Bible Timeline

Credit to “Discover Israel” by Dr. Bob C. Ross

(Old Testament from “The New Chronology” by David Rohl)

1877 BC Abraham arrived in land of Canaan

1527 BC Moses born

1447 BC Exodus began

1410 BC Joshua entered Promised Land

1030 BC Saul crowned King

1010 BC King David ruled from Hebron for seven years

1004 BC Jerusalem became David’s capital for 33 years

970 BC Solomon began his reign

966 BC Solomon began construction of the Temple

931 BC Israel’s Kingdom is divided between Judah and Israel

722 BC Assyrians captured Samaria and most of Israel into captivity, beginning the dispersion of Israel’s 10 lost tribes
612 BC Babylon conquered the Assyrians and Ninevah

586 BC Nebuchadnezzar destroyed Jerusalem and Solomon’s Temple, most of Judea taken captive to Babylon

538 BC Cyrus permitted the Jews to return to Jerusalem under Ezra and Nehemiah

512 BC The Second Temple and Jerusalem’s walls were rebuilt

63 BC Pompey conquered Israel for the Roman Empire

4 BC Mid Sept Jesus born

26 AD Fall Jesus was baptized

29 AD Spring Jesus crucified

29 AD Pentecost

36 AD Saul met Jesus

36 AD Peter’s roof top vision

36 AD Paul’s first missionary journey

50 AD Jerusalem Conference, Gentil converts

49-56 AD Second Missionary Journey

64 AD Paul arrested put to death outside Rome

70 AD Temple destroyed

73 AD Masada

96 AD John wrote Revelation

325 AD Constantine converted to Christianity, religion of the Empire, Eastern Roman Empire

570 AD Muhammad born in Mecca

632 AD Muhammad died

636 AD Jerusalem taken by Persians

691 AD Dome of the Rock

1878 AD first Jewish agricultural village after Israel’s return

1911 AD First Jewish kibbutz near Sea of Galilee

1917 AD British took control of Palestine

1939 AD Holocaust

1948 May 14, Nation of Israel born

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