* c. 2055 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt ( another date is 2040 BC ).

* c. 2055 BC: Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt ( other date is 2040 BC ).

* c. 2055 BC: Mentuhotep II from Thebes managed to reunite Ancient Egypt and began to rule ( other date is 2040 BC ).

* c. 2040 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt.

* 2040 BC: Beginning of the Xia Dynasty, the first dynasty and government system in China.

* 2040 BC: Pharaoh Merykare died.

* 10th dynasty ( 2130 – 2040 BC )

An early example of the Golden Rule that reflects the Ancient Egyptian concept of Maat appears in the story of The Eloquent Peasant, which dates to the Middle Kingdom ( c. 2040 – 1650 BCE ): " Now this is the command: Do to the doer to cause that he do thus to you.

* July 6 – The 70-meter Eupatoria Planetary Radar sends a METI message Cosmic Call 2 to 5 stars: Hip 4872, HD 245409, 55 Cancri, HD 10307 and 47 Ursae Majoris, that will arrive at these stars in 2036, 2040, 2044, 2044 and 2049 respectively.

* Phantom 2040 ( Voice, 6 episodes, 1994 – 1995 )

** 2040 – National Center for Atmospheric Research

** 2040 – Arthur C. Clarke

Chung served as lead character designer for two animated series, Phantom 2040 ( 1994 – 96 ) and Reign: The Conqueror ( 1999 ).

* 1. 0 – found in the 2040 and 3040 floppy drives

* 2010 AVN Award – Best Group Sex Scene – 2040

The target is to allow Shanghai to catch up to New York by 2040-2050, with the eventual projection that China will be Asia's most prosperous economy by 2040.

The 2040 box implements both the System / 360 main processor and the multiplex channel ( the I / O processor ).

* Gundam Seed, an alternate-universe version of Mobile Suit Gundam ( the Cosmic Era calendar begins about 10 years after the predicted oil crash of the mid-21st century, placing the beginning of the CE calendar sometime between 2040 and 2090, the series would therefore take place sometime between 2111 and 2161 ).

Unlike many schemes, RC5 has a variable block size ( 32, 64 or 128 bits ), key size ( 0 to 2040 bits ) and number of rounds ( 0 to 255 ).

Æon Flux was created by Korean American animator Peter Chung ( also the man behind Phantom 2040, which used the same animation style as Æon Flux ).

The average rate for a one room apartment was 733. 01 CHF ( US $ 590, £ 330, € 470 ), a two room apartment was about 1009. 94 CHF ( US $ 810, £ 450, € 650 ), a three room apartment was about 1192. 66 CHF ( US $ 950, £ 540, € 760 ) and a six or more room apartment cost an average of 2550. 35 CHF ( US $ 2040, £ 1150, € 1630 ).

The publication " Randstad 2040 ", released by the Dutch government, reveals that the Noordvleugel ( North Wing ) ( Amsterdam and Utrecht region ) is already growing parallel to the A1, A2, and A4 motorways, as well as into the northern part of North Holland ( Alkmaar region ) and Flevoland ( Lelystad region ).

In 1848, an ordinance was passed that the pound sterling should be legal tender at a value of £ 1 1s 3d ( 2040 doubles ).

Phantom 2040 was adapted into a comic book series by Marvel Comics in 1995 ( cover dated May-Aug. 1995 ).

Newburgh is a royal burgh of Fife, Scotland having a population of 2040 ( est 2004 ).

Commodore 4040The Commodore 4040 was the replacement for the previous models 2040 ( USA ) and 3040 ( Europe ).

Volume two ( 194 pages ) contains 2040 line-drawings of whole beetles and features referred to in the keys ( 390 of these were taken from Spry and Shuckard's 1840 publication The British Coleoptera Delineated but the remainder were drawn by Joy ).

Aristotle (, Aristotélēs ) ( 384 BC – 322 BC ) was a Greek philosopher and polymath, a student of Plato and teacher of Alexander the Great.

Marble ( 610 – 600 BC ).

Marble ( 620 – 610 BC ) Metropolitan Museum of Arts

In the first large-scale depictions during the early archaic period ( 640 – 580 BC ), the artists tried to draw one's attention to look into the interior of the face and the body which were not represented as lifeless masses, but as being full of life.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

According to Christopher Ehret ( 2002: 35 – 36 ), Proto-Afroasiatic was spoken c. 11, 000 BC at the latest and possibly as early as c. 16, 000 BC.

The period 2700 – 2300 BC saw the first appearance of the Sumerian abacus, a table of successive columns which delimited the successive orders of magnitude of their sexagesimal number system.

This would make it a language family about as old as Indo-European ( 4000 to 7, 000 BC according to several hypotheses cited in Mallory 1997: 106 ) but considerably younger than Afroasiatic ( c. 10, 000 BC according to Diakonoff 1988: 33n, 11, 000 to 16, 000 BC according to Ehret 2002: 35 – 36 ).

The oldest known name for Anatolia, " Land of the Hatti " was found for the first time on Mesopotamic cuneiform tablets from the period of the Akkadian dynasty ( 2350 – 2150 BC ).

* 46 BC – Julius Caesar defeats Caecilius Metellus Scipio and Marcus Porcius Cato ( Cato the Younger ) in the battle of Thapsus.

* 599 BC – Mahavira, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism ( d. 527 BC )

* 479 BC – Greco-Persian Wars: Persian forces led by Mardonius are routed by Pausanias, the Spartan commander of the Greek army in the Battle of Plataea.

It is believed that at the end of the Neolithic Period ( around 4000 BC ), Achill had a population of 500 – 1, 000 people.

* 586 BC – Solomon's Temple is totally destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.

* 48 BC – Caesar's Civil War: Battle of Pharsalus – Julius Caesar decisively defeats Pompey at Pharsalus and Pompey flees to Egypt.

* 338 BC – A Macedonian army led by Philip II defeated the combined forces of Athens and Thebes in the Battle of Chaeronea, securing Macedonian hegemony in Greece and the Aegean.

* 216 BC – Second Punic War: Battle of Cannae – The Carthaginian army led by Hannibal defeats a numerically superior Roman army under command of consuls Lucius Aemilius Paullus and Gaius Terentius Varro.

** Laozi ( 5th – 4th century BC )