Biblical Dating - World Events
Year	EVENT
2090 BC	Abraham Called by God
2067 BC	Issac born
2007 BC	Jacob born
1992 BC	Abraham dies
1944 BC	Isaac dies
1877 BC	Jacob arrives in Egypt
1860 BC	Jacob dies in Egypt
1806 BC	Joseph dies in Egypt
1730 BC	Hyksos invasion of Egypt; Hebrews     bondage begins
1728 BC	Hammurabi of Sumer born
1570 BC	Hyksos expelled from Egypt;     Amose I founds 18th dynsaty
1548 BC	Amenhotep I becomes pharaoh of Egypt
1548 BC	Hebrew midwives ordered to     destroy all Hebrew male children
1528 BC	Thutmose I becomes pharaoh
1528 BC	All newborn Hebrew males are     cast into the Nile
1525 BC	Moses born
1504 BC	Hatshepsut becomes pharaoh
1487 BC	Moses flees Egypt
1483 BC	Thutmose III becomes pharaoh
1483 BC	The great opression of the     Hebrews begins
1450 BC	Amenhotep II becomes pharaoh
1447 BC	The Exodus begins
1446 BC	The Tabernacle constructed
1423 BC	Thutmose IV becomes pharaoh
1410 BC	Amenhotep III becomes pharoah
1407 BC	Moses dies; Joshua conquers Canaan
1400 BC	Conquest of Canaan completed
1377 BC	Akhnaton become pharaoh;     inaugurates monotheistic reforms
1375 BC	Othniel becomes judge
1319 BC	Ehud becomes judge
1318 BC	Rameses I founs the 19th dynasty in Egypt
1240 BC	Deborah & Barak judge Israel
1194 BC	Gideon becomes judge
1167 BC	Eli born
1155 BC	Abimelech usurps power in Israel
1152 BC	Tola becomes judge
1131 BC	Jair becomes judge
1109 BC	Eli becomes priest
1105 BC	Samuel born
1089 BC	Jephthah becomes judge
1083 BC	Ibzan becomes Judge
1071 BC	Elon becomes judge; Samson becomes judge
1069 BC	Samuel begins to minister
1066 BC	Abdon becomes judge
1043 BC	Saul becomes king
1011 BC	Saul & Johnathan slain; David     becomes king of Judah
1004 BC	David becomes king over all Israel
971 BC	Soloman ascends the throne
966 BC	Soloman begins to build the     temple of Jerusalem
945 BC	Sheshhonk (Shishak) becomes     phraoh of Egypt
931 BC	Rehoboam becomes king of Israel     and Judah
931 BC	Jeroboam rebels; sets up a rival     kingdom in the north
913 BC	Abijam becomes king of Judah
911 BC	Asa becomes king of Judah
910 BC	Nadab becomes king of Israel
909 BC	Bausha becomes king of Israel
890 BC	Benhadad becomes king of Syria
886 BC	Elah becomes king of Israel; Zimri     becomes king of Israel
885 BC	Tibni becomes king of Israel
883 BC	Ashurbanipal II becomes kink of Assyria
880 BC	Omri becomes king of Israel
874 BC	Ahab becomes king of Israel
873 BC	Jehoshaphat becomes king of Judah
859 BC	Shalmaneser III becomes king of Assyria
858 BC	Elijah begins to prophesy
853 BC	Ahaziah becomes king of Israel
853 BC	Jehoram becomes king of Judah
852 BC	Joram becomes king of Israel
841 BC	Jehu becomes king of Israel
	Ahaziah becomes king of Judah
	Athaliah seizes the throne of Judah
	Hazael becomes king of Syria
835 BC	Joash becomes king of Judah
830 BC	Joel prophecies
814 BC	Jehoahaz becomes king of Israel
801 BC	Benhadad II becomes king of Syria
798 BC	Jehoash becomes king of Israel
796 BC	Amaziah becomes king of Judah
790 BC	Uzziah becomes co-regent of Judah
783 BC	Shalmaneser IV becomes king of Assyria
	Jonah begins his ministry
782 BC	Jeroboam II becomes king of Israel
*776 BC	Olympic games begin in Greece
767 BC	Uzziah becomes full king of Judah
764 BC	Amos begins to prophesy
755 BC	Hosea begins to prophesy
*753 BC	Rome Founded
	Zechariah becomes king of Israel
752 BC	Shallum becomes king of Israel
	Menahem becomes king of Israel
745 BC	Tiglath-pileser III becomes king of Assyria
742 BC	Pekahiah becomes king of Israel
740 BC	Pekah becomes king of Israel
739 BC	Uzziah dies; Isaiah begins to prophesy
	Jotham becomes king of Judah
736 BC	Micah begins to prophesy
735 BC	Ahaz becomes king of Judah
732 BC	Hoshea becomes king of Israel
727 BC	Shalmaneser IV becomes king of Assyria
722 BC	Sargon II becomes king of Assyria Samaria falls;     the ten tribes go into captivity
715 BC	Hezekiah becomes king of Judah
705 BC	Sennacherib becomes king of Assyria
701 BC	Judah invaded by the Assyrians
686 BC	Manasseh becomes king of Judah
681 BC	Esarhaddon becomes king of Assyria
669 BC	Ashurbanipal becomes king of Assyria
660 BC	Zoroaster born
648 BC	Nahum predicts the fall of Nineveh
642 BC	Amon becomes king of Judah
640 BC	Josiah becomes king of Judah
634 BC	Zephaniah begins to prophesy
627 BC	Jeremiah begins to prophesy
626 BC	Nabopolasser becomes king of Babylon
622 BC	Revival in Judah
619 BC	Habakkuk begins to prophesy
612 BC	Nineveh falls
609 BC	Neco II becomes pharoah of Egypt
	Jehoahaz becomes king of Judah
	Jehoiakim becomes king of Judah
605 BC	Nebuchadnezzar becomes king of Babylon
	The Babylonians invade Judah - Daniel begins to     prophesy
597 BC	Jehoachin becomes king of Judah
	Zedekiah becomes king of Judah
593 BC	Ezekiel begins to prophesy
586 BC	The Babylonians destroy Jerusalem and the     Temple
	The Jews deported to Babylon - Gedaliah becomes     governor or Jerusalem
	The Rabbis preempt the priests as the chief     custodians of divine truth
563 BC	Buddhism founded by Siddhartha
553 BC	Belshazzar becomes regent in Babylon
550 BC	Cyrus becomes king of Persia
	The Temple of Artemis erected at Ephesus
	Confucius begins to teach
539 BC	Babylon falls to the Medes and Persians
	Darius the Mede rules Babylon
538 BC	Zerubbabel and Joshua lead a small party of    Jewish repatriates back to Palestine
536 BC	The Temple started in Jerusalem
530 BC	Cambyses becomes king of Persia
521 BC	Smerdis becomes king of Persia
	Darius I Hystapses becomes king of Persia
520 BC	Haggai begins to prophesy
	Construction of Jerusalem Temple resumes
516 BC	The Temple completed
*509 BC	The Roman Republic Founded
486 BC	Xerxes becomes king of Persia
484 BC	Herodotus the historian born
480 BC	The Greeks defeat Xerxes at Salamis
479 BC	The Greeks defeat Xerxes at Thermopalye
478 BC	Esther becomes queen of Persia and later saves the    Jews of the empire from extermination
473 BC	The Feast of Purim started
469 BC	Socrates born
464 BC	Artaxerxes II becomes king of Persia
458 BC	Ezra takes a small contingent of Jews back to    Palestine
447 BC	The building of the Parthenon commenced
445 BC	Nehemiah takes a small contingent of Jews back to    Palestine
443 BC	Nehemiah and Ezra read the Scriptures to the Jews    and help them to understand the first roots of the    Midrash begins to sprout; the Sopherim (Scribes)    flourish
436 BC	Malachi begins to prophesy
423 BC	Darius II becomes king of Persia
404 BC	Artaxerxes II becomes king of Persia
400 BC	The Midrash begins to develop
399 BC	Socrates condemed to death
359 BC	Artaxerxes III becomes king of Persia
	Philip becomes king of Macedonia
342 BC	Epicurius teaches his prophesy
336 BC	Darius III Codomannus becomes king of Persia
	Alexander the Great becomes king of Greece
335 BC	Aristotle teaches at Athens
333 BC	The Battle of Issues fought; Alexander defeats the    Persians
	Alexander takes Egypt
332 BC	Alexander destroys Tyre
331 BC	Alexander seizes Babylon
330 BC	Darius III of Persia slain
329 BC	Alexander marries Roxana in a symbolic gesture of    uniting East and West
327 BC	Alexander invades India
323 BC	Alexander claims to be son of Zeus
	Alexander dies
	Alexander's empire is divided between his four    chief generals
	Ptolemy I Soter takes Egypt
320 BC	Ptolomy I seises Palestine
311 BC	Seleucus I Nicator takes Babylon
*300 BC	Rome becomes a major world power in the western    Mediterranean
	Seleucus I adds Syria to his Realm
285 BC	Ptolomy II Philadelphius becomes king of Egypt
	Between 285 and 130 the Septuagint translated
280 BC	Antiochus I Soter become king of Syria
276 BC	The first Syro-Egyptian war begins
275 BC	Ptolemy of Egypt invades Syria
274 BC	Hinduism codified in India
264 BC	Rome's first Punic war against Carthage begins
261 BC	Antiochus II Theos (the God) becomes king of Syria
260 BC	The second Syro-Egyptian war begins
252 BC	Antiochus II marries Bernice, daughter of Ptolomy II
250 BC	The Pathian kingdom founded
246 BC	Seleucus II Callinicus becomes king of Syria
	Ptolomy III Euergetes becomes king of Egypt
	The third Syro-Egyptian war begins
245 BC	Ptolomy invades Syria
240 BC	Seleucus invades Egypt
223 BC	Antiochus III (the Great) becomes king of Syria
221 BC	Ptolomy IV Philopater becomes king of Egypt
	The fourth Syro-Egyptian W ar begins
219 BC	Antiochus the Great invades Egypt
218 BC	Rome's second punic war against Carthage begins
*217 BC	Hannibal invades Italy - Ptolomy IV invades Syria;    Battle of Raphia
215 BC	Rome's first Macedonian war begins
206 BC	Rome drives Carthage out of Spain
203 BC	Ptolomy V (Epiphanes) becomes king of Egypt
201 BC	The fifth Syro-Egyptian war begins Carthage    surrenders to Rome
200 BC	Rome's second Macedonian war begins
	The Mishna begins to appear amonst the Jews
193 BC	Ptolomy V marries Cleopatra, daughter of Antiochus    III
190 BC	Antiochus III defeated by Romans at Magnesia
187 BC	Seleucus IV Philopator becomes king of Syria
181 BC	Ptolomy VI Philomater becomes king of Egypt
175 BC	Antiochus IV Epiphanes becomes king of Syria
171 BC	Ptolomy VII becomes co-regent of Egypt with    Ptolomy VI
	Rome's third Macedonian war begins
	Mithridates I begins the conquest of Babylon and    Media, adding those countries to Elam, Persia and    Bactra to form the Parthian Empire
169 BC	Antiochus Epiphanes capture Jerusalem
168 BC	The Roman interfere in Antiochus's war with Egypt    and prevent his capturing Alexandia
	Antiochus pollutes the Temple in Jerusalem and    suspends the sacrifices of the Jews
166 BC	Matthias leads the Jews in revolt against Antiochus    Epiphanes
165 BC	The Jerusalem Temple repaired and cleansed
164 BC	Antiochus Epiphanes dies
154 BC	The Jews in Egypt build a Temple at Leontopolis
149 BC	Rome's third Punic war against Carthage begins    Rome's fourth Macedonian war begins
146 BC	The Romans destroy Carthage
135 BC	John Hyrcanus becomes high priest in Jerusalem
133 BC	Rome begins to expand her empire eastward
130 BC	The Pharisees begin to emerge as a sect
124 BC	Mithridates II (the Great) conquers Scythia, adds it to    the Parthian Empire and makes a treaty with Rome
120 BC	Hyrcanus repudiates the Pharisees and declares    himself a Sadducee
106 BC	Cicero born
88 BC	Rome's first Mithridatic war begins
83 BC	Rome's second Mithridatic war begins
74 BC	Rome's third Mithridatic war begins
64 BC	Pompey captures Jerusalem; leaves the Maccabean    high pries Hyrcanus in power with Antipater as civil    adviser
60 BC	The first Triumvirate at Rome (Caesar, Crassus and    Pompey)
59 BC	Julius Caesar becomes proconsul; Pompey marries    Julia, daughter of Caeser
58 BC	Caesar conquers Gaul
**54 BC	Caesar invades Britain
49 BC	Caesar crosses the Rubicon
48 BC	Pompey slain in Egypt
	Caesar makes Cleopatra queen of Egypt
44 BC	Caesar becomes dictator of Rome for life
	Caesar assassinated
43 BC	The second Triumvirate at Rome (Anthony, Lepidus    and Octavian)
40 BC	Herod appointed King
37 BC	Herod captures Jerusalem
31 BC	Battle of Actium, Anthony slain, Octavian becomes    master of the Roman world, the final triumph of    Empire
30 BC	Egypt becomes a Roman province
	Shammai
	Hillel
	Philo of Alexandria
21 BC	Octavian assumed the title of Augustus
20 BC	Herod begins to rebuild the Jerusalem Temple
4 BC	Herod dies
	THE BIRTH OF JESUS
14 AD	Augustus dies
	Tiberius becomes Roman emperor
26 AD	Jesus begins to teach - He characterises rabbinic    teaching (the Mishna) as 'vain tradition'
30 AD	Jesus crucified and raised from the dead
	Pentecost; the Christian church is born
37 AD	Caligula becomes Roman emperor
40 AD	Gentiles are added to the church with the    conversion of Cornelius
41 AD	Claudius becomes Roman emperor
	Antioch becomes the new centre of church activity
43 AD	Theudas claims to be Messiah and is executed
54 AD	Nero becomes Roman emperor
59 AD	The apostle Paul is imprisoned at Caesarea
60 AD	Paul appears before Agrippa
61 AD	Paul a prisoner at Rome
66 AD	The Jews of Judea revolt against Rome
68 AD	Paul martyred at Rome
69 AD	Jerusalem besieged by the Romans
	Jochanan ben Zakkai seeks an audiance with    Vespasian
	Vespasian becomes Roman emperor
70 AD	Jerusalem falls; the Temple burned; the Jews    deported
73 AD	The last stand of the Jewish rebels at Masada
79 AD	Titus becomes Roman emperor
81 AD	Domitian becomes Roman emperor
96 AD	Nerva becomes Roman emperor
98 AD	Trajan becomes Roman emperor
113 AD	Rome goes to war with Parthia
116 AD	A further Jewish revolt against Rome is suppressed    with great severity
117 AD	Hadrian becomes Roman emperor
132 AD	Bar Kochba claims to be Messiah and leads a revolt    against Rome Judea depopulated and the Jews    denationalised by the Romans
138 AD	Antoninus Pius becomes Roman emperor
150 AD	Tertullian born
	ROMAN TIMELINE   <<<Here>>>

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