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.

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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, 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

Further discoveries produced several versions of the Mesopotamian flood myth, with the account that is closest to that in " Genesis 6 – 9 " found in a 700 BCE Babylonian copy of the Epic of Gilgamesh.

The view of J. R. R. Tolkien is that the poem retains a much too genuine memory of Anglo-Saxon paganism to have been composed more than a few generations after the completion of the Christianisation of England around AD 700.

The Theogony (, Theogonía,, " the birth of the gods ") is a poem by Hesiod ( 8th – 7th century BC ) describing the origins and genealogies of Greek polytheism, composed circa 700 BC.

" The legendary drinking, feasting and boasting of warriors in the mead hall is echoed in the mead hall Dyn Eidyn ( modern day Edinburgh ), and in the epic poem Y Gododdin, both dated around AD 700.

Grendel is one of three antagonists, along with Grendel's mother and the dragon, in the Anglo-Saxon epic poem Beowulf ( AD 700 – 1000 ).

The events described probably occurred around 1200 BC, but Homer is thought to have composed this epic poem around 700 BC ; so exactitude must remain suspect.

Shih-t ' ou Hsi-ch ' ien's ( Shitou Xiqien, Sekito Kisen, 700 – 790 ) poem " The Harmony of Difference and Sameness " is an important early expression of Zen Buddhism and is chanted in Sōtō temples to this day.

The " Parlement of Foules " ( also known as the " Parliament of Fowls ", " Parlement of Birddes ", " Assembly of Fowls ", " Assemble of Foules ", or " The Parliament of Birds ") is a poem by Geoffrey Chaucer ( 1343 ?- 1400 ) made up of approximately 700 lines.

One of the Vane family employee's sons wrote a 700 blank verse poem about hop-growing.

This poem was written down between A. D. 700 and 900, by Christian monks.

The earliest version of the poem was written between September 1812 and March 1813, and a version of 700 lines published in June 1813.

The Works and Days (, Erga kai Hēmerai ) is a didactic poem of some 800 verses written by the ancient Greek poet Hesiod around 700 BC.

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

In The Iliad ( c. 700 BC ), Zeus asserts that Tartarus is " as far beneath Hades as heaven is high above the earth.

The origins of Western literature and of the main branches of Western learning may be traced to the era of Greek greatness that began before 700 BC with the epics of Homer, the Iliad and the Odyssey.

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

The money was secured by the act of his mother placing a $ 500 mortgage on the family's $ 700 home, but the opportunity was only available because of Carnegie's close relationship with Scott.

According to Rajputana Gazetteer, Ajmer was held by Chechi Gurjars until about 700 years ago.

In his youth he took part in the so-called " massacre of the ditch ", when from 700 to 5, 000 people come to pay homage to the princes who were killed by order of Al-Hakam.

Johnson & Johnson gave more than $ 700, 000 to a research center that was headed by Biederman from 2002 to 2005, where research was conducted, in part, on Risperdal, the company's antipsychotic drug.

Hartsfield-Jackson Atlanta International Airport, the world's busiest airport as measured by passenger traffic and aircraft traffic, offers air service to over 150 U. S. destinations and more than 80 international destinations in 52 countries, with over 2, 700 arrivals and departures daily.

A Boston Globe report, however, countered that by stating there were nearly 700 leaks in a single section of tunnel beneath South Station.

Jefferson's earnings reputedly enabled him to buy a car and employ chauffeurs ( although there is debate over the reliability of this as well ); he was given a Ford car " worth over $ 700 " by Mayo Williams, Paramount's connection with the black community.

* U. A. Whitaker ( deceased )-provider of The Whitaker Foundation, which supported research and education in BME by providing over $ 700 million to various universities, helping to create 30 BME programs and helping finance the construction of 13 buildings

Located at the first convenient Charles River crossing west of Boston, Newe Towne was one of a number of towns ( including Boston, Dorchester, Watertown, and Weymouth ) founded by the 700 original Puritan colonists of the Massachusetts Bay Colony under governor John Winthrop.

The cartridge used by the FN P90, the 5. 7 × 28 mm, for example, fires a 2. 0 g ( 31 grain ) armor-piercing bullet at velocities of around 700 m / s ( 2300 ft / s ).

According to Fundamentals of Physics ( 4 ed., Wiley, 1993 ), by David Halliday, Robert Resnick and Jearl Walker, on page 30, Chapter Two, " Motion along a Straight Line ", Joe Sprinz, at the time in question, a member of the San Francisco Ball Club, and formerly of the Indians, attempted to beat the World Record for catching a baseball dropped from a great height, set by members of the 1938 Cleveland Indians, who had done so at 700 feet, with balls dropped from a building.

CD-R / RWs are available with capacities of 80 minutes of audio or 737, 280, 000 bytes ( 700 MB ), which they achieve by molding the disc at the tightest allowable tolerances specified in the Orange Book CD-R / CD-RW standards.

Although 700 local languages and dialects are spoken, the linguistic variety is bridged both by the use of French and the intermediary languages Kikongo, Tshiluba, Swahili, and Lingala.

EM radiation with a wavelength between approximately 400 nm and 700 nm is directly detected by the human eye and perceived as visible light.

This vision includes establishing a University College to foster both in-depth and wide-interest, society-interest driven education for upcoming engineers ; establishing a combined Graduate School to manage the graduate programs ; an increase of the student body by 50 percent ; a 50 percent increase in the number of annual Ph. D graduations ; an increase of knowledge valorisation to a campus-wide score of 4. 2 ; increasing the international position of the university to within the top-100 universities ; and increasing the embedding of the university within the city and the Brainport region by transforming the campus into a high-grade science park with laboratories, housing facilities for 700 students and researchers and supporting facilities.

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.

An early functional-flavored language was Lisp, developed by John McCarthy while at Massachusetts Institute of Technology ( MIT ) for the IBM 700 / 7000 series scientific computers in the late 1950s.

In the crime novel " The Redbreast " by Jo Nesbo, a senior Norwegian official concerned with preparations for a forthcoming visit by the President of the United States is depicted as saying: " Why does the President need to bring with him 700 people for a two-day summit?