Whereupon they make peace, & ratify it by a marriage between Astyages
the son of Cyaxeres, & Ariene the daughter of Alyattes.

600. Darius the Mede the son or grandson of Cyaxeres is born.

599. Cyrus is born of Mandane the sister of Cyaxeres & daughter of
Astyages.

598. The Messenians being conquered fly into Sicily & build Messana.

596. Susiana & Elam conquered by Nebuchadnezzar. Caranus & Perdiccas
fly from Phidon, & found the kingdom of Macedon. Phidon introduces weights
& measures & the coining of silver money.

588. The temple of Solomon is burnt by Nebuchadnezzar.

584. Phidon presides in the 49^th Olympiad.

580. Draco is Archon of the Athenians & makes laws for them. Phidon
is overthrown. Two men chosen by lot out of the city Elis to preside in the Olympic games.

575. The Amphictions make war upon the Cyrrheans by the advice of Solon,
& take Cirrha. Clysthenes Alcmæon & Eurolycus commanded the forces of the
Amphictions, & were contemporary to Phidon. For Leocides the son of Phidon,
& Megacles the son of Alcmæon, at one & the same time, courted Agarista the
daughter of Clysthenes.

569. Nebuchadnezzar invades Egypt. Darius the Mede reigns.

563. Solon being Archon of the Athenians makes laws for them.

557. Periander dyes, & Corinth becomes free from tyrants.

555. Nabonadius reigns at Babylon. His Mother Nitocris adorns & fortifies that city.

553. The conference between Crœsus & Solon.

550. Pisistratus becomes tyrant at Athens.

547. Sardes is taken by Cyrus. Darius the Mede recoins the Lydian money
into Darics. Solon dyes Hegistratus being Archon of Athens.

538. Babylon is taken by Cyrus.

536. Cyrus overcomes Darius the Mede & translates the empire to the
Persians. The Iews return fr cap from captivity, & found the second temple.

529. Cyrus dyes. Cambyses reigns.

521. Darius the son of Hystaspes reigns. The Magi are slain. The various
religions of the several nations of Persia w^ch continued in the worship of
their ancient kings, are abolished; & by the influence of Hystaspes & Zoro
aster, the worship of one God at altars, without temples is set up in all Persia.

520. The second Temple is built at Ierusalem by the command of Darius.

515. The second Temple is finished & dedicated.

513. Harmodius & Aristogiton slay Hipparchus the son of Pisistratus, ty
rant of the Athenians.

508. The Kings of the Romans expelled & consuls erected.

491. The battel of Marathon.

485. Xexes [sic] reigns.

480. The passage of Xerxes over the Hellespont into Greece, & battels
of Thermopylæ & Salamis.

464. Artaxerxes Longimanus reigns.

457. Ezra returns into Iudæa. Iohanan the father of Iadua was
now grown up, having a chamber in the Temple.

444. Nehemiah returns into Iudæa. Herodotus writes.

431. The Peloponesian warr begins.

428. Nehemiah drives away Eliezer the brother of Iadua because he
had married Nicaso the daughter of Sanballat.

424. Darius Nothus reigns.

422. Sanballat builds a Temple in mount Gerazim & makes his son
in law Eleazer the first High-priest thereof.

412. Hitherto the Priests & Levites were numbered & written in the Chronicles
of the Iews before the death of Nehemiah: at which time either Iohanan or
Iadua was High-priest. And here ends the sacred history of the Iews.

405. Artaxerxes Mnemon reigns. The end of the Peloponesian warr.

332. The Persian empire conquered by Alexander the great.

331. Darius Codomannus the last king of Persia slain.