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  2. List of conflicts by duration - Wikipedia

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    3 years, 2 months, 1 week and 5 days War of Attrition: 1 July 1967: 7 August 1970: 3 years, 1 month and 6 days Spanish Civil War: 17 July 1936 1 April 1939 2 years, 9 months, 2 weeks and 1 day War of 1812: 18 June 1812 17 February 1815 2 years, 8 months, 4 weeks and 2 days Nigerian Civil War: 6 July 1967 15 January 1970

  3. Seven Years' War - Wikipedia

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    The Seven Years' War (1756–1763) was a global conflict involving most of the European great powers, fought primarily in Europe and the Americas. One of the opposing alliances was led by Great Britain and Prussia .

  4. Battle of Manila (1762) - Wikipedia

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    The Battle of Manila (Filipino: Labanan sa Maynila ng mga Kastila at Ingles; Spanish: Batalla de Manila) was fought during the Seven Years' War, from 24 September 1762 to 6 October 1762, between the Kingdom of Great Britain and the Kingdom of Spain in and around Manila, the capital of the Philippines, a Spanish colony at that time.

  5. List of recessions in the United States - Wikipedia

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    1 year 1 month 2 years 9 months −29.2% −31.0% A run on Knickerbocker Trust Company deposits on October 22, 1907, set events in motion that would lead to a severe monetary contraction. The fallout from the panic led to Congress creating the Federal Reserve System. [29] Panic of 1910–1911: January 1910 – January 1912 2 years 1 year 7 months

  6. Jubilee (biblical) - Wikipedia

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    The Talmud (Arakhin 12b) accounts for 40 years of wandering in the wilderness, and 7 years taken to conquer the land of Canaan and 7 years to divide the land among the tribes, putting the first Jubilee cycle precisely 54 years after the exodus (i.e. in 1258 BC), and saying that the people of Israel counted 17 Jubilees from the time they entered ...

  7. Seven Years in Tibet (1997 film) - Wikipedia

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    Seven Years in Tibet is a 1997 American biographical war drama film directed by Jean-Jacques Annaud. It is based on Austrian mountaineer and Schutzstaffel (SS) sergeant Heinrich Harrer 's 1952 memoir of the same name , about his experiences in Tibet between 1944 and 1951.

  8. Roman calendar - Wikipedia

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    It consisted of ten months, beginning in spring with March and leaving winter as an unassigned span of days before the next year. These months each had 30 or 31 days and ran for 38 nundinal cycles, each forming a kind of eight-day week—nine days counted inclusively in the Roman manner—and ending with religious rituals and a public market.

  9. Metonic cycle - Wikipedia

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    A tropical year (about 365.24 days) is longer than 12 lunar months (about 354.36 days) and shorter than 13 of them (about 383.90 days). In a Metonic calendar (a type of lunisolar calendar), there are twelve years of 12 lunar months and seven years of 13 lunar months.