1912 Rulers of Manchu Dynasty formally abdicate. Sun Yat-sen resigns in favor of Yuan Shih-k'ai, as president of the Republic of China. Peking is its capital. Kuomintang (Nationalists) dominates first parliament, forms cabinet. Italy takes Libya. 1912-14 Provisional constitution and parliament ...
The Parthian Empire, lasting from 247 AD to 224 AD, is a major Iranian political and cultural power in ancient Iran and Iraq. Lasting from 221 to 206 BC, the Qin dynasty was the first dynasty of Imperial China. In 206 BC, the Han dynasty overthrows the Qin. Buddhism begins to spread ...
The terms of reference of ancient peoples were vague and inconsistent when judged by modern standards, and many of their inscriptions and writings have inevitably disappeared. The gaps in their records are increasingly filled in and their inconsistencies removed by the results of archaeological ...
Theoretically, theEgyptiancivil year began when the Dog Star,Sirius(Egyptian Sothis), could first be seen on the eastern horizon just before the rising of the Sun (i.e., 19/20 of July). As the civilcalendarof the ancient Egyptians consisted of 12 months (each of 30 days) and five odd...
Ancient pottery, arguably the world's most commonly practiced form of ancient art, first appeared during the Upper Paleolithic in the Moravian basin of Central Europe. Unlike other types of plastic art, pottery was invented then lost, then reinvented then lost again, before finally becoming establi...
Tang Zhiba, ‘The influence of the sail on the development of the ancient navy’, p.60 – citing Yuan Kang, ‘Yue Jue Shu‘ (‘Lost records of the State of Yue’) [in Chinese, East Han dynasty]. 547-490 BCE:‘Qi Jinggong, king of Qi [on the coast of Shandong province] in 547...
1111 - 17 Medical officers of the Song Dynasty Shengji Zonglu (General Collection of Imperial Remedies) Significance This formulary gathers a wide variety of resources such as ancient texts and folk prescriptions. 1116 Kou Zongshi Bencao Yanyi (Development of Herbal Medicine) Significance Based ...
Chronology - Reckonings, Historical Event: The inscriptions of the Buddhist king Aśoka (c. 265–238 bc) give the first epigraphical evidence of the mode of reckoning from a king’s consecration (abhiṣeka). In these inscriptions (Middle Indian langu
Chronology - Egyptian History, Timekeeping, Calendars: At the end of the 4th millennium bc, when King Menes, the first king of a united Egypt, started his reign, the ancient Egyptians began to name each year by its main events, presumably to facilitate t
Richard A. Parker,The Calendars of Ancient Egypt(1950), a basic work providing valid solutions to most of the problems of Egyptian chronology; “Lunar Dates of Thutmose III and Ramesses II,”J. Near Eastern Stud., 16: 39–43 (1957), an analysis of the more important lunar dates of the...