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Timeline - History of Israelc. 1700 BC Abraham moved to the land of Canaan
c. 1650 BC Jews moved to Egypt
c. 1250 BC Moses led the Jews from Egypt
c. 1012 BC Saul unified the 12 Hebrew tribes into the united kingdom of Israel
1004-965 BC David's reign
964-926 BC Solomon's reign and climax of the Kingdom of Israel
950 BC the First Temple was built by King Solomon
926 BC unified Kingdom of Israel was divided in to Kingdom of Judah, the southern
Kingdom and Kingdom of Israel on north
722 BC the Assyrians conquered the Kingdom of Israel
587-539 BC the Babylonian captivity
c. 515 BC the Second Temple was built
167-163 BC Maccabee revolt against forced Hellenization
140-63 BC The Hasmonean Kingdom
63 BC Jerusalem was conquered by Roman general Pompeius Magnus (Pompey the Great)
37 BC Herod the Great became the King of the Jews, appointed by the Roman Senate;
Judaea became a client kingdom of the Roman Empire
4 BC after Herold's death, Kingdom of Judaea was divided among his three sons: Archelaus,
Herod Antipas, and Herod Philip
6 AD Kingdom of Judaea became a province of the Roman Empire, called Iudaea
66-73 AD The Great Revolt or the first Jewish-Roman War was the revolt of the Jews of Judaea
Province against the Roman Empire
70 AD The Second Temple was destroyed by Titus
73 AD The fall of Masada
132-135 AD Bar Kokhba’s revolt against the Roman Empire or The Second Jewish-Roman War broke
out, after the Roman Emperor Hadrian planed to rebuild Jerusalem as a pagan city and built
the temple dedicated to Jupiter, on the ruins of the Second Temple
135 AD Jews were forbidden entering Jerusalem and driven into exile
638 AD Jerusalem was conquered by Caliph Omar
1099 AD Jerusalem was conquered by the Crusaders after a four-week long siege. Thousands of
Jews were killed throughout Europe and in the Middle East
1290 AD Jews were expelled from England, 1394 AD from France, 1492 AD from Spain, 1493 AD
from Sicily, 1496 AD from Portugal and from many German cities. Jews were falsely accused of
blood libel (drinking of the blood of the Christian children) and of torturing consecrated host
wafers in a reenactment of the Crucifixion. The real cause for persecution of the Jews
probably laid in their financial influence
1881 AD the first big wave of modern immigration to Israel
1894 AD Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), in which he called for
the establishment of a national Jewish state
1897 AD the first World Zionist Congress in Basel, Switzerland, was organized by
Theodor Herzl. In the Congress took part Jewish delegations from all around the world.
1917 AD British Foreign Minister Lord Balfour issue on November 2, 1917, so-called Balfour
Declaration, which gave official support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national
home for the Jewish people", with the commitment not to prejudicing the rights of the
non-Jewish communities
1933 AD beginning of persecution of the Jews in the Nazi Germany
1935 AD The Nuremberg Race Laws (The Law for the Protection of German Blood and German Honor,
and The Reich Citizenship Law) passed on September 15, 1939 AD, prohibited marriages and
extra-marital intercourse between Jews and other Germans, and took away Jewish of basic
citizens rights
1938 AD the Night of Broken Glass (Kristallnacht); approximately 100 Jews were murdered and
another 30,000 sent to concentration camps, while many synagogues and other Jewish property
throughout Germany were burned or destroyed
1938-1945 AD the Holocaust; approximately 6 million Jews were murdered by Nazi Germany and
its collaborators throughout Europe
1947 AD The United Nations approved the partition Palestine into separate Jewish and Arab
states on November 29, 1947 AD
1948 AD on the day, when the British Mandate in Palestine expired, the State of Israel was
proclaimed on May 14, 1948 AD, by the Jewish National Council under presidency of David Ben
Gurion
1948-1949 AD the Arab-Israeli War; the Arabs refused to accept the newly established
State of Israel. Egypt, Syria, Transjordan, Lebanon, and Iraq attacked Israel, but within a
year Israel defeated it's attackers.
1950 AD western Jerusalem was proclaimed the capital city of Israel on January 23, 1950 AD
1956 AD the Suez Crisis; Israelis invaded Egypt territory in October 1956 AD, after Egyptian
President Gamal Abdel Nasser nationalized the company which administrated the Suez Canal.
Followed by a joint attack by the French and British, Egypt suffered military disaster in
November 2, 1956 AD. Israel captured Sinai Peninsula but after international condemnation,
Israel was forced to withdraw
1967 AD the Six Day War; after Egypt closed the Straits of Tiran in May 22, 1967 AD, Israel
launched attack on Egyptian, Jordanian, Syrian, and Iraqui airports in June 5, 1967 AD.
After six days Israel conquered Jerusalem, Golan Heights, Sinai, and West Bank.
1973 AD the Yom Kippur War; on October 6, 1973 AD, on the Jewish holiday of Yom Kippur,
Syria and Egypt launched a surprise attack against Israel. After initial success of the
attackers, Israel managed to cross the Suez into Egypt and endangered Cairo. After the
intervention of USA and SSSR, military operations ended on October 25, 1973 AD.
1978 AD The Camp David Accord was signed by Israeli Prime Minister Menahen Begin and
Egyptian President Anvar as Sadat in September 1978 AD, in Camp David, USA. Israel
agreed to withdraw from the occupied Sinai Peninsula.
1979 AD The Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty was signed on March 26, 1979 AD, in Washington
1982 AD The Lebanon War; Israel invaded Southern Lebanon to push PLO 40-km from Israeli frontiers
1987-1990 AD the First Intifada against Israel; the Palestinian uprising led to a series of
violent incidents between Palestinians and Israelis
1991 AD The Madrid Peace Conference was opened on October 30, 1991 AD, to start a peace
process in the Middle East. The Conference ended on November 3, 1991 AD, and the delegates
of Israel, Syria, Lebanon, and the Jordan-Palestinian delegation left without any concrete
progress, but the Madrid Peace Conference initiated to further bilateral negotiations
between Israel and it's Arabic neighbours.
1993 AD Israeli Prime Minister, Yitzhak Rabin, and the PLO chairman, Yasser Arafat, signed
the Oslo Accords on September 13, 1993 AD, in Washington. The Accords granted the
Palestinians right to self-government on the Gaza Strip and the city of Jericho in the
West Bank.
1994 AD Israel and Jordan signed an official peace treaty on October 26, 1994 AD
1995 AD Israeli Prime Minister and Nobel Peace Prize winner Yitschak Rabin was assassinated
on November 4, 1995 AD, by a right-wing Jewish radical
2000 AD The al-Aqsa Intifada or the Second Intifada, a new wave of violence between
Palestinians and Israelis began on September, 2000 AD
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