Events of Interest Around the World
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Precept Upon Precept Daniel, Pt 2 Events of Interest Around the World BC 7
ASSYRIA Sennacherib King Sennacherib’s mountain climbing is first mention of “Alpine Sports” 0 0
Assyria develops water clocks
Assyria’s famous library, >22,000 clay tablets (history, medicine,
astronomy, astrology, astronomy)
Pharaoh Nechos (Egypt) starts canal bet. Nile & Red Sea
orders first circumnavigation of Africa from Red Sea
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BABYLON Nebuchadnezzar 605 Jerusalem falls to Babylon (Daniel taken captive) 0 0
Neb. builds Hanging Gardens, traverses the Euphrates below the river bed
Babylon: First use of colored glazed bricks (blue) on Ishtar portals
Babylonian astronomers dev calendar of 12 months, banking practices
Acropolis (Athens) is begun
Temple of Artemis (Ephesus-Turkey)
Temple of Apollo (Corinth)
Aesop Fables, Papyrus introduced to Greece
581-497 Pythagoras: geometry, introduces the musical octave
Sun dial used in Greece, China
Greek philosophers develop theory of earth floating free in sky
Greek scientist taught that all life develops from amphibians
Greek anatomist discov diff bet veins, arteries, connect bet brain, senses
Romans adopt arched ceilings from Etruscans
Romans: first stone bridge
551-479 Confucius (China)
521 Buddha
Zoroaster (god of Light, god of Dark)
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Mayan civilization (Mexico) 0 0
500 Indian surgeon performs cataract operations
India constructs dams
Cyrus the Great 439 Cyrus the Great takes Babylon
MEDO-
Introduces regular courier service by horseback (pony express)
PERSIA
Persians wear tight fitting leather clothes
First coin with picture of ruler
Xerxes I 485 Queen Esther
485-424 Herodotus, Father of History
462 Soldiers & judges (Athens) receive regular salaries
Greece: Ball games, Carrier Pigeons, Trumpet competitions
Greece-2M citizens:1M slaves, Athens-50K citizens: 100K slaves
470-399 Socrates
440 Hippocrates, Father of Medicine
427-347 Plato
384-322 Aristotle, teacher of Alexander the Great,
340 Aristotle lays foundations of musical theory 4 0
0 Indian Empire begins
Alexander 336 Alexander defeats Darius III of Medo-Persian Empire
GREECE
the Great 330 Alexander orders his admiral to explore Indian Ocean, Persian Gulf,
Euprates Greek explorer reaches Britain
323 Principles of Euclidian Geometry
312 Construction begins on Appian Way (Italy)
307 Alexandria (Egypt) is center of Greek learning
Jews develop trading centers in Egypt
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300 Sun temple built at Teotihuacan (Mexico)
Romans & Greeks: play ball games, board games, dice
275 Colossus of Rhodes completed (destroyed by EQ 40 yrs later)
275 Lighthouse of Alexandria completed
264 First public combats of gladiators in Rome
276-194 Eratosthenes suggests that the earth moves around the sun,
estimates earth’s circumference (fairly accurate)
255 Jews write Septuagint (Old Testament in Greek)
218 Hannibal crosses the Alps
215 Great Wall of China built to keep out invaders (1,400 mi long)
Unification of Chinese weights, measures
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200 Rosetta Stone engraved 0 0
200 Use of gears leads to invention of ox-driven water wheel for irrigation
170 First paved streets appear in Rome
Antiochus
167 Maccabean Revolt…Miracle of First Hanukkah! Epiphanes
Macedonians sold as slaves in Rome: males $50-75, females $1,000
Empire of 147 Romans control Greece
ROME
7 Provinces 1 0
100 First Chinese ships reach east coast of India 0 82 Oldest extant amphitheater erected at Pompeii 71 Revolt of slaves under Spartacus 70-19 Virgil, Roman poet 65-8 Horace, Roman poet 63- 14 Augustus Caesar 63 Former slave of Cicero invents system of shorthand 62 Founding of Florence 50 earliest form of oboe (Rome) 47 Herod appointed governor of Galilee 46 Julian calendar: 365.25 days, leap year 42 Brutus & Cassius defeated, commit suicide 40 Herod appointed King of Judea 31 Mark Antony & Cleopatra defeated, commit suicide 4 Birth of Jesus Christ (after adjustment of calendar)
From The Timetables of History by Bernard Grun