| c. 14000 BC–c. 12000 BC | Elam | Near Kirkuk, Iran, the dog is domesticated from the Asian wolf. |
| c. 8000 BC | Middle East | Cattle are domesticated in the Middle East, probably from the wild ox Bos taurus. |
| c. 7000 BC | Asia Minor | The earliest known domesticated pigs are kept at the village site of Cayonu, Asia Minor. |
| c. 5500 BC | Europe | The wheat–barley/cattle–pigs–sheep agricultural complex reaches what is modern Bulgaria. The complex diffuses both east and west at a rate of about 1.5 km/1 mi per year from its centre in the fertile crescent. |
| c. 3500 BC | South America | The llama and alpaca are domesticated in present-day Peru. |
| c. 3500 BC | Africa, Egypt, Middle East, China, Europe | The ass, the first draft animal, is domesticated and is in common use in northeast Africa, Egypt, the Mediterranean basin, and both the Near and Far East. They are used as pack animals and are in regular service on caravan routes stretching from eastern Europe and northern Africa to India and China. |
| c. 3000 BC | Middle East | Camels are domesticated in the Middle East. |
| c. 2700 BC | Europe, Central Asia | The horse is domesticated, probably by pastoral nomads in the Ukraine. |
| c. 2500 BC | India | Elephants are domesticated in India. |
| 20 January 1998 | United Arab Emirates | Veterinarians in Dubai, United Arab Emirates, announce the birth of Rama the ‘cama’, the first cross between a camel and a llama. It has the long fleece of llama but the strength of a camel; it has no hump. |
| September 2001 | Japan | Asia's first suspected case of BSE (bovine spongiform encephalopathy, or mad cow disease) is reported on a farm in Chiba, near Tokyo in Japan. |
| September 2001 | UK | In the UK the 2,000th confirmed case of foot and mouth disease is recorded. It becomes the world's worst outbreak in both duration and number of farm animals slaughtered. |
| 15 January 2002 | UK | After an epidemic lasting almost 11 months, livestock in the UK is declared free of foot-and-mouth disease. |
| 22 December 2003 | USA | The USA confirms its first case of bovine spongiform encephalopathy (BSE or mad cow disease) at a farm in the state of Washington, leading to a widespread ban by other countries on US beef imports. |
| October 2005 | | Spreading from Asia, a dangerous strain of bird flu with the potential to trigger a pandemic affecting humans reaches Europe as cases of the disease are identified during the month in Romania, Turkey and Greece. |
| January 2006 | Turkey | The first human deaths from bird flu outside East Asia are recorded in Turkey as four children die of the lethal H5N1 strain of the virus in early January. |
| April 2006 | UK | Bird flu reaches the United Kingdom as a dead swan in Fife, Scotland, tests positive for the virulent H5N1 strain of the disease. Later in the month, the less dangerous H7 strain of the virus is found to have infected poultry on farms in Norfolk, England, necessitating the culling of thousands of chickens. |
| 3–13 February 2007 | England Hungary | An outbreak of the H5N1 strain of avian flu is confirmed at a turkey farm in Suffolk in England, prompting the slaughter of 159,000 birds. Subsequent scientific investigation into the source of the infection suggests a link to an earlier outbreak of the virus in Hungary. |
| 11 November 2007 | England | A second outbreak in Britain of the H5N1 strain of avian flu is discovered at a farm in Suffolk, England, necessitating a mass cull of poultry. |
