1393 B.C.
Moses Born
1250 B.C.
Jews’ Exodus from Egypt
1273 B.C.
Death of Moses
1011-971 B.C.
King David rules Israel/Judah
978- 944 B.C.
Hiram, King of Tyre, Lives.
960 B.C.
King Solomon completes First Temple on Mount Moriah
931 B.C.
Kingdom Divides into Israel (Northern) and Judah (Southern)
800-701 B.C.
853 B.C.
King Ahab Killed at Ramoth in Gilead
Time of Homer
765-754 B.C.
Life of Amos
722 B.C.
Israel (Northern Kingdom) Falls to Assyrian Empire
Sargon II Exiles the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel to regions that are part of modern-day northern Iraq and western Iran, particularly around the rivers Habor and Gozan.
636 B.C.
Building of the Second Temple Begins
616 B.C.
Building of the Temple of Zerubbabel (Second Temple) completed
604-562 B.C.
Nebuchadnezzar II Destroys Judah and begins to rule
605 B.C.
First Exile of Jews from Jerusalem to Babylon (Modern-day Iraq)
586 B.C.
First Temple (Temple of Solomon) Destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar II
551-479 B.C.
Life of Confucius (China)
550-480 B.C.
Life of Buddha/Siddhartha Gautama (India)
545 B.C.
Nehemiah rebuilds walls of Jerusalem
522- 486 B.C.
Life of King Darius I
516 B.C.
Temple of Zerubbabel (Second Temple) Completed
509 B.C.
Roman Republic Established
413 B.C.
Diogenes Born
45 B.C.
Julian Calendar begins
44 B.C.
(Gaius) Julius Caesar Assassinated (March 15, 44 B.C.)
27 B.C.
Roman Republic Falls and becomes and Empire
Caesar Augustus (Octavian) First Roman Emppror
7 B.C.
John the Baptist Born
6-4 B.C.
Jesus Born (Bethlehem)
26
Jesus Baptized (Bethany)
30
Jesus Cricified
49
Council of Jerusalem
70
Second Temple (Temple of Zerubbabel) Destroyed by Roman Emperor, Titus
325
Council of Nicaea under Constantine
476
536
Year of Darkness (18 months)
Fall of Roman Empire
1118
Knights Templar Brotherhood Begins (November 6, 1118)
1127
1139
On March 29, 1139 Pope Innocent II endorses the Order of the Poor Knights of Christ and of the Temple of Solomon (Knights Templar) and papal protection given.
1314
Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, was executed on March 18, 1314, on Île de la Cité in the Seine River, Paris.
1368
Beginning of Ming Dynasty, China
1560
Geneva Bible Published
1564
William Shakespeare Born
1582
The Gregorian calendar m established in October of 1582 by Pope Gregory XIII
1599
Lodge of Edinburgh No. 1 Established (Scotland) (Oldest Lodge on record)
1611
King James Bible Published
1616
William Shakespeare Dies
1644
End of Ming Dynasty, China
Beginning of Qing Dynasty, China
1730
First Lodge Chartered in America by Provincial Grand Master, Daniel Coxe (granted by the Grand Lodge of England.) listed on the register of the Grand Lodge of England as no. 79.
1732
Mason- Dixon Line Established
1734
Benjamin Franklin elected Grand Master of Grand Lodge of Pennsylvania
Benjamin Franklin republishes Anderson’s, The Constitutions of Freemasonry in Philadelphia Gazette on May16, 1734.
1735
Lord Weymouth Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount, Grand Master of the Grand Lodge of England Grants,
John Hammerton as Provincial Grand Master of South Carolina
October 28, 1736
Solomon’s Lodge number one of Charleston
First met at Shepheard’s Tavern on the corner of Church and Broad Streets.
Solomon Lodge #1, South Carolina’s first Lodge, received its warrant from Thomas Thynne, 2nd Viscount Weymouth, the Grand Master of the Grand Lodge in England, in 1735.
It was listed as number 45 in “List of Lodges as altered by the Grand Lodge, April 18, 1792”.
Saturday, August 4, 1753
George Washington Raised at Fredericksburg Lodge No.4
William Burrows, Worshipful Master of Solomon #1
born and educated in London. Shortly after graduating in 1743 he moved to South Carolina and practiced law in Berkley county. He served as Worshipful Master of Solomon #1 in 1754. He built a wonderful home in Charleston at 71 Broad St. which is no longer standing. The house later served as one of Charleston’s leading hotels during the 1800’s. He was one of the “Seventeen Gentlemen” who along with John Lining, founded the Charleston Library Society. His son, William Ward Burrows, served in the Revolutionary War in South Carolina. Later he helped create the United States Marine Corp. and was appointed the Corp’s first Major Commandant by President John Adams.
1775
Revolutionary War Begins (April 19, 1775)
1779
Mason-Dixon Line Extended Westward
1780
Temporal Masonry Introduced in South Carolina
Commandery, No. 1, of Knights Templar at Charlestown
December 1782
The Accepted and Ancient Scottish Rite Established
by a Sublime Grand Lodge of Perfection, at Charleston
1783
Revolutionary War Ends (September 3, 1783)
1787
Second Grand Lodge of South Carolina formed:
The Grand Lodge of Ancient York Masons
1789
George Washington President
1797
John Adams, President
George Washington Dies (March 4, 1797)
George Washington’s Last Will and Testament
1801
First meeting of the Supreme Council of the Scottish Rite (May 31, 1801)
at Sheppard’s Tavern in South Carolina
Supreme Council of the thirty-third degree (established in Charleston in 1801) is considered the mother council of the world by Scottish Rite Freemasons.
1804
The Invention of the First Train
- Richard Trevithick: Built the first steam railway locomotive in 1804. His design utilized high-pressure steam, which was a significant advancement over previous steam engines.
- George Stephenson: Known as the “father of railways,” he constructed the first public railway to use steam locomotives, the Stockton and Darlington Railway, which opened in 1825.
1815
“Year Without a Summer”
1817
Solomon’s Lodge number 1 Merges with the Grand Lodge of Free and Accepted Masons
To form:
The Grand Lodge of Ancient Freemasons of South Carolina
Is the beginning of the Civil War?
1820
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner written by Samuel Taylor Coleridge
1821
Henry Shultz establishes Hamburg; South Carolina
1826
William Morgan Disappears (Morgan Affair)
1835
Bank of Hamburg established
1839
Slave Ship, Amastad Anchored, Long Island, New York
1840-1850
“Floods of Hamburg,”
White People abandon Hamburg.
1841
March 9, 1841
The United States vs. The Amistad Verdict:
SUPREME COURT OF THE UNITED STATES
40 U.S. 518; 10 L. Ed. 826
JANUARY, 1841 Term
1843
1851
Freed (Black) Men settle in Hamburg.
1861
Abraham Lincoln becomes President
1862
September 22, 1862
The Emancipation Proclamation
The Homestead Act
Ninth Regiment National Guard of the State of South Carolina, All Black Militia, is Formed: (Company A)
Issued Arms by the State of South Carolina under:
Governor Robert Scott
1863
Gettysburg Address
Edgefield, South Carolina
Burckhalter
Last Slave Ship to arrive in port of:
Fill in the blank
Plantation
1001 Old Aiken Road
1865
Abraham Lincoln Assassinated (April 14. 1865)
1865
William Collins Whitney admitted to the Bar Association
1871
Morals and Dogma by Albert Pike Published
June 23, 1876,
Legislator and Lieutenant, Attaway and Town Marshal, James Cook, Murdered
July 4, 1876
Doc Adams, Union Militia Commander, Union Army
Under: fill in the blank
Henry Getzen
Thomas Butler
July 8, 1876
Hamburg Courthouse, Edgefield (Now, Aiken)
General M. C. Butler, counsel for Mr. Butler
Judge, Prince Rivers
Dock Adams DENIED entry to Courthouse
Hamburg Massacre
Union Army Arsenal
McKie Meriwether
“Lot in Hamburg”
Aiken County South Carolina Title Book 8, Page 279
1879
United States Geological Survey Formed
1885 First Combustion Automobile Invented by Karl Benz
1886
William Kissam Vanderbilt Forms Jekyll Island Club
1888
Jekyll Island Club’s First Executive Comittee
1892
Gleason Map Published
