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In 2002 a well at Liye, Hunan, gave up the Qin archive of Qianling county, 222 BC to 208 or 210 BC, naming a commandery missing from the Shiji.
· 222 BCRakhmonov and Nuri signed the General Agreement on Peace and National Accord in Moscow on June 27, 1997. A UN commission and UNMOT then oversaw its terms.
· 1997S. R. Rao called the brick basin at Lothal the earliest dock in the world. Lawrence Leshnik measured its sill, channel and stones in 1968 and saw a tank.
· 2400 BCA 2022 PNAS study ties Pacific atoll settlement to sea-level fall after a highstand. Digs date Ebon occupation to two millennia and Utrōk to the first centuries AD.
· AD 1Rinderpest reached Africa with the Italian invasion of Eritrea in 1889, killed 90 to 95 percent of cattle by 1896, and was declared eradicated worldwide in 2011.
· 1889Lime-plaster statues on reed frames, buried in two pits at 'Ain Ghazal near Amman and lifted in 1983 and 1985, then conserved in London and Washington.
· 6750 BCPeter I ordered Prince Bekovich-Cherkassky to turn the Amu Darya and win the khan of Khiva. In 1717 his force was divided into five and destroyed.
· 1717Andrew Waugh's 1856 letter to the Royal Geographical Society named Peak XV "Mont Everest" at 29,002 feet and thanked one assistant, J. Hennessey.
· 1856The Hejaz Railway reached Medina on September 1, 1908, funded by subscription under Sultan Abdulhamid II, a 2010 study of Ottoman newspapers shows.
· 1908The surge of January 31–February 1, 1953 was later rated a 300-year level. The Delta Committee set a 10,000-year standard; Britain capped defenses at 1953.
· 1953On November 6, 1991, the Emir of Kuwait extinguished the last of the oil-well fires Iraqi forces had set, the Senate recorded, ending a nine-month effort.
· 1991Two Jesuits, Tomás Pereira and Jean-François Gerbillon, put the 1689 Qing-Russian talks at Nerchinsk into Latin, the language both sides depended on.
· 1689A NASA oral history records how a four-person team advised Chile on re-feeding, urine tests and the Fénix capsule during the 2010 San José mine rescue.
· 2010Antiquity's 2019 report says a major conflagration destroyed Must Farm's Bronze Age stilt houses, whose contents sank into a Cambridgeshire river channel.
· 850 BCOstraca beside Old Nisa's Square House named a Parthian fortress Mithradatkert, where about fifty ivory rhyta and a disputed Round Hall survive.
· 200 BCCharred millet, wheat and barley from cremation cists at Begash and Tasbas in Kazakhstan date to about 2300 BC; their excavators later doubted what they show.
· 2300 BCA Berlin museum record says Giuseppe Ferlini opened a Meroë pyramid in 1834 and took gold jewelry, once thought forged, made for Queen Amanishakheto.
· 300 BCMary Pappin Jr. found the first Willandra Lakes footprints in August 2003. Optically dated to 19,000 to 23,000 years, the count rose from 124 to 563 by 2007.
· 21,000 BCThe London Gazette no. 85 dated the fire to 1 a.m. on September 2, 1666, in Pudding Lane. An Act of 1666 set a yearly fast and ordered a pillar.
· 1666Mount Tarawera erupted for about five hours on June 10, 1886 and buried Te Wairoa. A lake survey and a land survey disagree on where the terraces lie.
· 1886On August 21, 1986, Lake Nyos in Cameroon released stored carbon dioxide, killing at least 1,700 people. A degassing pipe began pumping the lake in 2001.
· 1986Kume Kunitake published the Iwakura Mission's official record in 1878; the National Diet Library gives the mission's 1871 departure and aims.
· 1871The Archaeological Survey of India calls Konark's Sun Temple a stone chariot with twelve pairs of wheels and seven horses; its hall held sand until 2022.
· 1250A 1976 bulldozer cut into Joya de Cerén, a Maya village buried by Loma Caldera ash about AD 630-650. Digs found stocked houses, fields and no bodies.
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