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  Chronofile: BCE Section-09   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
In 332 BC-331 BCE, Alexander was welcomed as a liberator in Egypt and was pronounced the "son of Zeus" by Egyptian priests of the god Ammon at the Oracle of the god at the Siwa Oasis in the Libyan desert.
King Perdiccas of Macedonia was killed in a battle with the Illyrians in 359 BCE and the twenty-two year old Phillip convinced the Macedonian leaders to recognize him as king during the crisis instead of the infant heir (his nephew).
In 168 BCE, the resistance of the Hasmoneans to the efforts of Antiochus IV, The Seleucid, to Hellenize and re-establish an idol-worshiping polytheism reached a peak.
hometown.aol.com /eilatlog/chronofile/timeBCE-09.html   (5009 words)

  
 BCE plans up to 4,000 job cuts, business spinoffs
As of Wednesday, BCE reported a fourth-quarter profit of $413 million (44 cents a share), down from $417 million (45 cents per share) in the same quarter a year earlier.
For the current year, BCE is projecting revenue growth of between one and three per cent, while earnings per share are expected to come in between $1.80 and $1.90.
BCE plans to distribute about half of the units of the trust to its shareholders and retain the rest.
www.cbc.ca /money/story/2006/02/01/bce-060201.html   (1441 words)

  
 History   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
The irregular tree ring signatures between bristlecone pine at 1627 BCE and the sync of 1626 BCE in the Irish bog are actually 91 years apart so that by natural extension the sequence constructs between the end of GB2 and Teeshan that begins at 13 BCE are incorrect in sync.
The near century gap of *missing* oaks between the end of the Dorsey extended chronology (95 BCE) to the beginning of Teeshan (13 BCE) is caused by the incorrect sync.
Comment A down dating of the Thera (Santorini) eruption from 1628/7 BCE to 1530 BCE would be held by Egyptologists as a vindication of Egyptian conventional chronology, but there has never been any substantial reason to connect the 18th dynasty to this Thera (Santorini) eruption.
www.scn.org /~bb089   (1727 words)

  
 300BCE
Jesus the son of Sirach (about 200 BCE), a Jewish scholar, wrote down a compilation of the wisdom he had gathered during his life.
He extolled the value of health over riches, advised occupying a dwelling of one's own no matter how humble, advocated cheerfulness and being comfortable with one's life, warned against disruptive passions, and urged that one should not defraud oneself of one good day, for there is no luxury to be enjoyed in the grave.
Tiruvalluvar (First Century BCE) was a Tamil poet believed to have been born in Madras (now called Chennai) in south eastern India.
www.humanistictexts.org /200bce-200ce.htm   (862 words)

  
 The Nabatean Kings
Aretas 11 was a contemporary of the Hasmonean king Alexander Jannaeus, whose expansionist policies were a direct threat to the Nabatean kingdom.
Obodas I ascended the throne in 90 BCE and defeated Alexander Jannaeus in a battle on the Golan Heights-probably the key to the Nabatean return to the Negev.
In 65 BCE the Nabatean army besieged Jerusalem, but its attack was to end the following year when the Romans appeared in the East.
www.jewishvirtuallibrary.org /jsource/History/nabkings.html   (657 words)

  
 History of Iran: Parthian Empire
After the fall of the Achaemenid Empire, Parthia, northeastern Iran, was governed by the Seleucid kings: a Macedonian dynasty that ruled in the Asian territories of the former Persian Empire.
In July 141 BCE Mithradates captured the Seleucid capital Seleucia, and in October he reached Uruk in the south of Babylonia.
In 69 BCE, the two enemies concluded a treaty: the Euphrates would be the border.
www.iranchamber.com /history/parthians/parthians.php   (1968 words)

  
 Send BCE back to its Bell roots   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Another way of looking at BCE is to compare its total operations with those of its major core holding, Bell Canada.
BCE was created in the mid-1980s by Jean de Grandpré to get Bell Canada's profits out from under the control of regulators.
BCE grew out of a regulated government-protected monopoly, but almost two decades of experience suggest the company has yet to make the transition to full independence.
www.legal-rights.org /bcebellbev.html   (1799 words)

  
 Timeline of Indo-Greek Kingdoms - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
After around 100 BCE, Indian kings recovered the area of Mathura and Eastern Punjab east of the Ravi River, and started to mint their own coins.
During the 1st century BCE, the Indo-Greeks progressively lost ground against the invasion of the Indo-Scythians, until the last king Strato II ended his ruled in Eastern Punjab around 10 CE.
Territories of the Paropamisadae, Arachosia and Gandhara (130 - 95 BCE):
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/Timeline_of_Indo-Greek_Kingdoms   (922 words)

  
 King Hermaeus - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
90-70 BCE) was one of the last Western Indo-Greek kings, who ruled in the Hindu-Kush territory of the Paropamisadae, with his capital in Alexandria of the Caucasus, near today's Kabul in Afghanistan.
The "king on a pracing horse" is characteristic of the contemporary Greek kings in the eastern Punjab such as Hippostratos, and it has been suggested that the coin represented a marital alliance between the two dynastic lines.
Later Yinmofu (Hermaeus?) himself is recorded to have killed Chinese envoys in the reign of Emperor Yuandi (48-33 BCE), then sent envoys to apologize to the Chinese court, but he was disregarded.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/King_Hermaeus   (883 words)

  
 Nova Roma - Aquila
On the highest of the enclosed hills, the acropolis was situated; on the surrounding plateau of Mercatello was the main residential area.
Although allied with Rome against the Gauls in 354 BCE, the Samnites were soon involved in a series of three wars (343-341), (316-304), (298-290) against the Romans.
They also fought from 90 BCE in the Social War, and later in the Civil War against Lucius Cornelius Sulla, who defeated them at the Battle of Colline Gate (82 BCE).
www.novaroma.org /aquila/january/01.htm   (498 words)

  
 The Handbook of Biblical Numismatics
8th century BCE) it took a few hundred years for this vital commercial development to result in the issuance of coins in or near Judaea.
The earliest coins to depict a real person, rather than a mythological figure, were also the first money mentioned in the Bible (and the only coins referred to in the Old Testament).
Ezra 2:68-69 indicates that "some of the chief of the fathers, when they came to the house of the Lord which is at Jerusalem, offered freely for the house of God...
www.amuseum.org /book/page2.html   (761 words)

  
 Background for Optimates   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
Elected consul in 88 BCE, Sulla was granted command of the war against the Asian king Mithridates by the Senate.
After Sulla concluded the military affairs in Asia, he again marched on Rome with his army in 83 BCE and effectively suppressed the violence in the city.
He passed a law that there was to be no standing army anywhere in Italy, and he made it treasonable to lead an army into Rome (trying to prevent others from doing exactly what he had done).
www.vroma.org /~bmcmanus/optimates.html   (290 words)

  
 Civilization Achievements: 350,000- 90,000 BCE
During 150,000 BCE, a tool making method, referred to as Mousterian, has been uncovered in locations, such as Biache, which can be found in the northwestern section of France.
When 130,000 BCE rolls around, different materials are being used to create items that we still use today.
By 90,000 BCE, the Democratic Republic of Congo is where barbed bone harpoons and points are thought to originate during this time period.
www.unexplainable.net /artman/publish/article_3306.shtml   (799 words)

  
 The D'Agostino Chronology
5:9 Enosh 90 at the birth of Kenan 90 3849 BCE Gen.
5:15 Mahalalel 65 at the birth of Jared 65 3714 BCE Gen 5:18 Jared 162 at the birth of Enoch 162 3552 BCE Gen.
5:21 Enoch 65 at the birth of Methuselah 65 3487 BCE Gen.
members.tripod.com /~toncxjo/chronos.html   (1574 words)

  
 History of the Indo-Greek Kingdom - Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia
The territory ruled by Demetrius, from Bactria to Punjab, was then separated between western and eastern parts, and ruled by several sub-kings and successor kings.
Territory from Gandhara/Western Punjab to Mathura (125 - 100 BCE):
After around 100 BCE, Indian kings recovered the area of Mathura and Eastern Punjab east of the Ravi River, and minted their own coins.
en.wikipedia.org /wiki/History_of_the_Indo-Greek_Kingdom   (935 words)

  
 The Modern Magazine for Persian Weddings, Cuisine, Culture & Community
In 211 BCE, Artabanus I became ruler and increased Parthian domains over his rule, including the annexation of the Iranian Plateau and Tigris/Euphrates River Valley.
In 92 BCE, Mithridates II struck the first treaty between Parthia and Rome wehre Euphrates was established as a mutual boundary.
In 53 BCE, the Parthians won against the Romans and beheaded Crassus, the Roman Emperor.
www.persianmirror.com /culture/history/sassanid.cfm   (766 words)

  
 A Small Dose Of... The History of Toxicology
Antiquity (2000 BCE-476 CE Shen Nung (2696 BCE)
Homer (about 850 BCE) Wrote of the use of arrows poisoned with venom in the epic tale of The Odyssey and The Iliad.
Socrates was charged with religious heresy and corrupting the morals of local youth.
www.asmalldoseof.org /historyoftox/antiquity.htox.php   (490 words)

  
 Coinage of Ancient Athens - The Coins
Some coins are enlarged and enhanced where noted to present a better image for detail and study.
22.89-92 AA77 Agora states this is a rare issue, connected by the amphora to another issue of this time which were probably struck in conjunction with a celebration f the Greater Panathenaia, held for the first time in 198 BCE after the alliance with Rome.
Athens, Attica mid 90's to early 80's BCE
www.medievalcrusades.com /athens/thecoins.htm   (511 words)

  
 Rome: Shaw's Outline of Ancient History
Marius served in 90 BCE as legate under Rutilius Lupus the consul.
And as for Sulla, all his friends were put to death, his house was razed to the ground, his property was declared forfeit and he was declared an enemy of the state.
Battle of the Colline Gate 1st November 82 BCE [Appian I.80-96] Praeneste surrendered and Marius II had his head hung in the forum.
www.juyayay.com /outline/rome   (2753 words)

  
 McMaster Museum of Art: Roman Coins Colection - Timeline
The Greek cities of Southern Italy influenced Rome's earliest silver coins both stylistically and in denominations.
appeared in the last decade of the fourth century B.C. In 289 BCE, a college of moneyers was established in Rome.
The first silver didrachm to be struck in Rome proper (the "Hercules/wolf and twins" issue) was coined in 269 BCE Altogether, six didrachm types were issued, the last being called a quadrigatus from its reverse type, Jupiter in a four-horse chariot.
arendt.mcmaster.ca /~coins/timeline.php   (186 words)

  
 Tentative Translation: Roman Citizen? No thanks
In 91 BCE with the assassination of tribunus plebis, Marcus Livius Drusus, the Italic peoples gave up the hope of obtaining Roman citizenship peacefully.
(End: 90 BCE) The Praetor Lucius Porcius Cato was sent to Etruria and the legatus to Plotius in Umbria in order to quell some rebellions and to prevent their escalation.
One which should be remembered: The year 88 BCE marked the definitive end of freedom from Roman dominion and the Italian confederation died, preannounced by the portent of an acute and lugubrious note from a single bugle.
www.mysteriousetruscans.com /posts/TT15MM76.html   (637 words)

  
 1. Bible and Monotheism
Prior to this, the sacred texts of Judaism consisted of a library of separate texts, each written on a scroll of which most were rewritten by the Prophet Ezekiel in the 6th and 5th century BCE during the captivity of the Jews in Babylon.
It was not until the year 90 BCE in a council held at Jamnia (Jabneh, Palestine) that the Jewish community achieved agreement on which works were to be considered canon (scriptures that are binding in matters of doctrine and practice).
During the first and second centuries BCE, many different Jewish works were written, some in prophetic style and others in the genre of literature or history, books that did not become canonized by the Jewish community.
www.earth-history.com /Earth-01.htm   (3155 words)

  
 Internet Ancient History Sourcebook: Rome
The Landings of Caesar in Britain, 55 and 54 BCE [At Athenapub]
Strabo (64/3 BCE- c.21 CE): The Grandeur of Rome, c.
A Roman Harvest Sacrifice, from Cato, On Agriculture 134, 160 BCE [At enteract.com]
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/asbook09.html   (3375 words)

  
 Ancient History Sourcebook: Mithridates & The Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61 BCE
Mithridates and The Roman Conquests in the East, 90-61 BCE
In Mithridates, king of Pontus (reigned 120 to 63 BCE), the Romans found their most formidable enemy, save only Hannibal.
That he was a foe worthy to contend with Sulla, Lucullus, and Pompey is testified to in the following selection from Appian.
www.fordham.edu /halsall/ancient/mithradates1.html   (1341 words)

  
 Mencius [Internet Encyclopedia of Philosophy]
Better known in China as “Master Meng” (Chinese: Mengzi), Mencius was a fourth-century BCE Chinese thinker whose importance in the Confucian tradition is second only to that of Confucius himself.
145-90 BCE), which states that he was a native of Zou (Tsou), a small state near Confucius' home state of Lu in the Shandong peninsula of northeastern China.
Mencius was born in a period of Chinese history known as the Warring States (403-221 BCE), during which various states competed violently against one another for mastery of all of China, which once was unified under the Zhou dynasty until its collapse, for all intents and purposes, in 771 BCE.
www.utm.edu /research/iep/m/mencius.htm   (4812 words)

  
 Roman constitution
1000 BCE Italy was overwhelmed by war-like invaders, made iron tools and spoke a language known as Italic.
Tiberius and brother Gaius were murdered because their methods for instituting these ideas aroused the hatred of the aristocracy.
This began soldier loyalty to generals instead of the Senate and the republic.
virtual.yosemite.cc.ca.us /mkehoe/romanlecture.htm   (391 words)

  
 NATURE ARMENIA | Armenia Travel | TourArmenia | Travel Guide to Armenia
The Ararat Valley is one of the oldest settled areas in the ancient world, as excavations in suburban Yerevan illustrate.
A 90,000 BCE Stone Age settlement was uncovered on the shores of Lake Yerevan opposite Shengavit, exposing hunting tools and implements made from obsidian, crude mudpack and cave dwellings, and the earliest religious artifacts uncovered on the Armenian Plateau.
The wheat is the closest thing we have to that which ancient man first cultivated on a large scale.
www.tacentral.com /nature/natural_story.asp?story_no=6   (1375 words)

  
 Appendix C:  Part 1 - Timeline of Events, 753 BCE - 1687   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
You are currently viewing Part One [753 BCE - 1687].
3300 BCE - The Sumerian city-states are formed, and cuneiform writing is invented.
Israel and Judah split north - south in 931 BCE.
www.agh-attorneys.com /3_camo_appendix_c0_.htm   (7210 words)

  
 Timeline of Events in Classical China   (Site not responding. Last check: 2007-11-07)
He writes the Tao-te Ching and founds the Taoist school of thought.
On diplomatic errands, Confucius assists at ceremony during meeting between Duke Ting of Lu and Duke Ching of Ch'i in Chia Ku (500 BCE)
Confucius passes throug Sung on way to Ch'en when Huan T'ui was said to have attempted to assassinate him (c.496-493?)
web.cn.edu /kwheeler/chinese_timeline.html   (536 words)

  
 Ancient Authors on Herakles
Euripides was born on Salamis Island in 480 BCE.
Publius Ovidius Naso was born on March 20, 43 BC, in Sulmo, just 90 miles from Rome, to a well-off family.
Vergil was born near Mantua in 70 BCE.
people.uncw.edu /deagona/herakles/authors.htm   (2680 words)

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