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 7-5/12 " Gomates 522 7/12 year Darius Hystaspes 521 36 years Xerxes 485 20 " Artabanus (USURPER) Artaxerxes Longimanus 465 40 " Xerxes II. and Sogdianus mos. Darius Nothus 425 29 years Artaxerxes Mnemon 396 36 " Ochus 360 21 " Arses 339 2 " Darius Codomannus 337 4 " * * * * * Transcriber's Notes Punctuation has been standardized. Italic text has been denoted by _underscores_ and bold text by =equal signs=. Characters in small caps have been replaced by all caps. Words printed in red in the original text have been displayed by indenting the block of text. Roman numerals have been standarized as capital letters. Non-Latin characters have been given an English transliteration: 'oe' ligature --> oe This book was written in a period when many words had not become standardized in their spelling. Words may have multiple spelling variations or inconsistent hyphenation in the text. These have been left unchanged unless noted below: Page 50 - 'Danel' replaced with 'Daniel' (with a lamentable voice unto Daniel:) Page 52 - 'ino' replaced with 'into' (cast _them_ into the den of lions,) Page 70 - 'troblous' replaced with 'troublous' (even in troublous times.) Page 70 - 'befal' replaced with 'befall' (what shall befall thy people)