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13 unusual facts about Anno Domini


Battle of Monte Cassino

Monte Cassino, a historic hilltop abbey founded in AD 529 by Benedict of Nursia, dominated the nearby town of Cassino and the entrances to the Liri and Rapido valleys, but had been left unoccupied by the German defenders.

Cedar Park, Texas

A paleo-American archaeological site (named the Wilson-Leonard site) was discovered in Cedar Park in 1983 that showed evidence of continual habitation of the area since circa 5000 BC.

Chelmsford 123

The series was set in the British town of Chelmsford in the year AD 123, and concerned the power struggle between Roman governor Aulus Paulinus (Jimmy Mulville) and the British chieftain, Badvoc (Rory McGrath).

Chesters Bridge

The first, less massive than its successor, was probably contemporary with the construction of the Wall in AD 122-4.

Debellatio

In some cases debellation ends with a complete dissolution and annexation of the defeated state into the victor's national territory, as happened at the end of the Third Punic War with the defeat of Carthage by Rome in the 2nd century BC.

Featherstone Castle

The earliest recorded history of this area derives from the Roman occupation period; in 122 AD, the Romans erected Hadrian's Wall, the course of which lies about 5 kilometres to the north of Featherstone Castle.

Fort King

At least two periods of occupation have been identified: between 6500 and 2000 B.C., and 200 to 1500 A.D.

Geimos

The game is set in the year 2135 AD on a military base that was created in one of the moons that make up the Solar System.

Holy Boy

From that point, it then changes time period to the late 1st century BC or early 1st century AD It was first performed in 1977.

Soulfire

Malikai's quest as the chosen one is to bring magic back to the hardened future of (2211 AD) and stop it from being used by evil.

Tokyo Gakuen High School

This school was established in the Japanese era of 22 Meiji (1889 A.D.), and became one of Japan's first private commercial schools.

Tuktut Nogait National Park

Humans have occupied Tuktut Nogait since AD 1000 and recent surveys have identified over 360 archaeological sites in the park.

Veerannapalem

In the approximate period of 1600–1700 AD, a man named Veeranna started living at an unnamed place near his fields; the place became a village named after him.


Akrafena

Bonoman Long swords were used primarily by Akan cavalry and commanders (who were also usually mounted), not infantry during the 10th to 15th centuries AD.

Annunciation

When the calendar system of Anno Domini was first introduced by Dionysius Exiguus in AD 525, he assigned the beginning of the new year to March 25 since, according to Catholic theology, the era of grace began with the Incarnation of Christ.

Guissona

The archeological site includes the water supply of the actual Medieval enclosure, the wells of the public fountain, a number of headstones (e.g., the gravestone of Servilla Praepusa (2nd-3rd century AD), a sculpture of a Roman horseman, and the Necropolis located in the area of Cal Mines.

Lyminster Priory

It was a possible Saxon royal minster of Benedictine nuns and was founded or refounded about 1082AD by Roger de Montgomery, Earl of Sussex, who granted land to St. Peter's Abbey, Almenesches.

Roman Museum

In the first century AD the Cantiaci were the inhabitants of Kent when the Romans captured a settlement on the River Stour and later called it Durovernum Cantiacorum, or stronghold of the Cantiaci by an Alder marsh.

Trippet stones

Norman Lockyer visited the site in 1907 and suggested the date of the circle's construction to be around 1700 BC by calculating an alignment of Arcturus over Rough Tor.

Victory Arch

It has been suggested that this was an allusion to the slain Shiite martyr Hussein, killed in Karbala in AD 680, whose death caused the rift between Shiite and Sunni Muslims.