584 A NEW CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. 



1491 Moses performs a number of miracles in Egypt, and departs from that king- 

 dom, together with 600,000 Israelites, besides children ; which completed 

 the 430 years of sojourning. They miraculously pass through the Red 

 Sea, and come to the Desert of Sinai, where Moses receives from God, 

 and delivers to the people, the Ten Commandments, and the other Laws, 

 and sets up the Tabernacle, and in it the Ark of the Covenant. 

 1485 The first ship that appeared in Greece was brought from Egypt by Danaus 3 



who arrived at Rhodes, and brought with him his fifty daughters. 

 1453 The first Olympic games celebrated at Olympia in Greece. 

 1452 The Pentateuch, or five books of Moses, are written in the land of Moab, 



where he died in the year following, aged 120. 

 1451 The Israelites, after sojourning in the Wilderness forty years, are led under 

 Joshua into the land of Canaan, where they fix themselves, after having 

 suhdued the natives : and the period of the sabbatical year commences. 

 1406 Iron is found in Greece, from the accidental burning of the woods. 

 1198 The rape of Helen by Paris, which in 1193, gave rise to the Trojan war and 

 siege of Troy by the Greeks, which continued ten years, when that city 

 was taken and burnt. 

 1048 David is sole king of Israel. 

 1004 The temple is solemnly dedicated by Solomon. 



896 Elijah, the prophet, is translated to Heaven. 



894 Money first made of gold and silver at Argos. 



869 The city of Carthage, in Africa, founded by queen Dido. 



814 The kingdom of Macedon begins. 



776 The first Olympiad begins. 



753 JEra of the building of Rome, in Italy, by Romulus, first king of the Romans. 



720 Samaria taken, after three year's siege, and the kingdom of Israel finished, by 

 Salmanasar, king of Assyria, who carried the ten tribes into captivity. 

 The first eclipse of the moon on record. 



658 Byzantium (now Constantinople) built by a colony of Athenians. 



604 By order of Necho, king of Egypt, some Phoenicians sailed from the Red Sea 

 round Africa, and returned by the Mediterranean. 



600 Thales, of Miletus, travels into Egypt, consults the priests of Memphis, ac- 

 quires the knowledge of geometry, astronomy, and philosophy ; returns to 

 Greece, calculates eclipses, gives general notions of the universe, and 

 maintains that one supreme Intelligence regulates all its motions. 

 Maps, spheres, and sun-dials invented by Anaximander, the scholar of 

 Thales. 



597 Jehoiakin, king of Judah, carried away captive by Nebuchadnezzar to Baby- 

 lon. 



587 The city of Jerusalem taken, after a siege of 18 months. 



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



559 Cyrus, the first king of Persia. 



53S The kingdom of Babylon finished, that city being taken by Cyrus, who, in 

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



534 The first tragedy was acted at Athens, on a waggon, by Thespis. 



526 Learning is greatly encouraged at Athens, and a public library first founded. 



515 The second temple at Jerusalem is finished under Darius. 



509 Tarquin, the seventh, and last king of the Romans, is expelled, and Rome is 

 governed by two consuls, and other republican magistrates, tillthe battle 

 of Pharsalia, being a space of 461 years. 



504 Sardis taken and burnt by the Athenians, w.hich gave occasion to the Persian 

 invasion of Greece. 



4S6 JEschylus, the Greek poet, first gains the prize of tragedy. 



481 Xerxes the Great, king of Persia, begins his expedition against Greece. 



458 Ezra is sent from Babylon to Jerusalem, with the captive Jews, and the ves- 

 sels of gold and silver, &c. being seventy weeks of years, or 490 years, be-, 

 fore the crucifixion of our Saviour. 



454 The Romans send to Athens for Solon's laws. 



451 The Decemvirs created at Rome, and the laws of the Twelve Tables compiled 

 and ratified. 



430 The history of the Old Testament finishes about this time, 

 Malachi, thelast of the prophets. 



401 Retreat of 10,000 Greeks under Xenophon, 



