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1.8Mil BC |
1.8Mil BC Hominid fossils and crude stone tools of this time were found in the former Soviet republic of Georgia in 1991 beneath the ruins of a medieval castle at Dmanisi. A 3rd smaller skull was found in 2002. All 3 were tentatively classified as Homo erectus. One skull of a man indicated that he had been almost toothless for at least 2 years before death. In 2013 a study of the findings was published in Science. Links: Black Sea, Georgia, Anthropology, HistoryBC 
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5600 BC |
About this time the Mediterranean Sea, swollen be melted glaciers, breached a natural dam that separated it from the fresh water lake later known as the Black Sea. Sea water from the Mediterranean poured in for as long as 2 years. An ancient coastline with this date was veri-fied in 1999. [see 2348BC] Links: Black Sea
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5500 BC |
The remains of a c7,500 year-old building was found 300 feet below the surface of the Black Sea by archeologists in 1999. Links: Black Sea
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2348 BC Jul 17 |
Biblical date for Noah’s landing on Mt. Ararat. “My Bible also revealed that Noah came ashore on Mt. Ararat on the 17th day of the seventh month, 2348BC.” Links: Black Sea, Bible More
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1000 BC |
An Indo-European group of people moved east to live in what later became Xinjiang province of western China. They left well-preserved Caucasian mummies of this age and 1,300 year old texts written in an unknown Indo European tongue. Some evidence showed that they had come from the steppes north of the Black and Caspian seas as the area filled with Iranian immigrants. They settled in the Tarim Basin on the edges of the Taklimakan Desert. They area has also been named Inner Asia, Chinese Turkistan and East Turkistan. The Uighers of Xinjiang sometimes show physical features that reflects Tocharian blood. Links: Black Sea, China, Caspian Sea, HistoryBC
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1347 Oct |
Sailors carrying plague from Genoa arrived in Messina, Sicily. Links: Black Sea More
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1444 Nov 10 |
In the Battle at Varna on the Black Sea, Sultan Murad II beat the Crusaders. Links: Black Sea
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1444 Nov 10 |
During the Hungarian-Turkish War (1444-1456), Sultan Murad II beat the Crusaders in the Battle at Varna on the Black Sea. Links: Black Sea, Turkey, Hungary
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1461 |
Ottoman Sultan Mehmet II conquered Trabzon, a Greek port on the Black Sea. Trabzon had formed the basis of several states in its long history and was the capital city of the Empire of Trebizond between 1204 and 1461. Links: Black Sea, Turkey, Trebizond
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1936 |
Turkey signed a treaty by which it agreed not to interfere with transit through the Bosporus. Links: Black Sea
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1942 Feb 24 |
The SS Struma was sunk in the Black Sea by a Soviet torpedo. The ship with over 750 Jewish passengers fleeing Romania, had docked in Istanbul, but was denied entry to Palestinian territory by colonial power Britain. On Feb 23 Turkey towed the vessel to the Black Sea and set it adrift. Only one person survived. Links: Black Sea, Turkey, Russia, Israel, Jews, USSR, Tragedy, Ship
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1972 |
The jellyfish population in the Black Sea exploded following the completion of a dam in a section of the Danube that runs between Serbia and Romania. Links: Black Sea, Fish
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1982 |
The jellyfish-like creature, Mnemiopsis leidyi, arrived in Black Sea, probably in the ballast water of a cargo ship, and began to devastate the ecology of the almost closed ecosystem. Links: Black Sea, Environment, Fish
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1992 |
Turkey’s Pres. Turgut Ozal (d.1993) envisioned the Black Sea as a zone of peace and cooperation. This led to the formation of the Istanbul-based organization for Black Sea Economic Cooperation (BSEC). Links: Black Sea, Turkey
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1992 |
A Lebanese vessel sank in the Bosporus with a cargo of 13,000 sheep and goats. Links: Black Sea
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1994 |
An oil tanker collided with another vessel in the Bosporus and 28 seamen died. A 15,000-ton oil spillage also resulted that burst into a spectacular fire. Links: Black Sea
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1996 |
A Black Sea Action Plan was signed by all six coastal nations: Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania and Bulgaria. It was to improve sewage control, develop conservation strate-gies and study a possible special environmental fund. Links: Black Sea, Turkey, Georgia, Russia, Ukraine, Romania, Bulgaria, Environment
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1997 Nov 10 |
A report on the Black Sea told of the disappearance of 20 0f 26 commercial fish species since 1970. Industry, agriculture and fishing practices caused a collapse of the Black Sea ecosystem in the late 1980s. The Monk seal was reported near extinction, dolphins and porpoises were reported down to 250,000 from 1 million in the 1970s, and blue mussels were in serious decline due to pollution. Links: Black Sea, Environment, Animal, Fish
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1999 Jan 8 |
In Azerbaijan the first part of an oil pipeline across Georgia to the Black Sea was opened. Links: Azerbaijan, Black Sea
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2000 Nov 22 |
A $2.5 billion oil pipeline from Kazakhstan to the Russian port of Novorossiisk on the Black Sea was reported completed by an int'l. consortium. Pumping of 600,000 barrels per day was expected to begin in 2001. Links: Kazakhstan, Black Sea, Russia, Oil
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2001 Jan 26 |
The 198-foot vessel Pamyat Merkuriya sank in the Black Sea and at least 14 people were killed. The ship was enroute to Yevpatoria, Ukraine, from Istanbul. Links: Black Sea, Turkey, Ukraine
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2002 Jun 26 |
Chinese basketball star Yao Ming was selected first overall by the Houston Rockets in the NBA draft. Links: Black Sea, USA, China, Texas
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2007 Jun 23 |
Italian energy company Eni SpA and Russia's state-controlled OAO Gazprom said they signed a memorandum of understanding on the possibility of supplying Russian gas to European Union countries through a pipeline under the Black Sea. Links: Italy, Black Sea, Russia, Gas
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2007 Nov 11 |
A severe storm broke the Volganeft-139, a small Russian oil tanker, in two in the Strait of Kerch, spilling at least 560,000 gallons of fuel into the strait between the Sea of Azov and the Black Sea. A Russian official said it was an "environmental disaster." 8 seamen were left missing. Two freighters nearby also sank under 18-foot waves in storm. As many as 10 ships sank or ran aground in the area. Links: Black Sea, Russia, Ukraine, Oil, Environment, Ship
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2007 Nov 12 |
Alexander Tkachyov, governor of Russia’s Krasnodar region, said more than 30,000 birds and countless fish have been killed in an "ecological catastrophe" wrought by thousands of tons of oil from a tanker that broke apart in a heavy storm near the Black Sea. 3 bodies washed ashore and 20 sailors remained missing after the sinking of at least 11 ships. Links: Black Sea, Russia, Oil, Environment, Fish, Birds
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2008 Sep 2 |
Prime Minister Vladimir Putin said that Russia will respond calmly to an increase in NATO ships in the Black Sea in the aftermath of the short war with Georgia, but promised that "there will be an answer." Links: Black Sea, Georgia, Russia, NATO
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2010 Jun 17 |
Russia PM Putin agreed to support a $1 billion joint US-Russian venture to drill for oil in the Black Sea. San Ramon, Ca., based Chevron and Russia’s state-owned Rosneft signed the agreement to develop the Val Shatsky deposit, which could contain up to 860 million tons of crude. Links: Black Sea, Russia, USA, Oil
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2014 Dec 24 |
A leak on a major Russian oil pipeline caused a spill in the Black Sea near the port of Tuapse where officials said stormy weather was hampering efforts to assess and respond to the mishap. Links: Black Sea, Russia, Oil, Environment
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2016 Dec 25 |
A Russian military Tu-154 plane carrying members of the world-famous Russian army choir to Syria crashed into the Black Sea killing 92 people on board. Links: Black Sea, Russia, Air Crash, Tragedy
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2020 Aug |
President Recep Tayyip Erdogan announced a major natural gas discovery off Turkey’s other coast, in the Black Sea. The finding was estimated at 320 billion cubic meters, and there is a strong expectation that the figure will be revised upwards as a result of additional exploratory drilling. Links: Black Sea, Turkey, Gas
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2022 Feb 10 |
Russia began 10 days of military exercises in Belarus and the Black Sea following its troop buildup near Ukraine. Links: Belarus, Black Sea, Russia, Ukraine
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2022 Feb 25 |
The cargo ship Namura Queen was hit by a rocket off the shore of Ukraine in the Black Sea, causing a fire on board. Russia fired on "Namura Queen" under Panama's flag and "Millennial Spirit" under Moldova's flag. Links: Black Sea, Panama, Russia, Ukraine, Moldova, Ship
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2022 Feb 27 |
NATO member Turkey changed its rhetoric to call Russia's assault on Ukraine a "war" and pledged to implement parts of an international pact that would potentially limit the transit of Russian warships from the Mediterranean to the Black Sea. Links: Black Sea, Turkey, Russia, Ukraine, NATO
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2022 Mar 16 |
Panama's Maritime Authority said three Panamanian-flagged ships have been hit by Russian missiles in the Black Sea since Russia's invasion of Ukraine last month. One ship sank, but there were no casualties reported. The two others remain afloat with damages. Links: Black Sea, Panama, Russia, Ukraine
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2022 Mar 17 |
Russia’s warships on the Black Sea launched missiles at towns around Odessa, but its ground forces remained more than 80 miles away. Conservative US estimates put more than 7,000 Russian troops killed in less than three weeks of fighting. Peace talks between Russia and Ukraine continued for a fourth straight day. Links: Black Sea, Russia, Ukraine
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2022 Mar 21 |
Russia's main intelligence agency said several hundred mines had drifted into the Black Sea after breaking off from cables near Ukrainian ports, a claim dismissed by Ukraine which said it was disinformation and an attempt to close off parts of the sea. Links: Black Sea, Russia, Ukraine
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2022 Mar 30 |
Ukraine accused Russia of planting mines in the Black Sea and said some of those munitions had to be defused off Turkey and Romania as risks to vital merchant shipping in the region grow. Links: Black Sea, Russia, Ukraine, Land Mines
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2022 Apr 6 |
Turkey's defense ministry said its military diving teams have safely detonated a naval mine in the Black Sea, the third such mine found in its waters since the Ukraine war. Links: Black Sea, Turkey
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2022 Dec 17 |
The leaders of Azerbaijan, Georgia, Romania and Hungary signed an agreement on an underwater electric cable under the Black Sea to carry green Azeri energy to Europe. Links: Azerbaijan, Black Sea, Georgia, Romania, Hungary
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