| 3000 BC — 1275 BC |
| Gilgamesh and Pikku-Mikku c.2750-c.2500 BC |
Earliest bone skates found in Budapest, Hungary c.2800-c.2000 BC |
Egyptian hockey image Beni-Hasan c.1975-c.1640 BC |
Manapuri ancient scripture Puyus written c.1900 BC — polo and hockey being played by the Gods. |
Battle of Kadesh c.1285 BC and emergence of Phoenician Empire |
| 1275 BC — 750 BC |
| First account of Hurley in Battle of Moytura c.1272 BC |
Mahram Bilqis build c.1200 BC |
Utica founded c.1100 BC followed by Carthage in c.800 BC |
Homer's, Iliad Funeral Games c.800 BC |
First Olympic Games played c.776 BC |
| 750 BC — 300 BC |
| "Hit the ball to the field of Apis" inscribed on Egyptian tomb, c.600-500 BC |
About 50 sets Olympic type games being held throughout Mediterranean c.500 BC |
Aristotle c.384-322 BC |
Artaxerxes III's conquest of Egypt c.342 BC. |
Mahabharata written c.300 BC |
| 300 BC — 1 AD |
| Hannibal begins to cross Alps c.218 BC |
King Lowry Loingseach c.200 BC |
Cuchulain and the Red Branch Warriors c.100 BC |
Diodorus Siculus, Biblioteca Historica c.90-21 BC |
Londinium founded c.50 BC |
| 1 AD — 750 AD |
| King Ezana Christianizes Aksumite Empire c.325-350 AD |
Emperor Theodosius ended Greek Olympics in name of Christianity c.393 AD |
Fields and ball courts appear in Mexico c.400 AD |
St. Patrick arrived in Ireland c.432 AD |
Destruction of the Donar Oak c.726 AD |
| 750 AD — 1000 AD |
| Copan, Honduras, elephant headdress dated to at least c.750 AD |
Mayan game changes c.800 AD |
First evidence of Lacrosse c.800 AD |
Danes sacked Canterbury Cathedral c.851 AD rebuilt c. 950 AD |
Leif Ericson c.970-1020 AD |
| 1000 AD — 1365 AD |
| Thorfinn Karlsefni Sagas c.1003-1008 AD |
Wupatki culture c.1075-1225 AD |
Het Kolven, Jeu de Mail played on ice c.1200-1300 AD |
Kensington Runestone c. 1362 AD |
King Edward III bans the play of shinny c.1365 AD |
| 1365 AD — 1575 AD |
| Last reference to a Norse settlement in North America c.1374 AD |
Tyler's Rebellion c.1381 AD |
John Cabot Expedition c.1497 AD |
Brueghel's Winter Landscape and Skaters and Hunters in the Snow c.1565 AD |
"Sea Beggers" and the evidence of widespread use of iron skates c.1572 AD |
| 1575 AD — 1820 AD |
| First account of Mi'kmaqs playing hockey in 1749 |
Thomas Chandler Haliburton "Hurley on ice" at King's College School in Windsor 1802-1810 |
Boys' Own Book records British ice hockey rules in 1810 |
Sir John Franklin account of playing hockey in Kingston, Ont. 1813 |
Hockey being played in Bury Fen 1813 |
| 1820 AD — 1855 AD |
| Cambridgesh ire parishleague formed 1827 |
Sir John Franklin account of soldiers playing ice hockey in Northwest Territories, 1825 |
1837 Staffordshire China sugar bowl commemorating hockey being played on the ice in Britain. |
Blackheath Hockey Club formed in 1840 |
Hockey by Paine's Bridge March 3, 1855, predating Royal Canadian Rifles in Kingston, Ont. 1855 |
