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Town Compass® presents Funk & Wagnalls Chronological Encyclopedia 2004 Handheld Edition. This version features 8,204 records; use the built-in Index and Search features to find what you're looking for quickly. Whether you are an educator, student, scholar or casual learner, you will find this encyclopedia fast, comprehensive and valuable.

The Encyclopedia contains:

• Full-color Cover Page, Storage Card Compatibility, Searchable Records
• ClearType (Pocket PC & Smartphone only): Uses Microsoft's® ClearType® technology for easier reading

• BC Timeline:
  • Before 200,000-1,000 (76 entries), from Aegean Civilization to Ziggurat
  • 1000-800 (11 entries), from Ahab to Villanovan Culture
  • 800-700 (15 entries), from Ahaz to Zebulun
  • 700-600 (23 entries), from Aesop to Zoroaster
  • 600-500 (54 entries), from Abdera to Zerubbabel
  • 500-300 (131 entries), from Achaean League to Zeno of Elea
  • 300-200 (49 entries), from Antigonus III to Shih Huang Ti
  • 200-100 (38 entries), from Aemilian Way to Wu Ti
  • 100-1 AD (64 entries), from Battle of Actium to Wang Mang

• AD Timeline:
  • 1-100 (67 entries), from Saint Adalbert to Zealots
  • 100-300 (88 entries), from Sextus Julius Africanus to Zenobia
  • 300-400 (52 entries), from Saint Agnes to Saint Vitus
  • 400-500 (36 entries), from Alaric II to Zeno
  • 500-600 (35 entries), from Abbas to Theodora
  • 600-800 (66 entries), from Abd-ar-Rahman to Saint Zachary
  • 800-900 (44 entries), from Abd-ar-Rahman III to Witenagemot
  • 900-1000 (49 entries), from Aelfric to Saint Vladimir
  • 1000-1100 (102 entries), from Peter Abelard to William II
  • 1100-1200 (112 entries), from Abraham Ibn Daud to Yiddish Literature
  • 1200-1400 (285 entries), from Abu al-Fida to Yüan Dynasty
  • 1400-1500 (322 entries), from Isaac Abrabanel to Huldreich Zwingli
  • 1500-1550 (192 entries), from José de Acosta to Zuccaro
  • 1550-1600 (248 entries), from Abbas the Great to Francisco de Zurbarán
  • 1600-1700 (476 entries), from Joseph Addison to John Peter Zenger
  • 1700-1750 (396 entries), from Abd al-Hamid I to Nikolaus Ludwig Graf von Zinzendorf
  • 1750-1820 (1126 entries), from Abbas Hilmi to Leopold Zunz
  • 1820-1860 (978 entries), from Sir John Joseph Caldwell Abbott to Émile Édouard Charles Antoine Zola
  • 1860-1880 (763 entries), from Jeppe Aakjaer to Anders Leonhard Zorn
  • 1880-1900 (927 entries), from Hugo Alvar Henrik Aalto to Vladimir Kosma Zworykin
  • 1900-1914 (586 entries), from Tunku Abdul Rahman to Todor Zhivkov
  • 1914-1920 (195 entries), from Peter Abrahams to Zhao Ziyang
  • 1920-1939 (402 entries), from Hank Aaron to Muhammad Zia ul-Haq
  • 1939-1950 (112 entries), from Kareem Abdul-Jabbar to Pinchas Zukerman
  • 1950-1957 (27 entries), from John Bardeen to Warsaw Pact
  • 1957-1975 (50 entries), from Bay of Pigs Invasion to Yom Kippur War
  • 1975-1989 (4 entries), from Martina Hingis to Tiger Woods
  • 1989-Present (3 entries), from Commonwealth of Independent States to Persian Gulf Wars