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  1. 10th millennium BCE to 4th millennium BCE Neolithic revolution wikidata 1 cit. no story transition from hunter gatherer to settled peoples ●●●
  2. 3500 BCE Sumerian temple accountancy system ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By roughly 3500 BC, at the dawn of Mesopotamian civilization, temple administrators had developed a single uniform system of accountancy. It predated coined money and used silver and barley as units of value. ●●
  3. 2700 BCE Rise of Mesopotamian palace complexes ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By at least 2700 BC ambitious Mesopotamian rulers began building palace complexes modeled on the temple institutions. Where temples centered on a god's image, palaces centered on a living king. ●●
  4. 2456 BCE Astronomical epoch - Sun in Taurus rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pike discusses the astronomical precession of equinoxes, noting that 2455 years before his era, the Sun entered Taurus at the Vernal Equinox, marking the beginning of the zodiacal year. ●●
  5. 2400 BCE Debt loans and peonage common in Sumer ai_extracted 1 cit. no story By about 2400 BC it was common for officials and wealthy merchants in Mesopotamia to advance loans to struggling peasants on collateral. Defaulters had their property, and eventually family members, seized and reduced to debt peonage. ●●
  6. 2251 BCE Queen Mentuhept of the Eleventh Dynasty inscriptions rejected ai_extracted 2 cit. no story An inscription was found on the coffin of Queen Mentuhept of the Eleventh Dynasty, transcribed from the Seventeenth Chapter of the Book of the Dead, according to Baron Bunsen's chronology ●●
  7. 2001 BCE Reference to Osiris rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story He was Sirius or the Dog-Star, the friend and counsellor of Osiris, and the inventor of language, grammar, astronomy, surveying, arithmetic, music, an ●●
  8. 2001 BCE Reference to Hermes rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Caduceus, borne by Hermes or Mercury, and also by Cybele, Minerva, Anubis, Hercules Ogmius the God of the Celts, and the personified Constellation ●●
  9. 1801 BCE Event from 1800 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 1800 BCE ●●
  10. 1750 BCE Event rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rulers had issued laws in much earlier times; the Babylonian king Ham murabi who ruled from 1792 to 1750 BCE had a law code inscribed in stone. The Greeks had laws and theories of ... ●●
  11. 1614 BCE Sesostris founds Memphis rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Sesostris, founder of Memphis, reigned before Cheops and succeeded to rule through warrior election rather than sacerdotal succession ●●
  12. 1462 BCE Sothiac astronomical period rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pike discusses the Egyptian Sothiac period, an astronomical cycle of 1461 years in which the Egyptian solar year returns to its starting point at the Solstice with the rising of Sirius. Pike treats this as an Egyptian chronological benchmark. ●●
  13. 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. ●●
  14. 1424 BCE Historical event - 1423 BC rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story sics and metaphysics as to the origin of the soul, its condition here below, its destination, and its future fate. The Greeks fix the date of the esta ●●
  15. 1301 BCE Reference to Moses rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Jews feared that the Heathen would get possession of the Name: and therefore, in their copies of the Scriptures, they wrote it in the Samaritan ch ●●
  16. 1201 BCE Reference to Orpheus rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Orpheus, author of the Grecian Mysteries, which he carried from Egypt to Greece, consecrated this symbol: and taught that matter, uncreated and inform ●●
  17. 1201 BCE Orpheus chronological placement rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Official science places Orpheus at 1200 BCE, establishing the Mysteries as belonging to an epoch earlier than Chaldæan and Egyptian times ●●
  18. 1179 BCE Reign of Cheops and construction of Great Pyramid rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cheops reigned from 1178 to 1122 BCE and built the Great Pyramid bearing his name, though accused of persecuting theocracy and closing temples ●●
  19. 1051 BCE Event from 1050 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 1050 BCE ●●
  20. 1001 BCE I - A Millennium of Beginnings (1000 BCE- 100 CE) Chapter 1 - Greece and Rome (c rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 1000 BCE ●●
  21. 1001 BCE (1000 BCE- 100 CE) Chapter 1 - Greece and Rome (c rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from c. 1000 BCE ●●
  22. 1001 BCE Event from 1000 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 1000 BCE ●●
  23. 1001 BCE Event from c. 1000 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from c. 1000 BCE ●●
  24. 971 BCE Event from 970 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 970 BCE ●●
  25. 931 BCE Event from c. 930 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from c. 930 BCE ●●
  26. 851 BCE Event from 850 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 850 BCE ●●
  27. 750 BCE Event rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story For one thing, earlier empires had already come and gone in northern and central China since at least I750 BCE, leaving residues of administrative practices and political expectati... ●●
  28. 701 BCE Reference to Zoroaster rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story This doctrine is taught in the oracles of Zoroaster: and these Genii were the Intelligences that resided in the planets ●●
  29. 701 BCE Ten lost tribes of Israel disappearance rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The ten lost tribes of Israel became lost between 700-900 BCE during various invasions and dispersions ●●
  30. c. 11 February 660 BCE Traditional Founding of Japan legendary 0 cit. no story By tradition, Emperor Jimmu ascends the throne in 660 BCE, founding the Japanese imperial line; the date is legendary but remains Japan's National Foundation Day. culture / politics ●●●●
  31. 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... ●●
  32. 641 BCE Event from 640 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 640 BCE ●●
  33. 613 BCE Event from 612 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 612 BCE ●●
  34. 610 BCE Event from 609 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 609 BCE ●●
  35. 601 BCE Reference to Mithras rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story None has the right to object, if the Christian Mason sees foreshadowed in Chrishna and Sosiosch, in Mithras and Osiris, the Divine WORD that, as he be ●●
  36. 601 BCE Jewish settlement in Cochin, India rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The black Jews of Cochin, India must have arrived before 600 BCE, as they show no knowledge of the Babylonian Captivity ●●
  37. 594 BCE Solon's reforms in Athens ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Athens faced a major debt crisis that led to Solon's reforms around 594 BC. The reforms were known as the 'shaking off of burdens'. ●●
  38. 587 BCE Event from 586 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 586 BCE ●●
  39. 571 BCE Reference to Pythagoras rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pythagoras gave to the doctrine of the transmigration of souls that meaning which the wise Egyptians gave to it in their Mysteries: He never taught th ●●
  40. 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 ●●
  41. 561 BCE Romans discover black magic association rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story As early as 560 BCE, Romans discovered an occult association practicing black magic of a revolting kind, celebrating mysteries from Etruria that spread throughout Italy ●●
  42. 560 BCE Cyrus the Great founds the Persian Empire ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Cyrus, one of history's greatest visionaries, rises to power and launches brilliant campaigns that bring leaders of the Iranian plateau under his rule through persuasion and compromise. ●●
  43. 552 BCE Reference to Confucius rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Confucius forbade making images or representations of the Deity ●●
  44. 517 BCE Event from 516 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 516 BCE ●●
  45. 511 BCE Event from 510 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 510 BCE ●●
  46. 509 BCE Battle of Silva Arsia wikidata 0 cit. no story battle in c.509 BCE between the Roman Republic and Etruscan Tarquinii and Veii forces ●●
  47. 508 BCE to 507 BCE Athenian Revolution wikidata 0 cit. no story 508-507 BCE revolt by the people of Athens ●●●
  48. 501 BCE Pythagoras founds his mystery-school academy ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The Greek philosopher Pythagoras, living and working in the 5th century B.C., founded an academy or mystery school where initiates studied principles of music, geometry, architecture, and mathematics to unlock higher realities and understand the cosmos. ●●
  49. 501 BCE Dating of Hebrew language rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story According to Orientalists, the Hebrew known to philologists does not date earlier than 500 BCE, with Hebrew characters belonging to an even later period ●●
  50. 500 BCE Reign rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Around 500 BCE, the Romans replaced their king with a republic-a political innovation of enormous consequence. Most of the enormous ter ritory that we know as the Roman empire was ... ●●
  51. 500 BCE Event from 499 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 499 BCE ●●
  52. 499 BCE to 449 BCE Greco-Persian Wars 0 cit. no story The Achaemenid Persian Empire twice invades Greece and is repelled by an alliance of Greek city-states at Marathon, Salamis, and Plataea. The Greek victory preserves the independent city-state world that produced classical civilization. war ●●●●●
  53. 485 BCE Reference to Herodotus rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Herodotus says, speaking of the reasons why animals were deified in Egypt: “If I were to explain these reasons, I should be led to the disclosure of t ●●
  54. 485 BCE Birth of the historian Herodotus ai_extracted 1 cit. no story The historian Herodotus was born in 484 BCE and wrote extensively about Egypt and Babylon without mentioning the Israelites ●●
  55. 479 BCE Event rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story During his lifetime (ssr-479 BCE) , Confucius had been preoccupied with the decline of the Zhou dy nasty. He extolled the virtues of a society based on each person's perfor mance o... ●●
  56. 471 BCE Reference to Socrates rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Among the Greeks, the scholars of the Egyptians, all the higher ideas and severer doctrines on the Divinity, his Sovereign Nature and Infinite Might, ●●
  57. 451 BCE Event from 450 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 450 BCE ●●
  58. 444 BCE Nehemiah appointed governor of Judaea ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 444 BC Nehemiah, a Babylon-born Jew and former cup-bearer to the Persian king, was made governor of Judaea. He gained permission to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple, a moment tied to the formation of Judaism. ●●
  59. 444 BCE Nehemiah reissues the Law of Jubilee ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Facing a debt crisis among the poor, Nehemiah issued a Babylonian-style clean-slate edict and reissued older Jewish law. The most famous was the Law of Jubilee, canceling debts and freeing those held in bondage. ●●
  60. 431 BCE to 404 BCE Peloponnesian War 0 cit. no story Athens and Sparta fight a three-decade struggle for supremacy in Greece. Athens' defeat ends its golden age and exhausts the Greek world. war ●●●●
  61. 429 BCE Reference to Plato rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story It was taught by Timæsus, Plato, Speusippus, Iamblichus, Macrobius, Marcus Aurelius, and Pythagoras ●●
  62. 421 BCE Mass slave escape from the Athenian mines ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Thucydides claimed that 20,000 slaves escaped from the Athenian silver mines in 421 BC. The figure is likely exaggerated, but thousands worked the mines shackled in brutal conditions. ●●
  63. 405 BCE Event from 404 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 404 BCE ●●
  64. 400 BCE Event from 399 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 399 BCE ●●
  65. 395 BCE to 387 BCE Corinthian War 0 cit. no story Sparta fights a coalition of Athens, Thebes, Corinth, and Argos backed by Persia. The war ends with the King's Peace, which leaves Sparta dominant but under Persian oversight. war ●●
  66. 388 BCE Plato sold into slavery near Aegina ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Around 388/387 BC Plato was captured and sold on a slave auction block near Aegina, then at war with Athens. He was later ransomed and freed. ●●
  67. 385 BCE Reference to Aristotle rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story And this opinion of Achilles Tatius, Diodorus, Chrysippus, Aristotle, Plato, Heraclides of Pontus, Theophrastus, Simplicius, Macrobius, and Proclus, t ●●
  68. 343 BCE to 290 BCE Samnite Wars 0 cit. no story Rome fights three wars against the Samnites and their allies for control of central Italy. Victory makes Rome the dominant power of the Italian peninsula. war ●●
  69. 339 BCE Event from 338 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 338 BCE ●●
  70. 336 BCE to 323 BCE Wars of Alexander the Great 0 cit. no story Alexander of Macedon conquers the Persian Empire and campaigns as far as Egypt and India in eleven years. His conquests spread Greek culture across the Near East and open the Hellenistic age. war ●●●●●
  71. 335 BCE Alexander the Great destroys Persepolis ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Alexander's invasion brings destruction to the Persian Empire, with the conqueror sacking and burning the great ceremonial capital of Persepolis. ●●
  72. 330 BCE Battle of the Persian Gate on the Mountain wikidata 0 cit. no story battle between Alexander the Great and Ariobarzanes near Persepolis in a small mountainpass known as the Persian gate along the Royal road ●●
  73. 330 BCE Aristotle theorizes the origin of money ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Around 330 BC Aristotle speculated in his Politics about how money emerged from household specialization and exchange. His account prefigured later barter-origin stories. ●●
  74. 329 BCE Battle of Jaxartes wikidata 0 cit. no story 329 BCE battle ●●
  75. 326 BCE Abolition of debt bondage in Rome ai_extracted 1 cit. no story According to Livy, Rome abolished debt bondage in 326 BC. The trigger was the case of a young man, Caius Publilius, put in bondage over an inherited debt and beaten for refusing his creditor. ●●
  76. 323 BCE Event from 322 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Historical event from 322 BCE ●●
  77. c. 322 BCE to c. 281 BCE Wars of the Diadochi 0 cit. no story Alexander's generals fight over his empire for four decades after his death. The wars carve the Hellenistic world into the Ptolemaic, Seleucid, and Antigonid kingdoms. politics / war ●●●
  78. 310 BCE Battle of Lake Vadimo wikidata 0 cit. no story 310 BCE battle ●●
  79. 301 BCE Astronomical epoch - Sun in Aries rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Pike notes that 300 years before Christ, the Sun entered Aries at the Vernal Equinox due to the precession of the equinoxes. He uses this to explain changes in astrological symbolism. ●●
  80. 294 BCE 293 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story tes of mobilization were even lower in early modern Europe. 4 Casualties were also of unprecedented scale. Livy reports that the Roman Republic lost ap proximately 50,000 soldiers in their defeats at Lake Trasimene and Cannae; a Chinese memorialist c ●●
  81. 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 ●●
  82. 280 BCE to 275 BCE Pyrrhic War 0 cit. no story King Pyrrhus of Epirus wins costly battles against Rome on behalf of the Greek cities of southern Italy but cannot sustain the war. His withdrawal leaves Rome master of Italy and gives the language the term Pyrrhic victory. war ●●
  83. 264 BCE to 241 BCE First Punic War ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Rome and Carthage fight a twenty-three-year war, largely at sea, after Rome intervenes in Sicily. ●●●●
  84. c. 262 BCE to c. 261 BCE Kalinga War 0 cit. no story The Mauryan emperor Ashoka conquers Kalinga at enormous human cost. Remorse over the slaughter leads him to embrace Buddhism and promote its spread across Asia. religion / war ●●●
  85. 260 BCE Event rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In 260 BCE, Qin armies killed, it is asserted, four hundred thousand soldiers of their main competitor, the Zhao. After an interlude of losses inflicted by rivals allied against th... ●●
  86. 255 BCE Battle of Bagradas wikidata 0 cit. no story battle of the First Punic War with a Carthaginian victory ●●
  87. 241 BCE Battle of the Aegates Islands ai_extracted 1 cit. no story A rebuilt Roman fleet destroys the Carthaginian relief force, deciding the First Punic War. ●●●
  88. 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... ●●
  89. 241 BCE Rome wins the First Punic War against Carthage ai_extracted 1 cit. no story In their first war with Carthage (264 to 241 BCE) , the Romans lost many naval battles but ultimately won and occupied Sicily, Sardinia, and Corsica. It took until 202 BCE for Rome... ●●
  90. 240 BCE Reign rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story 240 BCE Map 2.2 Consolidation, expansion, and contraction of Chinese empire. 44 Qin Empire: 2 1 0 BCE - G reat Walls Han Empire: 1 89 CE Chapter 2 into undefined territory, protect... ●●
  91. 233 BCE 232 BCE rejected ai_extracted 1 cit. no story , or on rulers of more peripheral territories, and had to be collected largely in kind or through corvee labor. 12 No In dian ruler ever seems to have attempted anything like Shang Yang's aboli tion of the well-field system, or Wang Mang's ambitious ●●
  92. 230 BCE to 221 BCE Qin's Wars of Unification 0 cit. no story The state of Qin conquers the six rival Warring States in under a decade. The victory creates the first unified Chinese empire under Qin Shi Huang. politics / war ●●●●●
  93. 229 BCE to 227 BCE First Illyro-Roman War wikidata 0 cit. no story ●●●●
  94. 226 BCE Ebro Treaty wikidata 0 cit. no story peace treaty ●●●
  95. 221 BCE Qin king proclaims himself first emperor of China ai_extracted 1 cit. no story After centuries of competition, intrigue, and all-out warfare against neighboring rivals, the Qin king made himself emperor in 221 BCE. Qin control suc cumbed to internal conflict ... ●●
  96. 218 BCE Hannibal crosses the Alps ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hannibal opens the Second Punic War by marching his army from Spain over the Alps into Italy, losing nearly half his men. ●●●●
  97. 218 BCE to 201 BCE Second Punic War 0 cit. no story Hannibal crosses the Alps and devastates Roman armies at Cannae, but Rome outlasts Carthage and wins at Zama. The victory makes Rome the leading power of the western Mediterranean. war ●●●●●
  98. 216 BCE Battle of Cannae ai_extracted 1 cit. no story Hannibal envelops and annihilates a Roman army of some eighty thousand men, the worst single-day defeat in Roman history. ●●●●
  99. 214 BCE to 205 BCE First Macedonian War wikidata 0 cit. no story war between Rome and Macedonia ●●●●
  100. 206 BCE to 202 BCE Chu-Han Contention 0 cit. no story After the fall of the Qin dynasty, Liu Bang of Han defeats Xiang Yu of Chu in a civil war for control of China. The outcome founds the Han dynasty, which rules for four centuries. politics / war ●●●