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Index.

(The Numbers Refer to the Sections.)

Aboriginal reckonings—explanations of native reckonings 8
Acts of English Parliament—how early ones dated 73
Actium, Era of—how it originated 47
Acton's, Lord, views on historical documents 7
Advent, Date of, from recent astronomy 110
Advent—Dionysius's mistake in fixing same 23
A. D. and A. H. compared—the retrogression in A. H. 59
Age of the earth—the great divergences in opinions 30
Ages, Dark—period thereof explained 48
Almanacs, the Clog—early specimens, where found 139
Amiens, Louisian era invented at, in 1683 56
Anglo-Saxon literature. Earliest 72
Annual epact—meaning of this phrase 50
Annus Magnus—definition of same 49
Argyle's definition of chronology, Reference to 32
Artifices in chronology of B.C.—pontiffs in Rome, Effects of 18
Asiatic Indian—how he reckoned time 9
Assyrian dates, their remoteness 12
Astronomy in chronology—the independence, not the interdependence, of Astronomy 115
Astronomy—some ancient and unique opinions 6
A.U.C., the era of Rome, Dubiety as to the 17
Augustan age in various countries 48
Augustus, Era of, and the Roman emperors 47
Autographs, regal, first in England; Dates of 73
Babylon, Eras at 112
Ball, Sir Robert—his views on ancient researches 109
Bailly's calculation of a lost date 112
Bank of France—curious date of incorporation 106
Beltane—meaning of term and date 72
Benedictines' powers for chronological progress 23
Bengali reckoning in India 101
Biblical chronologies—growth of same 36
Biologists' views of A.M.—great antiquity claimed 32
Bissextile centuries—how computed 26
Black days mentioned in old calendars 50
Blackstone's researches as to early English charters 72
Brahmin pretensions in chronology 15