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• 2000-1750 B.C.E.
  Middle Kingdom Period (Eygpt)

• 2000-1700 B.C.E.
  Old Babylonian Period

• 1850/1750/1700 B.C.E.
  Abraham & Sarah, Isaak & Ishmael

• 1250-1200 B.C.E.
  Exodus from Egypt, Sinai Torah, Canaan Entry

• 1150-900 B.C.E.
  Middle Babylonia Period

• 1050-450 B.C.E.
  Hebrew Prophets (Samuel-Malachi):

• 1030-1010 B.C.E.
  King Saul

• 1010-970 B.C.E.
  David makes Jerusalem his Capital

• 970-931 B.C.E.
  Solomon and the Building of the Temple.

• 750-725 B.C.E.
  Israelite Prophets Amos, Hosea, Isaiah

• 620 B.C.E.
  Josiah (Judean King and “Deuteronomic Reforms”

• 600-580 B.C.E.
  Judean Prophets Jeremiah and Ezekiel

• 586-587 B.C.E.
  Southern Kingdom (Judah) and Temple destroyed – Babylonian exile

• 550 B.C.E.
  “Second Isaiah” Judean Prophet

• 520-515 B.C.E.
  Second Temple rebuilt in Jerusalem

• ca 450 B.C.E.
  Torah (Pentateuch – First division of the Jewish Scriptures) begins to gain recognition as Scriptures.

• ca 200 B.C.E.
  Prophets (second division of the Jewish Scriptures) is recognized by some.

• 168/7 -63 B.C.E.
  Jewish Maccabean revolt and Hasmonean rule

• 5-4 B.C.E.
  Jesus Christ is born

• 70 C.E.
  Destruction of Jerusalem and the second temple

• 90-150 C.E.
  Writings (third and last division of the Jewish Scriptures) is discussed and accepted as sacred scripture)

• ca 400 C.E.
  Jewish Palestinian Talmud is Edited.

• Ca 400-600 C.E.
  Babylonian Talmud is Edited.

• 570-632 C.E.
  Muhammad the Prophet of Islam.

• 638 C.E.
  Jews permitted to return to Jerusalem under Islam

• Ca 1200 C.E.
  The Zohar (a Jewish kabalistic book) is written

• 1290-1291 C.E.
  Expulsion of Jews from England

• 1306-1384 C.E.
  Expulsion of Jews from France

• 1492, 1496 C.E.
  Expulsion of Jews from Spain and Portugal by the Christians.

• 1516, 1555 C.E.
  Jewish Ghettos instituted in Venice and Rome, Italy

• 1567/1571 C.E.
  Publication of the Shulhan Aruk (code of Jewish law by Joseph Caro)

• 1654 C.E.
  Arrival of Jews in America

• 1655 C.E.
  Jews readmitted to England by Oliver Cromwell.

• 1670 C.E.
  Jews expelled from Vienna

• 1700-1760 C.E.
  Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Jewish Hasidism

• 1712 C.E.
  First public Jewish synagogue in Berlin

• ca 1850 C.E.
  Rise of the Jewish reform movement in Europe.

• 1870 C.E.
  Ghettos abolished in Italy

• ca 1881 C.E.
  Beginning of mass migration of Easter European Jews.

• ca 1900-1910 C.E.
  Founding of the Modern Jewish Orthodox movement

• 1909 C.E.
  Founding of Tel Aviv as Hebrew speaking Jewish City

• 1917 C.E.
  Balfour Declaration favours Jewish Palestinian state.

• 1933 C.E.
  Adolf Hitler becomes Chancellor of Germany

• 1935 C.E.
  Jewish rights in Germany are rescinded by Nuremberg laws

• 1937 C.E.
  Reform Jewish Columbus Platform (Zionism)

• 1939-1945 C.E.
  Nazi German Holocaust against Jews

• 1948 C.E.
  Declaration of independence of the State of Israel.

• Ca.1960 C.E.
  Founding of the Jewish Reconstructionist Movement

• 1967 C.E.
  “Six Days War”

• 1973 C.E.
  “Yom Kippur War” in Israel

• 1972 C.E.
  Ordination of the first (Reform) Jewish woman Rabbi

• 1984/1985 C.E.
  Ordination of the first Conservative Jewish woman Rabbi