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3200 BCE: Hieroglyphic script developed in Egypt.
2000 BCE - 1650 BCE: Cretan Hieroglyphic script is in use.
1850 BCE - 1450 BCE: The Linear A script of the Minoan civilization is in use.
1600 BCE: Canaanite alphabet.
1400 BCE: Ugaritic alphabet of 30 letters is invented.
1100 BCE: Phoenician alphabet.
1000 BCE: Death of Ahiram (or Ahirom) of Byblos, whose sarcophagus bears the oldest inscription of the Phoenician alphabet.
800 BCE: Earliest examples of Greek alphabetic script.
350 CE - 950 CE: Estimated use of the Ogham in Ireland and southwestern England.