A.D.

My grandfather was born in 1920.

War broke out in 1939.

Four years ago Christmas, down there.

So if you go to about 600 A.D.

Christianity spread into the country as early as AD 40.

King Pyinbya () fortified the city in 849 CE.

I believe it was actually 820 A.D. when he wrote this book.

In 395 AD, Theodosius, instead, split the Empire in half.

So the middle of the 8th century? Almost, almost. Almost 740s.

So as it turns out, TED was not founded in 1984 AD.

His name was Al Ma'mun, and he became the caliph, or ruler, of the Islamic Empire in 813 AD.

Tourism The Maldives remained largely unknown to tourists until the early 1970s.

The Siege of Jerusalem in 70 AD was the decisive event of the First Jewish Roman War.

The Chairman and the Vice Chairman shall be elected, one from among the representatives of producer members and the other from among the representatives of consumer members.

By around 800 AD, the great cities of the Islamic Empire dominated the world's trade.

By 700 AD, the Islamic Empire was taking the first steps towards mass production.

The earliest sewer systems are from the Yayoi period (300 BC to A.D. 250).

It boomed from around 700 AD onwards, creating a massive demand for metalworkers, glass blowers, tile makers, craftsmen of every possible kind.

Ibn Al Haytham was born in 965 AD in the southern Iraqi town of Basra, and other scholars regarded him as a prodigy.

The Great Fire of Rome was an urban fire that started on the night between 18 and 19 July in the year 64 CE.

And then if we fast forward to about 200 300 A.D., so right over there, you have a Greek gentleman who lived in Alexanderia.

In Japan, the Edo period from 1600 to 1868 is also referred to as the early modern period.

What happened, that is, on the night in the year 610 when Muhammad received the first revelation of the Koran on a mountain just outside Mecca?

What made it possible was a great leap of imagination and the fact that, by 900 AD, much of the world's mathematical knowledge had been translated into Arabic, so scholars could scrutinise and improve on it.

At the forefront of this was a medieval Islamic doctor and chemist called Ibn Zakariya Al Razi, who was born here in the city of Ray, just outside the Iranian capital Tehran in 865 AD.

It was the first university in Japan that fulfilled the hopes of St. Francis Xavier, who came to Japan in 1549 to spread Christianity.

The first millennium is a period of time that commenced on January 1, AD 1, and ended on December 31, AD 1000, of the Julian calendar.

England became a unified state in the 10th century, and since the Age of Discovery, which began during the 15th century, has had a significant cultural and legal impact on the wider world.

The Pussy Riot trial was, of course, a travesty of justice, with the prosecution quoting the canons of the Quinisext Council, which took place in Constantinople in 692, under Byzantine Emperor Justinian II.

Russia's first rulers were Nordic princes in the 860's, men invited to bring order to the country even then, or so it seems, Russians didn't trust themselves to rule themselves effectively.

5. The votes of the consumer members shall be distributed as follows each consumer member shall have initial votes the remaining votes shall be distributed among the consumer members in proportion to the average volume of their respective net imports of tropical timber during the three year period commencing four calendar years prior to the distribution of votes.