The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering.
1st century - Events.
1–Beginning of Christianity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
Spread of the Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Moun ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
The 1st century BC starts on January 1, 100 BC and ends on December 31, 1 BC. An alternative name for this century is the last century BC. This AD/BC notation does not use a year zero. Scientific notation does, however, and uses a minus sign, so '2 BC' is equal to 'year -1'.
1st century BC - Events.
The Roman Republic becomes the Roman Empire
Birth of Jesus of Nazareth See: Chronology of Jesus' birth and deat ...
(1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – 2nd millennium – other millennia)
1st millennium - Events.
Beginning of Christianity (30s)
London founded by Romans as Londinium
Diaspora of the Jews (1st century)
The Olympic Games observed until 393
The Library of Alexandria, largest library in the world, burned
High point, and fall of the Western Roman Empire (5th century)
Rise of the Byzantine Empire
Germanic kingdoms established in Northern ...
The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering.
1st century - Events.
Beginning of Christianity
Spread of the Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
Bud ...
The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering.
1st century - Events.
1–Beginning of Christianity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
Spread of the Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Moun ...
The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering.
1st century - Events.
Beginning of Christianity
Spread of the Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
Bud ...
The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering.
1st century - Events.
Beginning of Christianity
Spread of the Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
Bud ...
The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering.
1st century - Events.
Beginning of Christianity
Spread of the Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Mount Vesuvius in August 79
Bud ...
The 1st century was that century which lasted from 1 AD to 100 AD, or from 0 to 99 in a more scientific notation (using a year zero), as in astronomical year numbering.
1st century - Events.
1–Beginning of Christianity, the birth of Jesus of Nazareth
Spread of the Roman Empire
Masoretes adds vowel pointings to the text of the Tanakh
70: destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem by the Romans under Vespasian
Pompeii and Herculaneum destroyed by eruption of Moun ...
(2nd millennium BC – 1st millennium BC – 1st millennium – other millennia)
1st millennium BC - Events.
The Iron Age spread to Western Europe
Egypt declined as a major power
The Tanakh was written
Buddhism was founded by Siddharta Gautama, commonly known as the Buddha (6th century BC)
Jainism was founded by Mahavira (6th century BC)
Cyrus the Great conquered Babylon and created the Persian Empire (6th century BC)
Sparta and Athens fought the P ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
7th century BC - Overview.
7th century BC - Events.
the Cimmerians ravage Phrygia in 696 BC, possible migration of the Armenians
Scythians arrived in Asia
Collapse of Susa, end of Elamite Empire
Assyrians conquer Egypt (674 BC - 670 BC)
Collapse of Nineveh, end of Assyria (612 BC)
7th century BC - Significant persons.
Hezekiah of the ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
10th century BC - Overview.
10th century BC - Events.
Partition of ancient Israel into the Kingdoms of Judah and Israel (c. 925 BC)
Foundation of Sparta
The kingdom of Ethiopia is founded by Menelik I, son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba. (according to legend)
First extant evidence of written Aramaic language
The earliest known settlement in Plymouth, England dates back to this e ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
5th century BC - Overview.
The 5th and 6th centuries BC are a period of philosophical brilliance among advanced civilizations. Ancient Greek philosophy develops during the 5th century BC, setting the foundation for Western ideology. In Athens and elsewhere in the Mediterranean world, the 5th century marks a high point in the development of political institutions, art, architecture,and literature.
5th century ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
4th century BC - Overview.
4th century BC - Events.
Invasion of the Celts into Ireland
Battle of the Allia and subsequent Gaulish sack of Rome
383 BCE Second Buddhist Councel at Vesali. 100 years after the Parimirvana.
312 BCE Seleucus I Nicator established himself in Babylon. Begins the Seleucid Empire.
323 BCE Alexander the Great conqueres the Persian ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
6th century BC - Overview.
The 5th and 6th centuries BC were a time of empires, but more importantly, a time of learning and philosophy.
Mediterranean: Beginning of Greek philosophy, flourishes during the 5th century BC
East Asia: Chinese philosophy become the "religion" of China. Confucianism, Daoism, Legalism, and Moism flourish.
Middle East: During the Persian empire, Zoroaster, aka Zarathustra, founded Zoroastrianism ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
8th century BC - Overview.
8th century BC - Events.
Assyria conquers Damascus and Samaria
Nineveh destroyed (789 BC)
First recorded Olympic Games held in Greece (776 BC)
Zhou Dynasty moved its capital to Luoyang (771 BC); The Spring and Autumn Period (771-481 BC) began.
According to tradition, Rome founded (753 BC, 21 April)
Destruction of the Kingdom of Israel by Assyrian ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
9th century BC - Overview.
9th century BC - Events.
Kingdom of Kush (900 BC)
Battle of Karkar (853 BC) - An indecisive engagement between Assyrian king Shalmaneser II and a military alliance of the king of Damascus and lesser powers including the prince of Tyre
Carthage founded by Phoenicians (813 BC)
Beginning of the Iron Age in Central Europe, spread of the Proto-Celtic Hallstatt culture< ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
3rd century BC - Events.
The first two Punic Wars between Carthage and Rome over dominance in western Mediterranean
Rome conquers Spain
Gaulish migration to Macedon, Thrace and Galatia
281 BC Antiochus I Soter, on the assassination of his father Seleucus becomes emperor of the Seleucid empire.
273 BC to 252 BC Ashoka the Great ruled the Mauryan Empire
261 BC Antiochus II Theos, 2nd son, at the death o ...
(2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC - 1st millennium)
2nd century BC - Events.
175 BC - Antiochus IV Epiphanes, took possession of the Syrian throne, at the murder of his brother Seleucus IV Philopator, which rightly belonged to his nephew Demetrius I Soter.
168 BC - Battle of Pydna - The Macedonian phalanx defeated by Romans
164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the fe ...
(3rd millennium BC - 2nd millennium BC - 1st millennium BC)
19th century BC - Events.
Hittite empire in Anatolia
In 1876 BC (According to Bible) Israelites enter Egypt after two years of famine.
1829 – 1818 BC -- Egyptian-Nubian war
1818 BC -- Egyptian Campaign in Israel
1813 BC -- Amorite Conquest of Northern Mesopotamia
1806 BC -- Traditional date for the end of the Xia Dynasty in China.
1800 BC -- beginning of the Nordic Bronze Age in ...