Breviarium chronologicum being a treatise describing the terms and most celebrated characters, periods and epocha's us'd in chronology, by which that useful science may easily be attained to / writ in Latin by Gyles Strauchius ... ; and now done into English from the third edition, with additions.

Courteous Reader,

TO give you at once a short View of all these Epocha's, which (after our general Doctrine of Time) we have treated of in this Epitome; and to shew you the most compendious Way of making an exact Connecti∣on betwixt the several Epoch's we have exhibited in a small Table the Difference betwixt the Ju∣lian Period and all the other Epocha's. As, for Example; If the Year of Christ 1664, and the fifth Month of the Year, commonly called the Month of May, be given to find out the Syn∣chronisms of these Epocha's; you must know the Year of the Julian Period: If therefore you add out of the above-mentioned Table 4713 Years to the before-said Sum, the Product will shew you the Year of the Julian Period, to wit, ••377, which is correspondent to the known Year of Christ. On the other hand, If you subtract from the same Year the Sum you find opposite to each Epocha, this shews you the true Method of making a just Connection betwixt these Epocha's and the known Year of Christ. It is further to be observed, That where you find an Asterisk or*, affixed to any of these Epocha's, it indigitates, that the usual Computation of the Years of this Epocha is not congruous to the Ju∣lian Period; and that therefore the Connection betwixt them is to be look'd for in our Compu∣tistica.

From the beginning of the Julian Period, to

		Y.	M.
1.	The Creation of the World,	763	9
2.	The Jewish Epocha,	952	8
3.	Moses's Flood,	2419	10
4.	Porphyrius's Chaldaick Epocha,	2480
5.	Assyriac Kingdom,	2537
6.	Nativity of Abraham,	2711
7.	—his Calling,	2786
8.	Isaac's Nativity,	2811
9.	Abraham's Death,	2886
10.	Beginning of the Kingdom of the Argives,	2856
11.	Beginning of the Kingdom of Athens,	3157
12.	Departure out of Aegypt.	3216	3
13.	Entr. of the Israelites into Palaestine,	3261	9
14.	Their Tilling it,	3262	9
15.	Destruction of Troy,	3529	5
16.	David's Reign,	3653
17.	First Foundation of the Temple,	3696	4
18.	Its Encoenia,	4703	9
19.	The Defection of Jeroboam,	3733
20.	Arbaces, the 1st King of the Medes,	3838
21.	Mandaces, the 2d,	3865
22.	Sosarmus, the 3d,	3915
23.	Artica, the 4th,	3945
24.	Cardicea, the 5th,	3996
25.	Phraortes, the 6th,	4057
26.	Cyaxares, the 7th K. of the Medes,	4080
27.	The Beginning of Astyages,	4020
28.	The End,	4154
29.	The Olympiads,	3937	6
30.	The Varronian Epocha of the Buil∣ding of the City,	3960	3
31.	The Catonian,	3961	3
32.	* The Nabonassarean Epocha,	3966	2
33.	Destruction of Samaria,	3990
34.	The Beginning of Nabuchadonosor,	4105

35.	LXX Years Captivity,	4113
36.	Destruction of the first Temple,	4123	7
37.	The Beginning of Cyrus in Persia,	4154
38.	in Babylon,	4175
39.	Flight of the Kings,	4205	2
40.	The Battle at Marathon,	4222	7
41.	at Salamis,	4233	8
42.	The Beginning of the Pelopon. War,	4282	3
43.	The Beginning of the 70 Weeks of Daniel,	4291
44.	The Battle at Gaugamel,	4382	9
45.	The Begin. of the Calip. Period,	4383	6
46.	The Death of Alexander,	4390	3
47.	The Epocha of the Seleucides,	4401	3
48.	The Death of Mattathias Asmo∣naeus,	4547
49.	The Restauration of the Jews, Mac.	4548
50.	The Epocha of Simon,	4570
51.	The Antiochian Epocha,	4664	9
52.	The Julian Epocha,	4668	0
53.	The Beginning of the Reign of Herod,	4673
54.	The taking of Jerusalem,	4676
55.	The Death of Herod,	4712	2
56.	The Spanish Aera,	4675
57.	The Battle at Actium,	4682	8
58.	The taking Alexandria,	4683	7
59.	The Epocha of the Augustus's,	4686
60.	The true Birth of Christ,	4711
61.	The Vulgar,	4713
62.	The Passion of Christ,	4745	3
63.	The Destruction of the second Temple,	4782	7
64.	The Beginning of the Dioclesian or the Aera of Martyrs,	4996	8
65.	The Dioclesian Persecution,	5015	3
66.	The Death of Constantius Chlo∣rus,	5018	7
67.	The Conquest of Maxentius,	5024	••
68.	The Nicaean Council,	5037	5

69.	The Death of Constantine the Great,	5049	5
70.	The Encoenia of Constantinople,	5042	4
71.	* The Epocha of the Hegira,	5334	6
72.	* The Epocha of Yezdejerd,	5344	5
73.	The Epocha of Jellalaean,	5791	3