1st Edition
A Compendium of World Sovereigns: Volume I Ancient
Egypt – Pharoahs P. 1. Old Kingdom; Middl Kingdom; New Kingdom.
Hittites P. 43.
Akkad
Babylonia p. 47.
Lydia. P. 69.
Assyria
Later Babylon: C6th BC.
Greece – Dual Kingship of Sparta
Early Athens
Early Thebes
Early Argos
Early Mycenae
Early Pylos and Ithaca
Early Iolcos and Thessaly
Legendary Troy
Greek ‘Tyrannies’: Sicyon, Athens, Samos and Ionia
Sicily: : Rulers of Gela, Syracuse.
Kings (and queens) of Macedon and rulers of its empire: Temenids, House of Antipater, and Antigonids
Epirus
Seleucid Kingdom
Ptolemaic Kingdom
Pergamum ; Pontus ; Cappadocia ; Bithynia ; Galatia ; Commagene .
Thrace
Classical and Early Mediaeval Armenia
Bosporan Kingdom (Crimea)
Abgarid Dynasty of Edessa (NE Syria)
Nabatea (Jordan)
Southern Arabia: Saba and Himyar.
Israel and Judah to 586 BC
Maccabean Dynasty of Israel
Dynasty of Herod
Achaemenid Persia
Parthian Kingdom (to AD 224/6)
(Indo-Parthian sub-kingdom.)
Sassanian Persia (to AD 637/651)
Hellenistic Greek Bactria and India
Indian Sovereigns: Mauryas and Guptas
Sri Lanka: Anuradhapura.
China: Early Dynasties to c. 220 BC: legendary emperors; Shang; Zhou,
Chu, xi/Ch’i; early Qin; Yen/Yan; Lu; Song; Yu/ Yuyue.
Emperors: Qin; Han.
Period of division c. AD 220 to 580
The Three Kingdoms: Wei, Wu, Shu Han.
Jin; early Song; Southern Qi; Southern Liang; Western Laing;
Southern Zhen; Early Yen; Early and Later Qin; Northern, Eastern
and Western Wei; Northern Zhou; Northern Qi.
Earlier and Later Liang; Western, Later and Southern Yen
Sui.
Korea: Silla and Goguryeo.
Japan.
THE ROMAN WORLD
Legendary Kings of Rome
Roman Emperors (and empresses) to AD 395
Western Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 476)
Eastern Roman Emperors (and empresses) (to AD 491)
NORTH-WESTERN EUROPE AND POST-ROMAN WORLD.
Britain: Pre-Roman tribal states
Ireland: High Kings to the C6th AD
Visigothic Kingdom of Toulouse to AD 507
Vandal Kingdom of Africa
Ostrogothic Kingdom of Italy
Popes to the early 7th AD
Biography
Timothy Venning is an independent scholar and researcher and formerly worked on the Oxford New Dictionary of National Biography. His previous books include A Chronology of the Crusades (2015), A Chronology of Early Medieval Western Europe (2017), A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1066–1307 (2020), and A Chronology of Medieval British History, 1307–1485 (2020).
