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CHRONOLOGY; OR, THE Hiſtorian's Vade-Mecum. WHEREIN EVERY REMARKABLE OCCURRENCE IN ENGLISH HISTORY, WITH THE Principal EVENTS of other HISTORIES, both Ancient and Modern, are alphabetically recorded, and the Dates affixed;

TOGETHER WITH A Chronological Liſt of the moſt EMINENT MEN in all Ages of the World.

By the Rev. Dr. JOHN TRUSLER.

This Work gives a more enlarged View of ENGLISH HISTORY than can be comprized in the ſmailer Edition; exhibits the Dates of Creation of all the PEERAGES; the Invention and Progreſs of the ſeveral ARTS; and alſo a Liſt of the KINGS of every Country, &c. and the STATE-OFFICERS, BISHOPS, &c. for many Years back.

IN TWO VOLUMES.

VOL. I.

For the LIBRARY and the USE of SCHOOLS.

THE TENTH EDITION, With the Additions of Five Years cloſe reading.

LONDON: Printed for the AUTHOR, and ſold by R. BALDWIN, No. 47, Pater-noſter Row; where may be had, Price 1s. 6d. The Pocket Edition

[Price of the Two Volumes [...]s. ſewed.]

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TO THE Riſing Generation, TO WHOM THIS WORK IS MORE PARTICULARLY SERVICEABLE, IT IS RESPECTFULLY INSCRIBED, BY THEIR SINCERE WELLWISHER,

J. TRUSLER,
Cobbam, Surrey, 1782.

PREFACE.

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SINCE the firſt publication of this work, the author has annually enlarged and improved it. It muſt occur to every one, that time only, and conti⯑nual reading, can add to the collection; which makes every new edition more valuable than the laſt. It has been the author's ſtudy to examine into the accuracy of dates, and reconcile the difference of hiſtorians, who vary in nothing more than in the times when events happened, owing to different com⯑mencements of the year with different people. The Jews began the year with the month of March; the Athenians, with June; the Macedonians, with the 24th of September; the Chriſtians of Egypt and Ethiopia, with the 29th or 30th of Auguſt; the Perſians and Armenians, with the 11th of the ſame month; but moſt chriſtians of the Weſtern world reckon from the 1ſt of January. Indeed, from the Roman Conqueſt to Bede, time ſeems to have been computed from Chriſtmas day. The Saxon chronicle begins the year from the birth of our Lord. At the beginning of the 13th century, ſome computed from the Annunciation, ſome from the Nativity, ſome from the Circumciſion, and others from the Paſſion of our Lord; of courſe, there was no fixed rule of computation in Gervaſe of Canterbury's time. Matt. Paris, Matt. Weſtminſter, Ralph de Diceto, and Polydore Virgil, place the Coronation of William I. on Chriſtmas day, 1067. Hence it appears, that they began the year on that day. Walſingham and Brompton refer it to Chriſtmas day, 1066, which proves, that they did not begin the year till after that day. At the Reformation, the year was ap⯑pointed to begin on the 25th of March; but others ſay, in 1265; that being ſuppoſed by ſome, to have [vi]been the day when the world was created, and when Chriſt was conceived: it thus continued till 1752, when it was brought back to the 1ſt of January. The Scots, from time immemorial, obſerved the 25th of March as the firſt day of the year, till Nov. 27, 1599; when the 1ſt of January was or⯑dered, by proclamation, to be the beginning of the year there.

From theſe variations in the computation of time, reſpecting the commencement of the year, &c. we may account for the difference of dates in the ſeveral hiſtorians. It has been the ſtudy, therefore, of the Author of this work, as far as poſſible, to reconcile them; and he has happily ſucceeded in a thouſand inſtances, and in all he is as correct, as a work of this kind (which conſiſts chiefly of figures) is capable of; he flatters himſelf, therefore, it will be found ſuperior to other books of chronology, where no ſuch attention has been paid. He has induſtriouſly thrown out, alſo, all unimportant matter, and given the Reader only ſuch occurrences as he muſt wiſh to be acquainted with.

This work being found highly proper to be put into the hands of youth, chronology being one of the chief branches of the belles lettres; to adapt it for the purpoſe, this edition is publiſhed; wherein the author has given a more enlarged view of Engliſh hiſtory, and flatters himſelf he has thus rendered it a complete ſchool-book. It is already received at Weſtminſter, Eaton, Wincheſter, Marybone, &c. &c. and all other great ſchools, as well for boys as for girls.

☞ A ſmall edition of this work, ſo contrived as not to exceed the ſize of a pocket almanack, may be had of all the bookſellers, price 1s. 6d.

ADVERTISEMENT.

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THE events of different reigns, as they aroſe, may be found, by turning to the reſpective kings one after another.

With reſpect to dates, no notice is taken of the Old Stile, but they are regulated according to the New; thus January 1741/2, is called January, 1742.

As to ages, this rule is obſerved; if a perſon at his death had entered only in his 40th year, he is recorded to have died, aged 39.

Names to which St. is prefixed, if not found by the firſt letter of the name, may under the word Saint.

The times in which ſuch writers lived, as were biſhops, if not found in alphabetical order, may be ſeen by turning to the liſt of biſhops.

Where no diſtinction of country is made to the peerages, that of England is implied.

Where references are made to Rem. Occur. it means to thoſe remarkable occurrences at the beginning of the Second Volume, which could not be ſo well thrown into alphabetical order.

This volume ſerves as a complete Index to all the Hiſtories of England extant, by referring to the years in which occurrences happened. The years are ge⯑nerally marked in the margins of the various hiſ⯑tories.

Several hiſtorical facts will be found, by referring to particular names in Vol. II.

The author will be very thankful for any cor⯑rections, additions, or improvements left with his publiſher, R. BALDWIN.

KINGS of ENGLAND ſince the HEPTARCHY.

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Began to reign.
NAMES.
800
Egbert, king of Weſſex.
838,
Ethelwolf.
857,
Ethelbald.
860,
Ethelbert.
866,
Ethelred.
872,
Alfred.
900,
Edward the Elder.
925,
Athelſtan.
942,
Edmund I.
946,
Edred.
955,
Edwy.
959,
Edgar.
975,
  • Edward the martyr.
  • Simeon, Uſurper.
1016,
Edmund II.
DANISH KINGS.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1017,
  • Canute the Dane.
  • Harold, Uſurper.
1039,
Hardicanute.
ENGLISH SAXONS RESTORED.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1041,
Edward the Con⯑feſſor.
1065,
Harold.
NORMAN KINGS.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1066,
William the Con⯑queror.
1087,
William II.
1100,
Henry I.
1135,
Stephen.
The FAMILY of PLAN⯑TAGENET, or the SAXON Line reſtored.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1154,
Henry II.
1189,
Richard I.
1199,
John.
1216,
Henry III.
1272,
Edward I.
1307,
Edward II.
1327,
Edward III.
1377,
Richard II.
Houſe of LANCASTER.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1399,
Henry IV.
1413,
Henry V.
1422,
Henry VI.
The Houſe of YORK.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1461,
Edward IV.
1483,
Edward V.
1485,
Richard III.
YORK and LANCASTER united under the Houſe of TUDOR.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1485,
Henry VII.
1509,
Henry VIII.
1547,
Edward VI.
1553,
Mary.
1558,
Elizabeth.
HOUSE of STUART.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1603,
James I.
1625,
Charles I.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1649.
Charles II.
1685,
James II.
1689,
William and Mary.
1702,
Anne.
The BRUNSWICK Family.
Began to reign.
NAMES.
1714,
George I.
1727,
George II.
1760,
George III.

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