de l'Academie des Inscriptions, tom.xvi.p.

233-267.)] [Footnote 19: Nine days after the death of Mahomet (7th June, A.D.

632) we find the aera of Yezdegerd, (16th June, A.D.

632,) and his accession cannot be postponed beyond the end of the first year.

His predecessors could not therefore resist the arms of the caliph Omar; and these unquestionable dates overthrow the thoughtless chronology of Abulpharagius.