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[1] [2] [3] This year therefore had 445 days, and was nicknamed the annus confusionis ("year of confusion") and serves as the longest recorded calendar year in human history. [4] The actual planetary orbit-year remained the same.
Ancient history – Aggregate of past events from the beginning of recorded human history and extending as far as the Early Middle Ages or the Postclassical Era. The span of recorded history is roughly five thousand years, beginning with the earliest linguistic records in the third millennium BC in Mesopotamia and Egypt .
588 years [1] Arab–Byzantine wars: 629: 1180: 551 years Bulgarian–Serbian wars (medieval) 818: 1330: 512 years Russo-Caucasian Conflict: 1550: Ongoing: 474 years Yaqui Wars: 1533: 1929: 396 years Yemeni–Ottoman conflicts: 1538: 1911: 373 years Moroccan–Portuguese conflicts: 1415: 1769: 354 years Russo-Turkish wars: 1568: 1918: 350 years ...
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
Here are the nine worst years to be alive in human history. ... The 9 Worst Years in History to be Alive. Alex Andonovska. May 15, 2024 at 11:45 AM. MediaFeed; Wikipedia. Hellish Years.
Thucydides, unlike Herodotus, regarded history as being the product of the choices and actions of human beings, and looked at cause and effect, rather than as the result of divine intervention. [7] History developed as a popular form of literature in later Greek and Roman societies in the works of Polybius, Tacitus and others.
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The longest documented and verified human lifespan is that of Jeanne Calment of France, a woman who lived to age 122 years and 164 days. [4] She received news media attention in 1985, after turning 110.