A NEW 



CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE 



OF 



REMARKABLE EVENTS, DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS; 



ALSO, 



The JEra, the Country, and Writings of learned Men : 



THE WHOLE 



COMPREHENDING IN ONE VIEW, THE ANALYSIS OR OUTLINES OP GENERAL 

 HISTORY, FROM THE CREATION TO THE PRESENT TIME. 



Bef. Christ. 



4004 THE creation of the world, and Adam and Eve. 



4003 The birth of Cain, the first who was born of a woman, 



3017 Enoch, for his piety, is translated to Heaven. 



2348 The whole world is destroyed by a deluge, which continued 377 days. 



2247 The tower of Babel is built about this time by Noah's posterity, upon which 



God miraculously confounds their language, and thus disperses them into 



different nations. 

 About the same time, Noah is, with great probability, supposed to have part- 



ed from his rebellious offspring, and to have led a colony of some of the 



more tractable into the East, and there, either he, or one of his successors, 



to have founded the ancient Chinese monarchy. 

 2234 The celestial observations are begun at Babylon, the city which first gave 



birth to learning and the sciences. 

 2188 Misraim, the son of Ham, founds the kingdom of Egypt, which lasted 1663 



years, down to its conquest by Cambyses, in 525 before Christ. 

 2059 Ninus, the son of Belus, founds the kingdom of Assyria, which lasted above 



1000 years, and out of its ruins were formed the Assyrians of Babylon, 



those of Nineveh, and the kingdom of the Medes. 

 1921 The covenant of God made with Abram, when he leaves Haran to go into Ca= 



naan, which begins the 430 years of sojourning. 

 1897 The cities of Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed for their wickedness, by 



fire from Heaven. 

 1856 The kingdom of Argos, in Greece, begins under Inachus. 

 1822 Memnon, the Egyptian, invents letters. 

 1715 Prometheus first struck fire from flints. 



1635 Joseph dies in Egypt, which concludes the book of Genesis, containing a pe- 

 riod of 2369 years. 

 1574 Aaron born in Egypt ; 1490, appointed by God first high-priest of the Israel- 



ites. 

 1571 Moses, brother to Aaron, born in Egypt, and adopted by Pharoah's daughter, 



who educates him io all the learning of the Egyptians. 

 1556 Cecrops brings a colony of Saites from Egypt into Attica, and founds the 



kingdom of Athens, in Greece. 

 1546 Scarnander comes from Crete into Phrygia, and founds the kingdom of Troy. 

 1493 Cadmus carried the Phoenician letters into Greece, and built the citadel of 



Thebes. 



