1841.
No.
Reign.
Chronology of the Chinese.
25. THE SOUTHERN SUNG DYNASTY.
A. D.
Year of Cycle.
|
136.1127 62: 44
1163 63: 20
1190 63:47
1195
Cotemporary Events.
155
Accession of Stephen to the English crown, 1135.
The Teutonic order begins, 1164; the conquest of Egypt by the Turks, 1169.
Third crusade and seige of Acre, 1188; John succeeds to the English throne, 1199. Genghis khan's reign and conquests. The Magna Charta, 1215. Origin of the 64: 22 Ottomans, 1240.
63:52
2 27
3 5
4 30
5 40
1225
6 10
1
1276
65: 12
Edward I. on the English throne, 1272.
8
2
1276
65: 13
9
2
1265 65:02 The uncle and father of Marco Polo the Venetian traveler in China.
Reign.
1278 65: 15
1295
The famous Mortmain act passes in England, 1279.
26. THE YUEN DYNASTY.
Year of Cycle.
Cotemporary Events.
65: 17 During the Sicilian vespers, 8000 French murdered, 1283. Wales annexed to Eng- 65: 32 gland, 1283. Regular succession of En-
glish parliament begins, 1293.
130865:45
No.
A. D.
115
1280
2 13
3
4
4
9
5
3
6
5
7
1
8
3
1330 66:07
1312 65:49 The mariner's compass said to be invent-
jed or improved by Flaveo, 1302.
132165:58
132466:01 The Swiss cantons begin 1307. Edward
II. succeeds to the English crown. 1329 66:06 Edward III. on the English throne,
1327. !
The first comet observed, whose course is 9 35 1333 66: 10 described with exactness, in June, 1337.
family, his embassy to the pope, his predilection to Christianity,- are narrated in the travels of Marco Polo,-an historian of no mean