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Nebuchadnezzar has the.gift of reason restored himh v God.

Evilmerodach becomes king of Babylon, and reignstwo years, when he is murdered by Nerigios-soonor, who succeeded him in the kingdom.

Death of .Esop, the famous fabulist.

Pisistratus set up his tyranny or absolute governmentat Athens.

Thespis, the Athenian poet, flourished.

Ser-vius Tullus having spent his time in regulating hiskingdom by good laws, established a census (orvaluation of each person’s estate, to be taken, andthe possessors to be esteemed of such and such arank, in proportion to the value thereof, everyfive years, at which time a solemn lustration, orexpiatory sacrifice for all the people, was per-formed. From this institution the Homans com-puted time, making this iirst an era to reckon from.

500 Cyrus dethroned his grandfather Astyuges, andsucceeded to the Persian throne : lie reigned 30years.

Death of Solon in the 79lh year of his age.Neriglissom? succeeds Evilmerodach in the kingdomof Babylon, and reigned four years.

556 Pbalaris killed by the Agrigentines for his greatcruelty and tyranny.

555 Laborosoarchod succeeded Neriglissorus in thekingdom of Baby lon, and reigned nine months.

Nabonudius, otherwise named Belshazzar, reignedover the Babylonians 17 years.

In the lirsl year of Belshazzar, Daniel had the visionof the tour great beasts, (by which are signifiedthe four great empires that should succeed eachother in the world, viz. the Babylonian, Persian,Grecian, and Roman ; and also of the kingdom ofChrist which should immediately succeed thetotal subversion of the little horn, that spake vervgreat tilings, and killed the- true people of God,by which is generally understood die Papal power,the last form of government to be exercised inRome.

554 Barce, a sea-port of Cvrenaica, built.

553 Ill the third year of king Belshazzar Daniel had hisdream of the ram and he-goat, bv which was fore-shewn the Persian and Grecian empires, &c, Ac.Tlie birth of Confucius happened about this time.Tvre annexed to the Persian empire.

Amyntas began his reign of lifly years overMacedonia.

The kingdom of Lydia made a province of Persia,by the conquest of Crcesus by Cyrus.

Death of ’Thales in the 90th year of his age.

Anaximander, (lie noble physician, flourished.

543 ’The united fleets of the Carthaginians and Etruscansengage the Pliocoeans in the Sardinian sea, andsink or disable their whole licet, upon which thePhocceans are obliged to quit the island ofCyrnus (now Corsica) to the. Carthaginians andEtruscans.

Daniel interprets the hand-writing upon the wall toBelshazzar, and is promoted to he the chief of thethfee princes over the w hole Babylonian empire.The Babylonian kingdom, the first of the four greatempires, ended by the conquest of it bv Cvrus.Macbxus, the Carthaginian general, flourished.Daniel is east into the lion’s den, but is miraculouslypreserved, lie sees the vision concerning the 70weeks.

The return of tiie Jews from the Babylonish captivityby an edict of Cyrus king of Persia, w ho alsogave them authority to rebuild their temple, andto have the free exercise of their religion.

335 'The Jews laid the foundation of their new temple inthe second year after their return from the Baby-lonish captivity.

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3409 535 A dreadful plague at Carthage, whereupon the

Carthaginians sacrifice their children to appeasethe gods.

3470 534 Daniel’s last vision of the things noted in the scriptures

of truth.

3471 533 Tai quin the Proud began his reign over the Romans,

and ruled 25 years.

3475 529 Cyrus dies in the 70th year of his age, and is suc-

* (ceded by his son Cambyses in the united king-doms of Media and Persia, or the second greatempire.

Tint age of Thespis, Anacreon, Simonides, Zeno, &c.3470 528 Death of Pisistratus, tile Athenian tyrant, after a

reign of 33 years.

3479 525 Egypt conquered by Cambyses, and annexed to the

Persian empire.

Polvcrates, the tyrant of the Samians, lived aboutthis time.

34S0 524 Cambyses greatly distressed the Ethiopians.

Cambyses Iirst marries, and then murders his ownsister A!croc, by kicking her on the belly while-great with child.

3481 523 Maehams, the Carthaginian general, put to death for

endeavouring to overturn the government ofCarthage.

Cambyses, king of Persia, orders his brother Smerdisto be murdered lest he should, in his absence,take the kingdom from him.

3482 522 Smerdis, the brother of Pulizilhes, succeeded Cam-

byses, king of Persia, and reigned nine months.Darius, the son of Uystaspes, succeeded Smerdis theimpostor in the kingdom of Persia, and reigned30 years.

The age of Harmodius, Aristogiton, Hipparchus, &c.

3486 518 Darius, the Persian monarch, issues a decree to

enable the Jews to go on with rebuilding theirtemple.

Pindar born about this time.

3487 517 'The Babylonians revolt from Darius, upon which

the Persian monarch comes with a great arinr,and besieges Baby Ion ; the Babylonians, to maketheir provisions hold out, collect the women, oldmen, and children, and strangle them withoutdistinction.

3488 516 The temple of Jerusalem finished by Zerubbabel,

and Jehu the. high-priest.

34S9 515 The Persian monarch puts away his wife Vashti, and

promotes Esther, a Jewess, to he queen in herstead.

Darius takes Babylon, by the assistance and arti-fice of Zopyrus, one of his chief commanders,and reduced the walls that were 200 cubits highto 50 cubits high.

The war of the Roman king with the Gabii.

3491 513 Death of Hipparchus, one of the tyrants of Athens.

lie is succeeded by llippias who governed in socruel a way, that the people expelled him threeyears afterwards.

’Tlni Carthaginians and Homans make a league ofamity together for the Iirst time.

3495 509 Hainan, the Amalekite, hanged.

3496 508 'The regal government abolished at Rome, and con-

suls Iirst elected. 1,. Junius Brutus and P. ValeriusPublicola, the two lir-t consuls.

3497 507 Tarqtiin, the banished king, raises the Veienles, and

comes against Rome ; but is defeated by Valeriusthe Roman consul.

3498 506 Poplicola and T. Lucretius chose consuls ; they re-

vive the census and lustrum, and timl in Rome130,000 men lit to bear arms.

3499 505 Porseiina, king of Clusium, at the head of a nume-

rous host ot Iletrurians, espouses Tarquin’s cause,which defeat and intimidate the Romans for awhile; but by the bravery ol lloratius Cock'stlie Romans were supported, and by means of

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