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Entered, according to an Act of Congress, in the year 1831, in the Clerk's office of the Eastern District of Pennsylvania.

1895

JOSEPH W. J. NILES Printer, Market-st. Baltimore.

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

B. C.

4004

2348

Creation of the world.

The deluge.

2247 Tower of Babel built, and confusion of languages.

The Assyrian empire founded.

Birth of Abraham.

2059

1996

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1493

1452

Thebes built by Cadmus.

The five books of Moses written, who dies the next year. 1406 Minos the Cretan lawgiver.

1356 Elusinian mysteries introduced at Athens by Eumolpus. 1263 Aygonautic expedition.

1225

Theban war.

1184 Troy taken.

1104

1095

1070

1044

1004

Return of the Heraclide to the Peloponnese.

Saul made king of Israel.

Codrus last king of Athens.

Settlement of the Ionian colonies in Asia Minor. Age of

Homer.

Dedication of Solomon's temple.

975 Kingdoms of Israel and Judah divided.

907

Age of Hesiod.

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820 Sardanapalus, last king of Assyria. Median empire founded.

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776 Corabus conquers at the Olympic games; from which time the regular dates of the Olympiads begin.

757 Isaiah begins to prophesy.

753 Rome founded, April 20.

743 First Messenian war; continues 19 years to the taking of Ithome.

721 Kingdom of Israel finished by the taking of
Samaria by Salmanasar king of Assyria.
685 Second Messenian war; continues fourteen
years to the taking of Ira after a siege of
eleven years. Age of Tyrtæus and Archi-
lochus.

684 Annual Archons established at Athens.
659 Cypselus usurps the government of Corinth.
623 Draco the Athenian lawgiver.

604 Age of Arion, Pittacus, Alcæus, Sappho.
591 Pythian games established at Delphi, and
continued every second year of each
Olympiad. Age of Chilo, Anacharsis,
Thales, Epimenides, Solon, Æsop, Ste-
sichorus, &c.

587 Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar king of
Babylon, June 9, after a siege of 18
months.

577 Death of Jeremiah the prophet.

562 First comedy acted at Athens by Susarion and Dolon.

561 Pisistratus usurps the sovereign power at

Athens.

559 Persian empire founded upon the Median by
Cyrus. Age of Anaximenes, Bias, Anax-
imander, Phalaris, and Cleobulus.
548 Croesus, last king of Lydia, conquered by
Cyrus. Age of Theognis and Pherecy-

des.

539 Marseilles built by the Phocæans. Age of Pythagoras, Simonides, Thespis, Xenophanes, and Anacreon.

438 Babylon taken by Cyrus.

536 Edict of Cyrus for the return of the Jews,
and rebuilding of the temple.
525 Egypt conquered by Cambyses.

521 Darius Hystaspes, king of Persia. Age of
Confucius the Chinese Philosopher.
510 Tyranny of the Pisistratidæ abolished at

Athens.

509 Expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome.

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End of the regal, and establishment of the
consular government.

504 Sardis burnt by the Athenians, which
causes the invasion of Greece by the Per-
sians. Age of Heraclitus, Parmenides,
Milo the wrestler, Aristogoras, &c.
498 Lartius the first dictator created at Rome.
493 Secession of the Roman people to Mons
Sacer.

490 Battle of Marathon. Age of Miltiades.
480 Battles of Thermopyla and Salamis. Age
of Eschylus, Pindar, Anaxagoras, Zeuxis,
Aristides, Themistocles, &c.

479 Battles of Platea and Mycale on the same
day.

477 The 300 Fabii killed in one day.

465 Third Messenian war; continues 10 years.
454 The Romans send to Athens for Solon's
laws. Age of Sophocles, Pericles, Zaleu-
cus, Nehemiah the prophet, &c.
448 The first sacred war concerning the temple
of Delphi.

447 The Athenians defeated by the Boeotians, at
Chæronea.

445 Age of Heroditus, Empedocles, Euripides, Phidias, &c.

431 Peloponnesian war begins, May 7, and con-
tinues twenty-seven years. Age of Cra-
tinus, Eupolis, Aristophanes, Meton, De-
mocritus, Georgias, Thucydides, Hip-
pocrates, Malachi the last of the Pro-
phets and the history of the Old Testa-
ment ends.

421 The fifty years' peace made between the
Athenians and Lacedæmonians, which is
kept but six years and ten months.
416 Scene of the Peloponnesian war removed to
Sicily. The Agrarian law first moved at
Rome.

405 Battle of Egos Potamos. Usurpation of
Dionysius the elder.

404 Athens taken by Lysander, which puts an end to the Peloponnesian war. Age of Parrhasius, Protagoras, Lysias, Agathon, Cebes.

401 Cyrus the younger killed at Cunaxa. Retreat of the 10,000 Greeks. Expulsion of

the thirty tyrants from Athens by Thrasybulus.

400 Socrates put to death.

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396 Expedition of Agesilaus into Asia. Age of
Xenophon, Zeuxis, Arristippus, and Ar-
chytas.

395 Corinthian war begun by the alliances of
the Athenians, Thebans, Corinthians, and
Argives, against the Lacedæmonians.
394 Conon defeats the Lacedæmonian fleet near
Cnidus. The allies defeated by Agesilaus
in the battle of Coronea.

390

Rome burnt by the Gauls: Age of Plato,
Conon, Iphicrates, Camillus.

388 Peace of Antalcidas, which made the Greek
cities in Asia Minor tributary to the Per-
sians.

377 Lacedæmonians defeated off Naxus by Cha-
brias. Age of Isæus, Isocrates, Diogenes,
&c

371 The Lacedæonians defeated by the Thebans,
commanded by Epaminondas, at the bat-
tle of Leuctra.
370 Messenians return to the Peloponnese, having
been banished 300 years.

367 One of the consuls at Rome elected from the
Plebeians.

363 Lacedæmonians defeated by Epaminondas at the battle of Mantinea. Death of Epaminondas a year after that of Pelopidas.

362 Agesilaus goes into Egypt, and dies on his

return home.

360 Athenians defeated at Methone by Philip of
Macedon, being the first battle he gained in
Greece.

357 Second sacred war began; the Phocians hav-
ing attacked the temple of Delphi.
353 Philip defeats the Phocians commanded by

Onomarchus!

348 Philip puts an end to the sacred war.
343 Timoleon banishes Dionysius the younger,
tyrant of Syracuse. Age of Speusippus,
Protogenes, Aristotle, Eschines, Demos-
thenes, Phocion, &c.

338 Philip defeats the Athenians and their allies

in the fatal battle of Chæronea.
336 Philip killed by Pausanias.
335 Alexander destroys Thebes.

334 Alexander begins his Persian expedition.
Battle of the Cranicus.

333 Battle of Issus.

332 Tyre taken and destroyed by Alexander: Alexander in Egypt founded by him.

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