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1000-600 BCE
1000-600 BCE: c. 1000 BCE - c. 600 BCE
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Subject: History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE)
The Jews write down the Torah, the earliest part of the text subsequently known to Christians as the Old Testament
10th century: c. 900 - c. 1000
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With the end of iconoclasm, the screen between the nave and the altar sanctuary becomes covered in icons in Orthodox churches
11th century: c. 1000 - 1100
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Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized
12th century: c. 1100 - c. 1200
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The Assassins, a sect of Nizari Ismailis, begin to acquire strongholds in Persia
13th century: c. 1200 - c. 1300
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Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The new Christian doctrine of Transubstantiation prompts rumours that the Jews desecrate the consecrated Host
14th century: c. 1300 - c. 1400
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Flying buttresses are a striking new structural feature on the exterior of Gothic cathedrals
15th century: c. 1400 - c. 1500
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Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Guilds of singers and song-writers develop in German towns, calling themselves Meistersinger, or master singers
16th century: c. 1500 - 1600
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Subject: History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The people of Benin begin a lasting tradition of sculpture in brass, melted down from objects brought by traders
17th century: c. 1600 - 1700
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Subject: History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
The Yoruba develop an extensive empire centred on Oyo in southern Nigeria
18th century: c. 1700 - 1800
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Subject: History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen
1900s: 1900 - 1909
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Subject: History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Daimler cars develop a new brand using the name Mercedes, that of the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek
1910s: 1910 - 1919
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Subject: History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood
1920s: 1922 - 1929
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James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere
1930s: 1930 - 1939
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René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer
1940s: 1940 - 1949
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Subject: History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
American Ballet Theatre, directed by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, begins its first season in New York
1950s: 1950 - 1959
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Subject: History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
US state department official Alger Hiss is sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of perjury in a second trial
1960s: 1960 - 1969
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UK prime minister Harold Macmillan, in Cape Town, warns the white settlers of Africa that 'the wind of change' is blowing through their continent
1970s: 1970 - 1979
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US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1980s: 1980 - 1989
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The small firm of Microsoft wins the contract to provide the operating system of the IBM personal computer
1990s: 1990 - 1999
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Panama's dictator, Manuel Noriega, is captured by US troops and taken to Miami on drug trafficking charges
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