The basis of western astronomy as taught during Late Antiquity and until the Early Modern period is the Almagest by Ptolemy, written in the 2nd century.

* c. Late 1st century-early 2nd century – Buddha and Attendants, from Katra Keshavdev, Mathura, Madhya Pradesh, India, is made.

* Late 2nd century BC or early 1st century BC – Aulus Metellus, found near Perugia, is made.

The 2nd century saw the peak of the Roman Empire, followed by its gradual decline during the period of Late Antiquity, the rise of Christianity and the Great Migrations.

The 2nd millennium BC marks the transition from the Middle to the Late Bronze Age.

A pottery horse head and neck ( broken from the body ) of the Late Han Dynasty ( 1st – 2nd century AD )

Model of Jerusalem in the Late 2nd Temple Period.

* Jerusalem ’ s Model in the Late 2nd Temple Period

# Late Sarmatian: late 2nd century AD to 4th century AD

Doubting the viability of Pernier's report, Louis Godart ( 1990 ) resigns himself to admitting that archaeologically, the disc may be dated to anywhere in Middle or Late Minoan times ( MMI-LMIII, a period spanning most of the 2nd millennium BC ).

Late July brought a string of bad results, including embarrassing losses to main rival FK Lyn, and the exit from the UEFA Champions League qualifier after losing 5 – 3 on aggregate to Czech club FK Mladá Boleslav in the 2nd qualifying round.

In the Late Bronze Age ( second half of the 2nd millennium BCE ) a new fortification wall, four meters thick, was erected.

In subsequent editions he subsumed all periods under three headings: the First Period ( Old Latin ), the Second Period ( the Golden Age ) and the Third Period, " the Imperial Age ", subdivided into the Silver Age, the 2nd century, and Centuries 3 – 6 together, which was a recognition of Late Latin, as he sometimes refers to the writings of those times as " late.

Excavations have shown it was occupied in the Late Iron Age from about AD 40 through the last quarter of the 2nd century ( about the time that the Antonine Wall was manned ).

* S. Smiles, A Publisher and His Friends: Memoir and Correspondence of the Late John Murray, 2nd edn, 2 vols ( London: John Murray, 1891 ).

Late in the day, Buford sent the U. S. Reserve Brigade back from Pot House, and the 2nd and 6th U. S. Cavalry regiments seized a hotly contested hill south of the tiny village of Millville as darkness fell.

* Jerusalem ’ s Model in the Late 2nd Temple Period

the current Ogbeni Oja of Ijebu land, Dr Sonny Kuku OFR, Late Chief Timothy Odutuyo Kuti ( Abusi Edumare as he was fondly called ) former school principal, industrialist, a businessman, philanthropist the founder of Abusi Edumare Academy Ijebu Igbo ( acknowledged to have groomed business, religions and political leaders ) Prince Micheal Oyedele an industrialist, chief Adegunle soetan ( Aro of Egbaland ), Iyalode jojolola soetan ( 2nd Iyalode of Egbaland ).

Temple D is the largest of the four ; it dates back to 2nd century BC with Late Republican restorations, and was devoted to Lares Permarini, but only a small part of it has been excavated ( a street covers the most of it ).

Late in the 2nd century there are a number of quotations from all three Pastoral Epistles in Irenaeus ' work Against Heresies.

Although inhumation was practiced regularly in archaic Rome, cremation was the most common burial practice in the Mid-to Late Republic and the Empire into the 1st and 2nd centuries AD.

Particularly in the 2nd – 4th centuries AD, these were often decorated with reliefs that became an important vehicle for Late Roman sculpture.

Late nineteenth century drama, 1850 – 1900, 2nd ed.

Others hold that the close similarity between the Goidelic and Brythonic branches, and their sharing of Late Bronze Age and Early Iron Age terminology with their continental relatives, point to a more recent introduction of Indo-European languages ( or close communication ), with Proto-Celtic itself unlikely to have existed before the end of the 2nd millennium BC at the earliest.

) Adobe brickmaking was used in Spain starting by the Late Bronze Age and Iron Age, from the eighth century B. C.

During the Late Bronze Age circa 2000 BC, they created an empire, the Hittite New Kingdom, which reached its height in the 14th century BC, controlling much of Asia Minor.

Late in the 18th century the first wave of Romantics such as Goethe and Turner came to admire the scenery ; Wordsworth visited the area in 1790, writing of his experiences in The Prelude.

Late 14th and 15th century pottery from central Arizona, widely traded in the region, has colors and designs which may derive from earlier ware by both Ancestral Pueblo and Mogollon peoples.

Late 18th century French revolutionary " decimal " clockface.

Late in the 20th century, caller ID and prepaid cellphone service became commonplace.

Probably the most recognised style of armour in the World became the plate armour associated with the knights of the European Late Middle Ages, but continuing to the early 17th century Age of Enlightenment in all European countries.

Late in the sixteenth century the " verse anthem ", in which passages for solo voices alternated with passages for full choir, developed.

Late in the nineteenth century astronomers such as Richard Proctor and Charles Piazzi Smyth investigated the astronomical orientations of the pyramids.

Late 19th century and the 20th century were marked by large scale economic migrations abroad.

Late in the 20th century, urban police bicycles became more common, as the mobility of car-borne officers was increasingly limited by traffic congestion and pedestrianisation.

The significant Late Neolithic and Early Bronze Age Cycladic culture is best known for its schematic flat idols carved out of the islands ' pure white marble centuries before the great Middle Bronze Age (" Minoan ") culture arose in Crete, to the south: these figures have been looted from burials to satisfy a thriving Cycladic antiquities market since the early 20th century.

Late in the century the name came to be applied to a class of software for converting among digital signal formats, and including compander functions.

This was the two-fluid theory of electricity, which was to be opposed by Benjamin Franklin's one-fluid theory later in the century. Late 1780s diagram of Galvani's experiment on frog legs.

Late Roman Empire ( Christian ) 1st-2nd century frescoes were found in catacombs beneath Rome and Byzantine Icons were also found in Cyprus, Crete, Ephesus, Cappadocia and Antioch.

Prior to that, hunting by local natives can be documented from Late Stone Age Scandinavia and eastern North America, as well as from early 5th century Labrador, where the bird seems to have occurred only as a straggler.

* Late 10th century: Pomerelia was united with Poland.

The 13th century also saw a general structural change in how land was administered, preparing the shift of political power towards the rising bourgeoisie at the expense of aristocratic feudalism that would characterize the Late Middle Ages.

Late 15th century BCE, Ancient Agora Museum in Athens

Late in the century there was a short Druze uprising over the extremely harsh government and high taxation rates, but there was far less of the violence that had scalded the area earlier in the century.

In the early seventeenth century, when western European explorers made their first forays into the region, they encountered descendants of the Late Woodland Indians: the Chippewa, Menominee, Sauk, Fox, Winnebago, Miami, Ottawa, and Potawatomi.

Belgian historian Henri Pirenne and Dutch historian Johan Huizinga popularized the following subdivisions in the early 20th century: the Early Middle Ages from 476 to 1000, the High Middle Ages from 1000 to 1300, and the Late Middle Ages from 1300 to 1453.