Period.

Julian

Christ.

Years before

Persia.

Kings of

Captivity.

After the
of Judah.

High Priests

78

7 79

6 458
7 457 8 80

8 456

9 81

4260 454 11 83

85

25 Achemenides, brother of the king, being sent against the Egyptians, is vanquished and slain, and the remainder of his army besieged in Memphis.

26 Ezra sent to be governour of Judea. Esther is made queen.

27 Ezra separated the Jews from their strange wives. Mordecai discovers the treason of Bigtham and Teresh.

28 Artabazus and Megabyses raise the siege of
Memphis, defeat Inarus, and besiege him and
his Athenian auxiliaries in the island of Pro-
sopitis.

29
30 They force Prosopitis, take Inarus prisoner, drive
the Athenians out of Egypt, and again reduce
all that country under the Persian king.

841Haman plotteth the destruction of the Jews.
Haman's plot defeated in his own destruction,
and the feast of Purim instituted in remem-
brance of it.

3 451 4450

14 86

15

87

89

681

9 445 20 92

4270 444 21 93

Eliashib.

31

4 Cimon sent by the Athenians to Cyprus with a great fleet:

5 Where he beats the Persians both by sea and
land, and then dies at Citium. Artaxerxes
makes peace with the Athenians.

6 Inarus crucified, and Megabyzus rebels.
7 De eats the first army sent against him.
8 Defeats the second army sent against him, and
is reconciled to the king.

9 Nehemiah sent governour to Judea, and rebuilds
the walls of Jerusalem. Megabyzus banished
to Cyrta on the Red Sea.

10 Nehemiah repeoples Jerusalem, and proceeds to reform church and state in Judah Ezra publisheth his edition of the Hebrew Scriptures.

24 It came to Athens, and grievously afflicted that

city. 36 108 25 About this time flourished Malachi the prophet.

High Priests 2 2 222

Persia.

Captivity
Kings of

After the

of Judah.

37 109

7 427 38 110

9 425 40 112 4290 424 41 113

114

26 Nehemiah comes again to Jerusalem with a new commission. Plato the philosopher born.

27 Nehemiah goes on farther to reform the Jewish church and state.

28 The plague again broke out at Athens, which produced a law there for polygamy.

29

30 Artaxerxes dying, Xerxes his son succeeds. He is slain by Sogdianus, and Sogdianus by Ochus, who with the crown assumes the name of Darius. 31 Darius (commonly called Darius Nothus) begins his reign.

115 32 Vanquisheth Arsites, his brother, and puts him

3 116

2 422

3 421

4 420

5 419

to death.

Kings

Egypt.

6 418

7 417 8416 9 415

6 119

7 120 37
8121 38

9 122 39

4300 414 10 123

40

Pisuthnes rebels against Darius in Lesser Asia, and is vanquished, and put to death by Tissaphernes, one of Darius' lieutenants. 1 The Egyptians revolt from Darius, and make Amyrtæus their king.

2 Tissaphernes and Pharabazus governours of Lesser Asia for Darius.

4

54

15 399

Voh. II.

Period.

Julian

Christ.

Years before

Persia.

Kings of

Captivity.

After the

of Judah.

High Priests
Egypt.

Kings of

4316 398 7 159

16

4 Dercyllidas vigorously carries on the war against the Persians.

6 Agesilaus passeth into Asia, to carry on the war there against the Persians.

5

18

20

19 Z 1 Vanquisheth Tissaphernes, who is thereon put to death by Artaxerxes.

12 144 21

Nephereus.

2 Agesilaus called home to defend his country against a confederacy of the Greeks against them. Conon wins the victory of Cnidus.

3 Conon rebuilds the walls of Athens, and again restores that city.

1393

2 392

13 145

25

4 390 15 147 24

5 389 16 148

6 388 17 149 26

4 The Lacedemonians renew the war in Asia against the Persians, but without success. 5 Artaxerxes makes great preparations for war against Cyprus.

The Athenians send Chabrias to the assistance of Euagoras, king of Cyprus, who reduceth the whole island to him.

3 The peace of Antalcidas made between the
Lacedemonians and the Persians.

4 The Persians invade Cyprus
hundred thousand men,

with three

And make an absolute conquest of that island.

6 Artaxerxes invades the Cadusians with ill success. Aristotle born.

6 378 27 159

7 377 28 160 37

8 376 29 161

13 Artaxerxes resolves on a war to reduce Egypt. 38 1 Pharnabazus appointed general for this war.

11

12

Psammuthis.

7

2 382 23 155

8

3 381 24 156 33

9

4 380 25 157

34

10

5 379 26 158

9 375 30 162 39 z 1 He makes great preparations for it.

4350 364 1363

41 173 10
42 174 11

11
12

Tachus.

1The battle of Mantinea between the Lacedemonians and the Thebans, in which the former lose the victory, and the latter their general Epaminondas.

2 Agesilaus goes into Egypt with an army, to assist Tachus.

44 176 13 Z 1He deserts Tachus, and makes Nectanebus

2 362

43 175 12

3 361

4 360

45 177 14

5359

6 358

7 357
8 356 3 181 18

2 180 17

9 355 4 182 4360 354 5 183 20 1353 6 184

Nectanebus.

king.

2 He vanquisheth the enemies of Nectanebus. 3 And fully settles him in the kingdom of Egypt. Artaxerxes dies.

4 Agesilaus returns homeward, and dies in the way on the coast of Africa. Great revolts in the Persian empire on the succession of Ochus.

5

6 Alexander the Great born at Pella in Macedonia.

19

7

8

9

10

2 352 7 185 22 3 351 8 186 23

11 The Cyprians and Phoenicians revolting from Ochus, are again reduced. Sidon taken and destroyed by Ochus.

12 Ochus invades Egypt, expels Nectanebus, and reduceth the whole country.

Mentor made governour of Lesser Asia. Memnon his brother enters into the Persian service.

Plato the philosopher dies.

7 347

12 19u 27

8 346

13 191 28

9 345

14 192 29

4370 344

1343

16 194 31

2 342

3 341

18 196

4 340

19 197

5 339 6 338

201 198

21 199

Bagoas the eunuch poisoneth Ochus, and
maketh Arogus or Arses king in his stead.
Philip, king of Macedon, after the victory
of Charonea, made general of Greece
against the Persians.
Bagoas poisons Arogus, and Pausanias slays
Philip, king of Macedon. Darius suc-
ceeds the former, and Alexander the
latter.

2 322

Philippus.

5 210

6 211

7 212

8 213

214

2 215

7 Darius puts Bagoas to death. Alexander destroys Thebes, and is appointed general of the Grecians against the Persians in the place of his father.

8 Alexander passeth into Asia, and wins the battle of Granicus.

9 He reduceth all Lesser Asia, and wins the bat. tle of Issus.

10 He destroys Tyre and Gaza, and conquers Egypt.

11 He passeth the Euphrates and the Tigris, wins the battle of Arbela, and takes Babylon, Susa, and Persepolis, and the provinces belonging to them.

12 Darius slain by Bessus. Alexander subdues the Medes, Parthians, Hyrcanians, Arians, and several other nations. Puts Philotas and Parmenio to death.

Onias.

13 He subdues the Bactrians and Sogdians, and puts Bessus to death.

14 He marries Roxana, passeth into India, and con-
quers all to the river Indus

15 He passeth the Indus, vanquisheth Porus, and
subdueth all as far as the river Hyphasis.
16 He puts his army on board his fleet, and saileth
down the Indus, conquering several nations in
his way.

17 Having passed down to the mouth of the Indus,
he sends Nearchus with his fleet through the
ocean to Babylon, and marcheth thitherward
with his army by land.

18 Conquers the Cosseans, and enters Babylon.
19 He there dies. Aridæus, his brother, made nom.
inal king, and the commanders of the army di-
vide the provinces of the empire among them-

selves.

20 Perdiccas and Eumenes make war against An. tipater, Craterus, and Ptolemy.

3 321 3 2161 Eumenes vanquisheth Craterus, and slays him in battle. Perdiccas is slain by his own soldiers in Egypt. Aristotle dies.

4 320

4 217

2 Antigonus being sent against Eumenes, vanquisheth him in battle. Ptolemy seizeth Judea, Phoenicia, and Cole-Syria, and taketh Jerusa

lem.

3 Antipater being dead, Cassander seizeth Macedon, and Antigonus all Lesser Asia, and shuts up Eumenes in the castle of Nora.

4 Eumenes, being got out of Nora, passeth into Cilicia, and having there gotten together an army, marcheth into Syria, and from thence into Mesopotamia.