The Shepherd-kings seize Lower
Egypt. They reign 260 years.

Abraham enters Egypt, where Sa-
rah is in great danger from one of
the Shepherd-kings.

Thethmosis expels the Shepherdkings, and reigns in Lower Egypt. Joseph is carried into Egypt, and sold to Potiphar.

Jacob goes into Egypt with his family.

Rameses-Miamum begins to reign in Egypt. He persecutes the Israel

ites.

GREECE.

Foundation of the kingdom of Sic

Foundation of the kingdom of

Cecrops conducts a colony from
Egypt, and founds the kingdom of Athens by Cecrops. He institutes
Athens.
the Areopagus.

Amenophis, the eldest son of Rameses, succeeds him.

The Israelites quit Egypt. Amenophis is swallowed up in the Red Sea. Sesostris his son succeeds him. He divides Egypt into thirty nomes, or districts, renders Ethiopia tributary, conquers Asia, and subjects the Scythians as far as the Tanais. On his return into Egypt he kills himself, after a reign of 33 years.

Pheron succeeds Sesostris.

Protens. In his reign Paris driven into Egypt on his return Troy with Helen.

Rhampsinit.- -Cheops.

is

Under Cranaus, successor of Cecrops, happens Deucalion's flood. Foundation of the kingdoin of Lacedæmonia, of which Lelex is the first king.

Danaus, brother of Sesostris, leaves Egypt, and retires into the Peloponnesus, where he makes himself mas ter of Argos.

Perseus, the fifth of Danaus's successors, having unfortunately killed his grandfather, abandons Argos, and founds the kingdom of Mycene. Sisyphus, the son of Eolus, makes himself master of Corinth.

The descendants of Sisyphus are driven out of Corinth by the Heraclidæ.

Egæus, the son of Pandion, king of Attica. The expedition of the Argonauts is dated in the reign of this prince.

The Heraclidæ make themselves to masters of Peloponnesus; from whence they are obliged to retire soon after.

The six preceding reigns were 170 years in duration; but it is hard to assign the length of each of them in particular.

Pharaoh king of Egypt gives his daughter in marriage to Solomon.

Sesac, otherwise called Sesonchis. It was with him that Jeroboam took refuge.

Sesac marches against Jerusalem, and conquers Judea.

Zara king of Egypt makes war with Asa king of Judah.

Anysis. In his reign, Sabacus, king of Ethiopia, makes himself master of Egypt, reigns there fifty years; after which he retires, and leaves the kingdom to Anysis.

Troy taken by the Greeks

The Heraclidæ re-enter Pelopounesus, and seize Sparta, where the two brothers, Eurysthenes and Procles reign together.

Institution of the Archions at Athens. Medon, the son of Codrus, is the first.

Cadmus builds the city of Thebes, and makes it the seat of his government.

Lycurgus.

Homer. Hesiod lived about the same time.

Caranus founds the kingdom of Macedonia.

Beginning of the common æra of the Olympiads.

I return to the chronology of the Assyrians, which I discontinued, because from Ninyas down to this time, nothing is known of their history.

ASSYRIANS.

Phul. This is the king of Nineveh, who repented upon Jonah's preaching.

Sardanapalus, the last king of the first empire of the Assyrians. After a reign of twenty years, he burns himself in kis palace.

The first empire of the Assyrians, which ended at the death of Sardanapalus, had subsisted more than 1450 years. Out of its ruins three others were formed; that of the Assyrians of Babylon; that of the Assyrians of Nineveh, and that of the Medes.

Psammis lived about dream interpreted by

Apries. He makes himself inaster of Sidon, in the 1st year of his reign. Zedekiah, king of Judah, makes an alliance

with the

598 king of
Egypt, con-
trary to the
advice of
the prophet
Jeremiah.
Unfortu-

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from whom

the Alcaic

verses take

their name.
Sappho,

at the same
time.

Daniel.

MEDIA.

LYDIA.

between

the Medes

and Lydians, which was terminated by the marriage of

Astyages, Cyaxares the son of with AryeCyaxares, nis the gives his daughter of daughter in Alyattes marriage to Cambyses, king of Persia.

Birth of

Nabuchodonosor's
lieutenants, after having Cyrus.
ravaged Judea, block- Death of
Jade Jerusalem, and put Cyaxares.
King Jehoiakim to death. Astyages
About the end of the his son suc-
same year, Nabuchodo-ceeds him.
nosor repairs in person He reigns 35
to Jerusalem, makes years!
himself master of it, and
appoints Zedekiah king
instead of Jehoiachin,
whom he carries into
captivity.

Nabuchodonosor de- Cyrus goes
stroys Jerusalem, and for the firs:
carries away Zedekiah time into
captive to Babylon. At Media, to
his return into his do-see his
minions, he causes the grandfather
three young Hebrews to Astyages.
be thrown into the fur-He remains
nace.
three years
with him.

Nabuchodonosor

makes himself master of
Tyre, after a siege of 13
years. He did not march
against Egypt till after
this expedition.

Nabuchodonosor's se-
cond dream interpreted
by Daniel.

Nabuchodonosor reduced to the condition of beasts during sevent years; after which he reigns again one year. Pythagoras Evil-Merodach his son lived about succeeds him. He reigns this time. only 2 years.

tragedy.

Simonides, Neriglissor. He makes
the celebrat great preparations for
led poet.
war against the Medes,

Croesus. Death of Esop lived Astyages in his reign Cyaxares and was in