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| c. 465 BC |
| | | Pericles is one of a radical group in Athens, eager to curb the reactionaries controlling the Areopagus, and hostile to Sparta | |
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| 454 BC |
| | | Pericles' power is greatly increased when he is put in charge of the funds of the Delian leaague | |
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| 446 BC |
| | | An army commanded by a Spartan king turns back mysteriously during an invasion of Attica, leading to rumours that Pericles has bribed the king | |
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| c. 140 BC |
| | | The priestly Sadducees are confronted in the Sanhedrin by a new opposition party - the Pharisees | |
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| c. 125 BC |
| | | Under the Han dynasty the Confucians become the official civil servants in China, with entry to the service regulated by examination | |
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| 37 BC |
| | | Herod, appointed king of Judaea by the senate in Rome, establishes his rule over Palestine | |
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| 23 |
| | | The Han dynasty recovers control, after a 15-year interlude, and moves the capital to Loyang - starting the Eastern Han period | |
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| 41 |
| | | Herod Agrippa, a grandson of Herod the Great, restores a brief calm to Palestine | |
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| 130 |
| | | Hadrian, visiting Jerusalem, decides to rebuild it as a Roman city - an act which provokes the final Jewish uprising | |
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| c. 350 |
| | | Greece begins to find a new and influential role in a Christian context, through the Byzantine empire | |
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