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| 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 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 |
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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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