Jewish History

Early Bronze Age circa 3300 - c.2000 BCE

• Abraham leaves Ur (c.2100 BC)

Middle Bronze Age c.2000 - c.1500

• Israelites journey to Egypt to avoid famine (c.1600 BC)

Patriarchal Period c.1750 - c.1500 ?

Moses c.1350 - c.1300 ?

• Moses leads the Israelites out of Egypt (c.1280 BC)

Israelite Conquest c.1250 ?

Period of Judges c.1200 - c.1020

United Kingdom c.1020 - 922

• Saul becomes the first king of Israel (1020 BC - 1000 BC)
• David is the king of Judah and Israel (1000 BC - 960 BC)
• David, king of Israel, captures Jerusalem and makes it the capital of Israel (c.1000 BC)
• Solomon becomes the king of Israel and builds Yahweh Temple (960 BC - 925 BC)
• Shesonq sacks Jerusalem (c.925 BC)
• Israel divides into two kingdoms: Judah and Israel (c.922 BC)
• Hebrew alphabet develops

Divided Kingdom 922 - 722

• Omri rules Israel (876 BC)
  

Judean Kingdom 722 - 586

• Samaria, the capital of Israel, captured by Sargon II of Assyria (721 BC)
  
• Sargon II of Assyria deports 28,000 Israelites who become the "Ten Lost Tribes of Israel" (721 BC)
  
• Hezekiah, king of Judah (715-687 BC)
  
• Assyria attacks Jerusalem (701 BC)

• Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia captures Jerusalem (587 BC)
  
• Judah becomes a province of Babylonia (587 BC)
• exile of the Jews to Babylon (586 BC)
  
• Nebuchadnezzar II burns Jerusalem (581 BC)
  
• first books of the Old Testament written
  
• Cyrus the Great of Persia frees the captive Jews from Babylonia (539 BC)

Persian Period (Return) 538 - 333

• Malachi, last prophet of the Old Testament (420 ?)

• Pompey of Rome captures Jerusalem and places Judah under Roman rule (63 BC)
  
• Herod the Great rules Israel as a Roman vassal (34-4 BC)
  
• birth of Jesus Christ (4 BC)
• crucifixion of Jesus Christ (30 AD)
  
• Titus suppresses a revolt in Jerusalem (70 AD)

Byzantine Period 330 - 638

• Persians capture Damascus and Jerusalem (614 AD)

Arab Caliphate 638 - 661

• Arabs conquer Palestine (638 AD)

Umayyad Period 661 - 750

Abbasid Period 750 - 969

Fatimid Period 969 - 1076

Seljuk Turks 1076 - 1098

Latin Kingdom 1099 - 1187

Ayyubid Period 1174 - 1250

Mameluke Period 1260 - 1517

Ottoman Turks 1517 - 1917

British Mandate 1920 - 1948

Israel/Palestine 1948 - present