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A 13,000-year-old mammoth kill, bison kill and camp in southeastern Arizona, sealed under black clay, and the fluted points that define Clovis.
· 11,000 BCSquier and Davis counted 24 mounds at Mound City in 1848. Camp Sherman covered them in 1917; Newark's Octagon left its golf lease on January 1, 2025.
· AD 200Pottery, rice husks and two skeletons from Ritidian Beach Cave date the first crossing to the Marianas to about 1500 BC and point to the Philippines.
· 1500 BCMonks Mound, 291 by 236 meters at one contour, anchored Cahokia in Illinois, a city of about 120 mounds and nearly 20,000 people about 1100, empty by 1350.
· 1100Galileo's Sidereus Nuncius, printed by Baglioni in Venice in 550 copies, reported a rough Moon and four bodies circling Jupiter, seen from January 7, 1610.
· 1610A Mal'ta humerus sampled at the Hermitage in 2009 dated to 24,000 years; the Siberian boy's genome sat between western Eurasians and Native Americans.
· 22,000 BCThe World Bank lent Japanese National Railways $80 million on May 2, 1961 for the New Tokaido Line. It opened October 1, 1964 at nearly double the budget.
· 1964How many died in Lisbon on November 1, 1755? Pombal told his governors 6,000 to 8,000; NOAA lists 50,000, then 60,000 to 100,000. No register was kept.
· 1755The Homo erectus skeleton Kamoya Kimeu found beside the dry Nariokotome River in 1984, dated 1.60 ± 0.05 million years, with each institution's figures.
· 1,600,000 BCJim Bowler found burnt bones on the shore of Lake Mungo on July 15, 1968. Dated to 40,000 years in 2003, Mungo Lady and Mungo Man were reburied in 2022.
· 38,000 BCArticle 1 of the treaty signed at Ganghwa on February 26, 1876 called Joseon an autonomous state. The Gojong Sillok prints all twelve articles.
· 1876What the Ming History says Ricci offered the Wanli court in 1601, the six-panel world map of 1602, the Chinese Euclid of 1607, the grave granted in 1610.
· 1601Kaufman took Khiva on June 10, 1873. The khan knelt June 14, ended slavery June 24 and in August signed 18 articles ceding the right bank of the Amu Darya.
· 1873Çatalhöyük's East Mound, 13 hectares on Turkey's Konya plain, held roof-entered mudbrick houses with the dead under the floors, about 7100 to 5950 BC.
· 7100 BCThe Enola Gay released Little Boy at 8:15:15 on August 6, 1945. The US Strategic Bombing Survey counted 70,000 dead; the City of Hiroshima counts 237,000.
· 1945A Bactrian stone unearthed in 1993 in Baghlan gives Kanishka's year one, four generations of Kushan kings, a switch from Greek and four Gangetic cities.
· AD 127Groves's top-secret memorandum of July 18, 1945 put the Trinity blast at 15,000 to 20,000 tons of TNT; Los Alamos remeasured it as 22.1 kilotons in 2016.
· 1945Baghdad fell to Hülegü on February 13, 1258; the caliph died on February 20. A chronicle counted "more than 800,000" dead; copyists made it two million.
· 1258Omo I and Omo II, found in the Kibish Formation, Ethiopia, in 1967, were dated to 195 ± 5 kyr in 2005; a 2022 Nature paper gives a minimum of 233 ± 22 kyr.
· 231,000 BCOAPEC cut output 5 percent a month from October 17, 1973, and embargoed the United States. A barrel went from $2.90 to $11.65; the ban ended in March 1974.
· 1973India's first passenger train left Bori Bunder at 3.30 pm on April 16, 1853. Behind it stood a 5 per cent guarantee of 1849 and a pass finished in 1868.
· 1853Qianlong's monument, translated by Amiot in 1776, records the Torghuts' eight-month march from the Volga to the Ili in 1771; counts of the dead disagree.
· 1771Castanhoso marched with Cristóvão da Gama's 400 Portuguese in 1541. His memoir, in Whiteway's 1902 translation, is the record of Wofla and Wayna Daga.
· 1542Ibn Battuta met Muhammad bin Tughluq on June 8, 1334, and served as qadi at 12,000 dinars a year. In 1342 he left for China and was wrecked at Calicut.
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