The Church Fathers · c. 311; revised later, survives in Armenian and in Jerome's Latin
The Chronicle
Chronicon
Eusebius of Caesarea · c. 260 – c. 340
What it is
A summary of world history followed by parallel columns — Hebrews, Assyrians, Egyptians, Greeks, Romans — ruled across the page so that any year can be read simultaneously in every kingdom that existed in it, from Abraham to the writer's own day.
Why it lasted
The invention of the synchronised timeline, and the frame in which the West would picture history for a thousand years. Jerome translated and continued it, and every medieval chronicle descends from that edition.
Scripture it works from
Where to read it
This work is in the public domain and can be read in full, free, at the archives below. The Library catalogues it; it does not host the text.
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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