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King Hammurabi ( Babylonia, 1728-1686 BC ) established the first known Code of Laws, which included fees that could be charged by “ ox and ass doctors ” or what we know today as veterinarians.
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King and Hammurabi
* The Code of Hammurabi Translated by L. W. King.
However, one stele of Hammurabi has been found as far north as Diyarbekir, where he claims the title " King of the Amorites ".
* RF Harper, The Code of Hammurabi, King of Babylon about 2250 BC ( Chicago, 1904 )
In around 1800 BCE, the Amorite king of Babylon, King Hammurabi, conquered much of Mesopotamia, but this Babylonian empire collapsed after his death due to attacks from mountain-dwelling people known as the Kassites from Asia Minor, who went on to rule Babylon for over 500 years.
Among them the most interesting are the letters of Hammurabi, which have been edited by Leonard William King.
In the preface to his famous law code, King Hammurabi calls himself " the subduer of the settlements along the Euphrates with the help of Dagan, his creator ".
Around 1760 BC, King Hammurabi further developed Babylonian law, by codifying and inscribing it in stone.
It is believed that this astronomical record was first compiled during the reign of King Ammisaduqa ( or Ammizaduga ), the fourth ruler after Hammurabi.
King and Babylonia
The rulers of Babylonia carried the title " King of Sumer and Akkad ".
In 701 BC, a rebellion backed by Egypt and Babylonia broke out in Judah, led by King Hezekiah.
He ascended the throne in 597 BCE, after King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia ( to whom the Kingdom of Judah was then subject ) exiled King Jeconiah ( Zedekiah's nephew ) to Babylonia.
It is fought between the armies of Lysimachus, King of Thrace and Macedonia, and Seleucus, ruler of Eastern Anatolia, Syria, Phoenicia, Judea, Babylonia and Iran.
The chronology of the first dynasty of Babylonia is debated as there is a Babylonian King List A and a Babylonian King List B.
He then took on the title of King of Babylonia.
Cyaxares reorganized and modernized the Median Army, then joined with King Nabopolassar of Babylonia.
According to Herodotus, Cyrus the Great spared Croesus's life and kept him as an advisor, but this account conflicts with some translations of the contemporary Nabonidus Chronicle ( the King who was himself subdued by Cyrus the Great after conquest of Babylonia ), which interpret that the king of Lydia was slain.
Like his predecessor Berossos he moved from Babylonia and established himself among the Greeks ; he was an advisor to King Attalus I ( Attalos Soter ) of Pergamon.
* Archibald Henry Sayce, Gaston Maspero, M. L. McClure, L. W. King, H. R. Hall, History of Egypt, Chaldea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, The Grolier Society 1904
* 1889-Edward George King, The " Asaph " Psalms in their Connexion with the Early Religion of Babylonia
King and BC
April was the second month of the Roman calendar, before January and February were added by King Numa Pompilius about 700 BC.
About 700 BC it became the eighth month when January and February were added to the year before March by King Numa Pompilius, who also gave it 29 days.
* 586 BC – Solomon's Temple is totally destroyed by the Babylonians under King Nebuchadnezzar.
* 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.
Shalmaneser III's ( 859 – 824 BC ) Kurkh Monolith names King Ahab.
It allied itself to Sparta, until 394 BC ; King Agesilaus of Sparta crossed here while returning to Greece.
Manishtushu's son and successor, Naram-Sin ( 2254 – 2218 BC ) ( Beloved of Sin ), assumed the imperial title " King Naram-Sin, king of the four quarters ( Lugal Naram-Sîn, Šar kibrat ' arbaim )", and, like his grandfather, was addressed as " the god ( Sumerian
* Alexander the Great ( Alexander III of Macedon ), King of Macedon, 356 – 323 BC
* Alexander I of Epirus ( 370 BC – 331 BC ) King of Epirus about 342 BC
* Alexander II of Macedon, King of Macedon from 370 to 368 BC
* Alexander II of Epirus ( died 260 BC ), King of Epirus in 272 BC
* 49 BC – Julius Caesar's general Gaius Scribonius Curio is defeated in the Second Battle of the Bagradas River by the Numidians under Publius Attius Varus and King Juba of Numidia.
Amos was a prophet during the reign of Jeroboam ben Joash ( Jeroboam II ), ruler of Israel from 793 BC to 753 BC, and the reign of Uzziah, King of Judah, at a time when both kingdoms ( Israel in the North and Judah in the South ) were peaking in prosperity.
Andriscus, (-Andriskos ) and often called the " pseudo-Philip ", was the last King of Macedon ( 149 BC – 148 BC ), and ruler of Adramyttium in Aeolis ( in western Anatolia ).
** King Ai of Zhou ( reigned 441 BC )
The practice was also well known in ancient China, as in Jing Ke's failed assassination of King Qin Shi Huang ( 227 BC ).
The earliest known settlement at this location was the Ancient Greek city of Cius, which Philip V of Macedon granted to Prusias, the King of Bithynia, in 202 BC.
After 128 years of Bithynian rule, Nicomedes IV, the last King of Bithynia, bequeathed the entire kingdom to the Roman Empire in 74 BC.
An historical reference to the town appears in the Amarna Letters ( c. 1400 BC ) when the King of Jerusalem appeals to his overlord, the King of Egypt, for help in retaking " Bit-Lahmi " in the wake of disturbances by the Apiru.
King and established
In 1973, Mohammed Daoud Khan was brought to power in a coup d ' état against the Afghan King and the Republic of Afghanistan was established.
In 1546, King Henry VIII established the Council of the Marine, later to become the Navy Board, to oversee administrative affairs of the naval service.
On 7 June 1753, King George II gave his formal assent to the Act of Parliament which established the British Museum.
It established a multiparty liberal democracy in the framework of a constitutional monarchy, with the former Prince Sihanouk elevated to King.
It was initially established by a public consisting largely of recent immigrants from Norway who had fled the unification of that country under King Harald Fairhair.
They included: supporters of religious independents who did not want an established church and some of whom had sympathies with the Levellers ; Presbyterians who were willing to countenance the trial and execution of the King ; and later admissions, such as formerly excluded MPs who were prepared to denounce the Newport Treaty negotiations with the King.
File: Szydlow 20060619 1304 1. jpg | The Cracow Gate in Szydłów, part of the city walls established by the King
File: Szydlow church 20060619 1235. jpg | Saint Ladislaus Church in Szydłów, established by the King in 1355
From the day King Leopold II established colonial authority in what is now Congo-Kinshasa to today, the country's government has been unstable.
* 1768 – King Taksin's coronation achieved through conquest as a king of Thailand and established Thonburi as a capital.
This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.
The French Revolution was a time of upheaval, especially towards traditional ideology, in almost every sense: the current monarch, King Louis XVI, was executed ; the Catholic Church was all but abolished ; a new calendar was created ; and a new Republican government was established.
In 1664 King Louis XIV bought out the independent island owners and established the French West India Company.
The new King, James II, pardoned religious dissenters jailed for failure to attend the established church, leading to the release of about 1500 Friends.
From 1713 to 1740, King Frederick William I, also known as the " Soldier King ", established a highly centralized, militarized state with a heavily rural population of about three million ( compared to the nine million in Austria ).
On July 20, 1808, Joseph Bonaparte, eldest brother of Napoleon Bonaparte, entered Madrid and established a government by which he became King of Spain, serving as a surrogate for Napoleon.
Mieszko's son Bolesław I Chrobry established a Polish Church province, pursued territorial conquests and was officially crowned in 1025, becoming the first King of Poland.
In 1525 the Duchy of Prussia was established as a fief of the King of Poland.
After his conflict with King Henry III of England, Louis established a cordial relation with the Plantagenet King.
Once King David was established, he told the prophet Nathan that he would like to build a permanent temple, and as a reward for his actions, God promised David that he would allow his son, Solomon, to build the first permanent temple and the throne would never depart from his children.
The United Monarchy was established under Saul and continued under King David and Solomon with its capital in Jerusalem.
In 1837, having been one of the seven professors who signed a protest against the King of Hanover's abrogation of the constitution established some years before, he was dismissed from his professorship and banished from the kingdom of Hanover.
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