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Event 1800 BC: Nuragic civilization in Sardinia. 1700 BC: Terramare culture. Recent archaeology, along with ancient Greek accounts, links this culture to the Etruscans. 1500 BC: Apennine culture. 1300 BC: Canegrate culture. 1200 BC: Proto-Villanovan culture appears in Italy. It is likely a southern extension of the Urnfield culture.
"More than 1,500 Jewish families, numbering 4,000 persons, fell in one day." [11] 1090 Granada was captured by Yusuf ibn Tashfin, King of the Almoravides. The Jewish community, believed to have sided with the Christians, was destroyed. Many fled, penniless, to Christian Toledo. [12] 1095–1291
This event marked the independence of Vietnam after 1000 years under the Chinese colony. 955: Battle of Lechfeld. Otto the Great, son of Henry the Fowler, defeats the Magyars. This is the defining event that prevents the Hungarians from entering Central Europe. c. 960: Mieszko I becomes duke of Polans.
This is a timeline of major events in the history of Jerusalem; a city that had been fought over sixteen times in its history. [1] During its long history, Jerusalem has been destroyed twice, besieged 23 times, attacked 52 times, and captured and recaptured 44 times.
This timeline tries to compile dates of important historical events that happened in or that led to the rise of the Middle East.The Middle East is the territory that comprises today's Egypt, the Persian Gulf states, Iran, Iraq, Israel and Palestine, Cyprus, Jordan, Lebanon, Oman, Saudi Arabia, Syria, Turkey, United Arab Emirates, and Yemen.
Year Date Event 1749: The city of Port-au-Prince was founded by Charles Burnier, Marquis of Larnage and named the capital of Saint-Domingue.: 1751: Slave rebellions in northern Saint-Domingue, led by François Mackandal, began.
1500 — Spanish navigator, Vicente Yáñez Pinzón sails into the Amazon estuary, in this same year Brazil is being accidentally found by Portuguese explorer and military commander, Pedro Álvares Cabral, while en route to the Orient, landing in Bahia de Todos-os-Santos, present day State of Bahia.
Mayan astronomers discover an 18.7-year cycle in the rising and setting of the Moon.From this they created the first almanacs – tables of the movements of the Sun, Moon, and planets for the use in astrology.