Jainism emerges in the Indian sub-continent
Jainsm has a set of five vows: nonviolence, truth-speaking, non-stealing, no sexual immorality and non-attachment to worldly things.
Early humans
Timoto-Cuica culture thrives in modern-day Venezuela
Pre-Columbian Venezuela had an estimated population of one million. The Timoto-Cuica culture was the most complex society in Pre-Columbian Venezuela; with pre-planned permanent villages, surrounded by irrigated, terraced fields and with tanks for water storage.
Humans in South American begin smoking tobacco for ceremonial and medicinal purposes
Jordan Goodman, in his book Tobacco in History, theorizes that tobacco was first cultivated thousands of years ago in the Americas, around the regions that have become known as Mexico and Brazil.
The Sami People emerge in modern-day Norway
About 1000 B.C.E., speakers of Uralic language arrived in the north and assimilated with the indigenous population, becoming the Sami people.
Chinese bronze inscriptions come into use in modern-day China
The bronze inscriptions are one of the earliest scripts in the Chinese family of scripts.
Humans in ancient Chinese invent the sheng, an early polyphonic reed instrument
The sheng is a Chinese mouth-blown free reed instrument consisting of vertical pipes. It is a polyphonic instrument and enjoys an increasing popularity as a solo instrument. It is one of the oldest Chinese instruments
The Slab Grave culture flourishes in modern-day Mongolia
The Slab Grave culture is a archaeological culture of the Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age Mongols from 1,300 to 300 B.C.E.
Babylonian astronomers create cuneiform star catalogues
The earliest known star catalogues were compiled by the ancient Babylonian astronomers of Mesopotamia in the late 2nd millennium B.C.E., during the Kassite Period (ca. 1531-1155 B.C.E.).
The Yajurveda, one of the four Vedas of the Hindu tradition, is completed
The Yajurveda is the Veda primarily of prose mantras for worship rituals. An ancient Vedic Sanskrit text, it is a compilation of ritual offering formulas.
Urnfield culture begins to thrive in central Europe
The Urnfield culture (c. 1300 B.C.E. – 750 B.C.E.) was a late Bronze Age culture of central Europe. The name comes from the custom of cremating the dead and placing their ashes in urns which were then buried in fields.