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At the Battle of Cynoscephalae ( 364 BC ), the Theban forces of Pelopidas fought against the Thessalian troops of Alexander of Pherae in a drawn battle in which Pelopidas was killed.
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At and Cynoscephalae
At Cynoscephalae, the Thebans defeated Alexander, but Pelopidas was killed ;.
At and 364
At the time, Pud Galvin had the second most career wins with 364.
At the time, it was known as the Year of the Tribunate of Ambustus, Longus, Ambustus, Fidenas, Ambustus and Cornelius ( or, less frequently, year 364 Ab urbe condita ).
At The Oval, England amassed a world record of 7 / 903 and their opening batsman Len Hutton scored an individual world record, by making 364.
At the 2010 census the population was 8, 364.
At the time, his decision was fiercely criticised by 364 academic economists in a letter to The Times, who contended that there was no place for de-stimulatory policies in the economic climate of the time, remarking the Budget had " no basis in economic theory or supporting evidence ".
" At one point, they sold out 364 consecutive games — the equivalent of almost nine consecutive seasons.
At the end of January, 2011, Reitmans operated 968 stores organized into seven operating chains: Reitmans ( 364 stores ), Smart Set ( 158 stores ), RW & Co ( 67 stores ), Thyme Maternity ( 75 stores ), Cassis ( 22 stores ), Penningtons ( 161 stores ) and Addition-Elle ( 121 stores ).
At least 364 people were killed by the hurricane and over $ 900 million in damage were done ( 1960 USD ).
At the time of its merger, Minmaya had an estimated population of 2, 364 and a population density of 36. 19 persons per km².
At its height in 1895, it had 364 members of whom 99 were Anglican clergy.
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At and BC
At the time Caesar was killed on the Ides of March ( the 15th ) 44 BC, Octavius was studying and undergoing military training in Apollonia, Illyria.
At first unsuccessful, Alexander finally defeated Demetrius Soter in 150 BC.
At the same time, the subjugated " allied " tribes of Moesia and Thrace evidently repudiated their treaties with Rome, as they had to be re-conquered by Augustus in 29-8 BC ( see below ).
At Damaidi in Ningxia, 3, 172 cliff carvings dating to 6000-5000 BC have been discovered, " featuring 8, 453 individual characters such as the sun, moon, stars, gods and scenes of hunting or grazing.
At a very early period prior to 3000 BC, Nippur had become the centre of a political district of considerable extent.
At this point ( 247 BC ), Carthage sent general Hamilcar Barca ( Hannibal's father ) to Sicily.
At the end of the 13th century BC all of these powers suddenly collapsed.
* Simon Schama, A History of Britain: At the Edge of the World, 3500 BC – 1603 AD BBC / Miramax, 2000 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; TV series A History of Britain, Volume 2: The Wars of the British 1603 – 1776 BBC / Miramax, 2001 ISBN 0-7868-6675-6 ; A History of Britain-The Complete Collection on DVD BBC 2002
At times during the last interglacial period ( 130, 000 – 70, 000 BC ) Europe had a climate warmer than today's, and early humans may have made their way to Scotland, though archaeologists have found no traces of this.
At the same time, some Gallic Celtic tribes penetrated some parts of the current territory of France, but this occupation spread in the rest of France only between the 5th and 3rd century BC.
At the time of Alexander the Great in 330 BC, Aria was obviously an important district.
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At the request of the Corinthians, the Spartans summoned members of the Peloponnesian League to Sparta in 432 BC, especially those who had grievances with Athens to make their complaints to the Spartan assembly.
At the end of the first year of the war, Pericles gave his famous Funeral Oration ( 431 BC ).
At the end of the 2nd century BC, Gaius Marius reformed the previously ephemeral legions as a professional force drawing from the poorest classes, enabling Rome to field larger armies and providing employment for jobless citizens of the city of Rome.
At around 750 BC, Sicily became a Greek colony and for the next 600 years it was the site of the Greek-Punic and Roman-Punic wars, which ended with the Roman destruction of Carthage.
At Knossos, in a LMIIIA context ( 14th century BC ), seven Linear B texts while calling upon " all the gods " make sure to grant primacy to an elsewhere-unattested entity called qe-ra-si-ja and, once, qe-ra-si-jo.
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At Maecenas ' insistence ( according to the tradition ) Virgil spent the ensuing years ( perhaps 37 – 29 BC ) on the longer didactic hexameter poem called the Georgics ( from Greek, " On Working the Earth ") which he dedicated to Maecenas.
At present the pole star is Polaris, but around 12, 000 BC the pole was pointed only five degrees away from Vega.
At a conventional date of 1350 BC the fortifications on the acropolis, and other surrounding hills, were rebuilt in a style known as cyclopean because the blocks of stone used were so massive that they were thought in later ages to be the work of the one-eyed giants known as the cyclopes ( singular: Cyclops ).
At the end of the second milemnium BC, when the Mycenean city-state collapsed, it seems that the Greek thought was gradually released from the idea that each man was a servant to the gods, and sought a " moral purpose ".
At the commencement of the Peloponnesian war Sitalces entered into alliance with the Athenians, and in 429 BC he invaded Macedon ( then ruled by Perdiccas II ) with a vast army that included 150, 000 warriors from independent Thracian tribes.
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