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27 Apricots are brought to Rome
from Asia.
54 Under Nero, Rome annexes Aden to protect the maritime route between Alexandria
and Asia.
216 Mithraism, which had begun in Persia, is adopted by most Roman soldiers serving in Asia.
900 Merchants from southwest Asia and India
settle on the east-African
coast, trading gold
, beads and metal for ivory and slaves.
1255 Hulagu Khan
is dispatched by his brother Möngke Khan
to destroy the remaining Muslim
states in southwestern Asia.
1287 Kings Mengrai
of the Lanna
kingdom and Ramkhamhaeng the Great
of the Sukhothai kingdom
agree to a peace pact in their region of southeast Asia (present-day Thailand
).
1648 Discovery of strait (Bering Strait) between Asia and North America
by Semyon Dezhnev
1698 In an effort to move his people away from Asiatic customs, Tsar Peter I of Russia
imposes a tax
on beards; All men except priests and peasants, are required to pay a tax of one hundred rubles a year and the commoners had to pay one kopek each
1937 Sino-Japanese War: Battle of Lugou Bridge - Japan
ese forces invade China
.Often seen as the beginning of World War II
in Asia
1953 Philippines
' DZAQ-TV3 made its initial telecast, becoming Asia's first commercial television broadcaster.
1969 Vietnam War
: U.S. President Richard Nixon
declares the Nixon Doctrine, stating that the United States
now expects its Asian allies to take care of their own military defense. This starts the "Vietnamization" of the war.
1973 The U.S. bombing of Cambodia
ends, marking the official halt to 12 years of combat activity in Southeast Asia.
1975 Asia's first professional basketball
league, the Philippine Basketball Association, plays its first game at the Araneta Coliseum.
2004 One of the worst natural disaster
s in recorded history hits southeastern Asia when the strongest earthquake in 40 years
hits the entire Indian Ocean region. The massive 9.3 magnitude earthquake
, epicentered just off the west coast of the Indonesian
island of Sumatra
, generates enormous tsunami
waves that crash into the coastal areas of a number of nations including Thailand
, India
, Sri Lanka
, the Maldives
, Malaysia
, Myanmar
, Bangladesh
, Burma
and Indonesia
. The official death toll in the affected countries stands at 186,983 while more than 40,000 people are still missing.
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