A NEW CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. 5SS 



400 Socrates, the founder of moral philosophy among the Greeks, believes the 



immortality of the soul, and a state of rewards and punishments ; for 



which, and other sublime doctrines, he is put to death by the Athenians, 



who soon after repent, and erect to his memory a statue of brass. _ 



331 Alexander the Great, king of Macedon, conquers Darius king of Persia and 



various nations of Asia. 

 523 Dies at Babylon, and his empire is divided by his generals into four kingdoms, 

 285 Dionysius of Alexandria began his astronomical sera on Monday,^ June 26, 

 being the first who found the exact solar year to consist of 365 days 5 

 hoUrs and 49 minutes. 

 284 Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, employs seventy-two interpreters to 

 translate the Old Testament into the Greek language, which is called the 

 Septuagint. 

 269 The first, coining of silver at Rome- 

 264 The first Punic war begins, and continues 23 years. The chronology of the 



Arundelian marble, called the Parian Chronicle, composed. 

 260 The Romans first apply themselves to naval affairs, and defeat the Carthagi- 



nians at sea. 

 237 Hamilcar, the Carthaginian, causes his son Hannibal, at nine years old, to 



swear eternal enmity to the Romans. 

 218 The second Punic war begins, and continues 17 years. Hannibal passes the 

 Alps, and defeats the Romans in several battles, but does not improve his 

 victories by the storming of Rome. 

 190 The first Roman army enters Asia, and, from the spoils of Antiochus, brings 



the Asiatic luxury first to Rome. 

 168 Perseus defeated by the Romans, which ends the Macedonian kingdom. 

 167 The first library erected at Rome, of books brought from Macedonia. 

 163 The government of Judea under the Maccabees begins, and continuesl26 years. 

 146 Carthage the rival of Rome, razed to the ground by the Romans. 

 135 The history of the Apocrypha ends. 

 52 Julius Caesar makes his first expedition into Britain. 



47 The battle of Pharsalia between Caesar and Pompey, in which the latter is 

 defeated. 

 The Alexandrian library; consisting of 400,000 valuable books, burnt by ac- 

 cident. 

 45 The war of Africa, in which Cato kills himself. 



The solar year introduced by Caesar. 

 44 Caesar, the greatest of the Roman conquerors, after having fought fifty pitch- 

 ed battles, and slain 1,192,000 men, and overturned the liberties of his 

 country, is killed in the senate-house. 

 31 The battle of Actium fought, in which Mark Antony and Cleopatra are to- 

 tally defeated by Octavius, nephew to Julius Caesar. 

 30 Alexandria in Egypt is taken by Octavius ; upon which Antony and Cleopatra 



put themselves to death, and Egypt is reduced to a Roman province. 

 27 Octavius, by a decree of the senate, obtains the title of Augustus Caesar, and. 

 an absolute exemption from the laws, and is properly the first Roman em- 

 peror. 

 8 Rome at this time is fifty miles in circumference, and contains 463,000 men 



fit to bear arms. 

 1 The Temple of Janus is shut by Augustus, as an emblem of universal peace ,; 

 and JESUS CHRIST is supposed to have been born in September, or on 

 Monday, December 25. 

 A. C. 



12 CHRIST hears the doctors in the temple, and asks them questions. 

 27 ■ ? . is baptized in the wilderness by John. 



33 — — is crucified on Friday, April 3, at 3 o'clock, P. M. 



His resurrection on Sunday, April 5: his ascension, Thursday, May 14. 

 36 St. Paul converted. 



39 St. Matthew writes his Gospel. 

 Pontius Pilate kills himself. 



40 The name of Christians first given at Antioch to the followers of Christ. 



43 Claudius Caesar's expedition into Britain. 



44 St- Mark writes his Gospel. 



49 London is founded by the Romans : 368, surrounded by ditto with a wall, 

 some parts of which are still observable. 



