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Celebrating the new year by looking at what happened in ’13<\/strong> way back when…..<\/p>\n 2613 BC<\/strong><\/span> \u00a0By some accounts, the construction of the Great Sphinx<\/strong> <\/a>may have begun<\/p>\n 413 BC<\/strong><\/span> – The Battle of Syracuse<\/strong> results in a cataclysmic defeat for the Athenian Empire’s Sicilian Expedition<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>at the hands of Hermocrates<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>and\u00a0Gylippus<\/a>. \u00a0<\/strong>The Athenian strategoi<\/em>\u00a0Demosthenes<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0and Nicias<\/a><\/strong>are ignominiously\u00a0executed by the Syracusans. This defeat contributes to the downfall of Athens in the Peloponnesian War<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n 213 BC<\/strong><\/span> The great inventor Archimedes<\/a><\/strong> builds catapults so powerful that the Romans<\/strong> laying siege to Syracuse<\/strong><\/a> believed the city to have the aid of giants<\/p>\n 13 BC<\/strong><\/span> Rome enjoys the noontide of the age of Augustus<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 13 AD<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0 The great geographer\u00a0Strabo<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>publishes his book on the shape of the Earth.<\/p>\n 113 AD<\/span> Emperor \u00a0Trajan<\/a><\/strong> builds\u00a0Trajan’s Column<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>near the\u00a0Colosseum<\/a>\u00a0in\u00a0Rome<\/a>\u00a0to commemorate his victory over the\u00a0Dacians<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0in the\u00a0Second Dacian War<\/a><\/strong>.\u00a0Osroes I of Parthia<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>violates the treaty with Rome by installing a puppet ruler in\u00a0Armenia<\/a><\/strong>. The 60 year old emperor, Trajan, marches east and\u00a0declares Armenia to be annexed and becomes a\u00a0Roman province<\/a>.<\/p>\n 313 AD<\/strong><\/span> Emperor Constantine the Great<\/strong> <\/a>issues the Edict of Milan<\/a><\/strong>, legalizing Christianity<\/strong><\/a> and ending the persecutions of Christians and initiating the decline of Paganism<\/a><\/strong><\/p>\n 613 AD<\/strong><\/span> The Prophet Muhammed<\/a><\/strong> begins preaching the call to Islam<\/strong><\/a><\/p>\n 1013 AD<\/strong><\/span> The Danes<\/strong> invade England<\/strong>. \u00a0King\u00a0Ethelred<\/a>\u00a0the Unready<\/strong>\u00a0flees to\u00a0Normandy<\/a>,<\/strong> and Sweyn the Dane<\/strong> becomes King of England.<\/p>\n 1113 AD<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0The\u00a0Order of the Knights of the Hospital of Saint John<\/a><\/strong>, founded to protect pilgrims to the Holy Land, vows to fight in its defense.<\/p>\n 1213 AD<\/span> \u00a0Jin<\/a>\u00a0China<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>is overrun by the\u00a0Mongols<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong>under\u00a0Genghis Khan<\/a><\/strong>, who plunder the countryside and cities, until only\u00a0Beijing<\/a>\u00a0remains free, despite two bloody palace coups and a lengthy siege.\u00a0Pope Innocent III<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0issues a charter, calling for the\u00a0Fifth Crusade<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to recapture Jerusalem.<\/p>\n \u00a01513 AD<\/span>\u00a0Juan Ponce de Leon<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0becomes the first European definitely known to sight what is now the territory of the United States (specifically\u00a0Florida<\/a>), mistaking it for another island<\/p>\n \u00a01613 AD<\/strong><\/span>\u00a0\u00a0An assembly of the\u00a0Russian Empire<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0elects\u00a0Mikhail Romanov<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0to be\u00a0Tsar<\/a><\/strong>\u00a0of\u00a0Russia<\/a>,<\/strong> and establishes the\u00a0Romanov Dynasty<\/a><\/strong>, ending the\u00a0Time of Troubles<\/a><\/strong>.<\/p>\n 1813 AD<\/strong><\/span> Napoleonic wars<\/a><\/strong> rage in Europe, War\u00a0<\/strong>of 181<\/strong>2<\/strong><\/a>\u00a0sees the American invasion of Canada and Mexico<\/strong> wages it’s War of Independence from Spain<\/a>\u00a0<\/strong><\/p>\n 1913 AD<\/strong><\/span> Last year of the post-Napoleonic “Long Peace” before WWI<\/strong>. The Mexican Revolution<\/a><\/strong> and\u00a0China’s Warlord Era\u00a0<\/strong>accelerate. America<\/strong> passes the 16th Amendment<\/a><\/strong>, permitting the Income Tax<\/strong> to be levied and Henry Ford<\/strong> introduces the assembly lin<\/a>e<\/strong>, revolutionizing industrial mass production.<\/p>\n What will 2013 bring that will be remembered in a century?<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Celebrating the new year by looking at what happened in ’13 way back when….. 2613 BC \u00a0By some accounts, the construction of the Great Sphinx may have begun 413 BC – The Battle of Syracuse results in a cataclysmic defeat for the Athenian Empire’s Sicilian Expedition\u00a0at the hands of Hermocrates\u00a0and\u00a0Gylippus. \u00a0The Athenian strategoi\u00a0Demosthenes\u00a0and Niciasare ignominiously\u00a0executed […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[68,51,779],"tags":[1273],"class_list":["post-18264","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-fun","category-history","category-question","tag-1273"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=18264"}],"version-history":[{"count":8,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":18272,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/18264\/revisions\/18272"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=18264"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=18264"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/zenpundit.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=18264"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}