Epitome: Israel and World History

10,000 BCE Jericho appears as a city-state,  Stone Age (Neolithic)2000 BCE 2000

2000 BCE Abraham enters Canaan                               Great Sphinx 2500 BCE

1800 BCE Joseph is sold into slavery                Bronze Age

1400 BCE Hebrews reenter Canaan                                Minos of Crete destroyed by fire

1162 BCE Gideon                                                                Destruction of Troy (1183)

1050 BC Saul first king of Israel                                        Shang dynasty

959  BCE Solomon completes temple                              Naomi/Ruth/Boaz/Obed/Jesse/David

1000 BCE David, King of Israel                                          Early iron age

930 BCE The Kingdom divides                                          Celts invade Britain

875 BCE Elijah prophesied in Israel                                  Etruscan civilization/ Carthage falls 8

785 BCE Jonah prophesied (Jeroboam II)                       Nineveh, Assyria ~Homer

722 BCE Northern Kingdom falls to Assyria                  Amos, Hosea/Hezekiah

701 BCE Jerusalem besieged by Sennacherib           Isiah; Temple of Artemis in Ephesus

605 BCE Daniel was exiled to Babylon                        Ezekiel 593-571 Darius the Mede

586 BCE Judah falls                                                            Aesop/Greek tragedies

538 BCE Cyrus allows Jews to return                               Golden age of Greece

522 BCE Darius I, ruler of the Persian Empire            Battle of Marathon 490  Phidippides

516 BCE: Second temple completed                                 Rome Republic 509 BCE

479 BCE Esther Mordecai Haman Queen Vashti     Xerxes I Battle o’ Thermopylae Purim

458 BCE Nehemiah, Ezra                                                    Artaxerxes, Socrates

330 BCE Alexander                                                              Aramaic replaces Hebrew/ Aristotle

250 BCE Translation of Pentateuch into Greek          Ptolemy II/ Archimedes Pi 3.14

167 BCE Maccabean revolt                                                  Antiochus IV /Seleucid Kingdom

37 BCE Herod the Great born                                            Julius Caesar 44 BCE

5 BCE  Jesus and Paul born?                                              Tiberius/ London founded 43 AD

44 AD    Herod Agrippa II Paul’s Testimony                  H.Antipas John Baptist beheaded  H. Agrippa I eaten by worms

70 AD    Romans destroy Jerusalem.                                Titus (future Roman emperor)

74 AD     Masada falls                                                          Vesuvius erupts

324-640 Byzantine Period                                                     Constatine 324/Helena Holy 622  632 Muhammad dies                                                               Black Stone in Kaaba

685-691 Dome of the Rock construction                        North Africa falls to Muslims

1009 Fatimids destroy Church of Holy Sepulcher Moors in Europe 711-1492

1096-1099 First Crusade                                                        Capture of Jerusalem

1189-1192 Third Crusade                                                         Richard I Acre Saladin

1250-1517 Mameluke Period                                                  M.Polo/ Thomas Aquinas/ Dante

1517-1918 Turkish Ottoman Empire                                   Luther Ninety-five Theses 1517

1878 first Zionist settlements                                                   Gilded Age 1870-1900

1881 Jewish Pogrom & diaspora                                             Assassination of Czar Alexander II

1918 Balfour Declaration          Lenin 1917 Soviet Russia

1947 UN Partition created State of Israel                        Gandhi was killed

1948 Gurion first Prime Minister of Israel            Marshall Plan