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CHRONOLOGY. 



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The following Table contains the principal Eclipses noticed by Historians, as having been either preceded, ac- 

 companied, or followed by some great event. 



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Times when they 

 happened. 



Remarkable Events by which these Eclipses were accompanied. 



SUN. 



SUN. 

 SUN. 



MOON 

 SUN. 



St'N. 



MOON. 

 MOON 



BUB. 



Year. 



776, 16th Oct. B.C 



772, 2Mh .Tune. 

 75S, 5th July. 



721, 19th March 

 715, 24th May. 

 585, 28th May. 



523, 16th July. 

 50S, 19th NOT. 

 481, 19th April. 

 464, 90th April. 



Two months after the celebration of the Olympic games, which served for the date of 



the tera of the Olympiads. 

 It preceded the year of the birth of Romulus. 

 According to an old calendar, this eclipse happened on the 21st of April, the very day 



on which the foundations of Rome were laid. 



This eclipse was total. The Assyrian empire ended, and the Babylonian empire began 

 Romulus died in the same year. 

 This eclipse was predicted by Thales. Cyaxares, king of Media, and Heliates III. 



king of Lydia, were so much terrified at this eclipse, that in the very heat of an en 



gagcment, they threw down their arms, and made peace. 

 This eclipse, which was observed at Babylon, preceded the death of Cambyses, king of 



Persia. 

 This eclipse was followed by the slaughter of the Sabines, and the death of Valerius 



Publicola. 

 This eclipse happened at the very instant when Xerxes set out from Sardis on hit expe 



dition against Greece. 

 This eclipse was followed by the assassination of Xerxes by Artabanes. 



