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CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 



FROM THE 



CREATION OF THE WORLD TO THE YEAR 1813. 



[In the following CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, we have inserted a variety of interesting facts respecting the progress of the Arts and 

 Sciences, which have never appeared in any System of Chronology. We have likewise added a number of curious Celestial Phe- 

 nomena i and all the instances which have occurred, from the earliest times, of the fall of Meteoric Stones. For this interesting 

 class of Atmospherical Phenomena, the Editor has been indebted to THOMAS ALLAN, Esq. F. R.S.E. who has kindly permitted him 

 to make use of his Manuscript Paper on this subject, which contains the fullest and most correct account of Meteoric Stones that 

 has yet been drawn up. In another part of our Work, we hope to have it in our power to present our readers with Mr Allan s 

 valuable Paper.] 



B. C. 



Chronolo- 4004. 

 87- 



4003. 

 3875. 

 3874. 

 3382. 

 3317. 

 2948. 

 2446. 

 2349. 



2348. 



2247. 



2234-. 



2221. 

 2205. 



2188. 



2089. 



2059. 

 1996. 



1897. 



1896. 

 1856. 

 1827. 



1822. 

 1796. 

 1766. 



J. HE world created at the autumnal equinox, on 

 Sunday, October 23. 

 5872, according to the Septuagint. 

 4700, according to the Samaritan text. 

 Adam and Eve created on Friday, Oct. 28. 



Cain born. 



Abel is murdered by Cain. 



Seth bom. 



Enoch born ; translated to heaven, 301 7, set. 365. 



Methusalem born. He died at the age of 969. 



Noah born. He died at the age of 950. 



Shem born. He died at the age of 600. 



Noah entered the ark on Sunday, Nov. 30, and 

 it began to rain on Sunday, Dec. 7. 



The deluge. On Wednesday, May 6, the ark 

 rested on mount Ararat. On Friday, Dec. 18, 

 Noah left the ark. 



The tower of Babel is built in the valley of Shinar 

 by Noah's posterity; the confusion of their lan- 

 guages, and their dispersion among different na- 

 tions. 



Astronomical observations begun at Babylon, a 

 register of which wan transmitted by Callisthenes 

 to Aristotle for 1903 years to the capture of that 

 city by Alexander in the year 331 B. C. 



Nimrod founds the Chaldean monarchy. 



The first imperial dynasty of China called Kia be- 

 gins. See Mem. Inscrijit. torn, xviii. p. 220. 



The kingdom of Egypt commences under Menes 

 or M'sraim, which lasted for 1663 years, to the 

 conquest of Cambyses, in the year 525 B. C. 



The kingdom of Sicyon established, which lasts 

 lOOO years. 



The kingdom of Assyria begins. 



Abraham born. He died 1821, B. C. it. 175. 



Circumcision instituted. The cities of Sodom, 

 &c. destroyed. 



Isaac born. 



The kingdom of Argos begins. 



The 17th dynasty of the six shepherd kings in 

 Egypt begjns, and continues 103 years. 



The letters invented by Memnou, the Egyptian. 



The reign of Ogyges begins. 



The second imperial dynasty of China called 

 Chang begins. 



VOL. VJ. PAKT 11. 



B. C. 



1764. The deluge of Ogyges, which laid waste Attica c i, ronolo . 



for more than 200 years. gy. 



1759. Jacob goes to Haran, and marries the two daugh- v -Y ' 



ters of his uncle. 

 1728. Joseph sold into Egypt. 

 J718. Sparta built by Spartes. See Rollin. 

 1702. All the lands in Egypt sold to Joseph. 

 1689. Jacob predicts the coming of the Messiah, and dies 



act. 147. 

 1635. Joseph foretels the egress of the Israelites from 



Egypt, and dies act. 110, having been prefect 



of Egypt for 80 years. 



1615. The Ethiopians from the Indus settle near Egypt. 

 1582. The chronology of the Arundelian marbles begins, 



when Cecrops is supposed to have come into 



Attica. 

 1575. Pharaoh orders all the children of the Israelites to 



be drowned. 

 1571. Moses born. 

 1570. Pyramids of Egypt built. 

 1556. Cecrops, with a colony of Saites from Egypt, 



founds Athens. 

 1546. About this period Scamander comes from Crete 



and founds Troy. 

 1531. Moses visits the Israelites ; flies into Midian, and 



continues there 40 years. 

 1503. The deluge of Deucalion in Thessaly, placed by 



the Arundelian marbles in 1521. 

 1500. First eruption of ./Etna. See Collection. Acade- 



mique, torn. vi. p. 489. 



1497. The council of Amphictyons established. 

 1493. The Phoenician letters carried into Greece by 



Cadmus, who built the citadel of Thebes. 

 1491. God appears in a burning bush to Moses, and sends 



him into Egypt. Moses opened a passage for 



the Israelites through the Red Sea. 

 1485. The first ship that appeared in Greece, brought 



from Egypt by Danaus. The pump supposed 



to have b<;en invented. 



1480. Troy supposed to have been built by Dardanus. 

 1453. The first Olympic games celebrated at Elis. 

 14.51. Moses dies, set. 110. 

 1445. Joshua partitions the land of Canaan. 

 1426. Joshua dies at Timnath Serah, set. 110. 

 1406. Minos gives laws to Crete. Iron found from 

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