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Historic timeline
1811 BC
1811 BC
Abraham's monotheistic revolution.
1300 BC-1200 BC
1300 BC-1200 BC
The Exodus led by Moses, leading to the settlement of the Israelites in Canaan.
1047 BC - 930 BC
1047 BC - 930 BC
The establishment of the Kingdom of Israel under King Saul, followed by King David and King Solomon, who built the First Temple in Jerusalem.
930 BC
930 BC
- The kingdom splits into Israel (Northern Kingdom) and Judah (Southern Kingdom).
930 BC - 722 BC
930 BC - 722 BC
Kingdom of Israel
930 BC - 586 BC
930 BC - 586 BC
Kingdom of Judah
538 BC - 136 BC
538 BC - 136 BC
Cyrus the Great of Persia allows Jews to return to Jerusalem and rebuild the Temple (Second Temple period begins).
586 BC - 332 BC
586 BC - 332 BC
Persian rule
332 BC - 167 BC
332 BC - 167 BC
Hellenistic period
167 BC - 37 BC
167 BC - 37 BC
Hasmonean Kingdom
37 BC - 324 AD
37 BC - 324 AD
The Roman empire
37 BC - 4 BC
37 BC - 4 BC
Herodian dynasty
0
0
You know, Jesus and stuff...
132 AD - 136 AD
132 AD - 136 AD
The Bar Kokhba revolt is crushed, and Jews are banned from Jerusalem.
135 AD
135 AD
The appereance of the name "Palestine" as Roman punishment for the Bar Kohba revolt (naming the Jewish land in the name of their enemies)
324 AD - 638 AD
324 AD - 638 AD
Byzantine rule.
326 AD - 333 AD
326 AD - 333 AD
Church of the Nativity is built
570 AD
570 AD
Muhammad is born
622 AD
622 AD
The Hijra
624 AD
624 AD
Battle of Badr, a key early victory for the Muslims against the Quraysh of Mecca.
625 AD
625 AD
Battle of Uhud, where the Muslims face defeat but learn important strategic lessons.
627 AD
627 AD
Battle of the Trench (Khandaq), a defensive victory for the Muslims in Medina.
629 AD
629 AD
Khaybar battle
630 AD
630 AD
Muhammad's conquest of Mecca.
632 AD
632 AD
Death of Muhammad
632 AD - 661 AD
632 AD - 661 AD
Rashidun Caliphate
632 AD - 634 AD
632 AD - 634 AD
Caliphate of Abu Bakr, consolidation of Muslim rule in the Arabian Peninsula.
634 AD - 644 AD
634 AD - 644 AD
Caliphate of Umar ibn al-Khattab, expansion into the Byzantine and Sassanian Empires.
636 AD
636 AD
Battle of Yarmouk, Muslims defeat the Byzantines.
638 AD - 1099 AD
638 AD - 1099 AD
The Arab conquest. 1st time a muslim appears in the Holy land.
644 AD - 656 AD
644 AD - 656 AD
Caliphate of Uthman ibn Affan, compilation of the Quran into a single book.
656 AD - 661 AD
656 AD - 661 AD
Caliphate of Ali ibn Abi Talib, first fitna (civil war).
661 AD - 750 AD
661 AD - 750 AD
Umayyad Caliphate, expansion into North Africa and Spain.
680 AD
680 AD
Battle of Karbala, death of Husayn ibn Ali, significant event in Shia Islam.
700 AD - 1250 AD
700 AD - 1250 AD
Period of Gaonim.
711 CE
711 CE
Muslim forces begin the conquest of Spain (Al-Andalus).
732 CE
732 CE
Battle of Tours, Muslim advance into Western Europe is halted.
750 AD - 1258 AD
750 AD - 1258 AD
Abbasid Caliphate replaces the Umayyads, golden age of Islamic culture and science.
762 CE
762 CE
Founding of Baghdad, which becomes a major center of learning and culture.
830 CE
830 CE
Establishment of the House of Wisdom in Baghdad.
846 AD
846 AD
The 1st Sidur is made.
912 AD - 1013 AD
912 AD - 1013 AD
Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain.
969 AD
969 AD
Fatimid Caliphate established in North Africa and Egypt.
1033 AD
1033 AD
Massaccare of Fez.
1066 AD
1066 AD
Massaccare of Grenada.
1099 AD - 1260 AD
1099 AD - 1260 AD
The crusades and the Ayyubids rule.
1099 AD
1099 AD
Crusaders capture Jerusalem during the First Crusade, establishing the Kingdom of Jerusalem.
1187 AD
1187 AD
Saladin recaptures Jerusalem for the Muslims.
1190 AD
1190 AD
Massaccare of York.
1250 AD - 1550 AD
1250 AD - 1550 AD
Rishonim period.
1258 AD
1258 AD
Mongols sack Baghdad, end of the Abbasid Caliphate.
1260 AD - 1517 AD
1260 AD - 1517 AD
The Mamluk's rule.
1299 AD - 1922 AD
1299 AD - 1922 AD
Ottoman Empire, significant expansion and consolidation of Muslim territories.
Founded by Osman I.
Founded by Osman I.
1343 AC
1343 AC
Poland invites expelled Jews to live in Poland.
1346 AC - 1353 AC
1346 AC - 1353 AC
Medievel antisemitism
1348 AC
1348 AC
Quamvis Perfidiam letters
1349 AC
1349 AC
Strassburg Massaccare
1349 AC
1349 AC
Strassburg Massaccare
1478 AC
1478 AC
The Spanish inquisition
1488 AC
1488 AC
Obadia Ben Abraham arrives to Jerusalem
1492 AC
1492 AC
Fall of Granada, end of Muslim rule in Spain .Alhambra decree. Ottoman empire invites expelled Jews
1493 AC
1493 AC
Jews expelled from Sicily.
1496 AC
1496 AC
Jews expelled from Portugal and Germany.
1501 AC - 1736 AC
1501 AC - 1736 AC
Safavid Empire, establishment of Twelver Shia Islam as the state religion in Persia.
1506 AC
1506 AC
Lisbon massacre.
1517 AD - 1917 AD
1517 AD - 1917 AD
The Ottoman empire rule.
1547 AC
1547 AC
1st Jewish printing in Hebrew.
1550 AC
1550 AC
Jews expelled from Genoa.
1550 AC
1550 AC
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero founds a Kabbalah academy in Safed.
1567 AC
1567 AC
1st Yeshiva is founded.
1577 AC
1577 AC
A Hebrew printing press is established in Safed, the first press in Palestine and the first in Asia.
1580 AC - 1764 AC
1580 AC - 1764 AC
First session of the Council of Four Lands (Va'ad Arba' Aratzot) in Lublin, Poland.
1621 AC - 1630 AC
1621 AC - 1630 AC
Shelah HaKadosh writes his most famous work after emigrating to the Land of Israel.
1626 AC - 1676 AC
1626 AC - 1676 AC
False Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.
1627
1627
Kingdom of Beita Israel (now days Ethiopia) collapses.
1627
1627
Kingdom of Beita Israel (now days Ethiopia) collapses.
1648 AD
1648 AD
Jewish population worldwide : 750,000 people, of wich around 450,000 live in Poland.
1648 - 1655
1648 - 1655
Unkrenian Cossack Bohdan Chmielnicki massacres 65000 Jews in Poland.
1660
1660
Destruction of Safed.
1679
1679
Jews expelled from Mawza, Yemen .
1700 AC - 1760 AC
1700 AC - 1760 AC
The "Baal Shem Tov" founds Hasidic Judaism .
1700 AC
1700 AC
Rabbi Judah HeHasid makes aliyah and dies. Also: the 1st Jew knighted in England
1720 AC
1720 AC
Hurva synagogue in Jerusalem is destroyed
1720 AC - 1797 AC
1720 AC - 1797 AC
The Gaon from Vilna
1720 AC - 1797 AC
1720 AC - 1797 AC
The Gaon from Vilna
1770 AC - 1881 AC
1770 AC - 1881 AC
The Haskalah movement
1881 AC
1881 AC
Start of the Jewish emancipation
1729 AC - 1786 AC
1729 AC - 1786 AC
Moses Mendelson and the start of the Haskalah
1729 AC - 1786 AC
1729 AC - 1786 AC
Moses Mendelson and the start of the Haskalah
1740 AC - 1750 AC
1740 AC - 1750 AC
Thousands of Jews make Aliya to Palestine out of religious goals and build new Jewish settelments.
1747 AC
1747 AC
Rabbi Abraham Gershon of Kitov settels in Hebron, making him the first Hasidic leader to do so.
1775 AC - 1781 AC
1775 AC - 1781 AC
The American revoloution. guarantee to freedom of religion.
1772 AC - 1795 AC
1772 AC - 1795 AC
Partition of Poland between 3 countries: Austria, Prussia empire and Russia. most Jews live in those countries.
1775 AC
1775 AC
Mob violence aggainst Jews in Hebron.
1789 AC
1789 AC
French revolution. France allows Jews to become equal citizens under some conditions.
1790 AC
1790 AC
George Washington writes to the Jewish community in Rhode island and says that he envisions a country "which gives bigotry no sanction...persecution no assistance". Theoraticly, Jews are givven full rights in America.
1790 AC
1790 AC
George Washington writes to the Jewish community in Rhode island and says that he envisions a country "which gives bigotry no sanction...persecution no assistance". Theoraticly, Jews are givven full rights in America.
1791 AC
1791 AC
Russia created a Pale of settelments in witch Jews are allowed to live in (mostly- only there).
1798 AC
1798 AC
Rabbia Nachman of Breslov travels to Palestine.
1798 AC - 1801 AC
1798 AC - 1801 AC
Napoleon's campaign in Egypt.
1799 AC
1799 AC
Mob violence in Safed aggaisnt Jews.
1800 AC - 1900 AC
1800 AC - 1900 AC
The Golden Age of Yiddish literature, the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, and the revival of Hebrew literature
1800 AC - 1900 AC
1800 AC - 1900 AC
The Golden Age of Yiddish literature, the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, and the revival of Hebrew literature
1808 AC - 1840 AC
1808 AC - 1840 AC
Large-scale aliyah in hope of Hastening Redemption in anticipation of the arrival of the Messiah
1820 AC - 1860 AC
1820 AC - 1860 AC
Development of Orthodox Judaism
1834 AC - 1835 AC
1834 AC - 1835 AC
Safed Plunder
1837 AC
1837 AC
Moses Haim Montefiore is knighted by Queen Victoria
1838 AC - 1933
1838 AC - 1933
Rabbi Yisroel Meir ha-Kohen (Chofetz Chaim)
Mid 19th century
Mid 19th century
Development of 3 movements: classic reform Judaism, Mussar movement and conserivative Judaism.
Mid 19th century
Mid 19th century
Development of 3 movements: classic reform Judaism, Mussar movement and conserivative Judaism.
1858 AC
1858 AC
Jews emancipated in England.
1858 AC
1858 AC
Jews emancipated in England.
1860 AC - 1875 AC
1860 AC - 1875 AC
Moshe Montefiori builds Jewish neighbourhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem starting with Mishkenot Sha'ananim.
1860 AC - 1943 AC
1860 AC - 1943 AC
Henrietta Szold: educator, author, social worker and founder of Hadassah Women's Zionist Organization of America.
1861 AC
1861 AC
The Zion society is formed in Germany
1862 AC
1862 AC
Moshe Hess publishes the first book to call for a Jewish commowealth in Palestine
1870 AC - 1890 AC
1870 AC - 1890 AC
Russian Zionist group Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) and Bilu (est. 1882) set up a series of Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, financially aided by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. In Rishon LeZion Eliezer ben Yehuda revives Hebrew as spoken modern language.
1870 AC - 1890 AC
1870 AC - 1890 AC
Russian Zionist group Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) and Bilu (est. 1882) set up a series of Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, financially aided by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. In Rishon LeZion Eliezer ben Yehuda revives Hebrew as spoken modern language.
1878 AC
1878 AC
Petah-Tikva is founded.
1880 AC
1880 AC
Worlwide Jewish population: 7.7 million. 3.5 million live in Polish provinces.
1881 AC - 1920 AC
1881 AC - 1920 AC
Three major pogroms in Russia and Ukraine, resulting in tens of thousands dead Jews and 2 million Jews that emmigrate of Palestine
1882 AC - 1903 AC
1882 AC - 1903 AC
The 1st Aliya.
1881 AC
1881 AC
1st Zionist congress held in Romania
1890 AC
1890 AC
Zionism is defiened as a national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.
1895 AC
1895 AC
1st published book by Sigmund Freud
1897 AC
1897 AC
Theodor Herzl writes "Der Judestaat" and the first zionist congress is held in Basel (witch creates the WZO)
1905 AC
1905 AC
The 1st Russian revolution. Many Jews murdered.
1914 AC - 1918 AC
1914 AC - 1918 AC
WW1
1915 AC - 1916 AC
1915 AC - 1916 AC
McMahon-Hussein Correspondence
1916 AC
1916 AC
Arab Revolt against Ottoman rule during World War I.
1916 AC
1916 AC
Sykes-Picot Agreement
1917 AC
1917 AC
The Russian Revolution
November 2nd 1917
November 2nd 1917
Balfour Declaration
Summer 1917 AC
Summer 1917 AC
The British take control of Palestine
1919 AC
1919 AC
6,000 Jews massacred in : Khmelnitsky, Tetiev and Dubova
1920 AC
1920 AC
The San Remo conference starts the British mandate of Palestine. tensions rise after the battle of Tel Hai, resulting in the Jerusalem riots.
1921 AC
1921 AC
Britain proclaims that all of Palestine east of the Jordan River is forever closed to Jewish settlement, but not to Arab settlement.
1923 AC
1923 AC
Britain gives the Golan Heights to the French Mandate of Syria. Arab immigration is allowed; Jewish immigration is not.
The First World Congress of Jewish Women is held 6–11 May in Vienna.
The First World Congress of Jewish Women is held 6–11 May in Vienna.
1924 AC
1924 AC
Abolition of the Ottoman Caliphate by Mustafa Kemal Atatürk, end of the caliphate system.
1929 AC
1929 AC
1929 Palestine riots
1930 AC
1930 AC
Jewish population worldwide comes to 15 milion. 4 milion live in the USA, 3.5 milion in Poland, 2.7 Milion in the USSR, 1 milion in Romania and 175k in Palestine.
1933 AC
1933 AC
Adolf Hitler rises to power in Germany.
1937
1937
The Peel Commission- A British proposal to partition Palestine, which marked an early attempt to resolve the conflict through territorial division
1939 AC
1939 AC
Britian issues the "White paper of 1939", restricting Jews immigration to Palestine and land ownership in there.
1939 AC - 1945 AC
1939 AC - 1945 AC
The holocaust
1941 AC
1941 AC
al- Farhud
1945 AC
1945 AC
Founding of the Arab League.
1945 AC - 1948 AC
1945 AC - 1948 AC
Jewish refugee crisis. Britian detains Jewish iligal immigrants to Palestine. Simoltansly - it puts Jewish refugees in consentration camps in Europe.
1946 AC - 1948 AC
1946 AC - 1948 AC
Violent struggle intesified by Jewish groups : Haganah, Irgun, Lehi
November 29, 1947
November 29, 1947
The UN aprroves the "Partition plan for Palestine"
May 14, 1948
May 14, 1948
Daviv Ben-Gurion declares Israel as an Independed state
May 15, 1948
May 15, 1948
5 Arab countries attack the new state of Israel. resulting in a exodus of 1 million Jews from Arab states, and the displacement of 750,000 Palastinians and death of 15,000 palastinians (The Nakba). Israel conquered more land in the arms tready.
1949
1949
Armistice Agreements- Ceasefire agreements between Israel and neighboring Arab states that defined the boundaries of Israel until the 1967 Six-Day War.
1920-1948
1920-1948
British Mandate for Palestine, during which Jewish immigration and Arab opposition grow.
1950s-1960s
1950s-1960s
Palestinian refugee crisis; rise of Palestinian national identity.
1952 AC
1952 AC
Egyptian Revolution, rise of Gamal Abdel Nasser.
1956 AC
1956 AC
Suez Crisis: Israel, Britain, and France intervene in response to nationalization of Suez Canal by Egypt.
1964 AC
1964 AC
Yasser Arafat strats the PLO.
1967
1967
Six-Day War results in Israeli control of the West Bank, Gaza Strip, Sinai Peninsula, and Golan Heights.
November 22 nd 1967
November 22 nd 1967
UN resoloution 242
1970s-1980s
1970s-1980s
PLO gains international recognition; Palestinian resistance and terrorism. The PLO mostly carries out terrorist attacks against Jews everywhere.
1972 CE
1972 CE
The Munich massacre.
1973
1973
Yom Kippur War- A major conflict between Israel and a coalition of Arab states, which had significant political and territorial implications. + start of the "2 state" soloution by the GB and UN. Hamimi comes to London.
1974 CE
1974 CE
A soloution plan proposed by Aharon Yariv and Viktor Shem-Tov. They called the Israeli government to reconize the PLO and to negotiate with it. Israel's PM, Yitzhak Rabin, rejects the offer and says: "In Israel's quest for peace, it gives first priority to arrangements between Arab states and Israel, primarily with Egypt, and because the Palestinian issue is not Israel's central problem, its solution should be found within the framework of an arrangement between Israel and Jordan."
1978
1978
Egypt and Israel sign the Camp David Accords, leading to a peace treaty
1979 CE
1979 CE
Iranian Revolution, establishment of the Islamic Republic of Iran.
1981 CE
1981 CE
Establishment of PIJ (Palestinian islamic jihad)
1987 CE
1987 CE
1.) Establishment of Hamas.
2.) "London agreement"
3.) Peres and King Hussein talk about the "Jordanian opption".
4.) The Amirav-Husseini plan. The paln was rejected by Yitzhak Shamir, Israel's PM, and Amirav was imprisoned by him.
2.) "London agreement"
3.) Peres and King Hussein talk about the "Jordanian opption".
4.) The Amirav-Husseini plan. The paln was rejected by Yitzhak Shamir, Israel's PM, and Amirav was imprisoned by him.
1987 CE - 1993 CE
1987 CE - 1993 CE
First Intifada
1988 CE
1988 CE
Yasser Arafat declares a Palestinian state
1990
1990
Gulf War following Iraq's invasion of Kuwait.
1991
1991
Madrid Conference- A peace conference co-sponsored by the US and the USSR, which started the direct negotiations between Israel and its Arab neighbors.
1993-1995
1993-1995
1.Oslo Accords between Israel and the PLO aim to achieve a peace process. Creation of the PA. In respons, Hamas carries out several deadly terrorist attack against Israeli civilians.
2.Israel signs a peace treaty with Jordan.
3.Yitzhak Rabbin assasination.
2.Israel signs a peace treaty with Jordan.
3.Yitzhak Rabbin assasination.
1996 CE
1996 CE
Benjamin Netanyahu elected as PM. Signs 2 agreements: 1997s "Hebron" agreement and 1998s Y agreement.
1996 CE
1996 CE
Benjamin Netanyahu elected as PM. Signs 2 agreements: 1997s "Hebron" agreement and 1998s Y agreement.
2000 CE - 2005 CE
2000 CE - 2005 CE
1.The second Camp David summit. Peace talks collapse over Palestinian statehood and Jerusalem. Israel offers to the PA 95% of the west bank and Gaza (including east Jerusalem) and a total withdrawl from the West Bank. The PA rejects the offer.
2.The 2nd Intifada
3.9\11 Attack. leading to global fight aggainst terrorism.
4.Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
2.The 2nd Intifada
3.9\11 Attack. leading to global fight aggainst terrorism.
4.Israel withdraws from the Gaza Strip
2006
2006
Second Lebanon War- A conflict between Israel and Hezbollah in Lebanon, influencing regional dynamics and Israeli-Palestinian relations.
2007 CE
2007 CE
Hamas-Fatah conflict; Hamas Takes control of Gaza by force, Fatah controls West Bank.
2011 AC
2011 AC
Arab Spring, uprisings across the Arab world.
2012
2012
United Nations General Assembly grants Palestine non-member observer state status.
2018
2018
US Embassy Move to Jerusalem- The controversial relocation of the US embassy from Tel Aviv to Jerusalem, recognized by the US as Israel's capita
2019
2019
Protests in Sudan, Algeria, Lebanon, and Iraq.
2020
2020
Abraham Accords lead to normalization of relations between Israel and several Arab states.
2021
2021
Renewed conflict in Gaza leads to significant casualties and international concern
2023
2023
Ongoing tensions and intermittent violence between Israelis and Palestinians, alongside international efforts to mediate peace.
