HISTORY OF JERUSALEM TIMELINE

HISTORY OF JERUSALEM TIMELINE

B.C.E.

The First Temple Period

1000

King David establishes Jerusalem as the capital of Israel

The Temple Site is acquired

961

King Solomon builds the First Temple

922

The Kingdom is divided into Israel and Judah

715

King Hezekiah of Judah

701

Assyrian invasion of Jerusalem by Sennacherib

587

Nebuchadnezzar destroys Jerusalem and the Temple

Jews are exiled to Babylon

The Prophet Ezekiel

The Second Temple Period

The Persian Period

537

Edict of Cyrus King of Persia, permitting Jews to resettle Jerusalem

515

The Second Temple is built

440

Nehemiah rebuilds the walls of Jerusalem

435

Ezra continues the rebuilding of Jerusalem

The Hellenistic Period

332

Alexander the Great conquers Jerusalem

312

Judea under the rule of the Egyptian Ptolemies

198

the Syrian Seleucid king, Antiochus III conquers Jerusalem

169

Antiochus IV plunders the Temple

The Hasmonean Period (Maccabees)

167

The revolt of the Maccabees

164

Reconquest of the Temple Mount and the re-dedication of the Temple

The Roman Period

63

Pompey conquers Jerusalem, Roman rule begins

40

Hasmonean King Antigonus retakes Jerusalem from the Romans

37

King Herod the Great reconquers Jerusalem

19

The Temple Mount is enlarged and the the Temple is rebuilt

C.E.

29

Life of Jesus (4 B.C.E. – 29 C.E.)

66

The War of the Jews against the Roman

70

Titus sacks Jerusalem and destroys the Second Temple

75

Rome's Colosseum is built with the enormous loot of this plunder

(End of the Second Temple Period)

132

Bar Kochba Revolt, with Jerusalem as the Jewish Capital

135

Emperor Hadrian's total destruction of the city of Jerusalem

rebuilds the city with new walls and renames it Aelia Capitolina

Jews are banished from Jerusalem on pain of death

The Byzantine Period

324

Constantine becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire

Queen Helena (Constantine's mother) builds Christian churches in Jeruslalem

614

Persian conquest of Jerusalem

629

Byzantines recapture Jerusalem

The Arab Period

638

Caliph Omar conquers Jerusalem

691

Dome of the Rock is completed

715

El Aksa Mosque is completed

1073

Far eastern Seljuks conquer Jerusalem

Persecution of Christians and Jews

The Crusader Period

1099

Crusaders capture Jerusalem

Jerusalem made the Capital of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem

Jews and Muslems are banished from Jerusalem

1187

Saladin captures Jerusalem

The Mameluke Period

1250

Mameluke Muslems rule Jerusalem and Palestine

The Ottoman Turkish Period

1516

Ottoman sultan Selim I takes control of Jerusalem

1520

Suleiman The Magnificent rebuilds the city walls and other structures

1917

Ottoman rule ends by British conquest

This timeline is based on the chronology provided in
Jerusalem, Sacred City of Mankind: a History of Forty Centuries,
by T. Kollek and M. Pearlman. Weidenfeld & Nicolson Pub., 1968.