Dossier №246

1,918 AD

An armistice signed in a railway carriage ends fighting on the Western Front of the First World War.

This question uses 1918 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.

The ceasefire took effect on the eleventh hour of the eleventh day of the eleventh month, before the later peace treaties redrew Europe.

1,687 AD

Isaac Newton publishes the Principia and its laws of motion and gravitation.

This question uses 1687 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.

The work united terrestrial and celestial motion within one mathematical framework.

1,415 AD

The Council of Constance condemns and executes the Bohemian reformer Jan Hus.

This question uses 1415 AD as its sourced chronological anchor.

His death intensified religious and political resistance in Bohemia and helped inspire the Hussite Wars.

1,046 BC

Zhou forces defeat the Shang at the Battle of Muye.

This question uses 1046 BC as its sourced chronological anchor.

The Zhou justified conquest through the Mandate of Heaven, a political idea reused by later Chinese dynasties.

701 BC

The Assyrian king Sennacherib campaigns through Judah and besieges Jerusalem.

This question uses 701 BC as its sourced chronological anchor.

Assyrian records, archaeology, and biblical texts offer different perspectives on a campaign that devastated fortified towns.