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Chronicle

Chronicon

Written about 303 to 325, probably in Caesarea Maritima (now Caesarea, Israel). The date is the usual view of scholars; some doubt it.

Tables that set the dates of all known history side by side.

Chronicle · first written in Greek (lost; known from the Armenian and from Jerome) · a major work

Book 1 only. Book 2, the tables, survives in the Latin of Jerome (see jerome/chronicle).

Not yet on the site. An English translation of this work exists, but we are not yet sure that it is in the public domain, or its text is not yet made ready. So it is not shown.

How we know the date and place
Date written probable
First edition about 303 or 311; last edition 325 or 326 (Burgess 1997)
Place written probable
Eusebius lived at Caesarea, used its library, and was its bishop from about 313 (Barnes, Constantine and Eusebius, 1981)