* Kundakunda ( 2nd Century CE ), exponent of Jain mysticism and Jain nayas dealing with the nature of the soul and its contamination by matter, author of Pañcāstikāyasāra ( Essence of the Five Existents ), the Pravacanasāra ( Essence of the Scripture ) and the Samayasāra ( Essence of the Doctrine )

* Umāsvāti or Umasvami ( 2nd Century CE ), author of first Jain work in Sanskrit, Tattvārthasūtra, expounding the Jain philosophy in a most systematized form acceptable to all sects of Jainism.

Nor does Clement of Alexandria, in the late 2nd Century AD, indicate that the concept of logical paradox is an issue:

As noted in the book Huai Nan Zu, in the 2nd Century BC Chinese astronomers effectively inverted Eratosthenes ' calculation of the curvature of the Earth to calculate the height of the sun above the earth.

Although Septimius Severus successfully restored peace following the upheaval of the late 2nd century, the dynasty was disturbed by highly unstable family relationships, and constant political turmoil, foreshadowing the imminent Crisis of the Third Century.

Sudovia and neighboring Galindia were two Baltic tribes or nations mentioned by the Greek geographer Ptolemy in the 2nd Century A. D. as Galindai and Soudinoi, ( Γαλίνδαι, Σουδινοί ).

Pope Saint Soter ( died 174 ) was the Bishop of Rome during the latter half of the 2nd Century with his pontificate, according to the Annuario Pontificio, beginning between 162 and 168 then ending between 170 and 177.

Chalcedony Cameo ( carving ) | cameo of Titus head, 2nd Century AD

The ancient Greek physician Galen ( prominent among the Romans ) mentioned asparagus as a beneficial herb during the 2nd Century AD / CE, but after the Roman empire ended asparagus drew little medieval attention

Germanic towns are described on the Map of Ptolemaios in the 2nd Century, e. g Coridorgis for Jihlava.

The Greek geographer Ptolemy had already written of two Baltic tribe / nations by name, the Galindai and Soudinoi ( Γαλίνδαι, Σουδινοί ) in the 2nd Century A. D.

* S. Dill, ' The Society Of Aquitaine In The Time Of Ausonius ', in S. Dill, Roman Society In The Last Century Of The Western Empire ( 2nd.

* Sir Godfrey Copley, 2nd Baronet, 17th Century British landowner, after whom the Copley Medal is named

Alexander the Great's shaven image on the Alexander Mosaic, 2nd Century BC

( A 1961 2nd printing of the Avon paperback, catalog # G-1092, was titled 21st Century Sub with the original title in parentheses.

The god, Hermes, is a generic term used by the pre-classical Greeks for any deity, and was only later associated with the god of knowledge in Athens in the 2nd Century CE.

* The Century of Revolution, 1603 – 1714 ( 1961, 2nd.

*" At Tully's Head " in Eighteenth Century Vignettes, 2nd series, by Austin Dobson ( 1894 )

The Call of the Land: An Agrarian Primer for the 21st Century, 2nd ed.

*, 2nd Century Roman Legion based in Ontario, Canada

The first traces of human settlement date to the 2nd Century BC.

Though there are many stories on how Zao Jun became the Kitchen god, the most popular dates back to around the 2nd Century BC.

Music of the Twentieth Century: Style and Structure, 2nd edition.

* In 2000 the journalists of A Bola selected Agostinho as the 4th most important Portuguese Sportsman of the 20th Century, behind Eusébio ( 1st ), Carlos Lopes ( 2nd ) and Rosa Mota ( 3rd ).

The town was founded in the mid 17th Century by William Stewart, fourth and youngest son of the 2nd Earl of Galloway.

Many texts found there, especially those from Masada, are quite similar to the Masoretic Text, suggesting that an ancestor of the Masoretic Text was indeed extant as early as the 2nd century BCE.

It was named for William Wentworth, 2nd Earl of Strafford in the mistaken belief that he was the ancestor of governor John Wentworth.

His elder half-brother the 2nd Baron Burghley, was created Earl of Exeter in 1605 and is the ancestor of the Marquesses of Exeter.

Among them, the Wang clan, whose ancestor is said to have fled there from Qi in the 2nd century BC, became powerful.

Although his eldest son, Edward, Viscount Cornbury, predeceased him without children ( the Earldom passing on his death to his cousin, the 2nd Earl of Rochester ), by his daughter Theodosia, who married John Bligh ( later the 1st Earl of Darnley ), he is ancestor of many alive today, including actor Cary Elwes, and Sarah, Duchess of York.

Regarding the origin of the name " Hempstead ", Hempstead founder John Carman was born in 1606 in Hemel Hempstead, Hertfordshire, England, on ancestral land recorded in the 2nd historic census of England ( under Edward the First ), the Rotuli Hundredorum ( Hundred Rolls ) AD 1273 as being owned by his direct ancestor Henry Carman.

The family line continues with the Finch-Hattons, earls of Winchelsea and Nottingham, whose ancestor, Daniel Finch, 2nd Earl of Nottingham, married Anne, daughter of the 1st Viscount Hatton.

The gulf was named Spencer's Gulph by explorer Matthew Flinders in 1802, after George John Spencer, the 2nd Earl Spencer, an ancestor of Diana, Princess of Wales.

Through Czartoryski's, George Gordon, 2nd Marquess of Huntly is an ancestor of:

The 1st Marquess's ancestor, the de facto 17th ( de jure 2nd ) Baron Bergavenny, was created Earl of Abergavenny, in the County of Monmouth, and Viscount Nevill, of Birling in the County of Kent, in the Peerage of Great Britain on 17 May 1784.

This branch of Clan Campbell descends from Sir John Campbell ( died 1546 ), third son of Archibald Campbell, 2nd Earl of Argyll ( whose eldest son Colin was the ancestor of the Dukes of Argyll ; see the latter title for earlier history of the family ).

In 1794 he was created Baron Bridport in the Peerage of Ireland, with remainder to his great-nephew Samuel Hood, second son of Henry Hood ( later 2nd Viscount Hood ), eldest son of the 1st Viscount Hood, and in failure thereof to the heirs male of his uncle Alexander Hood ( who was the ancestor of the Fuller-Acland-Hood Baronets of St Audries and the Barons St Audies ).

William Claiborne was a direct ancestor of Lindy Boggs, Louisiana ’ s U. S. Representative from the 2nd District.

Thomas Townshend, second son of Charles Townshend, 2nd Viscount Townshend, whose eldest son Charles Townshend, 3rd Viscount Townshend is the ancestor of the Marquesses of Townshend.

In fact, he proposed that Túathal's story, pushed back to the 1st or 2nd century BC, represented the invasion of the Goidels, who established themselves over the earlier populations and introduced the Q-Celtic language that would become Irish, and that their genealogists incorporated all Irish dynasties, Goidelic or otherwise, and their ancestor deities into a pedigree stretching back over a thousand years to the fictitious Míl Espáine.

He married Mary, daughter of Henry Rich, 1st Earl of Holland and Isabel Cope on 17 Dec 1657, with whom he had two sons, Duncan, styled Lord Ormelie, who was passed over in the succession due to his " mental incapacity ", and John Campbell, 2nd Earl of Breadalbane and Holland ; he also had a son, Colin by Mary Campbell, widow of George Sinclair, the Earl of Caithness, and daughter of Lady Margaret Douglas and Archibald Campbell, 1st Marquess of Argyll, who was the presumed ancestor of Sir Lachlan Campbell, one of the present contestants for the title of Earl of Breadalbane and Holland.

That was because his claim was through his ancestor Sir Henry Clinton of Kirkstead, Lincolnshire, the third son of the 2nd Earl of Lincoln, who died in 1616, but he was not descended from the first Duke of Newcastle.

Sir Arthur Hesilrige, 2nd Baronet, was an ancestor.