Vol I - Dates of Events

Dates of Events Recorded in the Book of Genesis, According to Hales, Ussher, and Keil.

Ussher B.C.	Ussher Y.W.	Event	Hales B.C.	Hales Y.W.	Keil Y.C.

4004	1	The Creation	5411	1
3874	130	Birth of Seth	5181	230
3769	235	Birth of Enos	4976	435
3679	325	Birth of Cainan	4786	625
3609	395	Birth of Mahaleel	4616	795
3074	930	Death of Adam	4481	930
3544	460	Birth of Jared	4451	960
3382	622	Birth of Enoch	4289	1122
3317	687	Birth of Methuselah	4124	1287
3130	874	Birth of Lamech	3937	1474
3017	987	Translation of Enoch	3914	1487
2948	1056	Birth of Noah	3755	1656
2348	1656	Deluge	3155	2256
2346	1658	Birth of Arphaxad	3153	2258
2311	1693	Birth of Salah	3018	2393
2281	1723	Birth of Heber	2888	2523
1998	2006	Death of Noah	2805	2606
2247	1757	Birth of Pelag	2754	2657
2233	1771	Confusion of Tongues	2554	2857
2217	1787	Birth of Reu	2624	2787
2185	1819	Birth of Serug	2492	2919
2155	1849	Birth of Nahor	2362	3049
2126	1878	Birth of Terah	2283	3128
1998	2006	Death of Noah
1996	2008	Birth of Abram	2153	3258
1921	2083	Abram in Canaan	2078	3333	1
1910	2094	Birth of Ismael	2067	3344	11
		Beg. Of Circumcision	24
1896	2108	Birth of Isaac	2053	3358	25
		Death of Sarah	62
1856	2148	Marriage of Isaac	2013	3398	65
1836	2168	Birth of Esau & Jacob	1993	3418	85
		Death of Abraham	100
		Esau's Marriage	125
		Death of Ishmael	1916	3495	148
1760		Jacob to Padan Aram	162
		Jacob's Marriage	169
1745	2259	Birth of Joseph	1902	3509	176
1739	2265	Jacob's to Canaan	1896	3515	182
1732	2272	Jacob's at Hebron	1889	3522	192
1728	2276	Joseph sold into Egypt	1885	3526	193
1716	2288	Death of Isaac	1873	3538	205
1715	2289	Joseph Gov. of Egypt	1872	3539	206
1706	2298	Jacob goes to Egypt	1863	3548	215
1689	2315	Death of Jacob	1846	3565	232
1635	2369	Death of Joseph	1792	3619	286

The reader will find in ch. 10, some explanations regarding the systems of Chronology by Ussher and Hales. Hales professes to follow the text of the Greek or LXX translation of the Old Testament, correcting it by the Jewish historian Josephus, whose dates, however, are often manifestly very inaccurate. Ussher professes to follow the Hebrew text. The modern Jewish chronology places the birth of Isaac, when Abraham was one hundred years old, in the year of the world 2048. With this latter very nearly agrees the chronology adopted by a celebrated modern German commentator, Professor Keil, who places it only two years earlier, viz. in 2046. We have given in the last column, according to the chronology of Keil, the succession of events after the migration of Abram into Canaan. Keil places the latter event in the year of the world 2021, and before Christ 2137. From this the reader will easily be able to calculate all the other dates according to the chronology of Keil, which on the whole seems to us the most reliable. He bases it on the following data: according to 1 Kings 6:1, the Temple of Solomon was built 480 years after the Exodus, while the deportation of Israel into Babylon took place 406 years after the building of the Temple, that is, in all, 886 years after the Exodus. But as the commencement of the Exile must have fallen in the year 606 before Christ, we have the year 1492 before Christ (or 2666 after the Creation) as that of the Exodus. The year 606 before Christ is fixed as that of the commencement of the Babylonish exile, because it ended after 70 years, in the first year of the sole reign of Cyrus, which we know to have been the year 536 before Christ.