The first, termed Proto-Isaiah ( chapters 1 – 39 ), contains the words of the 8th-century BCE prophet with 7th-century BCE expansions ; the second, Deutero-Isaiah ( chapters 40 – 55 ), is the work of a 6th-century BCE author writing near the end of the Babylonian captivity ; and the third, the poetic Trito-Isaiah ( chapters 56 – 66 ), was composed in Jerusalem shortly after the return from exile, probably by multiple authors.

* Historical Situation → The historical situation goes through three stages: in chapters 1 – 39 the prophet speaks of a judgment which will befall the wicked Israelites ; in chapters 40 – 55 the destruction of Jerusalem and the Temple ( 587 BCE ) is treated as an accomplished fact and the fall of Babylon as an imminent threat ; and in chapters 56 – 66 the fall of Babylon is already in the past.

In 55 and 54 BCE, Julius Caesar, as part of his campaigns in Gaul, invaded Britain and claimed to have scored a number of victories, but he never penetrated further than Hertfordshire and was unable to establish a province.

No permanent theater existed in Rome until Pompey dedicated one in 55 BCE in the Campus Martius.

This lack of permanent theaters in Rome until 55 BCE has puzzled contemporary scholars of Roman drama.

An archaeological discovery in 2010 in Blombos Cave, South Africa, places the use of pressure flaking by early humans to make stone tools back to 73, 000 BCE, 55, 000 years earlier than previously accepted.

In 57 – 55 BCE, Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into Galilee, Samaria, and Judea, with five districts of legal and religious councils known as sanhedrin ( Greek: συνέδριον, " synedrion "): " And when he had ordained five councils ( συνέδρια ), he distributed the nation into the same number of parts.

Seleucus I Nicator, a Macedonian satrap of Alexander, reconquered most of Alexander's former empire and put under his own authority the eastern territories as far as Bactria and the Indus ( Appian, History of Rome, The Syrian Wars 55 ), until in 305 BCE he entered into conflict with Chandragupta:

* 57 – 55 BCE: Aulus Gabinius, proconsul of Syria, split the former Hasmonean Kingdom into five districts of legal and religious councils known as sanhedrin based at Jerusalem, Sepphoris ( Galilee ), Jericho, Amathus ( Perea ) and Gadara.

The same name belonged to the Catuvellauni ( pronounced: KA-tu-well-OW-nee ) tribe of modern Hertfordshire, one of the most powerful British tribes in the Late Iron Age who led the resistance against the Romans in 43 CE and possibly against Caesar in 55 and 54 BCE as well.

Loulan became a client-state of the Chinese empire in 55 BCE, renamed Shanshan.

Seleucus I Nicator, the Macedonian satrap of the Asian portion of Alexander's former empire, conquered and put under his own authority eastern territories as far as Bactria and the Indus ( Appian, History of Rome, The Syrian Wars 55 ), until in 305 BCE he entered in a confrontation with Chandragupta:

Her name seems to derive from Vortumna ( she who revolves the year ): the earliest reference to the Wheel of Fortune, emblematic of the endless changes in life between prosperity and disaster, is 55 BCE.

When the Tencteri and Usipetes, who were Germanic tribes, crossed the Rhine from Germania ( 55 BCE ), they first fell on the Menapii, and then advanced into the territories of the Eburones and Condrusi, who were both " under the protection of " the Treveri to the south.

Dating back to the time of the Babylonian captivity ( 6th century BCE ), public Torah reading mostly followed an annual cycle beginning and ending on the Jewish holiday of Simchat Torah, with the Torah divided into 54 weekly portions to correspond to the lunisolar Hebrew calendar, which contains up to 55 weeks, the exact number varying between leap years and regular years.

Not until Azes I, in 55 BCE, did the Indo-Scythians take final control of northwestern India, with his victory over Hippostratos.

In 55 BCE when the Romans first attempted to invade Britain, the Catuvellauni ( which is Brythonic for " Expert Warrior ") were the largest British tribe.

Reverse of a Roman denarius of Aulus Plautius from about 55 BCE with inscription " Bacchius Judaeus ", pertaining to Aristobulus II in the Hasmonean era

Bopearachchi dates Hippostratos to 65 to 55 BCE whereas R. C. Senior suggests 60 to 50 BCE.

** 55 BCE, Caesar's intervention against Usipetes and Tencteri, Caesar defeats a Germanic army then massacres the women and children, totalling 430, 000 people, somewhere near the Meuse and Rhine rivers, Caesar's first crossing of the Rhine against the Suevi, Caesar's invasions of Britain.

Bopearachchi dates his reign to c. 55 – 35 BCE, a date approximately supported by R. C. Senior.

Gwydion later purchased and moved to Annwfn, 55 acres ( 223, 000 m² ) of land in Mendocino county he later deeded to the Church of All Worlds as a gift, and worked psychedelic group shamanic and Vodou rituals.

Emporium, the University of Turin's store and gift shopThe University is divided into 55 departments that are located in 13 faculties:

* The maximum estate tax, gift tax, and generation-skipping tax rate, which was 55 % in 2001 ( with an additional 5 % for estates over $ 10, 000, 000 in order to eliminate the benefit of the lower estate tax brackets ) was reduced to 50 % in 2002, with an additional 1 % reduction each year until 2007, when the top estate tax rate became 45 %.

This has helped their users recoup their share of some $ 55 million per day that goes unredeemed in the US every year, by turning their unused gift cards into cash.

* In November – December 1948, Superman journeys to Venus to obtain an exotic Venusian flower as a gift for Lois Lane ( S No. 55 / 2: “ The Richest Man in the World !”).

For comparison, a Roman 1st BC century catapult using stones of 6. 55 kg fired with a kinetic energy of 16, 000 joules, while a mid 19th century 12 pound cannon firing projectiles of 4. 1 kg fired the projectile with a kinetic energy of 240, 000 joules.

The southern Britons met Julius Caesar with chariots in 55 and 54 BC, but by the time of the Roman conquest of Britain a century later chariots were obsolete even in Britannia.

* 55 – Tiberius Claudius Caesar Britannicus, heir to the Roman Emperorship, dies under mysterious circumstances in Rome.

The first extensive Roman campaigns in Britain were by the armies of Julius Caesar in 55 and in 54 BC, but the first significant campaign of conquest did not begin until AD 43, in the reign of the Emperor Claudius.

The first direct Roman contact came when the Roman general and future dictator, Julius Caesar, made two expeditions to Britain in 55 and 54 BC as an offshoot of his conquest of Gaul, believing the Britons had been helping the Gallic resistance.

25 ), Julius Caesar describes an incident at the start of his first invasion of Britain in 55 BC that illustrated how fear for the safety of the eagle could drive Roman soldiers.

The 40 Carthaginian and Iberian vessels were severely defeated by the 55 Roman and Massalian ships in the second naval engagement of the war with about 3 / 4 of the fleet captured or sunk and the rest beaching their ships with the army on the shore.

55 BC ) was a Roman poet and philosopher.

Year 55 BC was a year of the pre-Julian Roman calendar.

The two dates that are referenced in the book are 1066, the date of the Battle of Hastings and the Norman invasion of Britain ( Chapter XI ) and 55 BC, the date of the first Roman invasion of Britain under Julius Caesar ( Chapter I ).

Regardless of the cause, she did until Ptolemy Auletes returned in 55 BC, with Roman support, capturing Alexandria aided by Roman general Aulus Gabinius.

In 50 BC Cleopatra came into a serious conflict with the Gabiniani, powerful Roman troops of Aulus Gabinius who had left them in Egypt to protect Ptolemy XII after his restoration to the throne in 55 BC.

In 55 he received orders from Roman Emperor Nero to levy troops to make war against the Parthians, and in the year 59 he served under General Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo against King Tiridates I of Armenia, brother of the Parthian King Vologases I of Parthia.

That island was first invaded by Julius Caesar in 55 BC, and the Roman conquest of the island began in AD 43, leading to the establishment of the Roman province known as Britannia.

Because, even after the campaign of Publius Crassus in 57 BC, continued resistance to Roman rule in Armorica was still being supported by Celtic aristocrats in Britain, Julius Caesar led two invasions of Britain in 55 and 54 in response.

In 55 BC, Roman troops commanded by Julius Caesar reached the Rhine and built a bridge between Koblenz and Andernach.

Tigranes II (), more commonly known as Tigranes the Great ( Tigran Mets ; Tigránes o Mégas ) ( 140 – 55 BC ) was emperor of Armenia under whom the country became, for a short time, the strongest state east of the Roman Republic.

The capital letters and periods following each word were probably intended to resemble an ancient Roman lapidary inscription or monumental brass, thereby accentuating Shakespeare's declaration in Sonnet 55 that the work will confer immortality to the subjects of the work:

The Roman legionary fortress of Burrium was founded on the site of Usk by the military commander Aulus Didius Gallus, around AD 55.

* 55 ( number ) in Roman numerals