# 8.2 kiloyear event

> sudden decrease in global temperatures that occurred c. 6200 BCE; defines the end of the Greenlandian age and start of the Northgrippian age in the Holocene epoch

**Wikidata**: [Q1785837](https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q1785837)  
**Wikipedia**: [English](https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/8.2-kiloyear_event)  
**Source**: https://4ort.xyz/entity/8-2-kiloyear-event


## References

1. [Source](http://stratigraphy.org/ICSchart/ChronostratChart2018-08.pdf)
2. Freebase Data Dumps. 2013