These are book sources. Website source links are in the left column of the individual pages.
| 1&2BM | The FIRST and SECOND BOOKS of the MACCABEES, John R. Bartlett, Cambridge U. Press, 1973 |
| Agθ | AGATHOCLES, H. J. W. Tillyard, Cambridge U. Press, 1908 |
| Ant | Antiquities of the Jews, Josephus |
| AYGC | YAHWEH and the GODS of CANAAN, W. F. Albright, 1968 |
| AΨA | APOCRYPHA and PSEUDEPIGRAPHA of the OLD TESTAMENT, vol 1 APOCRYPHA, R. H. Charles, Oxford, 1978 |
| AΨΨ | APOCRYPHA and PSEUDEPIGRAPHA of the OLD TESTAMENT, vol 2 PSEUDEPIGRAPHA, R. H. Charles, Oxford, 1979 |
| B76 | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA, 15th edition, 1976 |
| BAA | The ACTS of the Apostles, F. F. Bruce, Tyndale, London, 1965 Entries with no page number are from the chronology pp 55-57. I also used, Eerdmans, Michigan, 1990 Entries with no page number are from the chronology pp 93-95. |
| BaCh | BABYLONIAN CHRONOLOGY 626BC-AD75, Parker & Dubberstein, Oregon, 2007 |
| BAR | Biblical Archaeological Research |
| BBA | The BOOK of the ACTS, Revised Ed., F. F. Bruce, Eerdmans, 1988 |
| BBP | The BOOKS and the PARCHMENTS, F. F. Bruce, Fleming Revel, 1984 |
| BBT | CHART of the PERIOD BETWEEN the TESTAMENTS, James L. Boyer, Moody Press, Chigago, 1968 |
| BCAW | CHRONOLOGY of the ANCIENT WORLD, E. J. Bickerman, Cornell University Press, 1974 |
| BCoC | The CONQUEST of CIVILIZATION, James Henry Breasted, Harper & Brothers, New York, 1926 |
| BD | The DISCOVERERS, Dan Boorstin, Random House, New York, 1983 |
| BDSS | The DEAD SEA SCROLLS, Millar Burrows, New York, 1956 |
| BHM | HISTORY of MATHEMATICS 2nd Ed., Carl B. Boyer, John Wiley & Sons, 1991 |
| BHoE | The HISTORY of EGYPT, James Henry Breasted, Scribners, New York, 1937 Entries with no page number are from the king lists at the back of the book. |
| BHS | HOUSE of SELEUCUS, vol1, vol2, Edwyn Robert Bevan, New York, 1966 (originally 1906) |
| BI+N | ISRAEL and the NATIONS, F. F. Bruce, Michigan, 1963, reprint 1985 |
| BNTH | NEW TESTAMENT HISTORY, F. F. Bruce, New York, 1980 |
| Brit | ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA Deluxe Edition (on CD-ROM), Chicago, 2010 |
| Burt | HISTORY of MATHEMATICS 4th Ed., David M. Burton, mcGraw-Hill, 1999 |
| CAH | CAMBRIDGE ANCIENT HISTORY, It has several volumes plus parts to volumes. CAH 1.2-3 means volume 1, part 2, page 3. I used different editions at different times, so the page numbers may be incorrect. Entries with no page number are from the chronological tables at the backs of the books. |
| CBCNT | CHRONOLOGICAL & BACKGROUND CHARTS of the NEW TESTAMENT, H. Wayne House, Zondervan, 1981 |
| CBCOT | CHRONOLOGICAL & BACKGROUND CHARTS of the OLD TESTAMENT, John H. Walton, Zondervan, 1978 |
| CDGRA | CONCISE DICTIONARY of GREEK and ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, F. Warre Cornish, London 1898 |
| CDΦ | CAMBRIDGE DICTIONARY of PHILOSOPHY, Robert Audi, Cambridge University, 1995 |
| CEKI | CHRONOLOGY of the EARLY KINGS of IBERIA, Cyril Toumanoff, Fordham University, 1969 |
| CHAC | CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of ANCIENT CHINA, Michael Lowe & Edward Shaughnessy, Cambridge, 1999 |
| CHB | CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of the BIBLE, L. Greenslade, Cambridge, 1963 |
| CHC | CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of CHINA, vol 1 of 2, Denis Twitchett & John Fairbanks, Cambridge, 1986 |
| CHEIA | CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of EARLY INNER ASIA, Denis Senor, Cambridge University Press, 1990 |
| CHHΦ | CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of HELLENISTIC PHILOSOPHY, Algra, Barnes, Mansfeld, Schofield, Cambridge University Press, 2008 Entries with no page number are from the chronological tables at the back of the book. |
| CHI | CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of INDIA, vol. 1, E. J. RAPSON, CAMBRIDGE, 1922 |
| CHJ | CAMBRIDGE HISTORY of JUDAISM, 4 vols, Davies & Finkelstein, Cambridge, 1984 Entries with no page number are from the chronological tables at the back of the books. |
| Clay | CHRONICLE of the PHARAOHS, Peter Clayton, London, 1994 |
| CMoG | MASKS of GOD, 4 vols. Joseph Campbel 1 = Primitive, 2 = Oriental, 3 = Occidental |
| CSHB | A SHORT HISTORY of BUDDHISM, Edward Conze, Guernsey Press, 1995 |
| CVK | The COMPLETE VALLEY of the KINGS, page 9 Nicholas Reeves & Richard Wilkinson, London, 1996 |
| CWH | CHRONOLOGY of WORLD HISTORY, Ken Polsson, |
| DBANE | The BIBLE AND the ANCIENT NEAR EAST, Roland DeVaux, Doubleday, New York, 1971 |
| DGRA | DICTIONARY of GREEK and ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, William Smith, London 1848 |
| DGRBM | DICTIONARY of GREEK and ROMAN BIOGRAPHY and MYTHOLOGY, 3 vols., William Smith, London 1880 Entries with no page number are from the chronological table at the back of vol 3. |
| DGRG | DICTIONARY of GREEK and ROMAN GEOGRAPHY, 2 vols., William Smith, London 1878 |
| DHAS | A HISTORY of ANTIOCH in SYRIA, Glanville Downey, Princeton University, New Jersey, 1961 |
| DHJ | HISTORY of the JEWS, Vol 1 of 5, Simon Dubnov, New York, 1967 |
| DHoI | DICTIONARY of the HISTORY of IDEAS, 4 vols. + index, Philip P. Weiner, New York, 1973 |
| DMoN | MONARCHS of the NILE, Aidan Dodson, New York, 2000 Entries with no page number are from the king lists on pages 204-212. |
| DOTT | DOCUMENTS from OLD TESTAMENT TIMES, D. Winton Thomas, New York, 1961 |
| DQ | QUMRAN, Philip R. Davies, Eerdmans, 1982 |
| Dur | THE STORY of CIVILIZATION, 12 vols., Will Durant, New York, 1954 |
| EDRL | ENCYCLOPEDIC DICTIONARY of ROMAN LAW, Adolf Berger, Philadelphia, 1953 |
| EIHM | INTRODUCTION to the HISTORY of MATHEMATICS, Howard Eves, Philadelphia, 1990 |
| ENBD | NEW BIBLE DICTIONARY, W. B. Eerdmans Publishing Co., 1962 |
| EOET | EXTRAORDINARY ORIGINS of EVERYDAY THINGS, Charles Panati, New York, 1987 |
| EoΦ | ENCYCLOPEDIA of PHILOSOPHY 8 vols., Paul Edwards, Macmillan, 1972 |
| FHBC | HANDBOOK of BIBLICAL CHRONOLOGY, Jack Finegan, Massachusetts, 1998 |
| FLAP | LIGHT from the ANCIENT PAST, Jack Finegan, Princeton, 1946 |
| GEoP | EGYPT of the PHARAOHS, Alan Gardiner, Oxford, 1964 Entries with no page number are from the king lists at the back of the book. |
| GHCC | A HISTORY of CHINESE CIVILIZATION, 2nd Ed., Jacques Gernet, Cambridge, 1996 Entries with no page number are from the chronology tables at the back of the book. |
| GHH | GRIFFIN'S HISTORICAL HANDBOOKS, Ancient History, 4004BC to AD476., Isaiah M'Burney, London, 1856 Everything is chronological, so there is no need for page numbers. The same info is here: ENCYCLOPEDIA METROPOLITANA, CHRONOLOGICAL TABLES, CHRONOLOGY AND HISTORY OF THE WORLD, ANCIENT AND MEDIEVAL HISTORY, Richard Griffin and Company, London, 1857 The same info is here: HISTORY of the ROMAN REPUBLIC from the EARLIEST RECORDS TILL the TIME of SYLLA, Edward Pococke, John Joseph Griffin & Co., London, 1852, pp503-514 |
| HAG | HISTORY of ANCIENT GREECE, Jean Hatzfeld, New York, 1966 Entries with no page number are from the chronological table at the back of the book. |
| HCAI | A HISTORY of CIVILIZATION in ANCIENT INDIA, vol 2, Romesh Chunder Dutt, London, 1893 |
| HCC | HISTORICAL and CHRONOLOGICAL CHARTS, John C. Whitcomb Jr. & James L. Boyer, Indianna, 1962 |
| HCIP | HISTORY and CULTURE of the INDIAN PEOPLE, 11 vols., K. M. Munshi, Bombay, 1965 |
| HDB | A DICTIONARY of the BIBLE DEALING WITH its LANGUAGE, LITERATURE, and CONTENTS, James Hastings, 5 vols, New York, 1901 |
| HDSER | On the RELIABILITY of HAN DYNASTY SOLAR ECLIPSE RECORDS, David W. Pankenier, Journal of Astronomical History and Heritage, 15(3), 200-212 (2012) |
| HFHD | HISTORY of the FORMER HAN DYNASTY, vol 1, Homer H. Dubs, Baltimore, 1938 |
| HFHD7 | HISTORY of the FORMER HAN DYNASTY, vol 1, Ch 7, Homer H. Dubs, Baltimore, 1938 |
| HFHD99c | HISTORY of the FORMER HAN DYNASTY, Ch 99C, Homer H. Dubs, Baltimore, 1938 |
| HRE | HISTORY of the ROMAN EMPIRE from its foundation to the death of Marcus Aurelius, J. B. Bury, London, 1900 |
| HR2B | HISTORY of ROME and of the ROMAN PEOPLE from its Origin to the Invasion of the Barbarians, 8 vols, Victor Duruy, Boston or London, 1883-87 |
| HR2CE | HISTORY of ROME and of the ROMAN PEOPLE from its Origin to the Christian Empire, 6 vols, Victor Duruy, Boston or London, 1883-86 |
| HRRP | HISTORY of ROME and the ROMAN PEOPLE, 8 vols, Victor Duruy, Boston, 1894 |
| ICMH | IMMERIAL CHINESE MILITARY HISTORY 8000BC-1912AD, Marvin C. Whiting, Writers Club Press, 2002 |
| IDB | INTERPRETER'S DICTIONARY of the BIBLE, (4 vols) Abingdon, 1976 |
| IDBS | INTERPRETER'S DICTIONARY of the BIBLE, (supplementary vol) |
| ISBE | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA, 4 vols, Eerdmans, 1929 |
| ISBEADL | INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BIBLE ENCYCLOPEDIA, 10 vols, Ages Digital Library, 1997 |
| IUG | Indiana Universtiy, Fall 2012, History G380, online course readings, 4. Qin and Early Han Periods |
| JBE | JAPAN BIOGRAPHICAL ENCYCLOPEDIA & WHO'S WHO, Takagi Shintaro, Tokyo, 1958 |
| JE | The JEWISH ENCYCLOPEDIA, 12 vols, Isidore Singer, New York & London, 1907 |
| JIAE | INTRODUCTION to ANCIENT EGYPT, T. G. H. James, London, 1986 |
| Jud | ENCYCLOPEDIA JUDAICA, 4th printing, Jerusalem, 1978 |
| KEJ | KODANSHA ENCYCLOPEDIA of JAPAN, 9 vols., Gen Itasaka, New York, 1983 |
| KHJ | INDIA A HISTORY, John Keay, New York, 2000 |
| KPHP | A POPULAR HISTORY of PHILOSOPHY, Maurice Kaunitz, Ohio 1943 |
| LdHR | A HISTORY of ROME from the EARLIEST TIMES to the ESTABLISHMENT of the EMPIRE, 2 vols, Henry G. Liddell, John Murray, Albemarle Street, London, 1855 |
| LEWH | ENCYCLOPEDIA of WORLD HISTORY, William L. Langer, Houghton Mifflin, Boston, 1972 |
| LS | The SHIP, Bjorn Landstrom, New York, 1961 |
| MCAW | CHRONOLOGY of the ANCIENT WORLD, H. E. L. Mellersh, New York, 1994 Page numbers are not necessary, because material is arranged by date. |
| Mish | MISHNAYOTH, Philip Blackman, 2nd edition, 6 vols + index, Judaica Press, New York, 1977 |
| MNDQ | A NEW DICTIONARY of QUOTATIONS, H. L. Menchen, New York, 1946 |
| MNHK | The MYSTERIOUS NUMBERS of the HEBREW KINGS, Edwin R. Thiele, Zondervan, 1983 Entries with no page number are from either the timelines at the front of the book, or appendix G in the back. |
| MoAR | MYTHOLOGY of ALL RACES, 13 vols., Louis Herbert Gray, Cambridge 1916 |
| MMWP | MASTERPIECES of WORLD PHILOSOPHY, Frank N. Magill, New York, 1990 |
| MQB | BABYLON, James G. MacQueen, London, 1964 Entries with no page number are from the timelines at the back of the book. |
| MRDK | MONARCHS RULERS DYNASTIES and KINGDOMS of the WORLD, R. F. Tapsell, Thames and Hudson, London, 1984 |
| MTNT | TEXT of the NEW TESTAMENT, Bruce Metzger, New York, 1968 |
| Murn | PENGUIN GUIDE to ANCIENT EGYPT, William J. Murnane, Penguin, 1983 Entries with no page number are from the Appendix at the back of the book. |
| MWΦ | WORLD of the PHOENICIANS, Sabatino Moscati, New York, 1968 |
| NLEM | NEW LAROUSSE ENCYCLOPEDIA of MYTHOLOGY, Prometheus Press, Hong Kong, 1972 |
| OCD | OXFORD CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, 2nd edition, Oxford, 1978 |
| OCD3 | OXFORD CLASSICAL DICTIONARY, 3rd edition, Oxford, 1996 |
| OHG | OXFORD HISTORY of GREECE & the HELLENISTIC WORLD, Oxford, 1991 Entries with no page number are from the tables of events at the back of the book. |
| PAE | ANCIENT EUROPE, Stuart Piggot, Chicago, 1965 |
| PANE | The ANCIENT NEAR EAST, two volumes, James Pritchard, Princeton University, 1958 |
| PW | PAST WORLDS, The Times Atlas of Archaeology, Hammond, 1988 |
| Qlb | A HISTORY of the CHRISTIAN CHURCH, 4th ed., Lars P. Qualben, New York, 1968 |
| R2T | THE ROAD TO THE THRONE, Hung Hing Ming, Algora Publishing, New York 2011 |
| RAH | ANCIENT HISTORY, 2nd edition, Charles A. Robinson Jr., Macmillan, New York, 1967 Entries with no page number are from the Chronological Tables at the back of the book. |
| RAI2 | ANCIENT IRAQ, 2nd edition, George Roux, World Publishing, New York, 1964 Entries with no page number are from the timelines at the back of the book. |
| RAI3 | ANCIENT IRAQ, 3rd edition, George Roux, Penguin, 1992 Entries with no page number are from the timelines at the back of the book. |
| RPar | PARTHIA, George Rawlinson, G. P. Putnam's Sons, New York, 1893 |
| RW | OXFORD HISTORY of the CLASSICAL WORLD: The ROMAN WORLD, John Boardman, Oxford, 1990 Entries with no page number are from the tables of events at the back of the book. |
| S2S | SOCRATES to SARTRE 2nd edition, Samuel Enoch Stumpf, McGraw-Hill, 1975 |
| SAAG | AN AKKADIAN GRAMMAR, John Shehan, Marquette Press, Wisconsin, 1975 Entries with no page number are from the timelines at the back of the book. |
| Sag | the chronology chart at the back of either of the two below |
| Sag1 | The GREATNESS THAT WAS BABYLON ed. #1, H. W. F. Saggs, Hawthorne Books, New York, 1962 |
| Sag2 | The GREATNESS THAT WAS BABYLON, ed. #2, H. W. F. Saggs, London, 1988 |
| SDFH | SLAVERY in CHINA DURING the FORMER HAN DYNASTY, Clarence Martin Wilbur, Chicago, 1943 |
| SDGRA | SCHOOL DICTIONARY of GREEK and ROMAN ANTIQUITIES, William Smith & Charles Anthon, New York, 1846 |
| Sdl | HISTORY of the OLD TESTAMENT, 5 vols, Claus Schedl, New York, 1973 |
| Shaw | OXFORD HISTORY of ANCIENT EGYPT, Ian Shaw, Oxford, 2003 Entries with no page number are from the chronology pages at the back of the book. |
| SHERL | A SYSTEMATIC and HISTORICAL EXPOSITION of ROMAN LAW, 4th ed., W. A. Hunter, London, MDCCCCIII (whatever the hell year that is) Entries with no page number are chronologically arranged on pages 61-63. |
| SHT | HISTORY of TECHNOLOGY, 5 vols, Charles J. Singer, London, 1958 |
| SHWC | SHORT HISTORY of WESTERN CIVILIZATION, John B. Harrison, New York, 1971 |
| SORH | A SKELETON OUTLINE of ROMAN HISTORY CHRONOLOGICALLY ARRANGED, Percy Ewing Matheson, London, 1884 No page numbers are necessary because it is chronologically arranged. |
| SOTS | The OLD TESTAMENT SPEAKS, Samuel J. Schultz, New York, 1970 |
| TAG | ANTIGONUS GONATAS, William Woodthorpe Tarn, Clarendon press, Oxford, 1913 |
| T1H | The FIRST HORSEMEN, Frank Trippett, New York, 1974 |
| TAWH | Times ATLAS of WORLD HISTORY, Hammond, 1978 |
| Tmsn | The BIBLE and ARCHAEOLOGY, J. A. Thompson, Michigan, 1975 |
| TToH | TIME TABLES of HISTORY, Bernard Grun, Simon & Schuster, New York, 1979 Page numbers are not necessary because entries are arranged chronologically. |
| TTPC | The PEOPLE'S CHRONOLOGY, James Trager, New York, 1979 Page numbers are not necessary because entries are arranged chronologically. |
| TTS | The TIMETABLES of SCIENCE, Bryan Bunch & Alexander Hellmans, Simon & Schuster, 1988 Page numbers are not necessary because entries are arranged chronologically. |
| TTT | The TIMETABLES of TECHNOLOGY, Bryan Bunch & Alexander Hellmans, Simon & Schuster, 1994 Page numbers are not necessary because entries are arranged chronologically. |
| VDJD | DISCOVERY in the JUDEAN DESERT, Geza Vermes, New York, 1956 |
| Wars | Wars of the Jews, Josephus |
| WBANE | The BIBLE AND the ANCIENT NEAR EAST, G. Ernst Wright, Doubleday, New York, 1961 |
| WBH | The BIBLE IN HISTORY, Robert B. Waltz, 2013 |
| WERE | WHEN EGYPT RULED the EAST, George Steindorff & Keith Seele, Chicago, 1957 Entries with no page number are from the outline on pages 274-5. |
| WNHI | A NEW HISTORY of INDIA, 4th ed., Stanley Wolpert, New York, 1993 |
| WPOT | PEOPLES of OLD TESTAMENT TIMES, D. J. Wiseman, Oxford, 1973 Entries with no page number are from the timelines at the back of the book. |