Person

Adam

The first man, created by God on the sixth day.

Sort year4004 BC

Tier 1 · CFAH anchor point

Tier 1: CFAH anchor point: 4004 B.C. (Creation of Adam)

Scripture

Family

Father: Not recorded
Children: Seth

Scripture facts

Age at son's birth: 130 (Seth)
Lifespan: 930 years

Birth

birth of Adam, CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH anchor point	4004 B.C. (Creation of Adam) Precision: year	4004 BC	Griffith & White, "Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 4: Dating Creation and the Deluge," ARJ 16 (2023): 475–489, section "AP-30: Creation: 4004 B.C." (opens in a new tab) Created, not born. Sets sort year
CFAH-1 Table 1 Ussher–Jones baseline	4004 BC (Creation of Mankind) Precision: year	4004 BC	Griffith & White, "Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 1: Problem, Data, and Methodology," ARJ 15 (2022): 377–390, section "Our Assumptions (Declared Biases)", Table 1 "Biblically derived dates from Ussher and Jones" (opens in a new tab) CFAH-1 Table 1 (Ussher-Jones biblical baseline adopted by CFAH); not a triangulated anchor point.
Ussher-Jones	0 AM, 4004 BC (year of Creation) Precision: year	4004 BC AM 0	Floyd Nolen Jones, Chart No. 1 "Creation to Jesus Christ" (© 1993), line "0 AM 4004 BC year of CREATION" (opens in a new tab) Created, not born.
Ussher	1 AM, 4004 BC Precision: year	4004 BC AM 1	Ussher, Annals of the World, First Age, §1, §7 (created on the sixth day, Friday 28 Oct) (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan secondary	"0 - Adam created" Precision: year	AM 0	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §4 "The Chronology of Genesis 4 & 5" (year list) (opens in a new tab)
MT-Gen	AM 0 (created) Precision: year	AM 0	Gen 1:26–27; Gen 5:1–3 (opens in a new tab) Epoch of the AM count.

Disagreements & open questions

Chronologies disagree Anno Mundi figures differ: AM 0 (Ussher-Jones, MT-Gen, Jordan); AM 1 (Ussher).

Flags are generated from the figures stored in the data. The master timeline still sorts by the CFAH-weighted sort year.

Death

death of Adam, CFAH first
Chronology	Date as stated	Year (BC / AM)	Citation & note
CFAH	Not yet established	—	— pending CFAH reference
Ussher-Jones	Not yet established	—	— Not stated in the Jones sources read (Chart No. 1; Chronology of the Old Testament 15th ed. 2002, Chronological Compendium p. 1). Leave empty until verified.
Ussher	930 AM, 3074 BC Precision: year	3074 BC AM 930	Ussher, Annals of the World, First Age, §21 (paragraph numbering of the modern transcription) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan secondary	"930 - Adam died" Precision: year	AM 930	Jordan, "The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2)," Biblical Chronology 6:4 (April 1994), §4 "The Chronology of Genesis 4 & 5" (year list) (opens in a new tab)
Jordan (compilation) secondary	930 AM Adam dies Precision: year	AM 930	Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (unnamed compiler; a compilation of James B. Jordan's system), p. 1, chart "A.M. Chronology (Anno Mundi “Year of the World”) Genesis 5, 11:10" (opens in a new tab) Agrees with Jordan's own published AM 930.
MT-Gen	AM 930 Precision: year	AM 930	Gen 5: birth AM 0 + 930 years (Gen 5:5) (opens in a new tab)

Events

Seth

Free sources

The King James Version of the Bible (opens in a new tab) — Genesis 5 public-domain
The Annals of the World, Deduced from the Origin of Time (1658 English edition), Part One: 4004–176 BC (opens in a new tab) public-domain
Chronological Framework of Ancient History. 4: Dating Creation and the Deluge, (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
The Chronology of the Pentateuch (Part 2) (Biblical Chronology 6:4, April 1994) (opens in a new tab) free-to-read
Anno Mundi Chronology Studies (A.M. chronology charts and A.M./B.C. table) (opens in a new tab) private-copy

Copyrighted works (CFAH papers, F. N. Jones) are linked, not reproduced.