5T4 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE, THE ERA OF INSPIRED HISTORY ENDS ABOUT THIS TIME, AND | THE OLD TESTAMENT CANON IS FINISHED. Darius Nothus dies, and is superceded by Artaxerxes Mnemon....... Socrates, the Athenian philosopher, is condemned to death for refusing to honor the gods of Athens...... 0... ccc cece cee cece teens Aristotle, the renowned philosopher born..............0000005 . Johanan succeeds to the high priesthood of the Jewish people. ..... Alexander II., king of Macedon, is murdered................. 0005 Johanan assassinates his brother Joshua in the temple, for which crime the nation is fined by the Persians............ 0c. cece ewes Alexander the Great born in Macedonia............... ccc eee eee Ochus, king of Persia, invades Egypt, and subjugates the whole COUDLLY . . ce ee eee ee eee eee eee eee eee eee teens Philip, king of Macedon, is slain, and his son, Alexander the Great, suc- ceeds to the throne... . 2. cee cee ee tee ee ees He invades Asia, and obtains a victory over Darius................. He conquers Asia Minor, and gains a decisive battle with Darius at He besieges Tyre, visits Jerusalem, conquers Egypt................. He passes the Euphrates, obtains another victory over Darius, and destroys the Medo-Persian empire............ cee eee eee eee The Greco-Macedonian empire, after a brief existence, is divided, on the death of Alexander...... eee eee eee eee eee eee ees A Jewish colony formed at Alexandria, Egypt..................-. Onias succeeds Jaddua in the high priesthood...................00. The kingdom of Alexander the Great is divided between four of his principal generals: Lysimachus, Cassander, Ptolemy, and Seleucus Onias dies, and is succeeded in the priesthood by Simon, the Just... Cassander, who reigned over Macedonia and Greece, dies........... Simon, the Just, dies, and is succeeded by Eleazer, his brother, in the high priesthood..... 0... 005 cee cee eee eee eee cee ee eens Lysimachus adds to his dominions the kingdom of Macedon........ Ptolemy Lagus resigns his throne to his son, Ptolemy Philadelphus, and soon after dieS.... 0... eee ee eee cette eee eeee Seleucus, having slain Lysimachus and siezed his dominions, is himself slain by Ptolemy Ceraunus.............. cece eee ees eee eee eee Antiochus Soter succeeds his father, Seleucus, to the throne of Syria. The Hebrew Scriptures, by the authority of Ptolemy Philadelphus, are translated into Greek, and have since been known as the Szprv- Antiochus Soter dies, and is succeeded by Antiochus Theos........ Manasseh, the high-priest, is succeeded by Onias IT................. Ptolemy Philadelphus is succeeded by his son, Ptolemy Euergetes.... Antiochus recalls his wife, Laodice, whom he had divorced in order to marry Berenice, but she poisons him and Berenice; and places on the-throne her son, Seleucus Callinicus eseeeeseeevaeveee es eeereevnseeee B. C. 405 400 384 373 370 366 306 336 334 333 332 ool 328 320 521 301 300 298 292 286 284 280 279 277 261 250 247 A.M 3599 3604 3620 3631 36284 3638 3648 3654 3668 3670 3671 3672 3673 8681 3684 3683 3703 3704 3706 3712 3718 3724 3725 8727 3743 3754 375% 3758