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The first Decemvirate or council of ten
at Rome.
Phedibas.
Birth of Demosthenes (died 328).
1921
Call of Abraham.
760
The Etruscans in Campania.
539
1920
Abraham arrives in Syria.
753
Athens establishes decennial instead of
cians.
Laws of the Twelve Tables or code of
380
538
Death of Aristophanes.
Isaac born.
752
Rome founded by Romulus.
Daniel interprets handwriting on the
449
laws instituted.
The Greeks defeat the Persians at Sala-
379
Height of Spartan power.
1896
1882 '
Death of Abraham.
wall.
1856
Kingdom of Argus founded.
750
perpetual Archons.
Sabine war follows the abduction of the
Cyrus conquers Babylon.
Recovery of the Cadmea by Pelopidas.
Reign of Ismi-dagon, who conquers As-
Sabine women.
Belshazzar, King of Babylon, is slain.
mus in Cyprus.
Cyrus ends the captivity of the Jews.
Virginius kills his daughter to save her
378
The Athenians allied with Thebes.
1850
syria.
Ethiopia independent.
536
Return of the first caravan to Jerusalem
from Appius Claudius.
318
Roman civil war between patricians and
First Decemvirate abolished.
plebeians.
1837
Birth of Jacob and Esau.
747
Babylon independent of Nineveh.
Law passed that one consul shall be a
Memnon invents the Egyptian alphabet.
League between Romans and Sabines.
under Zerubbabel and Joshua.
Appius Claudius, Rome.
1822
1800
Hykos in Egypt.
745
Pul assumes the name of Tiglath Pileser
Cyrus also subdues Phenicia.
448 Valerian and Horatian Laws.
plebeian.
375
Joseph sold into Egypt.
and founds the 2nd Assyrian Empire.
535 Rebuilding of the Temple commenced.
Thespis first exhibits tragedy.
Tyranny of the second Decemvirate.
Secession of the Plebs from Rome.
372
Battle of Leuctra, Greece.
1729
Assyria invades Palestine.
371
Peace between Athens and Sparta.
Victory of Epaminondas over the Spar-
1710
Arcadians emigrate to Italy and found a.
1706
colony.
743
Messenian wars.
534 Servius assassinated by Tulla, his daugh-
Abdication of the Decemvirs.
Jacob and his family settle in Egypt.
Sparta victorious.
tans at Leuctra.
Sesostris conquers Asia and Ethiopia.
741
Pekah, King of Israel, besieges Jeru-
Her husband, Tarquinius Superbus, be-
ter.
Second Sacred War in Greece.
447 Battle of Coronea, defeat of Athens.
Foundation of Megapolis.
comes King of Rome.
446
Syracuse subdues Agrigentum and de-
370
Jason of Phere assassinated.
1582 Beginning of the chronology of the Arun-
1618
salem. .
Alexander of Phere in Thessaly.
delian marbles, which were brought
740 Tiglath Pileser destroys Syria.
to England, in A. D. 1627.
Israel forms an
alliance with Syria
532 Polycrates, tyrant of Samos (put to death
B. C. 522).
feats the Etruscans.
367
Reign of Darius I. begins after assas-
445 Thirty years' truce between Athens and
Embassy of Pelopidas, the Greek, to
Persia.
1571 Moses born.
against Judah.
Male infants in Egypt destroyed.
730
Syria becomes subject to Assyria.
531
Shalmaneser subdues Israel.
sination of Smerdis, the Magian.
Sparta concluded.
Decline of the Athenian Empire.
Aristotle goes to Athens, and remains
with Plato twenty years.
1556
Athens founded.
Kingdom of Sparta formed.
726 Hezekiah abolishes idolatry in Judah.
529
Death of Cyrus.
Accession of Cambyses.
Revolt of Eubea and Megara.
Canuleian Laws, Rome.
1516
Expulsion of the Hykos from Egypt.
Shalmaneser IV. invades Phenicia.
366
Licinian laws passed at Rome.
Joshua slain by the High Priest.
723
525
Conquest of Egypt by Cambyses,
1530
Aahmes I. founds, 18th Egyptian dynasty.
721 Assyrians invest Samaria and carry the
Birth of Eschylus (died B. C. 456).
Nehemiah governor of Judea.
Birth of Zeno, the Stoic (died 264).
444
1500. The Kossean conquest of Babylon.
Ten Tribes into captivity.
The temple of Isis, Egypt, completed.
Athenian Colony to Thurii.
The Kingdom of Israel destroyed.
Smerdis usurps the Persian throne, de-
Pericles becomes supreme at Athens.
Institution of pretorship and curule
Rameses I. founds 19th Egyptian dy-
feated by Darius, 522.
Birth of Xenophon about this time (died
edileship at Rome.
717
Assyrians totally defeat the Hittites.
522
Death of Cambyses.
Commission of Nehemiah.
359).
365
First Plebeian consul elected.
nasty:'
Great Plague at Rome.
Arabians subdue Chaldea and establish
716
Assassination of Romulus.
Greeks colonize the Thracian Cherson-
The walls of Jerusalem rebuilt.
Legend of M. Curtius.
a new dynasty.
715 Numa Pompilius, King of Rome.
362-346 Rome wars with the Gauls, Etrus-
1497 Reign of Agenor, 1st king of Phenicia.
713
Sennacherib,
Egypt.
the Assyrian, invades
ese.
cans and Hernicans.
1493. Cadmus founds Thebes.
Lestos founded.
Roman Consular Tribunes established.
521-485 Reign of Darius I. (Hystaspis) King
443-338 The Parthenon at Athens built by
Battle of Mantinea (circa).
Discovery, of brass.
710 Sennacherib invades Judah.
Phidias.
Introduction of the alphabet into Greece.
185,000 Assyrians destroyed in one night
of Persia.
Victory and death of Epaminondas.
.1491
The passover instituted.
by an angel.
520
Sargon of Assyria conquers Babylon.
Sibylline books brought from Cume.
443 Herodotus flourishes in Greece.
Departure of the Israelites from Egypt.
Decree of Darius for re-building the
442 New constitution at Rome-censors and
360 The Samaritans build the Temple at
Temple at Jerusalem.
military tribunes appointed instead of
Gerizim.
709
consuls.
358
Kingdom of Pontus founded.
The law given from Mount Sinai.
698
Manasseh, King of Judah.
[490. Tabernacle established in the wilderness.
Gross idolatry in Judah.
518
Birth of Pindar (died B. C. 439).
Rome visited by a terrible famine.
Beginning of the Social War in Greece.
The Temple rebuilt and dedicated.
440-439 The Samian war.
440
Siege of Chios and Byzantium.
Death of Moses and Aaron. .
690
Gyges founds the 3rd Lydian dynasty.
515
Amphipolis taken by Philip II.
1451
Joshua leads the Israelites into Canaan.
686 Egypt divided betweeen 12 Kings.
1445 Joshua divides Canaan.
685-668 Second Messenian War, under Aris-
51
Insurrection in Athens.
Hipparchus slain.
Siege and reduction of Samos by Pericles.
Death of Spurius Melius-Rome.
357-352-347 Roman laws of debt.
Phocian (or Sacred) War begins.
1413 to 1136 Hebrews subject to six periods of
tomenes.
Hippias rules in Athens.
437
Cornelius Cossus and Lars Tolumnius.
Expedition of Dion to Sicily
bondage ..
684
Archonship at Athens made annual.
510
Croton destroys Sybaris.
356
Second Sacred War, the Phocians hav-
Othniel, first Judge in Israel,
681
Esar-haddon King of Assyria.
Expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome.
Second Spolia Opima, Rome.
436
Babylon becomes the second capital.
Birth of Isocrates (died 338).
Foundation of the Republic.
Rome declares war against the Etrus-
ing seized the Ten.ple of Delphi.
1402
434
Birth of Alexander the Great.
1400
King of Babylon marries the, daughter
Temple of Diana, at Ephesus, burned.
1394
of the Assyrian King:
683
Creon becomes first annual archon of
Junius Brutus and Tarquinius Collatinus
Ehud, second judge of Israel.
Athens.
consuls.
cans.
Corinth built ..
Samaria colonized by Assyrians.
672 Assyria conquers Egypt.
678
The Pisistride expelled from Athens.
433
Treaty between Athens and Corcyra.
Meton, astronomer, flourished.
Dion expels Dionysius from Syracuse.
Caius Marcius Rutilus first Plebeian Dic-
1884
Kurigalzu King of Babylon."
tator at Rome.
Eglon, King of Moab.
Psammeticus reigns in Egypt and en-
Athens a republic.
431 Peloponnesian War begins between
1380
671
355 End of the Social War in Greece.
1355
Israel wars with her neighbors.
670
courages intercourse with the Greeks ...
509
Commercial treaty between Carthage and
Athens and a confederacy with Sparta
Alban invasion and battles of the Horath"
.508
First treaty betweeen Rome and Car-
Rome.
at the head, lasting twenty-seven
Independence of Rhodes, Cos, Chios and
1350
Eleusinian' monasteries instituted.
thage.
years and ending in the defeat of
Athens.
354
Byzantium acknowledged by Athens.
1326
1321
King Thothmosis changes the Egyptian
and Curiatii.
First Valerian Laws.
calendar.
Rise of Magaria, Greece.
The Scythian Expedition of Darius.
Potidea besieged by the Athenians (tak-
Revolt of Artabazus, the Persian.
667-625 Reign of Assur-bani-pal, King of
Capitol at Rome completed and dedi -.
en in 429).
353
352
Siege of Methone, Greece.
Demosthenes delivers his first Philippie.
1320
Egyptian Obelisks erected.
Ruth the Moabitess marries Boaz.
Sea fight between Corinth and Corcyra.
cated.
Death of Pericles.
Phenicia revolts from the Persian mon-
665
Assyria.
507
Rise of Cleon.
Kingdom of Myacena created.
archy.
1313
1308
Lethos builds temple of Vulcan at Mem-
Tullius Hostillius defeats the Albans and
destroys Alba Longa.
504
Sardis burned by the Greeks.
phis.
501
Siege of Naxos by Aristagoras.
Battle of Mt. Algidus; the Equi and
351 C. Marcius Rutilus first Plebeian censor,
Rome .:
662
Thebes destroyed by Assyrians.
Titus Lartius made Dictator of Rome.
Volsci defeated.
Ionian revolt in Asia Minor.
430
429
The plague at Athens.
Plato born (died 347).
Sidonians revolt and destroy Sidon.
1296
Borak and Deborah in Israel.
1280 Pelops settles in South Greese.
660
Messany, Italy founded.
500
Burning of Sardis by the Ionians and
The Roman Popilius defeats the Gauls.
Buddha.
Athenians.
Siege of Platea.
350
1273 Rise of the Assyrian Empire.
Babylon conquered by the Assyrians.
Byzantium founded by Megarians under
Bysas.
499
498
The revolt of the Ionians (Greece).
10.
348
Olynthus taken by Philip of Macedon.
1250
-659
Naval victories of Phr
Treaty between Carthage and Rome.
428
655
Persia recovers Cyprus.
Revolt and fall of Mytiene.
346 Surrender of Phocis to Philip.
1249 Gideon, the greatest of the judges of
Bacchiadac expelled from Greece.
427
Battle of Lake Regillus.
Reduction of Mytilene.
First Athenian expedition to Sicily.
End of the Sacred War.
1240 Ramses-Sesostris reigns in Egypt.
Israel.
650 Median Monarchy founded.
49"
Philip admitted to the Amphyetionie
1209 Abimelech King of Israel.
645 Egypt independent of Assyria.
Tarquin and his Latin allies defeated by
First comedy of Aristophanes exhibited.
Council.
Dionysius recovers the tyranny.
1200
Proetus in Egypt.
642
Kaianite dynasty, Media, founded by
Romans.
First authentic date in Roman history.
Coreyrean massacre.
Demosthenes in Etolia.
343 First Samnite war begins.
1193 Trojan war begins.
1198
Helen carried off, by Paris.
Cyaxzares.
426
641 Cyrene founded.
496 Histieus, the Persian, sent to the coast
1184 Troy destroyed by Greeks.
640
Ancus Martius reigns in Rome.
by Darius.
Destruction in Fidene.
425
Reign of Xerxes II. followed by Log-
Battle of Mt. Gaurus.
Conquest of Syracuse by Timoleon.
1180 Rameses III. the last Egyptian native
Invasion
"Persia.
of Soythians who subjugate
495
Birth of Sophocles (died B. C. 406).
Revolt of the Ionians, aided by Athens,
dianus.
Sphacteria taken.
Expulsion of Dionysius.
Embassy of Demosthenes and others to
hero.
1171
Eli, High Priest in Israel.
Ostia, Italy, founded.
suppressed.
494 Tribunes at Rome appointed.
424
Darius II. reigns in Persia.
Philip.
Religious reformation under Josiah,
Patricians secede.
423
Congress of Sicilians at Gela.
Alcibiades begins to act in Athenian af -
342 Roman Genucian laws.
Mutiny at Lantule, Rome.
1152
1161 ' Israel wars against Amorites.
Alba Longa founded.
King of Judah.
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon
invades
632 Invasion of Assyria by the Scythians.
Independence of the Latins recognized.
fairs.
342-341 Philip of Macedon's expedition to
1150
Syria.
625 Babylon independent under Nabopolas-
493
Corioli taken by Caius Martius (Cori-
Thrace.
1143
Jepthah judge over Israel.
Nineveh taken by the Medes.
sar.
olanus.) The Latin League.
The Samanites (Rome) capture Valter-
nium.
Birth of Epicurus (died 270).
1136 Samson defeats the Philistines.
492
First Persian expedition, under Mar-
donius against Greece, is defeated and
423
Capua taken by the Samanites.
Assyrian Empire Ends.
419
Birth of Diogones the Cynic, (died 324).
340 Perinthus and Byzantium besieged by
Philip.
1130 Tiglath Pileser I. invades Babylonia.
1123 Samuel, judge and first prophet in
624
Periander at Corinth.
Victory of Timoleon over the Cartha-
Israel.
Legislation of Draco, Archon at Athens.
fleet destroyed near Mt. Athos.
In repairing the temple at Jerusalem,
491 Coriolanus banished from Rome.
He is
418
Battle of Mantinea.
Spartans defeated by Athens.
received by. the Volscians.
415
The Hebrew, Malachi, prophesies.
ginians at the Crimisus.
Battle of Mt. Vesuvius, Rome.
1112 Death of Samson.
1110 Tiglath Pileser seizes Babylon but is soon
Hilkiah discovers the Book of the law,
490 Second Persian expedition, under Datis
Invasion of Sicily by the Athenians un-
339
Second Roman Pubilian laws.
Third Sacred War begins between Philip
overcome.
and Josiah keeps a solemn passover.
and Artaphernes.
Eolians settle in. Asia Minor.
Their defeat, and victory of Miltiades at
der Nicias.
414 Siege of Syracuse.
and the Athenians.
1100 (circa) The Chow dynasty in China
1103
623
Jeremiah prophet.
Passover.
the battle of Marathon.
founded.
Tarquinius Priscus begins to reign in'
489 Coriolanus and the Volscians besiege
413
Defeat and surrender of Nicias to Gelip-
338 Philip general of the Amphyctionic
The Ark restored.
Rome.
412
First treaty between Sparta and Persia.
pus.
League.
616
Battle of Cheronea.
.
1095 Saul made first King of Israel.
Saul defeats the Philistines.
Rome.
Constitution of the Four Hundred at
Philip subjugates Greece.
1093
488 Coriolanus withdraws from siege of
1081
Birth of David.
615 The Capitol, Rome, begun in honor of
Rome at his mother's entreaty and is
337 First Roman Plebeian pretor.
Death of Samuel.
Jupiter, Juno and Minerva.
Pharaoh Necho II. Egypt, circumnavi-
486
slain by the Volscians.
Athens.
1075
Egyptian revolt.
Intrigues of Alcibiades with the Persi-
337-335 The Latin War begins; after two
years the Romans are victorious.
1056
Death of Saul and Jonathan, and acces-
ans.
sion of David.
gates Africa.
First Agrarian Law of Cassius proposed.
410 Beginning of the wars of Syracuse and
336
Murder of Philip.
1050
Tyre becomes the leading city.
610
Battle of Megiddo.
Accession of Alexander III. the Great.
Hirhor seizes the Egyptian throne.
Death of Josiah.
485
Accession of Xerxes I., King of Persia.
Gelon tyrant of Syracuse.
Carthage.
They continue seventy
David takes Jerusalem.
Necho II. Egypt, attempts to cut a canal
485
Recovery of Egypt by the Persians.
years.
408
Three plebeian questors of Rome elected.
335
Accession of Darius Codomanus.
Alexander destroys Thebes; is chosen
1048
1047
King Hiram, of Tyre, aids the Israelites.
across the Isthmus of Suez. Failure
Birth of-Herodotus (died after B. C. 409).
after a loss of over 100,000 men.
Second invasion of Sicily by the Cartha-
generalissimo of the Greeks, Athens
1044
Ionians settle in Asia Minor.
1040 David defeats the Philistines and recov-
605
The Circus Maximus, Rome, is erected.
483
Banishment of Aristides the Just by the
Athenians.
407
ginians.
334
having submitted.
ers the Ark.
Necho II. of Egypt defeated by Nebu-
chadnezzar.
481 `Athenian fleet built.
The Volscians defeat the Romans.
Battle of the Granicus.
Third and greatest invasion of Greece by
Rhodes founded.
Macedonian Empire formed.
406
Battle of Arginuse.
333
Alexander invades Persia.
The Ark removed to Jerusalem.
David, of Israel, subdues the Syrians.
Jeremiah's prophecy of the seventy
the Persians, ied by Xerxes.
Condemnation of the ten generals.
Battle of Issus.
1023 The revolt and death of Absalom.
years' captivity.
Death of David.
Nebuchadnezzar takes Jerusalem.
480
Battle of Thermopyle-fall of Leonidas.
Damascus taken and Tyre besieged by
Battle of Salamis-victory of Themisto-
Dionysius tyrant of Syracuse; reigns
thirty-eight years.
Alexander.
1015
332
Capture of Tyre and conquest of Egypt
1011
Solomon becomes King.
Jehoiakim, his vassal.
cles.
Solomon's Temple begun.
603
Daniel prophesies at Babylon.
Jehoiakim revolts from Babylon,
Xerxes destroys Athens.
405
The siege of Veil, Rome.
Battle of Egospotami.
Dionysius I.
by Alexander.
Completion and dedication of Solomon's
Alexandria, Egypt, founded on the
1004
602
Temple.
600 The Cloace Maxime (great sewers) of
First invasion of Sicily by Carthage.
Defeat of the Carthaginians by Gelon at
reigns in Syracuse.
The Queen of Sheba visits King Solomon.
Rome are built.
404 Athens taken by Lysander. End of the
Egyptian village Rhacotis.
Treaty between Alexander and Rome.
990
175 Death of Solomon.
598 Capture of Jerusalem by Nebuchadnez-
Himera.
Birth of Euripides (died B. C. 406.)
Peloponnesian War.
zar.
479-450 Anaxagorus (b. 500, d. 428) teaches
Government of the Thirty Tyrants at
Alexander visits Jerusalem and worships
Athens.
at the Temple.
Revolt of the Ten Tribes.
Division into kingdoms of Israel and
Second captivity.
Phenicia subdued by Alexander.
479
philosophy at Athens.
331
Occupation of Athens by Mardonius.
Spartan supremacy.
Battle of Arbela.
The kingdom of Israel established under
Judah.
597
Zedekiah made King over the remnant
of Judah.
Persians defeated at Platea and Mycale
Death of Alcibiades.
Subjugation of Persia.
and retreat from Greece.
403 Thrasybulus restores democratic govern-
Settlement of the Jews at Alexandria.
Jeroboam.
Syria recovers independence.
596
Persians invade Syria, and Syria con-
tinues a subject of Persia for three
477
Siege of Sestos.
Beginning of the supremacy of Athens.
402
ment at Athens.
Birth of Phocion (died 317.)
330
Darius III. assassinated.
Expedition of Cyrus the younger who
Demosthenes' oration for the crown.
centuries.
The Fabii perish in battle with the
401
594 Code of Solon at Athens published.
rebels; at the battle of Cunaxa he is
Persia becomes a part of the Macedonian
*Egyptian History is in a state of almost
Empire.
hopeless obscurity, the estimates of the great
590
The seven wise men of Greece flourish,
Veientes.
Egyptologers differing more than 3,000 years.
Solon,
Periander, Pittacus, Chilon,
475-478 Heiro I-at Syracu:o. :
defeated and slain and the "Retreat of
474 Esther and Mordecai.
ten thousand" Greeks under Xenophon
327-325 Campaigns of Alexander in India.
Voyage of Nearchus from the Indus to
The dates here given are generally accepted
Thales, Cleobulus and Bias.
by the greater rart of Chronologists.
War between Media and Lydia.
471 Banishment of Themistocles.
begins.
401-384 Ctesias flourished.
the Euphrates.
326 Roman servitude for debt abolished.
SUPPLEMENT XI.
ANCIENT, MEDIEVAL AND MODERN HISTORY.
324 Exile of Demosthenes.
B. C.
B. C.
217 The two Scipios sent to Spain.
B. C
102
Victory of Marius over the Teutones at
B. C.
323
Death of Alexander at Babylon.
216 Battle of Canne. Romans defeated with
8 Tiberius defeats the Germans.
A. D.
193 Pertinax, emperor of Rome, is murdered.
Alexander succeeded by Perdiccas as
Regent.
immense loss.
Aque Sexte (Aix).
Revolt of Capua.
Second Servile war breaks out in Sicily.
Diodorus Siculus, historian, flourished.
4 Birth of Jesus Christ, according to Ush-
Didius Julianus buys the empire. Is op-
Antipater in Macedonia.
101 Victory of Marius over the Cimbri at
posed by Pescennius Niger and Sep-
timius Severus and killed.
Lysimachus in Thrace.
Alliance of Hannibal with Philip V. of
Cassander in Greece.
Macedon.
Vercelle and end of the war.
- er's system.
214-212 Siege and capture of Syracuse by
100
Battle of Campus Raudius.
A.
D.
Death of Herod, king of Judea.
194
Septimius Severus sole emperor.
Tiberius commands on the Rhine.
Defeat and death of Niger.
Antigonus in Syria.
Marcellus.
Birth of Julius Cesar.
C. Marius born 157 (died 86). Sixth Ro-
196
Severus captures Byzantium after a siege
Eumenes in Cappadocia.
Seleucus at Babylon.
214
First Commercial War.
Byzantium and Rhodes.
man Consul.
Birth of Seneca (died A. D. 65).
L. App. Saturninus Tribune (Rome).
Judea a Roman province under Syria.
of three years.
197 Temple of the Sun at Baalbec.
Second Samnite War, lasts twenty-one
9 Destruction of the Romans under Varus
years.
212
Battle of Anitorgis.
Antipater, a Macedonian general, defeats
Greek works of art brought to Rome.
95 Birth of Lucretius (died 55).
96
Ptolemy Apion leaves Cyrene
and three legions by the Germans under
Battle of Lyons.
211 Greece concludes treaty with the Roma.is
92 Sulla on the Euphrates.
Hermann.
Death of Albinus.
198
Caracalla named Augustus.
Athens and allies.
322 Ptolemy I., surnamed Soter, receives the
against Philip V. of Macedon.
Defeat and death of the two Scipios in
90-88 The Social or Marsic War in Italy.
Romans defeated by Charusci under Ar-
minius.
Defeat of Parthians by Romans.
202 Persecution of the Christians.
204
Egyptian Kingdom.
Phenicia annexed to Egypt by Ptolemy
Spain by Hasdrubal.
The Marsians, at first successful, are fin-
Banishment of Ovid.
Birth of Plotinus, philosopher (died 274).
Capua recovered by Rome.
ally defeated.
88-84 First Mithridatie War.
14 Death of Augustus Cesar.
209 Invasion of Britain by Severus. His wall
321 First war among the "successors .of
Soter I.
Conquest of Judea by Antiochus.
Hannibal before Rome.
Mithridates seizes Athens.
Accession of Tiberius Cesar.
Accession of Artatanus in Parthia.
211
completed, 220.
Death of Severus at York.
Alexander."
Battle of the Caudine Forks.
208
Battle of Metaurus.
Civil War of Marius and Sulla and expul-
14-16 Campaigns of Germanicus In Germany.
7 Germanicus in Parthia and the East.
Caracalla and Geta emperors.
sion of Marius.
Roman citizenship extended to the whole
Romans terribly defeated by Pontius and
pass under the Samnite yoke.
207
Battle of Elinga.
Battle of the Metaurus; Hasdruba' de-
Sulla occupies Rome.
19
Death of Germanicus.
87
Marius retakes Rome.
War between Artabarus and Marbad.
empire.
320
Ptolemy Soter takes Jerusalem.
feated and slain by the Romans.
Gold money first coined in Rome.
86
Proscription.
20
Revolt and Siege of Egyptian Thebas.
Valerius Maximus.
212 Geta murdered.
Caracalla, sole emperor.
Revolt of Phenicia.
Jewish settlements in Egypt and Cyrene.
205
204
Ptolemy V. The decline of Egypt.
M. Elino Sejanus dominant at Rome.
213 Death of Clement of Alexandria.
817
Agathocles at Syracuse.
P. Cornelius Scipio conducts the war
Death of Marius and return of Sulla.
23
Pretorian camp at Rome.
Pontius Pilate Governor of Judea.
315
in Africa.
Athens stormed by Sulla.
214 First contact of the Romans with the
Siege of Utica.
Birth of Sallust (died 34).
26-37 Tiberias retires to Capre.
Alamanni German tribes on the upper
Thebes rebuilt by Cassander.
Conquest of Antigonus of Phrygia.
Hannibal leaves Italy.
85
Tigranes at war with Rome.
Sulla makes peace with Pontus, king of
30 The Crucifixion, according to Eusebius.
217
Rhine.
Macrinus emperor.
314
Palestine under Antigonus.
203
Roman victory at Cinna.
Attalus and Rhodians war with Philip.
84
authorities give A. D. 29 as the proper
218 Heliogabalus emperor.
the Mithridates.
Lactantius, Augustine, Origen, and other
222
Alexander Severus emperor.
313
Samnite victory at Lantule.
202
Defeat of Hannibal at Zama, in Africa,
312
Battle of Gaza.
by Scipio Africanus.
83
War with Marian party in Italy.
year.
201 Treaty of peace between Rome and Car-
Tigranes I. of Armenia annexes Phrygla.
Sextus Empiricus, philosopher, flour-
Agrippina I. banished.
ishes.
Victory of Ptolemy and Seleucus over
Demetrius Poliorcetes.
thage; end of the Second Punic War.
83
82
Birth of Marcus Antonius (died 30).
31
Marco, Perfect of Pretorians, upon fall
226
Dissolution of the Parthian Empire and
200-197 First Macedonian War.
Thebes destroyed.
Pyrrhus king of Epirus.
Allies attack Macedon and defeat Philip.
Second Civil War
37
of Sejanus.
Accession of Caligula, Rome.
end of Arecide.
Foundation of the new Persian Kingdom
Appius Claudius censor.
198
T. Quintus Flaminius proclaims liberty to
Victory at the Colline gate.
of the Sassanide by Ardshir (Arta-
40
Appian Way and aqueduct.
- Occupation of Rome.
Birth of Josephus (died 97).
The great Roman military road com-
the Greeks.
Syria becomes independent of Egypt.
Sulla becomes Dictator.
Philo Senior ambassador to Rome.
Abdication of Sulla. Dies in 78.
Birth of Plutarch-died 120.
xerxes).
41
Claudius Emperor of Rome.
Ulpian (lawyer) died.
pleted.
231 Persian War begins.
228
312-160 Sandracottus, Indian empire.
197
Battle of Cynocephale.
79
The Cornelian Laws of Rome.
42
Claudius conquers Mauretania.
233
Triumph of Severus.
311-309 The Etruscan War.
Philip defeated by Flaminius.
79-72 Civil war of Sertorius in Spain; and of
Birth of Quintilian-died 118.
235 Maximin murders Severus and succeeds
310
L. Papirius Cursor, Roman Dictator.
Palestine and Cele-Syria conquered by
Antiochus the Great, and confirmed to
43
Expedition of Claudius to Britain.
78
Lepidus and Catulus in Italy.
Successes of Aulus Plautius.
236
to the throne.
238
Persecution of the Christians.
308
Agathocles defeated at Himera.
Alexandra Queen of Judea.
Fabius crosses Ciminian Hills; defeats
him by the peace with Rome.
Birth of Martial-died 104.
The Gordiani, Pupienus and Balbinu
the Tuscans at Vadimon.
The Rosetta Stone written.
75 Nicomedes III. leaves Bithnia to Rome.
74-65 Third Mithridatic War.
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