Chronological Tables

 [The dates, as will be seen, are fixed on no scientific principal, but are taken as they  severally occur in approved authors.] Outlines of Turkish Chronology

  A.D. I. Tartar Empire of the Turks in the north and centre of Asia  500-700 II. Their subjection, education, and silent growth, under the Saracens  700-1000 III. Their Gaznevide Empire in Hindostan 1000-1200 IV. Their Seljukian Empire in Persia and Asia Minor 1048-1100 V. Decline of the Seljukians, yet continuous descent of their kindred  tribes to the West 1100-1300 VI. Their Ottoman Empire in Asia, Africa, and Europe, growing  for 270 years 1300-1571 VII. Their Ottoman Empire declining for 270 years 1571-1841

 Chronological Events Introduced into the foregoing Lectures 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   Massagetæ, 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 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 mystical 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   Nicæa 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 Conquests of Zingis Khan and the Moguls, pp. 32-34   ( L'Art ) 1176-1259 Richard CSur 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 Nicæa, 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