B. C. 1519 Cadmus the Phoenician builds Thebes, and in- 1513 The supposed era of the history of Job. (1648. Hales.) Illustrious Persons. Job f.ub. 1453 The first Olympic games celebrated in Greece. Moses. 1452 The Pentateuch, or five books of Moses, written. 1451 Death of Moses-The Israelites led into the land of Canaan by Joshua. (1608. Hales; 1585. F. Clinton.) 1438 Pandion king of Athens. 1415 The Book of Joshua supposed to be written by Phinehas the high-priest. 1406 Minos gives laws to the Cretans. 1327* Moeris, the best and wisest of the Egyptian Olen, the most ancient kings. 1322 Belus reigns in Babylon. 1308* Sesostris the Great king of Egypt. 1283* Pelops, the Lydian, gives his name to South ern Greece. 1267 Ninus reigns in Assyria. composer of hymns. 1266 Edipus marries his mother Jocasta, and reigns Sanconiathon, Hist. in Thebes. 1263 The Argonautic expedition.-(According to Jason, Hercules, ƒ. the Newtonian chronology, 937.) 1257 Theseus unites the cities of Attica. 1255 The Israelites delivered by Deborah and Barak. 1252 Tyre, the capital of Phoenicia, built by the Orpheus, Music. Sidonians. 1239 Latinus begins to reign in Italy. 1225 Siege of Thebes.-War between Etyocles and Polynices. Eurysthenes and Procles kings of Lacedæmon. 1215 Second war of Thebes, or war of the Epigonoi. 1207 Gideon judge of Israel for forty years. 1202 Teucer built Salamis. 1193 The Trojan war begins. 1184 Era of the taking and burning of Troy by the Greeks.(According to the Arundelian Marbles, 1209.) 1182 Æneas lands in Italy. 1155 Samson born. 1104 Return of the Heraclidæ into Peloponnesus. 1099 Samuel delivers Israel. Jephthah judge of Israel. 082 Cheops, or Chemmis king of Egypt, to whom the building of the first pyramid is attributed. 1079 Saul first king of the Hebrews or Jews. -070 Medon first Archon (for life) of Athens. his country. 1055 David king of the Hebrews or Jews. 1016 Solomon king of the Hebrews. Muscus, Poet, f. B. C. Illustrious Persons. 1012 Era of the foundation of the temple. (1027. Lokman (or Bidpai) Hales.) 1004 Dedication of Solomon's Temple. 980 Rehoboam king of Judah. (975. Jahn.) Jeroboam king of Israel. (975. Jahn.) Hindu fabulist. Homer f. 962-27, F. C. 889 Jehu usurps the throne of Israel. (884. Jahn.) 896 Elijah, Prophet. Athalia, widow of Jehoram, usurps the throne of Judah. 886 Homer's Poems brought from Asia into Greece. 884 Lycurgus reforms the republic of Lacedæmon. 873 Lycurgus d. 869 The city of Carthage built by Dido. Hesiod, f. 859-824. F.C. 825 Jeroboam restores the glory of Israel in a Belesis, Astron. reign of forty-one years. 820 Nineveh taken by Arbaces and 'Belesis, which finishes that kingdom. 806 Jonah preaches repentance to Nineveh. 791* Caranus the first king of Macedon. 776 The FIRST OLYMPIAD begins (about July 1) in this year. 769 Syracuse built by Archius of Corinth. 767 Sardanapalus king of Assyria. Priest of Babylon. and 768 Isaiah, Joel, Amos, Micah, Obadiah, Pro 760 The Ephori, popular magistrates, instituted at phets. Lacedæmon. 759 (Jahn) Jotham king of Judah. Pekah king of Israel. 757 Hylattes king of Lydia. 754 Decennial Archons elected at Athens. 753 THE FOUNDATION OF ROME BY RO MULUS. 751 Rape of the Sabines. 752 *Archons at Athens appointed for ten years instead of for life. 747 The Era of Nabonassar made use of by Ptolemy. Xth Olympiad. 738 Candaules king of Lydia. 724 Hezekiah twelfth king of Judah. 721 Salmanazar takes Samaria, and carries the ten tribes into captivity, which puts an end to the kingdom of Israel. 718 Gyges king of Lydia. 715 NUMA POMPILIUS, second king of Rome. 711 Sennacherib, king of Assyria, invades Judæa. 710 Dejoces king of Media. 703 Corcyra founded by the Corinthians. 700 XXth Olympiad. 696 Manasseh sixteenth king of Judah. 688 Judith kills Holofernes, the Assyrian general. 684 Annual Archons elected at Athens. 681 Esarhaddon unites the kingdoms of Babylon and Assyria. 672 TULLUS HOSTILIUS, third king of Rome. 670 Psammeticus king of Egypt. 667 The combat between the Horatii and Curiatii. 660 XXXth Olympiad. Callinus, Poet, f. 736— 717. 708 Habakkuk,Prophet. Archilochus,Poet, inv. of Terpander, P. & Music. Alcman, Poet. 658 Byzantium founded by Pausanias, king of Stesichorus, Poet, inv. of Sparta. Phraortes king of Media. the chorus. 640 ANCUS MARTIUS, fourth king of Rome. Arion, Music. B. C. 637 The forty years of Ezekiel began. 636 Periander tyrant of Corinth. Nabopolassar, father of Nebuchadnezzar, be gins to reign at Babylon. 624 Draco, archon and legislator of Athens. 620 XLth Olympiad. Illustrious Persons. 616 TARQUINIUS PRISCUS, fifth king of 611 Sappho, Poetess. Rome. 606 Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerusalem, and carries the Jews into captivity. 601 Battle between the Medes and Lydians, who End of the Assyrian empire.-Nineveh taken 600 Jeremiah prophesied. 599 Birth of Cyrus the Great. 594 Solon, archon and legislator of Athens. 580 Lth Olympiad. 578 SERVIUŠ TULLIUS, sixth king of Rome. 572 Nebuchadnezzar subdues Egypt. 571 Phalaris tyrant of Agrigentum. 562 Comedies first exhibited at Athens by Thespis. Croesus reigns in Lydia. 550 Pisistratus tyrant of Athens. Alcœus, Poet. The seven wise men of Periander of Corinth; Chilon, Ephor of Sacadas, Music. 576 Susarion, inv. of Phils. of Ionic school: Pherecydes, Anaxi mander, Anaxi menes. 548 The ancient Temple of Delphos burned by the Pythagoras, Phil. f. Pisistratidæ. 540 LXth Olympiad. 538 Babylon taken by Cyrus.-End of the Baby lonian empire. Xenophanes, f. of the 536 Cyrus ascends the throne of Persia.-He puts 534 TARQUINIUS SUPERBUS, seventh king Daniel prophesied. 529 Death of Cyrus the Great.-Cambyses king of Persia. Death of Pisistratus tyrant of Athens. 522 Darius, son of Hystaspes, king of Persia. 520 The Jews begin to build the second temple. 515 Era of its completion and dedication. 510 The Pisistratidæ expelled from Athens, and the Democracy restored. 509 The Tarquins expelled from Rome, and the regal government abolished. 508 Rome an aristocratic republic, under two The first (commercial) alliance between the 504 Sardis taken and burned by the Athenians. Thespis, first exh. Tragedy. Zoroaster, Persian B. C. 500 LXXth Olympiad. 498 The first Dictator created at Rome (Lartius).| 497 Institution of the Saturnalia at Rome. 493 The port of Piræus built by the Athenians. 490 The battle of Marathon, in which Miltiades defeats the Persians. 490 The first tribunes of the people created at Rome. 488 Statues erected at Athens to Harmodius and Aristogiton. 486 Miltiades dies in prison. Xerxes king of Persia. 485 Coriolanus banished from Rome. Aristides banished from Athens by the 480 Xerxes invades Greece.-The Spartans under Naval victory gained by the Greeks over the 479 Attica laid waste, and Athens burned, by Victories over the Persians at Platæa and Mycale on the same day, (September 25.) Xerxes leaves Greece. 477 300 Fabii killed by the Veientes. 476 Themistocles rebuilds Athens. Valerius triumphs over the Veientes and The Roman citizens numbered at 103,000. Hiero I. king of Syracuse. 471 Volero, the Roman Tribune, obtains a law for the election of magistrates in the comitia held by tribes. 470 Cimon, son of Miltiades, defeats the Persian army and fleet in one day, at the mouth of the river Eurymedon. 469 Capua founded by the Tuscans. 464 Artaxerxes (Longimanus) king of Persia. Cimon banished by the Ostracism. 463 The Egyptians under Inarus revolt from the Persians. 462 The Terentian law proposed at Rome. 460 LXXXth Olympiad. 456 Cincinnatus Dictator at Rome. The Ludi Sæculares first instituted at Rome. 455 Commencement of the seventy prophetical weeks of Daniel. 453 The number of the tribunes of the people at 452 The two books of Chronicles supposed to have Illustrious Persons. Heraclitus, Philos. Eschylus, fa. of the Vyasa and Valmiki, Hindu Poets. Ezra collects and pub. Age of Pericles,444-29: B. C. Illustrious Persons. 449 Death of Virginia, and abolition of the De-Age of Pericles-cont. cemvirate. 445 The law of Canulcius for the intermarriage of the Patricians and Plebians at Rome. Military tribunes created. 443 The Censorship first instituted at Rome. 436 Pericles in high power at Athens. 432 Meton's nineteen years' Cycle of the Moon. 431 The Peloponnesian war begins, which lasted twenty-seven years. 430 The history of the Old Testament ends about this time. Great Plague at Athens, eloquently described by Thucydides. Malachi the last of the prophets. 428 Death of Pericles. 423 Darius Nothus king of Persia. 420 XCth Olympiad. 418 Disturbances at Rome on account of the Agrarian law. 414 The Athenians defeated before Syracuse. Herodotus,Thucydides Sophists: Gorgias of Leontium; 413 Alcibiades, accused at Athens, flies to the La-Meton, Math. cedæmonians. 412 A council of 400 governs Athens. 406 Dionysius I. tyrant of Syracuse. 405 Lysander defeats the Athenians at Egos Potamos. 404 Artaxerxes II. (Mnemon) king of Persia. End of the Peloponnesian War. 403 Lysander takes Athens.-Government of the 401 The Younger Cyrus, son of Darius Nothus, de- Thrasybulus drives out the Thirty Tyrants, and 399 A Lectisternium celebrated at Rome for the 397 The Lake of Alba drained by the Romans. 396 Syracuse unsuccessfully besieged by the Carthaginians. 391 Marcus Furius Camillus dictator at Rome.Veii taken. 387 Dishonourable peace of Antalcidas between the Spartans and Persians. 385 Rome taken by the Gauls under Brennus. (? 390.) 382 Phæbidas, the Spartan, seizes the citadel of Thebes. 380 Pelopidas and Epaminondas deliver Thebes from the Lacedæmonians. Cth Olympiad. 371 Battle of Leuctra, in which the Lacedæmonians are defeated by the Thebans under Epaminondas. Isocrates, Antiphon, An- Damon and Pythias. Antisthenes, f. of the |