12 A.D. HELPS TO THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE. JEWISH HISTORY. CONTEMPORANEOUS EVENTS. 1864 Outbreak of persecution against the Jews Ulysses S. Grant, commander-in-chief of at Rome. the Union armies-Battles of the Wilderness, Spottsylvania-Sheridan's valley campaign-Sherman's march to the -The Alabama sunk by the Kearsarge-Re-election of Pres. Lincoln. sea 1865 Alderman Benjamin Samuel Phillips, Fall of Richmond-End of the great civil second Jewish Lord Mayor of the city of London. 1866 Acts passed in England prescribing an oath in form unobjectional to Jews to be used in Lords and Commons. 1867 1868 The Right Honorable Benjamin Disraeli, Prime Minister of England; resigns after being ten months in office; is offered a peerage by the Queen, which he accepts for his wife. 1869 1870 London synagogues federated by act of Parliament-First Jewish newspaper in Australia published at Melbourne. war-Assassination of President Lin coln. Reconstruction of the Southern States- Maximilian shot by the Mexicans. Pacific Railway completed - Formal 1871 Anglo-Jewish Association formed to co- Treaty between the United States and operate with the Alliance Israelite of Paris. Great Britain-King William of Prussia proclaimed Emperor of GermanyThiers President of the French Republic. 1872 Israelitish Alliance founded at Vienna. Settlement of the Alabama claims-Re election of President Grant. Death of Charles Sumner March 11- Death of ex-President Johnson. Rutherford B. Hayes President-War between Russia and Turkey. War between England and Afghanistan. 1879 Privilege of citizenship granted to Jews Resumption of specie payments by the Tenth census of the United States; population 50,152,559-James A. Garfield elected President. 1881 Riotous opposition to Jews in Roumania Assassination of President Garfield-Asand Berlin. 1882 1883 1884 Death of Sir Moses Montefiore. sassination of Alexander, II., Czar of Russia. Troubles in Ireland-Death of Garibaldi. Depredations committed in England by the use of dynamite. Grover Cleveland elected President of the United States. President Cleveland Inaugurated. 1888 Russia negotiates large loans at Paris Treaty respecting Fisheries signed at through the Rothschilds-Expulsion or Washington-General Benjamin HarJews from Odessa and Finland decreed. rison elected President of the United 1889 Russia concludes a loan of 700,000,000 francs through the Rothschilds for the conversion of five per cent. loans into four per cent. States. Bill passed in Congress for stringent repression of immigration, especially laborers and crimnals-New Tariff Bill passed by the Senate. McKinley tariff went into effect-Indian War in the Northwest-Death of the great Sioux Chief, Sitting Bull. 1891 Jews persecuted in Russia and large Death of General W. T. Sherman. numbers flee to the United States and other countries. 1892 Revival of Anti-Semitism in Germany, Behring Sea Treaty signed at Washing France and Austria. ton-Election of Hon. Grover Cleveland as President. 1893 Russian oppressions of the Jews con- Columbian Exhibition at Chicago-"Siltinued. 1894 Beginning of the Dreyfus affair in France and strong anti-Jewish feeling aroused. 1895 Continued agitation in France and opposition to the Jews. 1896 Emigration of Jews from Russia con tinued. 1897 M. Zola expouses the cause of Dreyfus and declares him innocent of treason. 1898 M. Zola's trial in Paris and anti-Semitic excitement. ver Repeal Bill" signed by the President. Discussions in Congress over the Tariff Bill-U. S. Government attempts to President Cleveland relieves the U. S. Hon. William Mckinley elected Presi- War in Cuba continues-Revival of pros- 1899 French decree for new trial of Dreyfus. Battles between the United States troops 1900 1901 and Insurgents in the Philippines. Great flood at Galveston, Texas, destroys 5,000 lives. President McKinley assassinated and KINGS AND PROPHETS OF JUDAH AND ISRAEL, ARRANGED IN PARALLELS-Continued. 16 HELPS TO THE STUDY OF THE BIBLE. 721 The Kingdom of Israel overthrown by the Assyrians. Shalmaneser, king of Assyria, came up against Samaria in the sixth year of the reign of Hoshea (B.C. 724), and after a siege of three years took the city, carried Israel away into Assyria, and having removed them to the cities of Halah and Habor, by the river Gozan, and into the cities of the Medes, he placed Assyrians in the cities of Samaria in their room. NOTE.-The chief glory of Israel ended with the reign of Solomon. The kingdom was thenceforth dismembered. Ten tribes, of which Very different were the destinies of Judah Of twenty kings, all descendants of David, who for 388 years held the throne, six are men- |