Timeline dating from 3500 BCE
| Date |
Event |
| BCE |
|
| 3500 |
Settlement near Gibon Spring |
| 1800 |
Binding of Isaac Mount Moriah |
| c 1200 |
Joshua conquers Israel |
| c 1004 |
David King conquers Jerusalem |
| 960 |
King Solomon builds first Temple |
| 722 |
Tiglath Pileser III of Assyria conquers Israel |
| 712 |
Shiloah Tunnel built by King Hezekiah |
| 586 |
Nebuchadnezzar of Babylonia destroys Temple |
| 538 |
Cyrus of Persia conquers Babylonia |
| 537 |
Jews return to Jerusalem |
| 516 |
Temple rebuilt |
| 332 |
Alexander the Great conquers Israel |
| 167 |
Maccabean Revolt |
| 164 |
Judah Macabee recaptures Jerusalem |
| 63 |
Pompey conquers Israel for Rome |
| 37 |
Herod begins to rebuild Second Temple |
| 20CE |
Herod Antipas founds Tiberias |
| 0-30 |
Life of Jesus |
| 67-70 |
Jewish revolt, Romans destroys Temple |
| c.70 |
R. Yochanan ben Zakkai – yeshiva at Yavne |
| 132-135 |
Bar Kochba revolt R Akiva killed |
| 324 |
Emperor Constantine adopts Christianity |
| 339 |
Constantine enacts decree against Jews |
| 351 |
Jewish revolt against Byzantine rule |
| 359 |
Calculation of Jewish calendar finalized |
| 361-363 |
Reign of Julian the Apostate |
| c400 |
Compilation of Jerusalem Talmud completed |
| 527 |
Reign of Justianus, anti-Jewish decrees |
| 571 |
Mohamed born |
| 613-617 |
Persians occupy Gailee destroy churches |
| 638 |
Muslims conquer Jerusalem |
| 640 |
Battle of the Yarmuk |
| 691 |
Dome of Rock built |
| 701 |
Al-Aqsa Mosque built |
| 1010 |
Caliph al-Hakin destruction of synagogues |
| c1050 |
Druze religion established |
| 1099 |
Crusaders conquer Jerusalem |
| 1187 |
Saladin defeats Crusaders – Horns of Hattin |
| 1222 |
Maimonides buried in Tiberias |
| 1260 |
Mameluks capture Jerusalem |
| 1267 |
Rabbi Moshe Ben Nahman arrives in Israel |
| 1275 |
Marco Polo stops in Israel on way to China |
| 1291 |
Mamelukes defeat Crusaders at Akko |
| 1517 |
Ottoman Turks conquer Israel |
| 1527-1542 |
Sultan Suleiman rebuilds Jerusalem walls |
| 1700 |
Rabbi Yehuda HaHassid starts Hurva Synagogue |
| 1892 |
Railway connects Jerusalem to coast |
| 1914-1918 |
World War I |
| 1917 |
British Mandate |
| 1936-1939 |
Arabs riots throughout Israel |
| 1939-1945 |
Word War II |
| 1946 |
Night of the Bridges – Yarmuk River |
| 1948 |
British Mandate ends |
| 1948 |
Israel declares Independence May 15 |
| 1956 |
Suez crisis |
| 1953-1964 |
National water carrier built |
| 1967 |
Six Day War |
| 1973 |
Yom Kippur War |
Timeline 1917-2017
