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4 days ago · 2200 BC – 2100 BC: The 4.2-kiloyear event caused famines and civilizational collapse worldwide: Global: 441 BC: The first famine recorded in ancient Rome. Ancient Rome: 103 BC – 89 BC: Beminitiya Seya during the reign of the Five Dravidians: Anuradhapura Kingdom: 26 BC: Famine recorded throughout Near East and Levant, as recorded by ...
2 days ago · fl. 181–168 BC: Illyria: Was accused by the Romans of organizing and aiding pirate raids in Italy. Glauketas: fl. 315–300 BC: 315–300 BC: Greece Greek inscriptions of the Athenian navy raiding his base on Kynthnos Island and capturing him and his men read "making the sea safe for those that sailed thereon." Sextus Pompeius: 67–35 BC: Rome
1 day ago · Ancient Egypt was a civilization of ancient Northeast Africa. It was concentrated along the lower reaches of the Nile River, situated in the place that is now the country Egypt. Ancient Egyptian civilization followed prehistoric Egypt and coalesced around 3100 BC (according to conventional Egyptian chronology) [1] with the political unification ...
3 days ago · The format of a study of a decade makes one realise once again that the 1660s per se – though perhaps slightly less so than the 1670s – remain in some ways the partly-charted terrain that Hutton saw. Keeble reminds us that '[n]either those who relinquished nor those who gained power in 1660 knew what had been won and lost' – or for how long.
3 days ago · GLOUCESTER 1660–1720. The restoration of Charles II in May 1660 was celebrated at Gloucester with a display of official rejoicing. Wine ran out of the conduits and there were fireworks at night, (fn. 1) but the city had much to fear from the collapse of the parliamentary cause and the first years of the new reign were certainly inauspicious.
3 days ago · Elisabeth Leedham-Green. Oak galls. Materials: Inks, Pens, and Surfaces. The documents/samples of hands displayed here were written between 1500 and 1690, most or all of them with a goose-quill pen and an iron gall or carbon-based ink. Iron gall ink was made up from galls (usually oak-galls), copperas [copper sulphate] or green vitriol [ferrous ...
5 days ago · John J. Navin offers a new account of the first half century of settlement in the colony of South Carolina, which he characterizes as The Grim Years.By the mid-18th century South Carolina would become the wealthiest British colony in mainland North America, but in recent years scholars long familiar with its distinctive plantation system have turned more attention to these earlier, formative ...
