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TIME B.C. | India | China | Persia | Greece | Rome | Judah | Egypt | Macedon |
TIME B.C. |
| 500 | Buddha | Confucius | Darius | Æschylus | Tarquin the Proud | Haggai | 500 | ||
| Xerxes | Themistocles | Zechariah | |||||||
| 450 | Artaxerxes | Socrates | Nehemiah | 450 | |||||
| Plato | Ezra | ||||||||
| Pericles | |||||||||
| Herodotus | |||||||||
| Thucydides | |||||||||
| Sophocles | |||||||||
| 400 | Euripides | 400 | |||||||
| 350 | Aristotle | Philip | 350 | ||||||
| Demosthenes | Alexander | ||||||||
| 200 | Hannibal | Judas Maccabæus | 200 | ||||||
| 50 | Julius Cæsar | Cleopatra | 50 | ||||||
| Cicero | |||||||||
| Jesus | Augustus | John the Baptist | Jesus | ||||||
| Christ | Tiberius | Christ | |||||||
| Horace | |||||||||
| Virgil, Livy | |||||||||
| A.D. | Britain | France | Germany | Switzerland | Rome, Italy | Spain | Netherlands | Africa & East | A.D. |
| 50 | Boadicea | Seneca | Josephus | 50 | |||||
| St. Paul | |||||||||
| 300 | Constantine | Athanasius | 300 | ||||||
| 400 | Alaric | Augustine | 400 | ||||||
| 600 | Chas. Martel | Mahomet | 600 | ||||||
| 700 | Bede | 700 | |||||||
| 800 | Alfred | Charlemagne | Haroun-al-Raschid | 800 | |||||
| 1100 | The Cid | Omar Khayyam (Persia) | 1100 | ||||||
| 1200 | St. Francis | 1200 | |||||||
| 1300 | Chaucer | William Tell | Aquinas | Tamerlane | 1300 | ||||
| Dante | |||||||||
| 1350 | Wycliffe | Froissart | Arnold von Winkelried | Petrarch | Hafiz (Persia) | 1350 | |||
| Boccaccio | |||||||||
| 1450 | Caxton | Da Vinci | 1450 | ||||||
| 1500 | Knox | Rabelais | Luther | Calvin | Columbus | Ignatius Loyola | Erasmus | 1500 | |
| Latimer | Copernicus | Savonarola | St. Theresa | ||||||
| Machiavelli | Ferdnd. & Isabella | ||||||||
| Cortez | Russia | ||||||||
| 1550 | Philip Sidney | Montaigne | Cellini | Alva | William the Silent | Ivan the Terrible | 1550 | ||
| Spenser | Scaliger | Tasso | |||||||
| 1600 | Shakespeare | Corneille | Kepler | Galileo | Cervantes | Rubens | 1600 | ||
| Raleigh | Richelieu | Scandinavia | |||||||
| Bacon | Descartes | Gustavus Adolphus | Van Dyck | ||||||
| Jonson | Grotius | ||||||||
| 1650 | Cromwell | Pascal | Peter the Gt. [& Catherine] | 1650 | |||||
| Milton | Racine | Leibnitz | Spinoza | ||||||
| Bunyan | Molière | ||||||||
| Dryden | Fénélon | ||||||||
| Locke | Rochefoucauld | ||||||||
| Hobbes | Louis XIV. | ||||||||
| 1700 | Swift | 1700 | |||||||
| Steele | Handel | Holberg | |||||||
| Addison | |||||||||
| Walpole | America | ||||||||
| 1750 | Chatham | Fredk the Gt | Rousseau | Franklin | 1750 | ||||
| Burke | Voltaire | Goethe | Gessner | Washington | |||||
| Pitt and Fox | Lavoisier | Schiller | Pestalozzi | ||||||
| Wesley | Napoleon | Haydn | Pestalozzi | ||||||
| Burns | Mozart | ||||||||
| Goldsmith | Kant | ||||||||
| Sheridan | |||||||||
| Dr. Johnson | |||||||||
| Coleridge | |||||||||
| Flaxman | |||||||||
| Reynolds | |||||||||
| Gainsboro’gh | |||||||||
| Nelson | |||||||||
| Wellington | |||||||||
| 1800 | Faraday | Hegel | Tegner | 1800 | |||||
| Scott | Beethoven | Thorwaldsen | |||||||
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| Lamb | |||||||||
| 1825 | Gladstone | Balzac | Wagner | Garibaldi | Hans Andersen | Irving | 1825 | ||
| Macaulay | Dumas | Heine | Mazzini | Runeberg | Emerson | ||||
| Disraeli | Victor Hugo | Bismarck | Cavour | Wergeland | Longfellow | ||||
| Landseer | Georges Sand | Moltke | Victor Emmanuel | Welhaven | Whittier | ||||
| Mill | Lesseps | Bunsen | Ibsen | Lowell | |||||
| Livingstone | Napoleon 3 | William I. | Bjornson | Holmes | |||||
| Ruskin | Gambetta | Lincoln | |||||||
| Dickens | Turgenieff | ||||||||
| Carlyle | |||||||||
| Thackeray | Tolstoy | ||||||||
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| Darwin | Hungary | ||||||||
| Huxley | Kossuth | ||||||||
| Spencer | |||||||||
| 1900 | 1900 |
MAKING OF THE EARTH
AND THE COMING OF MAN
THE BEGINNING OF THE EARTH
BY PROFESSOR SOLLAS
T
THE origin of our planet is a problem which has appealed to the intellect of thoughtful men from the most remote times, and the earliest recorded speculations concerning it—those of the Mosaic cosmogony—possess a peculiar interest, since they embody the views of the ancient Chaldeans, who were not only systematic observers of the heavens, but made practical use of their results.
Beginning of a Famous Theory