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A Stone Age sculptor shapes a timeless image of female fecundity in the famous Willendorf Venus
A performance in the Oratory in Rome, with music by Emilio de' Cavalieri, is in effect the first oratorio
The Egyptian pharaoh Thutmose III defeats his enemies at Megiddo, in history's first fully described battle and siege
The Netherlands, or 'low countries' around the Rhine delta, enter history as the Roman province of Germania Inferior
Palaeolithic hunter-gatherers use mammoth tusks and bones to support hide-covered tents at Dolni Vestonice (in the Czech Republic)
In negotiations about the New World at Tordesillas, the king of Portugal insists on a new demarcation line which later brings him Brazil
Humans are by this time living in Britain, in what is now Norfolk, and are making stone tools
On his death bed in Westminster, Edward the Confessor designates Harold - foremost among England's barons - as his successor
The marriage of James IV, king of Scotland, to Margaret Tudor, daughter of Henry VII, leads a century later to the Union of the Crowns
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