1530
 
Narrative history in HistoryWorld    
Ahmad ibn Ibrahim leads Muslim Somalis in a holy war against Christian Ethiopia, destroying churches and shrines