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
Timeline dating from 3500 BCE