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The Reformation · 1650–1654

The Annals of the World

James Ussher · 1581–1656

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What it is

A chronology of the world from creation, dated by astronomy and by the reigns of kings, placing the first day in the evening preceding 23 October 4004 BC.

Why it lasted

The most careful chronological scholarship of its age, later printed in the margins of English Bibles and mistaken for scripture by generations of readers.

Where to read it

Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.

These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.

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