[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 |
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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 al 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 Cœur 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 |