33rd century BC

Millennium:	4th millennium BC
Centuries:	34th century BC; 33rd century BC; 32nd century BC;
Timelines:	34th century BC; 33rd century BC; 32nd century BC;
State leaders:	34th century BC; 33rd century BC; 32nd century BC;
Decades:	3290s BC; 3280s BC; 3270s BC; 3260s BC; 3250s BC; 3240s BC; 3230s BC; 3220s BC; 3210s BC; 3200s BC;
Categories:	Births – Deaths ; Establishments – Disestablishments

The 33rd century BC was a century which lasted from the year 3300 BC to 3201 BC.

Events

The sun shines over Saharan dunes

Major climate shift possibly due to shift in solar activity. Glaciers expand, covering plants. Atmospheric temperatures fall.
Sahara changes from a habitable region into a barren desert
Ancient Egypt begins using clay, bone and ivory tags to label boxes, possibly an example of proto-writing
Indus Valley Civilization (also known as Harappan civilization) begins in Harappa
c. 3300 BC: Harappan script is developed in Indus Valley
c. 3300 BC: Pictographs in Uruk
3300 BC: to 3000 BC: Face of a woman, from Uruk (modern Warka, Iraq) is made. It is now in the Iraq Museum, Baghdad (stolen and recovered in 2003).
c. 3300 BC: The Red Temple, the first phase of the Monte d'Accoddi sanctuary in Northwest Sardinia, is built.
3300-3000 BC: Evidence of proto-Thracians or proto-Dacians in the prehistoric period. Proto-Dacian or proto-Thracian people developed from a mixture of indigenous peoples and Indo-Europeans from the time of Proto-Indo-European expansion in the Early Bronze Age

Ötzi the Iceman memorial