CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE Ог REMARKABLE EVENTS, DISCOVERIES, AND INVENTIONS. TO THE PRESENT TIME. Bef. Chrift. 4005 HE creation of the world, and Adam and Eve. 4003 TH The birth of Cain. 2348 The old world is deftroyed by a deluge. 2247 The Tower of Babel built about this time. 2231 Cerential obfervations are begun at Babylon, the city which first gave birth to learning and the fciences. 2188 Mifraim, the fon of Ham, founds the kingdom of Affyria. 2059 Ninus, the fon of Betus, founds the kingdom of Affyria. 1921 The covenant of God made with Abram. 1897 Sodom and Gomorrah destroyed. 1822 Memnon, the Egyptian, invents the letters. 1635 Jofeph dies in Egypt, which concludes the book of Genefis. 1474 Aaron born in Egypt; 1490, appointed by God first high-prieft of the If raelites. 1571 Moses, brother to Aaron, born in Egypt, and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter. 1493 Cadmus carries the Phoenician letters into Greece, and builds the citadel of Thebes. 1491 Mofes performs a number of Miracles in Egypt, and departs from that kingdom, together with the Ifraelites 1485 The fift hip that appeared in Greece is brought from Egypt by Danaus. 1453 The first Olympic games celebrated at Olympia, in Greece. 1451 The Ifraelites fix themfelves in Canaan. 1406 Iron is found in Greece, from the accidental burning of the woods. 1372 The Milefians arrive from Spain in Ireland. 1263 Argonautic expedition. 1048 David is fole king of Ifrael. 1004 The Temple folemnly dedicated by Solomon. 896 Elijah, the prophet, tranflated to Heaven. 294 Money first made of gold and filver at Argos. 809 The city of Carthage, in Africa, founded by queen Dido. 814 The kingdom of Macedon begins. 776 The arft Olympiad begins. 753 Rome built by Romulus, first king of the Romans. 720 Samaria taken, after three years fiege, and the kingdom of Ifrael finished, bý Salamanafar, king of Affyria, who canies the ten tribes into captivity. The first eclipfe of the moon on record. 658 Byzantium (now Conftant nople,) built by a colony of Athenians. 600 Thales, of Miletus, travels into Egypt, acquires the knowledge of geometry, aftronomy, and philofophy; returns to Greece, calculates eclipfes, gives general notions of the univerfe, and maintains that one fupreme Intelligence regulates all its motions. Maps, globes and the figns of the Zodiac, invented by Anaximander, the fcholar of Thales. $87 The city of Jerufalem taken, after a siege of 18 months. 659 Cyrus, the firft king of Perfia. 538 The kingdom of Babylon destroyed; that city being taken by Cyrus, who, in 536, iffues an edit for the return of the Jews. $15 The fecond temple at Jerufalem is finifhed under Darius. 09 Tarquin, king of the Romans, expelled. 481 Xerxes the Great, king of Perfia, begins his expedition against Greece. 468 Ezra is fent from Babylon to Jerufalem, with the captive Jews and the velf-ls of gold and filver, &c. being feventy weeks of years, or 490 years before the crucifixion of our Saviour. 454 The Romans fendt Athens for Solon's laws. 451 The Decemvirs created at Rome, and the laws of the Twelve Tables compiled and ratified. 430 The hiftory of the Old Teftament fiaithes about this time. 401 Retreat of 10.000 Greeks under Xeaophon. 400 Socrates. the founder of moral o l'ofophy among the Greeks, believes the im mortality of the foul and a fate of rewards and punishmens, fo which, and other fublime do&ines. Te is put to death by the Athomans, who foon after repent, and ere& to his me ao y a it tue of bids. 379 Baotian war commences in Greece, finished in 306, alter the death of Epaminondas, the laft of the Gierian heroes. 336 Philip, king of Macedon, murdered. 331 Alexander, king of Macedon, conquers Davits, king of Perfia. 323 Dies at Babylon, and his empire is divided by his generals i to four kingdoms, after deftroying his wives, children, brother, and nits. 285 Dionyfius, of Alexand in. begins h's aft onomicalæra on Monday June 26, being the firit who found the exact folar year to confift of 365 days, 5 hours and 49 minutes 284 Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt, employs feventy-two interpreters to tranflate the Old Teftament into the Greek language, which is called the Septuagint. 269 The first coinage of filver at Rome. 264 The firl Punic war begins, and continues 23 years. 265 The Romans firit concern themselves in naval affairs, and defeat the Carthagenians at fea. 218 The fecond Punic war begins and continues 17 years. Hannibal paffes the Alps, and defeats the Romans in feveral battles. 190 The first Roman army enters Alia, and from the fpoils of Antiochus, bringe the Afiatic luxury first to Rome. 170 Eighty thousand Jews maffacied by Antiochus Epiphanes. 146 Peifeos defeated by the Romans, which ends the Macedonian kingdom. 167 The first library erected at Rome. of books brought from Macedonia. 163 Carthage razed to the ground by the Romans. 145 An hundred thousand inhabitants of Antioch malfacred in one day by the Jews. 52 Julius Cæfar makes his first expedition into Britain. 47 The battle of Pharfalia between Cæfar and Pompey, in which the latter is defeated. The Alexandrian Library, confifting of 400.000 valuable books, burnt by accident. 45 The war of Africa, in which Cato kills himself. The folar year introduced by Cæfar. 44 Julius Cæfar killed in the fenate-houfe at Rome. 43 Brutus, one of the confpirators against Cæfar, and chief of the republicans, being vanquished in the battle of Philippi, kills himself. 41 The battle of Actium fought, in which Mark Anthony and Cleopatra are totally defeated by tais, nephew of Julius Cæfar 27 Octavius, by a decree of the fenate, obtains the title of Augufus Cæfar, and an abfolute exemption from the laws, and is properly the firit Roman emperor 25 Coin firft ufed in Britain. 8 Rome at this time is fifty miles in circumference, and contains 463,000 men fit to bear arms. A. C. The temple of Janus fhut by Auguftus, as an emblem of univerfal peace; and JESUS CHRIST fuppofed te have been born on Monday, December 25, but according to many, in September, during the Jewish feast of tabernacles. 12 JESUS CHRIST hears the Doctors in the Temple, and afks them queflions, Is baptifed in the Wilderness. 27 (c) 33 Is crucified on Friday, April 3, at 3 o'clock P. M. His refurrection on Sunday, April 5: his Afcenfion, Thursday May 14 40 The naine of Chriftians first given at Antioch to the followers of Chrift. 49 London founded by the Romans, 51 Carattacus, the British king, carried in chains to Rome. 59 The tyrant Nero puts his mother and brothers to death. 61 Boadicea, the British quen, defeats the Romans; but is conquered foon af ter by Suetonius, governor of Britain. 62 St Paul is fent in bonds .o Rome, writes his epiftles between 51 and 66. 63 The Acts of the Apoftles written. Chriftianity fuppeled to be introduced into Britain by St. Paul, or fome of his difciples about this time 64 Rome fet on fire, and burued for fix days; upon which began (under Nero) the fift perfecution against the Chriftians. 67 St Peter and St. Paul put to death. 70 Titus takes Jerufalem, which is razed to the ground, and the plough made to pafs over it. 79 Herculaneum overwhelmed by an eruption of Mount Vefuvius. 135 The fecond Jewish war ends, when all the Jews are banished Judea. 152 The emp or Antoninus Pius ftops the perfecution against the Chriftians. 274 Silk fit brought from India. gcb Constantine the Great begins his reign 313 Conflentine terminates the tenth perfecution, favours the Chriftians, and gives fuil liberty to their religion. 325 The fi ft general council at Nice. 3-8 Constantine removes the feat of empire from Rome to Byzantium, which is from that time called Conftantinople. 331 Conftantine orders all the heathen temples to be defroyed. 363 The empe or fus , farnamed the Apoflate, endeavors in vain to re-build the temple of Jerufalem. 410 Rome taken and plunde ed by Alaric, king of the Vifi-Goths. 420 The kingdom of France begins under Pharamond. 455 The Saxons having repulfed the Scots and Picts, invite over more of their countrymen, and begin to establish themfelves in Kent, under Hengift. 476 The waften empire entirely deft oyed. 49 Clovis, king of France, baptifed, and Christianity begins in that kingdom. 510 Pars becomes the capital of France. 516 The computing of time by the Christian æra is introduced by Dionyfius the monk. 529 Juftinian's code is publifhed. 557 A terrible plague in Europe, Afia, and Africa, which continues near 50 years. 581 Latin ceafed to be fpoken about this time in Italy 622 Mahomet flies from Mecca to Medina, in Arabia. His followers compute their time from this era, which in Arabic is called Hegira, i. e. the Flight. T 637 Jerufalem taken by the Saracens. 64 Gials invented in England by Benalt, a mork. 685 The Britons, after a itruggie of Lear 150 years, are driven by the Saxons, into Wales and Cornwall. 748 The computing of years from the birth of Chrift begins to be used in hiftory. 855 Charlemagne, king of Fiance, begins the empire of Gerinaey, afterwards called the Western empire; and endeavours in vain to reltore learning in Europe. $28 Egbert, king of Weffex, unites the Heptarchy, by the name of England. 886 Juries Art jaflituted. 896 Alfred the Great, after fubduing the Danish invaders, compofes his bady of laws divides England into counties, hundreds, and rythings; erects county courts, and founds the university of Oxford about this time. 915 The univerfity of Cambridge founded.'" 1000 Paper made of cotton rags is in ufe; that of linen rags in 1170; the manufactory introduced into England at Dartford, 1588. 1015 Children forbidden by law to be fold by their patents in England. 1017 Canute, king of Denmark, gains poffeffion of England. 1040 The Danes about this time driven out of Scotland. 1043 The Turks become for nidable, and take poffeffiom of Perfia. 1054 Leo IX. the first pope that kept up an army 1057 Malcolm III king of Scotland, kills the tyran Macbeth at Dunfinane. 1065 The Turks take Jerufalem from the Saracens. 1066 The battle of Haitings fought, between Harold and William. duke of Normandy, in which Harold is conquered and flain, after which William be comes king of England. 1070 William introduces the feuda! law into England. 109. The Sa acens in Spain being hard preffed by he Spaniards, call to their affiftance Jofeph, king of Morocco; by which the Moors get poffeflion of all the Saracen dominions in Spain. 1096 The fit crufade to the Holy Land began. 1110 Good Sands formed by the fea overflowing 4000 acres belonging to carl Good win of Kent. 1151 The canon law collected by Gratian, a monk of Bologno. 1172 Henry II. of England, invades Ireland. 1176 England is divided, by Henry, into fix circuits, and justice is difpenfed by itinerant judges. 1200 Surnames now begin to be ufed; first among the nobility 1215 Magna Charta is figned by king John and the barons of England; and the following year it is granted to the Irish. 1227 The Taitais under Gingis-Khan, emerge from the northern parts of Afia over-run the Saracen empire; and in imitation of former conquerors, carry, death and defolation wherever they march. 1233 The Inquifition, which begun in 1204, is now eatruffed to the Dominicans. 1264 According to fome writers, the commons of England were not fummoned to parliament till this period. 1293 There is a regular fucceffion of parliaments from this year, being the 22d of Edward I. 1302 The marine's compafs invented. or improved by Gioia, of Naples. 1397 The beginning of the Swifs cantons. 1308 The popes remove to Avignon in France for 70 years 1314 The battle of Bannockburn between Edward II. and Robert Brace, which eftablishes the latter on the throne of Scotland. 1320 Gold fift coined in Christendom; 1344 ditto in England. 1337 The fift comet whole courfe is defcribed with aft onomical exactness. 134 Gun-powder and guns first invented by Swartz, a monk of Cologne, in Germany; 1345. Edward III, had four pieces of cannon, which contributed to gain him the battle of Creffy; 1345, bombs and mortars invented. 1356 The battle of Poitiers, in which king John of France and his fou are taken prifoners by Edward the Black Prince. 1352 The law pleadings in En land changed from French to English. 1412 Denmark united with the crown of Norway. 1428 The fiege of Orleans, the first blow to the English power in France, by the celebrated Maid of Orleans. She is afterwards taken piifoner, and bafely put to death. 1440 Laurentius of Haerlem in Holland invents the art of printing. 1414 The fea breaks in at Dort, in Holland, and drowns 100.000 people. 1453 Conftantinople taken by the Turks, which utterly overthrows the Roman Empire. 1483 Richard III. of England, defeated and killed at the battle of Bofworth. 1489 Maps and fea-charts fir brought to England by Bartholomew Columbus. 1491 William Caxton the first printer in England. 1492 Chriftopher Columbus, a native of Genoa, after having to no purpose, folicit ed the affittance of the different courts of Europe, is at lait enabled to proceed on a voyage of difcoveries, by the court of Spain, August 3d. and on the 11th October following, he difcovers the ifland St. Salvador, now St. Chriftopher's; foon after he falls in with feveral others of the Weft-India iflands. 1494 St. Euftatia difcovered by Columbus. 1497 The Portuguese firit fail to the East Indies by the Cape of Good Hope. Florida difcovered by Sebastian Cabot, a native of Bristol. South America difcovered by Americus Vefpufius from whom the continent has its name. 129 North America difcovered for Henry VII. of England, by Cabot. 15 Bil delcove ed by Pent on. 19 The Idd of Jamaica teled by Spain. 1515. A bumperçi Dominican Friars arrive in Hifpaniola, to preach the gofpel to te Ind aus. 1515 Paraguay, or La Plata, difcovered by the Spaniards; and fettled by them, 1535 1517 Mtn Luther begins t› preach against the doctrines of the church of Rome. 1513 Megaban, is the in vice of Spain, dilcovers the fats now known by his name, between Teria del Fuego ad the continent of South America. He was killed by inhabitants of the Marianne flnds, 1520. The R public of Geneva founded. 1529 The name of PROTESTAN takes its rife from the opponents of the Church of Rome, having PROTESTED agamit the doctrines of that church at the der of spires in Germany. 1530 Copernicus levives the Pythagorean fyftem of Aftronomy. 1533 Pizarra, with an army of 160 men, after many teacher es and cruelties, fuddues the whole country of Peru, in South America. 1534 The Protestant relig.on commences in En la d ur der Henry the VIII. Sir James Cartier difcovers the bay of St. Lawrence. 1537 California dricovered by Fernando Cortez; is taken poffeffion of by Sir Francis Drake, who had his right to it confined by the king of the country, 1573 1535 Cai non firit made "fe of. 1569 The first English edition of the Bible authorifed; the tranflation now in general ufe was finished 1611. 154 The f mous council of Trest begins and continues 18 years. 151 P of mountain, ic contams the nicheit mine in America, difcovered. 1549 Bant ft.ed by the Portuguese. 1553 Circulation of the blood through the lungs first published by Michael Servetus 1560 Join Krox eff as the ablishment of the Prefbyterian religion in Scotland. 1502 Jon Rr.bait. w.d fleet from France, difcovers the river St Mary; builds fort Chydes, and Leaves a colony; which foon after mutinies, and is cut off by the Spa i ds, 1564. 1563 Knives him, de mi land. 155 Po atees n bought to I land from New Spain. 1572 The atrocious maffècie of Proteftants a. P, Auguft 24th. 1577 St Francis Dake, the fit bug! th cacun -nav gator, iett fail on his voyage round e world; and returs 1585. 1579 The Durca dirike of the Spanish yoke, and what is now called the Republic of Holland commences 182 Pope Gory introduces the New Style; the fifth October being accounted the 15; 1583 Tobacco, which had been fuft difcovered by the Spaniards in Yucatan in the year 1520, is introduced into England. 1584 13 July. Iwo fips con radioned by Sir Walter Raleigh, who had ob tamed a patent bom Queen Elizabeth for fuch lands as he might difcover 1 ot belonging to any Choian Pince, anchor in a barbour feven le, ques well of the Roanoke, take polleffion of the country in a formal manner, and in honour of their VIRGIN Queen, deno..inate it Virginia. 1585 Davis's St arts difcovered. 1587 Mary que n o. Scots is cruelly bel eaded by order of queen Elizabeth of Engi land, after 18 years imprisonment. 1588 Paper hit manufactured in England The Sparifh aur da defroyed by D ake and other English admirals. Proteliants. 1589 Coaches i.it utroduced into England. 1590 Telescopes invented by Janfen, a Dutchman. 1895 Caribbee 1fles difcever d. 1597 Watches full brought into England from Germany. 1602 New England discovered by Captain Golnola; had the name of New Eng land given it by Captain John Smith' who drew a map of it, 1614. |