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Ask HN: Without searching, can you name a historic event before the year 1000?

2 points by hakanshehuu ↗ HN
Been thinking lately that almost all major historic events that I remember happened after the year 1000, and it's kind of hard to remember something randomly that happened before 1000.

Edit: I meant a historic event where you also know the year of it and some details about it. In high level I think everyone here knows what happened during that period.

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verdverm
Egyptian or Roman empires? Anything from Greek philosophy?
theandrewbailey
The fall of the Roman Empire

The rise of Christianity

beardyw
Yes, the birth of Christ, I forget how many years before? /s
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1sembiyan
731 AD, Champa (modern day Vietnam) princeling Nandivarman becomes the Pallava Emperor and is crowned at Kanchipuram, modern day Tamil Nadu, India.

TBF, I remember this only because I have been reading D Dennis Hudson’s work.

t90fan
The sacking of Rome by the Goths in 410
1970-01-01
The first one that comes to mind, as there are many, is the eruption of Mount Vesuvius in 79 A.D.

The second would be the assassination of Caesar on the Ides of March 44 B.C.

Crucifixion of Jesus Christ in 30 A.D.

Battle of Thermopylae, 480 B.C.

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