Octavianus reigned 56 years, and in the 42d year of his reign Christ was born: then astrologers came from the Eastern parts that they might worship Christ, and the children of Bethlehem were slain in Herod’s search after him. 3. This year Herod died, having stabbed himself, and his son Archelaus succeeded to the kingdom. And the child Christ was brought again out of Egypt. 6. From the beginning of the world until this year, five thousand two hundred years were gone by. 11. This year Herod, the son of Antipater, received the government of Judea. 12. Philip and Herod divided Judea into Tetrarchies. 16. This year Tiberius succeeded to the empire. 26. This year Pilate received the procuratorship over the Jews. 30. This year Christ was baptized, and Peter and Andrew were converted, and James, and John, and Philip, and the twelve Apostles. 33. This year Christ was crucified, being about 5226 years from the beginning of the world. 34. This year St. Paul was converted, and St. Stephen was stoned. 35. This year the blessed Apostle Peter established a bishop’s see in the city of Antioch. 37. This year Pilate slew himself with his own hands. 39. This year Caius[A] succeeded to the empire. 44. This year the blessed Apostle Peter established a bishop’s see at Rome. This year James, the brother of John, was slain by Herod. 45. This year died Herod, he who slew James one year before his own death. 46. This year Claudius, second of the Roman Emperors, came to the land of Britain, and brought under his power the greater part of this island, he also subjected the Orkney islands to the Roman Empire. This was in the 4th year of his reign, and the same year was the great famine in Syria, which is spoken of by Luke, in the book of the Acts of the Apostles. Then Nero succeeded to the Empire after Claudius: he was near losing Britain by his inactivity. 47. The Evangelist Mark began to write his gospel in Egypt. 50. This year Paul was sent bound to Rome. 62. This year James, the brother of Christ, suffered martyrdom. 63. This year the Evangelist Mark died. 69. This year Peter and Paul suffered martyrdom. 70. This year Vespasian received the Empire. 71. This year Titus, the son of Vespasian, slew eleven hundred thousand Jews in Jerusalem. 81. This year Titus succeeded to the Empire after Vespasian: he it was who said that he lost the day in which he did no good. 83. This year Domitian, the brother of Titus, succeeded to the Empire. 84. This year John the Evangelist wrote the book called the Apocalypse in the island of Patmos. 90. This year Simon Peter the kinsman of Christ was crucified, and John the Evangelist rested in death at Ephesus. 92. This year Pope Clemens died. 110. This year the Bishop Ignatius suffered martyrdom. 114 “Alexander commanded that water should be consecrated.” 116. This year the Emperor Adrian began to reign. 124.