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The terms anno Domini (AD) and before Christ (BC) are used when designating years in the Gregorian and Julian calendars. The term anno Domini is Medieval Latin and means "in the year of the Lord" [ 1 ] but is often presented using "our Lord" instead of "the Lord", [ 2 ] [ 3 ] taken from the full original phrase " anno Domini nostri Jesu Christi ...
March 5, 1953 BC: A computer calculated alignment of the naked-eye planets took place in a new moon, and in spring season, and is believed by researchers from NASA, to be the starting event for the Chinese calendar, as they followed descriptions from a 1st Century B.C. Chinese passage "Hong Fan Zhuan" by 'Liu Xiang', to search for this ...
About a century before the middle of the millennium, bands of Indo-European invaders came from the Central Asian plains and swept through Western Asia and Northeast Africa. They were riding fast two-wheeled chariots powered by horses, a system of weaponry developed earlier in the context of plains warfare. This tool of war was unknown among the ...
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
List of years; Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years.; See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events.
Before Common Era(BCE) Extent and major sites of the Indus Valley civilisation. ... 2150–2000 BCE: ... 1830: the Church of Christ was founded by Joseph Smith on 6 ...
The Anglo-Saxon historian Bede used the Latin phrase ante incarnationis dominicae tempus ("before the time of the Incarnation of the Lord") in his Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum (Ecclesiastical History of the English People) (Book 1, Chapter 2) of 731 PCN, and thereby became the first author to describe a year as being before Christ. [7]
c. 2000 BC: c. 2000 BC: War in Persenbet: Segerseni: Unclear: c. 1822 BC c. 1763 BC Campaigns of Rim-Sin I: Larsa: Uruk Isin Der Babylon Sutum Rapiqum: c. 1801 BC c. 1770 BC Elam's Invasion into Mesopotamia [23] [24] Elam Babylon Mari: Eshnunna Minor city states c. 1770 BC c. 1763 BC Elamite attack on Babylon [25] Babylon Larsa: Elam: c. 1763 ...