CHRONOLOGY.-REMARKABLE ÆRAS. Creation of the World B.C. 4004 | Christian Æra Olympiads.... B.C. 776 Hejira, or Flight of Ma Foundation of Rome.. B.C. 753 homet Adam created The Deluge Tower of Babel SACRED CHRONOLOGY. B.C. A.Ď. 622 A.D. 313 4004 The ten persecutions ended Abraham born. Ishmael born.... 1911 Temple built by Solomon.. 1009 Kingdom of Israel taken by Shalmaneser 721 FIRST CENTURY.-Ecclesiastical Writers. Clement, Barnabas, Hermas, Philo, and Josephus. Authors. Titus Livius, Seneca, Lucan, Pliny the elder and younger, Juvenal, Quintilian, Tacitus. SECOND CENTURY. - Ecclesiastical Writers. Ignatius, Polycarp, Justin Martyr, Theophilus, Clemens, Tertullian, Irenæus, Polycrates. Authors. Plutarch, Arius, Ptolemy the astronomer, Suetonius, Apollonius, Lucian, Pausanias, Justin Martyr, Marcus An toninus. THIRD CENTURY.- Ecclesiastical Writers. Origen, Cyprian, Eusebius. Authors, &c. Cassius, Porphyry, Justin, Diogenes, Longinus. FOURTH CENTURY.- Ecclesiastical Writers. Constantine the Great, Eusebius, Eustathius, Ambrose. Authors. Eutropius, Quintus Curtius, Macrobius, Ossian. FIFTH CENTURY. - Ecclesiastical Writers. St. Chrysostom, St. Jerome, St. Augustin, St. Patrick, Polybius, Pelagius, Cyril, Theodoret, Julian. SIXTH CENTURY.-Ecclesiastical Writers. Boethius, Gregory the Great, Isidorus, Severus. Many schismatic writers during these centuries. Authors, &c. Justinian the emperor, Procopius, Gregory of Tours, Marius the historian, Belisarius. SEVENTH CENTURY. Ecclesiastical Writers. Theophylact, the Emperor Heraclius, the Emperor Constans II., Martin bishop of Rome, Anastatius. Authors. Few. The dark ages commenced at this time, and most extensive ignorance prevailed until the Reformation. Mahomet. EIGHTH CENTURY.-Ecclesiastical Writers. Venerable Bede, Charlemagne the emperor, Popes Gregory I. and II. and Adrian, Alcuin an Englishman, Egbert, archbishop of York, Boniface, Aldhelm, bishop of Sherborne in England. APPENDIX,-CHRONOLOGY. 299 At this period the church of Rome had become corrupted. Clement was prosecuted because he held Holy Scripture to be of higher authority than the councils; and Virgilius was accused of heresy by the pope, because he was a mathematician and declared the earth to be an inhabited ball. NINTH CENTURY. Ecclesiastical Writers. Methodius invented the Sclavonic characters, and made a translation of the Bible for the Bulgarians and Russians. Charlemagne, Alfred the Great of England. TENTH CENTURY.-This is called emphatically the age of barbarism and ignorance. There were many ecclesiastical and theological writers, but their works are contemptible. Gerbert, afterwards Pope Sylvester II., is a bright exception: he was himself learned, and endeavoured to awaken a taste for literature and science. ELEVENTH CENTURY. Stigand, Lanfranc, and Anselm, archbishops of Canterbury; Berenger, famous for his early opposition to the doctrine of transubstantiation. Cardinals were first made. Gui Aretine, the inventor of musical notes; Peter the Hermit, Godfrey of Boulogne. TWELFTH CENTURY.-Thomas à Becket, Abelard, Robert Bacon, Benjamin of Tudela, Jeffrey of Monmouth, Saladin, Gengis Khan. THIRTEENTH CENTURY.-Roger Bacon, Ximenes, archbishop of Toledo; Matthew Paris, Marco Paolo a Venetian traveller in China, St. Thomas Aquinas. FOURTEENTH CENTURY.-Lollard, John Duns Scotus, Dante, Petrarch, William Tell, Guy Earl of Warwick, Wickliffe. FIFTEENTH CENTURY.-John Huss, Jerome of Prague, Coster of Haerlem, the first printer; Gower, Tamerlane, Owen Glendower, Bajazet, Correggio, Chaucer, Raphael, Thomas à Kempis, Columbus. SIXTEENTH CENTURY.-Considerable freedom of inquiry in this century. The principal writers employed themselves in writing expositions and illustrations of the Holy Scriptures. Luther, Knox, Calvin, Sir Thomas More, Leland, Roger Ascham, Fox, Ariosto, Holbein, Erasmus, Copernicus, Tasso, Spenser. SEVENTEENTH CENTURY.-Baxter, Tillotson, Chillingworth, Prideaux, Arminius, Penn, Shakespeare, Coke, Raleigh, Jonson, Butler, Milton, Barrow, Bunyan, Otway, Dryden, Vandyke, Rubens. EIGHTEENTH CENTURY.-Locke, Sir I. Newton, Dr. Watts, Dr. Doddridge, Leibnitz, Addison, Pope, Thomson, Fenelon, Earl of Chatham, Herschel, Pitt, Fox, Johnson, Sheridan, Goldsmith, Cowper. DISCOVERIES AND INVENTIONS. B. C. .... Alphabetical writing first introduced into Europe. First pyramid began about Brick-making known .... Money first mentioned in Genesis xxi.-in use. • The first ship seen in Greece arrived in Rhodes from Egypt 1485 Iron discovered by the burning of Mount Ida in Crete. 2095 2000 1865 1822 1493 1350 Weights and measures invented Carving in marble invented The game of chess invented 869 772 608 Malt liquor used in Europe Wrought silk brought from Persia to Greece.. Silver coined at Rome. 450 Saddles in use about 400 Bells invented by Paulinus, bishop of Nola, in Campania 400 |