od, at Altars, without
Temples is set up in all _Persia_.

520. The second Temple is built at _Jerusalem_ by the command of _Darius_.

515. The second Temple is finished and dedicated.

513. _Harmodius_ and _Aristogiton_, slay _Hipparchus_ the son of
_Pisistratus_, Tyrant of the _Athenians._

508. The Kings of the _Romans_ expelled, and Consuls erected.

491. The Battle of _Marathon_.

485. _Xerxes_ Reigns.

480. The Passage of _Xerxes_ over the _Hellespont_ into _Greece_, and
Battles of _Thermopylae_ and _Salamis_.

464. _Artaxerxes Longimanus_ Reigns.

457. _Ezra_ returns into _Judaea_. _Johanan_ the father of _Jaddua_ was now
grown up, having a chamber in the Temple.

444. _Nehemiah_ returns into _Judaea_. _Herodotus_ writes.

431. The _Peloponnesian_ war begins.

428. _Nehemiah_ drives away _Manasseh_ the brother of _Jaddua_, because he
had married _Nicaso_ the daughter of _Sanballat_.

424. _Darius Nothus_ Reigns.

422. _Sanballat_ builds a Temple in _Mount Gerizim_ and makes his
son-in-law _Manasseh_ the first High-Priest thereof.

412. Hitherto the Priests and Levites were numbered, and written in the
Chronicles of the _Jews_, before the death of _Nehemiah_: at which time
either _Johanan_ or _Jaddua_ was High-Priest, And here Ends the Sacred
History of the _Jews_.

405. _Artaxerxes Mnemon_ Reigns. The end of the _Peloponnesian_ war.

359. _Artaxerxes Ochus_ Reigns.

338. _Arogus_ Reigns.

336. _Darius Codomannus_ Reigns.

332. The _Persian_ Empire conquered by _Alexander_ the great.

331. _Darius Codomannus_, the last King of _Persia_, slain.

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THE

CHRONOLOGY

OF ANCIENT KINGDOMS AMENDED.

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CHAP. I.

_Of the Chronology of the First Ages of the _Greeks_._

All Nations, before they began to keep exact accounts of Time, have been
prone to raise their Antiquities; and this humour has been promoted, by the
Contentions between Nations about their Originals. _Herodotus_ [3] tells
us, that the Priests of _Egypt_ reckoned from the Reign of _Menes_ to that
of _Sethon_, who put _Sennacherib_ to flight, three hundred forty and one
Generations of men, and as many Priests of _Vulcan_, and as many Kings of
_Egypt_: and that three hundred Generations make ten thousand years; _for_,
saith he, _three Generations of men make an hundred years_: and the
remaining forty and one Generations make 1340 years: and so th