CHRONOLOGY. 



419 



B.C. 



Ghronok)- 2d on March 5lh, 50' before midnight; and the 



sy- . 3d on September 1 st, 4 hours 20' before midnight, 



according to the meridian of Alexandria. 



717. Unsuccessful siege of Tyre for about five years by 

 Salmanaser king of Assyria. 



713. Gela in Sicily founded. Senacherib's army de- 

 stroyed in one night by an angel, to the amount 

 of 185,000 men. 



709. The Salii, an order of priests, instituted by Numa. 



708. Ecbatana built by Dejocee. 



707. Tarentum built by the Parthenians, on being ex- 

 pelled from Sparta. 



703. Corcyra built by the Corinthians. 



696. Isaiah sawn asunder by order of Manasses. 



690. Holofernes besieged Bethulia, and killed by Judith. 



686. Archilochus invented the Iambic verse. 



685. The Messenian war continues from 685 to 671. 



684. Athens governed by annual archons. Tyrteus the 

 poet flourished. 



683. The Lacedaemonians defeated by Aristomenes. 



680. Assaradinus king of Assyria, takes Babylon. The 

 chariot race instituted at the Olympic games. 



678. Dejoces extends Media to the river Halys. 



677. Manasseh king of Judah carried prisoner to Baby- 

 lon. 



676. The Lesbians acquire the command of the Medi- 

 terranean, and retain it about 69 years. 



675. The annual festivals of Carnia instituted at Sparta. 

 Terpander the poet the first victor. 



6'73. Terpander added three strings to the lyre. Tha- 

 letas of Gortynius, in Crete, the musician. 



671. The second Messenian war finished, and the Messe- 

 nians driven from the Peloponnesus. 



670. Alcman of Sardis, the lyric poet. 



667. The combat between the Horatii and the Curiatii. 



665. The city of Alba destroyed. The Messenians 

 settled in Italy. War between the Romans and 

 the Fidenates. 



659. Cypselus usurps the government of Corinth, and 

 retains it for 30 years. 



658. Byzantium built by a colony of Argives. Others 

 plate the building of it in 670. 



652. A shower of meteoric stones fell at Mount Alba. 



651. A five years' war between the Romans and Sabines 

 begins. Cyrene in Africa founded. 



618. The Thoth of the year of Nabonassar was on Fe- 

 bruary 1st, having shifted 25 days in 100 years. 



641. Amon, king of Judah, slain by his servants. 



636. The Tartars defeat the Chinese with great slaugh- 

 ter. 



631. War between the Romans, and the Fidenates and 

 Sabines, which continues for fifty years. 



630. Cyrene built by Battus, who begins that kingdom. 



629. The government of Corinth usurped by Perian- 

 der. 



627. Jeremiah the prophet flourished. 



626. Zephaniah the prophet flourished. 



625. The Pentateuch found by Hilkiah. 



624. The Scythians invade Media, Lydia, &c. Draco 

 the lawgiver, archon at Athens. 



623. Draco establishes his laws at Athens. 



621. War between the Lydians and Milesians, which 

 continues 11 years. The fourth eclipse on re- 

 cord, which was of the moon, on Saturday April 

 22d, three hours after midnight, according to the 

 meridian of Alexandria. 



610. Necho fccgins the canal between the Nile and the 

 Red Sea. 



B. C. 



608. Josiah, king of Judah, killed at Megiddo by Pha- Chron?lo- 

 raoh Necho, king of Egypt. v SY' , 



607. Alcseus the poet flourished. ""Y" 



606. Nineveh destroyed by the armies of Cyaxares and 

 Nabopolassar. 



605 or 606. The first captivity of the Jew?. 



604. The Phoenicians about this time sail from the Red 

 Sea round Africa, and return by the Mediter- 

 ranean. 



600. Sappho the Lyric poetess flourished. 



596. The Scythians expelled from upper Asia, by Cy- 

 axares. Epimemdes of Crete, the first builder ot" 

 temples in Greece. 



594. Solon, archon and lawgiver of Athens. Thales of 

 Miletus. 



593. Ezekiel the prophet flourished. 



592. Anacharsis the Scythian flourished. 



591. The Pythian games first celebrated at Delphi. 



590. The Lydian war begins, and continues six years. 



587. The city of Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar. 



586. The temple of Jerusalem burned. 



585. A battle upon the river Halys between Cyaxares 

 and Halyattes, interrupted by an eclipse of the 

 moon, May the 28th, predicted by Thales. -<Esop 

 the mythologist flourished. 



582. The Isthmian games restored. 



580. Money first coined in Rome. 



579. The Megarensian war. Stesichorus the poet flou- 

 rished. 



572. Tyre taken by Nebuchadnezzar. 



571. Apries, king of Egypt, dethroned by Nebuchad- 

 nezzar. 



569. Daniel interpreted Nebuchadnezzar's dreams ac- 

 cording to Josephus. 



568. The Nemaean games restored. Anaximander of Mi- 

 letus, and Phalaris tyrant of Agrigentum flou- 

 rished. 



566. The first census at Rome 84,700 citizens. 



562. The first comedy at Athens, acted upon a scaffold 

 by Susarion and Dolon. 



560. Pisistratus usurped the tyranny of Athena, which 

 he recovered after expulsion in 557, and from, 

 which he was again expelled in 556. 



559. Daniel delivered his predictions. Cyrus ascended 

 the Persian throne. 



556. Anaximenes of Miletus flourished. 



550. Cyrus king both of Media and Persia. The king- 

 dom of Lydia ended. 



549. Theognis the poet flourished. The Pisistratida: 

 burn the temple of Apollo at Delphos. 



548. Croesus crossing the Halys by an artificial bridge 

 contrived by Thales, is routed by Cyrus. 



539. The Phocseans settle in Gaul, and build Marseilles. 

 Pythagoras flourished. 



538. Cyrus takes Babylon, and terminates the kingdom 

 of Babylon. 



537. Simonides of Cea, the poet, flourished. 



536. Cyrus issues an edict for the return of the Jews 

 and the rebuilding of the temple. Thespis the 

 inventor of tragedy lived. 



535. The first tragedy acted about this time at Athens, 

 by Thespis in a waggon. According to the A- 

 rundclian marbles in 536. 



532. Anacreon the poet flourished. 



530. Cyrus marches against the Scythians. 



527. Learning encouraged at Athens. A public library 

 first founded. War between the Romans and Sa- 

 bines. 



