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Adam and Eve in the garden of Eden Dated from the sources quoted below
True span 4004 BC – AD 100
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How we know the date Placed in Ussher's first year of the world, with the Creation. Ussher's Annals (1650) gives 4004 BC (its year of the world 1 a).
Written in-house from the sources below · every year is a quotation
The sources, word for word “1. a. Lx principio creavit Deus ccelum et terram’, quod temporis principium, juxta nostram chronologiam, incidit in noctis illius initium, que vigesimum tertium diem Octobris preecessit, in anno periodi Juliane 710.”
Ussher, Annales Veteris Testamenti (1650), Latin text in The Whole Works of James Ussher, vols. VIII–XI (Dublin, 1864) · vol. VIII, AM 1 a · gives 4004 BC Sources