A world chronology · 8999–8000 BCE

The 9th millennium BCE

2 sourced events, 2 nations, in the order they happened.

Every record below is drawn from the chronicle of the nation it belongs to, with the same citations. Read down for the whole period, or jump to a stretch of it; within each year the world is grouped by continent.

Europe
2 events · 2 nations

1 event · 1 nation

9000–8901 BCE

9000 BCE1 record

Europe

  1. EST

    Estonia · Peoples & Migration · c. 9000 BCE

    The Kunda culture

    Mesolithic hunter-fishers of the Kunda culture, named for the Estonian town of Kunda, settled the eastern Baltic forest zone after the Ice Age, among the earliest inhabitants of the region.

    The Ancient Estonians and the Northern Crusades

    Sources: Ancient Estonia and the Kunda culture (Klaipeda University, Archaeologia Baltica (peer-reviewed journal))

1 event · 1 nation

8800–8701 BCE

8800 BCE1 record

Europe

  1. FIN

    Finland · Peoples & Migration · c. 8800 BCE

    First settlement of Finland

    People moved into Finland as the Ice Age glaciers retreated, settling along the coasts and waterways; the land was later inhabited by Finnic-speaking peoples and, in the north, the Sami.

    The Finnic Peoples and Six Centuries as Part of Sweden

    Sources: History of Finland (InfoFinland (Finnish public authorities)) · Sami (people) (Encyclopaedia Britannica)