The Laws of Aethelbert

0600-03-05 13:30:28 “The first laws were probably set down between 600 and 615 in the kingdom of Kent on the southeast tip of England towards the end of the long reign of Aethelbert I. The[…]

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Code of Civil law

0529-12-01 00:00:00 The Corpus Juris (or Iuris) Civilis (“Body of Civil Law”) is the modern name[1] for a collection of fundamental works in jurisprudence, issued from 529 to 534 by order of Justinian I, Eastern[…]

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Code of Justinian

0529-12-01 00:00:00 the collections of laws and legal interpretations developed under the sponsorship of the Byzantine emperor Justinian I from ad 529 to 565. Strictly speaking, the works did not constitute a new legal code.[…]

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Pythagorean Scale

0500-12-01 00:00:00 Around 500 BC Pythagoras studied the musical scale and the ratios between the lengths of vibrating strings needed to produce them. Since the string length (for equal tension) depends on 1/frequency, those ratios[…]

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Dark Ages

0476-12-01 00:00:00 Dark Ages, the early medieval period of western European history. Specifically, the term refers to the time (476–800) when there was no Roman (or Holy Roman) emperor in the West; or, more generally,[…]

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