CHART IV.
A. D.
THE ADVENT.
14. Augustus died.
Tiberius, Emperor. 36. Caligula. 41. Claudius. 54. Nero. 70. Vespasian. 70. Jerusalem destroyed. 79. Titus. 81. Domitian. 98. Trajan.
71. Livy, historian, died.
25. Strabo, historian, died.
65. Seneca, philosopher, put to death by Nero
79. Pliny the Elder died.
79. Herculaneum and Pompeii destroyed by
eruption of Vesuvius.
81, Agricola conquers Britain.
97. Quintilian, orator and writer, died.
97. Josephus, Jewish historian, died.
100
17. Hadrian, surnamed The Best.
37. He rebuilds Jerusalem.
38. Antoninus Pius. 61. Marcus Aurelius.
80. Commodus.
93. Septimius Severus.
15. Pliny the Younger died.
20. Plutarch, biographer, died.
28. Juvenal, poet, died.
35. Tacitus, historian, died.
200
11. Caracalla and Geta, sons of Severus.
18. Heliogabalus,
22. Alexander Severus.
68. Claudius II.
70. Aurelian; he defeats the Goths and Germans.
84. Diocletian.
Tertullian, an able defender of Christianity, originally a pagan.
54, Origen suffers martyrdom.
300
400
500
12. Constantine the Great.
30. Seat of Empire removed to Constantinople.
61. Julian the Apostate.
64. Empire divided.
Valentinian Emperor of the West.
Valens of the East.
79. Theodosius the Great, reunites the Empire. 95. Empire permanently divided.
Arcadius Emperor of the West.
Honorius of the East.
16. Arius.
25. Council of Nice.
35. Atbanasius. bishop of Alexander, exiled.
Alaric the Goth invades Italy. 9. Invasion of Spain by the Vandals, Allans,
and Suevi.
10. Alaric sacked Eome. 51. Attila the Hun defeated, 55. Borne plundered by the Vandals under Genseric.
75. Romulus Augustulus, last Emperor of
Rome.
76. Roman Empire overthrown by Odoacer,
King of the Herali.
7. St. Chrysostom died.
30. St. Augustine died.
It is not deemed necessary to represent the next five centuries by Charts, as little or no progress was made in intellectual or national life during that period.
