Years

FABLE.

before Christ.

PROFANE.

about

974 Sesostris, conquers the Arabian Kings of Egypt, and takes possession of the country:-He invades Asia and Thrace: and plants Colonies on the eastern coast of the Euxine, or Black Sea. (Herodotus.)

Heracles, three days in a whale. (Lycophron, 1. 33, et Schol.) 900 The Siege of Troy :-Carthage built-Æncas.

672. Tullus Hostilius.
640. Ancus Martius.

616. Tarquinius Priscus.

Senacherib, King of Assyria. (Herodotus.)

Psammeticus, King of Egypt.

1. THE BABYLONIAN EMPIRE.

609 Necos, or Pharaoh Necho, King of Egypt. 606 Nebuchadnezzar begins his reign in Babylon. 595 Apries, or Pharaoh Hophra, King of Egypt:-Is defeated by the Babylonians, or Chaldæans.

555 Daniel-foretells the succession and fall, of the four great and last empires of the earth; viz.

Evil-Merodach, or Belshazzar, succeeds to his father Nebuchadnezzar-last King of Babylon.

538 Babylon is taken by the Medes and Persians, under Cyrus, as foretold by the prophets Isaiah and Jeremiah.-Darius, the Mede, is made Vice-roy of Babylon.

Daniel discerns the arrival of the period, foreshown for the termination of the Captivity.

536 Cyrus, King of Persia, issues his royal decree for rebuilding the Temple of Jerusalem, and for the return of the Jews to their own land.

THE RETURN OF THE JEWS FROM THE

CAPTIVITY.

570 Amasis, King of Egypt.-Servius Tullius, 6th King of Rome, reigns 44 years.

565 Pisistratus, Tyrant of Athens.

564 Phalaris, Tyrant of Sicily.

562 Croesus, King of Lydia.-Solon, Legislator of Athens.

560 Cyrus, King of Persia and Media.

554 Anacharsis, the Scythian Traveller, returns home from Greece.

551 Confucius, the Chinese Philosopher, born.

548 Cyrus conquers Lydia, and all Asia Minor.

554 Pherecydes the Syrian, Preceptor of Pythagoras.

Labynites II. last King of Babylon.

Cyrus conquers the Babylonians, and puts an end to,

The Chaldæan, or BABYLONIAN EMPIRE.

II. THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.

Years before Christ.

ANTIENT HISTORY.

7th PERIOD.

SACRED.

RETURN OF THE JEWS FROM THE CAPTIVITY.

536 Zerubbabel, and Joshua, the High Priest, conduct the Jews to Palestine :-they begin to restore the Temple.

521 Haggai and Zechariah prophesy.

458 Ezra.

445

:

Nehemiah Malachi, the last prophet, foretells the ap pearing of the Messiah in the New Temple.

332 Alexander, King of Macedon, enters Syria:-receives the submission of the Jews.--Dies, 324.

312 Seleucus Nicanor renders himself master of Babylon, and King of Syria :-Beginning of the Era of the Seleucides.

The Hebrew Scriptures translated into Greek.

170 Jerusalem pillaged, and the nation persecuted, by Antio chus Epiphanes, who defiles the Temple.

166 Judas Maccabeus, and his family :-Their exploits, in resistance of Antiochus.

The Jews form alliances with the Romans and Lacede monians.

63 Jerusalem is taken by Pompey.-Julius Cæsar is greatly esteemed by the Jews: who incline to regard him as the predicted Founder of the Fourth Empire.

40 Herod is made King of Judah by the Romans.

18 Herod rebuilds or embellishes the Temple of Jerusalem. 1 John, the Baptist, born, the prophetic Elias, or immediate forerunner of the Messiah:-Judea taxed.

THE BIRTH OF OUR LORD JESUS CHRIST. (Modern History commences.)

Years before

Christ. 2d PERIOD.

ANTIENT HISTORY.

*PROFANE.

II. THE PERSIAN EMPIRE.

536 Cyrus, King or Emperor of Persia.---Pythagoras---Anacreon.
524 Cambyses. He conquers Egypt.---Pindar--Eschylus.
Darius, son of Hystaspes.---Harmodius and Aristogiton.

522

509

497

480

442

431 424

405

387

378

End of Kingly Government in Rome.---Consular Government.
First Dictator appointed. 490. Battle of Marathon. Miltiades.
Xerxes passes the Hellespont: Wars of the Greeks and Persians.
Leonidas. Aristides. Simonides. Democritus.

Herodotus, the most antient surviving Heathen Historian.
The Peloponnessian War: it lasts 28 years. Pericles.
Darius Nothus, or Ochus, King of Persia. Alcibiades.

Socrates, Euripides. Sophocles. Hippocrates. Thucydides.
Artaxerxes Mnemon, King of Persia. Cyrus the Younger.
Plato. Xenophon. Aristophanes. Critias. Eschines. Phædo.
Crito. Ctesias.

The Gauls, under Brennus, besiege Rome. Camillus, Dictator.
Beginning of the intestine Wars in Greece. Epaminondas.

350 Philip, King of Macedon. Demosthenes. Aristotle.

346 Philip is admitted into the Amphyctionic Council: His ascendancy in Greece. Menander. Philemon.

336 Philip is killed by Pausanias: Is succeeded by his son, Alexander. Darius Codomanus, the last King of Persia, succeeds to Artax. Ochus, son of Mnemon.

III. THE MACEDONIAN EMPIRE.

3d Period.
Profane.
Alexander, the Great, conquers Persia, and subverts its empire.
Spreads the arms and language of Greece in Asia.
Dies at Babylon. Ptolemy I. son of Lagus, King of Egypt.
Zeno. Euclid. Berosus. Manetho. Epicurus. Lycophron.
1st Punic War; lasts 23 years. Apoll. Rhodius. Theocritus.
2d Punic War; 17 yrs. Hannibal. Archimedes. Ennius. Plautus.
3d Punic War; 3 yrs. Carthage destroyed by Scipio. 170. Terence.
Jugurthan War. Metellus. Marius.

Terentius Varro, the most learned of the Romans, reforms the
Heathen Chronology.

The first Triumvirate; Julius Cæsar, Pompey, and Crassus. Cato
Cicero. Sallust. Virgil. Tibullus. Diodorus Sic. Lucretius.
Julius Cæsar conquers Gaul, invades Britain: 49. His civil War
with Pompey.

He reforms the Calendar: the Julian era begins. Horace. Livy.
He is murdered, March 15. Octavius succeeds to his power.
2d Triumvirate. Propertius. Manilius. vid. Hyginus.
A most splendid comet appeared, in the month of September,
under the seven conspicuous stars of the Great Bear; to which
a temple was raised in Rome. (Pliny.)

The Battle of Actium: Octavius, now Augustus, sole Emperor off
the Greek and Roman World.

He taxes the whole empire.

IV. THE ROMAN EMPIRE.

(Modern History commences.)