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  2. Dating creation - Wikipedia

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    Dating creation is the attempt to provide an estimate of the age of Earth or the age of the universe as understood through the creation myths of various religious traditions. Various traditional beliefs hold that the Earth , or the entire universe , was brought into being in a grand creation event by one or more deities .

  3. Ussher chronology - Wikipedia

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    Ussher further narrowed down the date by using the Jewish calendar to establish the "first day" of creation as falling on a Sunday near the autumnal equinox. [9] The day of the week was a backward calculation from the six days of creation with God resting on the seventh, which in the Jewish calendar is Saturday—hence, Creation began on a Sunday.

  4. Timeline of ancient history - Wikipedia

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    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 ...

  5. Anno Mundi - Wikipedia

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    Dating creation – Using creation myths to date the Earth; Epoch (reference date) – Reference point from which time is measured; Scottish Rite – Rite of Freemasonry, uses AM dating in its rituals; Tyr, a music album by heavy metal band Black Sabbath: the opening track is called "Anno Mundi"

  6. Timeline of Jewish history - Wikipedia

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    The violent struggle for the creation of a Jewish state in the British mandate of Palestine is intensified by Jewish defense groups: Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi (group). November 29, 1947 The United Nations approves the creation of a Jewish State and an Arab State in the British mandate of Palestine.

  7. Traditional Jewish chronology - Wikipedia

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    Jewish tradition has long preserved a record of dates and time sequences of important historical events related to the Jewish nation, including but not limited to the dates fixed for the building and destruction of the Second Temple, and which same fixed points in time (henceforth: chronological dates) are well-documented and supported by ancient works, although when compared to the ...

  8. History of calendars - Wikipedia

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    The Maya new year would start with 1 Pop, followed by 2 Pop, all the way through to 19 Pop, followed by the seating of the month of Uo, written as 0 Uo, then 1 Uo, 2 Uo and so on. These two cycles coincided every 52 years. The 52-year period of time was called a "bundle" and was similar to a modern-day century. [56]

  9. Timelines of world history - Wikipedia

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    Timeline of world history. 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