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39 unusual facts about common era


21–22 High Street, Coventry

The cellars were formerly a single crypt, built in the 15th century (CE).

Altona, New York

Archeological studies have found that by 1300 CE, the St. Lawrence Iroquoians, a distinct group who spoke Laurentian, built fortified villages similar to those visited and described by explorer Jacques Cartier in the mid-16th century.

Before

Before Common Era (BCE), an alternative naming of the traditional calendar era primarily used in academic circles.

Beth midrash

The origin of the beth midrash, or house of study, can be traced to the early rabbinic period, following the Siege of Jerusalem (70 C.E.) in which the destruction of the Temple took place.

Brahmagupta's interpolation formula

Brahmagupata's interpolation formula is a second-order polynomial interpolation formula developed by the Indian mathematician and astronomer Brahmagupta (598–668 CE) in the early 7th century CE.

David R. Harris

Continuing investigations during the 1990s by Harris and the international project team at Jeitun and surrounds obtained conclusive evidence of agricultural-pastoral settlement by at least 6000 BCE, the earliest indications of agricultural practices in Central Asia known at that point.

Early Buddhism

However, actual splits were originally based on disagreements on vinaya (monastic discipline), though later on, by about 100 CE or earlier, they could be based on doctrinal disagreement.

Gökhan Kırdar

Meanwhile, he contributes to a Turkish project titled "Self Project" with his work "Tüür" on the synthesis of Turkish musical instruments since 2000 BCE with electronic music.

Gran Canaria giant rat

This rodent is known from Holocene fossil remains found at several places on the island of Gran Canaria, the youngest of which have been dated to shortly before the beginning of the Common Era.

Hebrew language

In its widest sense, Classical Hebrew means the spoken language of ancient Israel flourishing between the 10th century BCE and the turn of the 4th century CE.

Henderson Archaic Pigeon

The pigeon became extinct following human colonisation of Henderson, an event that had occurred by 1050 CE.

Iguazú National Park

They were displaced around 1,000 CE by the Guaraní, who brought new agricultural technologies, and were displaced in turn by the Spanish and Portuguese conquistadores in the 16th century, though their legacy is still alive in this area (the name of the park and the river is Guaraní y guasu, "large water").

Imagine This

Israeli composer Levy had long nurtured an interest in writing a show about the siege at Masada around 70 CE.

Jere Shine Site

Based on comparison of archeological remains and pottery styles, scholars believe that it was most likely occupied from 1400–1550 CE by peoples of the South Appalachian Mississippian culture (a regional variation of the Mississippian culture).

Kaihu

Ngāti Awa originally occupied the area, but were evicted and replaced by Ngāti Whātua around 1640 CE.

Kalandia

During the Crusader period, it was noted in 1114 CE that Kalandia was one of 21 villages given by King Godfrey as a fief to the canons of the Holy Sepulchre.

Kermesite

Kermesite or red antimony has been used as early as the Old Kingdom’s 6th Dynasty in ancient Egypt (c. 2345–2181 BCE) in lip cosmetics and in the 18th Dynasty Queen Hatshepsut (Maatkare) (1498–1483 BCE) negotiated with the Land of Punt for its colored antimony deposits.

Kislev

It is said that the forty days and nights of rainfall which covered the face of earth with water in Noah's time ended on Kislev 27 of the Hebrew year 1656 (2105 BCE).

Lazurite

It has been used as a pigment in painting and cloth dyeing since at least the sixth or seventh century CE.

Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje

Lhalung Pelgyi Dorje was the Tibetan Buddhist monk who assassinated the Tibetan king Langdarma in 842 CE.

Lulav

After the destruction of the Temple in 70 CE, Rabbi Yochanan ben Zakai legislated a rabbinical enactment to take the four species for the entire seven days of the holiday in all locations as a commemoration of what was done in the Temple.

Montana City, Montana

As early as 9,000 BCE, Native Americans came to Montana City to collect chert, a rock similar to flint which was used to make spear tips, arrowheads, and knives.

Mount Arbel

Nearby are the ruins of an ancient Jewish settlement with a Synagogue from the fourth century C.E. with extend pews and columns, and dug into the mountain itself are a number of cliff dwellings.

Nannayya

Unfortunately, any Telugu literature prior to Nannaya is not available, except royal grants and decrees, though Telugu or Andhra language started to develop even before the Common Era.

Oakville, Alabama

It preserves twenty 2,000-year-old mounds built by Middle Woodland-era (1-500 CE) prehistoric indigenous peoples.

Ozymandias

Shelley began writing his poem in 1817, soon after the announcement of the British Museum's acquisition of a large fragment of a statue Ramesses II from the thirteenth-century BCE, and some scholars consider that Shelley was inspired by this.

Parcheesi

Created in India perhaps as early as 500 AD, the board game is subtitled Royal Game of India because royalty played by using servants of the royal household adorned in colored-costumes as pieces on large outdoor boards.

Queen, New Mexico

The area was originally settled by the agricultural and hunter gatherer Jornada Mogollon people about 200 CE whose suzerainty ended with the influx of the Apache and other plains raiders around 1450.

Resplendent

The plot begins not very long after the Third Expansion began (the First Expansion ended when humanity was conquered by the Squeem; the Second Expansion ended with the conquest of humanity by the Qax, and the Third Expansion, ~5400 CE, began after the events of Timelike Infinity, pursuant to Jim Bolder's destruction of the Qax home-system).

Rudbar

The civilization of Rudbar and its surroundings date back to 2000 years BCE.

Shevat

According to Zechariah 1:7-16, "On the 24th day of the 11th month, which is the month of Shevat, in the second year of the reign of Darius, the word of God came to Zachariah the son of Berechiah the son of Ido the prophet, saying: '...I will return to Jerusalem in mercy, my house will be built within her" This was two years before the completion of the Second Temple on the 3rd of Adar, 515 BCE.

Spartacus: War of the Damned

The series was inspired by the historical figure of Spartacus (played by Liam McIntyre from second season and Andy Whitfield in first season), a Thracian gladiator who, from 73 to 71 BCE, led a major slave uprising against the Roman Republic.

St Mary Magdalene's Church, Wyken

The church was originally built in the 12th century CE, and the original doorway and nave and chancel survive.

Stephen I, Duke of Bavaria

(March 14, 1271 CE – December 10, 1310) was duke of Lower Bavaria from 1290 until 1310 as co-regnant of his older brothers Otto III († 1312) and Louis III († 1296).

Stonea

There has been human habitation in the area since at least 500 BC; Stonea Camp archaeological site is the lowest Iron Age hill fort in Britain.

Technology of The Saga of Seven Suns

Klikiss robots – Klikiss robots were built and designed by the original Klikiss before their disappearance ten thousand years ago; they were reactivated in approximately the 1940s C.E. by the Ildirans.

The Ultimate Resource

Some of the “crises” he notes are a shortage of tin in the 13th century BCE; disappearing forests in Greece in 550 BCE and in England in the 16th century to 18th century CE; food in 1798; coal in Great Britain in the 19th century; oil since the 1850s; and various metals since the 1970s.

Transmission of the Lamp

The first two characters of the title are the Song dynasty reign name (景德), which dates the work to between 1004 and 1007 CE.

Vajradhara

By the 4th century CE, the Trikaya Doctrine had assumed the form that we now know.


Airavatesvara Temple

This temple, built by Rajaraja Chola II in the 12th century CE is a UNESCO World Heritage Site, along with the Brihadeeswara Temple at Thanjavur, the Gangaikondacholisvaram Temple at Gangaikonda Cholapuram that are referred to as the Great Living Chola Temples.

Anglo Marri wars

After this war, in 1843 CE, Marri once again gone in uprising against the British forces and they gave much trouble.

In 1880 CE, during the Second Afghan War Marri tribesmen made frequent raids on the British line of communications, ending with the plunder of a treasure convoy.

The relations of Marri with the British commenced in 1840 CE with attacks made on the communications of Sir John Keane's army, after it had passed through the Bolan Pass.

Ezinge

A golden pommel, closely resembling the one found in Sutton Hoo indicates a close cultural connection to the Anglo-Saxons in Great Britain in the 6th and 7th century CE.

Familialism

Arius Didymus in Stobaeus, 1st century CE, wrote that "A primary kind of association (politeia) is the legal union of a man and woman for begetting children and for sharing life".

Foot drill

Vegetius composed his treatise on the Roman Empire's military, De Re Militari, at some point between 378 and 390 CE during the reign of Valentinian II in the Western Roman Empire.

History of the Jews in Greece

The first recorded mention of Judaism in Greece dates from 300-250 Before Common Era (BCE) on the island of Rhodes.

Kantoli

Kantoli was an ancient kingdom suspected to be located somewhere between Jambi and Palembang in southern Sumatra around the 5th century of the common era.

Mandarava

Mandarava, born a princess in Mandi, Himachal Pradesh, India in the 8th Century CE, renounced her royal birthright in order to practice the Dharma, and became a fully realized spiritual adept and great teacher.

Twrch Trwyth

But a richly elaborate account of the great hunt appears in the Welsh prose romance Culhwch and Olwen, probably written around 1100 CE.

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