However, James Ussher, in his writings of the Ussher chronology, republished as " The Annals of the World " claims that this is a mistake, basing his opinion on the writings of Clemens Alexandrinus.

The Ussher chronology of the 1650s had calculated creation at 4004 BC, but by the 1780s geologists assumed a much older world.

* 3929 BC — Date of creation according to John Lightfoot based on the Old Testament of the Bible, and often associated with the Ussher chronology.

* 4004 BC: According to the Ussher chronology, created by James Ussher based on the Old Testament of the Bible, this is when the universe is created at nightfall preceding October 23.

Ussher now concentrated on his research and writing and returned to the study of chronology and the church fathers.

) The time of the Ussher chronology is frequently misquoted as being 9 a. m., noon or 9 p. m. on 23 October.

J. Ussher agrees with the dating until the birth of Abraham, which he argues took place when Terah was 130, and not 70 as is the direct reading of, thus adding 60 years to his chronology for events postdating Abraham.

In these books he dated Creation to 3929 BC, see Ussher chronology # Lightfoot's Creation.

* Ussher chronology begins history of the world in 4004 BC.

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This, they argue, renders genealogically-based dating of the creation, such as the Ussher chronology, to be inaccurate.

William Pengelly, FRS FGS ( 12 January 1812 – 16 March 1894 ) was a British geologist and early archaeologist who was one of the first to contribute proof that the Biblical chronology of the earth calculated by Archbishop James Ussher was incorrect.

Gap creationists believe that science has proven beyond reasonable doubt that the Earth is far older than can be accounted for by, for instance, adding up the ages of Biblical patriarchs and comparing it with secular historical data, as James Ussher famously attempted in the 17th century when he developed the Ussher chronology.

He used the recorded genealogies and ages in the bible to derive what is commonly known as the Ussher chronology.

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* Archbishop Ussher, who authored a chronology for the creation

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Although James Ussher regarded it as genuine, if there is any genuine nucleus of the Martyrium, it has been so greatly expanded with interpolations that no part of it is without questions.

Donnybrook Castle, home of the Ussher family whose most famous member was James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, is first mentioned in the reign of Elizabeth I, and was demolished early in the nineteenth century.

The traditional view of Ussher is of a slightly-unworldly scholar, who was, at best, a mediocre politician and administrator.

The € 27 million James Ussher Library, opened officially by the President of Ireland in April 2003, is the newest addition to Trinity College reader spaces and houses the Glucksman Map Library and Conservation Department.

She is also related to the former Economic Secretary to the Treasury Kitty Ussher, the Labour MP and historian Tristram Hunt and the Times journalist Isobel Oakeshott.

Despite the name, it is doubtful that Ussher ever actually owned the manuscript.

One niece is Kitty Ussher the economist, the former Labour MP and Minister.

The meaning of the earth being divided is usually taken to refer to a patriarchal division of the world, or possibly just the eastern hemisphere, into allotted portions among the three sons of Noah for future occupation, as specifically described in the Book of Jubilees, Biblical Antiquities of Philo, Kitab al-Magall, Flavius Josephus, and numerous other antiquarian and mediaeval sources, even as late as Archbishop Ussher, in his Annals of the World.

The author is unknown, even if since James Ussher it was considered to be the same author of the letters of Pseudo-Ignatius, perhaps the 4th century Eunomian bishop Julian of Cilicia.

In the 17th century James Ussher agreed, and identified the Linus mentioned as the early Bishop of Rome of that name ( Pope Linus's mother's name is given as Claudia in the Apostolic Constitutions ).

However, Ussher also wrote extensively on theology, patristics and ecclesiastical history, and these subjects gradually displaced his anti-Catholic work.

In 1650 the Church of Ireland Archbishop of Armagh, James Ussher, published a monumental history of the world from creation to 70 A. D.

Ussher says that Ninian left Candida Casa for Cluayn-coner in Ireland, and eventually died in Ireland ; that his mother was a Spanish princess ; that his father wished to regain him after having assented to his training for an ecclesiastical state ; that a bell comes from heaven to call together his disciples ; that a wooden church was raised by him, with beams delivered by stags ; and that a harper with no experience at architecture was the builder of the church.

Others who wrote of Saint Ninian used the accounts of Bede, Ailred, or Ussher, or used derivatives of them in combination with information from various manuscripts.

In early 1641 Ussher developed a mediatory position on church government, which sought to bridge the gap between the Laudians, who believed that bishops were divinely ordained and a separate order from priests and deacons, and the presbyterians, who wanted to abolish episcopacy entirely.

He made considerable progress in an English translation from the manuscript of the Annales of his friend Archbishop Ussher.

When the Irish Parliament adopted the 39 Articles in 1634 under pressure from the King and Archbishop Laud, Ussher ensured that the Church of Ireland in the Irish Convocation adopted them in addition to, not instead of, the Irish Articles.

At the instance of the Irish bishops Taylor undertook his last great work, the Dissuasive from Popery ( in two parts, 1664 and 1667 ), but, as he himself seemed partly conscious, he might have more effectually gained his end by adopting the methods of Ussher and William Bedell, and inducing his clergy to acquire the Irish language.

Proposed calculations of the date of creation using the Masoretic from the 10th century to the 18th century include: Marianus Scotus ( 4192 BC ), Maimonides ( 4058 BC ), Henri Spondanus ( 4051 BC ), Benedict Pereira ( 4021 BC ), Louis Cappel ( 4005 BC ), James Ussher ( 4004 BC ), Augustin Calmet ( 4002 BC ), Isaac Newton ( 4000 BC ), Johannes Kepler ( April 27, 3977 BC ) on his book Mysterium, Petavius ( 3984 BC ), Theodore Bibliander ( 3980 BC ), Christen Sørensen Longomontanus ( 3966 BC ), Melanchthon ( 3964 BC ), Martin Luther ( 3961 BC ), John Lightfoot ( 3960 BC ), Cornelius Cornelii a Lapide ( 3951 BC ) Joseph Justus Scaliger ( 3949 BC ), Christoph Helvig ( 3947 BC ), Gerardus Mercator ( 3928 BC ), Matthieu Brouard ( 3927 BC ), Benito Arias Montano ( 3849 BC ), Andreas Helwig ( 3836 BC ), David Gans ( 3761 BC ), Gershom ben Judah ( 3754 BC )

It was borrowed and studied by James Ussher, probably when he was Bishop of Meath from 1621-1623.

Ussher and his counterparts therefore had to try to link a known event from this period with a dateable event in another culture, such as the Chaldeans, Persians or Romans.

Ussher provides a slightly different time in his " Epistle to the Reader " in his Latin and English works: " I deduce that the time from the creation until midnight, January 1, 1 AD was 4003 years, seventy days and six hours.

An easy to read graphical depiction of the Ussher Chronology has been produced by Paul Hansen from Answers in Genesis.

He was influenced by a sermon of James Ussher on the text " He beareth not the sword in vain ", and issued a proclamation on 21 January 1623, ordering their banishment from the country.

According to Plutarch ( quoted by Ussher ), Cleopatra tested various deadly poisons on condemned persons and animals for daily entertainment and concluded that the bite of the asp ( from aspis-Egyptian Cobra, not European Asp ), was the least terrible way to die ; the venom brought sleepiness and heaviness without spasms of pain.

On the night of 16 November 1838, Ussher was roused from his bed to answer a knock on the door, only to be killed by a shot fired through a window.