By Jim Gerrish
| BC (BCE) | EVENT |
| 3150-2200 | Early Bronze Age Civilizations in Egypt & Mesopotamia |
| 2200-1550 | Middle Bronze Age |
| circa 2000 | Abram called |
| 1550-1200 | Late Bronze Age – Israel conquers Canaan |
| 1125 | Victory of Deborah and Barak |
| 1100 | Gideon defeats Midian |
| 1050 | Fall of Shiloh |
| 1020 | Saul becomes king |
| 1004 | Saul killed on Mt. Gilboa |
| 998 | David becomes king in Hebron |
| 965 | David conquers Jerusalem |
| 928 | Israel and Judah divided |
| 877 | King Omri establishes Samaria |
| 871 | King Ahab marries Jezebel |
| 722 | Fall of Samaria |
| 701 | Jerusalem delivered from the Assyrians |
| 627 | Jeremiah begins his work |
| 605 | First deportation to Babylon |
| 597 | Second deportation |
| 586 | Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem |
| 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 Book of Esther |
| 458 | 1st Decree of Artaxerxes |
| 458 | Ezra’s arrival in Jerusalem |
| 450-400 | Approximate dates of Malachi |
| 445 | Walls of Jerusalem built by Nehemiah |
| 444 | Walls completed |
| 336 | Alexander the Great invades Asia |
| 332 | Legendary visit of Alexander to Jerusalem |
| 167 | Antiochus (Epiphanes) defiles Temple |
| 164 | Temple rededicated by the Maccabees |
| 63 | Roman Emperor Pompey enters Jerusalem |
| 37 | Herod conquers Jerusalem with Roman backing |
| 19 | Herod begins Temple enlargement |
| 4 (6?) | Birth of Jesus |
| AD (CE) | EVENT |
| 30 | Jesus crucified |
| 66-73 | Jewish revolt against Rome |
| 70 | Jerusalem destroyed |
| 73 | Fall of Masada |
| 80-120 | Sages of the Mishna |
| 132-135 | Second Jewish revolt |
| circa 200 | Mishnah completed |
| 312 | Emperor Constantine accepts Christianity |
| 325 | Council of Nicea |
| 570 | Mohammed is born |
| 614 | Persians conquer Jerusalem |
| 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 synagogues and churches in Jerusalem |
| 1070-1080 | The Seljuks Turks pillage and rule |
| 1099 | Crusaders conquer Jerusalem |
| 1187 | Saladin captures Jerusalem |
| 1215 | Fourth Lateran Council |
| 1219 | Jerusalem’s walls razed |
| 1242 | Burning of Talmud in Paris |
| 1244 | Khawarezmian Turks pillage Holy Land |
| 1260 | 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 |
| 1496-1497 | Jews expelled from Portugal |
| 1516 | Ottoman rule begins in Palestine |
| 1531 | Inquisition established in Portugal |
| 1541 | Golden Gate is sealed to to prevent entry of Messiah |
| 1648-1649 | Chmielnicki massacres |
| 1799 | Napolean promises 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 |
| 1871-1882 | First agricultural settlements |
| 1881-1884 | Pogroms sweep Russia |
| 1882 | First Aliyah begins |
| 1894 | Dreyfus trial in Paris |
| 1897 | First Zionist Congress |
| 1904 | Second Aliyah begins |
| 1909 | Tel Aviv founded |
| 1917 | Jerusalem surrenders to Allenby |
| 1919-1923 | Third Aliyah |
| 1920 | British pre-Mandate begins |
| 1920 | Massive anti-Jewish riots in the land |
| 1922 | Mandate confirmed by League of Nations |
| 1923 | British give away 75% of Mandate territory to Hashemites |
| 1924 | Fourth Aliyah |
| 1925 | Hebrew University opened |
| 1929 | Arabs riot in Jerusalem, Hebron and Tsefat |
| 1933 | Hitler becomes chancellor |
| 1933-1939 | Fifth Aliyah |
| 1937 | Peel Commission proposes partition of land |
| 1938 | Wingate organizes special Jewish units to fight Arabs |
| 1939 | Outbreak of World War II |
| 1940 | Nazi Germany introduces gassing of Jews – six million 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 |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur War |
| 1982 | Lebanon War |
| 1987 | Intifada Arab uprising begins |
| 1989 | Massive aliyah from former Soviet Union begins |
| 1991 | Gulf War and missile attacks on Israel |
| 1991 | Madrid Peace Conference |
| 1993 | Oslo Accords |
| 1998 | Israel’s 50th anniversary (Jubilee) |
| 2000 | Israel withdraws from Lebanon (security zone) |
| 2000-2001 | PLO launches second intifada (Oslo War) |
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