Creation Undated |

Noah builds the ark Undated |

Abraham Born 2166 |

Abraham enters Canaan 2091 |

Isaac born 2066 |

Jacob & Esau born 2006 |

Jacob flees to Haran 1929 |

Joseph born 1915 |

Joseph sold into slavery 1898     |

Joseph rules Egypt 1885 |

Joseph dies 1805 |

Moses born 1526                 |

The exodus from Egypt 1446                 |

Ten Commandments given 1445 |

Hebrews enter Canaan 1406 |

Judges begin to rule Israel 1375 |

Deborah becomes Israel's judge 1209            |

Gideon becomes Israel's judge 1162            |

Samuel born 1105 |

Samson becomes Israel's judge 1075 |

Saul becomes Israel's first king 1050 |

David becomes Israel's king 1010 |

Solomon becomes Israel's king 970 |

Temple in Jerusalem completed 959 |

Kingdom of Israel divides 930 |

Elijah prophesies in Israel 875                  |

Ahab becomes Israel's King 874 |

Elisha prophesies in Israel 848 |

Joash becomes Judah's King 835 |

Jonah becomes a prophet 793 |

Hosea becomes a prophet 753 |

Israel invaded by Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria 743       |

Isaiah becomes a prophet 740 |

Israel (northern kingdom) falls 722 |

Hezekiah becomes Judah's king 715 |

Jerusalem besieged by Sennacherib of Assyria 701 |

Josiah becomes Judah's king 640 |

Jeremiah becomes a prophet 627 |

Assyrian capital of Nineveh destroyed 612 |

Daniel taken captive to Babylon 605 |

Judah (southern kingdom) falls to Babylon 586 |

King Nebuchadnezzar of Babylon dies 562 |

Babylon overthrown by Cyrus of Persia 539             |

First Jewish exiles return to Jerusalem 538 |

New temple completed in Jerusalem 516 |

Esther becomes queen of Persia 479 |

Ezra returns to Jerusalem 458 |

Nehemiah builds Jerusalem wall 445 |

Malachi becomes a prophet 430 |

Aramaic begins to replace Hebrew as Jewish language 390 |

Temple of Jerusalem plundered by Antiochus IV 169                         |

Judas Maccabeus begins a revolt against Antiochus IV 165 |

Herod the Great made king of Judea by the Romans 37 |

Mary, Jesus' mother, born 25? |

Herod the Great begins remodeling temple in Jerusalem 20 |

Jesus Christ born 6/5 |

Herod the Great dies 4 BC. |

Paul born 5?AD. |

Judea becomes a Roman province; Jesus visits temple as a boy 6 |

John the Baptist begins his ministry; Pontius Pilate appointed governor 26                     |

Jesus begins his ministry 26/27 |

Jesus crucified; Jesus ascends into heaven; Pentecost; early church beginnings 30 |

Paul's conversion on Damascus road 35 |

Herod Agrippa appointed king of Judea 40 |

Paul begins first missionary journey 46 |

Paul write Romans; Paul imprisoned in Caesarea 57 |

Paul's voyage to Rome 59           |

Paul writes "prison letters" 60 |

Paul released from prison 62 |

Paul martyred 67? |

Romans destroy Jerusalem 70 |

960 Jews commit mass suicide at Masada while under Roman attack 73 |

Apostle John writes Revelation 95 |

| 2500 BC. Egyptians discover papyrus and ink for writing and build first libraries. Iron objects manufactured in ancient Near East.

| 2400 BC. Egyptians import gold from Africa

| 2331 BC. Semitic chieftain, Sargon, conquers Sumer to become the first "world conqueror"

| 2300 BC. Horses domesticated in Egypt; chickens domesticated in Babylon; bows and arrows used in wars

| 2100 BC. Glass made by the Mesopotamians; ziggurats (like the tower of Babel) built in Mesopotamia; ealiest discovered drug, ethyl alcohol, used to alleviate pain

| 2000 BC. Native Americans immigrate to North America from nothern Asia; stock breeding and irrigation used in China; Stonehenge

| 1900 BC. Egyptians use irrigation system to control floods; spoked wheel invented in the ancient Near East; horses used to pull vehicles

| 1750 BC. Babylonian mathematicians already understand cube and square root; Hammurapi of Babylon provides first of all legal codes

| 1700 BC. Egyptian papyrus document describes medical and surgical procedures

| 1500 BC. Sundials used in Egypt; Mexican Sun Pyramid built

| 1400 BC. First period of Chinese literature; intricate clock used in Egypt

| 1380 BC. Palace of Knossos on island of Crete destroyed by earthquake

| 1358 BC. Egyptian king Tutankhamen dies and is buried inside an immense treasure-laden tomb

| 1250 BC. Silk fabrics manufactured in China

| 1200 BC. Labor strike in Thebes; first Chinese dictionary

|            1183 BC. Destruction of Troy during Trojan War

| 1000 BC. City of Peking built; Greek mythology fully developed; California Indians build wood-reed houses; Chinese mathematics utilizes root multiplication, geometry, proportions, and theory of motion; glazing of bricks and tiles begins in Near East

| 950 BC. Gold vessels and jewelry popular in Northern Europe

| 900 BC. Celts invade Britain; Assyrians invent inflatable skins for soldiers to cross rivers

| 850 BC. Evidence of highly developed metal and stone sculptures in Africa

| 814 BC. Founding of Carthage, a Phoenician trading post

| 800 BC. Development of caste system in India; Babylonian and Chinese astronomers understand planetary movements; spoked wheels used in Europe; Homer writes Illiad and Odyssey; ice skating a popular sport in northern Europe

| 776 BC. First known date of Olympic games

| 753 BC. Traditional date for founding of City of Rome

|             750 BC. Earliest music notation written in ancient Greece; Celts introduce plow to Britain

| 700 BC. False teeth invented in Italy

| 660 BC. Japan established as a nation

| 650 BC. Soldering of iron invented

|             648 BC. Horse racing first held at 33rd Olympic Games

| 600 BC. Temple of Artemis built in Ephesus - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

| 563 BC. Gautama Buddha the founder of Buddhism, born in India

| 560 BC. Aesop writes his fables

| 551 BC./b> Confucius, famous Chinese scholar born

|             550 BC. King Cyrus the Great conquers the Medes and founds the Persian empire; lock & key, water level, and carpenters square invented

| 540 BC. Horseback postal service in Persian empire

| 534 BC. Tragedy emerges as a form of Greek drama

| 525 BC. Polo a sport among Persians

| 520 BC. Public libraries open in Athens, Greece

| 509 BC. Rome becomes a republic

| 500 BC. Glass first inported into China from Near East; Indian surgeon Susrata performs cataract operation; origin of Halloween, a Celtic festival

| 490 BC. First time Greek men choose short haircuts

| 469 BC. Socrates, philosopher of the ancient world, born

| 460 BC. Birth of Democritus, who introduced an atomic theory by arguing that all bodies are made of indivisible and unchangeable atoms

| 457 BC. Golden Age in Athens Greece begins

| 448 BC. The Parthenon build on top of Athens' Acropolis

| 438 BC. Greek sculptor Phidias makes a 60-foot statue of Zeus - one of the seven wonders of the ancient world

| 430 BC. Romans agree to concept of a dictator in times of military emergency

| 399 BC. Socrates condemned to death by Athenian jury

| 384 BC. Aristotle born

| 370 BC. Plato writes his most famous book, The Republic

| 330 BC. Alexander the Great defeats the Persian empire

| 312 BC. Romans build first paved road, the "Appian Way"

| 255 BC. Hebrew Old Testament translated into Greek and called the "Septuagint"

| 241 BC. Romans conquer Sicily and add their first non-italian terriroty to the Roman empire

| 215 BC. Great Wall of China built

| 139 BC. Jews and astrologers banished from Rome

| 102 BC. First Chinese ships reach east coast of India; ball bearings used in Danish cart wheels

|                 100 BC. Julius Caesar, first emperor of Rome, born

| 55 BC. Romans conquer England and make it part of Roman empire until A.D. 442

| 51 BC. Cleopatra becomes last independant Egyptian ruler of the ancient world

| 46 BC. Julius Caesar became dictator for life, then was assassinated two years later

| 30 BC. Cleopatra and her lover, Marc Anthony, both die by suicide

| 23 BC. Sumo wrestling in Japan

| A.D. 1 Saddles first used in Europe

| 7 Zealots in Judea rebel against Rome

| 14 Tiberius succeeds Caesar Augustus as Roman emperor

| 43 London founded; first definite reference to diamonds

| 50 Romans begin using soap

|                 54 Emperor Claudius poisoned by order of his wife; Nero becomes emperor

| 64 Fire burns much of Rome. Nero blames Christians for setting it

|     66 Painting on canvas

|     68 Romans destroy a Jewish religious commune at Qumran. Before the Qumran community was captured, they hid their library of Bible manuscripts in a cave by the Dead Sea (discovered in 1948).

| 74 China opens silk trade with the west

|             75 Rome begins construction of famous Colosseum

|                         79 Mount Vesuvius in Italy erupts killing 30,000 people and burying cities of pompeii and Herculaneum