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18 CHRONOLOGY.

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rial of this transaction he named the city JEgea,and the people A'.geans, Algos («i|, in Greeksignifying a goat.

3194 810 Amaziah, being murdered at Lachish, is succeeded in

the kingdom of Judah by Azariah, otherwisenamed Uzziab, who reigned 52 years.

3196 SOS The prophets Esau and Joel lived about this time.3207 797 Anlysus, of the race of the lleraclida', reigned in

Lydia about this time.

3220 784 Death of Jeroboam II. king of Israel, after whom

succeeded an interregnum of eleven years and ahalf according to archbishop Usher.

3221 783 Camus succeeded Caranus in the kingdom of Mace-

donia, and reigned twelve years.

3228 776 From the summer of this year began the first Olym-

piad of the Greek chronologers, wherein Conebusof Elis won the race.

3232 772 Zacharias, the fourth and last of the race of Jehu,

reigned over Israel six months.

Shallum, the son of Jabesh, succeeded Zacharias, andreigned over the Israelites one month.

3233 771 Thurimas, the third king of the Macedonians, reigned.

38 s ears.

Menahem succeeded Shallum in the throne of Israel,and reigned ten years.

3237 767 Sardanapaitis, the last king of the Assyrians, began to

reign about this time.

3243 761 Pekalnah succeeded his father Menahem in the

throne of Israel, and reigned two years.

Tsaiah began to prophesy about litis time.

3245 759 Pekalt, tlieson of Remaliah, havingslain Pekahiah, king

of Israel, in Samaria reigned in bis stead 20year».

3246 758 Jotham succeeded Uzziab in the kingdom of Judah,

and reigned sixteen years.

3252 752 Rome built by Romulus and Remus in the 432(1

year after the destruction of Trov. According tothe account of Fabius Pictor this event did nottake place till four years afterwards.

3254 750 The Ephori established at Sparta about this time.

3256 748 The rape of the Sabines.

The end of the Assyrian empire. Arbaces foundedthe empire of the Medes.

3257 747. The era of Nabonassar begun on the first dav of the

Egyptian monthThoth, answering to the 26th dayof our Februarv.

War between the Romans and Sabines upon accountof the rape.

3259 745 The Romans and Sabines concluded a peace, and

became one people, and Tatius the Sabine kingreigned with Romulus.

3262 742 The first Messenian war begun.

Ahaz succeeded bis father Jotham in the kingdom ofJudith, and reigned sixteen years.

3264 740 Pekah and Rezin besieged Jerusalem, but are con-

quered by Ahaz.

Tatius, joint-king with Romulus, killed by the T.a-vinians at the foot of the altar, while he and Ro-mulus were offering a sacrifice to the tutelary gods.

3265 739 Ilosea, the son of Elalt, having murdered Pekah, got

the kingdom of ftrael into his own hand, amireigned eighteen years, including a turbulent in-terregnum of nine years.

3266 738 The Romans make a triumph for their victory over

the Camerini.

3271 733 Pcrdiccas, the fourth king of the Macedonians,

reigned 51 years.

Syracuse built by Archias of Corinth,liabaecuc the prophet lived about this time.

3277 727 llezekiali began nis reign over Judah, and reigned

29 years.

3280 724 The beginning of the three year’s siege of Samaria by

the Assyrians.

3263 721 Salmanasar, king of Assyria, took Samaria after a

three year’s siege, and carried away the ten tribes

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of Israel into captivity, and so put an cud to thekingdom of Israel.

The first Messenian war ends, and the Lacedemoniansremain conquerors of the country for 39 years.Archilochus and Simonides flourished.

3286 718 Candaules being slain by Gyges, (the first of the

Mermnadian dynasty, who ruled 170 years,) issucceeded by him in the kingdom of Lydia, whoreigned there 38 years.

The '1 yriansentirelj defeated the tleet of Salmanasar,king of Assyria.

3287 717 Salmanasar, king of Assyria, besieged Tyre, which

held out live years against him.

Aslacus, (afterwards named Nicomedia,) built inBythinia.

Nahum the prophet lived about this time.

3290 714 Numa Poinpilius succeeded Romulus in the kingdom

of Rome, and ruled 43 yeais.

3291 713 Salmanasar, the king of Assyria, dying, his son Sen-

nacherib reigned in his stead,llezekiali, being sick unto death, was healed by God,ami bis life prolonged 15 years. That Heze-kiali might be assured of his sickness being re-moved, God caused the shadow upon the dial ofAhaz to return back ten degrees.

Taracus reigned in Egypt about this time.

3294 710 Tirhaka, the Ethiopian king, assists the Egyptians

and Jews against Sennacherib king of Assyria.

The Assyrian monarch returned from Egypt, and laidsiege to Lachish ; llezekiali buys his peace ; butSennacherib, breaking his “promise, came upagainst Jerusalem with an immense army, of whichGod by his angel destroyed in one night 185,000men.

Sejinucherib being slain by his sons Adrammelcch andShurezer, is succeeded in the kingdom of Assyriaby bis third son Esarhaddon.

3295 709 Pityu’su first planted with a colony of Carthaginians.

The Salii, an order of twelve priests, instituted amongthe Romans.

3296 708 Ecbalana built by Dejoces, king of the Medes, in

the first year of the 18th Olympiad.

Sybaris built by the Thurians, and Tarentum, thefollowing year, by the Parthenians.

3301 703 Coreyra built by the Corinthians about this time.

3306 698 llezekiali died, and was succeeded by his wicked

son Manasseh, who reigned 55 years over Judah.The Romans called Nummi after their king Numa.

3316 688 Dejoces enlarged the dominion of the Medes as far as

the river llalys.

3317 687 Gela, in Sicily, built about this time.

3321 683 Argeus, the fifth king of the Macedonians, reigned

38 years.

The beginning of the second Messenian war, whichcontinued 18 years, in which Aristounenes theirking was banished to Rhodes with all his subjects;and the rest being driven into Sicily built therethe new city of Messena.

Tyrtams the poet flourished.

3322 682 The government of decennial archons, after having

continued 70 years, abolished at Athens, and an-nual archons substituted, Creon being the first.3324 680 Anlysus succeeded his father Gyges in the kingdom

of Lydia, and reigned 49 years; during whichtime the Cimmerians overrun all Asia Minor.

3327 677 Manasseh, king of Judah, being conquered by Esar-

haddon king of Babylon, is bound with chains, andso carried prisoner to Bah) Ion, and cast into adungeon.

Esarhaddon transplants the remnant of the Israelites,and supplies their country with strangers.

3328 676 The return of the king of Judah irom his Babylonish

captivity.

3329 675 Chalcedon,’ a furious city of Bythinia, built.

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