CHRONOLOGY, 
350 
id. Chr. 
'430 About this time the history of the Old 
I , Testament finishes 
401 The retreat of the 10,000 Greeks un- 
der Xenophon. The 30 tyrants ex- 
pelled from Athens by Thrasybulus 
1398 The military catapults invented 
1390 Plato made 'his first voyage into Sicily 
1 357 Dionysius the tyrant expelled Syracuse 
[ 343 The war between the Romans and Sam- 
nites 
I 340 The Carthaginians defeated by Timo- 
leoji 
1 336 Philip of Macedon killed by Pausanias 
I 327 Alexander’s expedition into India 
j 323 The death of Alexander 
322 Demosthenes put to death by Antipater 
| 296 Athens taken by Demetrius Polior- 
cetes 
286 Lysimachus takes possession of Mace- 
don 
| 284 The septuagint translation of the Old 
Testament thought to have been 
made 
| 278 The Gauls under Brennus cut to pieces 
; 264 The beginning of the first Punic war 
| 260 The Carthaginians defeated at sea by 
the Romans 
j 256 Regulus defeated y the Carthaginians 
241 Agis, king of Spai ta, put to death 
1 235 The temple of Janus shut the first time 
after Nuina 
. 224 The colossus of Rhodes thrown down 
by an ea'rthquak e 
; 218 The second Punic war begins. Anni- 
bal passes the Alps 
216 The battle of Canine 
| 212 Syracuse taken by Marcell us 
202 Annibal defeated at Zarna 
I 200 The first Macedonian war begins 
tpo The first Roman army enters Asia 
187 Antiochus the Great defeated and killed 
i 167 The first library erected at Rome 
j 149 The third Punic war begins 
! 146 Carthage destroyed by Publius Scipio 
j 137 Ptolemy Phryocon began a new resto- 
ration of learning at Alexandria 
! 116 Cleopatra assumes the government of 
Egypt 
| 107 Cicero born 
j 101 Marius and Catullus defeat the Cimbri 
f 100 The birth of Julius Caesar 
99 Lusitania conquered by the Romans 
89 The Mithridatic war begins 
1 8 1 Cicero made his first oration 
j 66 Mithridates defeated by Pompey 
65 The reign of the Seleucidae ends in 
Syria 
1 63 Cataline’s conspiracy detected 
I 55 Caesar’s first expedition against Britain 
50 Caesar besieges Pompey in Brundu- 
sium 
48 The battle of Pharsalia 
44 Cssar killed in the senate-house 
4t) Jerusalem occupied by Antigonus 
31 The battle of Actium : Marc Antony 
and Cleopatra defeated 
25 The Egyptians adopt the Julian year 
8 Augustus corrects the calendar 
4 Our Saviour’s birth: four years before 
tiie common :era 
CHRISTIAN JERA. 
Aft. Christ. 
8 Our Saviour disputes with the Jewish 
doctors 
14 Augustus dies at Nola 
Aft. Chr. 
17 Twelve cities in Asia destroyed by an 
earthquake 
26 St. John the Baptist enters on his mi- 
nistry 
27 John baptizes our Saviour 
33 Our Saviour’s crucifixion 
36 St. Paul converted 
37 Tiberius dies at Misenum 
39 St. Matthew writes his gospel 
43 Claudius’s expedition into Britain 
44 St. Mark wrote his gospel 
5 1 Caractacus carried in chains to Rome 
52 The council of the apostles at Jerusalem 
54 The death of Claudius 
59 Nero puts his mother Agrippina to 
death 
61 Boadicea, the British queen, defeats the 
Romans 
62 St. Paul sent in bonds to Rome 
64 The first persecution against the Chris- 
tians 
66 The Jewish war begins 
67 St. Peter and St. Paul put to death 
70 Titus destroys Jerusalem 
95 The second persecution against the 
Christians 
102 Pliny the Younger sends Trajan his 
celebrated account of the Christians 
107 The third persecution against the 
Christians 
118 The fourth persecution against the 
Christians 
130 Adrian rebuilds Jerusalem 
135 Conclusion of the Jewish war, when 
the Jews w r ere all banished Judea 
146 The worship of Serapis introduced at 
Rome 
202 The fifth persecution against the Chris- 
tians 
235 The sixth persecution against the Chris- 
tians 
250 The seventh persecution 
252 A great pestilence in the Roman empire 
257 The eighth persecution of the Christians 
269 Zenobia takes posession of Egypt 
272 The ninth persecution against the 
Christians 
293 C’arausius killed by Alectus 
286 The Roman empire attacked by the 
northern nations. Carausius reigns 
in Britain 
303 The tenth persecution against the 
Christians 
312 Maxentius defeated by Constantine 
319 Constantine begins to favour the Chris- 
tians 
325 The first general council of Nice 
340 The deatli of Constantine the Great 
343 Persecution of the Christians in Persia 
364 The Roman empire divided into the 
eastern and western 
388 The ty rant Maximus defeated 
406 The Vandals, Alans, and Suevi, spread 
into France and Spain 
410 Rome taken and plundered by Alaric 
420 The kingdom of the French begins 
upon the low r er Rhine 
426 The Romans leave Britain 
435 The Theodosian codex published 
449 The Saxons arrive in Britain 
452 The city of Venice takes its rise 
455 Rome taken by Genseric 
475 Hengist’s massacre of the British nobles 
476 The western empire finishes 
493 The kingdom of Italy passes from the 
Hexuii to the Ostro-Goths 
Aft. Chr. 
496 Clovis baptized, and Christianity em- 
braced in France 
510 Paris made the capital of the French 
dominions 
51 1 Arthur defeats the Saxons in the battle 
of Badon-hill 
516 The computing of time by the Christian 
arra introduced by Dionysius 
529 The code of Justinian published 
533 The digest of Justinian published 
536 Rome taken by Belisarius 
551 The manufacture of silk introduced 
into Europe from India by some 
monks 
55S A terrible plague all over Europe, 
Asia, and Africa, which continues 
near fifty years 
580 Cosroes the Great defeated, and dies 
of grief 
597 Augustin the monk arrives in England 
606 The power of the popes begins 
622 The Hegira of Mahomet begins 
637 Jerusalem taken by the Saracens 
640 Alexandria taken by the Saracens, and 
the great library there burnt 
653 The Saracens take Rhodes, and cut 
to pieces the famous colossus 
709 Ilia, king of Wessex, publishes his laws 
748 The computing of years from the birth 
of Christ began to be used in histo- 
ries about this time 
750 The Merovingian race ends in France 
751 The second race of the French kings 
begins with Pepin, surnamed the Little 
762 Bagdad built by Almansor 
774 Pavia taken by Charlemagne 
778 The battle of Roncevaux 
800 The emperors of the West, or of Ger- 
many, begin 
822 The Saracens besiege Constantinople 
810 A civil war among the Saracens 
828 The heptarchy of England united under 
Egbert 
838 The Piets defeated by the Scots 
840 The death of Lewis the Debonnaire 
843 The French peers make a new division 
of the French dominions 
853 The Normans get possession of some 
cities in France 
867 The Danes conquer Northumberland 
872 Alfred defeated by the Danes 
878 Alfred conceals himself in Athelney 
879 The kingdom of Arles begins 
886 The university of Oxford said to have 
been founded 
888 The dominions of Charles le Gros di- 
vided into five kingdoms 
904 The Hungarians ravage Italy 
912 Tfie Normans establish themselves in 
France under Rollo 
936 The Saracen empire divided by usur- 
pation into seven kingdoms 
964 The kingdom of Italy conquered by 
Otho 
987 The third race of the French kings be- 
gins under Hugh Capet 
996 Otho III. makes the empire of Ger- 
many elective 
1013 The Danes, under Sueno, get posses- 
sion of England 
1035 The kingdoms of Castile and Arragon 
begin 
1043 The Turks take possession of Persia 4 
1065 Jerusalem taken by the Turks from the 
Saracens 
