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The Oxford Companion to the Book

Reference type:
Subject Reference
Current Version:
2010
Subject:
History, Social sciences
Length:
26 words

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1000-600 BCE

1000-600 BCE: c. 1000 BCE - c. 600 BCE  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Ancient history (non-classical to 500 CE)
The Jews write down the Torah, the earliest part of the text subsequently known to Christians as the Old Testament
10th century

10th century: c. 900 - c. 1000  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
With the end of iconoclasm, the screen between the nave and the altar sanctuary becomes covered in icons in Orthodox churches
11th century

11th century: c. 1000 - 1100  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Iceland's parliament, the althing, passes a resolution that everyone on the island is to be baptized
12th century

12th century: c. 1100 - c. 1200  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The Assassins, a sect of Nizari Ismailis, begin to acquire strongholds in Persia
13th century

13th century: c. 1200 - c. 1300  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The new Christian doctrine of Transubstantiation prompts rumours that the Jews desecrate the consecrated Host
14th century

14th century: c. 1300 - c. 1400  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Flying buttresses are a striking new structural feature on the exterior of Gothic cathedrals
15th century

15th century: c. 1400 - c. 1500  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
Guilds of singers and song-writers develop in German towns, calling themselves Meistersinger, or master singers
16th century

16th century: c. 1500 - 1600  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early history (500 CE to 1500)
The people of Benin begin a lasting tradition of sculpture in brass, melted down from objects brought by traders
17th century

17th century: c. 1600 - 1700  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
The Yoruba develop an extensive empire centred on Oyo in southern Nigeria
18th century

18th century: c. 1700 - 1800  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Early Modern History (1500 to 1700)
Holland and England are now producing the magnificent ocean-going merchant vessels known as East Indiamen
1900s

1900s: 1900 - 1909  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
Daimler cars develop a new brand using the name Mercedes, that of the ten-year-old daughter of the investor and distributor Emil Jellinek
1910s

1910s: 1910 - 1919  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
D.W. Griffith directs In Old California, the first film shot in the California village of Hollywood
1920s

1920s: 1922 - 1929  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
James Joyce's novel Ulysses is published in Paris, by Sylvia Beach, because of censorship problems elsewhere
1930s

1930s: 1930 - 1939  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
René Clair blends satire and surrealism in his film Sous les Toits de Paris, a dark comedy about a Parisian street singer
1940s

1940s: 1940 - 1949  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, modern history (1700 to 1945)
American Ballet Theatre, directed by Lucia Chase and Richard Pleasant, begins its first season in New York
1950s

1950s: 1950 - 1959  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
US state department official Alger Hiss is sentenced to a five-year prison sentence, after being convicted of perjury in a second trial
1960s

1960s: 1960 - 1969  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
UK prime minister Harold Macmillan, in Cape Town, warns the white settlers of Africa that 'the wind of change' is blowing through their continent
1970s

1970s: 1970 - 1979  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
US author Maya Angelou publishes her autobiographical first novel, I Know Why the Caged Bird Sings
1980s

1980s: 1980 - 1989  

Reference type:
Timeline
Current Version:
2012
Subject:
History, Contemporary History (post 1945)
The small firm of Microsoft wins the contract to provide the operating system of the IBM personal computer

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