Greece
M ede/Persian
Babylon
Israelite
Canaanite
HISTORY OF ISRAEL: TIMELINE
3000 – 1200 BC
Hittite, Jebusite, Amorite, Girgasite, Hivite, Arkite, Sinite, Arvadite, Zemarite, Hamathite
1000 – 586 BC
First Temple Period
King David, . 1000
Northern Israel (10 tribes) falls to Assyrians, 721
Southern Israel and First Temple falls to Babylonians, 586
586 – 538 BC
Beginning of Second Temple Period (falls AD70)
Return to Judah, 536 BC
538 – 333 BC
Cyrus the Great
Darius I – Temple rebuilt, 516
Xerxes / Artexerxes
333 – 176 / 37 BC
Hellenistic Age
Alexander the Great conquers known world
C Seleucid Empire, 312/198 – 63 BC
C Hasmonean Dynasty (Maccabees), 168/7 – 37 BC
C Herod the Great, 37 – 4 BC
Byzantine
Rome
753 BC (official beginning) – AD 476 (final fall)
Roman Empire
Western Roman Empire
City-state origins, 800s; republic, 509
Rule of Rome in Israel, 176 BC (Antiochus IV) to AD 476 (fall W. Rome)
Pompey takes Jerusalem, 63 BC
Second Temple falls, AD 70
Jerusalem named Aelia Capitolina, Israel named Philistia, AD 135
AD 324 – 638 / 1453
Eastern Roman Empire
Constantine builds new capital in Turkey (then Byzantium, now Istanbul), AD 330
Falls to Islam in area of Israel, 638
Christian and Greek
West of the Euphrates
Persia
HISTORY OF ISRAEL: TIMELINE
250 BC – AD 642
Sassanid Empire, East of the Euphrates
Falls to Muslims, 642
Late Muslim Era
Crusades
Muslim
AD 632 – 1099
Early Muslim Period
Muhammed is born, AD 570
{The Hegira, 622}
Dome of the Rock, 691
C Umayyad Dynasty in Damascus, AD 661 – 750
C Spain attacked, 711
C France stops Muslim expansion at Tours, 732
C Abbasid Dynasty in Baghdad, 750 – 1258
AD 1099 – 1187 (in Israel) / 1250
Crusades begin, AD 1095/1096
Eight official crusades as well as minor ones
AD 1187 – 1250 Ayyubid Dynasty
Sala’adin takes Jerusalem from the Crusaders
1250 – 1517 Mamelukes
Muslim Egyptian slaves
Israel
Britain
Turks
AD 1453 (1517 in Israel) – 1917
Ottoman Turkish Empire
Arise in 1200-1300s in Turkey
Official beginning at conquer of Byzantine capital (Constantinople/Istanbul), 1453
Muslim, not Arab
A.D. 1917 – 1948
British Mandate Period
United Nations Partition Plan, November 1947
A.D. 1948 þ
Modern State of Israel
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