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Cortés's letter of October 30, 1520 gave Tenochtitlan four causeways and a market of 60,000 a day. Modern studies put the city near 200,000 people.
· 1519Around 1887 cuneiform letters from Babylon, Mitanni and Canaan surfaced at Tell el-Amarna. Dealers split them up; Knudtzon's EA numbers put them in order.
· 1350 BCCarrington and Hodgson each saw a white-light flare on September 1, 1859, as Kew's magnetographs jumped. Auroras and telegraph failures followed.
· 1859A lump raised from a wreck off Antikythera showed a gear wheel in 1902. X-ray studies from 2005 to 2021 read its 30 gears as an eclipse and planet machine.
· 100 BCAlcuin's two letters and two Anglo-Saxon Chronicle texts record the Lindisfarne raid of 793. Digs since 2016 found graves of adults, children and babies.
· AD 793Xuanzang recorded Nalanda's gatekeeper and debates; the ASI dug the site in 1915–37 and 1974–82; an Act of September 21, 2010 revived the name.
· AD 629Schliemann began digging Grave Circle A at Mycenae on August 7, 1876, and wired the king in French. The "face of Agamemnon" line is not in his 1878 book.
· 1550 BCEgypt's text of the peace between Ramesses II and the Hittite king Hattusili III is dated year 21. The UN gives 1269 BC, Livius.org about 1259 BC.
· 1259 BCTomb 3 at Mawangdui, buried in 168 BC and opened in 1973, held a lacquer box of silk and bamboo texts, among them two Laozi editions and medical works.
· 168 BCClaudia Severa's birthday invitation, tablet 291, is one of the Roman ink letters on thin wood found at the fort of Vindolanda since March 23, 1973.
· AD 100The South Fork Dam failed on May 31, 1889. A county commission blamed its owners, a club of Pittsburgh industrialists, but every suit against the club failed.
· 1889In 2003 a child's teeth and 121 skull fragments came out of layer 16 at Obi-Rakhmat, Uzbekistan. The teeth read as Neanderthal; the skull did not settle it.
· 70,000 BCA serpentine block with 62 signs from a Veracruz gravel quarry was reported in Science on September 15, 2006 as the oldest writing in the Americas.
· 900 BCAn excavator operator found gold near Varna in October 1972. The cemetery has been counted at 270, 294, 312 and 315 graves and dated two ways.
· 4600 BCThe Sejong Sillok records 28 new letters in 1443 and a finished Hunminjeongeum in 1446, with Choe Malli's 1444 memorial of protest between them.
· 1446A 2018 NASA workshop put the 1908 Tunguska blast at 10-20 megatons at 10 km. A 2025 paper traces its 80 million trees figure to an unsourced 1930s guess.
· 1908Lord Mersey's report of July 30, 1912, blamed excessive speed; Senator William Alden Smith's May 28 speech named Captain Smith's "overconfidence and neglect."
· 1912Letters from Ram Singh's staff, a Mughal chronicle of 1710 and a Maratha bakhar give Shivaji's 1666 escape from Agra different dates and routes home.
· 1666Thirteen rammed-earth pillars at Taosi, Shanxi, dug in 2003–04, were read as a sunrise observatory of the 21st century BC. A 2025 paper queries it.
· 2100 BCTree-ring dating puts the Oseberg ship's timber at about 820 and its burial at 834; Gabriel Gustafson excavated it in 1904 after a farmer's report in 1903.
· AD 834Dredging for the 'Upolu–Savai'i car ferry exposed Samoa's only known Lapita pottery. Fiona Petchey dated it to 930–800 BC; 'Upolu has sunk since.
· 930 BCA skull blasted from a South African quarry in 1924 became Australopithecus africanus when Raymond Dart named it in Nature on February 7, 1925.
· 2,500,000 BCDCCEEW dates Gunditjmara stone eel-channel construction at Budj Bim to at least 6,600 years old; UNESCO inscribed the site in 2019.
· 4600 BCIn August 1985 Patrick Kirch's team found a waterlogged Lapita stilt-village at Talepakemalai on Eloaua Island, Mussau, with pottery and obsidian intact.
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