The original World History Chart was compiled 1931.    Bill updated the Amazing World History Chart in 1975.  Then, in early 2000, we updated the Chart once again.  We brought the Timeline up to the year 2000, corrected the timeline with the new information available today and added North and South American dates for ancient peoples..  

   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 from Wikipedia. 

"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 HOLY BIBLE
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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