* 959 BC: Psusennes II succeeds Siamun as king of Egypt.

* 5, 959 km < sup > 2 </ sup > — Canton of Bern, Switzerland

* 6. 959 km — Height of Aconcagua, highest peak in South America

* 959 ( LMS 14803 ) — allocated to Perth

The Emperor Constantine Porphyrogennetos ( r. 945 – 959 ), in his book De Administrando Imperio, admonishes his son and heir, Romanos II ( r. 959 – 963 ), to never reveal the secrets of its construction, as it was " shown and revealed by an angel to the great and holy first Christian emperor Constantine " and that the angel bound him " not to prepare this fire but for Christians, and only in the imperial city ".

Between the reigns of Edgar and William II ( 959 – 1100 ) Totnes intermittently minted coins.

From the accession of Emperor Romanos II in 959, Nikephoros and his younger brother Leo were placed in charge of the eastern and western field armies, respectively.

In November 959 Romanos II succeeded his father on the throne, among rumors that he or his wife had contributed to the death of Constantine VII by poisoning him.

Constantine VII died at Constantinople in November 959 and was succeeded by his son Romanos II.

* Romanos II the Purple-born ( Ρωμανός Β ') ( 938 – 963, ruled 959 – 963 ) – son of Constantine VII

II, Twin Detonator, Wild Dagger, Double Blaze, Blackfoot Xtreme, Clod Buster, TXT1, Tamtech Series, Terra Crusher, TNX ( Tamiya ), TNX 5. 2R, Nitrage 5. 2, Bigwig, Fox, Monster Beetle, Celica, Porsche 959 Paris-Dakar Rally, Blackfoot, Midnight Pumpkin, Super Shot, Super Sabre, Striker, Sonic Fighter, Lunch Box, Nissan King Cab, Wild Willy, Wild Willy 2,

The precursors of the records probably date to the Anglo-Saxon period, as the historian Pauline Stafford argues that financial records must have been kept in some form during the reigns of Cnut ( reigned 1016 – 1035 ), Æthelred II ( reigned 978 – 1016 ), and Edgar the Peaceable ( reigned 959 – 975 ).

* Romanos II the Purple-born ( Ρωμανός Β ') ( 938 – 963, ruled 959 – 963 ) – son of Constantine VII

* Eadwig of England, King from 955 until 957, king of only Wessex and Kingdom of Kent from 957 until his death on 1 October 959.

* Edgar of England, king of only Mercia and Northumbria from 957 until his brother's death in 959, then king of England from 959 until 975.

* 959 – Edgar the Peaceable becomes king of all England.

A separate political existence from Wessex was briefly restored in 955 – 959, when Edgar became king of Mercia, and again in 1016, when the kingdom was divided between Cnut and Edmund Ironside, Cnut taking Mercia.

Edgar the Peaceful, or Edgar I (; c. 7 August 943 – 8 July 975 ), also called the Peaceable, was a king of England ( r. 959 – 75 ).

No less important than the circumstances of her married life is the way Ælfgifu may have pushed on since the break-up of her marriage and more especially since the autumn of 959, when Eadwig died ( 1 October 959 ) and was succeeded by his brother Edgar as king of all England.

Under the North American Numbering Plan, almost all North American area codes reserve telephone numbers beginning with 958 and 959 for internal local and long distance testing ( respectively ), sometimes called plant testing.

In some area codes, multiple additional prefixes had been reserved for test purposes, in addition to the standard 958 and 959.

Some carriers have been known to disable payphone calls to 958 or 959 test lines, such as Bell Canada's system-wide ANAC line at 958-2580 or ( area code ) 958-6111.

if a prefix outside the 958 or 959 range is listed as a test exchange, these may be reclaimed and issued as standard numbers at a later date.

Probably due to the influence of Dunstan, the Archbishop of Canterbury ( 959 – 988 ), Ælfheah was elected Bishop of Winchester in 984, and was consecrated on 19 October that year.

In the tertiary sector ; 12, 880 or 13. 2 % were in the sale or repair of motor vehicles, 11, 959 or 12. 2 % were in the movement and storage of goods, 6, 120 or 6. 3 % were in a hotel or restaurant, 4, 186 or 4. 3 % were in the information industry, 10, 752 or 11. 0 % were the insurance or financial industry, 13, 695 or 14. 0 % were technical professionals or scientists, 6, 983 or 7. 1 % were in education and 16, 060 or 16. 4 % were in health care.

The book chronologically narrates the history of China from the Warring States period in 403 BCE to the beginning of the Song Dynasty in 959 CE.

The history of morphological analysis dates back to the ancient Indian linguist, who formulated the 3, 959 rules of Sanskrit morphology in the text by using a constituency grammar.

The total land area is, and the reservation's population at the 2000 census was 17, 959 residents.

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