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Events
- On June 15, a solar eclipse will take place in North Africa, Middle East and East Asia .
- 763 BC A "great earthquake" occurs in Israel.
- 764/63: According to tradition, Alkmeon was the last archon to be appointed for life in Athens .
China
- June 8th: The daily recording of a solar eclipse in the eponym list enables the merging of the Chinese calendar of that time and today's calendar down to the day.
Individual evidence
- ↑ Erhard Gorys, Andrea Gorys: Holy Land: a 10,000 year old cultural land between the Mediterranean, Red Sea and Jordan. DuMont Reiseverlag, 2006, ISBN 3-7701-6608-6 , pp. 31 and 274.
- ↑ In the specialist literature usually given as June 15 . However, according to the proleptic Julian calendar, the date is 763 BC. Calculated. In direct comparison, the beginning of spring fell on March 28th. In conversion to today's Gregorian calendar , 7 days must therefore be deducted. The result is June 8th. Calculations according to Jean Meeus: Astronomical Algorithms - Applications for Ephemeris Tool 4,5 - , Barth, Leipzig 2000 and Ephemeris Tool 4,5 conversion program .