Dossier №234

2,008 AD

Lehman Brothers files for bankruptcy during a global financial crisis.

This question uses 2008 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.

The failure intensified panic in credit markets and became the defining symbol of the Great Recession.

1,504 AD

Michelangelo’s monumental statue of David is installed in Florence.

This question uses 1504 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.

Carved from a single block of marble, the work became an emblem of Renaissance art and Florentine civic identity.

1,990 AD

The Hubble Space Telescope is deployed into low Earth orbit.

A flawed mirror was repaired, and the observatory became a scientific icon.

Hubble initially produced blurred images because of a tiny error in its primary mirror. Astronauts installed corrective optics during a servicing mission, enabling decades of discoveries about stars, galaxies, and the expansion of the universe.

814 BC

Phoenician settlers traditionally found Carthage on the coast of North Africa.

This question uses 814 BC as its sourced chronological anchor.

The city became the center of a maritime commercial power whose rivalry with Rome reshaped the western Mediterranean.

2,334 BC

Sargon of Akkad begins building an empire across Mesopotamia.

A ruler from Akkad linked many city-states under one expanding power.

Sargon and his successors campaigned across Mesopotamia and beyond, creating what is often described as one of the earliest territorial empires. Akkadian language and royal ideology left a long legacy.