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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 ...
A census counted fifty-nine million people in the Han empire. 3: Ping established a national school system. Ban Biao, first author of the Book of Han, is born. 6: 3 February: Ping died after being poisoned by Wang, who became acting emperor. 8: Liu Xin completed a star catalogue and calculated the length of the year. 9
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.
Elon Reeve Musk was born on June 28, 1971, in Pretoria, South Africa's administrative capital. [5] [6] He is of British and Pennsylvania Dutch ancestry.[7] [8] His mother, Maye (née Haldeman), is a model and dietitian born in Saskatchewan, Canada, and raised in South Africa.
Kalpana Chawla was born on 17 March 1962 in a Punjabi Hindu family in Karnal, Haryana. [11] [12] The youngest of four children, she was born into a conservative society, but Chawla broke several traditions to become the first Indian-born female astronaut. She completed her schooling at Tagore Baal Niketan Senior Secondary School, Karnal.
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces. 1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920. Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.
Linda Eastman (later McCartney) is born in New York City. US 1941 Oct 13 L Neil Aspinall is born in Prestatyn, Wales. [3] UK 1941 Nov 24 L Pete Best is born in Madras, India. [1] O 1942 Jun 18 L Paul McCartney is born in the Walton Hospital, Liverpool. [1] UK 1943 Feb 25 L George Harrison is born at 12 Arnold Grove, Wavertree, Liverpool. [1] UK ...
March – Merle Kodo Boyd, born in Texas, became the first African–American woman ever to receive Dharma transmission in Zen Buddhism. [36] [37] 2006: April – The Government of the People's Republic of China sponsors the First World Buddhist Forum in Mount Putuo, Zhejiang Province. Notably absent was the Dalai Lama. 2006