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636 BC—Duke Wen of Jin ascends to power in the State of Jin during the Zhou dynasty of China. 635 BC—Alyattes becomes king of Lydia [1] 632 BC—Cylon, Athenian noble, seizes the Acropolis in a failed attempt to become king. 632 BC—In the Battle of Chengpu, the Chinese kingdom of Jin and her allies defeat the kingdom of Chu and her allies.
The date used as the end of the ancient era is arbitrary. The transition period from Classical Antiquity to the Early Middle Ages is known as Late Antiquity.Late Antiquity is a periodization used by historians to describe the transitional centuries from Classical Antiquity to the Middle Ages, in both mainland Europe and the Mediterranean world: generally from the end of the Roman Empire's ...
These timelines of world history detail recorded events since the creation of writing roughly 5000 years ago to the present day. For events from c. 3200 BC – c. 500 see: Timeline of ancient history; For events from c. 500 – c. 1499, see: Timeline of post-classical history; For events from c. 1500, see: Timelines of modern history
List of years; Timelines of world history; List of timelines; Chronology; See calendar and list of calendars for other groupings of years.; See history, history by period, and periodization for different organizations of historical events.
War of words between Indian and Pakistani leaders intensifies. Actual war seems imminent. January: India successfully test-fires a nuclear-capable ballistic missile – the Agni – off its eastern coast. February: Inter-religious bloodshed breaks out after 59 Hindu pilgrims returning from Ayodhya are killed in a train fire in Godhra, Gujarat.
A list of historical events presented in chronological order, typically of a tabular or graphical design, especially in the form of a line labeled with specific dates or ranges of dates and the contemporaneous events that occurred on those dates; often the length of the line scales to the duration of time it represents, allowing viewers to ...
Since the chart combines secular history with biblical genealogy, it worked back from the time of Christ to peg their start at 4,004 B.C. Above the image of Adam and Eve are the words, "In the beginning God created the Heaven and the Earth" (Genesis 1:1) — beside which the author acknowledges that — "Moses assigns no date to this Creation.
630. November 7 – Constans II, Byzantine emperor (d. 668) Alhfrith, king of Deira (approximate date) Conon I, pope of the Catholic Church (approximate date) Di Renjie, chancellor of the Tang dynasty (d. 700) Fausta, Byzantine empress (approximate date) Nukata, Japanese poet (approximate date) Reineldis, Frankisch saint (approximate date)