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  2. Now You Know: When Did People Start Saying That the Year Was ‘A.D.’? ... B.C. was much harder to implement. Terms referring to this “before” varied all the way through the 18th century.

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    1800 BCE: Iron Agein India
    1800 BCE: Beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in the period system devised by Oscar Montelius.
    1800 BCE – 1300 BCE: TroyVI flourishes.
    c. 1800 BCE: Sedentary Mayan communities in Mesoamerica
    Hammurabi (1792 BCE–1750 BCE), ruler of the Babylonian Empire
    Tang overthrew emperor Jie, last ruler of the Xia dynasty.

    c. 1700 BCE—date for the building of the Phaistos Disc. Its purpose and meaning, and even its original geographical place of manufacture is unknown. This makes it one of the most famous mysteries o...

    The origins of Iron Working in India: New evidence from the Central Ganga plain and the Eastern Vindhyas by Rakesh Tewari (Director, U.P. State Archaeological Department)

  3. Feb 7, 2019 · K. Kris Hirst. Updated on February 07, 2019. The term BC (or B.C.) is used by most people in the west to refer to pre-Roman dates in the Gregorian Calendar (our current calendar of choice). "BC" refers to "Before Christ," meaning before the putative birth year of the prophet/philosopher Jesus Christ, or at least before the date once thought to ...

  4. Events. An inscription of the Code of Hammurabi, one of the earliest known sets of laws. 1800 BC: Beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in the period system devised by Oscar Montelius. c. 1800 BC: Sedentary Mayan communities in Mesoamerica. c. 1800 BC: Hyksos start to settle in the Nile Delta. They had the capital at Avaris in northeastern Nile Delta.

  5. The first established death penalty laws date as far back as the Eighteenth Century B.C. in the Code of King Hammurabi of Babylon, which codified the death penalty for 25 different crimes.

  6. Dec 20, 2017 · The English term “Common Era,” whose initials are “CE,” goes back to the early 18th century; its first recorded appearance is in the 1708 bibliographical almanac The History of the Works of the Learned, Or, An Impartial Account of Books Lately Printed in All Parts of Europe.

  7. Mar 27, 2017 · The use of BCE/CE certainly has become more common in recent years but it is not a new invention of the "politically correct" nor is it even all that new; the use of "common era" in place of A.D. first appears in German in the 17th century CE and in English in the 18th.

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