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Acton's, Lord, views on historical documents | 7 |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 |