HISTORICAL TIME LINE
BC (BCE)
3150-2200 Early Bronze Age Civilizations in Egypt & Mesopotamia
2200-1550 Middle Bronze Age
2000 c. Abram called
1550-1200 Late Bronze Age Israel conquers Canaan
1200-1000 Iron Age I
1125 Victory of Deborah and Barak
1100 Gideon defeats Midian
1050 Fall of Shilo
1020 Saul becomes king
1004 Saul killed on Mt. Gilboa
1004 David becomes king in Hebron
1000-539 Iron Age II
998 David conquers Jerusalem
965 Solomon’s Temple begun
928 Israel and Judah divided
877 King Omri establishes Samaria
871 King Ahab marries Jezebel
722 Fall of Samaria
701 Jerusalem delivered from Assyrians
627 Jeremiah begins his work
605 First deportation to Babylon
597 Second deportation
586 Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem
539 The Persian king Cyrus conquers Babylon
538 Jews return from Babylon
535 Work on Temple begun and halted
520 Work renewed by Haggai and Zechariah
516 Second Temple finished
486-480 Events of the Book of Esther
458 1st Decree of Artaxerxes
458 Ezra’s arrival in Jerusalem
450-400 Approximate dates of Malachi
445 2nd Decree of Artaxerxes
444 Walls of Jerusalem completed by Nehemiah
336 Alexander the Great invades Asia
332 Legendary visit of Alexander to Jerusalem
167 Antiochus (Epiphanes) defiles Temple
164 Temple rededicated by Maccabees
63 Roman Emperor Pompey enters Jerusalem
37 Herod conquers Jerusalem with Roman backing
19 Herod begins Temple enlargement
4 (6?) Birth of Jesus (Yeshua)
AD (CE)
30 Jesus crucified
66-73 Jewish revolt against Rome
70 Jerusalem destroyed
73 Fall of Masada
80-120 Sages of the Mishnah
132-135 Second Jewish revolt
135 Jerusalem becomes a Roman city
200c Mishnah completed
312 Emperor Constantine accepts Christianity
325 Council of Nicea
570 Muhammed is born
614 Persians conquer Jerusalem bringing much destruction
629? Byzantine rule is restored
636 Muslims enter Israel
638 Jerusalem falls to Muslims
661 Omayyad rule from Damascus
691 Dome of the Rock built
701 Al-Aqsa Mosque completed
750-877 Abbasid rule from Baghdad
878 Tulun, Governor of Egypt conquers Palestine
904 Jerusalem returns to Abbasid rule
934 Egyptian Ikhshidi princes conquer Palestine
969 Fatamid Caliphs conquer Palestine
1010 Caliph al-Hakim destroys many synagogues and churches in Jerusalem
1070-80 The Seljuks Turks pillage and rule
1099 Crusaders conquer Jerusalem
1187 Saladin captures Jerusalem
1215 Fourth Lateran Council
1219 Jerusalem’s walls raised
1242 Burning of Talmud in Paris
1244 Khawarezmian Turks pillage Holy Land
1250-1516 Mamluk rule in Holy Land
1291 End of Latin (Crusader) Kingdom
1299-1303 Mongol invasion
1480 Inquisition established in Spain
1492 Jews expelled from Spain
1496-97 Jews expelled from Portugal
1516 Ottoman rule begins in Palestine
1531 Inquisition established in Portugal
1541 Golden Gate is sealed to prevent entry of Messiah
1648-49 Chmielnicki massacres
1799 Napoleon proclaims the restoration of Holy Land to the Jews
1831 Mohammed Ali of Egypt gains control of Holy Land
1838 Edward Robinson begins archaeological work in Jerusalem
1840 English writers and statesmen begin to consider Jewish restoration
1854 Crimea War begins over disputes regarding Jerusalem
1864 Sir Charles Wilson begins archaeological work
1867 Captain Charles Warren begins excavations
1871-82 First agricultural settlements
1881-84 Pogroms sweep Russia
1882 First Aliya begins
1894 Dreyfus trial in Paris
1897 First Zionist Congress
1904 Second Aliya begins
1909 Tel Aviv founded
1917 Jerusalem surrenders to Allenby
1919-23 Third Aliya
1920 British pre Mandate begins
1920 Massive anti-Jewish riots in land
1922 Mandate confirmed by League of Nations
1923 Palestine Mandate begins operation
1923 British give away 75% of the Mandate
1924 Fourth Aliya
1925 Hebrew University opened
1929 Arabs riots in Jerusalem, Hebron and Safed
1933 Hitler becomes chancellor
1933-39 Fifth Aliya
1937 Peel Commission proposes partition of land
1938 Kristallnacht
1938 Wingate organizes special Jewish units to fight Arabs
1939 Outbreak of World War II
1940 Nazi Germany introduces gassing of Jews – six million ultimately perish
1947 UN General Assembly decides to partition Palestine
1948 Proclamation of independence and War of Independence
1948 Transjordan occupies Judea and Samaria
1953 Beginning of Arab Fedayeen attacks
1956 Sinai Campaign
1957 Israel evacuates Sinai
1967 Six Day War with Jews capturing Jerusalem
1973 Yom Kippur War
1979 Peace treaty between Israel and Egypt
1982 Lebanon War
1987 First Arab uprising begins (Intifada)
1989 Massive aliya from former USSR begins
1991 Gulf War and missile attacks on Israel
1991 Madrid Peace Conference
1993 Oslo Accords introduced
1998 Israel’s 50th anniversary (Jubilee)
2000 Israel withdraws from Lebanon (security zone)
2000 Camp David peace summit
2000 Second Arab uprising (Intifada) begins
2001 9/11 Muslim attacks on the US mainland
2002 US openly favors a Palestinian State
2002 Road Map peace plan introduced
2003 US War against Iraq begins
2004 Yasser Arafat dies
2005 Syrian withdrawal from 29 year occupation of Lebanon
2005 Israeli withdrawal from all Gaza settlements
2006 Second Lebanon war/ Gaza War
2007 Annapolis Peace Conference