600 CHRONOLOGICAL ARRANGEMENT 



"618 A. D. = 'wou-te,' 1st year of Kao-tsou II., head of the new dynasty of the Thang" — 

 (Chinese chron. table). 



"622, July 16th, Friday" (Blair, and Nicol.), the Hejira, or Mohammedan Era. The flight of 

 Mohammed from Mecca to Medina on the "68th day" afterward, is fixed to "Sept. 21st, fourteen 

 days before the 12th year of Heraclius was ended" (Clint.). At this time, Oman under the rule of 

 Habkar and Abd, descendants of Julanda (Abulfed., and Badger edit. Salil-ibn-Razik p. 7). 



"The same year" (Theophan., and Clint.) ; successful campaign of Heraclius, as far as Armenia, 

 where his army wintered. Georgius Pisides accompanying this expedition. 



"623, April 20th " (Theophan., and Clint.), Heraclius and his army entering Persia. At the end 

 of the campaign he wintered in Albania. 



The poet Ascha on his way to join Mohammed induced by the Koreisch tribe to change his 

 purpose — (De Sacy chrest.). 



Plumierece gen of Burmah. The "lances of Alkhatt " mentioned by Ascha, — Djewhari, 



and in the Kamous, and the letter of the Karmatians to the Egyptian sultan, made according to De 

 Sacy at Alkhatt on the coast of Bahrein from wood imported from India. The " myet-hna-ban " tree 

 was observed by Mason p. 543 not uncommon at Tavoy, the " timber possessing the properties of 

 lancewood " and called in commerce Tenasscrim lancewood. A kind of wood called "myet-hna-ban" 

 was found by Berdmore "used in making furniture, bows, etc." 



"624 A. D." (Theophan., Cedren., and Clint.), after a victory, Heraclius and his army winter in 

 the enemy's country. 



"In this year" (Sm. b. d. ii. p. 404), the remaining portion of the Greek dominions in Spain and 

 on the opposite coast of Africa appropriated by the Gothic king Suinthila. 



"625, March" (Theophan., and Clint.), Heraclius and his army crossing the Euphrates. After 

 this campaign, he wintered near the Halys. 



"626 A D." (Alst., and Nicol.), at Rome, Bonifacius the fifth succeeded by Honorius, fifth arch- 

 bishop. Who is "accused by the Greeks of favouring the Monothelites." 



"July 29th" (Geo. Pisid., Xheophan., and Clint), Constantinople assaulted by Slaves, Huns, 

 Scythians, Bulgarians, and Medes, all in alliance with the Persian king; the assault continued "ten" 

 days, the enemy retiring on " Friday, Aug. Sth." Heraclius absent for three years, had planned the 

 defence by letter ; and invited the Chazars or Eastern Turks, who passing the Caspian Gates now 

 enter Persia. 



"627 A. D. = ' tching- kouan,' 1st year of Tai-tsoung, of the Thang" or Fifteenth dynasty (Chinese 

 chron. table). A treatise by this emperor, on the art of government, is extant.* 



" in or about this year (= beginning of the years tching-kouan," Remus, i. 84), Fou-nan annexed 

 by Cha-li-yi-kin-na, king of Cambodia. 



"628, Feb. 28th" (Chron. Pasch., and Clint.), Chosroes II. slain-. Succeeded by Siroes as Per- 

 sian king. The war with Persia having now terminated, Heraclius and his army returned in the " 7th 

 year" to Constantinople. 



Death of Chosroes, the latest historical fact recorded by Theophylactus Simocattaf — (Yule 

 cathay i. p. Ii). 



" May 15th, in the eighteenth year of Heraclius " (Clint, iii. p. 594), end of the Paschal Chronicle. 



"629 A. D." (Clint.), Siroes succeeded by Adeser as Persian king; and before the close of the 

 year, by Toorandokht. 



"The same year" (Theophan., Eutych., Clint, and Plate in Sm. b d.), Heraclius on his way to 

 Jerusalem met by an ambassador from Mohammed, and summoned to embrace the new religion. As 

 a matter of condescension, Heraclius entered into a treaty of friendship : — which was soon broken by 

 the Arabs. 



" In this year " (ann Jap., transl. Tits.), Soui-ko succeeded by Zio-me'i, grandson of Bin-dats and 

 now thirty- fifth dairo of Japan. 



Other plants suitable for making paper discovered in Japan as early perhaps as this year, as the 



* Magnolia yulan of China. The yu-lan began to be cultivated under the Thang dynasty, —is 

 mentioned by Han-pao-tcheng, and Li-chi, and under the Ming dynasty was brought from the South 

 to Pekin ; its buds are preserved, and are used medicinally, also to season rice (Cibot in mem. 

 Chin. iii. 443). Transported to Europe, is described by Desfontaines, Correa, and Salisbury: and 

 from Europe, was carried to Northeast America, where it continues in gardens in our Middle States. 



f Cupressus patula of Japan. The " nodding cypresses " lining the banks of the two <reat rivers 

 flowing through Khubdan (Singanfu in the Chinese province of Shensi), described to Theophylac- 

 tus vii. 9, —may be compared: C. patula is described by Thunberg 265 as observed by him in Japan 

 (Pers., and Steud.). 



