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CHRONOLOGY.
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In order to enable the pupil to make a further application of the mnemonical principles to chronology, we subjoin the following table:—he can, at his leisure, resort to more copious sources of information.
Table of the Principal Historical Events
From the Creation to the Birth of Christ.
| Before Christ. |
|
| 4004 | The creation of the world, and of Adam and Eve. |
| 4003 | The birth of Cain. |
| 3017 | Enoch for his piety, translated to heaven. |
| 2348 | The old world destroyed by a deluge. |
| 2247 | The tower of Babel built about this time, by Noah's posterity, upon which God causes the confusion of tongues. |
| 2234 | Celestial observations first made. |
| 2181 | The kingdom of Egypt founded. |
| 2059 | The kingdom of Assyria founded by Ninus. |
| 1921 | The covenant of God with Abram. |
| 1897 | Sodom and Gomorra destroyed for their wickedness. |
| 1856 | The kingdom of Argos and Greece begins under Inachus. |
| 1822 | Memnon, the Egyptian, invents letters. |
| 1635 | Joseph dies in Egypt; which concludes the book of Genesis. |
| 1574 | Aaron born in Egypt. |
| 1571 | Moses, brother to Aaron, born in Egypt, and adopted by Pharaoh's daughter, who educates him in all the learning of the Egyptians. |
| 1556 | Cecrops begins the kingdom of Athens, in Greece. |
