In AD 664 Matera was conquered by the Lombards and became part of the Duchy of Benevento.

In 664 AD St Cedd attended the Synod of Whitby which merged the Anglo-Celtic Church with the Church of Rome.

After the Synod of Whitby in 664 AD, Roman church practices officially replaced the Celtic ones but the influence of the Anglo-Celtic style continued, the most famous examples of this being the Lindisfarne Gospels.

" He attends the famous Synod of Whitby in 664 AD and joins Sister Fidelma in solving a murder of one of the delegates ( Absolution by Murder, 1994 ).

Later legends ( beginning with a poem by Statius in the 1st century AD ) state that Achilles was invulnerable in all of his body except for his heel.

With the loss of the study of ancient Greek in the early medieval Latin West, Aristotle was practically unknown there from c. AD 600 to c. 1100 except through the Latin translation of the Organon made by Boethius.

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 name Asia Minor was given by the Latin author Orosios in the 4th century AD.

Konstantinos Porphyrogennetos, the fourth emperor of the Macedonian dynasty of the Byzantine Empire in the 9th century AD, referred to Asia Minor as East thema, " ανατολικόν θέμα " ( from the Greek words anatoli: east, thema: administrative division ), placing this region to the East of Byzantium, while Europe was lying to the West.

It was one of the 48 constellations listed by the 2nd century AD astronomer Ptolemy, and it remains one of the 88 modern constellations.

A writing system for it was devised in 1119 AD and an inscription using this system is known from 1185 ( see List of Jurchen inscriptions ).

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.

The name is derived from the type genus Apium, which was originally used by Pliny the Elder circa 50 AD for a celery-like plant.

The second Temple was completely destroyed by fire on the 9th of Av, 70 AD.

Of these the precedence was originally yielded to the abbot of Glastonbury, until in AD 1154 Adrian IV ( Nicholas Breakspear ) granted it to the abbot of St Alban's, in which monastery he had been brought up.

The adoption of certain episcopal insignia ( pontificalia ) by abbots was followed by an encroachment on episcopal functions, which had to be specially but ineffectually guarded against by the Lateran council, AD 1123.

Buddhism arrived in China around the 1st century AD, but it was not until the Northern and Southern, Sui and Tang Dynasties that it gained considerable influence and acknowledgement.

Augustus (, September 23, 63 BC – August 19, 14 AD ) was the founder of the Roman Empire and its first Emperor, ruling from 27 BC until his death in 14 AD.

Anthony the Great, who had retired to the Egyptian Thebaid during the persecution of Maximian, AD 312, was the most celebrated among them for his austerities, his sanctity, and his power as an exorcist.

Aachen Cathedral was erected on the orders of Charlemagne in AD 786 and was on completion the largest cathedral north of the Alps.

Vipsania Agrippina or most commonly known as Agrippina Major or Agrippina the Elder ( Major Latin for the elder, Classical Latin:, 14 BC – 17 October 33 ) was a distinguished and prominent Roman woman of the first century AD.

* The Emperor Nero was born in AD 37 to the Domitius above as Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( named after Domitius's father Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus ( consul 16 BC )).

He was adopted by Claudius in AD 50 as official heir to the throne.

* Gnaeus Domitius Corbulo, was the name of two politicians in the 1st century AD.

Alaric died soon after in Cosenza, probably of fever, at the age of about forty ( assuming again, a birth around 370 AD ), and his body was, according to legend, buried under the riverbed of the Busento.

200 AD ) was a Peripatetic philosopher and the most celebrated of the Ancient Greek commentators on the writings of Aristotle.

Hadrian and Antoninus Pius held similar celebrations, in 121 AD and 147 / 148 AD respectively.

In AD 33, Tiberius gave Caligula an honorary quaestorship, a position he held until his rise to Emperor.

The Council of Chalcedon was a church council held from October 8 to November 1, 451 AD, at Chalcedon ( a city of Bithynia in Asia Minor ), on the Asian side of the Bosporus, known in modern times as Istanbul.

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.

Abu Bakr Al-Jassas ( d. 981 AD / 370 AH ) argued that the two hadiths on killing homosexuals " are not reliable by any means and no legal punishment can be prescribed based on them ", and the Hanafi school held that it does not merit any physical punishment, on the basis of a hadith that " Muslim blood can only be spilled for adultery, apostasy and homicide "; against this the Hanbali school held that sodomy is a form of adultery and must incur the same penalty, i. e. death.

Sejanus ' family connection to the Imperial house was now imminent, and in 31 AD Sejanus held the Consulship with the emperor as his colleague, an honor Tiberius reserved only for heirs to the throne.

The context of the passage is the period following the death of Porcius Festus, and the journey to Alexandria by Lucceius Albinus, the new Roman Procurator of Judea, who held that position from 62 AD to 64 AD.

During the Muromachi age ( 1392 – 1573 AD ), the Kosode, a single kimono formerly considered underwear, began to be worn without the hakama ( trousers, divided skirt ) over it, and thus began to be held closed by an obi " belt ".

In the 3rd century AD, the Sassanids succeeded the Parthians and held area until the rise of Islam four centuries later.

Church Fathers Tertullian and Jerome held to traducianism and creationism, respectively, and pre-existence was condemned as heresy in the Second Council of Constantinople in AD 553.

In the fourth century AD, the Bishop Acacius of Amida, touched by the plight of Persian prisoners captured in a recent war with the Roman Empire — who were held in his town under appalling conditions and destined for a life of slavery, took the initiative of ransoming them, by selling his church's precious gold and silver vessels, and letting them return to their country.

The ancient Olympic Games were held every four years in the Greek city of Olympia, in the Kingdom of Elis, from 776 BC through either 261 or 393 AD.

However, the Chinese were not completely defenceless, and from AD 1234 until 1279 the Southern Song Chinese held out against the enormous barrage of Mongol attacks.

By the late 1st century AD, the Colliseum had been built to host most of the city's gladiator shows and smaller beast-hunts, and most track-athletes competed at the purpose-designed Stadium of Domitian, though long-distance foot races were still held at the Circus.

In the 3rd century AD, the Sassanids succeeded the Parthians and held the area until the arrival of Islam four centuries later.

* Ancient Olympic Games, ancient multi-sport event held in Olympia, Greece between 776 BC and 393 AD

In 343 AD, the Council of Sardica was held in the city, in a church located where the current 6th century Church of Saint Sophia was later built.

Some time before Claudius ' conquest of AD 43, power shifted to the Trinovantes, who held the region northeast of the Thames estuary from a capital at Camulodunum.

According to this argument – which presupposes firstly the rectitude of the Two-Source Hypothesis ( widely held amongst current New Testament scholars ), in which the author of Luke is seen as having used the pre-existing gospel according to Mark plus a lost Q document to compose his gospel – if the author of Thomas did, as Saying 5 suggests – refer to a pre-existing gospel according to Luke, rather than Mark's vocabulary, then the gospel of Thomas must have been composed after both Mark and Luke ( the latter of which is dated to between 60 AD and 90 AD ).

Its subjugation may have occurred around AD 500, from the opposition of the British leader known as Arthur, the second, third and fourth of whose twelve battles were fought in ' Linnuis ' and whose twelfth victory held back Anglo-Saxon expansion for fifty years.

Historically, this office has held the title of Pope, " Παπας " ( papas ), which means " Father " in the Greek and the Coptic languages, since Pope Heracleus, the 13th Alexandrine Bishop ( 232 – 249 AD ), was the first to associate the appellation of Pope with the title of the Bishop of Alexandria.