-Sefoftris, perfues the Ifraelites, is - - Pharfalia; Pompey defeated by Cæfar is ftabbed by Paufanias Picts, a Scythian people, firft known in Pindar, the Greek lyric poet Pins first used in England - - 389 348 184 Plautus, the Roman comic poet 1665 1123 560 - 100 1605 1184 1440 Protector, Cromwel affumes that title - maffacred in Ireland, 40,000 Strabo, the Greek geographer Suetonius, the Roman hiftorian Surnames began to be used Sweden, Charles XII. defeated by Czar Peter, at Pultowa Swift, Revd. Dr. Jonathan, dean of St. Patrick's, Dublin Swifs cantons began to be established Sydenham, Dr. Thomas, Dorfetfhire; hiftory of phyfic Sylla and Marius Syracufe befieged and taken by the Romans 207 T. TACITUS, the Roman hiftorian 99 a kinfman and name's fake, declared emperor is cut off in fix months 1740 1779 29 Tillotson, John, archbishop of Canterbury, Halifax; 254 fermons Tobacco first brought from Virginia to England by Sir Walter Raleigh Tower of London built by William the 1703 Conqueror 117 1201 1709 1745 1307 1689 92 Trajan defeats the Daca Troy founded and governed by Scamander, from Crete 1546 taken and burnt by the Greeks, after Turks begin their empire in Bithynia, under take Conftantinople 275 Tyre built by the Sidonians ALENTINIAN. Valerius Flaccus, the Roman epic Vandals, Alans, and Suevi, fpread into France and Spain 1608 begin their kingdom in Spain Vatican library founded at Rome. 41C but Stamford far exceeds all others in antiquity, if we may credit Stowe's Chronicle, who tells us, p. 21, "that Bladud, the founder of Bath, florifhed 863 years before Chrift, had long ftudied at Athens, and brought with him from thence four philofophers, to keep fchool in Britain; for the which he builded Stamford, and made it an univerfity; wherein he had great number of fcholars, ftudying in all the feven liberal fciences which univerfity dured to the coming of St. Auftin:"-nay, according to other hiftorians, it must have dured much longer; for, in Edward III's time, on a feceffion at Oxford, many of the fcholars retired from thence to Stamford:-let this be confidered by others: there is however another article, which claims as much confideration; viz. that at the end of his chronicles, Stowe obferves, that Cambridge (as fome learned writers do affirm) was first frequented with philofophers from Athens, procured from thence by Cantebar, a Spanyard, in the time of Gurguntius, who was king of Britain, before the birth of Chrift 375 years:"-if fo, then the fame of Cambridge, as an univerfity, muft have remained very inactive for the space of above! 1600 years; fince in the very: next article he mentions Peter-houfe, (fuppofed to be the oldest college) as founded: in 1256 after Chrift. Vortigern, king of the Britons, invites theSaxons over 4451 Before After Chrift. Christ. Before After Chrift. Chrift, 1386 1399 19 44 Watches first brought from Germany 69 Weaving first introduced into England by two Brabant weavers, who fettled at York 915 Wickliffe, John, an Englishman, firft begins to reform the erroneous doctrines of the church of Rome 1457 1554 896 1100 1683 -- lands at Torbay on the 5th Nov. defeats his father-in-law James II. at the Boyne De Wits, brothers, affaffinated at - a the Wood's half-pence ordered to be coined for Ireland and America; but utterly rejected Wren, Sir Chriftopher, rebuilds St. Paul's in 37 years XE torian X. ENO, or rather Zeno, founder of the Stoic philofophy in Greece Xenophon, the Greek philofopher and hif joins the army of Cyrus; and after that prince is killed, makes the famous retreat of the 10,000 Xerxes, king of Perfia, prepares for his expedition against Greece 400 48 |