* Movable type first used by King Taejong of Joseon — 1403 ( Movable type, which allowed individual characters to be arranged to form words, was invented in China by Bi Sheng between 1041 to 1048.

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A footnote in the New American Bible says: “ Some scholars take the call be eunuchs for the sake of heaven to be meant for those who have been divorced by their spouses and who have refused to enter into another marriage ” ( p. 1041 ).

Beside the Ingvar runestones, there are no extant Swedish sources that mention Ingvar, but there is Yngvars saga víðförla and three Icelandic annals that mention his death under the year 1041: Annales regii, the Lögmanns annáll and the Flateyarbók annals.

* 1041: Samuel Aba became King of Hungary.

* April 17 – King Harald III of Denmark ( b. 1041 )

Michael, however, returned with an army of 40, 000 men in 1041, assisted by Norse mercenaries including the future King Harald III of Norway.

Harthacnut, King of Denmark and King of England, died at Kennington in 1041.

Peter Orseolo (; c. 1010-1015 – 1046 or 30 August 1059 ), called the Venetian in Hungarian, was King of Hungary from 1038 to 1041 and from 1044 to 1046.

* 1041 BCE: King David captures Jerusalem and designates it the capital of the united Kingdom of Israel.

There are four enclosures at Dăbâca, each one associated with earthwork fortifications ; the excavators dated the third enclosure to the 9th or 10th century, while also claiming that it post-dated the second enclosure-the only defense work to have produced clearly datable artifacts, namely a silver penny of King Peter ( 1038 – 1041 and 1044 – 1046 ).

In about 20 BC, the Roman architect and engineer Vitruvius wrote a treatise on the acoustic properties of theatres including discussion of interference, echoes, and reverberation — the beginnings of architectural acoustics.

However, despite the fact that he never officially bore the name Octavianus, to save confusing the dead dictator with his heir, historians often refer to the new Caesar — between his adoption and his assumption, in 27 BC, of the name Augustus — as Octavian.

Revolts broke out during the 9-year reign of his son, Rimush ( 2278 – 2270 BC ), who fought hard to retain the empire — and in the fifteen year reign of Rimush's elder brother, Manishtushu ( 2269 – 2255 BC ).

However, according to Xenophon, Polydorus was murdered by his brother Polyphron, who was, in turn, murdered by his nephew Alexander — son of Jason, in 369 BC.

Athenian citizens had to be descended from citizens — after the reforms of Pericles and Cimon in 450 BC on both sides of the family, excluding the children of Athenian men and foreign women.

Albrecht Altdorfer's depiction of the moment in 333 BC when Alexander the Great routed Darius III for supremacy in Asia Minor is vast in ambition, sweeping in scope, vivid in imagery, rich in symbols, and obviously heroic — the Iliad of painting, as literary critic Friedrich Schlegel suggested In the painting, a swarming cast of thousands of soldiers surround the central action: Alexander on his white steed, leading two rows of charging cavalrymen, dashes after a fleeing Darius, who looks anxiously over his shoulder from a chariot.

Nineveh — where Jonah preached — was the capital of the ancient Assyrian empire, which fell to the Medes in 612 BC.

He wrote his ' Enquiries ' ( Greek — Historia ; English —( The ) Histories ) around 440 – 430 BC, trying to trace the origins of the Greco-Persian Wars, which would still have been relatively recent history ( the wars finally ending in 450 BC ).

In 500 BC, Hou Fan — the governor of Hou — revolted against his lord of the Shu family.

In addition, Pausanias relates that at the time of the Persian invasion in 480 BC the Athenians were advised by the oracle to put their faith in their " wooden walls " — taking this advice to mean their navy, they won the famous battle at Salamis.

In 288 BC, the Mamertines — a group of Italian ( Campanian ) mercenaries originally hired by Agathocles of Syracuse — occupied the city of Messana ( modern Messina ) in the northeastern tip of Sicily, killing all the men and taking the women as their wives.

In 262 BC, Rome besieged Agrigentum, an operation that involved both consular armies — a total of four Roman legions — and took several months to resolve.

The ancient Greeks and Romans believed that books on magic were invented by the Persians, with the 1st century CE writer Pliny the Elder stating that magic had been first discovered by the ancient philosopher Zoroaster around the year 6347 BC, but that it was only written down in the 5th century BC by the magician Osthanes — his claims are not however supported by modern historians.

Greeks in the late fifth and early 4th centuries BC considered their oldest poets to be Orpheus, Musaeus, Hesiod and Homer — in that order.

Here, according to an allegorical parable, " The Choice of Heracles ", invented by the sophist Prodicus ( c. 400 BC ) and reported in Xenophon's Memorabilia 2. 1. 21-34, he was visited by two nymphs — Pleasure and Virtue — who offered him a choice between a pleasant and easy life or a severe but glorious life: he chose the latter.

* 1953 BC Bobcat — Prototype

Some early sources call him their father or grandfather, but considering the commonly accepted dates of the fall of Troy ( 1184 BC ) and the founding of Rome ( 753 BC ), this seems unlikely.

Some scholars argue Plato drew upon memories of past events such as the Thera eruption or the Trojan War, while others insist that he took inspiration from contemporary events like the destruction of Helike in 373 BC or the failed Athenian invasion of Sicily in 415 – 413 BC.

Some sources say that the city may have been named after the Carthaginian general Hamilcar Barca, who was supposed to have founded the city in the 3rd century BC.

Some of the underlying policies of the BC system were:

Some authors, however, write about water clocks appearing as early as 4000 BC in these regions of the world.

Some time before 100 BC many of the Cimbri, as well as the Teutons and Ambrones migrated south-east.

Some gaps in the list of benefits bestowed on cities recently annexed by Hammurabi may imply that it is older than the famous stele ( it is currently dated to the early 18th century BC ).

Some ancient authorities in the doxographic tradition credited the Greek philosophers Pythagoras, in the 6th century BC, and Parmenides, in the 5th, with recognizing that the Earth is spherical.

Some of the best-known civilizations of prehistoric Europe were Minoan and Mycenaean, which flourished during the Bronze Age until they collapsed in a short period of time around 1200 BC.

Some of those who argue that the Homeric poems developed gradually over a long period of time give an even later date for the composition of the poems ; according to Gregory Nagy for example, they only became fixed texts in the 6th century BC.

Some writers have proposed that Hezekiah served as coregent with his father Ahaz for about 14 years, beginning during 729 BC.

Some researches try to connect the creation of Kanem-Bornu with exodus from the collapsed Assyrian Empire c. 600 BC to the northeast of Lake Chad.

Some would give Timaeus an extra 5 years, bringing the voyage down to 325 BC at earliest.

Some of the oldest civilizations appeared circa 6000 BC in the coastal provinces of Chilca and Paracas, and in the highland province of Callejón de Huaylas.

Some archaeologists would extend the time depth of PIE to the middle Neolithic ( 5500 to 4500 BC ) or even the early Neolithic ( 7500 to 5500 BC ), and suggest alternative location hypotheses.

Some divers will store it in a BC pocket, but this reduces availability in an emergency.

* 403 BC: Some exiled Athenians return to fight the Thirty Tyrants and restore democracy in Athens.

Some 6, 000 helots accumulated enough wealth to buy their freedom, for example, in 227 BC.

Some small towns in the 6th century BC disappeared during this time, ostensibly consumed by greater, more powerful neighbours.

Some references say 7061 BC.

Some evidence exists that Barbados may not have been settled in the second millennium BC, but this is limited to fragments of conch lip adzes found in association with shells radiocarbon dated to c. 1630 BC.