This text recounts a prophetic dream by Nebuchadnezzar, in which the previous empires had been Babylonian, Persian, Grecian and Roman ; the last empire, they concluded, would be established by the returning Jesus as King of kings and Lord of Lords to reign with his saints on earth for a thousand years.

The last prophets mentioned in the Hebrew Bible are Daniel, Haggai, Zechariah, and Malachi, all of whom lived at the end of the 70-year Babylonian exile.

Of the reign of the last Babylonian king, Nabonidus ( Nabu-na ' id ), and the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus, there is a fair amount of information available.

Nabonidus and his son, the regent Belshazzar were not Chaldeans or Babylonian, but hailed from the last Assyrian capital of Harran.

In respect of time they fall in two distinct groups: one from the First Babylonian Dynasty period ( 1830-1531 BC ), the other mainly Seleucid from the last three or four centuries BC.

But Ussher's last extra-biblical coordinate was the Babylonian king Nebuchadnezzar, and beyond this point he had to rely on other considerations.

The Babylonian Chronicles and Astronomical Diaries record several attempts to rebuild the Etemenanki, which were always preceded by removing the last debris of the original ziggurat.

To one of these additions — that to an ancient utterance concerning the " Book of Adam, the First Man ,"— this statement is appended: " Ashi and Ravina are the last representatives of independent decision ( hora ' ah )", an evident reference to the work of these two in editing the Babylonian Talmud, which as an object of study and a fountainhead of practical " decision " was to have the same importance for the coming generations as the Mishnah had had for the Amoraim.

The earliest discovered historical record of the saros is by the Chaldeans ( ancient Babylonian astronomers ) in the last several centuries BC.

In a translation of an ancient Nabataean text by Kuthami the Babylonian, Ibn Wahshiyya ( c. 9th-10th century AD ), adds information on his own efforts to ascertain the identity of Tammuz, and his discovery of the full details of the legend of Tammuz in another Nabataean book: " How he summoned the king to worship the seven ( planets ) and the twelve ( signs ) and how the king put him to death several times in a cruel manner Tammuz coming to life again after each time, until at last he died ; and behold!

The last Amoraim are generally considered to be Ravina I and Rav Ashi, and Ravina II, nephew of Ravina I, who codified the Babylonian Talmud around 500 CE.

It is believed that it was used by Babylonian astronomers and mathematicians in Seleucid Mesopotamia ( last three centuries BC ), and by the Greek astronomer and mathematician, Hipparchus ( 2nd century BC ).

A chronicle drawn up just after the conquest of Babylonia by Cyrus, gives the history of the reign of Nabonidus (' Nabuna ' id '), the last king of Babylon, and of the fall of the Babylonian empire.

Zedekiah, who had been placed on the throne by Nebuchadnezzar ( the Babylonian king ), rebelled, and Nebuchadnezzar, who at the time ( 587 / 586 BCE ) was ruler of a most powerful empire, recaptured the city, killed Zedekiah's descendants in front of him, and plucked out Zedekiah's eyes so that that would be the last thing he ever saw.

He is the last king who has years attested in most Babylonian records.

Eusebius ' other mentions of Berossus in Praeparatio Evangelica are derived from Josephus, Tatianus, and another inconsequential source ( the last cite contains only, " Berossus the Babylonian recorded Naboukhodonosoros in his history.

However, in the modern Daf Yomi cycle and in the printed editions of the Babylonian Talmud, the Mishnah for the last two tractates is added at the end, to " complete " the order.

According to the Book of Mormon, Mulek () was the only surviving son of Zedekiah, the last King of Judah, after the Babylonian conquest of Jerusalem.

The Babylonian Talmud discusses two types of washing at meals: washing before a meal is described as first waters ( the Hebrew term is mayim rishonim ), and after a meal is known as last waters ( the Hebrew term is mayim aharonim ).

Samsu-Ditana is the last king of the First Babylonian Dynasty.

In a sense, Alfasi brought the geonic period to a close — the last of the Babylonian geonim, Rav Hai Gaon, died when Alfasi was 25 years old ; Alfasi himself was called Gaon by several early halachic authorities.

Thus the first grouping could be the initial waxing to David, the next fourteen the waning to the Babylonian captivity and the last period the waxing towards Jesus.

The last Assyrian city to fall was Harran in south east Anotolia, this city was also the birthplace of the last king of Babylon, the Assyrian Nabonidus and his son and regent Belshazzar.

The last king to be crowned here was Ferdinand I in 1531.

As a result, their last king Ishaq ibn Ali was killed in Marrakesh in April 1147 by the Almohads who replaced them as a ruling dynasty both in Morocco and Al-Andalus.

* 1879 – Cetshwayo, last king of the Zulus, is captured by the British.

* 1526 – Battle of Mohács: The Ottoman Turks led by Suleiman the Magnificent defeat and kill the last Jagiellonian king of Hungary and Bohemia.

" He is considered the last of the " early " kings of Jerusalem, after whom there was no king able to save Jerusalem from its eventual collapse.

Thus Jerome's Chronicon lists 36 kings of the Assyrians, beginning with Ninus, son of Belus, down to Sardanapalus, the last king of the Assyrians before the empire fell to Arbaces the Median.

The first autobiographical work in Islamic society was written in the late 11th century, by Abdallah ibn Buluggin, last Zirid king of Granada.

Polybius tells that 28 years after the expulsion of the last Persian king Xerxes crossed over to Greece, and that event is fixed to 478 BC by two solar eclipses.

That he was highly respected by the Gentiles as well as by the Jews of Babylonia is proved by the friendship which existed between him and the last Parthian king, Artaban ( Avodah Zarah 10b ).

Chapters 17 to 27 describe the missionary labors of the sons of King Mosiah II who was the last king over the people of Nephi prior to the peaceful transition of the nation from a monarchy to a republican form of government.

The last events in Chronicles take place in the reign of Cyrus the Great, the Persian king who conquered Babylon in 539 BCE ; this sets an earliest possible date for the book.

According to the book of Ezra-Nehemiah they did so under the joint leadership of a descendant of the last king and the last High Priest, rebuilding the Temple and reconstituting Judah ( now called Yehud ) as a holy community ruled by priests.

( The final verses record how Jehoiachin, the last king, is set free and given honour by the king of Babylon ).

Later king Olof met him there as well during his last trip in 852 ( Chapter XXVI ).

Castling consists of moving the king two squares along the first rank toward a rook ( which is on the player's first rank ) and then placing the rook on the last square the king has just crossed.

Separate coronation as King of Croatia was gradually allowed to fall into abeyance and last crowned king is Charles Robert in 1301 after which Croatia contented herself with a separate diploma

After the death of Ashurbanipal, the last great Assyrian king in 627 BC, the Assyrian empire descended into a series of bitter dynastic civil wars.

In 256 BC, as the last Zhou king ceded his territory to Qin, a new calendar ( the Qin calendar ) began to be used.

The Pictish king-lists originally ended with this Causantín, who was reckoned the seventieth and last king of the Picts.

According to the king lists, he was counted the 70th and last king of the Picts in later times.