The 23rd century BC is a century which was from the year 2300 BC to 2201 BC.
Events
2334 BC – 2279 BC: (short chronology) Sargon of Akkad's conquest of Mesopotamia. 2333 BC: Beginning of the Gojoseon, the first dynasty and government system in Korea. c. 2300 BC: Bronze Age starts. c. 2300 BC – 2184 BC: Disk of Enheduanna, from Ur, (modern Muqaiyir, Iraq) is made. It is now in University of Pennsylvania Museum of Archaeology and Anthropology, University of Pennsylvania, Philadelphia. c. 2300 BC – 2200 BC: Head of a man from Nineveh (modern Kuyunjik, Iraq) is made. It is now in Iraq Museum, Baghdad. c. 2300 BC: Canal Bahr Yusuf (current name) is made when the waterway from the Nile to the natural lake (now Lake Moeris) is widened and deepened to create a canal. c. 2288 BC – 2224/2194 BC: Pepy II and his mother, Queen Merye-ankhnes, Sixth dynasty of Egypt, is made. It is now at The Brooklyn Museum of Art, New York City. c. 2285 BC: Enheduanna, high priestess of the moon god Nanna in Ur, was born. c. 2278 BC: Pharaoh Pepi II starts to rule (other date is 2383 BC). c. 2254 BC – 2218 BC: Stela of Naram-Sin, probably from Sippar, discovered in Susa (modern Shush, Iran), is made. It is now in Musée du Louvre, Paris. c. 2250 BC Earliest proof of growing maize in Central America. c. 2240 BC: Akkad, capital of the Akkadian Empire, becomes the largest city in the world c. 2220 BC Scord of Brouster farmstead made in Shetland, Scotland c. 2215 BC: Comet Hale-Bopp appeared. A Guti army swept down from the Zagros Mountains and defeated the Akkadian army. They took Agade, the capital of Akkad, and destroyed it. c. 2300 BC: Metals started to be used in Northern Europe.
Significant persons
Sargon of Akkad, founder of the Akkadian Empire and the earliest empire builder in recorded history 2279 BC—Death of Sargon I