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CHRONOLOGY.
alphabet; and a; in leap-year there is an intercalary day, thereare then two; one serving January and February, and its followingletter the remaining part of the year.
3. To know on w hat day in the week any proposed day of themonth will fall.
Rule. First find the dominical letter, then the day of the weekthe lir-st of the proposed month falls on, which is known by thetwo following lines;
At Dover Dwell George Brown, Esquire,
Good Christopher Finch, And David Frier:where the first letter of each word answers to the letter belongingto the first day of the months in order, from January to December.If 1 would know on what day of the week the 24th of April willbe this year (1810) ; J lirnl the Dominical letter is G, and by thelines just read, G is the first of April, which is, of course, Sunday ;the 22nd also is Sunday, therefore the 24th w ill be a Tuesday.
4. To find the year of the solar, lunar or golden number, andIndiction cycles.
Rule. To the giveu year add 9 for the solar, 1 for the lunar, 3for the indiction ; divide the sums in order by 28, 19, and 15, theremainder in each shews the years of its respective cycle.
5. To find the epact till the year 1900.
Rule. Multiply the golden number for the given year by 11;divide that product by 30, and from the remainder take 11, leavesthe epact. If the remainder is less than 11, add 19 to it, and thesum will be the epact.
0. To find the moon’s age.
Rule. To the epact add the number and day of the month ;their sum, if under 30, is the moon’s age. But if that sum is above30, the excess in months of 31 days, or the excess above 29 in amonth of 30 days, shews the age or days since the last conjunc-tion.
The moon’s age taken from 30, leaves the day of the next newmoon.
When the solar and lunar cycles begin together, the moon’s ageon the first of each month, or the monthly epacts, are called theNumbers of the month, and are as follows, viz.
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Mar.
April.
May.
June.
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7. To find when Easter-day will happen.
Rule. Find on w hat day of March the new moon falls nearest tothe 21st in common years, or nearest the 20th in leap-years; thenthe Sunday next alter the full, or 15th day of that new moon, willbe Easter-dav.
if the 15lh"day falls on a Sunday, the next Sunday is Easter-dav.
We refer the reader for further information on this subject tothe w'orks of Dr. Blair, and Professor Playfair on Chronology.Ti e follow ing table is subjoined to assist the memory in readinghislorv. N. 11. A. M. stands for Anno Mundi, or the year of the■world", B. C. for Before Christ, and A. D. for Anno Domini, orthe Year of our Lord.
A.M. B.C.
1 4004 The heavens and^he earth created in six days. Man
and woman formed out of the dust of the ground.The first"sabbath on the seventh day of the world.The fall of man, and the consequent entrance ofnatural and moral evil into the world.
2 4003 The birth of Cain, the first that was born of a woman.
129 3875 About this time Abel was murdered by his elder
brother Cain.
130 3874 The birth of Seth.
235 3769 Enos, the son of Seth, born, when his father was 105
years old.
325 1-679 Gainan, the son of Enos, horn.
395 3b09 M.dialaleel, the son of Gainan, born.
460 3544 Jared, the son of Mahalaieel, born.
622 3382 Enoch, the son of Jared, born.
687 3317 Methuselah, the von of Enoch, bom.
874 3130 Lamech, the son of Methuselah, born.
930 3074 Adam, the first father of all mankind, died, after he. had lived 930 years.
987 3017 Enoch, the seventh fiom Adam, (a preacher of light-
A.M.U. C.
eousness (o the wicked antediluvian world,) trans-lated by God, that he should not see death.
1042 2962 Seth, the s’onof Adam, died in the 912th year of hislife, 112 years after the death of his father.
1056 2948 Noah, the son of Lamech, and tenth from Adam,born in the I82d year of the life of his father.
1140 2864 Enos, the third from Adam, died in the 905th yearof his age.
1235 2769 Gainan, the fourth from Adam, died when lie was910 years old.
1290 2714 Mahalaieel, the fifth from Adam, died in the 895th
year of his age.
1422 2582 .hired, the sixth from Adam, died, aged 962 years.
1536 2469 God, before he brought the deluge of waters uponthe world of the wicked, sent Noah, a preacherof righteousness, unto them, giving them 120years space to repent in.
1556 2448 Japliet, the son of Noah, born when his father was500 years old.
1553 2446 Shem, the son of Noah, born, when his father was
502 years old.
1651 2353 Lamech, the ninth from Adam, died in the 7771 h
year of his age, five y ears before the General De-luge. This man is the first upon record who dieda natural death before Ins father.
1656 2349 Methuselah, the eighth from Adam, died in the 969th
year of his age, and is the oldest man upon record.On "the 10th day of the second month of this year,(answering to the 30th of our November, accord-ing to Archbishop Usslier,) God commanded Noahand his family to enter into the ark, while the im-penitent world indulged themselves in all mannerof excess. Upon the 17th day of the second monthof this year, which was the 600th year of Noah’slife, when he, and his family, and living creaturesof all sorts, were entered into the ark, Godcaused it to rain upon the earth for the space offorty days and forty nights, by which he sweptaway every living creature, and every man, fromoff the face of the whole earth, except Noah, andthose that were w'ith him in the ark.
1657 2348 On the 27th day of the second month of this year,
w hich was the 601st year of Noah’s age, the earthwas wholly dried, the waters of the flood havingbeen upon the earth 376 days.
1658 2346 Arphaxad, the son of Sliem, born two years after the
Hood.
1693 2311 Selah, the son of Arphaxad, born.
1723 2281 Eber, the son of Selah, born.
1757 2247 Peleg, the son of Eber, born, so named because inhis days the earih was divided. About this timethe tower of Babel was built. The confusion oftongues.
1771 2234 Babylon built by the command of Nimrod, about
this time.
1787 2217 Regu, the son of Peleg, born.
IS 16 2188 The kingdom of Egypt begun about this time, andlasted 1663 years till its conquest by Cainbyses,king of Persia, according to Constant inns Ma-* misses.
1819 2185 Serug, the son of Regu, born.
1849 2155 Nalior, the son of Serug, born.
1878 2126 Terah, the son of Abram, born.
1915 2079 About this time Tgialeus founds the kingdom of Si-cyon, w hich was 1313 years before the first olym-piad according to Eusebius.
1996 2008 Peleg, the sixth from Noah, died aged 239 years.
1997 2007 Nalior, the ninth from Noah, died, aged 148 years.
2006 1998 Noah died 350 years after the deluge, 111 the 950th
year of his age.
2008 1996 In "this year Abram was horn ; for he was 75 years
old w hen Terah his lather died at the age of 205years. See Gen. \i. 32, and Gcu. xii. 1, 4, com-pared with Acts vii. 4.
1986 Saiai, the wife of Abram, born.
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