Dates to know over 4000 years

1440 BCE Moses

995 David Jerusalem

937 Solomon dies. Nation splits

722 Assyrians destroy 10 tribes Israel

586 Babylonia destroys Temple, takes Jews to Babylonia Nevuchadnazer

538 Persia conquers. King Cyrus Lets Jews go back and rebuild Temple.

460 Persia/Purim Achashverosh.

444 Unified, canonized Torah was available to Ezra for the public reading which took place in approximately

Prophets were canonized late in the Persian period, probably by the start of the fourth century

333 Greeks take over. Alexander dies 323. Empire splits.

318 the Emperor Constantine issued the Edict of Milan, which accepted Christianity: 10 years later, it had become the official religion of the Roman Empire.

Collection of Ketuvim/Writings existed as early as the second century B.C.E. but was not regarded as formally closed. There is no scholarly consensus as to when the Hebrew Bible canon was fixed

165 Chanukah. Maccabees defeat Syrian Greeks Antiochus

63 BCE Pompey Rome takes over 63 BCE

70 CE Jews rebel. Temple destroyed.  Tens thousands killed. 100,000 Jewish slaves, Masada

90 First seder

132 Bar Kochba revolt. 1000 Jewish villages destroyed.

220 Mishnah written

500 Babylonian Talmud finished

1000 Jews invited by Polish kings into Eastern Europe /Rashi era

1099 Crusades

1135 Rambam Maimonides

1492 Expulsion Spain

1789 France equality. Jews get it 1791.

Pogroms 1820-1910/Russian revolution 1917. 2.2 million E. European Jews come to USA between 1880 and 1920

1897 First Zionist Congress Herzl

1945 Holocaust ends

1947 UN votes to admit Israel /Israel established 1948. Truman agrees and calls self “King Cyrus”

1967 Jerusalem reunited

2016 Obama’s UN abstention branding much of Jerusalem “illegally occupied territory” declared most anti-Semitic Act in the world  by Wiesenthal institute for Nazi Hunting.

2018 Trump declares Jerusalem capital of Israel in eyes of USA for first time