Pre-ecumenical councils ( also known as synods ) include the Council of Jerusalem ( c. 50 ), the Council of Rome ( 155 AD ), the Second Council of Rome ( 193 AD ), the Council of Ephesus ( 193 AD ), the Council of Carthage ( 251 AD ), the Council of Iconium ( 258 AD ), the Council of Antioch ( 264 AD ), the Councils of Arabia ( 246 – 247 AD ), the Council of Elvira ( 306 AD ), the Council of Carthage ( 311 AD ), the Synod of Neo-Caesarea ( c. 314 AD ), the Council of Ancyra ( 314 AD ) and the Council of Arles ( 314 AD ).

* 247 AD – Dura-Europos, a Roman outpost, is destroyed.

* Parthian Empire ( 247 BC-224 AD ), an Iranian empire ruled by Iranian Parthians

The bronze jingyun bell cast in the year 711 AD, measuring 247 cm high and weighing 6, 500 kg, now located at the Bell Tower of Xi ' an

** 247 BC – 224 AD Arsacid dynasty ( Parthian Empire )

* Marcus Julius M. f. Philippus, emperor with his father from AD 247 to 249.

The two Councils of Arabia were held at Bostra in 246 and 247 AD.

This is because in AD 525, Dionysius Exiguus decided to add 15 Metonic cycles to the existing 13 Metonic cycles of the Diocletian Era ( 15x19 + 13x19 = 532 ) to obtain an entire 532-year medieval Easter cycle, whose first cycle ended with the year Era of Martyrs 247 (= 13x19 ) equal to year DXXXI.

The first temple was built in 247 AD, at the time of the Kingdom of Wu, during the Three Kingdoms period.

The use of the word abacus dates before 1387 AD, when a Middle English work borrowed the word from Latin to describe a sandboard abacus.

The zero was probably introduced to the Chinese in the Tang Dynasty ( 618-907 AD ) when travel in the Indian Ocean and the Middle East would have provided direct contact with India, allowing them to acquire the concept of zero and the decimal point from Indian merchants and mathematicians.

The hereditary chieftains of Umhall were the O ' Malleys, recorded in the area in 814 AD when they successfully repelled an onslaught by the Vikings in Clew Bay.

Romans and Parthians fought over Assyria and the rest of Mesopotamia until 226 AD, when it was taken over by the Sassanid ( Persian ) Empire.

Apollos and Paul were both in Ephesus at the time Paul wrote the letter ( 55 AD ); 16: 12 states Apollos was unwilling to go to Corinth yet at Paul's urging, but that he would later when he had an opportunity.

They were first divided into separate books by the early Christian scholar Origen, in the 3rd century AD, and the separation became entrenched in the 5th century AD when it was followed by Jerome in his Latin translation of the Bible.

They were proud of their independence and had revolted in AD 47 when the then-governor Publius Ostorius Scapula threatened to disarm them.

The Jewish people still await the Messiah's first coming, while Christians await his second coming, when they believe he will fulfill those parts of Messianic prophecy left unfulfilled in the first century AD.

If precise dates are required, the beginning may be set in 802 AD, when the founder of the Khmer Empire, Jayavarman II pronounced himself universal monarch ( chakravartin ) and declared independence from Java, and the end may be set in 1431 AD, when Thai invaders from the kingdom of Ayutthaya sacked Angkor and caused the Khmer elite to migrate to Phnom Penh.

Another census dates to AD 144, when 49. 73 million people were recorded living in 9. 94 million households.

There is speculation that Viking explorers discovered and settled in the Vinland region around 1000 AD, which is when the L ' Anse aux Meadows settlement in Newfoundland and Labrador has been dated, and it is possible that further exploration was made into the present-day Maritimes and northeastern United States.

The Church belongs to the Oriental Orthodox family of churches, which has been a distinct church body since the Council of Chalcedon in AD 451, when it took a different position over Christological theology from that of the Eastern Orthodox Church ( not to be confused with the Greek Orthodox Church of Alexandria ).

The temple survived until 390 AD, when the Christian emperor Theodosius I silenced the oracle by destroying the temple and most of the statues and works of art in the name of Christianity.

The last major remodeling took place in the 2nd century AD under the patronage of Herodus Atticus when the stone seating was built and ( arched ) entrance.

The Qur ' an was compiled in the mid-seventh century AD ( around 650 CE ), corresponding to the period when docetism was still commonly accepted and taught among some Christian sects.

However when these supplies diminished, production in Dumnonia increased and appears to have reached a peak during the 3rd century AD.

In the third century AD, Flavius Philostratus wrote this: " For there is an ancient law in regard to the Red Sea, which the king Erythras laid down, when he held sway over that sea, to the effect that the Egyptians should not enter it with a vessel of war, and indeed should employ only a single merchant ship.

His most famous pupil, Arrian, studied under him when a young man ( c. 108 AD ) and claimed to have written the famous Discourses from his lecture notes, though some argue they should be considered an original composition by Arrian, comparable to the Socratic literature.

Graham Stanton rejects Petrine authorship because 1 Peter was most likely written during the reign of Domitian in AD 81, which is when he believes widespread Christian persecution began, which is long after the death of Peter.

This lasted until around 900 AD, when the Classic Maya civilization collapsed.

During the autumn of 169 AD when Roman troops were returning to Aquileia, the great plague broke out and the emperor summoned Galen back to Rome.

Among the Turkmen leaders the Ottomans emerged as great power under Osman and his son Orhan I. Smyrna was conquered in 1330 AD, and the last Byzantine possession, Philadélphia ( modern Alaşehir ), fell in 1390 AD.

In AD 296, Diocletian decreed against the Manichaeans: " We order that their organizers and leaders be subject to the final penalties and condemned to the fire with their abominable scriptures ", resulting in many martyrdoms in Egypt and North Africa ( see Diocletian Persecution ).

His grandfather, Zhang Kan, had been governor of a commandery, and one of the leaders who supported the restoration of the Han Dynasty by Emperor Guangwu ( r. 25 – 57 ), following the death of the usurper Wang Mang and his short-lived Xin Dynasty ( AD 9 – 23 ).

In Gaul the Franks ( a fusion of western Germanic tribes whose leaders had been aligned with Rome since the third century AD ) entered Roman lands gradually and peacefully during the fifth century, and were accepted as rulers by the Roman-Gaulish population.

The phrase is quite old, it has famously been used by many leaders from Roman Emperor Hadrian in the first century AD, to Ronald Reagan in the 1980s.

The emergence of the Magyar tribes and their leaders is a specific period in the history of the Hungarian people that refers to the time starting from when the Hungarians were considered a people separate and identifiable from other Ugric speakers ( 1000-500 BC ) up until their occupation and settlement of the Carpathian Basin around 896 AD ( Hungarian: Honfoglalás ).

In Costa Rica, he was active in Venezuelan political refugee circles, worked as Editor in Chief of the newspaper La República and kept in close contact with Betancourt and other AD leaders.

In the end we do not know and will never know what motivated the men of the Imperial Comitatus or their leaders in 268 AD.

Early in AD 70 the revolt was joined by Julius Classicus and Julius Tutor, leaders of the Treviri who like Civilis were Roman citizens.

* Based on information supplied by Korean guerrillas, eight AD Skyraiders from U. S. Navy Fighter Squadron 54 ( VF-54 ) attack a meeting place of Communist leaders in Korea with 1, 000-pound ( 454-kg ) bombs and napalm.

During the Roman invasion, in 47 AD, the governor of Britain, Publius Ostorius Scapula, was forced to abandon his campaign against the Deceangli of North Wales because of " disaffection " among the Brigantes, whose leaders had been allies of Rome.

In a spiritual interpretation, Japanese leaders had justified their involvement in the war with a previous incursion into Korea led by the mythical Empress Jingu in 400 AD, claiming that they were being blessed by the god of war, Hachiman, whom Empress Jingu carried in her womb during her invasion.

He also reports that Menahem, one of the early leaders of the Jewish Revolt in AD 66, was Judas ' " son ", but most scholars doubt this.

Caliph al-Muizz, who reigned during 972-975 AD, used to invite different religious leaders to debate in his presence.

The oldest recorded use of the dragon to symbolise Wales is from the Historia Brittonum, written around 829 AD, but it is popularly supposed to have been the battle standard of King Arthur and other ancient Celtic leaders.

In his own strip in 2000 AD it emerged that the leaders of the corporations were in fact powerful aliens, called " Newts.

In AD 218, while Liu Bei was wrestling control with Cao Cao over the Hanzhong region, bandit leaders Ma Qin ( 馬秦 ) and Gao Sheng ( 高勝 ) rebelled.

Horapollo is mentioned by the Suda ( ω 159 ) as one of the last leaders of Ancient Egyptian priesthood, at a school in Menouthis, near Alexandria, during the reign of Zeno ( AD 474 – 491 ).