Roman Kingdom

0753 BC-12-01 00:00:00 the history of the Roman Kingdom began with the city’s founding, traditionally dated to 753 BC, and ended with the overthrow of the kings and the establishment of the Republic in about[…]

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Buddha

0600 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Traces of what appears to have been an ancient timber shrine was found under a brick temple that is itself within Buddhism’s sacred Maya Devi Temple at Lumbini, in southern Nepal near[…]

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Carthage founded by Phoenicians

0580 BC-12-01 00:00:00 Carthage was founded as a Phoenician colony near modern Tunis. After the fall of its mother-city Tyre in 585, Carthage became the leader of the Phoenician colonies in the west and founded[…]

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Pythagoras

0569 BC-12-01 00:00:00 The sum of the angles of a triangle is equal to two right angles. The theorem of Pythagoras – for a right-angled triangle the square on the hypotenuse is equal to the[…]

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Solon’s Laws

0530 BC-12-01 00:00:00 As civil war beckoned, Solon, the poet, was selected by Athenians to be the mediator of a dispute between the rich landowners of Athens, and their serfs. So great as the respect[…]

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