128 SUKGEON-GENEEAL SIE C. A. GORDON^ M.D., K.C.B., ON 



B.C. 



377. A schism among the Buddhists. The northern Buddhists 

 of Nepaul, Thibet, China, and Japan, are the successors 

 of the seceders ; those of the southern division, namely, 

 Ceylon, and Barmah, represent the other side. 



357. Asoka ruled in Behar. 



327. Alexander's expedition. 



323. At Taxila (Rawul Pindee) a colony of Scythians founded. 



312-306. Chaudragupta, i.e., Sandracottus, repelled a Scythian 

 invasion of India. 



10. Greece. 



1184. Greek war against Troy. 



1068. The first great Ionian emigration took place, led by Neleus. 

 1044. Further migration of Greek colonies to Asia Minor. 

 1000. Grecian states became gradually formed into city republics. 

 900-800. Age of Homer and Hesiod. 

 884. Olympic games instituted, or revived, by Iphitus and 



Lycurgus. 

 880. Lycurgus, the first legislator in continental Greece, estab- 

 lished the constitution of Sparta. 

 814. Kingdom of Macedon founded by Caranus, a descendant of 



Hercules. 

 743. The first Messenian war began. It continued nineteen 



years. 

 732. Syracuse founded by a colony from Corinth. 

 682. The second Messenian war began. It lasted fourteen years. 

 623. Draco furnished the Athenians with a code of laws, the 



severity of which led to his own flight from that city, 

 594. Salamis recovered by the Athenians. Legislation of Solon. 

 570. Pythagoras, the philosopher. 

 562. Solon, Pisistratus, Lycurgus. 

 548. Thales of Miletus established the Ionian school of 



philosophy.* 

 535. Tragedy first performed in Athens by Thespis. 

 531. Pisistratus established in Athens a public library and 



public garden. 

 490. Invasion of Europe by Persians, and battle of Marathon. 

 480. Xerxes invaded Europe. Battles of Thermopylas, Arteme- 



sium, and Salamis. 

 479-473. Socrates, Sophocles, Euripides, Aristophanes. 

 440-430. Theucydides, Aristophanes, Hippocrates. 



* He maintained that water or some liquid was the origin of all things. 

 That there was one supreme mind distinct from the visible world, to which 

 it imparted form and motion. 



