PAGE Beginning of the Earth 3 First Rain-storm 7 Plants 7 Mites 8 Insects 8 Fish 8 Frogs 8 Snakes 8 Birds 8 Animals 8 Monkeys 8 People 8 4000 B.C. Bronze Age Begins 16 3400 B.C. Menes 28 2900 B.C. Cheops 38 2300 B.C. Chaldean Eclipse 46 1900 B.C. Abraham Leaves Ur 49 1700 B.C. Israelites go to Egypt 51 1300 B.C. Exodus; Iron Age Begins 54 1200 B.C. Trojan War 64 1100 B.C. Samuel; Saul 70 1000 B.C. Homer; Solomon; Hiram 68, 71, 76 900 B.C. Lycurgus 79 776 B.C. First Olympiad 87 753 B.C. Founding of Rome 89 700 B.C. Nineveh at Top 96 612 B.C. Fall of Nineveh 98 Draco; Solon 114-115 538 B.C. Fall of Babylon 108 509 B.C. End of Kings at Rome 119 500 B.C. Brahmanism 111 Buddhism 112 Confucius 113 490 B.C. Marathon 127 480 B.C. Thermopylæ; 137 Salamis 140 480 B.C. Golden Age 143 430 B.C. Peloponnesian War 151 336 B.C. } 323 B.C. } Alexander the Great 159, 162 202 B.C.