576 CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. The Maccabean brothers suffer martyrdom.............2-cceeceeece Tudas, son of Mattathias, obtains splendid victories over the armies of Antiochus Epiphanes bee eees eee eee ee cece e eee teen eees He recovers Jerusalem, and restores:the temple worship............. Miserable death of Antiochus Epiphanes, and the succession of his son, Antiochus Eupator, to the throne....... eee e eee ee teen eees Demetrius Soter, son of Seleucus Philopater, escapes from Rome, kills Antiochus, and seizes on the throne........ 0... cece ccc cee ee Demetrius Soter sends his general, Nicanor, against the Jews, who, with his army, was defeated by Judas...............ccccceeee J udas i is slain in battle with Bacchides, and is succeeded by J onathan, his brother..... 0.00... cece ccc ccc eee cececeneuveecenaccees Jonathan is promoted by Balas to the high priesthood.............. The Asmonean dynasty is established in Judea..................... Demetrins Soter is slain in battle by Balas, who succeeds him to the throne of Syria... .. 0... ce eee cect ccc eeeees Deca ees Ptolemy Philometer dies, and is succeeded by his brother, Ptolemy PHYSCON... 6... eee eee ect c ce e ee nec e ne neeeteeeeeuees Jonathan, after brilliant successes in war against Demetrius, is treach- erously murderered...... 0.0... cc cece ccc cece eee e ccc ceereces Simon, his brother, becomes his successor as the leader of the Jews.. He secures a recognition of the independence of Judea, and a guar- antee for the same from Rome...............ccceeeccccee cece Carthage is destroyed by Scipio, the Roman....................... Antiochus Sidetes is made king of Syria, Demetrius being held a pris- oner by the Parthians......... 0... ccc ccc cece cece cece eccces Simon and two sons are murdered by his son-in-law, Ptolemy, gover- nor in Jericho, and is succeeded by his son, Juhn Hyrcanus...... Spain becomes a province of Rome........... ec cece eccceccceuce Hyrcanus, son of Simon Maccabeus, being invested with the office of high-priest and general-in-chief, establishes his government firmly IN DUCA... ee cece cece eee e eee eee eeeneececenees Antiochus Gryphas conquers the usurper Zebina and ascends the THONG 2.6. ek cece ete e ee ne een eee veceeleneece Ptolemy Physcon dies, leaving the kingdom of Egypt in the hands of his queen, Cleopatra. ......... 00. c cece ccc c cece ecaeecncecccce Aristobulus and Antigonus, sons of Hyrcanus, conquer and devastate SAMATIA. cece cee cece cece cee enceccecnees Aristobulus causes his brother, Antigonus, to be killed, and he takes possession of the government......... 0.00. cece cece cc cccce cee Aristobulus.dies, and his brother, Alexander Janneus, succeeds to the government of Judea... ok eee cece ccc cece ccc cece cccce Jugurtha, the Numidian king, defeated in a decisive battle with the Romans....... 0. cee cece ccc ence nce eceeccucncsecveecceces Rome distracted by the Social War, so called, which cost the lives of 300,000 men... . ec cee cence ee cees CCC eee rence c cc cnesssens 166 165 164 162 161 153 152 145 144 141 140 185 134 135 1.'3 117 109 106 A.M 3837 3838 3838 3840 3842 3843 3860 3863 3864 3869 3870 3869 3881 8887 3895 3898 3913