32nd century BC

Events



 * what have been claimed to be the earliest-known worked gold artifacts are manufactured.
 * Construction of the megalithic temples, featuring both solar and lunar alignments. "Tarxien period" of megalithic temple construction reaches its apex.
 * c. —   started to rule in.
 * Earliest known s, beginning of the.
 * c. —  died.
 * Rise of.
 * settlement built at in the, . (pictured)
 * people in build the 250,000 ton (226,796.2 tonne)  solar oriented passage tomb.

Significant persons

 * , son of, (3138 BC–2873 BC?) according to the
 * , successor of and founder of the

Inventions, discoveries, introductions

 * — According to the most widely-accepted correlations between the Western calendar and the calendar systems of, the mythical starting point of the current  cycle occurs in this year. The Long Count calendar, used and refined most notably by the  but also attested in some other (earlier) Mesoamerican cultures, consisted of a series of interlocked cycles or periods of day-counts, which mapped out a linear sequence of days from a notional starting point. The system originated sometime in the Mid– to Late Preclassic period of , during the latter half of the 1st millennium BC. The starting point of the most commonly used highest-order cycle &mdash;the -cycle consisting of thirteen b'ak'tuns of 144,000 days each&mdash; was projected back to an earlier, mythical date. This date is equivalent to   in the  (or 6 September in the ), using the correlation known as the "Goodman-Martinéz-Thompson (GMT) correlation". The GMT-correlation is worked out with the Long Count starting date equivalent to the  (JDN) equal to 584283, and is accepted by most  scholars as providing the best fit with the ethnohistorical data. Two succeeding dates, the 12th and 13th of August (Gregorian) have also been supported, with the 13th (JDN = 584285, the "astronomical" or "Lounsbury" correlation) attracting significant support as according better with astronomical observational data. Although it is still contended which of these three dates forms the actual starting base of the Long Count, the correlation to one of this triad of dates is definitively accepted by almost all contemporary Mayanists. All other earlier or later correlation proposals are now discounted.
 * — of the  begins.
 * c. the earliest phase of  construction begins.