era to our own time. We need not dispute nicely as to the date at which Scythians or Parthians curtailed the Greek influence in Bactria; nor does it concern us whether the pedigree of certain Jats and others about the Indus* is to be traced to such invaders, or whether they are indigenous. But we accept the date 78 of the Christian era as famous from the overthrow of certain Scythians by Sáliváhana. We are agreed that the Mahometan arms under the Ommiyade caliph Walid in A. D. 707 approached India. Sultan Mahmud in 1000, Zingis Khan in 1224, Timur-leng in 1398, Baber in 1526, Akbar in the same century, Aurungzeb towards the end of the next, the rise of the Sikhs about 1700, and Clive in 1757, are sufficiently known. We may now therefore construct a rude table with great landmarks of events, and afterwards fill in the literary epochs, so far as we are able to agree about them." Here Blancombe took a piece of chalk and sketched out a picture of this sort, putting only a few figures at first, and then filling up the intervals with smaller ones. He began with the events, and only after the next stage in the discussion added the books; though I have copied them all together. Elphinstone, Hist. Ind. Appendix, Vol. 1. DATES B. C. OF EARLY INDIAN AND OTHER HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c. Greek Church places Adam 5502, from no critical method, but need of time, and with Hellenistic concurrence, after Julius Africanus. Ussher and Lloyd place Adam 4004, from Hebrew inferences. Vaivaswata MANU, 4376?? PATRIARCHAL Earliest known civilisation, Phoenician or Egyptian. Growth of Vedic Bunsen places Egyptian MENES 3626; more received date, about 2400. DATES B.C. OF EARLY INDIAN AND OTHER HISTORY, LITERATURE, &c.-continued. History of Assyria, Media, Persia, Greece, Italy, clearer, yet legendary, Italy,} 800-700. 1st Olympiad, 776. Nabonassar's era, 747. Rome founded, 753? Pharaoh Necho, his Phoenician sailors circumnavigate the globe, 616. Empire of Pul, Shalmaneser, Sennacherib, ends; Nineveh taken by Belesis, and Cyaxares, (one event,) } 606. Babylonian exile, 606-535. The later Psalms, and many Prophecies about this period; the brighter era earlier; the Canon not closed till later. Cyrus, 550. (or later?) Hebrew literature declines. Later Zechariah, 350-300. Book of Daniel, and Psalms, in} latest Psalms, in 200-150. time of Eusebius mentions a Hindú visitor in Athens at this time. Irenæus, 180. The Church widely spread; the Creed general; the Canon of N. T. Scripture nearly fixed. New Zoroastrianism,} 226. Mohammedan Hejra, 622. Scythians? SALIVAΉΑΝΑ, 78. Principalities of Pandya and of Mad- Gupta kings on the Ganges. Andhra (kings?), 428-436? Hiuan Thsang's travels, 630. CHRISTIAN ERA-continued. S. Athanasius. Council of Nice. Constantine Emperor, 325, Charlemagne. Papal Power. Haroun Alraschid, 800. Growth of Christian legend. Learning preserved dimly in Many corruptions of the Gospel; the Northern nations introducing superstitions, though unlearning their ferocity, mitigating feudalism, &c. The Crusades, 1095-1270. The Reformation, a revival of simpler Christianity, 1500-1600. Akbar (in Malwa), 1578. Luther. Henry VIII. Charles V. Rámanuja, 1100. East India Company, 1600. As before the Reformation, Churches and Monasteries, so sub- Aurungzeb, 1658-1707. sequently, Schools, Hospitals, equitable legislation, have Battle of Plassey, 1757. Nának Shah, 1490. Warren Hastings, 1774-1785. Battle of Assaye, 1803. |