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Hace 3 días · It was made by Nastulus in 927-28 AD and is now a treasure of the Kuwait National Museum. [94] In about 964 AD, the Persian astronomer Abd al-Rahman al-Sufi , writing in his Book of Fixed Stars , described a "nebulous spot" in the Andromeda constellation , the first definitive reference to what is now known to be the Andromeda Galaxy , the nearest spiral galaxy to the Milky Way .
Hace 2 días · Salah ad-Din Yusuf ibn Ayyub [a] ( c. 1137 – 4 March 1193), commonly known as Saladin, [b] was the founder of the Ayyubid dynasty. Hailing from a Kurdish family, he was the first sultan of both Egypt and Syria. An important figure of the Third Crusade, he spearheaded the Muslim military effort against the Crusader states in the Levant.
Hace 2 días · The history of Europe is traditionally divided into four time periods: prehistoric Europe (prior to about 800 BC), classical antiquity (800 BC to AD 500), the Middle Ages (AD 500–1500), and the modern era (since AD 1500). The first early European modern humans appear in the fossil record about 48,000 years ago, during the ...
Hace 3 días · Iron Age, final technological and cultural stage in the Stone–Bronze–Iron Age sequence in which iron for the most part replaced bronze in implements and weapons. The date of the Iron Age varied geographically, beginning in the Middle East and southeastern Europe about 1200 BCE but in China not until about 600 CE.
Hace 5 días · Edmund II (born c. 993—died Nov. 30, 1016) was the king of the English from April 23 to Nov. 30, 1016, surnamed “Ironside” for his staunch resistance to a massive invasion led by the Danish king Canute.
Hace 4 días · The account of the precipitate conversion of the Icelanders following a decision taken at the Þing in AD 999/1000 provides a legitimate foundation myth for the Church, but there are saga and other references to the earlier presence of Christians in Iceland, and the progress of christianisation is likely to have been more gradual.
Hace 3 días · Chester's close ties with the earls of Mercia led to its involvement in the rising of 1069-70. In 1069 the men of Chester in alliance with Eadric the wild and the Welsh besieged Shrewsbury. The Conqueror, then at York, responded by crossing the Pennines and bringing his army to Chester, where he built a castle.
