* 978 BC: Siamun succeeds Osorkon the Elder as king of Egypt.

Horsepower claims vary widely — from 6, 978 to 8, 897 — but are probably around 8, 000 HP.

Later, however, her daughter-in-law, the Byzantine princess Theophano, turned her husband Otto II against his mother, and she was driven from court in 978 ; she lived partly in Italy, and partly with her brother Conrad, king of Burgundy, by whose mediation she was ultimately reconciled to her son ; in 983 Otto appointed her as his viceroy in Italy.

Æthelred the Unready, or Æthelred II ( circa 968 – 23 April 1016 ), was king of England ( 978 – 1013 and 1014 – 1016 ).

Edward the Martyr ( Old English: Eadweard ; c. 962 – 18 March 978 ) was king of the English from 975 until he was murdered in 978.

* Edward the Martyr ( c. 962 – 978 ), English king and Christian martyr

On 18 March 978, while visiting Ælfthryth at Corfe Castle, King Edward was killed by servants of the Queen, leaving the way clear for Æthelred to be installed as king.

David installed him as a residing prince in Kartli ( 975 ) and as king of Abkhazia ( 978 ), and helped Bagrat ’ s natural father Gurgen to be crowned as King of Kings of the Kartvelians on the death of Bagrat the Simple ( 994 ), thus making Bagrat a ruler of the two and a heir apparent of another two Georgian states.

Æthelred took power in 978 following the murder of his brother Edward, but England was then invaded by Sweyn Forkbeard, the son of a Danish king.

Before Bagrat was crowned as the king, he had also reigned as a dynast in Kartli from 976 to 978.

The Italian army comprised four brigades totaling 17, 978 troops, with fifty-six artillery pieces.

The Decline of Jute: Managing Industrial Decline ( London: Pickering and Chatto, 2011 ) 219 pp. 978 – 1-84893-124-4.

NGC 1360 is a planetary nebula in Fornax with a magnitude of approximately 9. 0, 978 light-years from Earth.

This is made up of 12, 633, 978 females and 12, 024, 845 males.

16, 527, 148 are Ghanaian passport holders ( i. e. Ghanaian citizenship and Ghanaian passport holders ), while 745, 294 are permanent residents ( i. e. holders of the Ghana Card ), and 307, 978 are foreign workers ( i. e. non-resident ), with an estimated 7, 078, 403 being illegal immigrants mostly from West African countries.

Shortly afterwards the young emperor waged a retaliatory expedition against Bohemia, forcing in 978 Duke Boleslav into submission.

In 978 / 79 Mieszko I married Oda ( b. 955 / 60 – d. 1023 ), daughter of Dietrich of Haldensleben, Margrave of the Northern March.

Conrad the Red married Liutgarde, a daughter of Emperor Otto I, their son Otto I, Duke of Carinthia ruled Carinthia from 978 to 1004.

The 9th Circuit Court of Appeals affirmed an award of $ 2. 375 million in his favor ( Waits v. Frito-Lay, 978 F. 2d 1093 ( 9th Cir.

He strengthened his alliance with the Empire by marrying Oda, the daughter of the Saxon Margrave Dietrich of Haldensleben, in 978 and by marrying his son Bolesław I to a daughter of Margrave Rikdag of Meissen.

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

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

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

However, a calculation of a lunar Tepi Shemu feast which records the induction of Hori son of Nespaneferhor into the Amun priesthood in regnal year 17 of Siamun, Psusennes II's predecessor — demonstrates that this date was equivalent to 970 BC.

Since Siamun enjoyed a reign of 19 years, he would have died 2 years later in 968 / 967 BC and been succeeded by Psusennes II by 967 BC at the latest.

* 411 BC – Coup in Athens succeeds, forming a short-lived oligarchy.

* 498 BC: Alexander I succeeds his father Amyntas I as king of Macedon

* 491 BC: Leotychidas succeeds his cousin Demaratus as king of Sparta

* 488 BC: Leonidas I succeeds his brother Cleomenes I as king of Sparta after Cleomenes is judged insane

* 486 BC: Xerxes I succeeds Darius I as Great King of Persia

* October, 485 BC: Xerxes I succeeds Darius I as King of Persia

* 480 BC: Pleistarchus succeeds his father Leonidas I as king of Sparta.

* 476 BC: Archidamus II succeeds his grandfather Leotychides, who is banished to Tegea, as king of Sparta.

* 459 BC: Pleistoanax succeeds his father Pleistarchus as king of Sparta.

* 450 BC: Perdiccas II succeeds Alexander I as king of Macedonia ( approximate date ).

* 1042 BC: King Cheng of Zhou succeeds King Wu as ruler of the Zhou Dynasty in China,

* 1020 BC: King Kang of Zhou succeeds King Cheng as ruler of the Zhou Dynasty in China.

* 1003 BC: David succeeds Saul the King.

* 699 BC: Khallushu succeeds Shuttir-Nakhkhunte as king of the Elamite Empire.

* 681 BC: Esarhaddon succeeds Sennacherib as king of Assyria.

* 669 BC: Assurbanipal succeeds his father Esarhaddon as king of Assyria.

* 664 BC: Psammetichus I succeeds Necho I as king of Lower Egypt.

* 649 BC: Indabigash succeeds Tammaritu as a king of the Elamite Empire.

* 623 BC: Sin-shar-ishkun succeeds his brother Assur-etel-ilani as king of Assyria ( approximate date ).

* 610 BC: Necho II succeeds Psammetichus I as king of Egypt.

* 609 BC: Jehoahaz succeeds his father Josiah as King of Judah, but is quickly deposed by Necho, who installs Jehoahaz's brother Jehoiakim in his place.

* 605 BC: Nebuchadrezzar II succeeds his father Nabopolassar as King of Babylon.

* Aristobulus I succeeds John Hyrcanus, becoming king and high priest of Judea, until 103 BC.

* Alexander Jannaeus succeeds his brother Aristobulus I as king and high priest of Judea, until 76 BC.

* 783 BC: Shalmaneser IV succeeds his father Adad-nirari III as king of Assyria.