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Years | Events |
1735 | The Loge of Verona was established in Italy |
1751-1778 | Masonic charter granted fora lodge in Smyrna |
1771 | Academy of Cydoniae founded according to one source |
1773 | Ayvalik/Cydoniae granted autonomy from Ottoman rule; Edict of Religious Tolerance issued by Catherine the Great of Russia |
1776 | Ioannis Kapodistrias born |
1780 | Virgin of the Orphans church built in the lower district of Cydoniae; the College of Cydoniae built in its courtyard by Ioannes Oikonomos |
1782 | First Greek Lodge, “Beneficenza,” setup on Corfu Island |
1784 | Vissarion of Symi began teaching at the College of Cydoniae |
1789 | Masonic lodges set up in the Ionian Islands; the French Revoltion began |
1790 | Rigas Feraios created the Masonic-based society, Kaloi Exadelfoi |
1799 | Vaticanus brought from Rome to the National Archives of Paris; the French Revolution ended |
1800 | Veniamin of lesbos begins to lead the Academy of Cydoniae; Konstantinos Rados started the Masonic-based Carbonari in Naples |
1802 | Ioannis Kapodistrias founded the National Medical Assocation on Corfu Island |
1803 | Veniamin of Lesbos condemned by the Patriarchate in Constantinople |
1804 | Constantine Alexandrovich (Porfiry) Uspensky was born |
1805-1830 | Constantius (1770-1859) was Archbishop of Sinai |
1809-1810 | Catholic Priest Johann Leonhard Hug viewed the Vaticanus in Paris |
1810 | Hug wrote De Atiquitate Codicis Vaticani Commentatio |
1811 | Two Masonic lodges on Corfu merged into the Phoenix Lodge; another Phoenix Lodge founded in Moscow, Russia by Iaonnis Kapodistrias |
1813 | Ioannis Kapodistrias officiated at the establishment of the Masonic Hellenoglosso Xenodocheio tn Paris, France |
1814 | Three Greeks founded the Masonic/revolutionary Filiki Eteria to raise an army to overthrow the Ottoman Empire and establish a Greek State |
1815 | Lobegott Friedrich Konstantin Tischendorf was born |
1819 | Veniamin retires from teaching at Cydoniae and becomes the monk Benedict atEsphigmenou monastery; Simon of Stageira (Simonides’ father) married |
1820 | November 5, Constantine Leonidas Photios was born; Neophytos Doukas joined Filiki Eteria |
1821 | Lachmann began teaching criticism of the Received Text; Academy of Cydoniae destroyed; Ayvalik/Cydoniae invaded; beginning of the 1821-28 Greek war of Independence; the “Moscow edition” typeset Greek Bible produced |
1824 | Simonides’ cousin Constantine born; Simonides' brother Photius born |
1827 | Ioannis Kapodistrias became 1st governor of the Independent State of Greece |
1828 | Tischendorf finished standard schooling; Mai started work on Codex Vaticanus; Benedict taught on Spetses Island; Kapodistrias commanded Benedict to teach 12-15 Greek youths on Kalavria Island; in September Kapodistrias hosted meetings on Kalavria to draw borders of the new Greek state; the Zosimas brothers founded a Greek high school |
1829 | Uspensky became a tonsured monk; John Roothan became Jesuit General 1829-53 |
1830 | The London Protocol of 1830 drawn of Greek boundaries; Constantius I became Ecumenical Patriarch 1830-34 |
1831 | Karl Lachmann published his first anti-Received Text Greek New Testament; October 9, Kapodistrias was assassinated |
1832 | Prince Otto became king of Greece under the London Convention of 1832; Simonides, twelve, called “young Stelokopes” by Grigorios Konstantas |
1833-45 | July 14- John Newman created the Tractarian Society, having been forbidden to become Roman Catholic by the pope's emissary |
1834 | Tischendorf began at Leipzig University; Uspensky became an Archimandrite |
1835 | Tischendorf’s father died; Andreas Koromelas established the first Greek printing house in Athens |
1836 | Tischendorf’s mother died |
1837 | Simonides came to Mount Athos to study; Dying monk Gregory handed over a secreted stash of manuscripts to Benedict; the library of manuscripts discovered; Simonides as “Sophronios” on Athos; 1837-39 Benedict prepared manuscripts to be written into a single codex |
1838 | Tischendorf said to have received a PhD (like a Master's degree?) only 4 years into study at Leipzig University; Mai allegedly completed work on his Vaticanus book |
1839 | Benedict finished preparations for his Greek Bible; Simonides sailed from Athens to Panteleimon; Simonides began writing the Codex; Simonides was 19 |
1840 | March - Anthimus IV was made Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople; Kallinikos on Athos while Simonides wrote the Codex; Benedict died August 29/September 10; Tischendorf began deciphering Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus in October; Simonides stopped work on the Codex in November/December; My theory: The Codex at this time had corrections by Benedict and fellow monks of Athos |
Early 1840s | Monk Cyril/Kyrillos exiled from Athos to St Catherine's monastery |
1841 | March 27/April 8 - Monk Kallinikos worked with Simonides on a project; Before May - Simonides met Anthimus IV and Constantius I with the Codex; Before August - Simonides sent the Codex to St. Catherine's by way of Antigonus, Island; The monk who transported the Codex was named Germanus August 13/25 - Constantius I wrote to Simonides after receiving the Codex; October 12/24 - Anthimus IV wrote a letter of recommendation for Simonides; November - Simonides left for Odessa |
1842 | My theory - Callistratus returned the partially-corrected Codex to Panteleimon for Simonides to correct; Simonides was at Panteleimon monastery, having compiled 7 different versions of Barnabas from the 1837 stash; Germanus IV became Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople |
1842 – early 1845 | Germanus IV exiled Cyril/Kyrillos to St. Catherine's where he became the librarian |
1843 | January - Tischendorf lauded for deciphering Codex Ephraemi Rescriptus; January - Tischendorf set out for other locations for manuscripts; February - Kallinikos saw Simonides working on the Codex; Simonides went over the text of Barnabas; Late February - Tischendorf arrived at the Vatican; My theory - March-April - Simonides wrote his name in the Codex numerous times when he wanted no part in any changes to Great Uncle Benedict's work; Before May - Simonides sent the Codex back to Callistratus at St. Catherine's; My theory - May or later Callistratus decided to use the expensive vellum for other projects when Simonides did not accompany the Codex; May - Tischendorf granted a private audience with Pope Gregory XVI; Sometime after May - the Codex was left under the care of Cyril/Kyrillos at St. Catherine's library until it was removed in 1859; |
1843 Cont. | June 15/27 - Simonides wrote to G.D. Rodokanakis about the Codex (now at St. Catherine's) and his Barnabas book; July 22 Rodokanakis wrote the preface to Simonides’ Barnabas book; After July 22 Simonides’ Barnabas book published in Smyrna; August 1 - Ad about Simonides’ Barnabas placed in the Star of the East as an addendum My theory - Simonides’ goal to copy the final corrections into the Codex for the [...] |
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? | […] Volume 1, pp. 213-216; Tischendorf made a list of people who could move the Tsar to pay for a 3rd trip to St. Catherine's |
1856 | Tischendorf published glowing statements recommending Simonides Evidence published favoring Simonides’ 1820 birth date; Uspensky published a book about his 1845 visit to St. Catherine's; Autumn - Tischendorf visited St. Petersburg to meet Russian Minister Norov to get sponsorship to travel to Egypt |
1857 | Uspensky published a book of art, including drawings of St. Catherine's and transcriptions from Genesis 24 and 1 Corinthians 13 |
1858 | Summer - Norov drafted a letter of Tischendorf’s proposed 3rd visit, to give to the Tsar's wife; |
1859 | Charles Stewart's Biographical Memoir of Simonides was published January 5 - Constantius I died at 99 years old on Antigonus Island January 11 - Tischendorf set off for Alexandria, Egypt; January 17 - Tischendorf wrote from Alexandria; Tischendorf wrote he had “heard again of the stories told by Simonides”; January 23-31 - Tischendorf sped from Cairo to St. Catherine's; February 2 - News of Constantius’ death reached the monastery; February 15 - Tischendorf made a “private agreement” to get the Codex; Tischendorf acquired the remainder of the Codex; Tischendorf claimed he then found out it contained Barnabas; |
1859 Cont. | By this time the Codex had Arabic notes; Sometime this year the remainder was stained and no longer white; April - Tischendorf’s “discovery” was written up in a Leipzig newspaper; August - Tischendorf went to Constantinople to get Russian assistance to get the Codex; September 22 - Ambassador Lobanov wrote that Tischendorf wanted to borrow the Codex to copy it; September 28 - Cairo monks wrote that they wanted to donate the Codex to the Tzar; September 16/28 - Tischendorf took the Codex without waiting for Cyril/Kyrillos’ ordination as Archbishop of Sinai; October 5 - Cyril/Kyrillos left for Constantinople to plead his case to become Archbishop of Sinai, against Cyril II the Patriarch of Jerusalem's objections; October 16/28 - Germanus reported about Egypt’s monks to Cyril/Kyrillos 1859-66 - Cyril/Kyrillos stole valuables from St. Catherine's Mid-November - the bulk of the Codex arrived in St. Petersburg, |
1860 - 1865 | Archbishop Cyril/Kyrillos assumed the rights to income from monastery property in Bessarabia |
1861 | November 9 - Kallinikos wrote to Simonides that Tischendorf had proclaimed the Codex as genuine and the oldest of all known Codices in Europe; Simonides asserted that he had written the Codex, according to Falconer Madan |
1862 | January and March - Journals published of Simonides’ expertise; February 1 - Charles Stewart wrote of Simonides’ manuscript collection; April - The Homilist published that Simonides was born in 1820; Tischendorf Published Codex Sinaiticus Petropolitanus; Tischendorf wrote in the Sinaiticus Introduction that the parchment pages were “sufflava” -yellow- and not white July 3 - Tregelles wrote that he found the Arabic notes were “very recent” in the Codex; October 7 - Simonides wrote to a Cambridge librarian that he had made the Codex and that many witnesses are still alive; October 15 - Kallinikos wrote that the Codex had been “cleaned” with a solution that weakened the letters and changed the color yellow; October 15 - Kallinikos wrote that he saw Simonides working on the Codex in February 1843 in Athos October 15 - Kallinikos wrote that Constantius had wanted the Codex corrected and transcribed by Simonides and dedicated to the Tsar on his own behalf; December 16 - A letter from Simonides claims he saw the Codex at St. Catherine's, but I theorize that this is false |
1863 | January 21 - Simonides wrote of erroneous dates ascribed to him and of his years of study January 23 -J. E. Hodgkin wrote that Simonides had said a colophon was a memorandum from a codex that had some good readings; January 25 W. A. Wright wrote “no part of Genesis has been recovered”; |
1863 Cont. | February 1 - Wright wrote that Simonides claimed he did tracings in 1852; February 2 - Simonides invented another visit to St. Catherine's in 1844; February 2 - Simonides wrote to the editor that he and Dr. Drakakes both saw Simonides’ four tracings of acrostics with his name on the Codex; February 4 - Simonides challenged Tischendorf to bring the CFA and Sinaiticus to London, where he'd prove that he wrote the Codex; February 17 - L. Deacaches wrote of proof Simonides was born in 1820; March 11 - Hodgkin quoted Simonides' letter to Stewart about his messed-up dates; March 16 - Simonides wrote about the Stewart family there in London; April - The JSL published the debate between Simonides and scholars; May - Tischendorf did not show up to confront Simonides; July - Simonides wrote that he had taken the name Sophronios at Athos July - Simonides asked again about when Tischendorf is coming; |
1864 | F. H. A, Scrivener wrote A Full Collation of the Codex Sinaiticus with the Received Text of the New Testament |
1865 | Uspensky was promoted from Archimandrite to Bishop; The monks of St. Catherine's were fed up with Cyril/Kyrillos’ criminal activities; Tischendorf finally came to England, but not to find Simonides; |
1866 | August - Cyril/Kyrillos was deposed by his own monks |
1867 | Tischendorf published Novum Testamentum Vaticanuum; July 3 - Patriarch Cyril II of Jerusalem convened a council on Cyril/Kyrillos’ actions, but Kyrillos didn't show up; July 9 - Cyril/Kyrillos removed as Archbishop in absentia; Tischendorf published When Were Our Gospels Written... with a Narrative of the Discovery ofthe Sinaitic Manuscript; |
1868 | March - Tischendorf rushed to Moscow to try and settle the Codex gift issue |
1870 | June 22 - Ambassador Ignatieff wrote that “Cyril's kindred had time enough to rob a little”; Callistratus got to become Archbishop of Sinai in exchange for saying nothing about the Codex. And his monks received 9,000 gold rubles for the “gift”; Revisers began work on what became the English Revised Version |
1871 | Tischendorf published Die Sinaibibel |
1873 | May 5 - Tischendorf suffered a stroke that left him bedridden |
1874 | December 7- Tischendorf died |
1875 | April 24-Tregelles died; Scrivener wrote Six Lectures on the Text of the New Testament including discussion of Sinaiticus |
1879 | John Newman was made a Catholic cardinal |
1881 | The English Revised Version is published |
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