Before Christ.] C H R O N 
particularly the coming of the Mefliah ; he died 
aged 147, having refided feventeen years in Egypt. 
16.35 J°icph fortels the egrefs of the Ifraelites from Egypt; 
and dies, aged no, having been prefect of Egypt for 
eighty years. His death concludes the Book of Ge- 
nefis, which contains a period of 2369 years. 
1615 The Ethiopians, coming from the river Indus, fettle 
in the neighbourhood of Egypt. 
1-600 Of the Julian period 3114. Prometheus flourifhed. 
15S2 The chronology of the Arundelian marbles begins 
here, when they fuppofe Cecrops came into Attica, 
which is twenty-fix 3'ears earlier than the date given 
by Caftor, in Eufebius. 
1574 Aaron born ; and the year after, Pharaoh publifhes 
an edift for drowning all the children of the If¬ 
raelites. 
1571 Moles born, and three months after expofed among 
the flags on the banks of the river, where he is found 
by Thermutis, Pharaoh’s daughter, who adopts and 
educates him in all the learning of the Egyptians. 
1556 Cecrops brings a colony of Sai'tes from Egypt into 
Attica, and begins the kingdom of Athens 780 years 
before the-firft Olympiad. 
1546 Scamander comes from Crete into Phrygia, and be¬ 
gins the kingdom of Troy. 
1531 Mofes being forty years of age, vifits the Ifraelites 
his brethren ; and, obferving their oppreflion, kills 
an Egyptian, whom he found fmiting a Hebrew, and 
then flies into Midian, where he continued forty years, 
and married Zippora the daughter of Jethro. 
1303 The deluge of Deucalion in Theflaly. 
1500 Of the Julian period 3214. 
1495 The games called Panathenaea are firft celebrated at 
Athens. 
1493 Cadmus carried the Phoenician letters into Greece, 
and built the citadel of Thebes. 
1491 God appears to Mofes in a burning bufli, and fends 
him into Egypt, where he performs a number of 
miracles, and affli&s Pharaoh with ten fucceflive 
plagues, till the Ifraelites were allowed to depart, to 
the number of 600,000, befides children, on Tuef- 
day the 5th of May, which completed the 430 years 
of fojourning •, and, on Monday, May n, Mofes 
opened miraculoufly a paflage for the Ifraelites 
through the Red Sea into the defert of Etham, when 
Pharaoh with all his hoft, following them, were 
drowned. They come about the 22d of June to the 
defert of Sinai, near Mount Horeb, where they con¬ 
tinue near a year, during which time, Mofes receives 
from God, and delivers to the people, the Ten Com¬ 
mandments and the other law's, and lets up the taber¬ 
nacle, and in it the ark of the covenant, 
1485 The firfl; fliip that appeared in Greece, and was 
brought from Egypt by Danaus, furnamed Armais, 
who was then expelled by his brother iEgyptus. 
The fliip arrived at Lindus, in Rhodes; he brought 
with him his fifty daughters ; introduced the inven¬ 
tion of pumps into Greece; and, ten years after, 
viz. in 1475, got poflelfion of the kingdom of Argos. 
1453 The firlt Olympic games celebrated in Elis by the 
Idafi Dadfyli, fifty years after the deluge of Deucalion. 
1452 The.five books of Mofes are written in the land of 
Moab, where he dies the year following, aged no. 
3451 The Ifraelites under Jofliua pals the river Jordan, 
and enter Canaan, on Friday, April 30. Jericho is 
taken by Jolhua, and after that the city of Ai; he 
makes a treaty with Gibeon, and defeats the five 
kings of the Amorites, while the fun and moon 
flood Hill. The Ifraelites began to till the lands they 
had conquered, lb that the period of the fabbatical 
years commences from this autumn. 
1445 Jofliua makes a divifion of the land of Canaan, a- 
mong the tribes, of Ifrael, and refts from his con- 
quetts, upon the fabbatical year, which begins from 
the autumnal eouinox. 
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1426 Jolhua dies in his retirement at Timnath-ferah, 
aged 110. 
1413 The Ifraelites, having funk into idolatry after the 
death of Jolhua, are now in fervitude under Cuflian, 
king of Mefopotamia, and continue fo for eight 
years. 
1406 Minos gives laws to the Cretans, and acquires a 
great maritime power.—Iron is found by the Idsei 
Daflyli, from the accidental burning of the woods 
of Mount Ida, in Crete. 
1405 Othniel, the firfl of their judges, defeats Cuflian, 
and gives reft to Ifrael in the fortieth year after the 
reft given by Jofliua. 
1400 Of the Julian period 3314. 
1390 The tribe of Benjamin alrnoft totally deftroyea by 
the other eleven tribes for their cruel ufage of the 
wife of a Levite; it happened while Phineas was 
high prieft. 
1383 Ceres came to Athens and taught them to fow corn; 
flie fent her fon Triptolemus through the reft of 
Greece. 
1376 The nineteenth Egyptian dynafty begins, being the 
fecond Diofpolitan ; it continues 194 years. 
1356 The Eleulinian myfteries firft introduced at Athens 
by Eumoipus the Ion of Mufaeus. 
1344 The kingdom of Argos is divided, a'nd the moft con- 
fiderable part of it is called Mycenae. 
1343 The Ifraelites relapfing into idolatry, are again in 
fervitude under Eglon king of Moab, for eighteen 
years. 
1341 The rape of Ganymade fixty-five years after the 
burning of Mount Ida. 
1326 The Ifthmian games firft inftituted by Sifyphus king 
of Corinth, fifteen years after the rape of Ganymede-. 
1325 Ehud the Benjamite, being the fecond judge in an 
embafly, kills Eglon, and fo relieves them from their 
fecond bondage in the eightieth year from their reft 
under Othniel. A little after this, Shamgsr killed 
600 Phililtin.es with an ox goad.—The great Egyp¬ 
tian canicular year began on Saturday, July 20, and 
confifted of 1460 years, the Dog-ftar, or Sirius, hav¬ 
ing rifen heliace that morning at Heliopolis pre¬ 
cisely at four o’clock. 
1305 The Iifaelitcs returning to their former wickednefs 
upon Ehud’s death, are delivered by God into the 
hands of Jabin king of Canaan. This third fervi¬ 
tude continued forty years. 
1300 Of the Julian period 3414. 
1285 Deborah the prophetefs, and third judge of Ifrael, 
with Barak general of the Ifraelites, defeats the 
Cannaanites under Sifera at the waters of Megiddo; 
Sifera is killed by Jael the wife of Heber ; upon this 
battle was compofed the beautiful fong of vidlory, 
in Judges, chap. v. The land of Ifrael had reft in 
the fortieth year after the reft given by Ehud. 
1284 The Siculi pafs out of Italy into Sicily about three 
generations before the Trojan Avar. Orpheus the 
poet flourifhed. 
1266 CEdipus king of Thebes; died about 1228. 
1263 The Argonautic Expedition under Jafion and his com¬ 
panions through the Euxine Sea to Colchis for the 
Golden Fleece, being feventy-nine years before the 
taking of Troy.—The firft Pythian games celebrated 
by Adraftus king of Argos. 
1252 The fourth fervitude of the Ifraelites under the MI- 
dianites, which continues feven years. 
1245 Gideon, the fourth judge of Ifrael, routs the Midi- 
anites with only 300 men, and flew their two kings 
kings.Zebah and Zalmunna; he is offered the king¬ 
dom of Ifrael, which he refufes. The land had reft 
in the fortieth year after the reft given by Deborah, 
and 200 years after that of Jofliua. 
1236 Upon Gideon’s death, Abimilech, his natural fon, 
murders his i’eventy brothers upon one ftone, and 
makes himlelf king of Ifrael for three years. 
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