20th century BC - 20th century BC (21st century BC - 20th century BC - 19th century BC - other centuries) (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC) Events: 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt 1991 BC -- Egypt: End of Eleventh Dynasty, start of Twelfth Dynasty 1932 BC -- Amorite conquest of Ur 1913 - 1903 BC -- Egyptian-Nubian war 1900 BC -- Achaean invasions of Greece around 1900 BC -- Fall of last Sumerian dynasty Significant persons: Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions: 1950 BC -- The copper bar cubit of Nippur defines the Sumerian cubit as 51.72 cm.
19th century BC - 19th century BC (20th century BC - 19th century BC - 18th century BC - other centuries) (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC) Events: Hittite empire in Anatolia 1829 - 1818 BC -- Egyptian-Nubian war 1818 BC -- Egyptian Campaign in Palestine 1813 BC -- Amorite Conquest of Northern Mesopotamia 1800 BC -- Hittite invasion of Anatolia Significant persons: 1859 - 1814 BC -- Rule of Amenemhat III of Egypt Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions: 1800 BC -- Fermentation of dough, grain, and fruit juices.
21st century BC - 21st century BC (22nd century BC - 21st century BC - 20th century BC - other centuries) (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC) Events: 2130 - 2080 BC -- Ninth Dynasty wars in Egypt 2112 - 2095 BC -- Sumerian campaigns of Ur-Nammu 2064 - 1986 BC -- Twin Dynasty wars in Egypt 2049 BC - Oak trees for Seahenge felled. 2040 BC -- End of Tenth Dynasty of Egypt 2034 - 2004 BC -- Ur-Amorite wars 2004 BC -- Elamite destruction of Ur 2000 BC -- The town of Mantua was presumedly founded Significant persons: According to Hindu tradition, lifetime of Rama, the 7th avatar of Vishnu Inventions, Discoveries, Introductions: 2000 BC -- First written accounts of Schizophrenia. 2037 BC --.
21st century - 21st century (20th century - 21st century - 22nd century - other centuries) As a means of recording the passage of time, the 21st Century is the current century, lasting from 2001-2100. The twenty-first century is the first century of the third millennium (2001 - 3000). The increasing prevalence of global communications and encounters with other calendars (Islamic calendar, Chinese calendar, Persian calendar, Hebrew calendar) suggest that the terms "21st century" and "the third millennium" have a substantial cultural bias. Some futurists suggest simply abandoning the idea of "centuries", setting the start date back to the beginning of human urbanization in the 4th millennium BC, making this the seventh millennium. Within that, some suggest also adopting a cyclic time model based on global climate change, which they.
2nd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC (3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - other millennia) Centuries: 20th century BC, 19th century BC, 18th century BC, 17th century BC, 16th century BC, 15th century BC, 14th century BC, 13th century BC, 12th century BC, 11th century BC Events: Second dynasty of Babylon Hittite empire in Anatolia (1900) Civilization in Palestine (1800) Captivity of the Israelites in Egypt Middle Empire in Egypt (2052-1570) Egyptian domination in Palestine and Syria (1600-1360) Conquest of Canaan (Palestine) by the Israelites Mycenaean Civilizations (1600) Athens founded (1235) Judaism established (1200) Olmec civilization in mesoamerica (1150) Fall of Troy (1184) Indians developed caste system Horse domesticated Chinese record a comet Significant persons: pharaohs Akhenaton and Rameses II Salmanaser unify Assyria (1276) Saul king.
3rd millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC (4th millennium BC - 3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - other millennia) Events: Foundation of the city of Mari (Syria) (29th century BC ) Creation of the Kingdom of Elam (Iraq) Dynasty of Lagash in Sumerians Golden age of Ur in Mesopotamia. (2474-2398) First dynasty of Babylon Babylon conquers Sumeria and Elam Third and Fourth dynasties in Egypt. Unified Indus Valley Civilisation (2600 BC) Indo-Europeans first invade Greece (23rd century BC) Completion of first phase of Stonehenge monument in England Significant persons: Ur-nina king of Lagash (29th century BC ) Urukagina king of Lagash. great reformer, creates the first known judicial code. (24th century BC Lugalsaggizi king of Uruk and Umma. Conquers Lagash (2371-2347) Sargon the Great, founder of the empire of Akkad.
BC Liberal Party - BC Liberal Party The British Columbia Liberal Party is a provincial political party in British Columbia, Canada. It has a confusing history which makes it difficult to equate with the federal Liberal Party of Canada, or other provincial parties in each Canadian province that call themselves "Liberal". Through most of the 20th century in Canada, power alternated between a 'centre-left' party called the Liberals (equivalent roughly to the Labour Party in the UK or Democrats in the US), and a 'centre-right' party called the Progressive Conservatives. These parties also had provincial equivalents. This system first began to seriously break down with the rise of the New Democratic Party of Canada (NDP), successor to the Cooperative Commonwealth Federation (CCF), in the 1960s. The CCF arose in Saskatchewan.
Pre 13th century in literature - Pre 13th century in literature See also: 13th century in literature, list of years in literature. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Events 2 New Books/Scriptures 3 Births 4 Deaths Events New Books/Scriptures 20th century BC: The Epic of Gilgamesh (Sumerian mythology) 19th century BC: The Ramayana (Hindu mythology) 1316 BC: The Mahabharata (of which the Bhagavad Gita is a section) (Hindu mythology) 8th century BC: The Iliad by Homer (Greek mythology) The Odyssey by Homer (Greek mythology) 5th century BC: The Histories of Herodotus by Herodotus 1st century BC: Eclogues, Georgics and Aeneid by Vergil Torah (not all books were written at the same time.) Bible (not all books were written at the same time.) Qur'an 9th century: Beowulf (Anglo-Saxon mythology) 10th century: Shahnameh 1086 - Domesday Book.
Khwarezmia - Early history 2 Classical times 3 Middle Ages 4 Reference 5 External Link Early history According to Tolstov, the first inhabitants of the area were Hurrians from the area of Transcaucasian Iberia and he explains the etymology of Chorezm as Hurri-Land. The first two names of rulers we have for the area are Sijavus c.1300BC (?synonymous with Afrasiab c.1100 BC) and Aurvat-Aspa usually placed in the late 600s BC though dating is very difficult. Classical times When the king of Khwarezmia offered friendship to Alexander the Great in 328 BC, Alexander's Greek and Roman biographers imagined the nomad king of a desert waste, but 20th century Russian archeologists revealed Khiva as a stable and centralized kingdom, a land of agriculture to the east of the Aral Sea, surrounded by the nomads.
Japan - Japanese Capital Tokyo Largest City Tokyo Emperor Akihito Independence 660 BC Prime minister Koizumi Junichiro Area - Total - % water Ranked 60th 377,835 kmē 0.8% Population - Total (2003) - Density Ranked 10th 127,214,499 335/kmē GDP (base PPP) - Total (2002) - GDP/head Ranked 3rd 3,55 trillions $ 28,000 $ Currency Yen Time zone UTC +9 National anthem Kimi Ga Yo Internet TLD .JP Calling Code 81 Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Introduction 2 History 3 Politics 4 Prefectures 5 Geography 6 Economy 7 Demographics 8 Culture 9 Miscellaneous topics 10 External Links 10.1 Official 10.2 Other Introduction Japan (Nippon/Nihon 日本, literally "the origin of thesun") is a country in Far East Asia located between the Pacific Ocean and the Sea of Japan, and east of the Korean peninsula. Japan.
Jewish holiday - its own special prayers and customs (see below). Sukkot commemorates the life of the Israelites in the desert during their journey to the promised land of Cannan. During their wandering in the desert they lived in booths (Sukkot). The Torah directs Jews to use four species of plants to celebrate the holiday: the lulav (palm branch), etrog (lemon-like citron), myrtle, and willow. The etrog is handled separately, while the other three species are bound together, and are collectively referred to as the lulav. Hosha'nah Rabbah - the seventh day of Sukkot Shemini Atzeret - the eighth day of Sukkot Simhat Torah - the finale of Sukkot In Israel, Sukkot is eight days long, including Shemini Atzeret. Outside Israel (the Diaspora), Sukkot is nine days long. Thus the eighth day is Shemini.
Jewish history - the Jewish faith, the emigration of the Israelites from Egypt to Canaan (the Exodus), led by the prophet Moses, marks the formation of the Israelites as a people. Jewish tradition has it that after forty years of wandering in the desert, the Israelites arrived to Canaan and conquered it under the command of Joshua, dividing the land among the twelve tribes. After a period of rule by rulers named Judges, a kingdom was established under Saul and continued under King David and Solomon. King David conquered Jerusalem (first a Canaanite, then a Jebusite town) and made it his capital. After Solomon's reign the nation split into two kingdoms, Israel (in the north) and Judah (in the south). Israel was conquered by the Assyrian ruler Shalmaneser V in the 8th century BC..
John Rockerduck - and have examined various layers of his relationship with Scrooge. Like his rival he is a shrewd businessman and has managed to organize a world-wide financial empire that can easily rival those of Scrooge and Flintheart Glomgold. Unlike them, he is not a tightwad but rather a free-spending billionaire. Rockerduck has a taste for luxury, and likes to show off his wealth. Besides his secretary, advisor and right-hand man Lusky, he doesn't seem to have any close confidants. Like Scrooge and Flintheart, Rockerduck is extremely competitive. He is rivalling them in the wealth department and has occasionally claimed the titles of "The Richest Duck in the World" and "The Second Richest Duck in the World". Since those titles belong to Scrooge and Flintheart respectively, it can be inferred that he owns.
Julian calendar - Julian calendar was introduced by Julius Caesar in 46 BC, taking force in 45 BC or 709 ab urbe condita. It was chosen after consultation with Sosigenes and was obviously designed to approximate the tropical year as it was known at the time. It has a regular year of 365 days divided into 12 months, and a leap day is added every 4 years. The calendar remained in use into the 20th century in some places. However with this scheme too many leap days are added with respect to the astronomical seasons, which on average occur earlier in the calendar by about 11min per year. It is said that Caesar was aware of the discrepancy, but felt it was of little importance. In the 16th century the Gregorian Calendar Reform was.
Indo-European languages - oldest languages known in his time, Latin, Greek, and Sanskrit and Persian. Systematic comparison of these and other old languages conducted by Franz Bopp supported this theory. In the 19th century, scholars used to call the group "Indo-Germanic languages". However when it became apparent that the connection is relevant to most of Europe's languages, the name was expanded to Indo-European. An example of this was the strong similarity discovered between Sanskrit and olden spoken dialects of Lithuanian. The common ancestral (reconstructed) language is called Proto-Indo-European (PIE). There is disagreement as to the geographic location where it originated from, with Armenia and the area to the north or west of the Black Sea being prime examples of proposed candidates. The various subgroups of the Indo-European family include: Indo-Iranian languages Italic languages (including.
Intellectual history of time - time 4 Further Reading Overture At first, time was ripped from nature and turned into a monotonous and perfect citadel of periodicity and regularity. Was it the regular dripping of water, or the regular movement of heavenly bodies that gave primitive man his first concept of time? The regular return of the seasons, the death and rebirth of vegetation have not only been the basis of religion but of religious calendars which use either the moon or the sun cycle. Even today most modern people think of time via solar days and years. The intellectual attempt to look back in time by numbering the years is all but irresistible, even unavoidable. Nothing shocks the modern mind more than the thought that the day or the year has not always been the.
Hanging Gardens of Babylon - Hanging Gardens of Babylon Gardens of Semiramis 20th century interpertation The Hanging Gardens of Babylon (also known as the Hanging Gardens of Semiramis) and the walls of Babylon were considered one of the Seven Wonders of the World were both supposedly built by Nebuchadnezzar around 600 BC (present Iraq) although there is doubt as to whether or not they had a physical existence. The Hanging Gardens are extensively documented by Greek historians such as Strabo and Diodorus Siculus, yet little evidence for their existence other than some (circumstantial) evidence gathered at the excavation of the palace at Babylon has been accrued to substantiate what look like fanciful descriptions. See also Seven Wonders of the World History of Iraq Babylon Semiramis of Babylon Gardening History of gardening Other Hanging Gardens The Hanging.
History of Ethiopia - in Africa and one of the oldest in the world. Herodotus, the Greek historian of the 5th century BC describes ancient Ethiopia in his writings. The Old Testament of the Bible records the Queen of Sheba's visit to Jerusalem. According to legend, Menelik I, the son of King Solomon and the Queen of Sheba, founded the Ethiopian Empire. Table of contents showTocToggle("show","hide") 1 Earliest History 1.1 Introduction of Christianity 2 Portuguese Influence 3 The Period of Isolation 4 Leaving the Medieval World 5 Modern History 6 Reference Earliest History The connection between Egypt and Ethiopia from at least as early as the Twenty-second Dynasty was very intimate, and occasionally the two countries were under the same ruler, so that the arts and civilization of the one naturally found their way into.
History of the Netherlands - Roman Empire 4 Struggle for Independence and the Golden Age 5 French rule 6 Monarchy 7 20th century 7.1 World War I 7.2 World War II 7.3 After World War II Prehistory The Netherlands have been inhabited since the last Ice Age. The most famous remnants from the early age in the Netherlands are the hunebedden (Dutch for dolmens), large stone grave monuments from the neolithic, which can be found in Drenthe. Roman Era In the first century BC, the Romans came to the Netherlands. For the majority of the Roman occupation, the boundary of the Roman Empire lay along the Rhine. Romans built the first cities in the Netherlands, most importantly Utrecht, Nijmegen, and Maastricht. The northern part of the Netherlands, outside the Roman Empire, where the Frisians lived (and.
History of physics - 2 Antiquity 3 The Middle Ages & Islamic contibutions to the Sciences 4 16th century 5 17th century 6 18th century 7 19th century 8 20th century 9 Developments since 1990 10 Developments since 2000 History of Physics This article has changed substantially from its original form as the "Ridiculously Brief History of Physics" on the main Physics page. However, further work is needed to fill in some obvious gaps, and to include more detail about the development of physics (and, concurrently, astromomy and mathematics) in non-European cultures. It is intended that this article should grow to be a brief but comprehensive history of physics. The history on the Physics page should remain as a summary only. This article is a work in progress: please add more material here Antiquity Since.
