In 458 BC, the Athenians blockaded the island of Aegina, and simultaneously defended Megara from the Corinthians by sending out an army composed of those too young or old for regular military service.

Under Wudi, the works of Confucius were made the official imperial philosophy and required reading for civil service examinations in 140 BC which was continued nearly unbroken until the end of the 19th Century.

The first meritocracy was implemented in the 2nd century BC, by the Han Dynasty, which introduced the world's first civil service exams evaluating the " merit " of officials.

Herodotus mentions that the Egyptian pharaoh Necho II ( 610 – 595 BC ) built triremes on the Nile, for service in the Mediterranean, and in the Red Sea, but this reference is disputed by modern historians, and attributed to a confusion, since " triērēs " was by the 5th century used in the generic sense of " warship ", regardless its type.

There is no direct access to the alternate registers ; instead, two special instructions, < code > EX AF, AF '</ tt > and < code > EXX </ tt >, each toggles one of two multiplexer flip-flops ; this enables fast context switches for interrupt service routines: < code > EX AF, AF '</ tt > may be used alone ( for really simple and fast interrupt routines ) or together with < code > EXX </ tt > to swap the whole AF, BC, DE, HL set ; still much faster than pushing the same registers on the stack ( slower, lower priority, or multi level interrupts normally use the stack to store registers ).

** The BC Ferries company, later to become the second-largest ferry operator in th world, commences service between Tsawwassen and Swartz Bay, British Columbia, Canada.

The Song Dynasty supported a widespread postal service that was modeled on the earlier Han Dynasty ( 202 BC – AD 220 ) postal system to provide swift communication throughout the empire.

Ptolemy, only thirteen years old at that time, had set up a throne for himself on the harbour, from where he watched as on September 28, 48 BC, Pompey was murdered by one of his former officers, now in Ptolemaic service.

To protect himself further, Tiberius Gracchus won re-election to the tribunate in 133 BC, promising to shorten the term of military service, abolish the exclusive right of senators to act as jurors and include other social classes, and admit allies to Roman citizenship, all moves popular with the Assembly.

It seems that the minimum qualification for the fifth census class ( the lowest one eligible for military service ) was lowered from 11, 000 to 3000 sesterces of property, and already in 109 BC the consuls had had to seek suspension of Gaius Gracchus ' restrictions on the levy.

at :- 109 text: BC 109 – Returned to army service as legate to Caecilius Metellus

at :- 107 text: BC 107 – First consulship, abolished land ownership qualification for military service ( Marian Reforms )

He served with Pompey during his Iberian campaigns against Sertorius in the late 70s BC, and remained in his service right through to the Civil War.

As a result of his fine service, in 226 BC, he was appointed to the position of curule aedile in the Roman Republic.

There is price comparison service operating in some of these jurisdictions, particularly Ontario, Alberta and BC.

One of the oldest examples of a civil service based on meritocracy is the Imperial bureaucracy of China, which can be traced as far back as the Qin Dynasty ( 221 – 207 BC ).

91 – 69 BC, recorded as a Vestal during the trial of her brother in 69 BC, but she would have begun her service before her father's death in 91.

The vessels built for BC Ferries were intended to improve ferry service between the mainland terminal of Horseshoe Bay ( in West Vancouver ) and the Vancouver Island terminal at Departure Bay ( in Nanaimo ).

On Friday, December 16, 2005 WMG confirmed that it is considering putting the ferries into service from North Vancouver to Duke Point ( near Nanaimo ) to compete with the BC Ferries routes.

Delta Fire Department also provides assistance to the Point Roberts volunteer fire department when requested, and until 1988 BC Tel ( now Telus ) provided telephone service .< ref name =" pointbob ">

After the fulfilment of his military service, and being elected military tribune, Paullus was elected curule aedile in 193 BC.

The Interurban, as the BCER tram linking Abbotsford with Vancouver and Chilliwack, was called, was discontinued in 1950, but BCER's successor BC Hydro retains the right to re-introduce passenger rail service.

Xenophon ( 431-355 BC ), a Greek mercenary commander in Persian service, who later became a historian

After the outbreak of the civil war, he was recalled by Gaius Julius Caesar in 49 BC, and entered his service, but took no active part against his old patron Pompey.

It is during this period in Athens from 335 to 323 BC when Aristotle is believed to have composed many of his works.

Although Crete had contacts with Mari from 2000 BC, there is no evidence that the ecstatic prophetic art existed during the Minoan and Mycenean ages.

The last stage in the development of the Kouros type is the late archaic period ( 520 – 485 BC ), in which the Greek sculpture attained a full knowledge of human anatomy and used to create a relative harmonious whole.

In the Middle Bronze Age an apparently " alphabetic " system known as the Proto-Sinaitic script is thought by some to have been developed in the Sinai peninsula during the 19th century BC, by Canaanite workers in the Egyptian turquoise mines.

The oldest known mention of " Atlantic " is in The Histories of Herodotus around 450 BC ( Hdt.

The first known references to mouth rinsing is in Ayurveda and Chinese medicine, about 2700 BC, for treatment of gingivitis.

Anatolia is known as the birthplace of minted coinage ( as opposed to unminted coinage, which first appears in Mesopotamia at a much earlier date ) as a medium of exchange, some time in the 7th century BC in Lydia.

These scripts are thought to derive from the Proto-Sinaitic alphabet ( dated to about 1500 BC ), which is thought to derive from Egyptian hieroglyphs.

It is believed that at the end of the Neolithic Period ( around 4000 BC ), Achill had a population of 500 – 1, 000 people.

* 586 BC – Solomon's Temple is totally destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.

Eventually, humans learned to smelt metals such as copper and tin from ore, and, around 2500 BC, began alloying the two metals to form bronze, which is much harder than its ingredients.

While the use of iron started to become more widespread around 1200 BC, mainly because of interruptions in the trade routes for tin, the metal is much softer than bronze.

This terminology is common in many countries, and originated from the " Lex Sempronia Agraria " or " agrarian laws " of Rome in 133 BC, imposed by Tiberius Gracchus, that seized public land ( ager publicus ) used by the rich and distributed it to the poor.

Aristotle ( 384-322 BC ) understood that sound consisted of contractions and expansions of the air " falling upon and striking the air which is next to it ...", a very good expression of the nature of wave motion.

A centre for the arts, learning and philosophy, home of Plato's Academy and Aristotle's Lyceum, it is widely referred to as the cradle of Western civilization and the birthplace of democracy, largely due to the impact of its cultural and political achievements during the 5th and 4th centuries BC in later centuries on the rest of the then known European continent.

It is the events of 27 BC from which he obtained his traditional name of Augustus, which historians use in reference from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

* 1457 BC – Likely date of the Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and a large Canaanite coalition under the King of Kadesh, the first battle to have been recorded in what is accepted as relatively reliable detail.

Amber is discussed by Theophrastus, possibly the first historical mention of the material, in the 4th century BC.

Another early reference to Amber was Pytheas ( 330 BC ) whose work " On the Ocean " is lost, but was referenced by Pliny.

The Battle of Qarqar is mentioned in extra-biblical records, and was perhaps at Apamea where Shalmaneser III of Assyria fought a great confederation of princes from Cilicia, Northern Syria, Israel, Ammon, and the tribes of the Syrian desert ( 853 BC ), including Ahab ( A-ha-ab-bu < sup > mat </ sup >) ( Adad -' idri ).

Abydos is celebrated for the vigorous resistance it made against Philip V of Macedon in 200 BC.

He kills 28 people in the Trojan War, and his career during that war is retold by Roman historian Gaius Julius Hyginus ( c. 64 BC – AD 17 ) in his Fabulae.

Together with Pausanias, he later moved to the court of Archelaus, king of Macedon, who was recruiting playwrights ; it is here that he probably died around 401 BC.