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The monks of the Towers of Hanoi of the Temple of Benares finish composing the Tower of Brahma (if they were fast enough to move one disk per second on average) and the Universe according to the Hindus ends.

The End of the Current European-American Epoch According to Rudolf Steiner. Anthroposophy has its own concept of history: according to Rudolf Steiner, our current era falls within the post-Atlantean period, since in his view, the disaster that supposedly struck Atlantis in 7227 BC was a

End of the current cycle of the Julian calendar (Julian date) introduced by Scaliger; in reality the date will not coincide in our calendar due to the changes introduced in the same

Despite all his warnings and resolutions to look only to the past, in the last years of his life, Isaac Newton could not resist the temptation to extend his gaze to the moment of the Last Judgment with this feeble justification: “I indicate this period

This chronology has been published online at storia-universale.it (previously distributed via email as an Excel file from 1997 to 2019).

The Saudi-led coalition took control of the southern outskirts of al-Houdeida, the main seaside city in northern Yemen, but was unable to recapture the city held by the Iranian-backed Houthi rebels.

Riyadh, Kingdom of Saudi Arabia (KSA). Lebanese Prime Minister Saad Harari arrives in the Saudi capital and shows up at Prince MbS’s residence wearing jeans and sneakers. But the meeting isn’t what he expected… The Lebanese Prime Minister and his guards are searched, disarmed, stripped

Syria. Assad’s government forces, backed by Russia, complete the capture of Deir ez-Zor, which began on September 5.

Philippines. Marawi City is liberated from ISIS by regular forces. ISIS had occupied the city for five months. Isnilon Hapilon, ISIS leader in the Philippines, is killed. Over a thousand ISIS members are killed in the military operation.

Plesetsk, near Arkangel, Russia. The Russian Angara 5 rocket, capable of carrying 20 tons of payload into low-Earth orbit (LEO), completes its first test launch and delivers a 2-ton test payload into geosynchronous orbit (GEO). It is intended to replace the Proton rocket and establish

The agreement on the intervention of a European and Lebanese armed force to be deployed in southern Lebanon puts an end to the conflict between Israel and Hezbollah.

Pioneer Venus 2 entered orbit around Venus; it carried four separate atmospheric probes; they were plunged into the atmosphere, and two, although not designed to, survived impact with the ground and transmitted from the surface for 2 seconds and 67 minutes. The spacecraft carried one

Manfred Von Richtoffen, better known as “The Red Baron”, dies on the Somme River in a dogfight, hit from the ground by an Australian machine gunner.

William of Orange, Anglo-Dutch king, goes to Ulster to defeat James II, Catholic king: Battle of the Boyne

Third Inca revolt in Peru, led by Manco Capac, this time on a large scale and using European warfare techniques.

Venice. The Venetian reserve increased from 50 galleys to 100 light galleys, 4 large galleys (later 10), 8 biremes, and 16 light vessels. The entire reserve was kept sheltered in the Arsenale Novissimo.

The Incas and their king retreat to the three secret cities of Vizco, Vidca Bab, and Macchu Picchu, pursued by the Spanish conquistadors.

England. The House of Tudor reigns, with seven sovereigns: Henry VII, Henry VIII, Edward VI, Jane, Mary I, Philip, and Elizabeth I (daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn; Elizabeth was unmarried and died without heirs).

War between Venice and Genoa for commercial dominance in the East.

Comacchio, as a direct competitor for control of the Adriatic, was sacked by the Venetians.

The Polynesians venture into the open ocean (Western navigators still skirt the coasts and will do so for a thousand years to come)

Septimius Severus is Roman Emperor (office of Augustus held jointly with Caracalla)

Arabs and tribal leaders from sub-Saharan Africa established the trans-Saharan slave trade. When the Portuguese arrived thirteen centuries later, they found a fully functioning slave market run by the Arabs.

In Central Asia, on the caravan routes that linked the two great powers of Rome and China, Buddhism flourished; the Chinese protected the cities from the incursions of the Huns and Turks.

Modena. The Ligurians conquer and sack the Roman city, while a gathering of veterans is held in Rome to celebrate General Gaius Claudius Pulcher. Upon learning of the sack, Pulcher marches toward Modena with his army and reconquers it, killing eight thousand Ligurians.

Monarch’s Meadow, about 50 km from Constantinople, on the Asian shore. Hannibal the Carthaginian poisoned himself to avoid falling into the clutches of the Romans.

Rome completes the conquest of central Italy.

Saul first king of Israel.

The Greeks introduced vowels into the alphabet so that every word could be written

The Philistines occupy the Palestinian coast

China. One of the earliest forms of writing were oracles made with bones, used to predict the future. One of the oldest inscriptions reads: “Will Mrs. Hao’s son be lucky?” (…) Then the oracle continues the story: “Three weeks and a day later, the baby

Mesopotamia. A clay cuneiform tablet dated to the 28th day of the 10th month of the 41st year of the reign of King Shulgi of Ur represents one of the oldest written documents. It records the monthly deliveries of sheep and goats. At the end,

Akkadian Empire, present-day Iraq and Syria. It was the first known empire. It was ruled by Sargon the Great, king of Kish. The empire did not last long after Sargon’s death, but, like many or all empires, it left a legacy that would last for

The current process of desertification of the Sahara ends

Druids, Egyptians, Babylonians, Hittites, Cretans, Hebrews, Phoenicians, Assyrians, Persians, …: Stonehenge: solstice prediction, The Middle Kingdom, Hammurabi’s law code in Babylon, Mesopotamia, Hittite state established in Anatolia, The New Kingdom, Cretan splendor and defeat: the Mycenaeans replace the Cretans at sea, Hatshepsut, Tutankhamun, Ramses I,

Egypt. Domestication begins, also understood as the selection of the most suitable species and thus the involuntary genetic modification of the species, of various plants such as the fig tree and animals such as the donkey and the cat. All this allows human groups to

Syrian province of Raqqa, prehistoric Mesopotamia. The site of Tell Sabi Abyad, a village of about one hectare, was founded. It was destroyed by fire, baking the mud walls and clay objects, which have thus been preserved to this day. There were central warehouses for

Thanks to the technology of deep-sea vessels, the islands of Crete, Cyprus, Corsica, and Sardinia were reached and populated.