REIGNS OF THE CHALDEAN AND MEDO-PERSIAN KINGS. |
These dates have been established after careful study of the works of Herodotus, Thucydides, Ctesias, Josephus, Berosus, Manetho, Ptolemy, Diodorus, Julius Africanus, Eusebius, Egibi tablets; also Annalistic tablet of Cyrus and “Records of the Past.” MONARCHS. | B.C. | | Reigned. | Nabopolassar began to reign | 626 | | 21 | years | Siege of Jerusalem | 606 | Nebuchadnezzar | 605 | | 43 | ” | Astyages, king of Media | 593 | | 35 | ” | Evil-Merodach | 562 | | 2 | ” | Nergal-sarra-utsur | 560 | | 4 | ” | Cyrus the Great, king of Persia | 558 | | 29 | ” | Laborosoarkhodos | 556 | | 9/12 | year. | Nabonadios, alone | 556 | 14 | Nabonadios and Belshazzar | 541 | 3 | 17 | years | Babylon taken by Cyrus | 538 | Cyrus and Darius | 538 | 2 | Cyrus alone | 536 | 7 | 9 | ” | Cambyses | 529 | | 75/12 | ” | Gomates | 522 | | 7/12 | year. | Darius Hystaspes | 521 | | 36 | years | Xerxes | 485 | | 20 | ” | Artabanus (USURPER) | Artaxerxes Longimanus | 465 | | 40 | ” | XerxesII. and Sogdianus | | mos. | Darius Nothus | 425 | | 29 | years | Artaxerxes Mnemon | 396 | | 36 | ” | Ochus | 360 | | 21 | ” | Arses | 339 | | 2 | ” | Darius Codomannus | 337 | | 4 | ” | |
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