Before Christ.] C H R O N 
35 Odftavius goes into Pannonia and Sicily, and returns 
November the 13th to Rome. 
34 Antony takes Artabazus, king of Armenia, prifoner. 
Diolcorides, phyfician to Antony and Cleopatra. 
3a Oftavius and Antony, after a long mifunderltanding, 
openly prepare for war. 
31 The battle of Aflium fought, Sept. 2, in which An¬ 
tony and Cleopatra are totally defeated ; from whence 
the Roman emperors properly begin. > Afinius Pollio, orator 
and hiftorian; he died four years after Chrift, aged 80. 
30 Alexandria is taken by Oftavius, Auguft 1 ; upon 
which Antony and Cleopatra put themfelves to death. 
Egypt is then reduced to a Roman province. Strabo the 
hiftorian, lived till twenty-five years after Chrift. 
27 OiStavius receives, January the 13th, by a decree of the 
fenate, the title of Auguftus ; the power of imperator 
for ten years ; next the cenforlhip then the tribune- 
fliip ; and at laft a total exemption from the laws. S. 
Aurelius Propertius, elegiac poet. 
15 The Egyptians adopt the Julian year, and fix their 
Thoth to begin always on Auguft 29. Cornelius Ne- 
pos dies. Livy the hiftorian fiourilhed. 
24 JElius Gall us makes an unfuccefsful expedition into 
Arabia. The fenate, by a folemn oath, on January 1, 
confirm to Auguftus the tribunelhip, and exemption 
from'the laws. 
23 Antoninus Mufa, phyfician; his great remedy was the 
cold bath„» 
21 Auguftus goes into Greece and Afia for two years; 
he recalls Agrippa, gives him Julia in marriage, and 
the government of the empire in his abfence. Tibul¬ 
lus, the elegiac poet, wrote. 
19 Death of Virgil the poet, aged fifty-one. 
18 Auguftus reduces the fenate to 300; but this being 
generally complained of, he limits them to 600, many 
being degraded. Celibacy is difcouraged. 
17 The Ssecular games celebrated. 
16 Agrippa goes into Syria for four years. M. Lollius 
is defeated by the Germans in Gaul, which brings 
Auguftus thither for three years, and by this he co¬ 
vers his intrigue with Terentia, wife to Maecenas. 
15 The Rliasti and Vindelici defeated by Drufus, Au¬ 
guft x, being exaftly three luftra, or fifteen years to 
a day from the taking of Alexandria by Auguftus. 
M. Vitruvius Pollio, the architect. 
13 Auguftus aflumes the office of Pontifex Maximus, 
March 6, and burns all the pontifical books, being a- 
bout 2000, referving only thofe of the Sibylline oracies. 
32 The Pannonians are conquered by Tiberius. Agrippa, 
returning from Pannonia, dies in Campania, March • 
19, aged fifty-one. , 
31 Drufus conquers the Sicambri, Chauci, and feveral 
other German nations. 
9 Drufus makes an expedition into Germany againft 
the Chatti and Cherufci, of which he dies, in Frief- 
land, July 20. 
% Auguftus corrects the calendar, by ordering the twelve 
enfuing years topafs without intercalation. The month 
Sextilis is named Auguftus by a decree of the fenate. 
7 Verrius Flaccus, grammarian, fuppofed author of the 
Capitoline marbles. 
6 Tiberius retires to Rhodes for feven years, from a 
jealoufy of the two young Caefars, by way of imitating 
the retirement of Agrippa. 
5 Our Saviour Jesus Christ horn on Monday Decem¬ 
ber 25, four years before the common era. 
4 An eclipfe of the moon obferved at Jerufalem, March 
13; the middle, 2 h. 45 m. after midnight. Herod 
dies, November 25, being the feventh of Cifteu.—Dio- 
.nyfius of Halicarnafius, the hiftorian. 
a Julia is banilhed by Auguftus for her adulteries to the 
little ifle Pandatarium, off Campania. Caius Caefar 
goes as general in the Armenian war.-—Dionyfius, the 
geographer. 
? An interview in the ifle of Samos between Caius Cse- 
J'ar and Tiberius, 
O L O G Y. * ' 551 
Remarkable Events fmceths BIRTH of CHRIST. 
x Of the Julian period 4714; of Rome 754. 
2 Tiberius returns to Rome, and foon after Lucius Cae- 
far dies at Marfeilles, eighteen months before his bro¬ 
ther Caius. 
3 Caius Csefar dies at Limyra in Lycia, on his return 
from Syria. 
4 The leap-year correfled, having been formerly every 
third year. Phsedrus lived at this time. 
8 Jefus, being twelve years old, difputes with the Jewilh 
doftors in the temple in April, when the paffover was 
ended. 
9 Ovid is banilhed to Tomi, in the beginning of October. 
10 Varus, with three legions, cut to pieces in Germany, 
by Arminius the German general. 
14 Auguftus dies at Nola in Campania, Auguft 19, aged 
feventy-fix. Tiberius fucceeds to the empire. 
15 Velleius Paterculus flouriflied ; he died in 31. 
17 Twelve cities in Afia ruined by an earthquake. 
19 Germanicus dies at Antioch, being poifoned by Pifo, 
about the beginning of December. 
20 Agrippina brought the allies of Germanicus to Rome 
in March, a little before.the Megalenfia, which were 
celebrated April 4. 
26 Tiberius goes to the ifland Caprea, and never returns 
to Rome. John the Baptift begins his miniftry about 
the 19th of October. 
27 Jefus is baptized by John in the beginning of the year. 
29 The emprefs Livia dies, upon which Tiberius became 
more cruel and abandoned. 
31 Sejanus is difgraced, and foon after executed, Oft. 17. 
3a Death of John the Baptift. Columella flourifhed. 
33 Our Saviour Jesus Christ crucified on Friday April 
the 3d, at three o’clock, P. M. His Refurreffion, on 
Sunday, April the 5th. His Afcenfion , on Thurfday, 
May the 14th. 
34 Apion of Alexandria, th.e grammarian, furnamed the 
Trumpet of the World. 
36 St. Paul converted. 
37 Tiberius dies at Mifenum, near Bairn, March 16, aged 
feventy-eight. Succeeded by Caligula. 
39 St. Matthew writes his gofpel. Pilate kills himfelf. 
40 The name of Chriftians firlt given at Antioch to the 
followers of Jefus. 
- 41 Caligula is put to death by Chsereas and the other 
confpirators, January 24. Claudius fucceeds him. 
43 Claudius’s expedition into Britain. 
44 St. Mark wrote his gofpel. 
45 Pomponius Mela the geographer fiourilhed at this time. 
47 The Ssecular games celebrated at Rome. Caraflacus, 
the Britilh king; and Oftorius, Roman general, in 
Britain. 
48 The emprefs Meflalina publicly marries C. Silius, but 
they are foon both put to death by Claudius. 
51 Caraffacus is carried in chains to Rome. 
52 The council of the apoftles at Jerufalem. 
54 Claudius dies, Oftober 13, aged 63. Nero fucceeds. 
59 Nero puts his mother Agrippina to death, and begins 
his public debaucheries. 
61 Boadicea the Britilh queen defeats the Romans, but 
is conquered foon after by Suetonius. 
62 St. Paul fent in bonds to Rome by fea from Sidoh in 
the beginning of winter, and is lhipwrecked at Me- 
lita, or Malta. 
64 Rome fet on fire July 17, and burned for fix days, upon 
which began the firft persecution againft the Chriftians. 
Quintus Curtius, the hiftorian. 
65 Seneca, Lucan, and others, put to death. 
66 Nero goes into Greece, and has public trials of flcill 
with tragedians, muficians, and .charioteers. The 
JevuiJh voar begins in May. 
67 St. Peter and St. Paul put to death about June 29. 
St. Linus, fuppofed firft; bilhop of Rome. 
68 Nero dies about June30, aged thirty-two. Succeeded 
by Galba. 
x S9 Galba 
