Some date the introduction of Islam in China to 650 AD which is the instance of third sojourn of Sad ibn abi Waqqas to China, Sa ` ad ibn Abi Waqqas, was sent as an official envoy to Emperor Gaozong which was his third sojourn during Caliph Uthman's era in 651 AD.

The date of this first Florentine sojourn is unknown ; some make it as early as 1466 / 1470, others push the date to 1479.

There is also the strange myth of the brothers Aegyptus and Danaus, sons of Belus, with the latter supposedly coming from Egypt, that Marianne Luban has suggested may date to this time.

In Egypt, canals date back at least to the time of Pepi I Meryre ( reigned 2332 – 2283 BC ), who ordered a canal built to bypass the cataract on the Nile near Aswan.

Christianity spread throughout Egypt within half a century of Saint Mark's arrival in Alexandria, as is clear from the New Testament writings found in Bahnasa, in Middle Egypt, which date around the year AD 200, and a fragment of the Gospel of John, written in Coptic, which was found in Upper Egypt and can be dated to the first half of the 2nd century.

The earliest chronologies date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, though no historical writers in these early civilizations were known by name.

Early uses of waterpower date back to Mesopotamia and ancient Egypt, where irrigation has been used since the 7th millennium BC and water clocks had been used since the early 2nd millennium BC.

By that date, the following nations had deposited instruments of definitive adherence to the pact: Afghanistan, Albania, Austria, Bulgaria, China, Cuba, Denmark, Dominican Republic, Egypt, Estonia, Ethiopia, Finland, Guatemala, Hungary, Iceland, Latvia, Liberia, Lithuania, the Netherlands, Nicaragua, Norway, Panama, Peru, Portugal, Romania, the Soviet Union, the Kingdom of the Serbs, Croats, and Slovenes, Siam, Spain, Sweden, and Turkey.

The bronze and silver trumpets from Tutankhamun's grave in Egypt, bronze lurs from Scandinavia, and metal trumpets from China date back to this period.

Given Jerome's conservative methods, and that manuscript evidence from outside Egypt at this early date is very rare ; these Vulgate readings have considerable critical interest.

Writing systems based primarily on marking the consonant phonemes alone date back to the hieroglyphics of ancient Egypt.

* c. 2055 BC: End of First Intermediate Period of Egypt ( another date is 2040 BC ).

* c. 2055 BC: Middle Kingdom began in Ancient Egypt ( other date is 2040 BC ).

* c. 2055 BC: Mentuhotep II from Thebes managed to reunite Ancient Egypt and began to rule ( other date is 2040 BC ).

* 690 BC: Taharqa, a king of the Twenty-fifth Dynasty, ascends the throne of Egypt ( approximate date )

* July 26 – Pharaoh Ptolemy XIV of Egypt ( last date mentioned alive ) ( b. 60 BC / 59 BC )

* Spanish Jew Benjamin of Tudela reports that Constantinople has merchant communities from Babylon, Canaan, Egypt, Hungary, Persia, Russia, Sennar, and Spain as well as 2, 000 Jews ( approximate date ).

1380, the date of a statue base from Kom el-Heitan in Egypt recording the itinerary of an Egyptian embassy to the Aegean in the time of Amenophis III.

The first written references to Isis date back to the Fifth dynasty of Egypt.

* c. 5500 BC: Predynastic period ( Neolithic ) starts in Ancient Egypt ( other date is 4350 BC ).

* 1341 BC / 1340 BC — Birth of Tutankhaten, later Pharaoh of Egypt as Tutankhamun ( approximate date ).

* 1320 BC — Birth of later Pharaoh Ramses II of Egypt ( approximate date ).

* Macarius of Egypt, Christian hermit and monk ( approximate date )

* Mary of Egypt, patron saint ( approximate date )

* c. 1680 BC: Egypt: Development of leavened bread ( date approximate ).

There is every reason to recognize that in the very last years of his life, as we shall see, Thompson did take the drug in carefully rationed doses to ease the pains of his illness, but the exact date at which this began has never been determined.

If the last day ( due date ) for performing any act for tax purposes, such as filing a return or making a tax payment, etc., falls on Saturday, Sunday, or a legal holiday, you may perform that act on the next succeeding day which is not a Saturday, Sunday, or legal holiday.

Our last joint venture, Sainted Lady, a deeply religious film based on the life of Mother Cabrini, and timed so that its release date would coincide with the beatification of America's first saint in November, 1938, was a fiasco from start to finish.

When they reached Augusta last week, together they had won five of the 13 tournaments to date.

* Earliest date on which La Tomatina can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Wednesday in August.

* Earliest date on which Notting Hill Carnival can fall, while August 31 is the latest ; celebrated on the last Monday in August and the day before.

The works of Anderson amount to six thin quarto volumes, and as the last of them was published in 1619, it is probable that the author died soon after that year, but the precise date is unknown.

* 1363 – Beginning date of the Battle of Lake Poyang ; the forces of two Chinese rebel leaders — Chen Youliang and Zhu Yuanzhang — are pitted against each other in what is one of the largest naval battles in history, during the last decade of the ailing, Mongol-led Yuan Dynasty.

After thirty days of working with Wilson, Smith drank his last drink on June 10, 1935, the date marked by AA for its anniversaries.

The last Akkadian inscriptions in Mesopotamia date from the 1st century AD.

** The latest possible date for Easter Sunday, last in 1943.

It turned out that the Cubs and Giants ended the season tied for first place, so the game was indeed replayed, and the Cubs won the game, the pennant, and subsequently the World Series ( the last Cubs Series victory to date, as it turns out ).

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

Canada became a kingdom in its own right on that date, but the British Parliament kept limited rights of political control over the new country that were shed by stages over the years until the last vestiges were surrendered in 1982 when the Constitution Act patriated the Canadian constitution.

But the Lions dominated the game, forcing six turnovers and allowing only 112 yards passing in a 59 – 14 rout, Detroit's last league championship to date.

Individuals are identified in the registry by means of a national identification number ( the so-called kennitala ), a number composed of the date of birth in the format and four additional digits, the third of which is a control digit, and the last of which indicates the century in which the person was born ( 9 for the 1900s and 0 for the 2000s ).

The last census to date was in 2009.

* Field 4: Personenkennziffer ( service number: birth date in DDMMYY format, dash, capitalized first letter of last name, dash, and five-digit number based on soldier's home military administrative district, number of persons with the mentioned last name and same birthday, and an error-checking number but without dashes ), ex.

The same data can have multiple indexes ( an employee database could be indexed by last name and hire date.

The same data can have multiple indexes ( an employee database could be indexed by last name and hire date.

On one hand, there are transmitted versions and commentaries that date back two millennia ; on the other, there are ancient bamboo, silk, and paper manuscripts that archeologists discovered in the last century.

To date this is the last manned mission to the moon.

To date they are the last humans to set foot on the Moon.

Easter last fell on the latest possible date, 25 April, in 1943 and will next fall on that date in 2038.