chronological error

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The chronological error here amounts to sixty or seventy years.

From The Covenanters of Damascus; A Hitherto Unknown Jewish Sect by Moore, George Foot

On either side of the Hellespont his episcopal vigor imposed a rigid formulary of faith and discipline; a chronological error concerning the festival of Easter was punished as an offence against the church and state.

From History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire — Volume 4 by Milman, Henry Hart

Another friend of his once said that Funston was a sixteenth-century hero, born four hundred years or so too late, who had ever since been seeking to remedy the chronological error of his birth.

From Complete Story of the San Francisco Horror by Linthicum, Richard

Perhaps it may be in his power also to rectify a chronological error, which has crept into the account usually given of the family into which one of her sons married.

From Notes and Queries, Number 191, June 25, 1853 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc. by Bell, George

To the argument of chronological error, the sole answer which M. Neufchateau condescends to give is, that they are incomprehensible; and on his hypothesis he is right.

From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 55, No. 344, June, 1844 by Various