Bodleian Libraries, Wallis's new game of universal history and chronology

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Bodleian Libraries, Wallis's new game of universal history and chronology

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Game of 1814 entitled Wallis's new game of universal history and chronology; 138 circles, many without text. Explained in book of rules (lacking); Babylonish & Assurian empires founded (5); Kingdom of Egypt founded 18th centy. (6); Kingdom of Sicyon (7); Letters invented by Memmon (8); Athens founded by Lecrops (11); Ten tribes in the Jews revolt (15); Money first made (17); Rome founded (18); Babylon taken (21); Thermopyla (23); Old Testament ends (24); Socrates (25); Alexander (27); Darius (28); Dionysus (29); Civil War at Rome (31); Caesar in Britain (32); Death of Caesar (33); Census at Rome (34); Messiah born (35); London founded (38); Christianity in Britain (40); Jerusalem destroyed (41); Jew's banished (44); First Pope (45); Constantine (48); Fergus (49); Pharamond (50); Romans evacuate Britain (51); Saxon heptarchy (53); Dionycius (54); Manufacture of silk introduced (56); Mahomet born (58); Latin ceased to be spoken in Italy (59); St. Paul's (61); Mohamet dies (62); Jerusalem taken (63); Danes (64); Charlemagne (65); Egbert (66); Alfred the Great (70); Pope deposed (72); Paper used in England (73); Massacre of the Danes (74); Hastings (76); Tower Hill (77); Holy War (78); K. Henry in Ireland (81); Geography in England (84); Magna Charta (85); Austrian Empire founded (86); Wales united (88); Turkish Empire founded (89); Republic of Switzerland (91); France subdued (95); Wickliffe (96); Printing invented (97); Engraving invented (99); Columbus (101); South America (102); Gustavus Vasa (104); Shakespeare (107); New style introduced (109); K. Charles (111); First lottery (114); Kingdom of Prussia (115); George III (121); Longitude discovered (122); War with America (124); Botany Bay (127); Poland divided (130); Napoleon (134); G.P.R.; Wallis's new game of universal history and chronology

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20/05/1814
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Bodleian Libraries University of Oxford
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