The chronology of ancient and mediaeval history in its present form was created and, for the most part,concluded in a series of fundamental works of the XVI-XVII century that begins with the writings of Iosephus Iustus Scaliger (1540-1609). Scaliger's principal works on chronology are as follows: 1) Scaliger I. Opus novum de emendatione temporum. Lutetiac. Paris, 1583 ([1387]). 2) Scaliger I. Thesaurum temporum. 1606 ([1387]). For the most part, the body of Scaliger's work was concluded by Dionysius Petavius (1583-1652). The best-known book of the latter is titled De doctrina temporum, Paris, 1627 ([1337]). Figs. 1.2, 1.3, and 1.4 show the title page of his Rationarium Temporum, published in 1652 ([1338]), and the titles of the first two volumes. Hence it would be correct to call the modern consensual chronology of the Classical period and the Middle Ages the Scaliger-Petavius version. We shall simply refer to it as "Scaligerian Chronology". As it will be pointed out, this version...