29th century BC

Millennium:	3rd millennium BC
Centuries:	30th century BC; 29th century BC; 28th century BC;
Timelines:	30th century BC; 29th century BC; 28th century BC;
State leaders:	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 was from the year 2900 BC to 2801 BC.

Events

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, Eshnunna (modern Tell Ashmar, Iraq) was made. It 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 B.C.: The 365-day calendar year was started in ancient Egypt, with fixed lunar months of 30 days + 5 epagomenal days.^[1]
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: Possible date for an asteroid or comet impact occurring between Africa and Antarctica, around the time of a solar eclipse on May 10, based on flood stories. Possibly causing the Burckle crater and Fenambosy Chevron.^[2]^[3]
Ur becomes one of the richest cities in Sumer^[4]