| A.M.* | B.C.** | Event | Bible Verse |
| 1657 | 2347 | Noah, with his family, leaves the ark after the deluge, and offering sacrifices, he receives the covenant of safety, of which the rainbow was the token. | Genesis 8:18,20 Genesis 9:8,17 |
| 1770 | 2234 | Babel built | Genesis 11 |
| 1770 | 2234 | The confusion of languages, and dispersion of mankind. | Genesis 11 |
| 1771 | 2233 | Nimrod lays the first foundation of the Babylonian or Assyrian monarchy. | Genesis 11 |
| 1816 | 2188 | Mizraim lays the foundation of the Egyptian monarchy. | Genesis 10:13 |
| 2006 | 1998 | Noah dies, aged 950 years. | Genesis 9:29 |
| 2008 | 1996 | Abram or Abraham born. | Genesis 11:26 |
*AM
abbreviation for the Latin anno mundi, "year of the
world." This abbreviation is traditionally used to
designate years in the Jewish calendar, which counts years
from the creation of the world as described in the Hebrew
scriptures. The Jewish calendar is lunisolar; its years
correspond to ordinary solar years (see month [2]). The first
day of AM 1 is equivalent to 6 October 3761 BCE in the Julian
calendar, and AM 5762 began at sunset of 17 September 2001 in
our current (Gregorian) calendar.?
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Chapel Hill
**BC, BCE
abbreviations for "before Christ" and "before
common era," respectively. These are standard
designations for years before the beginning of the common or
Christian era (see CE). Oddly, there is no year designated 0
in the common system for numbering years; the year 1 CE (or 1
AD) was preceded by 1 BCE (or 1 BC). The lack of a year 0
means that the number of years elapsing between the year n
BCE and the year m CE (or n BC and m AD) is n + m - 1.
© Russ Rowlett and the University of North Carolina at
Chapel Hill