33
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| Death of Jesus Christ
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50
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| Aksum line of Ethiopian kings start rule
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60
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| Boadicaea and Iceni tribe's revolt against Rome fails
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67
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| Death of St Paul
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68
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| Death of Emperor Nero
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70
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| Jerusalem destroyed by Romans after rebellion
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79
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| Destruction of Pompei by Vesuvius volcano
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100
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| Bantu people of West Africa start to spread south and east
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113
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| Death of Pliny the Younger (writer)
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117
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| Roman Empire at greatest extent under Hadrian
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120
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| Death of Plutarch (biographer and writer)
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122
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| Hadrian's Wall built in Britain
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135
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| Emperor Hadrian completes destruction of Palestine
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140
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| Death of Juvenal (poet and Stoic)
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150
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| High Mayan society in Guatemala and Mexico
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180
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| Beginning of the decline of the Roman Empire
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200
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| Death of Claudius Galen (physician)
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200
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| Silk, porcelain and tea exported to west on Silk Road
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214
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| Goths from Baltic infiltrate as far south as Black Sea
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220
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| End of Han Dynasty - China divided for 3 centuries
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250
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| Classic period of Mayan civilization
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267
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| Goths overrun Greece, capture Athens and sack other cities
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300
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| Ambrosian Chants one of earliest forms of Western music
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315
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| Under Diocletian, Roman Empire split into East (Byzantine) and West
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320
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| Gupta dynasty reunites India and arts flourish
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330
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| Emperor Constantine builds Constantinople (Byzantium)
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367
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| Picts, Scots and Saxons invade Britain
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372
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| Huns from Asia penetrate into Europe
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400
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| Japanese states united by Yamato clan
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400
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| Shinto cult in Japan
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400
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| Ghana controls important African gold trade
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410
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| Rome sacked by Alaric the Visigoth
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415
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| Visigoths invade Spain
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429
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| Vandals invade North Africa and Spain
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446
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| Romans pull out of Britain
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452
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| Attila the Hun invades Gaul and Italy - repelled by Romans
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476
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| Romulus Augustulus, last Western Roman Emperor, deposed
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481
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| Francs under Clovis found Merovingian Kingdom in Gaul
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489
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| Ostrogoths, under Byzantine rule, govern Italy
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492
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| St Patrick completes Christian conversion of Ireland
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500
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| King Arthur and Knights of Round Table (legendary)
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520
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| Zen form of Buddhism introduced to China from India
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527
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| Accession of Emperor Justinian - Code of Civil Law
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529
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| Monte Cassino, main monastery of Benedictine order, established
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537
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| Hagia Sophia cathedral built in Constantinople
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550
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| White Huns from the north west destroy Indian empire
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552
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| Byzantines complete conquest of Italy and Spain
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581
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| Sui Dynasty - China reunited
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586
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| German Lombards divide Italy with Byzantine and Papacy
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597
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| Pope Gregory the Great sends St Augustine to convert Britons
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600
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| China's Grand Canal (longest canal system in world) rebuilt
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600
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| Khmer Empire established in Indo-China
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600
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| Jewish Talmud written
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618
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| T'ang Dynasty in China - arts and literature thrive
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622
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| Hejira - Prophit Mohammed's immigration from Mecca to Medina
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