] CHRONOLOGY OF UNIVERSAL HISTORY EMBRACING THE PERIOD COVERED IN THIS VOLUME A.D. 1438-1516 JOHN RUDD, LL.D. A.D. 1438-1516 Events treated at length are here indicated in large type; the numerals following give volume and page.

LIST OF MAPS AND CHARTS JEWISH AND CONTEMPORARY CHRONOLOGY FROM 597 TO 165 B.C. THE EMPIRES OF BABYLONIA, PERSIA, AND ALEXANDER THE JEWISH COMMUNITY IN PALESTINE DURING THE PERSIAN AND GREEK PERIODS THE JERUSALEM OF NEHEMIAH CHRONOLOGY OF THE MACCABEAN AND ROMAN PERIODS PALESTINE DURING THE MACCABEAN PERIOD

By these means, an attentive perusal of this work must necessarily be of material usefulness, in fixing distinct and just ideas of geography, history, and chronology in the minds of its readers; besides the important information and rational amusement which it will afford, by the frequent description of manners, customs, laws, governments, and many other circumstances, of all the countries and nations of the world.

Handsome and trim and affable, he defied chronology by looking ten years younger than he was known to be.

Without entering into criticisms of Chronology about the hour of his death, I shall only prove that Mr. PARTRIDGE is not alive.

They knew no other historical epochas than that of the lives of their mothers, no other chronology than that of their orchards, and no other philosophy than that of doing good, and resigning themselves to the will of Heaven.

I venture this explanation without attaching too much importance to it, because it seems to me that if it was true, my direct recollection of those coloured borders would have been stronger than it is; still, the strong association of my chronology with colour seems to plead in favour of that explanation.