. The book of similitudes: . ns, heturned his attention to the improvement of his em-pire. He also reformed the calendar, regulatingthe year according to the course of the sun. Twomonths were added, and the whole year divided in-to 365 days. He also added one day to every fourthyear in the month of February, and that year wasnamed Bissextile, or leap year. Caesar receivedgreat honors from his countrymen—was declaredImperator or Emperor, and his person was declaredsacred. These proceedings created the envy andjealousy of his enemies. A conspiracy was formedagainst him, and he was assassinated i
. The book of similitudes: . ns, heturned his attention to the improvement of his em-pire. He also reformed the calendar, regulatingthe year according to the course of the sun. Twomonths were added, and the whole year divided in-to 365 days. He also added one day to every fourthyear in the month of February, and that year wasnamed Bissextile, or leap year. Caesar receivedgreat honors from his countrymen—was declaredImperator or Emperor, and his person was declaredsacred. These proceedings created the envy andjealousy of his enemies. A conspiracy was formedagainst him, and he was assassinated in the Senatehouse forty-four years before the commencementof the Christian era. After the death of Julius Cesar, Octavius, MarkAnthony, and Lepidus, the Second Triumvirate,became masters of Rome. In the year 31, beforeChrist, the Roman Commonwealth was ended, andOctavius became Emperor of Rome, who soon afterreceived the title of Augustus Cesar. MODERN HISTORY, COMMENCING WITH THE CHRISTIAN ERA. A. I>. It© ... FIRST CENTURY. Jesus Christ, the Savior of mankind, born, (it is supposed)four years before the commencement of the Christian era. Inthe year 29 he was crucified under Pontius Pilate, the RomanGovernor of Judca. In- A. D. 10, Jerusalem teas taken anddestroyed by Titus. About one million and a half of Jewsperished. Since this period they have been scattered, accord-ing to the prediction of Moses, from one end of the earth tothe other. 324 MODERN HISTORY. When- Jesus Christ appeared upon earth a greatpart of the world was subject to the Roman Romans had first subdued the land of Judea,about sixty or seventy years before Christ, andRome was mistress of the world; and, althoughweakened by internal dissensions, they had not de-stroyed her power. While her streets were redwith the blood of her citizens, her conquests wereextending in Asia and in Germany on the Rhine. The Emperor, Octavius Augustus, joined in hisown person whatever denomination conferr
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