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CHRONOLOGY

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out the inhabitants ot' Megara, &c. and burn anddestroy all before them, as (be Spartans had donein .Attica.

Arcesiiaus IV. being killed by his subjects, hisson endeavoured to succeed iiim, but being re-pulsed by the Cyrenians, was forced to retire intothe Ilesperkles, where he filed. Thus ended thekingdom of Cyrene, after it had stood 2o0 years.

430 Archelaus began his reign over Macedonia, and ruled24 years.

428 Deatli of Anaxagoras, the great philosopher.

Pericles and all Ins family died of the plague at Athens.

Platrea besieged by Archidamus king of Sparta witha great army.

427 Lesbos and Methymne revolt from the Athenians.

426 PlaCoea taken by the Lacedemonians after a siege oftwo years, who pul all the garrison to the sword,and sold the women for slaves, and afterwardsrazed the city'.

The famous Corcyrian sedition.

425 A dreadful plague at Athens and Rome.

424 Artaxerxes, kmg of Persia, dying is succeeded byhis son Xerxesll. who reigned the very short spaceof 45 days.

Sogdianus having murdered Xerxes II. reigned overthe Persians 6 months and 15 flays.

Darius Nothus, otherwise named Ochus, havingslain Sogdianus, succeeds him in the kingdom ofPersia, and reigned 19 years.

423 The Athenians having taken the island Pylus fromthe Lacedemonians, and carried away all theSpartans prisoners, people it with a colony ofMessenians, whom the Spartans had cruelly drivenout of their own country.

422 The Athenians having defeated the Corcyrians,dragged them out by twenty at a time, and putthem to deatli with the utmost cruelty, for assist-ing the Spartans against them.

420 The peace of ISic.ias for fifty years made between theAthenians and Lacedemonians, which is kept foronly six years and ten mouths.

418 The Athenians conclude a league with the Argives,&c. for 100 years.

417 The Spartan king Agis and his confederates defeatthe Argives, Athenians, &c. and gain a completevictory over them.

416 A truce concluded between the Spartan king, andthe confederate Greek army, which is soon afterbroke.

Sicily invaded, and Syracuse besieged, by theAthenians.

415 The Athenians, finding themselves betrayed by theMacedonian king, declare war against him.

414 The Lacedemonians begin the 10 years Declean war.

Melos taken by the Athenians, who put every manable to bear arms to the sword, and carried thewomen and children captive to Alliens.

413 Pisutlmes, the governor of Lydia, revolts from Darius,the Persian monarch, being supported by a greatnumber of Greek mercenaries; against whomDarius sent Tisaphernes, who bought the mer-cenaries, and forced the Lydian governor to sur-render upon promise of life; which he accedingto, Da-, ius ordered him to be smothered in ashes.

The Egyptians revolt from the Persians, and set upAmyrtxus to be king.

412 Demosthenes, the Athenian general, attacks Epipol*in the night, but is repulsed with great slaughter.

Demosthenes, the Athenian general, and his wholearmv, totally discomfited by the Syracusans; anda few days afterwards the other Athenian generalNicias shared the same fate. Tints ended theSicilian war with great disgrace and prodigiousloss to the Athenians.

411 The Peloponnesians overcome by the Athenian fleet.

The Lesbians, Clazoineuians, kv. that hud revolted

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from the Athenians, reduced to their obedienceagain.

Alcil.'iades very successful against the Spartans.

3594 410 'Phe Spartans defeat the Athenian fleet, and take 22

ships out of 36, upon which Euboea revolts fromthe Athenians.

The Spartans and Athenians engage again, the lattertake 21 of the tenner’s fleet, which consisted of73 sail, under Mindartts ; and the Athenians butof 55 under Thrasy bill its, and of these 19 weresunk or taken in'the beginning ot the action. Alew days alter the Athenians took eight Spaitangallics coming from Byzantiuifi, which had re-volted, and Alcibiadcs took nine more.

Pylus besieged and taken by the Lacedemonians.Mindarus, the Spartan general, defeated and killed.

3596 408 Cotton, the Athenian general, is defeated by the

Spartans in a sea-fight, and loses 30 ships.

The Athenians again engage the Spartans, and defeatthem, taking from tliem 79 ships, with the loss of19 of their own.

3597 407 Conon intirely defeated by I.ysander, the Spartan

general, both by land and sea, upon which hefled to Cyprus with only eight gallies full of men.Darius, the Persian monarch, invests Cvrus, hisyoungest son, with, the supreme command of allthe provinces of Asia Minor.

Three of the four questorsat Rome were, for thefirst time, chosen out of the plebe'ans.

Orestes, king of Macedonia, reigned three years .

3598 406 The Yolsci revolting, are subdued by the Romans.

3599 405 Artaxerxes II. eldest son of Darius 11. succeeds his

father in the kingdom of Persia, and reigned 46years.

3600 404 Dionysius Miles began his tyrannical reign at Syracuse.

Death of Hannibal, the son ofGisco, at Agrigentumin Sicily.

3601 403 The Pel ponnesian war ends by the taking of Athens

by Lysander, general of tbe Spartans.

Archelaus, king of Macedonia, reigned three years.

3602 402 Veii besieged bv the Romans.

3603 401 Expulsion of tfie thirty tyrants out of Athens by

Thrasybulus.

Socrates put to death by the Athenians.

Cyrus, the younger brother of Artaxerxes, king ofPersia, aspires to the throne, and wars againsthim, with the help of Xenophon, file famousGreek commander, with 13,000 Greeks; hutCyrus being overcome and killed at Cunaxa,Xenophon, with his remaining Greeks, returnedhome 2325 miles through their enemies country,though continually itarraiSed by their army.

3604 400 The Lacedemonians make war with the Persians.

Amvntas, king of Macedonia, reigned one year.Conon, the Athenian, successful against the Lacede-monian fleet, of which he takes 50 sail out of 90.Cvthora reduced, and Athens rebuilded, by Conon.

3605 399 Pausanias, king of Macedonia, reigned one year.

About this time a law \va5 made that the Romancavalry should he paid-out of the public treasury.

3606 39S Agesilaus, the Spartan king, invades Phrygia, and

takes Dascvlimvt, one of its strong cities.

3607 397 Amvntas, the' Macedonian king, is restored, and

reigned six rears.

The l-'alisci arid Veientes subdued by the Romans.Isocrates flourished.

Diorivsiiis the Syracusan seizes the persons, houses,&o. of the'Carthaginians, then trading at Sy-racui-o.

3608 396 The Carthaginians enter the port of Syracuse .by

night, with ten gallies, and sunk most of the shipsthere, without the loss of a man.

Thrasybulus killed bv the Rhodians.

Xepherites, king of Egypt, reigned about this time.

3609 395 The Carthaginians, under Ilamilco, retake Moyla,

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