441

CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE.

B. C.

THEOCRACY established in Egypt.

The High Priests of the eight most ancient Deities govern the
country. It is unknown when they began to reign.
The High Priests of the twelve succeeding Deities possess them-
selves of the chief power about .^

The High Priests of the Deities of the third order succeed
them. That of Osiris begins to reign about
That of Orus dispossesses him. Time unknown.
Theocracy abolished. Menes, 1st king of Egypt, reigns 62
years, according to Eratosthenes, (Syncelli Chronographia,
p. 91.)

His son Maneros dies young

17570

15570

12356

12340

Three hundred and thirty kings succeed Menes. The last is
Moris. They begin to reign

12294

Foundation of Tyre, according to the Tyrians

All these events being necessarily posterior to the Deluge, which happened 2328 B. C., we must conclude that the Egyptian priests related to Herodotus fables concerning the antiquity of their nation.

The Deluge

Commencement of the Assyrian Empire, according to Ctesias

2760

2328

2107

According to Diodorus Sic. II. 28. and Æmi

Earthquake which separated Ossa from Olympus, and, by making a passage for the waters, rendered Thessaly habitable Mycenae founded

Pelasgus, king of the country afterwards called Arcadia, passes into Thessaly

2011

1904

Argus reigns over Argolis

1866

Pelasgus, son of Neptune and Larissa, passes into Thessaly with his brothers Achæus and Phthius, and expels the inhabitants, six generations after Pelasgus, king of Arcadia

1727

Deucalion born

Cecrops, first king of Athens.

The daughters of Danaus institute the Thesmophoria
Rape of Europa

Thasos and Callistas (afterwards called Thera) colonized
Birth of Minos I. king of Crete

Deucalion passes into Thessaly, with the Leleges and Curetes, afterwards called Locrians and Etolians, and expels the Pelasgians. Dion. Hal. I. 17

The greater part of the Pelasgians retire to Dodona. Dion.
Hal. I. xviii.

Some Pelasgians go to Crete, others to Lesbos
The Pelasgians who had retired to Dodona, finding themselves
a burden to the natives, settle in the country afterwards
called Tyrrhenia

Iron, its use discovered (Clem. Alex. Strom. p.

B. C.

1611

1590

1573

1570

1568

1552

1550

1548

1541

The Boeotians settle in Thessaly, near Arne and Iolchos
Hellen born

Origin of the Scythians, according to their own account
Dorus, son of Hellen, born

Moris, the last of the 330 kings of Egypt, according to

Institution of the Eleusinian Mysteries

Dædalus, grandson of Erechtheus, born

Ion goes into Asia and makes some weak settlements
Ion returns into Egialea

Sisyphus, son of Eolus, and afterwards king of Corinth, born
Hercules, son of Amphitryon, born

Archandar and Architeles, sons of Achæus, leave Phthiotis, go

to Argos, and each marries a daughter of Danaus

1374

Foundation of Zancla by the Siculi

1369

Pelops arrives in Greece and gets possession of Pisa and Elis

1362

Sesostris, king of Egypt

1356

Edipus ascends the throne of Thebes

1354

Origin of the Scythians, according to the Greeks of Pontus

1354

The Cretans, under Minos II. lay siege to Camicos in Sicily

Tyrrhenus, son of Atys, settles in Italy, and gives his name to

Theseus, king of Athens

The Heraclidæ put themselves under the protection of Theseus
Edipus dies in Athens

Pheron, king of Egypt

Theseus marches against Eurystheus with Hyllus, son of Hercules. Eurystheus is defeated and slain by Hyllus

Hyllus quits the Peloponnesus on account of a pestilence
Helen born

Theseus carries off Helen

Proteus, king of Egypt

Hyllus killed by Echemus of Tegea

Rape of Helen by Paris

Cimmerians invade Asia Minor

Orestes born

Siege of Troy formed by the Greeks.

Taking of Troy, May 23rd.

The Assyrians masters of Higher Asia

The Areopagus acquit Orestes of matricide.

.

1245

Birth of Pan

The third attempt of the Heraclidæ to recover the Peloponnesus under Cleodæus, son of Hyllus

Rhampsinitus, king of Egypt

End of the dynasty of the Atyadæ, kings of Lydia: the commencement is unknown. Commencement of the dynasty of

the Heraclidæ. Agron the first of that dynasty Birth of Theras, son of Autesion: he was the tenth descendant from Cadmus

Æolian emigration under Orestes

The fourth attempt of the Heraclidæ under Aristomachus, son
of Cleodæus. Aristomachus is slain, and leaves three sons
under age, Aristodemus, Temenus, and Cresphontes
The Boeotians return into Boeotia. Thucyd. I. 12
The Pelasgians who had settled in Tyrrhenia, are expelled by
the natives and go to Attica

The Pelasgians who had entered Boeotia, join the Pelasgo-Tyrrhenians in Attica.

The Pelasgiaus build the Pelasgic wall for the Athenians Conquest of the Peloponnesus by Aristodemus, Cresphontes, and Temenus.

The Achæans, driven by the Heraclidæ, take refuge in Ægialea, afterwards called Achæa, then possessed by the Ionians Second Æolian emigration under Penthilus

Death of Aristodemus: he leaves the crown of Lacedæmon to his two infant sons, Procles and Eurysthenes; Theras, son of Autesion, their maternal uncle, is their guardian

The Pelasgians are expelled from Attica by the Athenians, and conquer Lemnos

1174

1162

The Minyæ, driven from Lemnos by the Pelasgians, fly to Lacedæmon

Codrus, last king of Athens.

The Pelasgians carry off Athenian women from Brauron
Colonization of the island Callista, afterwards called Thera, by
Theras and some of the Minyæ

Foundation of Leprium, Macistus, Phrixa, Pyrgus, Epium, and
Nudium in Triphylia, by the Minyæ .

The Pelasgians of Lemnos put to death the children they had
by the Athenian women, and also the mothers themselves
Self-devotion of Codrus, the last king of Athens

Ionic migration, according to Apollodorus and Eratosthenes.
Clem. Alex. Strom. I. p. 388, and 402

Chephren, king of Egypt

Smyrna founded

1152

1150

1149

1139

1132

1130

Homer, born

Birth of the first known ancestor of the historian Hecatæus of
Miletus

1082

Mycerinus, king of Egypt

1072

The Siculi drive the Sicanians from Sicily, three ages before the
establishment of the Greeks in Sicily. Thucyd. VI. 2
Zancla, afterwards called Messana, founded by the Siculi. Thu-
cydides, VI. 4

War between the Lacedæmonians and Argives about Cynuria
Anysis, king of Egypt

1032

1012

Anysis, driven from his kingdom by an Ethiopian king, takes refuge in the isle of Elbo.

Sisac, who succeeded the Ethiopian usurper in the sovereignty of
Egypt, pillages the temple at Jerusalem. 1 Kings XIV. 25.
Birth of Homer, according to Velleius Paterculus
Anysis leaves Elbo after fifty years, and maintains himself on
the throne till his death

970

968

961

Anysis dies.

954

N. B. There is in this part of Herodotus a hiatus of 241 years,

Homer flourished, according to the Parian Marbles
Phidon, king of Argos, invented weights, measures, &c.
Charillus, son of Polydectes, king of Lacedæmon, of the house
of Procles, or the second house: Lycurgus is his guardian

B. C. Olymp. of Iphitus.

The Olympic games instituted by Hercules, Pelops,
and Pisus, having been interrupted, are renewed
by Lycurgus of Lacedæmon, Iphitus of Elis and
Cleosthenes of Pisa, twenty-seven Olympiads be-
fore that in which Corobus of Elis won the prize 884
Birth of Homer and Hesiod, according to Hero-
dotus, II. 53

The victors at the Olympic games were not up to
this time enrolled in the public registers. They
were so in the following Olympiad. This
Olympiad is considered as the first, because it
is the one from which the Greeks have always
calculated. It is called the Olympiad of
Corobus, because Corabus of Elis obtained
the prize

Birth of Echecrates, descendant of Elatus, king
of the Lapithæ, and grandfather of Cypselus,
king of Corinth
Eumelus, the poet, flourished

B. C. Olym. of Corobus.

776 I.

774

. 766

Phul, the Sardanapalus of the Greeks, king of
Assyria

765

subjected the Israelites (2 Kings XV. 19.) 763 Sabacos, king of Ethiopia, conquers Egypt

763 IV.

Foundation of Naxos in Sicily, Thucyd. VI. 3. 759 V.
Crotona founded by Myscellus

Syracuse founded

Foundation of Rome, according to Varro, in the

spring. Plutarch in Romulo, p. 24 The Medes shake off the Assyrian yoke Nabonassar, king of Babylon (his era commenced 26th of February)

First Messenian war

Birth of Eetion, father of Cypselus, king of Corinth

Midas, son of Gordias, king of Phrygia

Semiramis rules Babylon

End of the first Messenian war

1

3

22

715 XVI.

714

713

713

Death of Candaules, last king of Lydia, of the

Sennacherib, king of Assyria, enters Judæa, sends one of his generals to Jerusalem, and passes into Egypt. 2 Kings XVIII. 13

Sennacherib defeated by the Egyptians

Deioces elected king of the Medes

Wrestling introduced into the Olympic games.
Aminocles of Corinth builds the four first triremes

for the Samians. Thucyd. I. 13. Birth of Cypselus, king of Corinth Archilochus flourished

Boxing introduced into the Olympic games
Second Messenian war

Chariot races with four horses introduced into

the Olympic games

Foundation of Chalcedon

Sethos, king of Egypt, died

Twelve kings, among whom is Psammetichus,