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NEW ART OF MEMORY.
| Before Christ. |
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| 1546 | The kingdom of Troy begun by Scamander. |
| 1493 | Cadmus carried the Phenician letters into Greece, built the citadel of Thebes, and is the first king. |
| 1491 | The Israelites delivered from Egypt after 430 years of sojourning. |
| 1485 | The first ship appeared in Greece. |
| 1453 | The Olympic games first celebrated at Olympia, in Greece. |
| 1452 | The Pentateuch, or first five books of Moses, written in the land of Moab;—the death of Moses. |
| 1451 | The Israelites led, under Joshua, into the land of Canaan. |
| 1356 | Eleusinian mysteries introduced at Athens. |
| 1326 | The Isthmian games introduced at Corinth. |
| 1267 | The Argonautic expedition undertaken. |
| 1198 | The rape of Helen by Paris; which, in 1193, gave rise to the Trojan war, and the ten years siege of Troy, by the Greeks, who took and burnt that city. |
| 1182 | Æneas lands in Italy. |
| 1048 | David is sole king of Israel. |
| 1004 | The temple dedicated by Solomon. |
| 894 | Money first made of gold and silver. |
| 884 | Lycurgus reforms the constitution of Lacedemon. |
| 869 | Carthage founded, in Africa, by Dido. |
| 814 | The kingdom of Macedon begins. |
| 776 | The first olympiad begins in this year. |
| 753 | Æraof the building of Rome, by Romulus, first king of the Romans. |
| 720 | Samaria taken, after three years' siege; and the kingdom of Israel annihilated by Salmanazar, king of Assyria, who carries the ten tribes into captivity. The first lunar eclipse on record. |
| 600 | Thales, of Miletus, travelled into Egypt; where he acquired the knowledge of geometry, astronomy, and philosophy; returned into Greece, and established his philosophy. |
