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CHRONOLOGY. [After Christ. 
69 Galba put to death January i 5 . Otho, being defeated 
at Bedriacfira, kills liimfelf, April 20. Vitellius’s army 
defeated near Cremona, Oftober 29. Vefpafian be¬ 
comes emperor of Rome. 
70 Titus takes and deftroys Jerufalem on Saturday Sep¬ 
tember 8. 
71 Jofephus lived about this time; died in 93, aged 56. 
73 The philofophers expelled Rome. 
74 Silius Italicus flouriflted about this time 5 when he died 
is uncertain. 
77 The Parthians revolt. Julius Agricola governor of 
Britain, 
79 Vefpafian dies, June 24, aged fixty-nine. Herculaneum 
and Pompeii are buried by an irruption of mount Ve- 
fuvius, November 1. Pliny the hiftorian dies. 
81 Titus dies, September 13, aged forty-one, having 
reigned’but two years, and is fucceeded by Domitian. 
Martial lived at this time ; died in 104, aged 85. 
86 The Capitol'ine games inftituted by Domitian about 
January 12, and celebrated every fourth year. 
88 The Secular games celebrated, The war of Dacia be¬ 
gins, and continues fifteen years. Epictetus the ftoic. 
89 Quintilian lived at this time. 
90 Agrippa of Bithynia, the mathematician, flourilhed. 
91 Statius of Naples, the poet; he died in 96. 
92 Cornelia Maximilla the veftal is buried alive for her 
proftitution. Agrippa obferves in Bithynia a con¬ 
junction of the moon with the pleiades, November 29, 
five hours before midnight. St. Ignatius. 
93 Tacitus the hiftorian ; he died after the year 99. 
95 The fecond perfecution againft the Chriftians begins 
about November, and continues till Domitian’s death. 
Juvenal the poet; died in 128. 
96 Domitian is put to death by Stephanus and the other 
confpirators, September 18, aged forty-five. 
98 Nerva dies, January 27, aged feventy-two. Menelnus 
obferved at Rome a tranfit of the moon over the fpica 
of Virgo, January 11, five hours after midnight, 
99 Death of John the Evangelift, aged ninety-two. 
301 Of the Julian period 4814; of Rome S54. 
302 Pliny junior being proconful in Bithynia, fends Tra¬ 
jan his famous account of the Chriftians, contained 
in lib.' x. ep. 97. 
103 Dacia is reduced by Trajan to a Roman province. 
106 Trajan’s expedition into the eaft againft the Parthians. 
307 The third perfecution againft the Chriftians. 
109 Plutarch flouriftied; died in 119. 
hi Suetonius the hiftorian flouriftied about this time. 
114 Trajan erefts his famous column at Rome in autumn. 
.ZElian flourilhed; died in 140, aged fixty. 
115 An infurreftion of the Jews of Cyrene. 
116 Lucius Annteus Florus flourilhed. 
317 Trajan dies at Selinus in Cilicia, Auguft 10, aged 
fixty-four. Theon fenior the aftronomer, of Smyrna. 
318 The fourth perfecution againft the Chriftians. 
121 Adrian builds the wall in Great Britain from Carlille 
to Newcaftle. 
126 Adrian goes into Alia and Egypt for feven years. 
327 Ariftides, a pbilofopher, of Athens, lived at this time. 
330 Adrian rebuilds Jerufalem, and raifes there a temple 
to Jupiter. Cofroes, king of the Parthians. 
331 The Jews rebel, and begin a fecond war. St. Poly¬ 
carp flouriftied ; died in 167. 
332 Salvius Julianus compiles the perpetual edifi, which 
was the body of laws for the praetors. Barcocheba 
the Jew dies. 
333 A11 eclipfe of the moon obferved by Ptolemy at Alex¬ 
andria, on Tuefday, May 6, nh. 15 m. P.M. 
135 The Jewifli war ends, when they were all banilhed 
Judea, and temples raifed to Venus, &c. in all their 
holy places, which continued about 180 years. 
336 The fecond great canicular year of the Egyptians be¬ 
gins July 20. Arrian the hiftorian and philofoplier. 
338 Adrian dies at Bais, July 10, aged feventy-two. 
339 Juftin Martyr writes liis firft apology for the Chrif- 
tiansj dies in 163. 
140 Ptolemy obferves the vernal equinox at Alexandria, 
March 22, about one o’clock in the afternoon. 
141 A number of herefies appear about this time. 
■143 Appian the hiftorian wrote about this time. 
145 Antoninus defeats the Moors, and afterwards the 
Germans and Dacians. 
146 The worftiip of Serapis is introduced at Rome by the 
emperor, and his myfteries were celebrated, May 6. 
148 Juftin the hiftorian, and Auius Gellius the gramma, 
vian, fiourillied. 
152 Antoninus flops the perfecution againft the Chriftians. 
156 Attiiius Titianus is put to death by the fenate for 
afpiring to the empire, which is the only inftance 
of proicription in the reign of Antonius Pius. 
161 Antonius Pius dies March 7, aged 75. Marcus Au¬ 
relius fucceeds. A new war begins with the Parthians, 
and continues three years. Hermogenes became an 
ideot at the age of twenty-four. 
163 Galen flourilhed, died in 193, aged feventy. 
169 The war with the Marcomanrri begins. 
174 The war with the Mafcomanni, Vandals, &c. finilhed 
by Antonius. 
175 Avidius Caflius rebels, and is flam. 
177 Another war with the Marcomanni, which lafts three 
years. 
178 Diogenes Laertius lived at this time, died about 222. 
180 Marcus Aurelius dies at Sirmium in Pannoma, 
March 17, aged 59 ; Commodus fucceeds. Lucian 
died about this time, aged ninety. 
181 Commodus makes peace with the Germans and re¬ 
turns to Rome. 
183 A violent war in Britain ended by Marcellus. 
185 Lucilla confpires againft her brother Commodus, and 
is put to death. 
188 Maternus confpires in Spain, and comes into Italy. 
191 Commodus is put to death by Martha and Lsetus, 
December 31, aged thirty-one. Pertinax is killed, 
March 28, upon which four different perlons aflume 
the empire, viz.Julianus, PefceniusNiger*Severus,and 
Albinus. Niger defeated by S. Severus, in the battle 
of Iflus, who befieges Byzantium for three years. 
Difputes firft begin about the time of Eafter. 
198 Aibinus is defeated in Gaul and killed at Lyons, Fe¬ 
bruary 19. 
200 Severus goes into the eaft and conquers the Par¬ 
thians, and continues there and in Egypt three years. 
20X Of the Julian period, 4914 ; of Rome, 954. 
202 The fifth perfecution againft the Chriftians begins 
about April, and continues two years. 
204 The facular games celebrated at Rome,' in the be¬ 
ginning of June. 
206 Clemens Alexandrianus and Minutius Felix. 
207 Severus goes into Britain, where he continues till he 
dies. 
209 Severus builds his wall acrofs Britain, from the Firth 
of the Forth. 
211 Severus dies at York, February 4, aged fixty-fix. 
212 Caracalla kills his brother Geta and many others, 
March 28. 
213 Oppian flouriflted; time of his death uncertain. 
217 The Septuagint found in a cafk. Caracalla is killed 
near Ecleffa by Macrinus, April 8, aged forty-three. 
218 Macrinus is put to death by the loldiers, June 7; 
Fleliogabalus fucceeds. 
22© Julius Africanus the chronologer, lived at this time. 
222 The Goths have an annual tribute not to invade the 
empire. Heliogabalus dies March 19, aged eighteen. 
Alexander Severus becomes emperor. 
228 The kings of the Parthians, furnamed Arfacides, end, 
being conquered by Artaxerxes, king of Perfiar Dion 
Caflius the hiftorian. 
231 Origen flouriftied till 254. 
232 Ammonius begins a fcliool of platonic philofophers 
at Alexandria. 
234 Alexander marches into the Eaft, defeats the Perfians 
and triumphs afterwards at Rome, September 25. 
235 The 
