Events
Displaying events 1 - 300 of 1136 in total
ID | Category | Subcategory | Date | Summary |
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5236 | Society | People | 490BC | Zeno of Elea |
5252 | Society | People | 334BC | Zeno of Citium, founder of Stoicism |
5367 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Younger Dryas impact hypothesis; Clovis comet cause Holocene extinction, global cooling |
5440 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1500BC | Yaz culture; early Iranian culture as described in Avesta; sky burial |
5401 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 3600BC | Yamna or Yamnaya culture; Pit Grave Culture; Ochre Grave Culture, develops on the Pontic Steppes |
5241 | Society | People | 430BC | Xenophon |
5231 | Society | People | 570BC | Xenophanes |
2296 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 147BC | Wrath of God strikes Antioch; possible overhead comet explosion |
5158 | Archeology | Epigraphic Evidence | 1650BC | Worldwide effects of Theran Eruption - China |
5176 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Widespread site abandonment in Central Asia |
5174 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 2300BC | Widespread destruction event, possible Tunguska-like |
2783 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 119BC | White torch flashed from East to West observed in Babylon |
2284 | Society | War | 631AD | Wends lay waste Francia and Thuringia - Saxons cease to pay tribute |
5342 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 166BC | Water poured from foot of Equestrian statue; on the Quirinal hill blood drenched the earth |
4511 | Society | War | 305AD | Wars and Revolts |
5638 | Society | War | 571BC Nov. 25 | War with Veii and the Etruscans, under Servius Tullius |
5639 | Society | War | 509BC | War with Veii and Tarquinii, after the overthrow of the monarchy in 509 BC |
5644 | Society | War | 359BC | War with Tarquinii, Falerii and Caere; 307 Romans sacrificed by the Tarquinienses |
5636 | Society | War | 763BC | War with Fidenae and Veii under Romulus |
5640 | Society | War | 508BC | War with Etruscan Clusium; siege of Rome |
5641 | Society | War | 505BC | War between Rome and the Sabines/Etruscans |
5279 | Society | War | 382BC | War between Rome and Praeneste |
4613 | Society | War | 250AD | War between Emperor Decius' Romans and the Goths around Philippopolis |
5629 | Society | War | 494BC | Volscians, the Aequi, and the Sabines join forces against Rome; defense by debtor-army |
5275 | Society | War | 495BC | Volscian invasion; Rome's plebs refuse to fight without reforms and debt relief |
2907 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 350BC | Volcanic eruption, earthquakes and tsunami on the island of Pithecussae |
5210 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 360BC | Volcanic eruption on the Island of Vulcano |
5287 | Society | Prodigy | 377BC | Voice heard from temple of Mater Matuta during burning of Satricum |
1320 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 253BC | Violent Storm in the Mediterranean |
2685 | Society | Mass Death | 379BC | Violent plague killed many Carthiginians |
5298 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 253BC | Violent hail storm in Babylon |
4525 | Environment | Strong Winds | 60AD | Violent and continuous storms during visit of a comet |
5426 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5700BC | Vinča culture, Balkans, earliest copper metallurgy |
5412 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 900BC | Villanovan culture of central and northern Italy related to the Central European Urnfield culture |
5253 | Archeology | Volcanic Eruption Evidence | 1780BC | Vesuvius Vented Its Wrath during Bronze Age |
519 | Geology | Volcanic Eruption | 217BC | Vesuvius thundered, hurling flames and rock |
5618 | Society | Expiation | 215BC | Vestals Floronia and Opimia convicted of unchastity; one buried alive at the Colline Gate, other suicide |
5528 | Society | Laws and legal system | 700BC | Vestal Virgins; state supported priestesses |
5616 | Society | Expiation | 114BC | Vestal Virgins Aemilia, Licinia, and Martia buried alive for unchastity |
253 | Celestial | Comet | 79AD Mar. 22 | Vespasian's comet |
5202 | Celestial | Comet | 1140BC | Very large, bright comet or meteor with tail like a scorpion observed in Babylon |
5378 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 10900BC | Very high-temperature impact melt products as evidence for cosmic airbursts and impacts 12,900 years ago |
2839 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 294BC | Very bright meteor with tail, fall of fire observed by Babylonians |
2826 | Celestial | Meteor or Meteorite | 367BC | Very bright fireball observed in Babylon |
5681 | Society | War | 52BC Sep. | Vercingetorix defeated at the battle of Alesia |
1268 | Celestial | Other | 612BC | Venus "casts a shadow by its rays" (Pythagoras) |
5550 | Society | Laws and legal system | 299BC | Valerian law allowed a Roman citizen, condemned by a magistrate to death or scourging, the right of appeal to the people |
5468 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2300BC | Urukagina; first law code in recorded history |
5458 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5000BC | Uruk of Sumer; early state formation and urbanization |
5383 | Society | Economy | 1300BC | Urnfield Culture appears in Central Europe; grows out of Tumulus culture |
5632 | Society | Expiation | 470BC | Urbinia, a Vestal Virgin, tried and executed for unchastity |
5406 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 860BC | Urartu, Ararat, Vannic Kingdom, successor of the Late Bronze Age Hurrian state of Mitanni |
4562 | Society | Mass Death | 189AD | Up to two thousand die in Rome from last wave of the Antonine Plague in a single day |
5475 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 147BC | Unusual, repeated lightning strikes reported at Rome associated with comet and red sky |
4911 | Environment | Ice | 855AD (Win.) | Unusual ice-slick in Black Sea region, Bulgaria, Byzantium |
5386 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 2600BC | Umm an-Nar culture in northern Oman and Abu Dhabi; beehive tombs with pottery vessels of Mesopotamian origin |
4515 | Environment | Strong Winds | 358AD Aug. 23 | Typhoons, whirlwinds and violent raging storms |
648 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 204BC | Two suns seen, ring around moon |
488 | Celestial | Comet | 729AD Jan. | Two comets appear for 14 days to the great terror of the beholders |
5723 | Society | Politics | 414BC | Turmoil over attempt to take annexed land from aristocrats and give to the people |
5156 | Archeology | Tsunami Evidence | 1650BC | Tsunami generated by Theran eruption |
2646 | Geology | Tsunami | 479BC Mar. 29 | Tsunami drowns Persian army ending siege of Potidea, model for Exodus story |
2708 | Geology | Tsunami | 325BC Nov. | Tsunami destroys much of Alexander's fleet in India |
5399 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1700BC | Trzciniec culture of Eastern Europe develops around Łódź; spread to parts of Poland and Western Ukraine; from Corded Ware culture |
5730 | Society | Politics | 398BC | Tribunes elected are all patrician after augurs say pestilence due to plebeians in high office |
5695 | Society | Laws and legal system | 480BC | Tribune attempts to introduce land reform bill |
1154 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2349BC | Tree ring evidence, Ireland, "Noah's flood" |
5223 | Society | People | 771BC Mar. 28 | Traditional Birth of Romulus, founder and King of Rome |
1309 | Environment | Plasma Event | 73BC | Town-councillor of Pompei, Marcus Herennius, struck by a thunderbolt on a fine day. |
1633 | Archeology | Tsunami Evidence | 6000BC | Towering ancient tsunami in Mediterranean, Etna avalanche |
2825 | Environment | Tornados and Watersprouts | 367BC | Tornadoes in Babylon |
5389 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 7640BC | Tollmann's hypothetical bolide impact event |
5585 | Society | People | 110BC | Titus Pomponius Atticus; friend, correspondent, and publisher of Cicero |
5260 | Society | People | 361BC | Titus Manlius Torquatus single combat with gigantic Gaul - David and Goliath type story |
5563 | Society | People | 64BC | Titus Livius, historian of Rome |
5622 | Society | Politics | 501BC | Titus Lartius first Roman dictator |
5599 | Society | Politics | 49BC | Titus Labienus, traitor to Caesar |
5529 | Society | Assassination | 52BC Jan. 18 | Titus Annius Milo Papianus murders Clodius triggering anarchy in Rome |
59 | Celestial | Comet | 345BC | Timoleon's Torch; a 'Mane-shaped' comet changed into a spear |
5215 | Society | People | 345BC | Timaeus of Tauromenium |
5090 | Society | Politics | 745BC | Tiglath-Pileser III siezes Assyrian throne |
5404 | Society | People | 1114BC | Tiglath-Pileser I; made Assyria the leading power of the Middle East |
1446 | Environment | Flood | 54BC | Tiber floods for many days; many people and animals killed, many buildings destroyed in Rome |
1463 | Environment | Plasma Event | 49BC | Thunderbolts over Dyrrachium and Rome |
388 | Environment | Plasma Event | 190BC | Thunderbolts from a clear sky strike many towns around Rome; two persons killed |
2643 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 480BC Aug. | Thunderbolts and rocks fall from mountain peaks on Persian troops |
4510 | Environment | Plasma Event | 305AD | Thunderbolts |
1311 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 115BC | Thunderbolt strikes temple of Juno during consulship of Marcus Aemilius Scaurus |
5206 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 388BC | Thunderbolt falls killing several men |
5483 | Environment | Unusual Sounds | 137BC | Thunder from a clear sky near Rome |
2641 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 480BC Mar. | Thunder and fiery winds, many in Persian army perish |
1288 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 174BC | Three suns seen in the consulships of Spurius Postumius and Quintus Mucius |
1289 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 118BC | Three suns seen at once during consulships of Quintus Marcius and Marcus Porcius |
1325 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 223BC | Three moons visible from Italy |
75 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 73BC | Third Servile War, Spartacus, Crassus, Pompey |
5542 | Society | Politics | 445BC | Third Secession of the Plebs demanding rights to consulship and marriage between patricians and plebeians: Lex de conubio patrum et plebis |
5263 | Society | War | 298BC | Third Samnite War, peoples of Italy unite against Rome |
23 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 146BC (Spr.) | Third Punic War, Siege of Carthage |
5592 | Society | War | 73BC | Third Mithridatic War; Rome vs Mithridates VI |
5324 | Society | War | 171BC | Third Macedonian War between Rome and King Perseus of Macedon |
5415 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2112BC | Third Dynasty of Ur, Neo-Sumerian Empire, Law Code of Ur-Nammu |
5159 | Archeology | Comet/Asteroid Evidence | 1650BC | Theran eruption/possible comet/asteroid event related |
5365 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 10900BC | The Younger Dryas; sharp decline in temperature over most of the northern hemisphere |
1880 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 623AD | The wendish Slavs revolt against the Huns |
4561 | Society | War | 632AD | The wendish Slavs raid Frankish kingdom and Thuringia |
5408 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1600BC | The Tumulus culture dominates Central Europe |
5604 | Society | Laws and legal system | 63BC Mar. | The trial of Gaius Rabirius (senator): involved in the death of Lucius Appuleius Saturninus |
5334 | Celestial | Fire in the sky | 163BC | The sky blazed with fire |
1845 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 452AD | The scourge of God and leader of the Huns Attila destroys many cities in Italy |
5273 | Society | War | 503BC | The Pometian revolt against Rome |
2260 | Environment | Unusual Fire | 110AD | The Pantheon is set on fire by lightning |
611 | Geology | Earthquake | 814AD | The palace at Aix-la-Chapelle frequently trembles |
5345 | Society | War | 166BC | The Ligurian Gauls were destroyed |
4719 | Celestial | Fire in the sky | 563AD Oct. 1 | The heavens seem to burn |
518 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 217BC | The heavens burst open with a fearful crash, and the countenance of the Thunderer was revealed. |
5385 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 1100BC | The Greek Dark Age following widespread collapse of Bronze Age civilization in the eastern Mediterranean |
5485 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 137BC | The Fucine lake overflowed; red water emerged from the ground |
5642 | Society | War | 483BC | The Fabian war with Veii |
2910 | Geology | Other | 120BC | The Cymbrian Flood; Jutland penninsula |
5656 | Society | Politics | 63BC Oct. 27 | The conspiracy of Catiline fails to materialize; Cicero's credibility collapses; threatened with a court of inquiry |
2413 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 760BC | The Amos Earthquake |
515 | Geology | Earthquake | 217BC | The Alps did not keep their place, and the Apennines were never still day or night among their vast gorges |
5731 | Geology | River/Water Table Anomalies | 398BC | The Alban Lake rose to an unusual height, without any rainfall or other cause; embassy sent to oracle at Delphi |
5372 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 7400BC | The 9.4 kiloyear "Bond" Event |
5364 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 6200BC | The 8.2 kiloyear "Bond" event; Misox oscillation; Finse event; sudden decrease in global temperatures |
5370 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 3900BC | The 5.9 kiloyear "Bond" event; intense aridification, cooling; triggered worldwide migrations |
5371 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 2200BC | The 4.2 kiloyear "Bond" event; aridification, cooling; empire collapse; cultural upheaval; mass migrations |
5374 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 9100BC | The 11.1 kiloyear "Bond" event |
5373 | Archeology | Climate Evidence | 8300BC | The 10.3 kiloyear "Bond" event |
5375 | Archeology | Mass Migration Evidence | 600BC | The 1.4 kiloyear "Bond" event; mass migration period |
5228 | Society | People | 624BC | Thales of Miletus philosopher and mathematician, one of the Seven Sages of Greece |
620 | Geology | Earthquake | 358AD (Sum.) | Terrible earthquakes take place in Macedonia, Asia Minor, and Pontus, overthrowing mountains |
5203 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 975BC | Terrible comet-like ball of fire seen over Ethiopia and Egypt |
5601 | Society | Politics | 47BC | Terentia, wife of Cicero, divorces him possibly because she was a supporter of Caesar |
5693 | Society | Laws and legal system | 497BC Dec. | Temple of Saturn dedicated; first Saturnalia in Rome |
5343 | Celestial | Wrath of God | 166BC | Temple of Salus was struck from the sky |
718 | Geology | Earthquake | 56BC | Temple of Juno turns from east to north in association with earthquake |
412 | Environment | Plasma Event | 190BC | Temple of Juno Lucina struck by lightning damaging a gable and the doors |
5694 | Society | Laws and legal system | 484BC Jul. | Temple of Castor and Pollux dedicated |
5222 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 700BC | Temple from the time of Numa Pompilius found |
5245 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 279BC | Tempest, hail, severe cold, snow, during Gallic invasion of Greece |
1632 | Archeology | Epigraphic Evidence | 1650BC | Tempest Stele with meteorological data erected by Pharaoh Ahmose, dates eruption of Thera |
5421 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8700BC | Tell Aswad settlement, Syria, invented bricks, trade network, domesticated emmer wheat |
5465 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 1800BC | Tarim mummies; tall, red-haired Europoids in W. China |
33 | Celestial | Comet | 146BC Aug. | Tangle Star observed in China |
123 | Celestial | Comet | 83BC | Tangle Star in Hercules observed in China |
5486 | Society | Prodigy | 135BC | Talking cow, hooting owl; portents of defeat of Roman army |
22 | Celestial | Comet | 153BC Feb. | Tailed Star Comet observed in China |
30 | Celestial | Comet | 172BC | Tailed Star Comet observed in China |
5437 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 800BC | Tagar culture south Siberia; bronze-smelting; Scythian circle |
5357 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 1190BC | Syrian Cities destroyed in conflagration during collapse of the Late Bronze Age |
5095 | Society | Mass Migration | 734BC | Syracuse Sicily founded |
5630 | Society | Expiation | 485BC | Supernatural portents expiated by punishment of Oppia, a Vestal virgin who was convicted of unchastity |
5488 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 14000BC | Sunduki the Siberian Stonehenge |
5344 | Celestial | Comet | 166BC | Sun was seen at night for some hours |
1296 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 122BC | Sun veiled in dust; haloes; darkness for several days following Etna eruption |
5480 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 137BC (Win.) | Sun veiled in dust, 'looked like the moon' |
2751 | Celestial | Halo | 165BC Oct. | Sun surrounded by two halos observed from Babylon |
5330 | Celestial | Halo | 163BC | Sun surrounded by halo observed from Babylon |
5476 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 147BC | Sun halos associated with comet, glowing red sky, possible comet dust |
656 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 203BC | Sun halo at Frusino |
2775 | Environment | Dust/Ash Veil | 125BC | Sun and moon haloes |
5461 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5500BC | Sumer: first urban civilization in Mesopotamia |
5509 | Society | Massacre | 86BC Feb. 12 | Sulla's siege of Athens |
5514 | Society | War | 82BC | Sulla's second civil war |
5513 | Society | War | 88BC | Sulla's First Civil War |
5515 | Society | Politics | 81BC | Sulla's dictatorship and reforms |
5545 | Society | Politics | 42BC Oct. 23 | Suicide death of Marcus Junius Brutus the Younger, leading assassin of Julius Caesar |
4509 | Environment | Atmospheric Prodigies | 358AD Aug. 23 | Sudden heavy black clouds and intense darkness descend over Nicromedia |
4507 | Environment | Strange Sounds | 358AD Aug. 23 | Strange crashing wave-like sounds and noises echosed from hill-tops in Nicromedia |
1482 | Environment | Strong Winds | 67AD (Win.) | Storm with violent winds, rain and lightning during the siege of the Zealot Temple |
1444 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 63BC | Storm at Rome tears up trees, destroys buildings, many people perished during consulship of Cicero. |
1805 | Archeology | Tsunami Evidence | 6000BC | Storegga slide tsunami, North Sea Doggerland |
5441 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 8000BC | Stonehenge complex early stages of development |
398 | Celestial | Falling Fire | 687BC Mar. 23 | Stars fall like rain, with rain, bright night without stars |
5414 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 6200BC | Starčevo–Kőrös–Criş culture, central and south central Europe, Romania to Serbia, Montenegro |
2329 | Celestial | Comet | 130AD | Star of Antinous |
5433 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 2000BC | Srubna culture; along the N. shore of Black Sea; precursors of Cimmerians? |
5429 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 4000BC | Sredny Stog culture on the Dnieper river, origin of Indo-Europeans? Horse domestication, corded ware pottery |
5295 | Society | People | 439BC | Spurius Maelius, advocate for the people, falsely accused and assassinated by Gaius Servilius Ahala |
5621 | Society | Politics | 486BC | Spurius Cassius Viscellinus authored agrarian law; accused of pandering to the masses and seeking kingship; executed |
5124 | Society | Mass Migration | 706BC | Spartans found Tarentum |
2664 | Geology | Earthquake | 414BC (Spr.) | Spartan military expedition against Argos abandoned due to earthquake |
1386 | Geology | Earthquake | 464BC | Sparta destroyed by earthquake, rocks fall from mountain peaks |
99 | Celestial | Comet | 119BC May 8 | Sparkling star, Long-tailed star observed in China |
43 | Celestial | Comet | 481BC Oct. | Sparkling star, Bushy Star observed in China |
18 | Celestial | Comet | 157BC Oct. 2 | Sparkling star with "trunk laid straight" observed in Babylon and China |
122 | Celestial | Comet | 84BC Mar. 12 | Sparkling Star observed in China |
37 | Celestial | Comet | 137BC May 28 | Sparkling star in Hercules 'as if the Sun appeared at night' observed by Babylonians, Chinese, poss. Romans |
29 | Celestial | Comet | 204BC Aug. 14 | Sparkling or Bushy Star near Arcturus |
1449 | Society | Prodigy | 53BC | Some statues sweated, some struck by lightning in Rome |
2923 | Geology | Tsunami | 144BC | Soldiers of Tryphon are drowned by a rogue wave; possible undersea landslide |
550 | Environment | Plasma Event | 363AD Apr. 7 | Soldier and two horses killed by lightning |
71 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 814AD | Solar eclipses are frequent during the last years before Charlemagne's death |
5187 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 765BC Feb. 10 | Solar eclipse, total, crosses Mediterranean |
5188 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 763BC Jun. 15 | Solar eclipse, total, crosses Arabia |
5167 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 709BC Jul. 17 | Solar eclipse, total crosses northern Italy |
2678 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 394BC Aug. 14 | Solar eclipse, Spartan defeat at the Battle of Cnidus |
5180 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 775BC Jan. 31 | Solar eclipse, partial, visible from central and southern Europe |
2607 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 763BC Jun. 15 | Solar eclipse, key to ancient chronology |
5162 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 717BC Jul. 5 | Solar eclipse, Descending cloud, blasts of wind and rain, disappearance/ascent of Romulus |
2882 | Society | War | 557BC May 19 | Solar eclipse, Cyrus the Great captures Larissa |
5196 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 480BC Oct. 2 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses north Africa |
5190 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 737BC Jul. 26 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses north Africa |
5181 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 771BC Nov. 8 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Mediterranean |
5179 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 778BC Apr. 4 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Mediterranean |
5178 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 791BC Jun. 24 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Mediterranean |
5189 | Celestial | Canonical Solar Eclipse | 744BC Dec. 9 | Solar eclipse, annular, crosses Central Europe |
2640 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 480BC Oct. 2 | Solar eclipse recorded by Herodotus |
2675 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 400BC Jun. 21 | Solar eclipse recorded by Ennius, reported by Cicero |
1550 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 664AD May 3 | Solar Eclipse of 664 |
5093 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 780BC Jun. 4 | Solar eclipse observed in China |
2854 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 89BC Sep. 29 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2784 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 112BC Jun. 18 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2765 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 133BC Feb. 13 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2761 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 136BC Apr. 15 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2863 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 195BC Jun. 6 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2736 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 203BC May 6 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2726 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 241BC Nov. 28 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2725 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 242BC Jun. 15 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2720 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 249BC May 4 | Solar eclipse observed in Babylon |
2649 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 463BC Apr. 30 | Solar eclipse observed by Pindar |
2718 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 254BC Jan. 31 | Solar eclipse observed by Babylonians |
2717 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 256BC Sep. 16 | Solar eclipse observed by Babylonians |
2615 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 669BC May 17 | Solar eclipse observed by Babylonians |
1467 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 49BC | Solar eclipse in Rome |
2688 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 369BC Apr. 11 | Solar eclipse in 35th year of Artaxerxes II, observed in Babylon |
2652 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 431BC Aug. 31 | Solar eclipse explained by Pericles thereby dispelling fear of the Athenians |
2618 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 657BC Apr. 15 | Solar eclipse Assyrian astrological reports |
492 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 879AD | Solar Eclipse |
430 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 809AD Jul. 16 | Solar Eclipse |
404 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 540AD Jun. 20 | Solar Eclipse |
406 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 538AD Feb. 15 | Solar eclipse |
102 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 347AD | Solar eclipse |
880 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 346AD | Solar eclipse |
2383 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 318AD | Solar eclipse |
2360 | Celestial | Solar Eclipse | 478BC Feb. 17 | Solar eclipse |
5212 | Society | People | 470BC | Socrates |
2774 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 125BC Nov. | Snow in Babylon; severe cold |
2262 | Geology | Earthquake | 178AD | Smyrna is destroyed by an earthquake |
1313 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 114BC | Sky rained milk and blood in the consulship of Manius Acilius and Gaius Porcius |
2627 | Celestial | Unspecified Prodigies | 567BC Mar. 12 | Sky glowing red in the West observed from Babylon |
5154 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandonment in Mesopotamia/Iran |
5164 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandonment in Anatolia (Troy incl.) |
5168 | Archeology | Mass destruction of unknown origin | 2300BC | Site Destruction and abandoment in southern and central Greece |
654 | Geology | Sinkhole | 203BC | Sinking earth at Arpinum made huge depression |
2285 | Celestial | Unspecified Prodigies | 740AD | Signs in the sun and the moon and in the stars appear before the death of Charles Martel |
1464 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 49BC | Sighting of wolves and owls in Rome, animals bring forth creatures outside of their own species |
11 | Society | Massacre | 214BC | Siege of Syracuse, Death of Archimedes |
5205 | Society | War | 397BC | Siege of Syracuse by Carthaginians |
5348 | Society | War | 701BC | Siege of Lachish |
173 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 502AD | Siege of Amida, at least 85,000 killed |
5257 | Geology | Earthquake | 198BC | Sidon extensively damaged by earthquake; nearly two-thirds "engulfed" |
411 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 188BC | Shower of Stones on the Aventine in Rome |
431 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 186BC | Shower of stones in Picenum |
653 | Environment | Rock Falls | 204BC | Shower of stones in association with meteors, crashing sounds; fall of Magna Mater |
393 | Environment | Fall of Unusual Objects | 190BC | Shower of Earth from the sky |
655 | Celestial | Tunguska-like event | 204BC | Shooting stars at intervals; great meteor blazed; sky lighted up at night; crashing sound |
5598 | Society | Politics | 35BC | Sextus Pompeius Magnus Pius: executed without trial by order of Antony via Marcus Titius |
4915 | Environment | Strong Winds | 979AD (Sum.) | Severe thunderstorms and winds in Kievan Rus' |
507 | Society | Mass Death | 255BC Jul. 4 | Severe storm, destruction of Roman Fleet with massive mortality |
4912 | Environment | Strong Winds | 874AD | Severe storm in the Black Sea during Askold's siege of Constantinople |
4924 | Environment | Flood | 1012AD | Severe floods in Western Europe |
4918 | Environment | Flood | 1000AD | Severe flood in Kievan Rus' |
4916 | Environment | Flood | 991AD | Severe flood and famine in Kievan Rus' |
2879 | Archeology | Earthquake Evidence | 228BC | Severe earthquake in central Greece |
4919 | Geology | Earthquake | 1000AD Mar. 29 | Severe earthquake all over the world |
4920 | Environment | Drought | 1000AD | Severe drought in Western Europe |
2509 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 243BC | Severe cold in Babylon |
5299 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 248BC Jan. | Severe cold in Babylon |
5481 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 137BC (Win.) | Severe cold and hail in Babylon |
5331 | Environment | Unusual Weather | 163BC | Severe cold and hail in Babylon |
5244 | Archeology | Dating Evidence | 6850BC | Sesklo culture, Thessaly, Greece used advanced agriculture and made pottery |
5705 | Society | Politics | 51BC | Servius Sulpicius Rufus, consul 51 BC; opposed Caesar, later honored by Caesar |
5706 | Society | Politics | 43BC | Servius Sulpicius Galba, friend, legate and assassin of Julius Caesar; condemned by Pedian law |
5568 | Society | Politics | 42BC | Servilius Casca, one of Caesar's assassins |
5564 | Society | People | 104BC | Servilia Caepionis: mistress of Julius Caesar, mother of Brutus, half-sister of Cato the Younger |
5637 | Society | War | 663BC | Second War with Fidenae and Veii, under Tullus Hostilius |
74 | Society | Slave Rebellion | 104BC | Second Servile War; Gaius Marius |
5541 | Society | Politics | 450BC | Second Secession of the Plebs due to abuse of power by the decemviri; demanded restoration of plebeian tribune power and right of appeal |
5262 | Society | War | 326BC | Second Samnite War, Roman expansion |
6 | Society | War | 218BC | Second Punic War |
5198 | Society | War | 480BC (Spr.) | Second Persian Invasion of Greece |
5316 | Society | War | 200BC | Second Macedonian War fought between Philip V of Macedon, and Rome |
14 | Society | War | 196BC | Second Macedonian War |
5271 | Society | War | 588BC | Second Latin War; Rome acquires more territory |
5296 | Society | War | 346BC | Second Defeat of Antium and destruction of Satricum |
5658 | Society | Politics | 63BC Nov. 9 | Second Catilinarian oration by Cicero |
2680 | Geology | Tsunami | 373BC (Win.) | Sea rose to a vast height, a wave towering even higher drowned all the inhabitants and washed away the city of Helicê |
5561 | Society | People | 236BC | Scipio Africanus: never lost a battle; first Roman general to expand Roman territories outside Italy; hated by Cato the Elder; grandfather of the Gracchi |
5548 | Society | People | 185BC | Scipio Aemilianus: destroyer of Carthage, opponent of the Gracchi, murder victim |
5605 | Society | Assassination | 100BC | Saturninus: popularist reformer proposes land reform using Tolosan gold; murdered by mob of aristocrats |
5114 | Society | War | 722BC | Sargon II usurps throne - 17 years of war and mass death |
4764 | Society | War | 636AD | Saracens kill 150,000 of Emperor Heraclius' men |
70 | Society | War | 732AD Oct. | Saracens fight two battles near Poitiers and River Berre against Charles Martel during their conquest of Gaul |
5428 | Archeology | Cultural Evidence | 5025BC | Samara culture, middle Volga; Dnieper-Donets culture |
329 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 546AD Dec. 17 | Sack of Rome by Totila |
94 | Society | Sack or Destruction of City | 410AD Aug. 24 | Sack of Rome |
659 | Environment | Animal Prodigies | 203BC | Roof-eating ravens, gnawing mice, locust infestation and a deformed colt |
108 | Society | Famine | 412AD | Rome falls by intense famine |