| after |
B.C. |
| Semiramis lost in the Scythian desert, p. 13 |
— |
| The Scythians celebrated by Homer, pp. 29, 39 |
900 |
The Scythians occupy for twenty-eight years the
Median
kingdom in the time of Cyaxares, pp. 15, 22
(Prideaux) |
633 |
Cyrus loses his life in an expedition against
the Scythian
Massagetć, p. 14 (Clinton) |
529 |
| Darius invades Scythia north of the Danube, p.
16 (Clinton) |
508 |
| Zoroaster p. 66 (Prideaux) |
492 |
| Alexander's campaign in Sogdiana p. 18 (Clinton) |
329 |
|
A.D. |
Ancient Empire of the Huns in further Asia
ends; their
consequent emigration westward, p. 26 (Gibbon) |
100 |
| The White Huns of Sogdiana, pp. 26, 34, 52, 60,
67 |
after 100 |
Main body of the Huns invade the Goths on the
north of the
Danube, p. 22 (L'Art de vérifier la
dates) |
376 |
{237}Attila and his Huns ravage the Roman
Empire,
pp. 27, 28 |
441-452 |
| Mission of St. Leo to Attila, pp. 29, 31 |
453 |
Tartar Empire of the Turks, pp. 49-52 (L'Art, etc., Gibbon),
about |
500-700 |
| Chosroes the Second captures the Holy Cross, p.
53 (L'Art, etc.) |
614 |
| Mahomet assumes the royal dignity. The Hegira,
p. 69 (L'Art) |
622 |
The Turks from the Wolga settled by the Emperor
Heraclius
in Georgia against the Persians, p. 53 (Gibbon) |
626 |
| The Turks invade Sogdiana, p. 68 (Gibbon) |
626 |
| Heraclius recovers the Holy Cross, p. 53 (L'Art,
etc.) |
628 |
| Death of Mahomet, p. 69 (L'Art) |
632 |
Yezdegerde, last King of Persia, flying from
the Saracens,
is received and murdered by the Turks in
Sogdiana,
p. 69 (Universal History) |
654 |
The Saracens reduce the Turks in Sogdiana, p.
70
(L'Art, and Univ. Hist.) |
705-716 |
The Caliphate transferred from Damascus to Bagdad, p. 76 (L'Art) |
762 |
| Harun al Raschid, p. 77 (L'Art) |
786 |
| The Turks taken into the pay of the Caliphs, p.
77 (L'Art) |
833, etc. |
| The Turks tyrannize over the Caliphs, p. 79 (L'Art) |
862-870 |
| The Caliphs lose Sogdiana, p. 80 (L'Art) |
873 |
The Turkish dynasty of the Gaznevides in
Khorasan and Sogdiana,
p. 80 (Dow) |
977 |
| Mahmood the Gaznevide, pp. 80-84 (Dow) |
997 |
Seljuk the Turk, pp. 84-89 (Univ. Hist.) |
985 |
The Seljukian Turks Wrest Sogdiana and Khorasan
from the
Gaznevides, p. 89 (Dow) |
1041 |
| Togrul Beg, the Seljukian, turns to the West,
pp. 89, 92 (Baronius) |
1048 |
Sufferings of Christians on pilgrimage to
Jerusalem, pp. 98-101
(Baronius) |
1064 |
Alp Arslan's victory over the Emperor
Diogenes, p. 93
(Baronius) |
1071 |
St. Gregory the Seventh's letter against the
Turks, p. 98
(Sharon Turner) |
1074 |
| Jerusalem in possession of the Turks, p. 98 (L'Art) |
1076 |
Soliman, the Seljukian Sultan of Roum,
establishes himself at
Nicća p. 131 (L'Art) |
1082 |
The Council of Placentia under Urban the Second, pp. 109, 137
(L'Art) |
1095 |
| The first Crusade, p. 109 (L'Art) |
1097 |
{238} Conquests of Zingis Khan and the Moguls,
pp. 32-34
(L'Art) |
1176-1259 |
| Richard Cœur de Lion in Palestine, p. 140 (L'Art) |
1190 |
| Institution of Mamlooks, p. 217 |
about 1200 |
| Constantinople taken by the Latins, p. 139 (L'Art) |
1203 |
| Greek Empire of Nicća, p. 121 (L'Art) |
1206 |
The Greek Emperor Vataces encourages
agriculture in
Asia Minor, p. 121 (L'Art) |
1222-1255 |
The Moguls subjugate Russia, p. 225 (L'Art) |
1236 |
| Mission of St. Louis to the Moguls, pp. 35-41 (L'Art) |
1253 |
The Turks attack the north and west coast of
Asia Minor,
p. 93 (Univ. Hist) |
1266-1296 |
| Marco Polo, p. 37 |
1270 |
| End of the Seljukian kingdom of Roum, p. 132 (L'Art) |
1294 |
Othman, p. 132 |
1301 |
| The Popes retire to Avignon for seventy years,
p. 143 (L'Art) |
1305 |
Orchan, successor to Othman, originates the
institution
of Janizaries p. 134 (L'Art) |
1326-1360 |
| Battle of Cressy, p. 140 |
1346 |
| Battle of Poitiers, p. 140 |
1356 |
| Wicliffe, p. 139 |
1360 |
| Amurath institutes the Janizaries, pp. 113,
215, 218 (Gibbon) |
1370 |
| Conquests of Timour, p. 32 (L'Art) |
1370, etc. |
| Schismatical Pontiffs for thirty-eight years,
p. 143 (L'Art) |
1378-1417 |
| Battle of Nicopolis, p. 146 (L'Art) |
1393 |
| Timour defeats and captures Bajazet, p. 144 (L'Art) |
1402 |
| Timour at Samarcand, pp. 38, 45 (L'Art) |
1404 |
| Timour dies on his Chinese expedition p. 46 |
1405 |
Henry the Fourth of England dies, p. 141 |
1413 |
| Battle of Agincourt, pp. 140, 145 |
1415 |
| Huss, p. 140 |
1415 |
| Henry the Fifth of England dies, p. 142 |
1422 |
| Maid of Orleans, p. 141 |
1428 |
| Battle of Varna, p. 147 (L'Art) |
1442 |
| Constantinople taken by the Ottomans, p. 147 |
1453 |
| John Basilowich rescues Russia from the Moguls,
p. 47 (L'Art) |
about 1480 |
| Luther, p. 140 |
1517 |
| Soliman the Great, pp. 148, 192 |
1520 |
| St. Pius the Fifth, p. 153 |
1568 |
| Battle of Lepanto, pp. 156, 189 |
1571 |