Finding the great advantage of accustoming boys to draw outline maps on a scale, I have provided a geographical copy-book, adapted to the maps of D'Anville's Geography, which may be had either with or without this volume; it did not appear necessary to provide a similar book for modern Geography, as they may be readily procured from any bookseller. Shrewsbury School, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. B.C. 4004 2348 2247 2059 1996 1728 1571 1556 1493 Creation of the world. The deluge. Tower of Babel built, and confusion of lan guages. The Assyrian empire founded. Birth of Abraham. Joseph sold into Egypt. Moses born. Kingdom of Attica founded by Cecrops. The five books of Moses written, who dies the next year. Minos the Cretan lawgiver. Eleusinian mysteries introduced at Athens by Argonautic expedition. Theban war. 1452 1406 1356 1263 1225 1184 Troy taken. Return of the Heraclidæ to the Peloponnese. Codrus last king of Athens. Settlement of the Ionian colonies in Asia Minor. Dedication of Solomon's temple. Kingdoms of Israel and Judah divided. Era of Homer and Hesiod. 896 Elijah taken up to heaven. 884 869 Lycurgus the Spartan lawgiver. 820 Sardanapalus, last king of Assyria. Median empire founded. a 1. 4. liv. 3. liv. 4. 177 776 Corcbus conquers, at the O- 757 Isaiah begins to prophesy. of Ithome. 721 Kingdom of Israel finished by the taking of Samaria by Salmanasar king of Assyria. 685 Second Messenian war; continues 14 years to the taking of Ira after a siege of 11 years. Age of Tyrtæus and Archilochus. 684 Annual Archons established at Athens. 659 Cypselus usurps the govern- 623 Draco the Athenian lawgiver. 587 Jerusalem taken by Nebuchad- months. 577 Death of Jeremiah the prophet. 192 | 562 First comedy acted at Athens by Susarion and Dolon. 561 Pisistratus usurps the sovereign power at Athens. 193 Ol. lv. 2. JA. U. C. B. C. 195 lviii. 1. 206 lx. 2. 215 lx. 3. 216 lxi. 1. 218 lxiii. 4. 229 lxiv. 4. 233 lxvii. 3. 244 lxxi. 4. 559 Persian empire founded upon the Median by Cyrus. Age of Anaximenes, Bias, Anaximander, Phalaris, and Cleobulus. 548 Croesus, last king of Lydia, conquered by Cyrus. Age of Theognis and Pherecydes. 539 Marseilles built by the Pho- 538 Babylon taken by Cyrus. 525 Egypt conquered by Cam- 521 Darius Hystaspes, king of Persia. Age of Confucius the Chinese Philosopher. 510 Tyranny of the Pisistratidæ abolished at Athens. 509 Expulsion of the Tarquins from Rome. End of the regal, and establishment of the consular government. 504 Sardis burnt by the Athenians, which causes the invasion of Greece by the Persians. Age of Heraclitus, Parmenides, Milo the wrestler, Aristagoras, &c. 256 498 Lartius the first dictator cre 261 ated at Rome. 493 Secession of the Roman people to Mons Sacer. lxxii. 3. 264 490 Battle of Marathon. lxxv. 1. 274 Miltiades. Age of 480 Battles of Thermopyle and Salamis. Age of schylus, lxxv. 2. lxxv. 4. lxxviii. 4. 289 Pindar, Anaxagoras, Zeuxis, 275 479 Battles of Platea and Mycale 277 477 The 300 Fabii killed in one day. 465 Third Messenian war; continues 10 years. lxxxi. 3. 300 454 The Romans send to Athens for Solon's laws. Age of lxxxiii. 1. 306 Sophocles, Pericles, Žaleucus, Nehemiah the Prophet, &c. 448 The first sacred war concerning the temple of Delphi. lxxxiii. 2. 307 447 The Athenians defeated by the Boeotians at Charonea. 445 Age of Herodotus, Empedocles, Euripides, Phidias, &c. 431 Peloponnesian war begins, May 7. and continues 27 years. Age of Cratinus, Eupolis, Aristophanes, Meton, Democritus, Gorgias, Thucydides, Hippocrates, Malachi the last of the Prophets and the history of the Old Testa ment ends. 421 The fifty years' peace made between the Athenians and Lacedæmonians, which is kept but 6 years and 10 months. 416 Scene of the Peloponnesian war removed to Sicily. The Agrarian law first moved at Rome. 405 Battle of Egos Potamos. Usurpation of Dionysius the elder. 404 Athens taken by Lysander |