Danielle's Garden Historical Chart
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Object d’Art
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Historical Date
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Cross-Related Dates and Events
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Comments Related to Objects d'Art
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PYRAMID/SPHINX
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-3000 to –2501
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· Egypt’s introduction of 365 day calendar
· Cuneiform and Egyptian hieroglyphs emerge
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· Cheops’s Pyramid and the Sphinx at Gizeh are built
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RAMESES II
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-1350 to -1200
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Olmec, as first major Mesoamerican civilization, emerges in
Mexico
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Accession of Rameses II as Pharaoh in –1279
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Battle of the Hittites at Kadesh, circa –1275/4, in the 4th
or 5th year of Rameses rule
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MAYA
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-600 to –501
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Cyprus under Egyptian rule
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Babylonian captivity of the Jews and first Hebrew written
words of the Old Testament
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Mayan civilization is established
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Pascal rules in Palenque over 1,000 years later, from 615 to
683
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BUDDHA
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-563 to –483
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Confucius born in 479
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Buddha preaches his first sermon at Benares in -521
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GREAT WALL
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-250 to 1644
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Jesus Christ born circa –4
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Mohamed born 570
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Charlemagne born 742
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Qui Shi Huang becomes first emperor of China in –221
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Start of building of Great Wall, circa –217
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Building of Great Wall ends when last emperor of
Ming Dynasty, Chongzhen, committed suicide in 1644
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HERALDIC SHIELD AND SWORD
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1100 to 1300
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Marco Polo born 1254
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Medieval birth of heraldry in Western Europe about 1150
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Baron Ulrich von Lichenstein dies 1257
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AZTEC
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1327 to 1364
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Great fire of Munich in 1327
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Black Death in lEurope 1347
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Mexico City is established by the Aztecs 1327
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Tenochtitlan, the capital city of the
Aztec, is built in 1364
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TOTEM POLE
KANGAROO
PENGUINS
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1400 to 1992
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Christopher Columbus set sail in the Santa Maria, from
Palos, Spain, in 1492
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500th year after Columbus landed in the Americas
1992
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Project work on Danielle’s Garden starts in 1988
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All major commissioned works of art for Danielle’s Garden
completed in 1991
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Private family opening of garden in 1991
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Formal public opening of garden in 1992
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