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1. Cyrus the Great overthrows Croesus King of Lydia
280
4 BCE
546 BCE
400 BCE

2. Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great
550 BCE
230 BCE
465 BCE
500 BCE

3. Foundation of the Persian Empire by Cyrus the Great
c. 600 BCE
550 BCE
c. 512 BCE
546 BCE

4. Death of Emperor Ashoka the Great; Decline of the Mauryan Empire
220
29
232 BCE
465 BCE

5. Battle of Adrianople - Roman army is defeated by the Germanic tribes.
146 BCE
111 BCE
378
325

6. Zapotec culture flourishes around city of Monte Alb
551 BCE
c. 100 BCE
400 BCE
384 BCE

7. The construction of Marib Dam in Arabia Felix
700 BCE
500 BCE
313
44 BCE

8. The Fall of the Babylonian Empire and liberation of the Jews by Cyrus the Great
525 BCE
529 BCE
354
539 BCE

9. Birth of Aristotle
384 BCE
480 BCE
660 BCE
230 BCE

10. Nanda dynasty comes to power.
410
424 BCE
202 BCE
321 BCE

11. Rise of Persian Empire
653 BCE
c. 100 BCE
313
326 BCE

12. Rise of the Median Empire
354
728 BCE
400 BCE
500 BCE

13. Fall of the Parthian Empire and Rise of the Sassanian Empire.
600 BCE
483 BCE
49 BCE
226

14. Kingdom of Nan Yueh extends from North Vi?t Nam to Canton
447 BCE
200s
207 BCE
404 BCE

15. Purported date of the accession of Jimmu - the mythical first Emperor of Japan
660 BCE
185 BCE
79
700 BCE

16. Sunga Empire founded.
18 BCE
354
4 BCE
185 BCE

17. Pingala uses zero and binary numeral system
354
500 BCE
9
424 BCE

18. Chola dynasty rises in prominence.
447 BCE
384 BCE
508 BCE
c. 100 BCE

19. Th?c Dynasty takes over Vi?t Nam (then Kingdom of
429 BCE
586 BCE
479 BCE
257 BCE

20. Rise of Magadha as the dominant power under Bimbisara.
70
c. 200 BCE
539 BCE
544 BCE

21. Birth of Augustine of Hippo
354
465 BCE
146 BCE
722 BCE

22. First Peloponnesian War betweenAthens and Sparta
600 BCE
4 BCE
460 BCE
432 BCE

23. First recorded Olympic Games. The history of the Games is believed to reach as far back as the 13th century BCE but no older written record survives.
230 BCE
776 BCE
230 BCE
331 BCE

24. Roman Civil War between Julius Caesar and Pompey the Great
226
14
49 BCE
9

25. Warring States Period begins in China as the Zhou king became a mere figurehead; China is annexed by regional warlords
508 BCE
475 BCE
285
700 BCE

26. Mahavira - founder of Jainism is born
728 BCE
479 BCE
722 BCE
549 BCE

27. Romulus Augustus - last Western Roman Emperor is forced to abdicate by Odoacer - a chieftain of the Germanic Heruli; Odoacer returns the imperial regalia to Eastern Roman Emperor Zeno in Constantinople in return for the title of dux of Italy; most fr
476
479 BCE
728 BCE
600 BCE

28. First Chinese domination of Vi?t Nam in the form of the Nanyue Kingdom.
700 BCE
483 BCE
111 BCE
586 BCE

29. Birth of Aristotle
c. 100 BCE
331 BCE
384 BCE
79

30. Three Kingdoms period begins in China after the fall of Han Dynasty.
335
600 BCE
220
250 BCE

31. Emperor Diocletian splits the Roman Empire into Eastern and Western Empires.
285
546 BCE
6 BCE
c. 600 BCE

32. Democracy instituted atAthens
117
508 BCE
273 BCE
285

33. Destruction of Pompeii by the volcano Vesuvius.
500 BCE
551 BCE
79
480 BCE

34. Pandyan kingdom in SouthIndia
745 BCE
146 BCE
653 BCE
c. 600 BCE

35. Han Dynasty established in China - after the death of Qin Shi Huang; China in this period officially becomes a Confucian state and opens trading connections with the West - i.e. the Silk Road
70
202 BCE
653 BCE
230 BCE

36. completion of Euclid's Elements
c. 500 BCE
546 BCE
551 BCE
c. 455

37. Evidence of writing system appear in Oaxaca used by the Zapotec civilization
404 BCE
600 BCE
200 BCE
722 BCE

38. Death of Socrates
399 BCE
c. 600 BCE
230 BCE
202 BCE

39. Samudragupta becomes the emperor of the Gupta empire.
753 BCE
483 BCE
335
529 BCE

40. Purported date of the accession of Jimmu - the mythical first Emperor of Japan
660 BCE
185 BCE
192
612 BCE

41. Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) - founder of Buddhism is born as a prince of the Shakya tribe - which ruled parts of Magadha - one of the Maha Janapadas
c. 100 BCE
563 BCE
476
479 BCE

42. Death of Alexander the Great at Babylon
4 BCE
323 BCE
9
550 BCE

43. Emergence of Satavahanas in SouthIndia
c. 500 BCE
546 BCE
230 BCE
111 BCE

44. Cambyses II of Persia conquers Egypt
525 BCE
325
500 BCE
70

45. Attributed date of the destruction of Nineveh and subsequent fall of Assyria.
6 BCE
500 BCE
612 BCE
200s

46. Destruction of theFirst Temple in Jerusalem (Solomon's Temple) by the Babylonians
586 BCE
460 BCE
200s
546 BCE

47. Roman Emperor Theodosius I outlaws all pagan religions in favour of Christianity.
395
226
600 BCE
335

48. Three Kingdoms period begins in Korea.
18 BCE
525 BCE
354
49 BCE

49. Roman Emperor Theodosius I outlaws all pagan religions in favour of Christianity.
586 BCE
354
395
323 BCE

50. Confucius - founder of Confucianism - is born
525 BCE
117
c. 455
551 BCE

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