Israel and the Land (some highlights)
1020-1000 BCE	Saul becomes king of the Hebrew tribes	I Samuel 9: 15-27, 10: 1
1000-961 BCE	Reign of David	II Samuel 5: 1-5
961-922 BCE	Reign of Solomon	I Kings 1: 32-40
922 BCE	Kingdom of Israel divided into the kingdoms Israel/Judah	I Kings 11: 29-43
853 BCE:	King Ahab fights the Arameans	
722 BCE	Assyria conquers Israel	II Kings 17: 1-6
701 BCE:	King Hezekiah constructs Siloam tunnel	II Kings 20: 20, Isaiah 22: 10-11
586 BCE	Babylon conquers Judah	II Kings 25: 1-12
539 BCE	Exiles return from Babylon	Ezra 1: 1-11
516 BCE	Dedication of Second Temple	Ezra 4: 23-24, 5: 1-5
332 BCE	Conquest of Jerusalem by Alexander the Great	
250 BCE	The Greek translation of the Bible is published	
168-165 BCE	Maccabean Revolt	
63 BCE	Roman conquest of Jerusalem (through 313 CE)	
37-4 BCE	Reign of Herod the Great	
19/20 BCE	Herod rebuilds Temple in Jerusalem	
66-73	Jewish rebellions against Romans	
70	The Destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem	
73	Fall of Masada	
135	Bar Kokhba Rebellion (Romans destroy all remnants of Jewish sovereignty)
200	Codification of Jewish oral law (Mishnah) completed in Yavneh
313-616	Byzantine Rule
390	Commentary on the Mishnah (Jerusalem Talmud) completed
614	Persian Invasion
636-1099	Arab Rule
691	On site of First and Second Temples in Jerusalem, Dome of the Rock built
1099-1291	Crusader Domination (Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem)
1291-1516	Mamluk Rule
1517-1917	Ottoman Rule
1564	Code of Jewish law (Shulhan Arukh) published
1860	First neighborhood (Mishkenot ShaÕananim) built outside JerusalemÕs walls
1882-1903	First large-scale immigration mainly from Russia
1904-1914	Second large-scale immigration mainly from Russia and Poland
1909	First Kibbutz (Degania) and first modern all-Jewish city (Tel Aviv) founded
1918-1948	British Rule
1948	State of Israel established