Ussher said the world began on “the evening preceding that first day.” Lightfoot put creation at nine o’clock in the morning. He differed from Ussher on the time of day that creation took place, however. Like Ussher, Lightfoot based his calculations on information in the Bible. Sir John Lightfoot, an official at Cambridge University, beat him to the punch by fourteen years. Ussher was not, in fact, the first to pick that particular date as the beginning of the universe. God created the world, he said in a 1658 chronology titled The Annals of the World, on OctoBCE. This Day in World History OctoBCE World created (according to Bishop Ussher)Įver wonder when the universe began? Bishop James Ussher, a seventeenth-century Anglican cleric and biblical scholar had the answer.
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