April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.

About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.

It probably was a Thracian town, as Strabo has it, but was afterwards colonized by Milesians, with the consent of Gyges, king of Lydia, around 700 BC.

In a tablet unearthed at Kish ( dating from about 700 BC ), the scribe Bêl-bân-aplu wrote his zeros with three hooks, rather than two slanted wedges.

* Hingley, R ( 1992 ) Society in Scotland from 700 BC to 200 AD, Proc.

In Germany, Emil Carthaus and Dr. Bruno Bernhard have observed 1, 891 signs of cannibalism in the caves at the Hönne ( 1000 – 700 BC ).

He was once more defeated at Kish, and again fled to Elam where he died in exile after one final failed attempt to raise a revolt against Assyria in his homeland, Bit-Yâkin in 700 BC.

" Long-term fluctuations in the Earth's rotation: 700 BC to AD 1990 ".

They date from about 700 BC.

*< cite id = stemorr95 > F R Stephenson, L V Morrison ( 1995 ), " Long-Term Fluctuations in the Earth's Rotation: 700 BC to AD 1990 ", Royal Society ( London ), Philosophical Transactions, Series A ( ISSN 0080-4614 ), vol. 351 ( 1995 ), # 1695, pp. 165 – 202 .</ cite >

Susantha Goonatilake writes that the development of the Fibonacci sequence " is attributed in part to Pingala ( 200 BC ), later being associated with Virahanka ( c. 700 AD ), Gopāla ( c. 1135 ), and Hemachandra ( c. 1150 )".

The first gold coins of the Grecian age were struck in Lydia at a time approximated to the year 700 BC.

* 700 BC: Epic poem Iliad by Homer, earliest account on the continent.

700 BC, and the Bronze Age Hittite and Luwian dialects evolved into the sparsely attested Lydian, Lycian and Carian languages.

The island's prehistoric settlement may have begun about 1000 BC when eastern Melanesians traveled north and may have extended down to Rawaki, Kanton, Manra and Orona of the Phoenix Islands, 500 to 700 km southeast.

Prehistoric Scotland entered the Neolithic about 4000 BC, the Bronze Age about 2000 BC, and the Iron Age around 700 BC.

From around 700 BC the Iron age brought numerous hill forts, brochs and fortified settlements which support the image of quarrelsome tribes and petty kingdoms later recorded by the Romans, though evidence that at times occupants neglected the defences might suggest that symbolic power had as much significance as warfare.

The first known Greek medical school opened in Cnidus in 700 BC.

There is also evidence of libraries at Nippur about 1900 BC and at Nineveh about 700 BC showing a library classification system.

There is also evidence of libraries at Nippur about 1900 BC and those at Nineveh about 700 BC showing a library classification system.

Gold headband from Thebes 750 – 700 BC

* Homer, Iliad ii. 595 – 600 ( c. 700 BCE )

Bilateral trade with Russia stood at more than $ 700 million for the first nine months of 2010 – on track to rebound to $ 1 billion mark first reached in 2008 prior to the global economic crisis.

* 1891 – Major hurricane strikes Martinique, leaving 700 dead.

* 1898 – 700 Greek civilians, 17 British guards and the British Consul of Crete are killed by a Turkish mob in Heraklion, Greece.

* 2010 – Nearly 2, 700 are killed in a magnitude 6. 9 earthquake in Yushu, Qinghai, China.

* 1865 – The steamboat, carrying 2, 400 passengers, explodes and sinks in the Mississippi River, killing 1, 700, most of whom are Union survivors of the Andersonville and Cahaba Prisons.

* Clockrate: 500 – 700 MHz ( K7 ), 550 – 1000 MHz ( K75 )

Color temperatures over are called cool colors ( blueish white ), while lower color temperatures ( 2, 700 – 3, 000 K ) are called warm colors ( yellowish white through red ).

* 700 – Arts and recreation

The voting members of the ELDR Congress number around 600 – 700, and are composed of:

*< cite id = stemorr84 > F R Stephenson, L V Morrison ( 1984 ), " Long-term changes in the rotation of the earth – 700 B. C.

In a garment from Migration period Sweden, roughly 300 – 700 CE, the edges of bands of trimming are reinforced with running stitch, back stitch, stem stitch, tailor's buttonhole stitch, and whipstitching, but it is uncertain whether this work simply reinforces the seams or should be interpreted as decorative embroidery.

The period from 700, 000 – 300, 000 years ago is also known as the Acheulean, when H. ergaster ( or erectus ) made large stone hand axes out of flint and quartzite, at first quite rough ( Early Acheulian ), later " retouched " by additional, more subtle strikes at the sides of the flakes.

In the west, Liam Mellows led 600 – 700 Volunteers in abortive attacks on several police stations, at Oranmore and Clarinbridge in County Galway.

* St Vergilius of Salzburg ( c. 700 – 784 ), in the middle of the eighth century, discussed or taught some geographical or cosmographical ideas which St Boniface found sufficiently objectionable that he complained about them to Pope Zachary.

McDonald's | startup costs in 2010, $ 995, 900 – $ 1, 842, 700 ( 37, 300 partners in 2010 )

In the years immediately after the war ( 1944 – 1946 ), the Soviet part of the allied control commission demanded that public libraries should remove from circulation more than 1, 700 books that were deemed anti-Soviet, and bookstores were given catalogs of banned books.

The White Army lost 700 – 900 men, including 50 Jägers, the highest number of deaths the former Jäger battalion suffered in a single battle of the 1918 war.

* General History of the Ghana Armed Forces – a Reference Volume, ( Professor ) Stephen Addae, Ministry of Defence of Ghana Armed Forces ( sic ), Accra, 2005, ISBN 9988-8335-0-4. nearly 700 pages but quite readable.

The great plague of 1596 – 1602 killed 600, 000 to 700, 000 people, or about 10 % of the population.

Of the remainder, 700 returned to France and many were – after capitulation – forced to serve in British units.