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Six
thousand years of history at a glance
Background of the
LDS World History Timeline
The original timeline was compiled in 1939. With
our
compilation we brought the Timeline up to the year 2000 and also
increased the entries
on the South American part of the Timeline. For the LDS
version,
we added Book of Mormon references and LDS history
dates.
The Bible dates
are based on Bishop Usher's table. His dates were accepted as
final
and inserted into the Authorized King James version of the
Bible.
Here is information on Archbishop Usher.
"The man who exerted
the most powerful influence upon the dominant nations of Christendom
was
Archbishop Usher. In 1650 he published his Annals of the
Ancient and
New Testaments, and it at once became the greatest authority
for all
English-speaking peoples. Usher was a man of deep and wide theological
learning, powerful in controversy; and his careful conclusion, after
years
of the most profound study of the Hebrew Scriptures, was that man was
created
4004 years before the Christian era. His verdict was widely received as
final; his dates were inserted in the margins of the authorized version
of the English Bible, and were soon practically regarded as equally
inspired
with the sacred text itself: to question them seriously was to risk
preferment
in the Church and reputation in the world at large.
The same adhesion to the
Hebrew Scriptures which had influenced Usher brought leading men of the
older Church to the same view: men who would have burned each other at
the stake for their differences on other points, agreed on this:
Melanchthon
and Tostatus, Lightfoot and Jansen, Salmeron and Scaliger, Petavius and
Kepler, inquisitors and reformers, Jesuits and Jansenists, priests and
rabbis, stood together in the belief that the creation of man was
proved
by Scripture to have taken place between 3900 and 4004 years before
Christ.
"
The
Book of Mormon dates were added after researching multiple timelines
proposed
by numerous Book of Mormon scholars, with the most widely accepted
dates
used on the timeline.
The World history dates were compiled using the following materials:
THE HOLY BIBLE
THE
BOOK OF MORMON
THE
APOCHRYPHA
JOSEPHUS
: Antiquities of
the Jews
MOSHEIM:
Ecclesiastical
History
SMITH:
Dictionary of the
Bible
BREASTED:
Ancient Times
WEST:
Ancient World
JOHNSEN:
China
EDGAR
SANDERSON (and Associates):
The World’s
History and It’s Makers
CHAO-CHANG-LEE:
Development
of Chinese Culture
BRINKLEY:
History of the
Japanese People
H.G.
WELLS: Outline of History
BANCROFT:
History
of the United States
DELLENPAUGH:
The North
American of Yesterday
PRESCOTT:
Conquest of Mexico
GIBBON:
Decline and Fall
of the Roman Empire
VERRILL:
American Indian
JAMES
ADAIR: History of
the American Indian
RADIN:
Story of the American
Indian
SEISS:
The Apocalypse
DAVIDSON:
The Great Pyramid
BARNARD:
Metrological System
of the Great Pyramid
Information
from every available
source has been sought; Encyclopedias, Charts, Maps and Current
Magazines.
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