The birth of Ishmael
The son of Abraham by Hagar. Fused on the chart's artwork into the entry for the Hubble Space Telescope, which placed it at AD 1990; restored here to the year the chart gives it.
The facts
| Dates | 1910 BC |
|---|---|
| Era | Age of the Patriarchs |
| Source | Printed on the chart |
Where this sits on the chart
The birth of Ishmael falls 2094 years out from Creation at the centre, inside the Age of the Patriarchs arc. On the printed chart you can put a finger here and read straight outward to see what the rest of the world was doing in the same moment.
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Who else was alive
Now see where it sits
Everything on this page has a place on one 45×37″ chart — and once you can see what came before and after it, it stops being a fact and starts being a story you can follow.