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701 BC King Hezekiah of Judah
, backed by Egypt
, revolts against king Sennacherib
of Assyria
. Sennacherib
sacks many Palestinian cities, but fails in his attempt to take Jerusalem.
607 BC Death of Zhou Kuang Wang, King of the Zhou Dynasty of China
. Jerusalem's destruction according to some interpretations. Historians commonly believe the fall to be 587/586 BC.
600 BC (LDS) Lehi leads his family and some friends on pilgrimage from Jerusalem to the Americas
.
597 BC Babylonia
ns capture Jerusalem, replace Jehoiachin with Zedekiah as king.
588 BC Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon begins siege of Jerusalem; the opera
''Nabucco'' sets the date at 587 BCE.
587 BC Jerusalem falls to the Babylonia
ns, ending the Kingdom of Judah
. The conquerors destroy the Jewish
Temple of Jerusalem and exile the land's remaining inhabitants.
587 BC Jerusalem falls to the Babylonia
ns, ending the Kingdom of Judah
. The conquerors destroy the Jewish
Temple of Jerusalem and exile the land's remaining inhabitants.
537 BC Jew
s transported to Babylon
are allowed to return to Jerusalem, bringing to a close the Babylonian captivity; They had been exiled 70 years before hand, according to the prophecy of the Biblical Prophet Jeremiah (Jeremiah 25: 8-12)
165 BC Judas Maccabaeus defeats the Seleucid rulers of Judea
in the Battle of Beth Zur, leading to the recapture of Jerusalem.
18 Caiaphas becomes the high priest of Jerusalem.
33 Triumphal Entry of Jesus into Jerusalem - Sunday, March 29 (Palm Sunday)
52 Ananias, a high priest in Jerusalem, is sent to Rome
after being accused of violen
66 Jewish revolt against the Roman Empire
. The Zealots take Jerusalem and the Sicarii capture the fortress of Masada
.
69 First Jewish-Roman War
- Vespasian lays siege to Jerusalem, which was captured by Titus Flavius Sabinus Vespasianus
after Vespasian became Emperor.
70 Titus
and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem.
70 Roman
general
and future Roman Emperor
, Titus
, destroys the Jewish
Temple in Jerusalem
, leaving erect only the famous Western Wall. Rome
stations troops in Jerusalem and abolishes the Jewish high priesthood and Sanhedrin
. This becomes known as the Fall of Jerusalem, a conclusive event in the First Jewish-Roman War
. Following this event, the Jewish religious leadership moves from Jerusalem to Jamnia (present day Yavne), and the destruction is mourned annually as the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av.
70 Roman
general
and future Roman Emperor
, Titus
, destroys the Jewish
Temple in Jerusalem
, leaving erect only the famous Western Wall. Rome
stations troops in Jerusalem and abolishes the Jewish high priesthood and Sanhedrin
. This becomes known as the Fall of Jerusalem, a conclusive event in the First Jewish-Roman War
. Following this event, the Jewish religious leadership moves from Jerusalem to Jamnia (present day Yavne), and the destruction is mourned annually as the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av.
131 Emperor Hadrian
builds the city Aelia Capitolina on the location of Jerusalem
134 The Romans retake Jerusalem. The largely destroyed city is renamed Aelia Capitolina.
451 Jerusalem becomes a Patriarchate.
614 The Persian Empire
under general Shahrbaraz captures and sacks Jerusalem; the Church of the Holy Sepulchre
is damaged by fire and the True Cross
is captured.
629 Jerusalem reconquered by Byzantine Empire
from the Persian Empire
(September).
630 Byzantine Emperor Heraclius
recaptures Jerusalem from the Persians.
637 Arabs take Jerusalem
1020 Hospice built in Jerusalem by Knights Hospitaller
1058 Aldred
becomes the first English
bishop
to make a pilgrimage
to Jerusalem.
1099 15,000 starving Christian
soldiers march around Jerusalem.
1099 Christian
soldiers under Godfrey of Bouillon, Robert II of Flanders, Raymond IV of Toulouse
and Tancred
take Jerusalem after a difficult siege, killing nearly every inhabitant.
1186 Guy of Lusignan
becomes King of Jerusalem.
1187 October 2 - Siege of Jerusalem - Saladin
captures Jerusalem.
1190 Third Crusade
: Frederick I Barbarossa
drowned in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
1192 The Third Crusade
ends in disaster. Richard I of England
and Saladin
negotiate visiting rights for pilgrims to come to the Holy City of Jerusalem.
1229 The Sixth Crusade
: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor
signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem
with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.
1247 Egypt
takes control of Jerusalem from the Kharezmians.
1275 Nestorian monk Rabban Bar Sauma begin his pilgrimage
from China
towards Jerusalem
1314 The Mappa Mundi (Map of the World) is made. It showed Jerusalem at the centre, as decreed in the Bible
.
1541 Ottoman Sultan Suleiman the Magnificent
seals off The Golden Gate in Jerusalem.
1887 The New Gate is built in Jerusalem
1917 British troops take Jerusalem from the troops of the Ottoman Empire
1946 Irgun bomb explodes in Jerusalem.
1946 King David Hotel bombing: Irgun bombs King David Hotel in Jerusalem, headquarters of the British civil and military administration killing 90.
1946 Eight British
servicemen
are killed in Jerusalem by Jew
ish terrorists.
1948 Nationalisation of UK
railways to form British Rail
ways. Arab militants lay siege to the Jewish Quarter of the Old City of Jerusalem. First day of the Italian republican constitution, first day of the New Jersey State Constitution.
1950 The Knesset
passes a resolution that states Jerusalem is the capital of Israel
.
1951 King Abdullah I of Jordan
is assassinated while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.
1961 Ham, a 37 pound male chimpanzee, is rocketed into space aboard Mercury-Redstone 2, in a test of the Project Mercury capsule, designed to carry U.S.
astronaut
s into spa
on trial for crimes against humanity in a court in Jerusalem, Israel
.]]
1961 The trial of Adolf Eichmann
begins in Jerusalem.
1967 Israel
declares the annexation of East Jerusalem.
1967 Israel
annexes East Jerusalem.
1967 A general strike in the old quarter of Jerusalem protests Israel
's unification of the city.
1969 25 An Islamic conference in Rabat, Morocco, following the al-Aqsa Mosque fire (August 21), condemns the Israeli occupation of Jerusalem.
1977 Egypt
ian President Anwar Sadat
becomes the first Arab
leader to officially visit Israel
, when he meets with Israeli Prime Minister Menachem Begin
and speaks before the Knesset
in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement (much of the Arab world is outraged by the visit).
1990 Israeli-Palestinian Conflict
: In Jerusalem, Israel
i police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock
mosque on the Temple Mount.
1998 Ibrahim Hanna, the last native speaker of Mlahsö, dies in Qamishli, Syria
, making the language effectively extinct. In that same year, the last native speaker of related Bijil Neo-Aramaic dies in Jerusalem.
2004 Over 100,000 opponents to Israel's unilateral disengagement plan of 2004 participate in a human chain from Gush Katif, to the Western Wall, Jerusalem (90 kilometers).
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