Abu’l-Hasan Thabit ibn Qurra was born in 826 AD. He studied astronomy and worked with the Pythagorean Theorem.
519 AD:
The Church decrees for the observance of Lent and Easter.
St Conleth is killed by a wolf in Wicklow, Ireland.
519 BC:
Zhou Jing Wang becomes King of the Zhou Dynasty of China.
Not much fun here :rolleyes:
67 AD: The Roman Governor of Spain proclaimed that the Emperor of Rome is unworthy and began to march on Rome :eek:
Ahh, The year 5628…
President Bish of the Martian Country Amiracoo has said that there will be a manned mission to Earth. Where many believe the martians originally came from.
Work continues on the Space Station. A joint project by Amiracoo and the former ASARSE country of Essua (plus a few smaller countries such as Brootan and Fronce)
399 BC: Trial and execution of Socrates.
Couldn’t find much of interest for 399 AD, though the Roman Empire split into Eastern and Western halves in 395 so I could’ve had that if this thread had come along a few days ago.
King Mieszko II of Poland, born in 990 AD.
307? How did this happen? It seems like only yesterday I was at 200.
307 A.D. Jin Huai Di becomes emperor of China after Jin Hui Di (a retarded ruler, according to the site) is poisoned. Marcellus I becomes Pope.
307 B.C. Segesta, an ancient Hellenistic city on Sicily, is destroyed. It later recovers, however.
Above is courtesy of Wikipedia.
In the year 6116, not much of humanity survived the…Robot Holocaust…
C.E. - Oddly enough, Richard Hatch was finaly assasinated and we were all pleasured by the army of Shakira clones that did the job.
B.C.E. - I was born.
I figure that, by now, we’ve probably started over, and we’re gonna get it right this time.
In 331 BC Alexander the Great defeated the army of the Persian king Darius in the battle of Guagamela.
In 331 AD Constantine moved the seat of the Roman Empire from Rome to Constantinople.
09/06, 2003 - cityboy916 joins the SDMB.
What?
Oh, the year! AD 906: nothing happens. :eek: How about 906 BC… still nothing.
However, in another 1070 years my post will be the cat.
596 AD, the Asuka Daibutsu Temple was built in Japan and Gregory (the Pope) sends Augustine to England.
On this date in 2899… Nothing will happen.
And Bee, where in the upstate are you?
Faustina Senior, died 141 A.D., wife of Antoninus Pius
Faustina I was the wife of Antoninus Pius. Little is known of her than that she was regarded as somewhat vain and frivolous, though this may have just been malicious gossip. Antoninus Pius loved her greatly, and upon her death in 141A.D. she was deified and a temple built in her honour.
232: Roman emperor Alexander Severus (A.D. 222-235) had some succes in the Persian War.
In the year 2827, Generalissimo Francisco Franco is still dead.
In 442 AD:
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[li]The Romans conclude a treaty withGeiseric, acknowledging the conquests of the Vandal nation in North Africa. [/li][li]Domnus II succeeds his uncle John as Patriarch of Antioch [/li][li]Placidia, second and last child of Roman Emperor Valentinian III and Eudoxia was born.[/li][/ul]
Exciting, I know.
Solomon Ben Abraham Aderet died.
52 BCE – Death of the drag queen Clodius.
52 CE – The Apostle Thomas (that’s 'doubting Thomas) arrives in India! I guess he just needed to see it for himself.