The theme of descendants marks the first event in Numbers, the census of Israel's fighting men: the huge number which results ( over 600, 000 ) demonstrates the fulfillment of God's promise to Abraham of innumerable descendants, as well as serving as God's guarantee of victory in Canaan.

The centrepiece of Solomon's reign is the building of the First Temple: the claim that this took place 480 years after the Exodus from Egypt marks it as a key event in Israel's history.

Around a black hole there is a mathematically defined surface called an event horizon that marks the point of no return.

The event marks the end of the Mesozoic Era and the beginning of the Cenozoic Era.

He performed again in November, alongside Alicia Keys, at the Black Ball, a New York benefit event for Keep a Child Alive, a performance that marks the last time Bowie performed his music on stage.

A calendar era indicates a span of many years which are numbered beginning at a specific reference date ( epoch ), which often marks the origin of a political state or cosmology, dynasty, ruler, the birth of a leader, or another significant historical or mythological event ; it is generally called after its focus accordingly as in Victorian era.

) In 1912, Finland also swept the medals in the only appearance in the Olympics of two-handed javelin, an event in which the implement was separately thrown with both the right hand and the left hand and the marks were added together.

The 2012 Season marks the third time the Major League Baseball All-Star Game has been played in Kansas City, with Kauffman Stadium ( then named Royals Stadium ) last hosting the event in 1973, the stadium's first year of existence.

2011 marks the 20th anniversary of this event.

The Triassic – Jurassic extinction event marks the boundary between the Triassic and Jurassic periods,, and is one of the major extinction events of the Phanerozoic eon, profoundly affecting life on land and in the oceans.

In Japanese History, the event marks the end of the Meiji era and the beginning of the Taishō era.

The event marks the start of the first Sino-Japanese War.

The event marks the beginning of the War of the Pacific between Chile and the joint forces of Peru and Bolivia.

This event also marks the largest job loss in Australian history.

* A Muslim rebellion is quelled at Prades, this event marks the end of the pacification of the lands recently conquered by the Catalans.

Thus, in the scaleogram of a continuous wavelet transform of this signal, such an event marks an entire region in the time-scale plane, instead of just one point.

In Lewes this event not only marks the date of the uncovering of the Gunpowder Plot in 1605, but also commemorates the memory of the seventeen Protestant martyrs burnt at the stake for their faith during the Marian Persecutions.

In the event that a student fails the writing requirement for three consecutive semesters, the school will ask the student to leave with the caveat that he or she can return after receiving high marks from an English class at another school.

A stone bench, ' Wilberforce seat ', commemorating the event, now marks the spot and bears the inscription from his diary " Just above a steep descent into the vale of Keston, I resolved to give notice ... in the House of Commons of my intention to bring forward the abolition of the Slave Trade.

This event marks the only time a sitting president has visited Cleburne County.

The one other event that foreshadowed the coming of white civilization was the establishment in 1871 of the Quaker mission near the current Mission Hill Hospital, where an old building still marks the spot.

In 1687 he made the daring innovation of lecturing in German instead of Latin and gave a lecture on the topic " How One Should Emulate the French Way of Life ," referring to the French use of their native language not only in everyday life but in scholarship as well ; according to scholar Klaus Luig, this event marks the real beginning of the Enlightenment in Germany.

The coronation ceremony, which marks the crowning of the king, is an important event of the Chakri dynasty.

* PERT event: a point that marks the start or completion of one or more activities.

When it marks the completion of one or more tasks, it is not “ reached ” ( does not occur ) until all of the activities leading to that event have been completed.

Alpha Centauri is not actually a sequel to Civilization, despite beginning with the same event that ends Civilization and Civilization II: a manned spacecraft from Earth arrives in the Alpha Centauri star system.

Shortly thereafter, Kirk Douglas made public Trumbo's credit for the screenplay for Spartacus ( 1960 ), an event which has been cited as the beginning of the end of the blacklist.

The event was the beginning of the teacher reincarnation system for the Black-Hat Line of Tibetan Buddhism.

Roney and Trick argue that a solution to gambler's fallacy could be, instead of teaching individuals about the nature of randomness, training people to treat each event as if it is a beginning and not a continuation of previous events.

This event marked the beginning of the browser's popularity decline, which led to its discontinuation in September 2008.

This event marked the beginning of the period known as " Golden Liberty ", when the state was ruled by the " free and equal " Polish nobility.

If the event remains tied, the jumpers have a jump-off, beginning at the next greater height.

This event is traditionally recognised as the beginning of the Anglo-Saxon invasion of Britain.

He believed it marked the beginning of an Anglo-German alliance, and ordered celebrations throughout Germany to mark the event.

The professed purpose of banishing rituals is to eliminate forces that might interfere with a magical operation, and they are often performed at the beginning of an important event or ceremony ( although they can be performed for their own sake as well ).

In 1956, he edited an important book on the subject, La grève de l ' amiante, which argued that the strike was a seminal event in Quebec's history, marking the beginning of resistance to the conservative, Francophone clerical establishment and Anglophone business class that had long ruled the province.

Similarly, the Charter of Fundamental Rights, codified into law applicable to European Union countries by the passage civil lawsuit, is said to have accrued when the event beginning its time limitation occurs.

His death was the epoch event beginning the troubled Crisis of the Third Century where a succession of short-reigning military emperors, revolting generals, and counter claimants presided over governmental chaos, civil war, general instability and great economic disruption.

The period began with the demise of the non-avian dinosaurs in the Cretaceous – Paleogene extinction event, at the start of the Cenozoic Era, spanning to the beginning of the most recent ice age at the end of the Pliocene Epoch.

This presents Zeno's problem not with finding the sum, but rather with finishing a task with an infinite number of steps: how can one ever get from A to B, if an infinite number of ( non-instantaneous ) events can be identified that need to precede the arrival at B, and one cannot reach even the beginning of a " last event "?

This event would late be romanticized in Western literature and history as the Fall of Rome and is traditionally used by historians to mark the beginning of the European Middle Ages.

Peter stated that this event was the beginning of a continual outpouring that would be available to all believers from that point on, Jews and Gentiles alike.

Rain or snow begins to reach surface level at the beginning of a precipitation event that can last up to 36 hours depending and the size of the weather system and its speed of movememnt.

Before the beginning of a three-day event, and also before the last phase, horses are inspected by a vet to ensure that they are fit to compete further.

From the beginning, event horses had to carry a minimum weight of ( including rider and saddle ) during the endurance test, since military horses were expected to be able to carry such weight.

The event occurs approximately twice a year, at the beginning of May and in the middle of June.