FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY TO THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, 586 YEARS
FROM THE BEGINNING OF THE BABYLONISH CAPTIVITY TO THE BIRTH OF CHRIST, 586 YEARS
|B.C.|A.M.|
Gedaliah is made governor of the people left in Judea, and is murdered|584|3420|
Ezekiel prophesies in Chaldea, and foretells the restoration of the captive Jews|587|3417|
Tyre besieged by Nebuchadnezzar|586|3418|
Nebuchadnezzar erects a golden image, and by a decree requires for it universal worship|580|3424|
Servius Tullus, king of Rome|578|3426|
Nebuchadnezzar's dream of trouble, which Daniel interprets as portending great calamity|570|3434|
His singular insanity and restoration|569|3435|
He dies, and is succeeded by his son, Evilmerodach|562|3442|
He releases Jehoiachin from prison|561|3443|
He is slain, and succeeded by Neriglissar|560|3444 |
Belshazzar succeeds to the throne of Babylon|555|3449|
Daniel's emblematical vision of four monarchies|…|…|
Croesus, the ally of Belshazzar, conquered by Cyrus, and taken prisoner|548|3446|
Cyrus besieges Belshazzar in Babylon|541|3463|
He takes Babylon, slays Belshazzar, and makes Cyaxares, of Darius, king of Babylon|538|3466|
Daniel, envied by the nobles, is cast into the den of lions|537|3467|
Cyrus succeeds Darius, as king of the Medo-Persian empire, and ends the captivity of the Jews in Babylon|536|3468|
The remnant of the Jews return to Judea, and begin to restore Jerusalem and the temple|535|3469|
Tarquin, the Proud, succeeds to the Roman throne|534|3470|
Cyrus dies, aged 70, and is succeeded by Ahasuerus|530|3474|
Ahasuerus dies in Syria, and Artaxerxes usurps the Persian throne|522|3482|
Artaxerxes is slain, and Darius Hystaspes succeeds to the throne of Persia|521|3483|
Zerubbabel and Joshua encouraged by Haggai and Zechariah, engage in rebuilding the temple|520|3484|
The temple finished and dedicated|516|3488|
Darius invades India|506|3498|
The Persians wage war against the Greeks|500|3504|
The Persians defeated with great loss at Marathon|491|3513|
Darius dies, and is succeeded by his son, Xerxes|487|3517|
Xerxes confirms unto the Jews the privileges which had been granted them by his father|485|3519|
Herodotus, the historian, born|484|3520|
Consular government established about this time in Rome.|||
Xerxes, having relinquished his war against the Greeks, is slain, and is succeeded by Artaxerxes, Longimanus, the Ahasuerus of Esther|464|3540|
Artaxerxes (Ahasuerus) being established in the throne of the empire, makes a great feast, he divorces Vashti, the queen|462|3542|
Esther, the Jewish maiden, is made his queen|458|3546|
Ezra is made governor of Judea and begins a reform|456|3548|
First decemvirs[529] at Rome|454|3550|
Haman's plot for the destruction of the Jews defeated|452|3552|
Nehemiah sent as governor of Judea|448|3556|
He rebuilds Jerusalem, and reforms existing evils|444|3560|
Ezra collects and arranges a correct edition of the Scriptures|…|…|
Nehemiah, after an absence at the Persian court, returns to Judea under his second commission|428|3576|
Artaxerxes dies, and is succeeded by his son, Xerxes, who is slain, and Darius Nothus reigns|424|3580|
Malachi, the last of the prophets, prophesies at this time.|||
Joiada succeeds his father Eliashib, as high priest|…|…|
Nehemiah, under his last commission, effects sundry reforms in Judea|409|3595 |