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1424 BCE Mysteries of Eleusis established candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pike cites the establishment of the Mysteries of Eleusis during the reign of Erechtheus at Athens. Pike asserts these mysteries were either instituted by the monarch (who brought them from Egypt) or by the goddess Ceres herself. ●●

645 BCE Conflict candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Jin state, after losing many of its aris tocrats in a battle with the Qin in 645 BCE, offered land grants to populations outside its fortified city. This strategy became a fund... ●●

571 BCE Amasis destroys Egyptian priestly power candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 570 BCE, Amasis destroyed the power of the Egyptian priesthood, ending the prominence of religious authority ●●

293 BCE Buddhism established in the Punjab candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Buddhism was established in and north of the Punjab as early as 292 BCE according to some authorities ●●

241 BCE Conquest candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 241 BCE, when consuls were leading Roman armies against their neighbors, the office of praetor was cre ated to expand military and judicial command over new areas and to deal wi... ●●

8 BCE Foundation candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He was executed in 3 3 8 BCE after insisting that a tutor of the royal family be punished according to the laws. To augment the peasant infantry, the Qin ruler established crack mi... ●●

96 Apollonius of Tyana death (uncertain date) candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Apollonius possibly ended his days at Ephesus, though the exact date and place of death are disputed. Blavatsky presents this as an adept initiate comparable to Jesus, Buddha, and Pythagoras ●●

278 Reference to Archelaus candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story ” Archelaus, Bishop of Cascara in Mesopotamia, who, in the year 278, conducted a controversy with the Manichæans, said: “These Mysteries the church no ●●

965 Tibetan Mysticism first known in India candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Tibetan Mysticism (Dus-kyi Khorlo) was first known in India in 965 AD, though it claims to be a system as old as humanity ●●

1010 Berengar of Tours expresses theological concerns candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Theologian Berengar of Tours expresses unease with contemporaries' assertions about eucharistic bread and wine becoming Christ's body and blood. ●●

1038 Haya Gaon develops theory of the Sephiroth candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Haya Gaon, who died in 1038, is the first known author to develop and perfect the theory of the Sephiroth, giving them the names used in Kabalistic studies ●●

1330 Patriarch issues advice about Islamic rule candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Patriarch of Constantinople issues informal advice that Christians under Islamic rule need not openly profess faith. ●●

1395 Especially after Tamerlane razed Sarai in 1395 (chapter candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Especially after Tamerlane razed Sarai in 1395 (chapter 4) , the Moscow Grand Princes began to keep taxes for themselves and to demand tribute from th... ●●

1509 Venetian mercenary captains suffer defeats candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Venetian forces under various mercenary captains met repeated defeats, most notably at Vaila in 1509, losing accumulated territories. ●●

1530 Moses Cordovero's Leadership in Safed candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Moses Cordovero becomes leading Kabbalist in Safed, systematizing Kabbalah into coherent mystical philosophy ●●

1596 In 1946 a puppet synod in Ukraine declared void the Union of candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1946 a puppet synod in Ukraine declared void the Union of Brest of 1596, and the Church disappeared into a forcible union with the Orthodox Church in Moscow for nearly half a century ●●

1606 In addition to the dynastic name Jin, Nurhaci candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In addition to the dynastic name Jin, Nurhaci also enjoyed the title khan, acquired in 1606 as he extended his control in Mongolia, later enhanced wit... ●●

1627 Information history in 1627 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story weighed. Even this exciting discovery took several years to travel as far as Johannes Kepler, who employed it in perfecting his celestial tables in 1627, based on the laboriously acquired data of Tych ●●

1651 Baptist whipped for private worship candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Massachusetts leaders whip Baptist for organizing private worship, continuing religious repression. ●●

1660 The Great Elector established one by refusing to disband his army after the Peace of Oliva that ende candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Great Elector established one by refusing to disband his army after the Peace of Oliva that ended the Swedish-Polish War in 1660 in which Prussia had participated. ●●

1672 Under the Law of Ann (1672), the widow and children of a deceased minister of candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Under the Law of Ann (1672), the widow and children of a deceased minister of the Church of Scotland received only half a year’s stipend in the year of the minister’s death. ●●

1733 Even a French attack upon the Austrian possessions of Lorrai candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Even a French attack upon the Austrian possessions of Lorraine and Milan in 1733, and a French move into the Rhineland, failed to provoke a British reaction. Unable to obtain any support from the isol ●●

1772 first, from 1772 to 1774, arose from tensions candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first, from 1772 to 1774, arose from tensions created by imperial management strategies applied in the middle Volga region-playing diverse groups... ●●

1773 It was in 1773 that reference was first candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was in 1773 that reference was first made to "this vast empire on which the sun never sets." Some English writers saw themselves as the inheritors... ●●

1776 Glasgow has come a long way since my fellow Scotsman Adam Smith wrote the seminal candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Glasgow has come a long way since my fellow Scotsman Adam Smith wrote the seminal case for the free market, The Wealth of Nations, in 1776. ●●

1787 Constitutional Convention Debate on Fiat Money candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Griffin describes the delegates to the Constitutional Convention in Philadelphia in 1787 being adamantly opposed to fiat money, with angry mobs in streets threatening legislators, bankruptcy widespread. ●●

1792 Inaugurated in 1792 after a badly conceived false start in the same candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Inaugurated in 1792 after a badly conceived false start in the same area five years before, this was a cooperation between the indefatigable Evangelical abolitionist Thomas Clarkson, his ex-naval officer brother John and a West African - an Egba prin ●●

1796 The rise of czarist Russia had a much candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story But it was, in fact, the Poles and the Turks who were to suffer most from the rise of Russia, and by the time Catherine the Great had died in 1796 she had added another 200,000 square miles to an alre ●●

1800 Besides the revivals of the years around 1800, a ‘Holiness’ movement sprang candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Besides the revivals of the years around 1800, a ‘Holiness’ movement sprang out of the teaching of the early Methodists, proclaiming that the Holy Spirit could bring an intense experience of holiness or sanctification into the everyday life of any be ●●

1812 In Citigroup’s official family tree, numerous small firms – dating back to the City Bank candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In Citigroup’s official family tree, numerous small firms – dating back to the City Bank of New York, founded in 1812 – are seen to converge over time on a common trunk, the present-day conglomerate. ●●

1813 After 1813 (when the East India Company’s trade monopoly end candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After 1813 (when the East India Company’s trade monopoly ended), imports of cotton fabrics into India rose spectacularly, from 1 million yards (1814) to 51 million (1830) to 995 million (1870), drivin ●●

1815 Ottoman territorial loss after Napoleonic Wars candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Ottoman territorial loss after Napoleonic Wars ●●

1818 And within less than three years—in 1818—he managed France’s entry into the Quadruple Alliance candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story onality could have projected himself into the center of so many great and conflicting events. At Vienna, Talleyrand’s contribution was to achieve for France a peace that preserved the “ancient frontiers,” which existed when it had started its foreign ●●

1821 John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State, summed... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story John Quincy Adams, then Secretary of State, summed up this attitude in 1821: Wherever the standard of freedom and independence has been or shall be un ●●

1821 During the Greek Revolution of 1821, England inter... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During the Greek Revolution of 1821, England interpreted the Tsar’s desire to protect the Christian population of the collapsing Ottoman Empire as the ●●

1828 History textbooks traditionally date the rise of the patronage system from the election of Andrew Ja candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story History textbooks traditionally date the rise of the patronage system from the election of Andrew Jackson in 1828. ●●

1832 Electoral reform acts in 1832, 1867 and 1884 eroded what remained of the aristocratic stranglehold candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Electoral reform acts in 1832, 1867 and 1884 eroded what remained of the aristocratic stranglehold on British politics. ●●

1839 Financial crisis or panic candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story When a similar crisis with still more bank failures struck again in 1839, Parliament attempted to come to grips with the problem ●●

1847 Prussia, for example, put in place a universal franchise between 1847 and 1867, albeit with an open candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Prussia, for example, put in place a universal franchise between 1847 and 1867, albeit with an open ballot and tiered voting. ●●

1848 In 1848 , when another spasm of political candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1848 , when another spasm of political uprisings broke out across the continent, Nicholas volunteered his services as the "gen darme of Europe." Hi... ●●

1858 In 1858 Lord & Taylor was completing “a new and elegant marble structure,” and i candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1858 Lord & Taylor was completing “a new and elegant marble structure,” and in 1872 it too moved further uptown above 20th Street and built a still ●●

1858 Only the east-west trunk lines set up an enforcing organization which was formed candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Only the east-west trunk lines set up an enforcing organization which was formed in 1858 after the panic of 1857 had reduced traffic and increased com ●●

1859 In the Caucasus where Russians had been hard candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the Caucasus where Russians had been hard put to subdue mountain peoples, Shamil, an imam from Dagestan and Chechnya, began a long campaign against... ●●

1861 Amid a mad rush of Wall Street profiteering, Pierpont financ candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Amid a mad rush of Wall Street profiteering, Pierpont financed a deal in 1861 that, if not unscrupulous, showed a decided lack of judgment. ●●

1865 As the South’s economy, morale, and front-line forces waned— candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As the South’s economy, morale, and front-line forces waned—by the beginning of 1865 its “present for duty” troop total was down to 155,000 men—surrender was the only realistic choice left. ●●

1866 In 1866, another lost war-this time with Prussia-catalyzed candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1866, another lost war-this time with Prussia-catalyzed further constitutional changes. ●●

1867 Since the early eighteenth century the Russians had candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Since the early eighteenth century the Russians had dominated the fur trade in the North Pacific islands, but after depleting the Aleutians of animals... ●●

1867 hment of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867 had brou candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The establishment of the dual Austro-Hungarian monarchy in 1867 had brought an interlude of peace and prosperity, and a lifting of restrictions agains ●●

1869 Early in 1869, as Gould began to negotiate with the Ohio roads, Garrett moved qu candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Early in 1869, as Gould began to negotiate with the Ohio roads, Garrett moved quickly to purchase full control of a line north to Lake Erie at Sandusk ●●

1870 Pierpont then advised the Ramsey forces, now back in control candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pierpont then advised the Ramsey forces, now back in control, to merge their railroad with the friendly Delaware and Hudson line, which they accomplished in February 1870. ●●

1870 one of his craftier moves, Bismarck used Napoleon’... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In one of his craftier moves, Bismarck used Napoleon’s posturing to lure him into declaring war on Prussia in 1870. ●●

1870 Giuseppe Garibaldi fights against church authority in Italy candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Italian democratic revolutionary and Freemason Giuseppe Garibaldi militarily opposed the church's authority in Italy and other parts of Europe. In the 1870s, under pressure from unifying Italian democrats, the church officially disbanded its private army and militia, allowing for the emergence of a democratic Italian republic. ●●

1872 In 1872, when their industry was little more than a decade old, the leading petr... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1872, when their industry was little more than a decade old, the leading petroleum refiners decided on a strategy of horizontal combination ●●

1875 The first occurred in 1875 in the form of a pseudo... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The first occurred in 1875 in the form of a pseudo-crisis, a contrived war scare triggered by an editorial in a leading German ●●

1877 Exhibition of strobic circles at British Association meeting candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Professor Sylvanus Thompson exhibited optical illusions known as strobic circles at the British Association meeting, demonstrating the mysterious appearance of the number seven in natural phenomena. ●●

1878 These local governments lost their independence in the period 1868–1878 and were turned into prefect candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story These local governments lost their independence in the period 1868–1878 and were turned into prefectural administrative units subordinate to the central government in Tokyo. ●●

1880 In the 1880s and early 1890s, Swift & Company built new packing plants in six ci candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the 1880s and early 1890s, Swift & Company built new packing plants in six cities along the cattle frontier ●●

1881 by lobbing a hail of small bombs into his open carriage in broad daylight on a main street of St. candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story by lobbing a hail of small bombs into his open carriage in broad daylight on a main street of St. ●●

1881 In 1881, four enterprises using the most efficient match-making machines combine candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1881, four enterprises using the most efficient match-making machines combined to produce a machine that made matches by the billions and also auto ●●

1883 In the United States, the Tidewater Company, the consolidation of crude oil prod candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the United States, the Tidewater Company, the consolidation of crude oil producers that built the long-distance pipeline, had made a deal as early ●●

1885 W. Pengelly lecture on extinct lake geology candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Geologist W. Pengelly, F.R.S., delivered a lecture in March 1885 discussing the geological evidence of extinct lakes and ancient climate conditions in Devonshire, delivered to scholarly societies. ●●

1889 Lima Crude Oil Field Expansion candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After all these excruciating dilatory tactics, the campaign for a Chicago college or university reached a surprisingly swift climax on a clear spring morning in May 1889. After breakfast, the two m... ●●

1889 While Costa Ricans date their democracy to the election of 1889, there was a subsequent military cou candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story While Costa Ricans date their democracy to the election of 1889, there was a subsequent military coup in 1914 and increasing political polarization as the country began to industrialize. ●●

1889 One of the most dramatic of the many dramatic conversion experiences of candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story One of the most dramatic of the many dramatic conversion experiences of the nineteenth century was that of the former Anglican country parson’s wife Mrs Annie Besant, who after years as president of the National Secular Society, horrified her fellow ●●

1890 While Junius Morgan lived, he ruled the family and the busin candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story While Junius Morgan lived, he ruled the family and the business—his son and his partners.”1 Until Junius died, in 1890, his massive shadow dominated his son’s life. Junius was cool and steady and seld... ●●

1890 Pierpont’s last stab at establishing railroad stability took candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pierpont’s last stab at establishing railroad stability took place at a meeting on December 15, 1890. Besides the earlier luminaries, this gathering drew Stuyvesant Fish of the Illinois Central, fames... ●●

1890 For example, Rockefeller himself in the 1890s purchased large areas in the Mesab candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story For example, Rockefeller himself in the 1890s purchased large areas in the Mesabi range, helped to start the Colorado Iron and Fuel Company, and obtai ●●

1892 Carl Meyer Reports on Transvaal Gold Fields candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rothschild agent Carl Meyer travels to the Transvaal and reports enthusiastically on mining prospects. His assessment encourages major Rothschild investment in South Africa. ●●

1892 Thus the directors of the National Wall Paper Company, formed in 1892, agreed in candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thus the directors of the National Wall Paper Company, formed in 1892, agreed in 1900, “That the company be dissolved, and the factories be returned t ●●

1893 As the largest New York enterprise, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, beg candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As the largest New York enterprise, the Metropolitan Street Railway Company, began to shift from cable and horse to electric-powered cars in 1893, its ●●

1894 In April 1894, Wills, the largest British Tobacco manufacturer, became concerned... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In April 1894, Wills, the largest British Tobacco manufacturer, became concerned about American Tobacco Company’s increasing power in the leaf market, but after an investigation George Wills decided that “the American Tobacco Company was not in a position to dictate prices on its own purchases of leaf ●●

1895 In the newer dynamite business these same companies maintained control through a candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In the newer dynamite business these same companies maintained control through another horizontal combination—the Eastern Dynamite Company, a holding ●●

1896 African kingdoms inflicted defeats on European armies-the Zulu candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story African kingdoms inflicted defeats on European armies-the Zulu (for a time) against the British in 1 879, Ethio pia against the Italians in 1896-but t... ●●

1897 After 1897, he gave steadily to the Metropolitan Museum of A candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After 1897, he gave steadily to the Metropolitan Museum of Art and became its board president in 1904. The board of trustees often met in his house. ●●

1897 On summer vacation with his family in the candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story On summer vacation with his family in the Catskill Mountains in 1897, Gates tackled a book of door-stopping length: Principles and Practice of Medicine, a thousand-page tome by William Osler of the Johns Hopkins Medical School, the most renowned contemporary physician. ●●

1898 The standard Lloyd’s policy had in fact already been modified (in 1898) to exclude ‘the candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The standard Lloyd’s policy had in fact already been modified (in 1898) to exclude ‘the consequences of hostilities or warlike operations’ (the so-called f. ●●

1898 Another favorite recipient of Standard Oil largesse was candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Another favorite recipient of Standard Oil largesse was Senator Matthew Quay of Pennsylvania, who received $42,500 between 1898 and 1902. ●●

1898 That company, formed in 1898, was a merger of three regional consolidations—New candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story That company, formed in 1898, was a merger of three regional consolidations—New York Biscuit, American Biscuit and Manufacturing, and the United State ●●

1898 Only after the financial and administrative reorganization of the company in 189... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Only after the financial and administrative reorganization of the company in 1898, when it became the American Linseed Company, did it begin to achieve financial success ●●

1900 In 1900, with the dowager empress Cixi favoring candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1900, with the dowager empress Cixi favoring war against foreigners and the military and admiriistration hesitant and inef fectual in containing th... ●●

1900 Rockefeller and Carnegie Philanthropy candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan decided to create a steel trust in late 1900, he knew he would have to tangle with two men who were confirmed cynics about Wall Street: Carnegie, master of the steel mills, and Rockefeller, ... ●●

1900 hat what should have mattered to them most was Bri... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story hat what should have mattered to them most was British neutrality in a Continental war. In October 1900, Salisbury’s poor health forced him to give up ●●

1900 Founding or establishment candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And so, when more than 1900 S&Ls went belly-up in the Great Depression, Herbert Hoover—and a most willing Congress— created the Federal Home Loan Bank ●●

1900 Indeed the only new firm of this type to be formed after 1900 was California Pac candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Indeed the only new firm of this type to be formed after 1900 was California Packing (Del Monte), a 1916 merger of local canning companies that built ●●

1900 To operate his national enterprise, Vail quickly created an administrative struc candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story To operate his national enterprise, Vail quickly created an administrative structure based on legal changes instituted in 1900 ●●

1901 Morgan controlled nearly 70 percent of the steel industry—following the cre... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Morgan controlled nearly 70 percent of the steel industry—following the creation of US Steel in 1901—and at least one-fifth of all corporations trading on the New York Stock... ●●

1901 Death of Edith's Son Jack candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1901, Edith Rockefeller McCormick's four-year-old son Jack died. The loss was the first of two child deaths within a few years that cast a lasting shadow over her emotional life. ●●

1901 His investment banking house arranged the merger in 1901 after Carnegie began to candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His investment banking house arranged the merger in 1901 after Carnegie began to move forward into the making of finished products in response to back ●●

1901 Then in 1901 he and his associates created the research laboratory candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Then in 1901 he and his associates created the research laboratory ●●

1902 In April 1902, a month before the government filed a formal suit under the Sherm candidate ai_extracted 2 cit. no story In April 1902, a month before the government filed a formal suit under the Sherman Act against the Northern Securities Company, the packers began nego ●●

1902 His company soon had control or near control over the largest of the new beet su candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story His company soon had control or near control over the largest of the new beet sugar companies, including American Beet Sugar formed in 1902, Great Wes ●●

1904 Death of Edith's Daughter Editha candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 1904, Edith Rockefeller McCormick's one-year-old daughter Editha died, compounding her grief from her son's death three years earlier. The successive deaths profoundly affected her emotional development. ●●

1904 Galton dismisses human breeding as impractical candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Despite founding eugenics, Francis Galton admitted in 1904 that he was skeptical about the practical feasibility of regulating human breeding like livestock in a democratic society. ●●

1905 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the Armstrong investigation of 1905 exposed massive double-dealing between insurance companies and their bankers, reform legislation was enacted in 1911 that forced the Equitable Life Assuran... ●●

1905 The Kaiser chose to make his point while on a crui... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Kaiser chose to make his point while on a cruise in March 1905. ●●

1906 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Among his triumphs, he extended a six-million-dollar loan to the fledgling General Motors in 1906—about $98 million today—taking notes for his cash. When the notes were paid off, Rockefeller took p... ●●

1907 Instead of wrecking the Entente Cordiale, it led t... candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Instead of wrecking the Entente Cordiale, it led to Franco-British military cooperation and lent impetus to the Anglo-Russian Entente of 1907. After A ●●

1908 Information history in 1908 candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story fulfilled in turn, flame after flame,” she boasts, “along the course ordained. ” A German historian, Richard Hennig, traced and measured the route in 1908 and confirmed the feasibility of this chain o ●●

1911 Oil Industry Development candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After the Armstrong investigation of 1905 exposed massive double-dealing between insurance companies and their bankers, reform legislation was enacted in 1911 that forced the Equitable Life Assuran... ●●

1911 Speech of the Unknown resurfaces in political oratory candidate ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The tale of the unknown speaker from the Declaration of Independence resurfaced in a collection of American political oratory, this time with the robed figure fancifully identified as Patrick Henry rather than remaining anonymous. ●●