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An earthquake under northern Awaji Island at 5:46 a.m. on January 17, 1995, was rated M7.2, then M7.3 in 2001. Japan's final count is 6,434 dead.
· 1995In 1938 Okladnikov found a child's skeleton ringed by ibex horns in an Uzbek cave. DNA in 2007 and a 2012 study call it Neanderthal; a 2009 study did not.
· 70,000 BCA calvaria found at Hathnora on the Narmada in 1982 was named Homo erectus narmadensis, called Homo sapiens in 1991 and dated by ESR in 2009.
· 160,000 BCWaldemar Haffkine injected himself with 10 cc of plague vaccine on January 10, 1897, in Bombay. A 1902 accident at Mulkowal cost him his post until 1907.
· 1897Nature published two 2017 papers on skulls unearthed at Jebel Irhoud, Morocco, first in a 1961 mining accident, dated by thermoluminescence to 315,000 years.
· 300,000 BCA cranium found in Harbin in 1933 was named Homo longi in 2021 and dated to over 146,000 years. In 2025 its dental calculus yielded Denisovan mtDNA.
· 146,000 BCFootprints were exposed at Happisburgh, Norfolk, in May 2013; tides erased them within weeks. Ashton's team dated the surface to 1-0.78 million years.
· 850,000 BCA French munitions ship and a Norwegian steamer collided in Halifax's Narrows on December 6, 1917; the official register closed with 1,631 dead.
· 1917William Knox D'Arcy signed a 60-year Persian oil concession on May 28, 1901. Seven years later, a well at Masjed Soleyman struck oil on May 26, 1908.
· 1908Six crane-bone flutes from Jiahu, China, date to 7000-5700 BC. Nature called them the earliest complete, playable, tightly-dated multinote instruments.
· 7000 BCDried feces from an Oregon cave carried DNA a 2008 study dated to 12,300 radiocarbon years. Rebuttals, a 2012 recheck and a 2020 lipid study followed.
· 12,300 BCA 2019 Science paper put people at Cooper's Ferry, Idaho, from 16,560 to 15,280 years ago. A 2020 comment, a 2022 reanalysis and two replies followed.
· 14,000 BCFrancisco Álvares measured Lalibela's rock-hewn churches twice in the 1520s, giving names, spans and a tradition of who built them.
· 1200Peru's Ministry of Culture called Chan Chan a masterpiece of pre-Columbian design in 2016, the year Huaca Toledo was excavated and rain closed the site.
· 1300John White found the word CROATOAN carved on a post at Roanoke in 1590, three years after his 1587 colonists, including newborn Virginia Dare, vanished.
· 1587On December 11, 2019, Bougainville counted 176,928 votes for independence against 3,043 for autonomy, pending ratification by Papua New Guinea.
· 2019Cook's journal records a musket fired between two Gweagal men at Botany Bay; Banks put the number of spears taken afterward at forty or fifty.
· 1770Science Advances, June 12, 2020: 130 bone points at Fa-Hien Lena cave, Sri Lanka, are sized and hafted like arrows, dated to 48,000 to 34,000 years ago.
· 46,000 BCMarshall's 1918 Guide to Taxila describes three cities in one valley, Bhir Mound, Sirkap and Sirsukh, each dated by walls, coin finds and dig layers.
· 170 BCQuiros's fleet entered a bay in Vanuatu on May 1, 1606, named the land Australia del Espiritu Santo; a storm later parted his ship from Torres's.
· 1606The Vasa Museum says the warship foundered minutes into its 1628 voyage. The inquest found no one guilty; Franzén found the wreck in 1956, raised in 1961.
· 1628Frank Kingdon-Ward was camped at Rima in Tibet when the August 15, 1950 earthquake struck. Catalogues give 8.6 to 8.8; no single death toll exists.
· 1950A shallow shock under central Tashkent on April 26, 1966 left over 300,000 of 1.5 million people homeless. Official deaths were counted as eight or 10.
· 1966Tarawera's Kaharoa ash, dated to about AD 1314, holds rat-gnawed seeds. Rat bones, lake charcoal and a 2022 study date the first settlers decades earlier.
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