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 |
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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 |
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The Rabbis preempt the priests as the chief custodians of divine truth |
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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 |
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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 WŁar 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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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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 |
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