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NEW ART OF MEMORY.
| Before Christ. |
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| 400 | Socrates, the founder of moral philosophy among the Greeks, flourished. |
| 371 | The battle of Leuctra, the Lacedemonians defeated by the Thebans, under Epaminondas. |
| 363 | Epaminondas killed at the battle of Mantinea. |
| 357 | The Phocian or Sacred war begins in Greece. |
| 343 | Syracuse taken by Timoleon; and Dionysius the tyrant, banished. |
| 351 | Alexander the Great conquers Darius, king of Persia. |
| 285 | Dionysius, of Alexandria, begins his astronomical æra, on Monday, June 26, being the first who found the exact solar years to consist of 365 days, 5 hours, and 49 minutes. |
| 284 | The Septuagint version made by order of Ptolemy Philadelphus, king of Egypt. |
| 264 | The first Punic war begins; which continued twenty-three years. |
| 260 | The Romans defeated the Carthaginians at sea. |
| 237 | Hannibal, at nine years old, swears eternal enmity to the Romans. |
| 218 | The second Punic war begins; which continued seventeen years . |
| 190 | The first Roman army enters Asia, and from the spoils of Antiochus, brings the Asiatic luxury first to Rome. |
| 170 | Antiochus Epiphanes plunders Jerusalem. |
| 168 | Perseus, King of Macedon, defeated by the Romans. |
| 167 | The first library erected at Rome, of books brought from Macedonia. |
| 163 | The government of Judea, under the Maccabees, begins; which continued 126 years. |
| 149 | The third Punic war. |
| 146 | Carthage, the rival of Rome, razed to the ground. |
| 135 | The history of the Apocrypha ends. |
| 72 | Mithridates defeated, and Pontus reduced to a Roman province. |
