Table for finding the Numbers of the Lunar Cycle Table for finding Year-Letters from 1 A.D. to 3300 A.D. "Pafchal Term" and "Pafchal Cycle" of Dionyfius Tables for finding the “Paschal Term ” 115-116 118-122 II. Era of the Foundation of Rome, 21 April, 753 B.C. 195-196 VI. Cæfarian Era of Antioch, 9 Aug. 48 B.C. Eras of Nations (continued). Pages 203-204 VIII. Era of Spain, or Era of the Cæsars, 1 Jan. 38 B.C. 203 [reckoning from the battle of Actium]. : 206-207 Perpetual Almanacs for Abyffinia XII. The Christian Era, 1 A.D. Table of corresponding numbers of the Lunar Cycles, and the Cycles of 19 years XIII. The Era of Pisa, 1 before 1 A.D. XIV. Era of the Armenians, 9 July, 552 A.D. 209-211 212-223 With rules and tables for finding the Moham- medan date corresponding to any Christian I A.D. of the reckoning of Dionyfius, by Scaliger, 1583 A.D. . XXI. The Greek Era, 1 Sept. 312 B.C.. Specimen of the Hebrew Calendar 256-259 259-260 307-308 Preface. EADERS who can affign correct dates to events, according to the different systems in ufe in various countries, by means of the accompanying work, will be the best judges of the value of the aid afforded them. It has been truly said, that historical facts are nothing more than detached fragments, unless the series of time, according to its proper periods, the interval of occurrences, and the train and coincidences of events, be drawn together into one body, to make, what has been aptly termed, the "thread of hiftory:" the mere knowledge of the fact, that an event occurred, being of little worth per fe, unless the true place in the history of the world of the event in queftion be known also. The Year of the Chriftian Era, now used, is of the fame form as the Julian year which C. Julius Cæfar introduced in the year of Rome 708, when the Julian year began on the ift of January, and ended on the 31st of December, 709 A.U.c. Our Chriftian Era is, according to the reckoning of Dionyfius Exiguus, who, [A.D. 533], first introduced the fyftem of writing the words Anno Domini with any year of the Chriftian era of the Incarnation. The point in time which Dionyfius affigned to 1 Anno Domini was the year of Rome 754. The birth of our Lord took place in the 28th year of the reign of Auguftus; and Dionyfius, by reckoning from 727 A.U.C., the year in which the Emperor took the name of Auguftus, made the 28th year fall to 754 A.U.C., four years fhort of the date obferved by the early Chriftians, who, reckoning the years of the Emperor from the date of the battle of Actium [723 A.U.C.], to commemorate which, the Era of the Roman Emperors was founded, made the 28th year of Augustus fall to 750 A.U.c. for the birth of our Lord, or 1 Anno Chrifti. It is therefore neceffary to bear in mind, that though the reckoning of Dionyfius will not fuit the statements in connection with the early history of the Chriftian faith, yet, if 1 Anno Chrifti, correfponding to 4, before I Anno Domini, be taken, the statements will accord with hiftorical facts. [See pp. 23, 24.] The Dionyfian year is fuppofed to have commenced with the 25th of March; that being the date usually affigned to the "Incarnation of the Word," the name which the era bore. The first year of the Second Dionyfian Pafchal Cycle of 532 years to which Golden Number II. of the Dionyfian Cycle of 19 years belonged, was 533 A.D., when Eafter-day would fall, according to that cycle, on the 27th of March, the third day of the 25th of March. The first year of the first Dionyfian Pafchal Cycle of 532 years, being 1 Anno Domini, with Golden Number II. of the Dionyfian Cycle of 19 years, fo imagined. By the following table of corresponding dates we can |