Taken from TIMELINE on FREE-NET, The Freedom Shrine, Historical Timeline 30 Nov 1991. Prepared by Gerald Murphy (The Cleveland Free-Net - aa300). Distributed by the Cybercasting Services division of the National Public Telecomputing Network (NPTN). ?? ?? 30000 BC----- (or earlier) Probable crossing of Bering Straits by Indian ancestors 01 01 4713 BC----- Noon on this day is the epoch for Julian Day (JD) 23 10 4004 BC----- Creation of Cosmos, according to Archbishop James Usher 22 10 2136 BC----- Chinese make first record of solar eclipse 16 06 1686 BC----- Hammurabi the Great died in Babylon 11 06 1184 BC----- Greeks seize Troy 21 04 753 BC----- Legend claims that Rome was founded on this day 14 09 604 BC----- Lao Tzu, Chinese philosopher, was born 19 06 551 BC----- Confucius, Chinese philosopher and author, was born 04 09 518 BC----- Pindar the Greek Poet was born 28 09 490 BC----- Greek soldier ran over 26 miles to report Persian defeat at Marathon, then died 07 08 480 BC----- Leonidas of Sparta, Greek hero, died 09 08 480 BC----- Persia defeats Spartan King Leonidas at Thermopylae 23 09 480 BC----- Euripides born in Salamis, Greece 14 03 479 BC----- Xerxes army was scared by a solar eclipse 12 05 465 BC----- Socrates was born 05 08 465 BC----- Xerxes I of Persia died 21 05 427 BC----- Plato (Aristocles) born in Athens(?) 18 07 390 BC----- Rome sacked and burned by Brennus the Gaul 28 06 356 BC----- Alexander the Great was born 13 06 323 BC----- Alexander the Great died 07 03 322 BC----- The philosopher Aristotle died of indigestion (and again on 02 Oct) 02 10 322 BC----- The philosopher Aristotle died of indigestion (and on 07 Mar) 02 08 216 BC----- Hannibal of Carthage, assisted by elephants, routed Romans at Canne 28 09 106 BC----- Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus) born in Rome 12 07 100 BC----- Julius Caeser was born 22 07 Mary Magdalen died at St. Beaume. (1st Century BC-----) 08 12 65 BC----- Horace (Quintus Horatius Flaccus) born in Venosa, Italy 13 10 70 BC----- Publius Vergilius Maro (Virgil) born (near Mantua, Italy) 23 09 63 BC----- Augustus (Gaius Octavius) Caesar born (Rome) 26 08 55 BC----- Julius Caesar arrives for the first time in England with 8000 troops 29 09 48 BC----- Pompey (Gnaeus Pompeius Magnus), the Great, died in Egypt 02 08 47 BC----- Julius Caesar says, "I came, I saw, I conquered" defeating Pharnaces at Zela 15 03 44 BC----- Ides of March; Julius Caesar assassinated by Brutus 16 11 42 BC----- Tiberius, Emperor of Rome, born 09 12 36 BC----- The earliest date found (as of 1989) in the New World. It was reconstructed from a Mayan stone fragment found in Chiapa de Corzo in Mexico. 01 08 30 BC----- Mark Antony's fleet defects to Octavius Caesar 30 08 30 BC----- Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, commited suicide with a snake (and again on 30 Nov) 30 11 30 BC----- Cleopatra, queen of Egypt, commited suicide with a snake (and on 30 Aug) 25 12 4 BC----- Jesus of Nazareth, Christian messiah, was born. Actually it is suspected that he was born in the summer. ~~ ~~ ~~~~ Local variables: ~~ ~~ ~~~~ compile-command: "sort +2n +1n +0n dates" ~~ ~~ ~~~~ End: