* 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.

The date of Abd al-Rahman's death is disputed, but is generally accepted to be sometime around 785 through 788.

He is known to have been married to Cornelia Bosman in 1658, a date coinciding so directly with the end of his productivity as a painter that it has been accepted that his marriage played some sort of role in the end of his artistic career.

Although myths and speculation about a Terra Australis (" Southern Land ") date back to antiquity, the first confirmed sighting of the continent of Antarctica is commonly accepted to have occurred in 1820 by the Russian expedition of Fabian Gottlieb von Bellingshausen and Mikhail Lazarev on Vostok and Mirny.

Use of hydronyms is generally accepted to determine the extent of these cultures ' influence, but not the date of such influence.

Determining the composition of the Memorial depends on the dates of Nehemiah's mission: It is commonly accepted that " Artaxerxes " was Artaxerxes I ( there were two later kings of the same name ), and that Nehemiah's first period in Jerusalem was therefore 445-433 BC ; allowing for his return to Susa and second journey to Jerusalem, the end of the 5th century BC is therefore the earliest possible date for the Memorial.

Philipp August Böckh in 1855 concluded that the battle took place on September 12, 490 BC in the Julian calendar, and this is the conventionally accepted date.

Yet for historical perspective, some rough date ranges will be provided for each to indicate the " height " or accepted time span of the movement.

Ordinal numerals, however, are not always used when writing and pronouncing dates, and " December seven, nineteen forty-one " is also an accepted pronunciation of the date written December 7, 1941.

The Termit date of 1500 BC is widely accepted.

The 1832 date has become generally accepted.

The work of assigning a DDC number to each newly published book is performed by a division of the Library of Congress, whose recommended assignments are either accepted or rejected by the OCLC after review by an advisory board ; to date all have been accepted.

This latter idea — placing Hamlet far earlier than the generally accepted date, with a much longer period of development — has attracted some support, though others dismiss it as speculation.

The Scottish poem Flyting of Dunbar and Kennedy, which is dated before 1520 ( the generally accepted date prior to the death of William Dunbar, one of the composers ), refers to ' haggeis '.

Apparently, Art Historians faces the facts that there are no contemporary documents to help them certify his date of birth, birthplace, and family background – there have been theories and these are the most accepted – he was born in 1753, probably Edo, and his father was an owner of a Tea-house.

The more popularly accepted date for the Viking raid on Lindisfarne is 8 June ; Michael Swanton, editor of Routledge's edition of the Anglo-Saxon Chronicle, writes " vi id Ianr, presumably an error for vi id Iun ( June 8 ) which is the date given by the Annals of Lindisfarne ( p. 505 ), when better sailing weather would favour coastal raids.

Mysteriously, Munisai's tomb says he died in 1580, which obviously conflicts with the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi.

Kenji Tokitsu has suggested that the accepted birth date of 1584 for Musashi is wrong, as it is primarily based on a literal reading of the introduction to the Go Rin No Sho where Musashi states that the years of his life " add up to 60 " ( yielding the twelfth year of the Tensho era, or 1584, when working backwards from the well-documented date of composition ), when it should be taken in a more literary and imprecise sense, indicating not a specific age but merely that Musashi was in his sixties when he wrote it.

Older accepted studies place the spread of both copper and Iron technology to date from the early first Millennium CE: 1500 years later than the Termit Massif finds.

He submitted the paper to an Italian journal, which accepted it, but the general lack of interest in his theory at that early date caused him to switch to experimental physics.

* Maredudd, whose date of birth is unknown, was still living in 1421 when he accepted a pardon.

If the assumption of a " Proto-Human " language is accepted, its date may be set anywhere between 200, 000 years ago ( the age of Homo sapiens ) and 50, 000 years ago ( the age of behavioral modernity ).

In 1993, thanks in part to the efforts of Roger Staubach as an intermediary, Landry accepted induction and had a ceremony on the day of that year's Cowboys-Giants game ( Landry had played and coached for the Giants ).

Verlaci additionally served as head of state for five days until Victor Emmanuel III formally accepted the Albanian crown in a ceremony at the Quirinale palace in Rome.

From the 12th to the 17th century “ handfasting ” in England referred to a ceremony, usually about a month prior to a church wedding, at which the marrying couple formally declared that each accepted the other as spouse.

Another author states that it is likely both blacks and whites in the antebellum south accepted jumping the broom as a quasi-marriage ceremony since the practice or symbols used in it ( specifically the broom ) had similar meanings in their respective cultures.

Fonda was by that point too ill to attend the ceremony, and his daughter Jane accepted on his behalf.

At the 1999 ceremony Benigni received the award for Best Actor ( the first for a male performer in a non-English-speaking role, and only the third overall acting Oscar for non-English-speaking roles ), the score by Nicola Piovani won Best Original Dramatic Score, and the film was awarded the Oscar for Best Foreign Language Film, which Benigni accepted as the film's director.

As Norman was still in hospital and unable to attend the ceremony, his son Michael accepted the honor on his behalf.

He married her in a private ceremony at Wyton in Huntingdonshire on 28 September 1795, but did not make the fact public until October 1802, and Elizabeth was never really accepted at court.

Welch presented at the Academy Award ceremony several times during the 1970s due to her popularity, and accepted the Best Supporting Actress Oscar on behalf of fellow actress Goldie Hawn when she couldn't be there to accept it.

They introduced the closing ceremony, the raising of national flags for the victors, and several less visible changes now accepted as tradition.

In reality, however, they are almost invariably accepted, as both states will have informally discussed the issue prior to the formal ceremony.

Ordination is seen as a public ceremony of recognition that a man has received and accepted a divine call, and hence is considered to be in the office of the ministry.

As with all other modern coronations, the ceremony itself was only symbolic, as the person involved became Pope and Bishop of Rome the moment he accepted his canonical election in the papal conclave.

On May 21, 2006, she accepted an honorary degree from the University of Notre Dame ; graduating seniors saluted her with copies of Mockingbird during the ceremony.

However, certain sovereign German states introduced civil marriages, which were either obligatory ( like the French model ) or optional, with either a religious or civil ceremony being accepted.

However it is commonly accepted to include rights to perform ceremony, or to gather foods or medicines.

At the ceremony, at which Stephen Bechtel, Jr. and Riley P. Bechtel accepted the award, former Secretary of State George P. Shultz said of the corporation, " Bechtel has been a wonderful ambassador around the world ... No. 1, they're always there to solve problems-the world is full of critics, and what you want is people who are constructive, who are ready to solve problems.

As accepted masons became initiated, where the various words and signs could no longer be regarded as professional qualifications, the entered apprentice ritual and the fellowcraft / master were sometimes condensed into one ceremony.

On November 16, 2010, Dollywood earned the industry's most prestigious award, the Liseberg Applause Award, which was accepted by Dolly Parton during a ceremony at IAAPA Attractions Expo 2010 in Orlando.

In a great ceremony before a crucifix and lighted candles, they swore a solemn oath that they would never obey Garcia or the Portuguese again, and that they accepted only the Archdeacon as their shepherd.

Joseph Stalin was later displeased by these events, believing that the German surrender should have been accepted only by the envoy of the USSR Supreme command and signed only in Berlin and insisted the Reims protocol be considered preliminary, with the main ceremony to be held in Berlin, where Marshal Zhukov was at the time, as the latter recounts in his memoirs:

Despite a tendency to shun such occasions, Weller accepted the award in person, and performed four songs at the ceremony, including the Jam classic " Town Called Malice ".

Vance accepted her award at the Emmy ceremony in February 1954.

According to the Talmud, Hadrian decreed that anyone who gave or accepted semikhah would be killed, any city in which the ceremony took place would be razed, and all crops within a mile of the ceremony's site would be destroyed.