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Jerusalem Time Line

First temple

BCE

Iron age

1200 – 586 BCE

1000 BCE

1040-970

King David rule Israel from Hebron 7 years, then conquers Jerusalem from the Jebusite and make it the new capital. Rule another 33 years to total of 40 years

970-931

King Solomon build the first temple from Lebanon Cedar

931-911

Rehoboam and Jeroboam split the Kingdom to Israel & Judea

733

Tiglath Pileser III   king of Assyria ruin Israel

586

Nebuchadrezzar II the ruler of Babylon ruin the first temple and take the Jews to Babylonian Exile

Persion period

Second Temple

515 BCE - 70AD

Hellenistic period (4th - 1st century)

Roman period

63bce – 324 ad

538

Cyrus the Great gave to the world Cyrus cylinder which permit the Jewish exiles to return from Babylon

515

After The Return to Zion the returnees Zerubbabel Ezra Nehemiah build The Second Temple

332

Alexander the Great conquers Judea without fight

164

Judas Maccabeus purify the temple and since then Jews celbreate the 8 days holiday Hanukkah also known as the Festival of Lights, commemorating the rededication of the temple

63

After the death of Queen Salome_Alexandra
civil war between Hyrcanus II against his relative Aristobulus II give Judea to Pompeius Magnus

40-37

Antigonus the Hasmonean led, along with Barzapharnes, and Parthian invasion of Judea, seized Jerusalem, and sent his uncle Hyrcanus II to Babylon in chains

37-4

Herod the Great known for his colossal building projects in Jerusalem and Judea , including the rebuilding of the Second Temple

0 -30

Jesus was born in Bethlehem and crucified in Jerusalem

44

Agrippa I the last Jewish King build the third wall

66-73

The Great Revolt   Jewish – Roman war

70

Titus destroy the Second Temple

132-135

The Second Revolt led by Simon bar Kokhba

135

Publius Aelius Traianus Hadrianus ruin Jerusalem and all Judea. rebuild and rename Jerusalem to Aelia Capitolina and rename Province Judea to Province Syria Palaestina which later on remain Palestina

324 ad - 638ad

Byzantine period

325

Constantinus sent is mother Queen Helen to Build

The Holly sepulcher and Jerusalem become Christian

614-628

Jerusalem is conquered by the Persian

628-638

Byzantine took over again

First Muslim period

638

Umar ibn al-Khattāb conquers Jerusalem from the Byzantine

660-750

The Umayyad dynasty

691

Abd al-Malik finish construction the Dome of the Rock

750-1073

Abbasid and Fatimid

1073

Seljuk conquers Jerusalem from the Muslims

Crusader period

1099-1187

(1291 Acre)

The Kingdom of Jerusalem was a Christian kingdom established in the Levant in 1099 after the First Crusade. It lasted less than two hundred years, until 1291 when the last remaining outpost, Acre, was destroyed by the Mamluks.

Second Muslim period

1187-1250

Saladin, Sultan of Egypt and Syria, Iraq Ayyubid dynasty,

1250-1517

Mameluk, was a slave soldier who converted to Islam and served the Muslim caliphs and the Ayyubid. Baibars in 1291 finish the Crusaders

1517-1917

The Ottoman / Turkish Empire in Jerusalem 8000-1000 people

British period

1917-1948

General Allenby enter Jerusalem on 11 Decenber 1917 and the british leave the aria only after the UN resulation from 29 November 1947

Jordanian

1948-1967

Hashemite King Abdalah and his grandson King Hussein ruler of Jerusalem

Israel

1967

In the Six-Day War the Third Arab-Israeli War on 7^th June Old Jerusalem and east part of Jerusalem became Israeli territory after almost 2000 years