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Judah

Israel

Assyrian Empire

Greece

Rome

Uzziah.

Joel the prophet.

Amos the prophet. 59. Jotham. 42 Ahaz; made tribute toTiglath-Pileser.

26. Hezekiah.

Isaiah the prophet.

Nahum the prophet

10 Sennacherib destroyed.

Jonah the prophet.

84. Anarchy.

47. Invasion of Tig-lath-Pileser.

30. Hosea; pays tribute to Shalman-ezar.

47. Tiglath-Pileser. 28. Shalmanezar.

76. Epoch of the Olympiads from which the Greeks reckoned time.

46. Austomenes, last king of Corinth.

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53. Rome founded by Romulus.

15. Numa Pompilius.

8. Tarentum founded.

21. The Ten Tribes carried captive to Assyria. 9. Esarhaddon.

700

97. Manasseh. 42. Amon. 41. Josiah.

Jeremiah the

prophet. Zephaniah the

prophet. Habakkuk the prophet. 6. Jerusalem taken by Nebuchadnezzar.

Babylonian Empire

85. Second Messenian War. 24. Bloody code of Draco.

Sappho, poetess.

Ascendency of Sparta.

72. Tullus Hostilius.

40. Ancus Martius; he subdues the Latins.

16. Tarquin the Elder.

Esarhaddon reigns at Babylon.

He plants colonies in Samaria whose descendants are called Samaritans.

6. Nebuchadnezzar; he defeats Necho of Egypt, and takes Jerusalem.

600

98. Jehoiachin.

96. Zedekiah.

88. Jerusalem destroyed. Ezekiel the prophet

Nineveh destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar.

94. Solon, the Athenian Lawgiver.

62. Comedies first exhibited at Athens.

60. Pisistratus.

Xhales,founder of Ionic philosophy.

60. Temples built.

34. Thespis exhibits tragedies first at Athens.

Pythagoras.philosopher.

10. Hippias expelled.

78. Servius Tullius.

34. Tarquin the Proud. 9. The Republic. Consuls chosen. 1. Dictatorship created.

Jews carried captiv 61. Evilmerodach. 60. Neriglissar. 55. Belshazzar. 38. Babylon taken by C

e to Babylon.

yrus the Mede, who establishes the

Medo-Persian Empire

36. Cyrus' decree restoring the Jews. 21. Darius.

Zechariah the prophet.

Haggai the prophet. 15. Second temple dedicated.

500 400

94. Darius invades Greece.

90. His army defeated at Marathon.

85. Xerxes the Great.

81. He invades Greece.

80. He returns defeated.

67. Ezra returns to Jerusalem.

64. Artaxerxes I. or Ahasuerus.

56. He makes Esther Queen.

55. Nehemiah rebuilds Jerusalem.

Malachi, last of Old Testament writers.

Anacreon, poet. 91. Death of Thucydides,

historian. 90. Miltiades defeats the Persians at Marathon. 80. Xerxes defeated at Thermopylae. 79. Persians defeated at Platæa. Æschylus, poet. 64. Third Messenian War. 45. Herodotus, historian. 31. Peloponnesian War. 29. Death of Pericles. Euripides, poet. Sophocles, poet. Socrates, the great moralist.

93. Tribunes chosen.

82. Coriolanus.

56. Cincinnatus.dictator.

51. Laws of the Twelve Tables.

Decemvirs appointed.

45. Military Tribunes created.

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