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.

* 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.

The Ussher chronology is a 17th-century chronology of the history of the world formulated from a literal reading of the Bible by James Ussher, the Archbishop of Armagh ( Church of Ireland ).

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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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His maternal grandfather, James Stanihurst, had been speaker of the Irish parliament, and his father Arnold Ussher was a clerk in chancery who married Margaret Stanihurst.

Ussher resisted this pressure at a convocation in 1634, ensuring that the English Articles of Religion were adopted as well as the Irish articles, not instead of them, and that the Irish canons had to be redrafted based on the English ones rather than replaced by them.

In 1633, Ussher had supported the appointment of Archbishop Laud as Chancellor of Trinity.

He had hoped that Laud would help to impose order on what was, Ussher accepted, a somewhat mismanaged institution.

By 1635, it was apparent that Ussher had lost de facto control of the church to John Bramhall, Bishop of Derry, in everyday matters, and to Laud in matters of policy.

Though Charles severely tested Ussher's loyalty by negotiating with the Catholic Irish patriots, the Primate remained committed to the royal cause, though as king's fortunes waned Ussher had to move on to Bristol, Cardiff, and then to St Donat's.

Later that year, Irish-Canadian rebel Benjamin Lett murdered a loyalist, Captain Edgeworth Ussher, who had been involved in the incident.

In theology he belonged to the school of James Ussher and William Bedell, and had little sympathy with Laudianism.

In his article on Ussher's calendar, James Barr has identified three distinct periods that Ussher and others had to tackle:

Ussher had to cross-reference the Biblical records with known dates of other people and rulers to create an overall timeline.

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.

Others, including Ussher, thought it more likely that it had occurred in the autumn, largely because that season marked the beginning of the Jewish year.

If Lightfoot had attempted to calculate the autumnal equinox of 3929 BC, he, like Ussher, would have used the Rudolphine Tables, which placed the equinox on October 25, versus October 22 using modern equations.

To this work, which Archbishop Ussher had thought well-nigh impossible even for a native of Persia, Hyde appended the Latin version which accompanies it in the Polyglott.

What Bramhall attempted to get the English canons of 1604 adopted in Ireland ; there was conflict over this matter between him and James Ussher, ending with the passing of distinct canons, in the compiling of which Bramhall had a share.

Although he did not participate in the Upper Canada Rebellion, Lett was charged in 1838 with the murder of Captain Edgeworth Ussher who had piloted the boats of Allan Napier MacNab during what would come to be known as the Caroline affair.

Camping surmised that the word in the Old Testament scriptures " begat " did not necessarily imply an immediate father – son relationship, as had been assumed by Ussher and others who ( he felt ) hadn't fully studied the biblical timeline due to the incomplete information they had.

Ussher was very reluctant to arrive at firm judgements as to the sources ' authenticity — hence his devotion of a whole chapter to the imaginative but invented stories of King Lucius and the creation of a Christian episcopate in Britain.

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 )

Ussher deduced that the first day of creation began at nightfall preceding Sunday, October 23, 4004 BC, in the proleptic Julian calendar, near the autumnal equinox.

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.

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.

He cites renaissance historians such as Archbishop James Ussher, Caesar Baronius and John Hardyng, as well as classical writers like Caesar, Tacitus and Juvenal, although his classical cites at least are wildly inaccurate, many of his assertions are unsourced, and many of his identifications entirely speculative.

Ussher was a gifted polyglot, entering Dublin Free School and then the newly-founded ( 1591 ) Trinity College, Dublin on 9 January 1594, at the age of thirteen ( not an unusual age at the time ).

Ussher soon found himself at odds with the rise of Arminianism and Wentworth and Laud's desire for conformity between the Church of England and the more Calvinistic Church of Ireland.

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

After Convocation in 1634, Ussher left Dublin for his episcopal residence at Drogheda, where he concentrated on his archdiocese and his research.

In 1639 James Ussher suggested a semi-circular shape, rounded in the front and culminating at a line between the ears.

* Robert Ussher, Bishop of Kildare-buried at Doddleston Chapel, near Oswestry

Journalists observed that three of Darling's four junior ministers at the Treasury ( Angela Eagle, Jane Kennedy and Kitty Ussher ) were female and dubbed his team, " Darling's Darlings ".

Academics who were elected to Membership of the Royal Irish Academy ( Ireland's highest ranking academic body ) while based at Ulster include: Bertie Ussher ( Classics ), Norman Gibson ( Economics ), Amyan Macfadyen ( Biology ), Bill Watts ( Chemistry ), P G ( Gerry ) McKenna ( Biomedical Sciences, Genetics ), Sean Strain ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Marshall McCabe ( Geology ), Peter Flatt ( Biomedical Sciences, Diabetes ), Séamus MacMathúna ( Celtic Studies ), Bob Welch ( Literature ), Vani Borooah ( Economics ), Máréaid Nic Craith ( Celtic Studies ), Graham Gargett ( French ), Helene McNulty ( Biomedical Sciences, Nutrition ), Pól Ó Dochartaigh ( German ), Robert McBride ( French ), Ullrich Kockel ( ethnography ) and John McCloskey ( Geosciences ).

He collected a valuable library, of which most of the printed works remain still at Naworth, though the manuscripts have been dispersed, a portion being now in the Arundel manuscripts in the Royal College of Arms ; he corresponded with Ussher and was intimate with Camden, Spelman, and Cotton, whose eldest son married his daughter.

Soon afterwards he was detected in a correspondence with Archbishop James Ussher, then with the King at Oxford, and he was imprisoned as a spy, in Lord Petre's house in Aldersgate Street.