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INSTRUCTIONS FOR THE REMEMBRANCE OF CHRONOLOGY.
For all the Tables of Modern Chronology, including European and American History, Modern and American Battles since 1200, we find it convenient, in many cases, to have the link or association represent three figures only, and complete the date by prefixing a figure I to the translation.
EXAMPLE.
Captain Kidd commenced his piracies. 1698
Kid and Leather, Leather and Shipper.
Shipper and hi oF.
By some attention to chronology, the learner will readily perceive which general period, ancient, middle age, or modern, an event belongs to, and thus know whether the figure I is to be prefixed or not. Prefixing 1 adds 1000 years to the translation, We shall not often make a mistake of 1000 years by supplying the figure in ancient or middle age chronology, or by omitting it in modern events. In many cases a desirable word will express them all.
I will give you an idea of the process by
