* 2492 BCE: Traditional date for the legendary foundation of the Armenian nation ( see Haik ).

* 2492 BC – Traditional date of the defeat of Bel by Hayk, progenitor and founder of the Armenian nation.

* c. 2492 BC The Armenian patriarch Hayk defeats the Babylonian king Bel ( legendary account ).

At Dyutsaznamart (, " Battle of Giants "), near Julamerk southeast of Lake Van, on August 11, 2492 BC ( according to the Armenian traditional chronology ) or 2107 BC ( according to " The Chronological table " of Mikael Chamchian ), Hayk slew Bel with a nearly impossible shot using a long bow, sending the king's forces into disarray.

For centuries after the fall of the Achaemenid Empire in 331 BCE, Imperial Aramaic — or near enough for it to be recognisable — would remain an influence on the various native Iranian languages.

* Mahavira ( 599 – 527 BCE ) — heavily influenced Jainism, the 24th Tirthankara of Jainism.

God's commission to Joshua in chapter 1 is framed as a royal installation, the people's pledge of loyalty to Joshua as successor Moses recalls royal practices, the covenant-renewal ceremony led by Joshua was the prerogative of the kings of Judah, and God's command to Joshua to meditate on the " book of the law " day and night parallels the description of Josiah in 2 Kings 23: 25 as a king uniquely concerned with the study of the law — not to mention their identical territorial goals ( Josiah died in 609 BCE while attempting to annex the former Israel to his own kingdom of Judah ).

In the winter of 505 BCE, Yang Hu — a retainer of the Ji family — rose up in rebellion and seized power from the Ji family.

Tisha B ' Av is a fast day that commemorates two of the saddest events in Jewish history that both occurred on the ninth of Av — the destruction in 586 BCE of the First Temple, originally built by King Solomon, and destruction of the Second Temple in 70 CE.

* Lepenski Vir, Serbia — 7000 BCE

* Star Carr, England — 8700 BCE

* Pulli settlement, Estonia — 9000 BCE

* Franchthi cave, Greece — 20, 000 – 3000 BCE

* Cramond, Scotland — 8500 BCE

* Mount Sandel, Ireland — 7010 BCE

* Howick house, England — 7000 BCE

* Aveline's Hole, Somerset, England — 8000 BCE

The earliest settlement at Mehrgarh — in the northeast corner of the site — was a small farming village dated between 7000 BCE to 5500 BCE and the whole area covers a number of successive settlements.

The Parni, a nomadic Central Asian tribe, invaded Parthia in the middle of the 3rd century BCE, drove away its Greek satraps — who had just then proclaimed independence from the Seleucids — and annexed much of the Indus region, thus founding an Arsacids dynasty of Scythian or Bactrian origin.

Radiocarbon dating puts the oldest surviving archaeological artifacts from Slovakia — found near Nové Mesto nad Váhom — at 270, 000 BCE, in the Early Paleolithic era.

Sword of Goujian | The Bronze sword of King Goujian of Yue ( reigned 496 BCE-465 BCE ), with bird script ; detail — part of inscription: " 越王自作 " Yuè Wáng zì zuò, “ Made by the King of Yuè ”.

An early depiction of the Tetragrammaton — circa 600 BCE.

This area was the heartland of Armenians, who lived in these areas from the time of Hayk in the 3rd millennium BCE right up to the late 19th century when the Ottoman Empire seized all the land from the natives.

* Xerxes of Armenia, Armenian king, assassinated around 212 BCE

In 66 BCE, Pompey advanced into Armenia with the younger Tigranes, and Tigranes the Great, now almost 75 years old, surrendered.

# Aristobanes II, ( b. 40 BCE-d. 2 AD ), ruled from 28 BCE to 8 BCE, also as Ariobarzan, king of Armenia from 2 BCE or 1 BCE to 2 AD.

* 22 – 19 BCE, Artaxias II recaptures the throne of Armenia, Riots in Rome, Food shortages in some provinces.

* 20 BCE, Marcus Vipsanius Agrippa, Governor of Transalpine Gaul, Construction of military roads and especially the military road Lugdunum -- Divodurum -- Treverorum -- Agrippinensium ( from Lyon to Cologne ), Fall of the Kingdom of Armenia.

A large Jewish population was settled in Armenia from the 1st century BCE.

Early medieval Armenian historians, such as Moses Khorenatsi, held that the Armenian king Tigranes II ( 95-55 BCE ) deported Jews from Judea to Armenia.

Before leaving the Caspian region for Iran and Afghanistan in the 9th and 8th centuries BCE these people may have been living in the valleys of Cyrus and Cambyses in Armenia.

* 1046 BC — Following the Battle of Muye, King Wu of Zhou overthrows the Shang Dynasty Chinese King Di Xin and founds the Zhou Dynasty ( 1046 BC – 256 BC ).

* 626 BC — Nabopolassar revolts against Assyria, founds the Neo-Babylonian Empire.

* 717 BC — Sargon II founds a new capital for Assyria at Dur-Sharrukin.

* 727 BC — Tefnakhte founds the Twenty-fourth dynasty of Egypt.

* January and February — reconnaissance flights only, he founds Von Kleist's 1st Panzerarmee ( still flying MiG-3 ).

She founds the Grey Company — a sort of spiritual successor to the Police company.

* April — Interactive Digital Software Association ( IDSA ) founded ( name changed to the Entertainment Software Association in 2003 ); IDSA founds Entertainment Software Rating Board ( ESRB )

According to official data, in 2007, a record-high 500, 000 tourists visited Armenia — most of them ethnic Armenians from Europe, Russia and the United States.

* 600 BC — Creation of Armenia.

Vologases entered the Kingdom of Armenia ( then a Roman client state ), expelled its king and installed his own — Pacorus, an Arsacid like himself.

* Khash — In Armenia the widely popular winter soup is made of boiled beef tendon and honeycomb tripe and served with lots of garlic and lavash bread.

All those lands, churches, and monasteries in the Republic of Armenia — all had been Albanian.

* 1827 — Count Erivansky for Ivan Paskevich for his capture of Erivan in Armenia during the Russo-Persian War, 1826-1828 ;

In 2003, as a result of negotiations, the three political forces supporting RA President Robert Kocharyan — the Republican Party of Armenia, the Armenian Revolutionary Federation and the Rule of Law Party ( Orinats Yerkir )— formed a parliamentary coalition and confirmed it with a Memorandum signed by the leaders of the three parties.

* Greeks, Crusaders and Moslems — Rise of Leon II ( Kurkjian's History of Armenia, Chs.

* Greeks, Crusaders and Moslems — Rise of Leon II ( Kurkjian's History of Armenia, Ch.

* Zelkova carpinifolia — Caucasian Zelkova ( Turkey, Georgia, Armenia, Azerbaijan, Iran )

It has been believed, and not only in Armenia, that all the Caucasian alphabets — Armenian, Georgian and Caucaso-Albanian — were invented in the 4th century by the Armenian scholar Mesrop Mashtots .<...> The Georgian chronicles The Life of Kanli-assert that a Georgian script was invented two centuries before Christ, an assertion unsupported by archaeology.

While its information about Mirian ’ s participation — as an Iranian client king — in the Sasanid war against the Roman Empire, and territorial ambitions in Armenia can be true, the claims of Mirian ’ s being a pretender to the throne of Iran, his being in control of Colchis and Albania, and expansion of his activity as far as Syria is obviously fictional.

The medieval dynasties — the Solomonids of Ethiopia and Bagratids of Georgia and Armenia — also claimed descent from David.

At least ten women or girls, all under the age of 20, were incarcerated in the building when it collapsed August 13, 1863, killing four: Charity McCorkle Kerr, Susan Crawford Vandever, Armenia Crawford Selvey, and Josephine Anderson — the 14 year old sister of William T. " Bloody Bill " Anderson.

Bagradian hangs behind and observes the wailing women and the other graveyard folk — who represent the old ways and sympathetic magic of pagan Armenia — sacrifice a goat.

It received its name to distinguish it from the much larger eastern portion of historic Armenia — Greater Armenia ( or Armenia Major ).

Thus two independent kingdoms emerged from the territory of the ancient Armenian kingdom — Lesser Armenia and Greater Armenia.