BIBLICAL TIMELINE

The King James Version (KJV) is used for all scriptural references.

Note: According to the Preface of the KJV, the title LORD was used as a replacement for God’s name, “Jehovah.” This is only because it became a tradition not to speak or write God’s name. Mark 7:9, “And he said unto them, Full well ye reject the commandment of God, that ye may keep your own tradition.”

Symbols: “a.” for after, “b.” for before, “c.” for “circa or about, ”B.C.E” for Before Common Era (B.C.), “C.E.” for Common Era (AD).

Note: Some dates are fixed while others are unknown or approximate. The dates that are approximate are open to interpretation. These are mine after a close examination of several translations of the scriptures plus references from other source materials. “JLH”

DATES	EVENT	BIBLICAL REFERENCE
Before the beginning.	Jehovah, the Almighty God, has always existed.	Psalm 83:18: “That men may know that thou, whose name alone is JEHOVAH, art the most high over all the earth.” Psalm 90:1-2: “LORD, thou hast been our dwelling place in all generations. 2. Before the mountains were brought forth, or ever thou hadst formed the earth and the world, even from everlasting to everlasting, thou art God.”
Unknown, but the beginning of God’s creative time.	Jesus, also called “Michael the Archangel”, “The Word” and “The Christ”, is the first creation of God, and is a spirit creature like God.	Colossians 1:3: “We give thanks to God and the Father of our Lord Jesus Christ.” Colossians 1:15: “The image of the invisible God, the firstborn of every creature.” Jude 1:9: “Yet Michael the archangel, when contending with the devil he disputed about the body of Moses, durst not bring against him a railing accusation, but said, The LORD rebuke thee.” John 1:1: “In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God.”
Unknown.	Angels, Cherubs and Seraphs, other heavenly spirit creatures, are created.	Job 38:7: “When the morning stars sang together, and all the sons of God shouted for joy?” Hebrews 1:7: “And of the angels he saith, Who maketh his angels spirits.” Genesis 3:24: “And he placed at the east of the garden of Eden Cherubims.” Isaiah 6:2: “Above it stood the seraphims: each one had six wings.”
Unknown, but  some time after all the creatures in the spirit realm were created.	1st “Creative Day”: God makes it possible for the light from the Sun to shine on the watery vapor canopy that surrounds our solar system’s fifth planet.	Genesis 1:1: “In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.” Genesis1:3: “God said, Let there be light: and there was light.”
Unknown.	2nd “Creative Day”: God separates the waters so there’s water vapor above and liquid water below. He calls the expanse between the waters Heaven.	Genesis 1:6: “God made the firmament, and divided the waters which were under the firmament from the waters which were above the firmament.” Genesis 1:8: “And God called the firmament Heaven.”
Unknown.	3rd “Creative Day”: God causes land to appear above the water. He calls the land Earth and the water Seas. He then causes grass, seed-bearing plants and fruit bearing trees to appear on the land.	Genesis 1:9-11: “Let the dry land appear. 10. God called the dry land Earth; and the gathering together of the waters called he Seas. 11. God said, Let the earth bring forth grass, the herb yielding seed, and the fruit tree yielding fruit after his kind, whose seed is in itself, upon the earth.”
Unknown.	4th “Creative Day”: God causes the Luminaries, the Sun and Moon, to become more visible from the earth’s surface.	Genesis 1:14: “Let them be for lights in the firmament of the heaven to give light upon the earth.”
Unknown.	5th “Creative Day”: God creates living souls to inhabit the Seas and winged flying creatures to inhabit heaven.	Genesis 1:20: “God said, Let the waters bring forth abundantly the moving creature that hath life, and fowl that may fly above the earth in the open firmament of heaven.”
Unknown to several years after the creation of Adam in 4026 BCE.	6th “Creative Day”: God creates animals to inhabit the land surface, wild animals as well as domestic and other moving animals. Near the end of that time period, God creates the first man, Adam, with the intelligence to think and make things from God’s creations. (Probably in the autumn of the year 4026, as that’s when the earliest calendars begin.) Several years later, God makes a female companion for Adam from one of his ribs.	Genesis 1:24: “God said, Let the earth bring forth the living creature after his kind, cattle, and creeping thing, and beast of the earth after his kind.” Genesis 1:26: “God said, Let us make man in our image, after our likeness.” Genesis 2:7: “The LORD God formed man of the dust of the ground, and breathed into his nostrils the breath of life; and man became a living soul.” Genesis 2:22: “And the rib, which the LORD God had taken from man, made he a woman, and brought her unto the man.”
c. 3926 BCE	A Serpent whose body is taken over by a spirit creature later called Satan the Devil  lies and deceives Eve. Adam joins her in disobedience. For this Jehovah says the serpent would bruise their seed in the heal, but he would be crushed in the head. Adam names his female companion Eve. Eve gives birth to Cain and a while later to Able.	Genesis 3:4-5: “The serpent said unto the woman, Ye shall not surely die: 5. For God doth know that in the day ye eat thereof, then your eyes shall be opened, and ye shall be as gods, knowing good and evil.” Genesis 3:6: “She took of the fruit thereof, and did eat, and gave also unto her husband with her; and he did eat.” Genesis 3:15: “I will put enmity between thee and the woman, and between thy seed and her seed; it shall bruise thy head, and thou shalt bruise his heel.” Genesis 3:20: “Adam called his wife’s name Eve.” Genesis 4:1-2: “And Adam knew Eve his wife; and she conceived, and bare Cain, and said, I have gotten a man from the LORD. 2. And she again bare his brother Abel.”
b. 3896 BCE	Cain kills his brother Able.	Genesis 4:8: “It came to pass, when they were in the field, that Cain rose up against Abel his brother, and slew him.”
3896 BCE	Eve gives birth to Seth when Adam is 130 years old.	Genesis 4:25: “And Adam knew his wife again; and she bare a son, and called his name Seth: For God, said she, hath appointed me another seed instead of Abel, whom Cain slew.” Genesis 5:3:  Adam lived an hundred and thirty years, and begat a son in his own likeness, after his image; and called his name Seth.”
3791 BCE	Seth becomes father to Enosh.	Genesis 5:6: “Seth lived an hundred and five years, and begat Enos.”
3701 BCE	Enosh becomes father to Kenan.	Genesis 5:9: “Enos lived ninety years, and begat Cainan.”
3631 BCE	Kenan becomes father to Mahalalel.	Genesis 5:12: “Cainan lived seventy years, and begat Mahalaleel.”
3566 BCE	Mahalalel becomes father to Jared.	Genesis 5:15: “Mahalaleel lived sixty and five years, and begat Jared.”
3404 BCE	Jared becomes father to Enoch.	Genesis 5:18: “Jared lived an hundred sixty and two years, and he begat Enoch.”
3339 BCE	Enoch becomes father to Methuselah.	Genesis 5:21: “Enoch lived sixty and five years, and begat Methuselah.”
3152 BCE	Methuselah becomes father to Lamech.	Genesis 5:25: “Methuselah lived an hundred eighty and seven years, and begat Lamech.”
3096 BCE	Adam dies at the age of 930 years.	Genesis 5:5: “And all the days that Adam lived were nine hundred and thirty years: and he died.”
3039 BCE	Enoch is taken by God at the age of 365 years.	Genesis 5:23-24: “All the days of Enoch were three hundred sixty and five years: 24. And Enoch walked with God: and he was not; for God took him.” Jude 14-15: “Enoch also, the seventh from Adam, prophesied of these, saying, Behold, the Lord cometh with ten thousands of his saints, 15. To execute judgment upon all, and to convince all that are ungodly among them of all their ungodly deeds which they have ungodly committed, and of all their hard speeches which ungodly sinners have spoken against him.”
2970 BCE	Lamech becomes father to Noah.	Genesis 5:28-29: “Lamech lived an hundred eighty and two years, and begat a son: 29. And he called his name Noah.”
b. 2490 BCE	Sometime before this, some angels had noticed the beauty of earthly women and left their positions in the spirit realm to materialize as humans and take them for wives. Their children were mighty men called Nephilim.	Genesis 6:1-4: “It came to pass, when men began to multiply on the face of the earth, and daughters were born unto them, 2. That the sons of God saw the daughters of men that they were fair; and they took them wives of all which they chose. 3. And the LORD said, My spirit shall not always strive with man, for that he also is flesh: yet his days shall be an hundred and twenty years. 4. There were giants in the earth in those days; and also after that, when the sons of God came in unto the daughters of men, and they bare children to them, the same became mighty men which were of old, men of renown.”
2490 BCE	God tells Noah that he plans to bring a flood to the earth that will destroy all wicked mankind. Noah is told how to build an ark that will protect him and the animals from extinction.	Genesis 6:13: “And God said unto Noah, The end of all flesh is come before me; for the earth is filled with violence through them; and, behold, I will destroy them with the earth.” Genesis 6:14: “Make thee an ark of gopher wood.” Genesis 6:19: “And of every living thing of all flesh, two of every sort shalt thou bring into the ark, to keep them alive with thee.”
b. 2470 BCE	Noah gets married to an unnamed woman.	Genesis 6:10: “Noah begat three sons, Shem, Ham, and Japheth.”
c. 2470 BCE	Noah becomes father to Japheth.	Genesis 5:32: “Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” Genesis 10:21: “The brother of Japheth the elder.”
c. 2469 BCE	Noah becomes father to Ham.	Genesis 5:32: “Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” Genesis 9:24: “Noah awoke from his wine, and knew what his younger son had done unto him.”
c. 2468 BCE	Noah becomes father to Shem.	Genesis 5:32: “Noah was five hundred years old: and Noah begat Shem, Ham, and Japheth.” Genesis 11:10: “Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.”
2370 BCE	Methuselah dies at the age of 969 years. On the 17th day of the 2nd month (Nov.), it begins to rain for the first time on the earth. It continues to rain as a downpour for 40 days and 40 nights.	Genesis 5:27: “All the days of Methuselah were nine hundred sixty and nine years.” Genesis 7:11: “In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, the seventeenth day of the month, the same day were all the fountains of the great deep broken up, and the windows of heaven were opened.” Genesis 7:12: “The rain was upon the earth forty days and forty nights.”
2369 BCE	On the 17th day of the 7th month (April), 150 days later, the water begins to subside and the ark comes to rest on a mountain called Ararat. In the 10th month, (June), Noah can see distant mountains. In September, he removes part of the roof. In November Noah, his family and the animals leave the Ark. Noah builds an altar to Jehovah.	Genesis 7:24: “The waters prevailed upon the earth an hundred and fifty days.” Genesis 8:4: “The ark rested in the seventh month, on the seventeenth day of the month, upon the mountains of Ararat.” Genesis 8:5: “In the tenth month, on the first day of the month, were the tops of the mountains seen.” Genesis 8:13: “In the first month, the first day of the month, the waters were dried up from off the earth: and Noah removed the covering of the ark.” Genesis 8:14: “In the second month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, was the earth dried.” Genesis 8:20: “Noah builded an altar unto the LORD.”
2369 BCE	Jehovah says he will never destroy the earth in a flood again. He makes a covenant with Noah and his sons and says they will all remember it when they see the rainbow in the cloud.	Genesis 9:11-13: “And I will establish my covenant with you; neither shall all flesh be cut off any more by the waters of a flood; neither shall there any more be a flood to destroy the earth. 12. And God said, This is the token of the covenant which I make between me and you and every living creature that is with you, for perpetual generations: 13. I do set my bow in the cloud, and it shall be for a token of a covenant between me and the earth.” Genesis 9:16: “The bow shall be in the cloud; and I will look upon it, that I may remember the everlasting covenant between God and every living creature of all flesh that is upon the earth.”
2368 BCE	Shem becomes father to Arpachshad. Ham becomes father to Canaan.	Genesis 11:10: “Shem was an hundred years old, and begat Arphaxad two years after the flood.” Gen. 9:18: “Ham is the father of Canaan.”
2333 BCE	Arpachshad becomes father to Shelah.	Genesis11:12: “Arphaxad lived five and thirty years, and begat Salah.”
2303 BCE	Shelah becomes father to Eber.	Genesis 11:14: “Salah lived thirty years, and begat Eber.”
2269 BCE	Eber becomes father to Peleg.	Genesis 11:16: “Eber lived four and thirty years, and begat Peleg.”
c. 2269 BCE	The Tower of Babel is built in Shinar by Nimrod, the son of Cush who was Ham’s son. Displeased, Jehovah confuses their languages. The people stop building the tower and begin moving from the middle-east into Africa, Europe, Asia, Australia and finally the Americas.	Genesis 11:4: “Let us build us a city and a tower, whose top may reach unto heaven; and let us make us a name, lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the whole earth.” Genesis 11:7: “Let us go down, and there confound their language, that they may not understand one another’s speech.” Genesis 11:8: “They left off to build the city.”
2239 BCE	Peleg becomes father to Reu.	Genesis 11:18: “Peleg lived thirty years, and begat Reu.”
2207 BCE	Reu becomes father to Serug.	Genesis11:20: “Reu lived two and thirty years, and begat Serug.”
2177 BCE	Serug becomes father to Nahor.	Genesis 11:22: “Serug lived thirty years, and begat Nahor.”
2148 BCE	Nahor becomes father to Terah.	Genesis11:24: “Nahor lived nine and twenty years, and begat Terah.”
2078 BCE	Terah becomes father to Haran.	Genesis 11:26: “And Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”
2020 BCE	Noah dies at the age of 950 years.	Genesis 9:29: “And all the days of Noah were nine hundred and fifty years: and he died.”
2018 BCE	Terah becomes father to Abram. When Moses wrote Genesis, he lists the youngest child first. He did the same with Noah’s children.	Genesis 11:26: “Terah lived seventy years, and begat Abram, Nahor, and Haran.”
1943 BCE	Terah dies at the age of 205 in Haran when Abram is 75 years old. Jehovah makes a covenant with Abram and tells him to cross the Euphrates and go into the land of Canaan and dwell there, for he will give the land to his offspring. Abram takes his wife Sarai and his nephew Lot with him. The Abrahamic Law Covenant is made and the 430 years to the Exodus begins.	Genesis 11:32: “The days of Terah were two hundred and five years: and Terah died in Haran.” Genesis 12:4: “Abram was seventy and five years old when he departed out of Haran.” Genesis 12:5: “Abram took Sarai his wife, and Lot his brother’s son.” Genesis 12:7: “The LORD appeared unto Abram, and said, Unto thy seed will I give this land.” Exodus 12:40: “Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years.” Galatians 3:16-17: “Now to Abraham and his seed were the promises made. He saith not, And to seeds, as of many; but as of one, And to thy seed, which is Christ. 17. And this I say, that the covenant, that was confirmed before of God in Christ, the law, which was four hundred and thirty years after, cannot disannul, that it should make the promise of none effect.”
a. 1943 BCE	The first mention of Egypt in the Bible is when there is a famine in Canaan and Abraham takes his wife and Lot there.	Genesis 12:10: “There was a famine in the land: and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there.” Genesis 13:1: “Abram went up out of Egypt, he, and his wife, and all that he had, and Lot with him.”
Between 1943 BCE and 1933 BCE	Abram and Lot’s herds increase to where it’s no longer feasible to live on the same land. Abram tells Lot to take any land he wants. Lot chooses the plain of Jordan to the east. When Abram learns the King of Shinar attacked the King of Sodom and takes Lot, Abram and his men rescue him, his family and goods. Abram meets Melchizedek, King and Priest of Jehovah at Salem.	Genesis 13:6; “The land was not able to bear them, that they might dwell together.” Genesis 13:7: “There was a strife between the herdmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdmen of Lot’s cattle.” Genesis 13:12: “Lot dwelled in the cities of the plain, and pitched his tent toward Sodom.” Genesis 14:12: “They took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelt in Sodom, and his goods.” Genesis 14:14: “When Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his trained servants, born in his own house, three hundred and eighteen, and pursued them unto Dan.” Genesis 14:18: “Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine: and he was the priest of the most high God.”
1933 BCE	Sarai, Abram’s barren wife, gives her handmaiden to him to bear her a child.	Genesis 16:3: “And Sarai Abram’s wife took Hagar her maid the Egyptian, after Abram had dwelt ten years in the land of Canaan, and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife.”
1932 BCE	When he’s 86 years old, Abram becomes father to Ishmael.	Genesis 16:15-16: “Abram called his son’s name, which Hagar bare, Ishmael. 16. And Abram was fourscore and six years old, when Hagar bare Ishmael to Abram.”
1919 BCE	When Abram is 99 years old, Jehovah’s angel appears and tells him his name is now Abraham. A Covenant of circumcision is made. God tells Abraham that his wife, now to be called Sarah, will have a son in one years time. He is to name the child Isaac. Sodom and Gomorrah are destroyed, but God’s angels lead Lot and his two daughters to safety.	Genesis 17:1: “When Abram was ninety years old and nine, the LORD appeared to Abram.” Genesis 17:5: “Neither shall thy name any more be called Abram, but thy name shall be Abraham.” Genesis 17:10: “This is my covenant, which ye shall keep, between me and you and thy seed after thee; Every man child among you shall be circumcised.” Genesis18:24-25: “Abraham was ninety years old and nine, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old, when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin.” Genesis 17:19: “God said, Sarah thy wife shall bear thee a son indeed; and thou shalt call his name Isaac.” Genesis 17:21: “My covenant will I establish with Isaac, which Sarah shall bear unto thee at this set time in the next year.” Genesis 19:24: “Then the LORD rained upon Sodom and upon Gomorrah brimstone and fire from the LORD out of heaven.”
1918 BCE	Abraham becomes father to Isaac when he is 100 years old. This marks the beginning of the “about 450 years” mentioned in Acts.	Genesis 21:2-5: “Sarah conceived, and bare Abraham a son in his old age, at the set time of which God had spoken to him. 3. And Abraham called the name of his son that was born unto him, whom Sarah bare to him, Isaac. 4. And Abraham circumcised his son Isaac being eight days old, as God had commanded him. 5. And Abraham was an hundred years old, when his son Isaac was born unto him.” Acts 13:17-20: “The God of this people of Israel chose our fathers, and exalted the people when they dwelt as strangers in the land of Egypt, and with an high arm brought he them out of it. 18. And about the time of forty years suffered he their manners in the wilderness. 19. And when he had destroyed seven nations in the land of Chanaan, he divided their land to them by lot. 20. And after that he gave unto them judges about the space of four hundred and fifty years.”
1913 BCE	Isaac is weaned. Hagar and Ishmael are sent away. The 400 year period of affliction mentioned in Acts begins.	Genesis 21:8: “And the child grew, and was weaned.” Genesis 21:14: “Abraham rose up early in the morning, and took bread, and a bottle of water, and gave it unto Hagar, putting it on her shoulder, and the child, and sent her away.” Genesis15:13: “Then He said to Aʹbram: “Know for certain that your offspring* will be foreigners in a land not theirs and that the people there will enslave them and afflict them for 400 years.” Acts 7:6: “And God spake on this wise, That his seed should sojourn in a strange land; and that they should bring them into bondage, and entreat them evil four hundred years.”
c. 1893 BCE	Abraham is told by God to sacrifice his son Isaac. Abraham obeys and takes Isaac up the mountain. An angel stops him and God provides a ram for him to sacrifice instead.	Genesis 22:2: “Take now thy son, thine only son Isaac, whom thou lovest, and get thee into the land of Moriah; and offer him there for a burnt offering upon one of the mountains which I will tell thee of.” Genesis 22:12: “He said, Lay not thine hand upon the lad, neither do thou any thing unto him: for now I know that thou fearest God, seeing thou hast not withheld thy son, thine only son from me.”
1881 BCE	Abraham’s wife Sarah dies at the age of 127 years. Sometime later Abraham marries Keturah and has 6 more sons.	Genesis 23:1: “Sarah was an hundred and seven and twenty years old.” Genesis 25:1-2: “Then again Abraham took a wife, and her name was Keturah. 2. And she bare him Zimran, and Jokshan, and Medan, and Midian, and Ishbak, and Shuah.”
1878 BCE	Isaac marries Rebekah.	Genesis 25:20: “Isaac was forty years old when he took Rebekah to wife, the daughter of Bethuel the Syrian of Padanaram.”
1868 BCE	Shem dies at the age of 600 years.	Genesis 11:11: “Shem lived after he begat Arphaxad five hundred years.”
1858 BCE	Isaac becomes father to Esau and Jacob when he is 60 years old.	Genesis 25:24-26: “There were twins in her womb. 25. And the first came out red, all over like an hairy garment; and they called his name Esau. 26. And after that came his brother out, and his hand took hold on Esau’s heel; and his name was called Jacob: and Isaac was threescore years old when she bare them.”
1843 BCE	Abraham dies at the age of 175 years.	Genesis 25:7: “These are the days of the years of Abraham’s life which he lived, an hundred threescore and fifteen years.”
1818 BCE	Esau marries Judith and Bashemath. Later, after his brother Jacob is sent to find a wife among his mother’s relatives, Esau marries Mahalath, a daughter of Ishmael.	Genesis 26:34: “Esau was forty years old when he took to wife Judith the daughter of Beeri the Hittite, and Bashemath the daughter of Elon the Hittite.” Genesis 28:9: “Then went Esau unto Ishmael, and took unto the wives which he had Mahalath the daughter of Ishmael Abraham’s son, the sister of Nebajoth, to be his wife.”
1795 BCE	Ishmael dies at the age of 137 years.	Genesis 25:17: “These are the years of the life of Ishmael, an hundred and thirty and seven years.”
1781 BCE	After Esau sells his birthright  as firstborn to his brother Jacob, and then loses his father’s blessing as well, he threatens to kill his brother. Jacob fleas to his mother’s relatives in Haran in Mesopotamia. On the way there, he has a vision at Bethel.	Genesis 28:1-2: “And Isaac called Jacob, and blessed him, and charged him, and said unto him, Thou shalt not take a wife of the daughters of Canaan. 2. Arise, go to Padanaram, to the house of Bethuel thy mother’s father; and take thee a wife from thence of the daughters of Laban thy mother’s brother.” Genesis 28:13: “The LORD stood above it, and said, I am the LORD God of Abraham thy father, and the God of Isaac: the land whereon thou liest, to thee will I give it, and to thy seed.”
1774 BCE	After working for Laban for 7 years, Jacob is given Leah to be his wife. Jacob agrees to work for Laban another 7 years to have Rachel for his wife.	Genesis 29:23: “It came to pass in the evening, that he took Leah his daughter, and brought her to him; and he went in unto her.” Genesis 29:28: “He gave him Rachel his daughter to wife also.”
1767 BCE	Jacob becomes father to Joseph	Genesis 30:24: “She called his name Joseph.”
1761 BCE	After working for Laban for 20 years, Jacob returns with his family to the land of Canaan. On the way to Canaan, Jacob wrestles with an Angel and his name is changed to Israel.	Genesis 31:18: “And he carried away all his cattle, and all his goods which he had gotten, the cattle of his getting, which he had gotten in Padanaram, for to go to Isaac his father in the land of Canaan.” Genesis 31:41: “Thus have I been twenty years in thy house; I served thee fourteen years for thy two daughters, and six years for thy cattle: and thou hast changed my wages ten times.” Genesis 32:24: “Jacob was left alone; and there wrestled a man with him until the breaking of the day.” Genesis 32:28: “He said, Thy name shall be called no more Jacob, but Israel.”
1750 BCE	Joseph is sold as a slave in Egypt by his brothers.	Genesis 37:28: “Then there passed by Midianites merchantmen; and they drew and lifted up Joseph out of the pit, and sold Joseph to the Ishmeelites for twenty pieces of silver: and they brought Joseph into Egypt.”
c. 1739 BCE	Joseph correctly interprets the dreams of Pharaoh’s baker and cupbearer.	Genesis 40:21-22: “He restored the chief butler unto his butlership again; and he gave the cup into Pharaoh’s hand: 22. But he hanged the chief baker: as Joseph had interpreted to them.”
1738 BCE	Isaac dies at the age of 180 years.	Genesis 35:28: “The days of Isaac were an hundred and fourscore years.”
1737 BCE	At the age of 30, Joseph becomes the Vizier or Prime Minister of Egypt, possibly sometime during the 13th Dynasty of Egypt.	Genesis 41:40: “Thou shalt be over my house, and according unto thy word shall all my people be ruled: only in the throne will I be greater than thou.” Genesis 41:46: “Joseph was thirty years old when he stood before Pharaoh king of Egypt.”
1728 BCE	After 7 years of plenty, then 2 years of famine, Jacob/Israel moves all his household to Egypt.	Genesis 45:6: “For these two years hath the famine been in the land.” Genesis 47:7-9: “And Joseph brought in Jacob his father, and set him before Pharaoh: and Jacob blessed Pharaoh. 8. And Pharaoh said unto Jacob, How old art thou? 9. And Jacob said unto Pharaoh, The days of the years of my pilgrimage are an hundred and thirty years.”
1711 BCE	Jacob/Israel dies at the age of 147 years in Egypt.	Genesis 47:28: “Jacob lived in the land of Egypt seventeen years: so the whole age of Jacob was an hundred forty and seven years.”
1657 BCE	Joseph dies at the age of 110 years.	Genesis 50:26: “Joseph died, being an hundred and ten years old.”
b. 1613 BCE	Job’s trials with Satan the Devil begin.	Job 1:8: “The LORD said unto Satan, Hast thou considered my servant Job, that there is none like him in the earth, a perfect and an upright man, one that feareth God, and escheweth evil?”
a. 1600 BCE	During the late 17th Dynasty and early 18th dynasty of Egypt, it becomes the first world power. This is probably because of the arrangement Joseph made where people could sell their land to Pharaoh in exchange for food during the 7 years of famine. There are several Pharaohs of Egypt in the 128 years between 1728 BCE when the famine begins and 1600 BCE.	Genesis 47:20: “And Joseph bought all the land of Egypt for Pharaoh; for the Egyptians sold every man his field, because the famine prevailed over them: so the land became Pharaoh’s.” Exodus 1:8: “Now there arose up a new king over Egypt, which knew not Joseph.”
1593 BCE	Amram and his wife Jocebed become parents to Moses. His older brother is Aaron and his older sister is Miriam. He is raised by the sister of Egypt’s Pharaoh.	Exodus 2:1-2: “There went a man of the house of Levi, and took to wife a daughter of Levi. 2. And the woman conceived, and bare a son.” Exodus 6:20: “Amram took him Jochebed his father’s sister to wife; and she bare him Aaron and Moses.” Exodus 2:10: “The child grew, and she brought him unto Pharaoh’s daughter, and he became her son. And she called his name Moses.”
1553 BCE	When Moses is 40 years old he kills an Egyptian slavemaster. Because of this, he flees to Midian.	Exodus 2:11-15: “It came to pass in those days, when Moses was grown, that he went out unto his brethren, and looked on their burdens: and he spied an Egyptian smiting an Hebrew, one of his brethren. 12. And he looked this way and that way, and when he saw that there was no man, he slew the Egyptian, and hid him in the sand. 13. And when he went out the second day, behold, two men of the Hebrews strove together: and he said to him that did the wrong, Wherefore smitest thou thy fellow? 14. And he said, Who made thee a prince and a judge over us? intendest thou to kill me, as thou killedst the Egyptian? And Moses feared, and said, Surely this thing is known. 15. Now when Pharaoh heard this thing, he sought to slay Moses. But Moses fled from the face of Pharaoh, and dwelt in the land of Midian.” Acts 7:23-24: “When he was full forty years old, it came into his heart to visit his brethren the children of Israel. 24. And seeing one of them suffer wrong, he defended him, and avenged him that was oppressed, and smote the Egyptian.”
c. 1514 BCE	Moses sees a bush burning but it isn’t consumed. Jehovah commissions Moses to go back to Egypt and see that his people are released from slavery.	Exodus 3:2: “And the angel of the LORD appeared unto him in a flame of fire out of the midst of a bush: and he looked, and, behold, the bush burned with fire, and the bush was not consumed.” Exodus 3:10: “I will send thee unto Pharaoh, that thou mayest bring forth my people the children of Israel out of Egypt.”
First part of 1513 BCE	When Moses is 80 years old, he goes with his brother Aaron before Pharaoh. They ask the ruler to let the Israelites go out to the wilderness to worship their God. After he refuses, the first nine plagues are brought against Egypt.	Exodus 7:7: “Moses was fourscore years old, and Aaron fourscore and three years old, when they spake unto Pharaoh.” Exodus 7:20: “He lifted up the rod, and smote the waters that were in the river, in the sight of Pharaoh, and in the sight of his servants; and all the waters that were in the river were turned to blood.” Exodus 8:6: “Aaron stretched out his hand over the waters of Egypt; and the frogs came up, and covered the land of Egypt.” Exodus 8:17: “Aaron stretched out his hand with his rod, and smote the dust of the earth, and it became lice in man, and in beast.” Exodus 8:24: “There came a grievous swarm of flies into the house of Pharaoh, and into his servants’ houses, and into all the land of Egypt.” Exodus 9:6: “All the cattle of Egypt died: but of the cattle of the children of Israel died not one.” Exodus 9:10: “They took ashes of the furnace, and stood before Pharaoh; and Moses sprinkled it up toward heaven; and it became a boil breaking forth with blains upon man, and upon beast.” Exodus 9:23: “Moses stretched forth his rod toward heaven: and the LORD sent thunder and hail, and the fire ran along upon the ground; and the LORD rained hail upon the land of Egypt.” Exodus 10:13: “Moses stretched forth his rod over the land of Egypt, and the LORD brought an east wind upon the land all that day, and all that night; and when it was morning, the east wind brought the locusts.” Exodus 10:22: “Moses stretched forth his hand toward heaven; and there was a thick darkness in all the land of Egypt three days.”
2nd part of 1513 BCE	The Biblical calendar is changed so the first month of the year is now in the spring instead of the fall. The first Passover is observed. The Israelites leave Egypt and cross the Red Sea, probably some time during the early part of what is called Egypt’s 18th Dynasty. The 400 years of affliction ends. The 430 years from beginning of Abrahamic covenant ends.	Exodus12:2: “This month shall be unto you the beginning of months: it shall be the first month of the year to you.” Exodus 12:12: “For I will pass through the land of Egypt this night, and will smite to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.” Exodus 14:27-30: “Moses stretched forth his hand over the sea, and the sea returned to his strength when the morning appeared; and the Egyptians fled against it; and the LORD overthrew the Egyptians in the midst of the sea. 28. And the waters returned, and covered the chariots, and the horsemen, and all the host of Pharaoh that came into the sea after them; there remained not so much as one of them. 29. But the children of Israel walked upon dry land in the midst of the sea; and the waters were a wall unto them on their right hand, and on their left. 30. Thus the LORD saved Israel that day out of the hand of the Egyptians; and Israel saw the Egyptians dead upon the sea shore.” all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, both man and beast; and against all the gods of Egypt I will execute judgment: I am the LORD.” Exodus12:29: “It came to pass, that at midnight the LORD smote all the firstborn in the land of Egypt, from the firstborn of Pharaoh that sat on his throne unto the firstborn of the captive that was in the dungeon; and all the firstborn of cattle.” Exodus 12:41: “Now the sojourning of the children of Israel, who dwelt in Egypt, was four hundred and thirty years. 41. And it came to pass at the end of the four hundred and thirty years, even the selfsame day it came to pass, that all the hosts of the LORD went out from the land of Egypt.
3rd part of 1513 BCE	Three months after they leave Egypt, the Israelites reach Mount Sinai where they receive the Ten Commandments. The Law Covenant is made with the Israelites.	Exodus 19:1: “In the third month, when the children of Israel were gone forth out of the land of Egypt, the same day came they into the wilderness of Sinai.” Exodus 20:1-17: “And God spake all these words, saying, 2. I am the LORD thy God, which have brought thee out of the land of Egypt, out of the house of bondage. 3. Thou shalt have no other gods before me. 4. Thou shalt not make unto thee any graven image, or any likeness of any thing that is in heaven above, or that is in the earth beneath, or that is in the water under the earth: 5. Thou shalt not bow down thyself to them, nor serve them: for I the LORD thy God am a jealous God, visiting the iniquity of the fathers upon the children unto the third and fourth generation of them that hate me; 6. And shewing mercy unto thousands of them that love me, and keep my commandments. 7. Thou shalt not take the name of the LORD thy God in vain; for the LORD will not hold him guiltless that taketh his name in vain. 8. Remember the sabbath day, to keep it holy. 9. Six days shalt thou labour, and do all thy work: 10. But the seventh day is the sabbath of the LORD thy God: in it thou shalt not do any work, thou, nor thy son, nor thy daughter, thy manservant, nor thy maidservant, nor thy cattle, nor thy stranger that is within thy gates: 11. For in six days the LORD made heaven and earth, the sea, and all that in them is, and rested the seventh day: wherefore the LORD blessed the sabbath day, and hallowed it. 12. Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee. 13. Thou shalt not kill. 14. Thou shalt not commit adultery. 15. Thou shalt not steal. 16. Thou shalt not bear false witness against thy neighbour. 17. Thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s house, thou shalt not covet thy neighbour’s wife, nor his manservant, nor his maidservant, nor his ox, nor his ass, nor any thing that is thy neighbour’s.” Exodus 24:7: “He took the book of the covenant, and read in the audience of the people: and they said, All that the LORD hath said will we do, and be obedient.”
1512 BCE	The Tabernacle of God is assembled on the first day of the first month of the second year after they left Egypt. Aaron and his sons are anointed as priests. While in the wilderness, Moses compiles and writes the book of Genesis, which covers from the beginning of God’s creative time to 1657 BCE.	Exodus 40:17: “It came to pass in the first month in the second year, on the first day of the month, that the tabernacle was reared up.” Leviticus 8:30: “Moses took of the anointing oil, and of the blood which was upon the altar, and sprinkled it upon Aaron, and upon his garments, and upon his sons, and upon his sons’ garments with him; and sanctified Aaron, and his garments, and his sons, and his sons’ garments with him.” Leviticus 8:34-36: “As he hath done this day, so the LORD hath commanded to do, to make an atonement for you. 35. Therefore shall ye abide at the door of the tabernacle of the congregation day and night seven days, and keep the charge of the LORD, that ye die not: for so I am commanded. 36. So Aaron and his sons did all things which the LORD commanded by the hand of Moses.”
c. 1500 BCE	Moses writes the books of Exodus, covering the time between 1657 and 1512 BCE, and Leviticus, about a month in 1512 BCE. Assyria is now considered to be at its height as the second world power.	Leviticus 27:34: ”These are the commandments, which the LORD commanded Moses for the children of Israel in mount Sinai.” Numbers 1:1: “The LORD spake unto Moses in the wilderness of Sinai, in the tabernacle of the congregation, on the first day of the second month, in the second year after they were come out of the land of Egypt.”
c.1473 BCE	Moses writes the book of Job not too long after Job dies at the age of 140 years.	Job 42:16-17: “After this lived Job an hundred and forty years, and saw his sons, and his sons’ sons, even four generations. 17. So Job died, being old and full of days.”
1473 BCE	Joshua is commissioned to lead the Israelites to the Promised Land. Moses writes the book of Numbers, covering the years between 1512 and 1473 BCE. Jehovah makes a covenant with Israel at Moab. Moses writes the book of Deuteronomy, covering about 2 months of the year 1473 BCE. Moses dies at the age of 120 years on Mt. Nebo in Moab. Israel has judges for the next 356 years Under Joshua, the Israelites cross the Jordan River and enter the Promised Land. Jericho falls to the Israelites.	Numbers 35:1: “The LORD spake unto Moses in the plains of Moab by Jordan near Jericho.” Deuteronomy 1:3: “It came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel.” Deuteronomy 1:1, 3: “These be the words which Moses spake unto all Israel on this side Jordan in the wilderness, in the plain over against the Red sea, between Paran, and Tophel, and Laban, and Hazeroth, and Dizahab. 3. And it came to pass in the fortieth year, in the eleventh month, on the first day of the month, that Moses spake unto the children of Israel.” Deuteronomy  3:28: “Charge Joshua, and encourage him, and strengthen him: for he shall go over before this people, and he shall cause them to inherit the land which thou shalt see.” Deuteronomy  29:1: “These are the words of the covenant, which the LORD commanded Moses to make with the children of Israel in the land of Moab, beside the covenant which he made with them in Horeb.” Deuteronomy  34:7: “Moses was an hundred and twenty years old when he died.” Joshua 4:19: “The people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.” Joshua  3:16: “The waters which came down from above stood and rose up upon an heap very far from the city Adam, that is beside Zaretan: and those that came down toward the sea of the plain, even the salt sea, failed, and were cut off: and the people passed over right against Jericho.” Joshua 4:19: “The people came up out of Jordan on the tenth day of the first month, and encamped in Gilgal, in the east border of Jericho.” Joshua  6:20: “The people shouted when the priests blew with the trumpets: and it came to pass, when the people heard the sound of the trumpet, and the people shouted with a great shout, that the wall fell down flat, so that the people went up into the city, every man straight before him, and they took the city.”
c. 1467 BCE	The conquest of the land of Canaan is completed. The remaining tribes of Israel receive their inheritance. Joshua is at least the same age as Caleb, who says he is now 85 years old. The 450 year time period ends.	Joshua 11:23: “Joshua took the whole land, according to all that the LORD said unto Moses; and Joshua gave it for an inheritance unto Israel according to their divisions by their tribes. And the land rested from war.” Joshua 14:6-7: “Then the children of Judah came unto Joshua in Gilgal: and Caleb the son of Jephunneh the Kenezite said unto him, Thou knowest the thing that the LORD said unto Moses the man of God concerning me and thee in Kadeshbarnea. 7. Forty years old was I when Moses the servant of the LORD sent me from Kadeshbarnea to espy out the land; and I brought him word again as it was in mine heart.” Joshua  14:10: “The LORD hath kept me alive, as he said, these forty and five years,”
c. 1460 BCE	David, Asaph, the sons of Korah and others write poems and songs of praise and prophecy that become known as Psalms.	Psalm 3: “A Psalm of David, when he fled from Absalom his son.” Psalm 88: “A Song or Psalm for the sons of Korah, to the chief Musician upon Mahalath Leannoth, Maschil of Heman the Ezrahite.”
c. 1450 BCE	Joshua writes the book of Joshua in the land of Canaan, covering the years 1473 to c. 1450 BCE.	Joshua 1:1: “Now after the death of Moses the servant of the LORD it came to pass, that the LORD spake unto Joshua the son of Nun, Moses’ minister.” Joshua  24:26: “Joshua wrote these words in the book of the law of God.”
c. 1440 BCE	Joshua dies at the age of 110 years. After his death, many of the Israelites begin to abandon Jehovah and start serving the gods of other nations. Othniel, Caleb’s younger brother, is a judge of the Israelites for 40 years. He delivers the Israelites from the King of Mesopotamia.	Joshua 24:29: “After these things, Joshua the son of Nun, the servant of Jehovah, died at the age of 110.” Judges 3:8: “The anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia: and the children of Israel served Chushanrishathaim eight years.” Judges 3:9-11: “When the children of Israel cried unto the LORD, the LORD raised up a deliverer to the children of Israel, who delivered them, even Othniel the son of Kenaz, Caleb’s younger brother. 10. And the Spirit of the LORD came upon him, and he judged Israel, and went out to war: and the LORD delivered Chushanrishathaim king of Mesopotamia into his hand; and his hand prevailed against Chushanrishathaim. 11. And the land had rest forty years.”
1424 BCE	The first Jubilee year is celebrated 50 years after the Israelites enter the Promised land.	Leviticus 25:10: “And ye shall hallow the fiftieth year, and proclaim liberty throughout all the land unto all the inhabitants thereof: it shall be a jubile unto you; and ye shall return every man unto his possession, and ye shall return every man unto his family.”
c. 1415	Eglon the King of Moab comes against part of Israel for 18 years.	Judges 3:14: “So the children of Israel served Eglon the king of Moab eighteen years.”
c. 1406 BCE	Ehud, a judge over Israel kills Eglon. Shamgar also serves as a judge. Altogether they judge Israel for about 80 years.	Judges 3:15: “The LORD raised them up a deliverer, Ehud the son of Gera, a Benjamite, a man lefthanded." Judges 3:30: “Moab was subdued that day under the hand of Israel. And the land had rest fourscore years.” Judges 3:3: “After him was Shamgar the son of Anath, which slew of the Philistines six hundred men with an ox goad: and he also delivered Israel.”
c. 1346 BCE	After the death of Ehud, Jabin the king of Canaan oppresses Israel for 20 years.	Judges 4:2: “The the children of Israel again did evil in the sight of the LORD, when Ehud was dead. And the LORD sold them into the hand of Jabin king of Canaan, that reigned in Hazor; the captain of whose host was Sisera, which dwelt in Harosheth of the Gentiles..” Judges 4:3: “Twenty years he mightily oppressed the children of Israel.”
c. 1326 BCE	Deborah is a judge of Israel for 40 years.  With the help of Barak, Jabin the king of Canaan is subdued.	Judges 4:4: “Deborah, a prophetess, the wife of Lapidoth, she judged Israel at that time.” Judges 4:6: “She sent and called Barak the son of Abinoam out of Kedeshnaphtali.” Judges 4:24: “the hand of the children of Israel prospered, and prevailed against Jabin the king of Canaan.” Judges 5:31: “The land had rest forty years.
c. 1286 BCE	Part of Israel is under Midianite rule for 7 years.	Judges 6:1: “And the children of Israel did evil in the sight of the LORD: and the LORD delivered them into the hand of Midian seven years.
c. 1279 BCE	Gideon, also called Jerubbaal, is a judge over  Israel for 40 years. During that time he subdues Midian.	Judges 8:28: “Thus was Midian subdued before the children of Israel, so that they lifted up their heads no more. And the country was in quietness forty years in the days of Gideon.”
c. 1239 BCE	Gideon’s son Abimelech rules over the Israelites for 3 years.	Judges 9:22: “Abimelech had reigned three years over Israel.”
c. 1236 BCE	Tola the son of Puah, the son of Dodo, a man of Issachar is a judge for 23 years.	Judges 10:2: “He judged Israel twenty and three years.”
c. 1213 BCE	Jair is a judge in Israel 22 years.	Judges 10:3: “Jair, a Gileadite, and judged Israel twenty and two years.
c. 1200 BCE	The events in the book of Ruth take place. Boaz and Ruth will become ancestors of Jesus.	Ruth 2:1: “Naomi had a kinsman of her husband’s, a mighty man of wealth, of the family of Elimelech; and his name was Boaz.” Ruth 4:9-13: “Boaz said unto the elders, and unto all the people, Ye are witnesses this day, that I have bought all that was Elimelech’s, and all that was Chilion’s and Mahlon’s, of the hand of Naomi. 10. Moreover Ruth the Moabitess, the wife of Mahlon, have I purchased to be my wife, to raise up the name of the dead upon his inheritance, that the name of the dead be not cut off from among his brethren, and from the gate of his place: ye are witnesses this day. 11. And all the people that were in the gate, and the elders, said, We are witnesses, 12. And let thy house be like the house of Pharez, whom Tamar bare unto Judah, of the seed which the LORD shall give thee of this young woman. 13. So Boaz took Ruth, and she was his wife: and when he went in unto her, the LORD gave her conception, and she bare a son.” Ruth 4:17-22: “And the women her neighbours gave it a name, saying, There is a son born to Naomi; and they called his name Obed: he is the father of Jesse, the father of David. 18. Now these are the generations of Pharez: Pharez begat Hezron, 19. And Hezron begat Ram, and Ram begat Amminadab, 20. And Amminadab begat Nahshon, and Nahshon begat Salmon, 21. And Salmon begat Boaz, and Boaz begat Obed, 22. And Obed begat Jesse, and Jesse begat David.”
c. 1191 BCE	Some of the Israelites are given into the hands of the Philistines and the Ammonites for 18 years.	Judges 10:7-8: “The anger of the LORD was hot against Israel, and he sold them into the hands of the Philistines, and into the hands of the children of Ammon. 8. And that year they vexed and oppressed the children of Israel: eighteen years.”
c. 1182 BCE	Eli becomes High Priest of Israel. and serves as a judge for the next 40 years.	1 Samuel 4:18: He had judged Israel forty years.
c. 1180 BCE	Elkanah and Hannah become parents to Samuel. When he’s about 5 years old he’s taken to Eli, the High Priest to serve at the temple.	1 Samuel 1:1-2: “Elkanah, the son of Jeroham, the son of Elihu, the son of Tohu, the son of Zuph, an Ephrathite: 2. And he had two wives; the name of the one was Hannah.” 1 Samuel 1:20: “Wherefore it came to pass, when the time was come about after Hannah had conceived, that she bare a son, and called his name Samuel, saying, Because I have asked him of the LORD.” 1 Samuel 1:24: “When she had weaned him, she took him up with her, with three bullocks, and one ephah of flour, and a bottle of wine, and brought him unto the house of the LORD in Shiloh: and the child was young.”
1173 BCE	300 years after Israel enters Canaan, Jephtheh of Gilead defeats Ammon. He is a judge in Israel for 6 years.	Judges 11:26: “While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and her towns, and in Aroer and her towns, and in all the cities that be along by the coasts of Arnon, three hundred years?” Judges 11:32: “ Jephthah passed over unto the children of Ammon to fight against them; and the LORD delivered them into his hands.” Judges 12:7: “Jephthah judged Israel six years.”
c. 1167	Ibzan of Bethlehem is a judge in Israel 7 years.	Judges 12:9: “He judged Israel seven years.”
c. 1162	The Philistines rule over parts of Israeli for 40 years.	Judges 13:1: “The LORD delivered them into the hand of the Philistines forty years.”
c. 1160	Elon is a judge in Israel for 10 years.	Judges 12:11: “Elon, a Zebulonite, judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years.
c. 1150	Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite is a judge in Israel 8 years	Judges 12:14: “He judged Israel eight years.”
c. 1147	Samson judges Israel for 20 years.	Judges 15:20: “He judged Israel in the days of the Philistines twenty years.”
c. 1142	The Ark of the Covenant is captured by the Philistines. High Priest Eli is 98 years old when he hears the Ark of the Covenant has been captured and his two sons killed. He falls backwards off his seat  and breaks his neck after serving Israel 40 years as High Priest and judge.	1 Samuel 4:15: “Eli was ninety and eight years old; and his eyes were dim, that he could not see.” 1 Samuel 4:17-18: “The messenger answered and said, Israel is fled before the Philistines, and there hath been also a great slaughter among the people, and thy two sons also, Hophni and Phinehas, are dead, and the ark of God is taken. 18. And it came to pass, when he made mention of the ark of God, that he fell from off the seat backward by the side of the gate, and his neck brake, and he died: for he was an old man, and heavy. And he had judged Israel forty years.”
c.1122	After the Philistines suffer many plagues, they return the Ark of the Covenant to Israel along with many offerings.	1 Samuel 6:11-12: “They laid the ark of the LORD upon the cart, and the coffer with the mice of gold and the images of their emerods. 12. And the kine took the straight way to the way of Bethshemesh, and went along the highway, lowing as they went, and turned not aside to the right hand or to the left; and the lords of the Philistines went after them unto the border of Bethshemesh.
c. 1121 BCE	Samuel leads the Israelites to victory over the Philistines.	1 Samuel 7:13: “So the Philistines were subdued, and they came no more into the coast of Israel: and the hand of the LORD was against the Philistines all the days of Samuel.”
1117 BCE	The elders of Israel come to Samuel and ask for a king. Samuel anoints Saul and he becomes the king of Israel 356 years after the Israelites entered Canaan.	1 Samuel 8:4-5: “All the elders of Israel gathered themselves together, and came to Samuel unto Ramah, 5. And said unto him, Behold, thou art old, and thy sons walk not in thy ways: now make us a king to judge us like all the nations. 1 Samuel 10:24: “Samuel said to all the people, See ye him whom the LORD hath chosen, that there is none like him among all the people? And all the people shouted, and said, God save the king.” Acts 13:21: “Afterward they desired a king: and God gave unto them Saul the son of Cis, a man of the tribe of Benjamin, by the space of forty years.”
1107 BCE	Jesse becomes father to David at Bethlehem.	1 Samuel 16:1: “The LORD said unto Samuel, How long wilt thou mourn for Saul, seeing I have rejected him from reigning over Israel? fill thine horn with oil, and go, I will send thee to Jesse the Bethlehemite: for I have provided me a king among his sons.”
c. 1100 BCE	Samuel writes the book of Judges in Israel, covering the years c. 1450 to c. 1120 BCE.	Judges 21:25: “In those days there was no king in Israel: every man did that which was right in his own eyes.”
c. 1097	Samuel anoints David the son of Jesse to become king of Israel.	1 Samuel 16:12-13: “He sent, and brought him in. Now he was ruddy, and withal of a beautiful countenance, and goodly to look to. And the LORD said, Arise, anoint him: for this is he. 13. Then Samuel took the horn of oil, and anointed him in the midst of his brethren: and the Spirit of the LORD came upon David from that day forward.”
c. 1090 BCE	Samuel writes the book of Ruth, which tells the lineage of David through Pharez, the son of Judah. It took place during about 11 years of rule by the judges.	Ruth 1:1: “Now it came to pass in the days when the judges ruled, that there was a famine in the land. And a certain man of Bethlehemjudah went to sojourn in the country of Moab, he, and his wife, and his two sons.”
c. 1078 BCE	King Saul dies in battle against the Philistines, and so do his three sons. Samuel, Gad and Nathan write 1 Samuel in Israel, covering the years of c. 1180 to 1078 BCE.	1 Samuel 31:2-6: “The Philistines followed hard upon Saul and upon his sons; and the Philistines slew Jonathan, and Abinadab, and Malchishua, Saul’s sons. 3. And the battle went sore against Saul, and the archers hit him; and he was sore wounded of the archers. 4. Then said Saul unto his armourbearer, Draw thy sword, and thrust me through therewith; lest these uncircumcised come and thrust me through, and abuse me. But his armourbearer would not; for he was sore afraid. Therefore Saul took a sword, and fell upon it. 5. And when his armourbearer saw that Saul was dead, he fell likewise upon his sword, and died with him. 6. So Saul died, and his three sons, and his armourbearer, and all his men, that same day together.”
1077 BCE	David becomes king of Judah at Hebron and serves as king for 60 years. Ish-bosheth, a son of Saul. is king of Israel for 2 years.	2 Samuel 2:3-4: “His men that were with him did David bring up, every man with his household: and they dwelt in the cities of Hebron. 4. And the men of Judah came, and there they anointed David king over the house of Judah.” 2 Samuel 2:8-10: “But Abner the son of Ner, captain of Saul’s host, took Ishbosheth the son of Saul, and brought him over to Mahanaim; 9. And made him king over Gilead, and over the Ashurites, and over Jezreel, and over Ephraim, and over Benjamin, and over all Israel. 10. Ishbosheth Saul’s son was forty years old when he began to reign over Israel, and reigned two years. But the house of Judah followed David.”
1075 BCE	Ish-bosheth is assassinated.	2 Samuel 4:5, 7, 8, 12: “The sons of Rimmon the Beerothite, Rechab and Baanah, went, and came about the heat of the day to the house of Ishbosheth, who lay on a bed at noon. 7. They smote him, and slew him, and beheaded him, and took his head. 8. And they brought the head of Ishbosheth unto David to Hebron. 12. David commanded his young men, and they slew them, and cut off their hands and their feet, and hanged them up over the pool in Hebron. But they took the head of Ishbosheth, and buried it in the sepulchre of Abner in Hebron.”
1070 BCE	David becomes king over all of Israel for the next 33 years. David takes the city called Zion, changes its name to Jerusalem and makes it his capital city.	2 Samuel 5:3-5: “So all the elders of Israel came to the king to Hebron; and king David made a league with them in Hebron before the LORD: and they anointed David king over Israel. 4. David was thirty years old when he began to reign, and he reigned forty years. 5. In Hebron he reigned over Judah seven years and six months: and in Jerusalem he reigned thirty and three years over all Israel and Judah.” 2 Samuel 5:7: “Nevertheless David took the strong hold of Zion: the same is the city of David.”
c. 1070 BCE	David brings the Ark of the Covenant to Jerusalem. Jehovah concludes a Kingdom (Davidic) Covenant with David. That Covenant ends in 1914 CE when Jesus becomes king.	2 Samuel 6:15: “So David and all the house of Israel brought up the ark of the LORD with shouting, and with the sound of the trumpet.” 2 Samuel 7:12-16: “ When thy days be fulfilled, and thou shalt sleep with thy fathers, I will set up thy seed after thee, which shall proceed out of thy bowels, and I will establish his kingdom. 13. He shall build an house for my name, and I will stablish the throne of his kingdom for ever. 14. I will be his father, and he shall be my son. If he commit iniquity, I will chasten him with the rod of men, and with the stripes of the children of men: 15. But my mercy shall not depart away from him, as I took it from Saul, whom I put away before thee. 16. And thine house and thy kingdom shall be established for ever before thee: thy throne shall be established for ever.
c. 1040 BCE	Gad and Nathan write the book of 2 Samuel in Israel, which covers the years 1077 to c. 1040 BCE.	2 Samuel 24:18: “Gad came that day to David, and said unto him, Go up, rear an altar unto the LORD in the threshing floor of Araunah the Jebusite.”
1037 BCE	David dies in Jerusalem after reigning as king for 40 years. Solomon succeeds his father David as king and reigns for 40 years	1 Kings 1:39: “Zadok the priest took an horn of oil out of the tabernacle, and anointed Solomon. And they blew the trumpet; and all the people said, God save king Solomon.” 1 Kings 2:10-12: “David slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David. 11.  And the days that David reigned over Israel were forty years: seven years reigned he in Hebron, and thirty and three years reigned he in Jerusalem. 12. Then sat Solomon upon the throne of David his father; and his kingdom was established greatly.”
1034 BCE	Construction of the Temple by Solomon begins.	1 Kings 6:1: “It came to pass in the four hundred and eightieth year after the children of Israel were come out of the land of Egypt, in the fourth year of Solomon’s reign over Israel, in the month Zif, which is the second month, that he began to build the house of the LORD.”
1027 BCE	Solomon’s temple in Jerusalem completed.	1 Kings 6:38: “In the eleventh year, in the month Bul, which is the eighth month, was the house finished throughout all the parts thereof, and according to all the fashion of it. So was he seven years in building it.”
1026 BCE	Solomon dedicates the temple of Jehovah in Jerusalem.	1 Kings 7:51: “So was ended all the work that king Solomon made for the house of the LORD. And Solomon brought in the things which David his father had dedicated; even the silver, and the gold, and the vessels, did he put among the treasures of the house of the LORD.” 1Kings 8:4-5: “They brought up the ark of the LORD, and the tabernacle of the congregation, and all the holy vessels that were in the tabernacle, even those did the priests and the Levites bring up. 5. And king Solomon, and all the congregation of Israel, that were assembled unto him, were with him before the ark, sacrificing sheep and oxen, that could not be told nor numbered for multitude.” 1 Kings 8:10: “It came to pass, when the priests were come out of the holy place, that the cloud filled the house of the LORD.”
c. 1020 BCE	Solomon writes the book called Song of Solomon.	Song of Solomon 1:1 “The song of songs, which is Solomon’s.”
b. 1000 BCE	Solomon completes the book of Ecclesiastes.	Ecclesiastes 1:1: “The words of the Preacher, the son of David, king in Jerusalem.”
997 BCE	Solomon dies. His son Rehoboam succeeds him. The kingdom is split and Jeroboam begins to reign as king of Israel for the next 22 years.	1 Kings 11:42-43: “The time that Solomon reigned in Jerusalem over all Israel was forty years. 43. And Solomon slept with his fathers, and was buried in the city of David his father: and Rehoboam his son reigned in his stead.” 1 Kings 12:19-20: “Israel rebelled against the house of David unto this day. 20. And it came to pass, when all Israel heard that Jeroboam was come again, that they sent and called him unto the congregation, and made him king over all Israel: there was none that followed the house of David, but the tribe of Judah only.”
993 BCE	Pharaoh Shishak invades Judah and removes the treasures from the temple.	1 Kings 14:25-26: “It came to pass in the fifth year of king Rehoboam, that Shishak king of Egypt came up against Jerusalem: 26. And he took away the treasures of the house of the LORD, and the treasures of the king’s house; he even took away all: and he took away all the shields of gold which Solomon had made.”
980 BCE	Abijah (Abijam) succeeds Rehoboam and becomes king of Judah and reigns for 3 years.	1 Kings 14:31: “Rehoboam slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David. And Abijam his son reigned in his stead. 1 Kings 15:1-2: “In the eighteenth year of king Jeroboam the son of Nebat reigned Abijam over Judah. 2. Three years reigned he in Jerusalem.
977 BCE	Asa succeeds Abijam and becomes king of Judah for 41 years.	1 Kings 15:8-10: “ Abijam slept with his fathers; and they buried him in the city of David: and Asa his son reigned in his stead. 9. And in the twentieth year of Jeroboam king of Israel reigned Asa over Judah. 10. And forty and one years reigned he in Jerusalem.
c. 976 BCE	Nadab succeeds Jeroboam and becomes king of Israel for 2 years.	1 Kings 14:20: “The days which Jeroboam reigned were two and twenty years: and he slept with his fathers, and Nadab his son reigned in his stead.”
c. 975 BCE	Baasha succeeds Nadab and becomes king of Israel for 24 years.	1 Kings 15:25: “Nadab the son of Jeroboam began to reign over Israel in the second year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned over Israel two years.” 1 Kings 15:33: “In the third year of Asa king of Judah began Baasha the son of Ahijah to reign over all Israel in Tirzah, twenty and four years.”
c.952 BCE	Elah succeeds Baasha and becomes king of Israel for 2 years.	1 Kings 16:6, 8: “So Baasha slept with his fathers, and was buried in Tirzah: and Elah his son reigned in his stead. 8. In the twenty and sixth year of Asa king of Judah began Elah the son of Baasha to reign over Israel in Tirzah, two years.”
c. 951 BCE	Zimri succeeds Elah and becomes king of Israel for seven days. Omri and Tibni succeed Zimri and become rival kings of Israel.	1 Kings 16:10, 15: “Zimri went in and smote him, and killed him, in the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah, and reigned in his stead. 15. In the twenty and seventh year of Asa king of Judah did Zimri reign seven days in Tirzah. 1 Kings 16:16, 18, 21: “The people that were encamped heard say, Zimri hath conspired, and hath also slain the king: wherefore all Israel made Omri, the captain of the host, king over Israel that day in the camp. 18. It came to pass, when Zimri saw that the city was taken, that he went into the palace of the king’s house, and burnt the king’s house over him with fire, and died. 21. Then were the people of Israel divided into two parts: half of the people followed Tibni the son of Ginath, to make him king; and half followed Omri.”
c. 947 BCE	Omri alone becomes king of Israel. He reigns for a total of 12 years.	1 Kings 16:22-23: “The people that followed Omri prevailed against the people that followed Tibni the son of Ginath: so Tibni died, and Omri reigned. 23.  In the thirty and first year of Asa king of Judah began Omri to reign over Israel, twelve years: six years reigned he in Tirzah.”
c. 940 BCE	Ahab succeeds Omri and becomes king of Israel for 22 years.	1 Kings 16:28-29: “Omri slept with his fathers, and was buried in Samaria: and Ahab his son reigned in his stead. 29. And in the thirty and eighth year of Asa king of Judah began Ahab the son of Omri to reign over Israel: and Ahab the son of Omri reigned over Israel in Samaria twenty and two years.
936 BCE	Jehoshaphat  succeeds Asa and becomes king of Judah. He reigns for 25 years.	1 Kings 15:24: “Asa slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoshaphat his son reigned in his stead.” 1 Kings 22:41-42: “Jehoshaphat the son of Asa began to reign over Judah in the fourth year of Ahab king of Israel. 42. Jehoshaphat was thirty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and five years in Jerusalem.”
c. 919 BCE	Ahaziah, the son of Ahab, becomes king of Israel.	1 Kings 22:51: “Ahaziah the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the seventeenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned two years over Israel.”
c. 917 BCE	Jehoram of Israel, another son of Ahab, succeeds Ahaziah and becomes king of Israel for 12 years.	2 Kings 3:1: “Jehoram the son of Ahab began to reign over Israel in Samaria the eighteenth year of Jehoshaphat king of Judah, and reigned twelve years.”
913 BCE	Jehoram of Judah, the son of Jehoshaphat, reigns with his father in Jerusalem for 2 years, then for another 6 years alone.	2 Kings 8:16-17: “In the fifth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel, Jehoshaphat being then king of Judah, Jehoram the son of Jehoshaphat king of Judah began to reign. 17. Thirty and two years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned eight years in Jerusalem.”
911 BCE	Jehoshaphat dies	1 Kings 22:50: “Jehoshaphat slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David his father: and Jehoram his son reigned in his stead.”
c. 906 BCE	Ahaziah, the grandson of Jehoshaphat, succeeds Jehoram and becomes king of Judah for 1 year.	2 Kings 8:24-26: “Joram slept with his fathers, and was buried with his fathers in the city of David: and Ahaziah his son reigned in his stead. 25. In the twelfth year of Joram the son of Ahab king of Israel did Ahaziah the son of Jehoram king of Judah begin to reign. 26. Two and twenty years old was Ahaziah when he began to reign; and he reigned one year in Jerusalem.”
c. 905 BCE	Jehoram, the son of Ahab, is killed by Jehu. Jehu is anointed as king of Israel, succeeding Jehoram. He reigns for 28 years in Samaria. When Ahaziah the grandson of Jehoshaphat is killed by Jehu, Queen Athaliah, Ahaziah’s mother, usurps the throne of Judah for six years.	2 Kings 9:24: “Jehu drew a bow with his full strength, and smote Jehoram between his arms, and the arrow went out at his heart, and he sunk down in his chariot.” 2 Kings 10:36: “And the time that Jehu reigned over Israel in Samaria was twenty and eight years.” 2 Kings 11:1-3: “When Athaliah the mother of Ahaziah saw that her son was dead, she arose and destroyed all the seed royal. 2. But Jehosheba, the daughter of king Joram, sister of Ahaziah, took Joash the son of Ahaziah, and stole him from among the king’s sons which were slain; and they hid him, even him and his nurse, in the bedchamber from Athaliah, so that he was not slain. 3. And he was with her hid in the house of the LORD six years. And Athaliah did reign over the land.”
898 BCE	Jehoash, the son of Ahaziah, becomes king of Judah and reigns 40 years.	2 Kings 12:1: “In the seventh year of Jehu Jehoash began to reign; and forty years reigned he in Jerusalem.”
876 BCE	Jehu dies and Jehoahaz his son becomes king of Israel. He reigns for 17 years.	2 Kings 13:1: “In the three and twentieth year of Joash the son of Ahaziah king of Judah Jehoahaz the son of Jehu began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned seventeen years.”
c. 859 BCE	Jehoahaz dies and his son Jehoash becomes sole king of Israel for 16 years.	2 Kings 13:10: “In the thirty and seventh year of Joash king of Judah began Jehoash the son of Jehoahaz to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned sixteen years.”
858 BCE	Amaziah succeeds his father Jehoahaz and becomes the king of Judah for 29 years.	2 Kings 14:1-2: “In the second year of Joash son of Jehoahaz king of Israel reigned Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah. 2. He was twenty and five years old when he began to reign, and reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.”
c. 844 BCE	Jeroboam II becomes king of Israel succeeding Jehoash and he reigns 41 years in Samaria. Jonah writes the book of Jonah.	2 Kings 14:23: “ In the fifteenth year of Amaziah the son of Joash king of Judah Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel began to reign in Samaria, and reigned forty and one years.” Jonah 1:1-2: “Now the word of the LORD came unto Jonah the son of Amittai, saying, 2. Arise, go to Nineveh, that great city, and cry against it; for their wickedness is come up before me.”
829 BCE	Uzziah, also called Azariah, becomes king of Judah. He succeeds his father Amaziah and reigns for 52 years.	2 Kings 15:1-2: “In the twenty and seventh year of Jeroboam king of Israel began Azariah son of Amaziah king of Judah to reign. 2. Sixteen years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned two and fifty years in Jerusalem.”
c. 820 BCE	Book of Joel is probably written by Joel the son of Pethuel.	Joel 1:1: “The word of the LORD that came to Joel the son of Pethuel.”
c. 804 BCE	Amos writes the book of Amos. Hosea begins prophesying.	Amos 1:1: “The words of Amos, who was among the herdmen of Tekoa, which he saw concerning Israel in the days of Uzziah king of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash king of Israel, two years before the earthquake.”
c. 792 BCE	Zechariah, the son of Jeroboam II, becomes king of Israel in Samaria for 6 months.	2 Kings 15:8: “In the thirty and eighth year of Azariah king of Judah did Zachariah the son of Jeroboam reign over Israel in Samaria six months.”
c. 791 BCE	Shallum kills Zechariah and becomes king of Israel for one month. Menahem  kills Shallum and becomes king of Israel for 10 years.	2 Kings 15:10, 13: “Shallum the son of Jabesh conspired against him, and smote him before the people, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. 13. Shallum the son of Jabesh began to reign in the nine and thirtieth year of Uzziah king of Judah; and he reigned a full month in Samaria.” 2 Kings 15:14, 17: “Menahem the son of Gadi went up from Tirzah, and came to Samaria, and smote Shallum the son of Jabesh in Samaria, and slew him, and reigned in his stead. 17. In the nine and thirtieth year of Azariah king of Judah began Menahem the son of Gadi to reign over Israel, and reigned ten years in Samaria.”
c. 780 BCE	Pekahiah succeeds his father Menahem to become king of Israel for 2 years.	2 Kings 15:22-23: “Menahem slept with his fathers; and Pekahiah his son reigned in his stead. 23. In the fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekahiah the son of Menahem began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned two years.”
c. 778 BCE	Pekah, the son of Remaliah succeeds Pekahiah to become king of Israel in Samaria for 20 years. Isaiah begins prophesying.	2 Kings 15:27: “In the two and fiftieth year of Azariah king of Judah Pekah the son of Remaliah began to reign over Israel in Samaria, and reigned twenty years.” Isaiah 1:1: “The vision of Isaiah the son of Amoz, which he saw concerning Judah and Jerusalem in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah.”
777 BCE	Jotham succeeds Uzziah (Azariah) to become the king of Judah for 16 years. Micah begins prophesying.	2 Kings 15:32-33: “In the second year of Pekah the son of Remaliah king of Israel began Jotham the son of Uzziah king of Judah to reign. 33. Five and twenty years old was he when he began to reign, and he reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem.”
762 BCE	Ahaz succeeds Jotham to become king of Judah for 16 years.	2 Kings 16:1-2: “In the seventeenth year of Pekah the son of Remaliah Ahaz the son of Jotham king of Judah began to reign. 2. Twenty years old was Ahaz when he began to reign, and reigned sixteen years in Jerusalem,”
a. 762 BCE	Syria and Israel war against Judah	2 Kings 15:37: “In those days the LORD began to send against Judah Rezin the king of Syria, and Pekah the son of Remaliah.
b. 759 BCE	Tiglath-pileser of Assyria exiles portions of Israel.	1 Kings 16:7-8: “Ahaz sent messengers to Tiglathpileser king of Assyria, saying, I am thy servant and thy son: come up, and save me out of the hand of the king of Syria, and out of the hand of the king of Israel, which rise up against me. 8, And Ahaz took the silver and gold that was found in the house of the LORD, and in the treasures of the king’s house, and sent it for a present to the king of Assyria.”
c. 758 BCE	Hoshea kills Pekah to become king of Israel for 9 years.	2 Kings 15:30: “Hoshea the son of Elah made a conspiracy against Pekah the son of Remaliah, and smote him, and slew him, and reigned in his stead, in the twentieth year of Jotham the son of Uzziah.” 2 Kings 17:1: “In the twelfth year of Ahaz king of Judah began Hoshea the son of Elah to reign in Samaria over Israel nine years.”
753 BCE, April 21	According to tradition Rome is founded.	Fortification walls on the north slope  of Rome's Palatine Hill have been dated to the middle of the 8th century BCE. According to the legend, Romulus plowed a furrow around the hill in order to mark the boundary of his new city.
745 BCE	Hezekiah succeeds his father Ahaz as king of Judah. He reigns 29 years.	2 Kings 18:1-2: “Now it came to pass in the third year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Hezekiah the son of Ahaz king of Judah began to reign. 2. Twenty and five years old was he when he began to reign; and he reigned twenty and nine years in Jerusalem.”
a. 745 BCE	Hosea writes the book of Hosea from the district of Samaria, covering the years b. 804 to a. 745 BCE.	Hosea 1:1: “The word of the LORD that came unto Hosea, the son of Beeri, in the days of Uzziah, Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, and in the days of Jeroboam the son of Joash, king of Israel.”
742 BCE	Samaria is besieged.	2 Kings 18:9: “And it came to pass in the fourth year of king Hezekiah, which was the seventh year of Hoshea son of Elah king of Israel, that Shalmaneser king of Assyria came up against Samaria, and besieged it.”
739 BCE	Assyria subjugates Israel and the people are relocated.	2 Kings 17:6: “In the ninth year of Hoshea the king of Assyria took Samaria, and carried Israel away into Assyria, and placed them in Halah and in Habor by the river of Gozan, and in the cities of the Medes.” 2 Kings 18:10: “And at the end of three years they took it: even in the sixth year of Hezekiah, that is the ninth year of Hoshea king of Israel, Samaria was taken.
732 BCE	Sennacherib, the king of Assyria, attacks Judah. He takes some of their cities, but when he comes up against Jerusalem, God sends an angel who kills 185,000 of Sennacherib’s troops in one night.	2 Kings 18:13: “Now in the fourteenth year of king Hezekiah did Sennacherib king of Assyria come up against all the fenced cities of Judah, and took them.” 2 Kings 19:35-37: “And it came to pass that night, that the angel of the LORD went out, and smote in the camp of the Assyrians an hundred fourscore and five thousand: and when they arose early in the morning, behold, they were all dead corpses. 36. So Sennacherib king of Assyria departed, and went and returned, and dwelt at Nineveh. 37. And it came to pass, as he was worshipping in the house of Nisroch his god, that Adrammelech and Sharezer his sons smote him with the sword: and they escaped into the land of Armenia. And Esarhaddon his son reigned in his stead.”
a. 732 BCE	Isaiah stops prophesying and writes the book of Isaiah from Jerusalem, covering the years c. 778 to a. 732 BCE.	Isaiah 6:1: “In the year that king Uzziah died I saw also the Lord sitting upon a throne, high and lifted up, and his train filled the temple.”
b. 717 BCE	Micah writes the book of Micah from Judah, covering the years c. 777 to 717 BCE.	Micah 1:1: “The word of the LORD that came to Micah the Morasthite in the days of Jotham, Ahaz, and Hezekiah, kings of Judah, which he saw concerning Samaria and Jerusalem.”
c. 717 BCE	The book of Proverbs is compiled and completed by King Hezekiah’s copyists. They were written by Solomon, Agur and Lemuel.	Proverbs 25:1: “These are also proverbs of Solomon, which the men of Hezekiah king of Judah copied out.”
716 BCE	Manasseh’s first regnal year as king of Judah after his father Hezekiah dies. He reigns 55 years.	2 Kings 21:1: “Manasseh was twelve years old when he began to reign, and reigned fifty and five years in Jerusalem.”
661 BCE	Amon succeeds Manasseh and becomes king of Judah.	2 Kings 21:19: “Amon was twenty and two years old when he began to reign, and he reigned two years in Jerusalem.”
659 BCE	Josiah succeeds Amon and becomes king of Judah.	2 Kings 22:1: “Josiah was eight years old when he began to reign, and he reigned thirty and one years in Jerusalem.”
b. 648 BCE	Zephaniah writes the book of Zephaniah.	Zephaniah 1:1: “The word of the LORD which came unto Zephaniah the son of Cushi, the son of Gedaliah, the son of Amariah, the son of Hizkiah, in the days of Josiah the son of Amon, king of Judah.”
647 BCE	Jeremiah is commissioned as a prophet.	Jeremiah 1:1-2: “The words of Jeremiah the son of Hilkiah, of the priests that were in Anathoth in the land of Benjamin: 2. To whom the word of the LORD came in the days of Josiah the son of Amon king of Judah, in the thirteenth year of his reign.”
c. 645 BCE	Nabopolassar becomes king of Babylon.	Nabopolassar, c. 658 BC – 605 BCE, was a king of Babylon and a central figure in the fall of the Assyrian Empire. He is credited with founding the Babylonian Empire.
632 BCE	Nineveh falls to the Chaldeans and Medes. Babylon begins to become a world power.	Nahum 3:7: “And it shall come to pass, that all they that look upon thee shall flee from thee, and say, Nineveh is laid waste: who will bemoan her? whence shall I seek comforters for thee?”
b. 632 BCE	Nahum writes the book of Nahum.	Nahum 1:1: “The burden of Nineveh. The book of the vision of Nahum the Elkoshite.”
629 BCE	Josiah dies when he goes up against Pharaoh Nechoh. Pharaoh Necho(h) takes Carchemish. The reestablishment of the Assyrian Empire fails.	2 Kings 23:29-30: “In his days Pharaoh nechoh king of Egypt went up against the king of Assyria to the river Euphrates: and king Josiah went against him; and he slew him at Megiddo, when he had seen him. 30.  And his servants carried him in a chariot dead from Megiddo, and brought him to Jerusalem, and buried him in his own sepulchre. And the people of the land took Jehoahaz the son of Josiah, and anointed him, and made him king in his father’s stead.”
628 BCE	Jehoahaz succeeds Josiah and becomes king of Judah for 3 months. Jehoiakim succeeds Jehoahaz and becomes king of Judah for 11 years.	2 Kings 23:31: “Jehoahaz was twenty and three years old when he began to reign; and he reigned three months in Jerusalem.” 2 Kings 23:36: “Jehoiakim was twenty and five years old when he began to reign; and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.”
c. 628 BCE	Habakkuk writes the book of Habakkuk.	Habakkuk 1:1: “The burden which Habakkuk the prophet did see.”
625 BCE	Battle of Carchemish takes place. Jeremiah has Baruch write down the prophecies. Nebuchadnezzar II becomes king of Babylon.	Jeremiah 25:1: “The word that came to Jeremiah concerning all the people of Judah in the fourth year of Jehoiakim the son of Josiah king of Judah, that was the first year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon.”
624 BCE	Baruch reads from Jeremiah’s scroll in the  temple courtyard.	Jeremiah 26:2: “Thus saith the LORD; Stand in the court of the LORD’S house, and speak unto all the cities of Judah, which come to worship in the LORD’S house, all the words that I command thee to speak unto them; diminish not a word.”
620 BCE	Jehoiakim becomes a vassal king to Nebuchadnezzar for 3 years.	2 Kings 24:1-2: “In his days Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up, and Jehoiakim became his servant three years: then he turned and rebelled against him. 2. And the LORD sent against him bands of the Chaldees, and bands of the Syrians, and bands of the Moabites, and bands of the children of Ammon, and sent them against Judah to destroy it, according to the word of the LORD, which he spake by his servants the prophets.”
618 BCE	Nebuchadnezzar besieges Jerusalem.	2 Kings 24:10: “At that time the servants of Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came up against Jerusalem, and the city was besieged.”
618-617 BCE	Jehoiachin succeeds his father Jehoiakim and reigns in Jerusalem for 3 months. He’s then taken by the king of Babylon and exiled.	2 Kings 24:6, 8: “So Jehoiakim slept with his fathers: and Jehoiachin his son reigned in his stead. 8. Jehoiachin was eighteen years old when he began to reign, and he reigned in Jerusalem three months.” 2 Kings 24:12: “Jehoiachin the king of Judah went out to the king of Babylon, he, and his mother, and his servants, and his princes, and his officers: and the king of Babylon took him in the eighth year of his reign.”
617 BCE	Mattaniah, the brother of Jehoiakim, is made king of Judah and his name is changed to Zedekiah. He reigns for 11 years. Nebuchadnezzar takes the first exiles from Jerusalem and Daniel is among them.	2 Kings 24:17-18: “The king of Babylon made Mattaniah his father’s brother king in his stead, and changed his name to Zedekiah. 18. Zedekiah was twenty and one years old when he began to reign, and he reigned eleven years in Jerusalem.” Daniel 1:1-4: “In the third year of the reign of Jehoiakim king of Judah came Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon unto Jerusalem, and besieged it. 2. And the Lord gave Jehoiakim king of Judah into his hand, with part of the vessels of the house of God: which he carried into the land of Shinar to the house of his god; and he brought the vessels into the treasure house of his god. 3. And the king spake unto Ashpenaz the master of his eunuchs, that he should bring certain of the children of Israel, and of the king’s seed, and of the princes; 4. Children in whom was no blemish, but well favoured, and skilful in all wisdom, and cunning in knowledge, and understanding science, and such as had ability in them to stand in the king’s palace, and whom they might teach the learning and the tongue of the Chaldeans.”
614 BCE	Zedekiah and his family are taken to Babylon and all his children are killed. Seraiah the chief priest, and the other priests are taken to Babylon.	1 Kings 25:1: “It came to pass in the ninth year of his reign, in the tenth month, in the tenth day of the month, that Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon came, he, and all his host, against Jerusalem, and pitched against it; and they built forts against it round about.” 2 Kings 25:6-7: “They took the king, and brought him up to the king of Babylon to Riblah; and they gave judgment upon him. 7. And they slew the sons of Zedekiah before his eyes, and put out the eyes of Zedekiah, and bound him with fetters of brass, and carried him to Babylon.” 2 Kings 25:18: “The captain of the guard took Seraiah the chief priest, and Zephaniah the second priest, and the three keepers of the door:”
613 BCE	Ezekiel is commissioned to prophesy.	Ezekiel 1:1-3: “Now it came to pass in the thirtieth year, in the fourth month, in the fifth day of the month, as I was among the captives by the river of Chebar, that the heavens were opened, and I saw visions of God. 2. In the fifth day of the month, which was the fifth year of king Jehoiachin’s captivity, 3. The word of the LORD came expressly unto Ezekiel the priest, the son of Buzi, in the land of the Chaldeans by the river Chebar; and the hand of the LORD was there upon him.”
612 BCE	Ezekiel has a vision of the false worship in the temple.	Ezekiel 8:16: “He brought me into the inner court of the LORD’S house, and, behold, at the door of the temple of the LORD, between the porch and the altar, were about five and twenty men, with their backs toward the temple of the LORD, and their faces toward the east; and they worshipped the sun toward the east.”
611 BCE	Ezekiel confirms  that Jerusalem will fall.	Ezekiel 33:28-29: “For I will lay the land most desolate, and the pomp of her strength shall cease; and the mountains of Israel shall be desolate, that none shall pass through. 29. Then shall they know that I am the LORD, when I have laid the land most desolate because of all their abominations which they have committed.”
609 BCE	The third and final siege of Jerusalem begins.	2 Kings 25:2: “The city was besieged unto the eleventh year of king Zedekiah.”
607 BCE	In the fifth month, Ab, Jerusalem falls. The city is destroyed and its temple burned. In the seventh month the rest of the people leave Jerusalem.  The 7 times or 2520 years until Jesus Christ is made king of God’s kingdom as foretold by Daniel begins. See 1914 CE for the explanation. Jeremiah writes the book of Lamentations near Jerusalem.	2 Kings 25:8-9: “In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: 9. And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.” Jeremiah 52:12-14: “ Now in the fifth month, in the tenth day of the month, which was the nineteenth year of Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, which served the king of Babylon, into Jerusalem, 13. And burned the house of the LORD, and the king’s house; and all the houses of Jerusalem, and all the houses of the great men, burned he with fire: 14. And all the army of the Chaldeans, that were with the captain of the guard, brake down all the walls of Jerusalem round about.” 2 Kings 25:22: “As for the people that remained in the land of Judah, whom Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon had left, even over them he made Gedaliah the son of Ahikam, the son of Shaphan, ruler.” 2 Kings 25:25-26: “But it came to pass in the seventh month, that Ishmael the son of Nethaniah, the son of Elishama, of the seed royal, came, and ten men with him, and smote Gedaliah, that he died, and the Jews and the Chaldees that were with him at Mizpah. 26. And all the people, both small and great, and the captains of the armies, arose, and came to Egypt: for they were afraid of the Chaldees.” Daniel 4:10-16: “Let seven times pass over him.”
c. 607 BCE	Obadiah writes the book of Obadiah.	Obadiah 1:1: “The vision of Obadiah.”
a. 607 BCE	Sometime after the fall of Jerusalem in 607 B.C.E. Nebuchadnezzar begins the foretold siege against Tyre.	Ezekiel 26:7: “For thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will bring upon Tyrus Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon, a king of kings, from the north, with horses, and with chariots, and with horsemen, and companies, and much people.” Ezekiel 29:18: Son of man, Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon caused his army to serve a great service against Tyrus: every head was made bald, and every shoulder was peeled: yet had he no wages, nor his army, for Tyrus, for the service that he had served against it.”
c. 606 BCE	Nebuchadnezzar has a dream of a large image and Daniel interprets it.	Daniel 2:1: “In the second year of the reign of Nebuchadnezzar Nebuchadnezzar dreamed dreams, wherewith his spirit was troubled, and his sleep brake from him.” Daniel 2:27-28: “Daniel answered in the presence of the king, and said, The secret which the king hath demanded cannot the wise men, the astrologers, the magicians, the soothsayers, shew unto the king; 28. But there is a God in heaven that revealeth secrets, and maketh known to the king Nebuchadnezzar what shall be in the latter days.”
602 BCE	Nebuchadnezzar exiles more Jews. He conquers Moab and Ammon and invades Egypt.	Jeremiah 52:30: “In the three and twentieth year of Nebuchadrezzar Nebuzaradan the captain of the guard carried away captive of the Jews seven hundred forty and five persons: all the persons were four thousand and six hundred.” Ezekiel 29:19-20: “ Therefore thus saith the Lord GOD; Behold, I will give the land of Egypt unto Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylon; and he shall take her multitude, and take her spoil, and take her prey; and it shall be the wages for his army. 20. I have given him the land of Egypt for his labour wherewith he served against it, because they wrought for me, saith the Lord GOD.”
c. 600 BCE	Buddhism first appears.	Buddhism originated in Ancient India sometime around the 5th century BCE.
593 BCE	Ezekiel has a vision of the future temple.	Ezekiel 40:2: “In the visions of God brought he me into the land of Israel, and set me upon a very high mountain, by which was as the frame of a city on the south.”
c. 591 BCE	Ezekiel writes the book of Ezekiel from Babylon, covering the years 613 to c. 591 BCE.	Ezekiel 40:1: “In the five and twentieth year of our captivity, in the beginning of the year, in the tenth day of the month, in the fourteenth year after that the city was smitten, in the selfsame day the hand of the LORD was upon me, and brought me thither.”
580 BCE	Jeremiah writes the books of 1 Kings and 2 Kings in Judah and Egupt, covering the years 1040 to 580 BCE. Jehoiachin is released from prison in Babylon. The book of Jeremiah is written by Jeremiah from Judah and Egypt, covering the years 647 to 580 BCE.	Jeremiah 52:31-34: “And it came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, in the five and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the first year of his reign lifted up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah, and brought him forth out of prison, 32. And spake kindly unto him, and set his throne above the throne of the kings that were with him in Babylon, 33. And changed his prison garments: and he did continually eat bread before him all the days of his life. 34. And for his diet, there was a continual diet given him of the king of Babylon, every day a portion until the day of his death, all the days of his life.” 2 Kings 25:27: "It came to pass in the seven and thirtieth year of the captivity of Jehoiachin king of Judah, in the twelfth month, on the seven and twentieth day of the month, that Evilmerodach king of Babylon in the year that he began to reign did lift up the head of Jehoiachin king of Judah out of prison.”
560 BCE	Cyrus the Great becomes king of Persia	Ezra 1:1-2: “ Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD by the mouth of Jeremiah might be fulfilled, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 2. Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, The LORD God of heaven hath given me all the kingdoms of the earth; and he hath charged me to build him an house at Jerusalem, which is in Judah.
556 BCE	Nabonidus becomes king of Babylon.	Nabonidus was the last king of Babylon. He reigned from 556–539 BCE.
553 BCE	Belshazzar, Nabonidus’ son, was his co-regent when Daniel receives his vision.	Daniel 7:1: “In the first year of Belshazzar king of Babylon Daniel had a dream and visions of his head upon his bed: then he wrote the dream, and told the sum of the matters.”
551 BCE	Daniel receives  another vision when Belshazzar was in his third year as co-regent.	Daniel 8:1: “In the third year of the reign of king Belshazzar a vision appeared unto me, even unto me Daniel, after that which appeared unto me at the first.
550 BCE	Cyrus unites the Medes and Persians.	Astyages the son of Cyaxares was the last king of the Median Empire and reigned from 585–550 BCE. He was dethroned in 550 BCE by Cyrus the Great.
540 BCE	Meroë becomes the capital of Ethiopia	After capturing Ethiopia, its capital was given the name Meroë by the Persian king, Cambyses I, in honor of his sister who was called by that name. Cambyses I was the father of Cyrus the Great.
539 BCE	Cyrus the Great takes Babylon and becomes its king. Medo-Persia becomes the fourth world power. Daniel receives prophecy of 70 weeks.	Daniel 5:30-31: “ In that night was Belshazzar the king of the Chaldeans slain. 31. And Darius the Median took the kingdom, being about threescore and two years old.” Daniel 9:2: “In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
538-537 BCE	Cyrus decrees release of Jews so they can start the rebuilding of the temple, marking the end of Jerusalem’s 70 years of desolation.	2 Chronicles 36:22-23: “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing, saying, 23. Thus saith Cyrus king of Persia, All the kingdoms of the earth hath the LORD God of heaven given me; and he hath charged me to build him an house in Jerusalem, which is in Judah. Who is there among you of all his people? The LORD his God be with him, and let him go up.” Jeremiah 25:27: “Therefore thou shalt say unto them, Thus saith the LORD of hosts, the God of Israel; Drink ye, and be drunken, and spue, and fall, and rise no more, because of the sword which I will send among you.” Jeremiah 29:10: “For thus saith the LORD, That after seventy years be accomplished at Babylon I will visit you, and perform my good word toward you, in causing you to return to this place.”
537 BCE	The Jews return to their cities and an altar is erected to resume the burnt offerings.	Ezra 3:1-3: “And when the seventh month was come, and the children of Israel were in the cities, the people gathered themselves together as one man to Jerusalem. 2. Then stood up Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and his brethren the priests, and Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and his brethren, and builded the altar of the God of Israel, to offer burnt offerings thereon, as it is written in the law of Moses the man of God. 3. And they set the altar upon his bases; for fear was upon them because of the people of those countries: and they offered burnt offerings thereon unto the LORD, even burnt offerings morning and evening.”
536 BCE	Daniel receives the prophecy of the kings of the north and the south. The temple foundation is laid out by Zerubbabel.	Daniel 10:1: “In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia a thing was revealed unto Daniel, whose name was called Belteshazzar; and the thing was true, but the time appointed was long: and he understood the thing, and had understanding of the vision.” Ezra 3:8, 10: “Now in the second year of their coming unto the house of God at Jerusalem, in the second month, began Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and the remnant of their brethren the priests and the Levites, and all they that were come out of the captivity unto Jerusalem; and appointed the Levites, from twenty years old and upward, to set forward the work of the house of the LORD. 10. And when the builders laid the foundation of the temple of the LORD, they set the priests in their apparel with trumpets, and the Levites the sons of Asaph with cymbals, to praise the LORD, after the ordinance of David king of Israel.”
c. 536 BCE	Daniel writes the book of Daniel from Babylon, covering the years 618 to c. 536 BCE.	Daniel 10:1: “In the third year of Cyrus king of Persia.”
530 BCE	Cyrus the Great dies.	Ezra 4:4-5: “Then the people of the land weakened the hands of the people of Judah, and troubled them in building, 5. And hired counsellors against them, to frustrate their purpose, all the days of Cyrus king of Persia, even until the reign of Darius king of Persia.”
529 BCE	Cambyses II, the son of Cyrus the Great, begins to rule. He is probably the Ahasuerus mentioned in Ezra.	Ezra 4:6: “In the reign of Ahasuerus, in the beginning of his reign, wrote they unto him an accusation against the inhabitants of Judah and Jerusalem.”
525 BCE	Cambyses II subjugates Egypt. While he’s gone a usurper takes the throne.	Ezra 4:7: “And in the days of Artaxerxes wrote Bishlam, Mithredath, Tabeel, and the rest of their companions, unto Artaxerxes king of Persia.”
522 BCE	Cambyses II dies and Smerdis (Bardiya or Gaumata) usurps Persian throne. A ban is put on the temple rebuilding.	Ezra 4:23-24: “Now when the copy of king Artaxerxes’ letter was read before Rehum, and Shimshai the scribe, and their companions, they went up in haste to Jerusalem unto the Jews, and made them to cease by force and power. 24. Then ceased the work of the house of God which is at Jerusalem. So it ceased unto the second year of the reign of Darius king of Persia.”
521-520 BCE	Darius I (Hystaspis) ascends the throne as king of Babylon. In December of his first year as king, he defeats Nebuchadnezzar III, king of Babylon.	Daniel 9:1-2: “ “In the first year of Darius the son of Ahasuerus, of the seed of the Medes, which was made king over the realm of the Chaldeans; 2. In the first year of his reign I Daniel understood by books the number of the years, whereof the word of the LORD came to Jeremiah the prophet, that he would accomplish seventy years in the desolations of Jerusalem.
520 BCE	Haggai and Zechariah prophesy. The temple building is resumed. Haggai writes the book of Haggai from Jerusalem, covering 112 days of the year 520 BCE.	Ezra 5:1-2: “Then the prophets, Haggai the prophet, and Zechariah the son of Iddo, prophesied unto the Jews that were in Judah and Jerusalem in the name of the God of Israel, even unto them. 2. Then rose up Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, and Jeshua the son of Jozadak, and began to build the house of God which is at Jerusalem: and with them were the prophets of God helping them. Haggai 1:1: “In the second year of Darius the king, in the sixth month, in the first day of the month, came the word of the LORD by Haggai the prophet unto Zerubbabel the son of Shealtiel, governor of Judah, and to Joshua the son of Josedech, the high priest.”
518 BCE	Zechariah writes the  book of Zechariah from Jerusalem, covering the years 520 to 518 BCE.	Zechariah 1:1: “In the eighth month, in the second year of Darius.”
515 BCE	Jerusalem’s second temple is completed by Zerubbabel.	Ezra 6:14-15: “The elders of the Jews builded, and they prospered through the prophesying of Haggai the prophet and Zechariah the son of Iddo. And they builded, and finished it, according to the commandment of the God of Israel, and according to the commandment of Cyrus, and Darius, and Artaxerxes king of Persia. 15. And this house was finished on the third day of the month Adar, which was in the sixth year of the reign of Darius the king.”
c. 500 BCE	Confucianism started to become popular in what has become China. The roots of Taoisum also began in China about the same time.	Confucianism develops from what is later called the Hundred Schools of Thought from the teachings of the Chinese philosopher Confucius. Laozi is traditionally regarded as the founder of religious Taoism. The work attributed to him, the Tao Te Ching, is dated to about the late 4th century BCE.
496 BCE	Xerxes I is co-regent with his father Darius I (Hystaspis).	Xerxes I rules for 10 years as co-regent with his father from 496 to 486 BCE.
490 BCE	The battle of Marathon, Greece takes place.	Because some Greek cities rebel against Persia, Darius I sends his army into Greece, but they are defeated at the battle of Marathon.
486 BCE	Darius I (Hystaspis) dies.	Upon his father’s death in 486 BCE, Xerxes I reigns alone.
c. 484 BCE	The events with Haman in the book of Esther take place, where Ahasuerus (Xerxes I) decrees the extermination of the Jews.	Esther 3:1-2: “After these things did king Ahasuerus promote Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, and advanced him, and set his seat above all the princes that were with him. 2. And all the king’s servants, that were in the king’s gate, bowed, and reverenced Haman: for the king had so commanded concerning him. But Mordecai bowed not, nor did him reverence.” Esther 3:8-10: “Haman said unto king Ahasuerus, There is a certain people scattered abroad and dispersed among the people in all the provinces of thy kingdom; and their laws are diverse from all people; neither keep they the king’s laws: therefore it is not for the king’s profit to suffer them. 9. If it please the king, let it be written that they may be destroyed: and I will pay ten thousand talents of silver to the hands of those that have the charge of the business, to bring it into the king’s treasuries. 10. And the king took his ring from his hand, and gave it unto Haman the son of Hammedatha the Agagite, the Jews’ enemy.” Esther 9:5: “Thus the Jews smote all their enemies with the stroke of the sword, and slaughter, and destruction, and did what they would unto those that hated them.”
480 BCE	Xerxes I invades Greece, leading to the battle at Thermopylae where the Greek force of 300 Spartans, etc., are killed in a standoff.	The Battle of Thermopylae is fought between an alliance of Greek city-states led by King Leonidas of Sparta and the Persian king Xerxes I over the course of three days during the second Persian invasion of Greece. Leonidas, aware that his force is being outflanked, dismisses the bulk of the Greek army and remains to guard their retreat with 300 Spartans, 700 Thespians, and 400 Thebans, fighting to the death.
479 BCE	The Greeks defeat the Persians at Plataea.	The Battle of Plataea is the final land battle during the second Persian invasion of Greece. It takes place near the city of Plataea in Boeotia, and is fought between an alliance of the Greek city-states (including Sparta, Athens, Corinth and Megara), and the Persian Empire of Xerxes I. A large portion of the Persian army is trapped in its camp and slaughtered.
c. 475 BCE	Mordecai finishes writing the book of Esther from Shushan, Elam, covering the years 493 to c. 475 BCE.	Esther 3:7: “In the first month, that is, the month Nisan, in the twelfth year of king Ahasuerus. Esther 9:32: “The decree of Esther confirmed these matters of Purim; and it was written in the book.”
475 BCE	Artaxerxes Longimanus, the son of Xerxes I, ascends the throne.	Xerxes I is assassinated  by Artabanus, the commander of the royal bodyguard. After his father’s assassination, Artaxerxes Longimanus becomes king of the Persian Empire.
468 BCE	Ezra and the priests return to Jerusalem in the 7th full regnal year of Artaxerxes Longimanus.	Ezra 7:7: “There went up some of the children of Israel, and of the priests, and the Levites, and the singers, and the porters, and the Nethinims, unto Jerusalem, in the seventh year of Artaxerxes the king.”
c. 460 BCE	Ezra finishes writing the books of 1 Chronicles and 2 Chronicles probably from Jerusalem, covering the years from b. 1077 to 537 BCE. Ezra writes the book of Ezra from Jerusalem,  covering 537 to c. 467 BCE. The Psalms are compiled and completed after the Israelites are taken to Babylon, most likely by Ezra.	2 Chronicles 36:22: “Now in the first year of Cyrus king of Persia, that the word of the LORD spoken by the mouth of Jeremiah might be accomplished, the LORD stirred up the spirit of Cyrus king of Persia, that he made a proclamation throughout all his kingdom, and put it also in writing Psalm 137:1: “By the rivers of Babylon, there we sat down, yea, we wept, when we remembered Zion.” Ezra 7:6: “This Ezra went up from Babylon; and he was a ready scribe in the law of Moses, which the LORD God of Israel had given: and the king granted him all his request, according to the hand of the LORD his God upon him.”
455 BCE	Artaxerxes Longimanus issues the command to rebuild Jerusalem and its walls in his 20th year. This begins the 70 weeks foretold in Daniel 9:24. Thus the 69 weeks or 483 years would lead to the year 29 CE when Jesus was baptized and anointed with holy spirit to become the Messiah. The 70 weeks leads to the year 36 CE when Cornelius became the first gentile to be baptized and receive the holy spirit.  Jerusalem’s walls are completed. Levites pray to God, representing the nation.	Nehemiah 1:1: “The words of Nehemiah the son of Hachaliah. And it came to pass in the month Chisleu, in the twentieth year, as I was in Shushan the palace.” Nehemiah 2:1: “It came to pass in the month Nisan, in the twentieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that wine was before him: and I took up the wine, and gave it unto the king. Now I had not been beforetime sad in his presence.” Nehemiah 2:5-8: “ And I said unto the king, If it please the king, and if thy servant have found favour in thy sight, that thou wouldest send me unto Judah, unto the city of my fathers’ sepulchres, that I may build it. 6. And the king said unto me, (the queen also sitting by him,) For how long shall thy journey be? and when wilt thou return? So it pleased the king to send me; and I set him a time. 7. Moreover I said unto the king, If it please the king, let letters be given me to the governors beyond the river, that they may convey me over till I come into Judah; 8. And a letter unto Asaph the keeper of the king’s forest, that he may give me timber to make beams for the gates of the palace which appertained to the house, and for the wall of the city, and for the house that I shall enter into. And the king granted me, according to the good hand of my God upon me.” Nehemiah 2:11: “So I came to Jerusalem.” Nehemiah 6:15: “So the wall was finished in the twenty and fifth day of the month Elul, in fifty and two days.” Nehemiah 9:1, 4: “Now in the twenty and fourth day of this month the children of Israel were assembled with fasting, and with sackclothes, and earth upon them. 4. Then stood up upon the stairs, of the Levites, Jeshua, and Bani, Kadmiel, Shebaniah, Bunni, Sherebiah, Bani, and Chenani, and cried with a loud voice unto the LORD their God.”
c. 443 BCE	Nehemiah returns to Persia and reports to the king. Later, he asks to return to Jerusalem.	Nehemiah 13:6: “But in all this time was not I at Jerusalem: for in the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes king of Babylon came I unto the king, and after certain days obtained I leave of the king.”
a. 443 BCE	Malachi writes the book of Malachi from Jerusalem. Nehemiah returns to Israel. Nehemiah writes the book of Nehemiah from Jerusalem, covering the years 456 to a. 443 BCE.	Malachi 1:1: “The burden of the word of the LORD to Israel by Malachi.” Nehemiah 5:14: “Moreover from the time that I was appointed to be their governor in the land of Judah, from the twentieth year even unto the two and thirtieth year of Artaxerxes the king, that is, twelve years, I and my brethren have not eaten the bread of the governor.”
424 BCE	Artaxerxes Longimanus’ dies and his son Xerxes II briefly ascends the throne. Xerxes II’s brothers, Sogdianus and Darius II, then succeed him.	Artaxerxes son Xerxes II dies after a reign of less then a year and his brother Sogdianus succeeds him to the throne. He rules for seven months before he’s slain by his brother Darius II, who then reigns for nineteen years.
423-422 BCE	Darius II’s (Ochus) first full regnal year.	Nehemiah 12:22: “The Levites in the days of Eliashib, Joiada, and Johanan, and Jaddua, were recorded chief of the fathers: also the priests, to the reign of Darius the Persian.”
406 BCE	Rebuilding of Jerusalem is completed.	Daniel 9:25: “Know therefore and understand, that from the going forth of the commandment to restore and to build Jerusalem unto the Messiah the Prince shall be seven weeks, and threescore and two weeks: the street shall be built again, and the wall, even in troublous times.
404 BCE	Artaxerxes II (Mnemon) becomes king.	During the reign of Artaxerxes II (Mnemon), Egypt revolts and the relationship with Greece deteriorates.
358 BCE	Artaxerxes III (Ochus) becomes king	Artaxerxes III (Ochus) rules Persia about 21 years and reconquers Egypt.
336 BCE	Alexander the Great ascends the throne of Greece.	Philip of Macedonia is murdered and is succeeded by his son Alexander.
334 BCE	Alexander invades Persia and defeats the Persians at Granicus.	Alexander attacks the Persian Empire, defeating the Persian forces at Granicus in the NW corner of Asia Minor.
333 BCE	Alexander defeats Persians at Issus.	Alexander attacks and defeats Issus at the opposite corner of Asia Minor.
332 BCE	Alexander overthrows Tyre, enters Jerusalem, and then conquers Egypt.	Daniel 8:20-21: “The ram which thou sawest having two horns are the kings of Media and Persia. 21. And the rough goat is the king of Grecia: and the great horn that is between his eyes is the first king.” Daniel 11:2-3: “Now will I shew thee the truth. Behold, there shall stand up yet three kings in Persia; and the fourth shall be far richer than they all: and by his strength through his riches he shall stir up all against the realm of Grecia. 3. And a mighty king shall stand up, that shall rule with great dominion, and do according to his will.”
331 BCE	Alexander defeats Persians at Gaugamela and the Persian Empire falls. Alexander enters Babylon. Greece becomes the Fifth World Power.	After Alexander conquers Phoenicia and Egypt, and the Persians’ last stand at Gaugamela is crushed, the Medo-Persian Empire comes to its end. When Darius III of Persia is murdered, Babylon surrenders. Alexander pushes on to secure Susa and Persepolis and from there continues his campaign into India.
323 BCE	Alexander the Great returns to Babylon where he dies at the age of 32 of malarial fever. The “Partition of Babylon” for dividing up Alexander’s empire takes place.	After Alexander dies, his empire is divided between four of his generals, just as Daniel prophesied. Daniel 8:8: “Therefore the he goat waxed very great: and when he was strong, the great horn was broken; and for it came up four notable ones toward the four winds of heaven.” Daniel 8:22: “Now that being broken, whereas four stood up for it, four kingdoms shall stand up out of the nation, but not in his power.” Daniel 11:4: “When he shall stand up, his kingdom shall be broken, and shall be divided toward the four winds of heaven; and not to his posterity, nor according to his dominion which he ruled: for his kingdom shall be plucked up, even for others beside those.”
301 BCE	As prophesied by Daniel, four of Alexander’s generals take over his empire.	Alexander‘s empire is divided among four generals: Seleucus Nicator takes Mesopotamia and Syria; Cassander takes Macedonia and Greece; Ptolemy Lagus takes Egypt and Palestine; and Lysimachus takes Thrace and Asia Minor.
c. 280 BCE	Translating of the Hebrew scriptures into Koine (common) Greek begins.	About 70 Hebrew scholars get together in Alexandria, Egypt, and translate the Hebrew writings into Greek because it has now become the common language of the people. The book is known as the Septuagint or LXX which means 70 in Latin. Paul and the other apostles quoted from it several times in their writings.
c. 167 BCE	An effort to burn all Hebrew Scripture scrolls begins. Jerusalem’s temple is desecrated. Macedonia (Greece) is conquered by Rome.	Seleucid King Antiochus Epiphanes, tries to force the Greek religion on the Jews by ordering that all copies of the Hebrew Scriptures be destroyed. Even though his officials “tore and burnt the rolls of the Law whenever they found them,” Jews and their synagogues had by now spread to many countries throughout the world. At the temple in Jerusalem, Antiochus builds an altar on top of the great altar and sacrifices swine on it. He then rededicates the temple of Zerubbabel to the pagan god Zeus of Olympus. The Third Macedonian War is fought under the Roman consul Lucius Aemilius Paulus and King Perseus of Macedonia. It ends when Rome decisively defeats Macedonian forces at the Battle of Pydna.
167 BCE	The Maccabean revolt begins.	Two years later, Judas Maccabaeus recaptures Jerusalem and the temple. He tears down the defiled altar and builds a new altar of unhewn stones.
c. 165 or 164 BCE?	Jerusalem’s temple is rededicated after its desecration by the Greeks. Thereafter the incident is celebrated as the Festival of Dedication.	The temple is rededicated on Chislev 25, 165 B.C.E., exactly three years to the day after Antiochus had made his sacrifice on the altar in worship of his pagan god. The daily or continual burnt offerings are renewed. John 10:22: “It was at Jerusalem the feast of the dedication, and it was winter.”
150 BCE	The Septuagint version of the Hebrew Scriptures is completed.	After the Pentateuch is translated into Greek, the other books of the Hebrew Scriptures are then translated by various other translators whose style varied from quite literal to a rather free rendition. They are gradually added until the translation of the entire Hebrew Scriptures is finally completed. Thereafter the entire work came to be known as the Septuagint.
146 BCE	Macedonia becomes a Roman province.	All of Macedonia is now formed into one single Roman province.
63 BCE	Jerusalem falls to Roman rule. Rome becomes the Sixth World Power.	After a three-month siege, Roman General Gnaeus Pompey took Jerusalem and annexed Judea to the empire. John 19:15: “We have no king but Caesar.” Revelation 17:10: “There are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.”
46 BCE	Julius Caesar begins his rule in Rome.	Gaius Julius Caesar is appointed dictator of Rome for ten years. Gaius is his personal name, Julius is the name of his clan or house and Caesar is the name of his family.
44 BCE	Julius Caesar is assassinated.	Julius Caesar is murdered by Brutus on the steps of the Senate in Rome. His adopted son Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian) succeeds him.
42 BCE	Victory of Octavius and Mark Antony on Plain of Philippi.	The battle in which Octavian and Mark Antony defeat the armies of Brutus and Gaius Cassius Longinus, assassins of Julius Caesar, takes place on the Plain of Philippi. Afterward, as a memorial of his great victory, Octavian makes Philippi a Roman “colony.” Acts 16:12: “From thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.”
c. 39 BCE	Herod the Great is appointed king by Rome.	Herod the Great is appointed king of the Jews by Marc Anthony in Rome.
c. 37 BCE	Herod the Great takes Jerusalem	With the help of the Romans, Herod captures Jerusalem, and Antigonus its king is sent to Rome to be executed. Herod takes the role as king of Judea for himself.
31 BCE	Octavius begins to rule in Rome. Octavius defeats Mark Antony.	Octavius, Mark Antony, and Marcus Lepidus formed the Second Triumvirate to defeat the assassins of Julius Caesar. Following their victory at the Battle of Philippi, they divide the Roman Republic among themselves and rule as military dictators. After Lepidus was driven into exile and Antony committed suicide following his defeat at the Battle of Actium, Octavius becomes sole dictator.
30 BCE	Octavius conquers Egypt.	Octavius dramatically enlarges the Empire by annexing Egypt, Dalmatia, Pannonia, Noricum, and Raetia. He also expands possessions in Africa and Germania, and completes the conquest of Hispania.
27 BCE	Octavius becomes emperor, and is proclaimed “Augustus”.	Octavius establishes his rulership over the realm and is accorded the title of Augustus by the Roman Senate, becoming known as Caesar Augustus.
c. 17 BCE	Herod begins to rebuild the temple in Jerusalem.	John 2:20: “Then said the Jews, Forty and six years was this temple in building, and wilt thou rear it up in three days?”
3 BCE	Gabriel foretells the birth of John the Baptizer. A few months later he foretells the birth of the Messiah to the young virgin Mary.	Luke 1:5: “There was in the days of Herod, the king of Judaea, a certain priest named Zacharias, of the course of Abia: and his wife was of the daughters of Aaron, and her name was Elisabeth.” Luke 1:15: “But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John.” Luke 1:27-33: “ To a virgin espoused to a man whose name was Joseph, of the house of David; and the virgin’s name was Mary. 28. And the angel came in unto her, and said, Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women. 29. And when she saw him, she was troubled at his saying, and cast in her mind what manner of salutation this should be. 30. And the angel said unto her, Fear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. 31. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. 32. He shall be great, and shall be called the Son of the Highest: and the Lord God shall give unto him the throne of his father David: 33. And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of his kingdom there shall be no end.”
2 BCE	John the Baptizer is born in the Spring. Jesus is born in Bethlehem 6 months later in the Fall.	Luke 1:60: “His mother answered and said, Not so; but he shall be called John.” Luke 2:1: “It came to pass in those days, that there went out a decree from Caesar Augustus, that all the world should be taxed.” Luke 2:7: “She brought forth her firstborn son, and wrapped him in swaddling clothes, and laid him in a manger; because there was no room for them in the inn.”
1 BCE	Herod the Great dies.	According to Josephus, Herod died not long after an eclipse of the moon and before a Passover. There was a total eclipse of the moon in 1 BCE on January 8 (January 10, Julian), 18 days before Shebat 2, the traditional day of Herod’s death, and about three months before Passover.
c. 10 CE	Jesus is found teaching the priests in the temple at Jerusalem.	Luke 2:42-49: “When he was twelve years old, they went up to Jerusalem after the custom of the feast. 43. And when they had fulfilled the days, as they returned, the child Jesus tarried behind in Jerusalem; and Joseph and his mother knew not of it.” Luke 2:46-49: “ And it came to pass, that after three days they found him in the temple, sitting in the midst of the doctors, both hearing them, and asking them questions. 47. And all that heard him were astonished at his understanding and answers. 48. And when they saw him, they were amazed: and his mother said unto him, Son, why hast thou thus dealt with us? behold, thy father and I have sought thee sorrowing. 49. And he said unto them, How is it that ye sought me? wist ye not that I must be about my Father’s business?”
14 CE	Tiberius becomes emperor of the Roman empire.	Upon the death of Augustus Caesar, his step-son Tiberius becomes Emperor.
29 CE	John the Baptizer begins his ministry in the Spring. In the fall, Jesus  is baptized, thus becoming the  Christ (Messiah).	Luke 3:1-2: “Now in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar, Pontius Pilate being governor of Judaea, and Herod being tetrarch of Galilee, and his brother Philip tetrarch of Ituraea and of the region of Trachonitis, and Lysanias the tetrarch of Abilene, 2. Annas and Caiaphas being the high priests, the word of God came unto John the son of Zacharias in the wilderness. Luke 3:21-23: “It came to pass, that Jesus also being baptized, and praying, the heaven was opened, 22. And the Holy Ghost descended in a bodily shape like a dove upon him, and a voice came from heaven, which said, Thou art my beloved Son; in thee I am well pleased. 23. And Jesus himself began to be about thirty years of age, being (as was supposed) the son of Joseph, which was the son of Heli”
30 CE	Jesus performs his first miracle. Jesus cleanses the temple of the merchants.	John 2:1, 7-10: “The third day there was a marriage in Cana of Galilee; and the mother of Jesus was there. 7. Jesus saith unto them, Fill the waterpots with water. And they filled them up to the brim. 8. And he saith unto them, Draw out now, and bear unto the governor of the feast. And they bare it. 9. When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine, and knew not whence it was: (but the servants which drew the water knew;) the governor of the feast called the bridegroom, 10. And saith unto him, Every man at the beginning doth set forth good wine; and when men have well drunk, then that which is worse: but thou hast kept the good wine until now.” John 2:13-16: “The Jews’ passover was at hand, and Jesus went up to Jerusalem, 14. And found in the temple those that sold oxen and sheep and doves, and the changers of money sitting: 15. And when he had made a scourge of small cords, he drove them all out of the temple, and the sheep, and the oxen; and poured out the changers’ money, and overthrew the tables; 16. And said unto them that sold doves, Take these things hence; make not my Father’s house an house of merchandise.”
31 CE	Jesus chooses 12 apostles. Jesus gives his Sermon on the Mount.	Mark 3:13-19: “He goeth up into a mountain, and calleth unto him whom he would: and they came unto him. 14. And he ordained twelve, that they should be with him, and that he might send them forth to preach, 15. And to have power to heal sicknesses, and to cast out devils: 16. And Simon he surnamed Peter; 17. And James the son of Zebedee, and John the brother of James; and he surnamed them Boanerges, which is, The sons of thunder: 18. And Andrew, and Philip, and Bartholomew, and Matthew, and Thomas, and James the son of Alphaeus, and Thaddaeus, and Simon the Canaanite, 19. And Judas Iscariot, which also betrayed him.” Luke 6:12-16: “It came to pass in those days, that he went out into a mountain to pray, and continued all night in prayer to God. 13. And when it was day, he called unto him his disciples: and of them he chose twelve, whom also he named apostles; 14. Simon, (whom he also named Peter,) and Andrew his brother, James and John, Philip and Bartholomew, 15. Matthew and Thomas, James the son of Alphaeus, and Simon called Zelotes, 16. And Judas the brother of James, and Judas Iscariot, which also was the traitor.”
32 CE	John the Baptizer is beheaded. Jesus attends the Festival of Booths. Jesus sends out  70 disciples. Jesus resurrects Lazarus.	Matthew 14:10-11: “He sent, and beheaded John in the prison. 11. And his head was brought in a charger, and given to the damsel: and she brought it to her mother.” John 7:14: “ Now about the midst of the feast Jesus went up into the temple, and taught.” Luke 10:1: “After these things the Lord appointed other seventy also, and sent them two and two before his face into every city and place, whither he himself would come.” John 11:41-44: “Then they took away the stone from the place where the dead was laid. And Jesus lifted up his eyes, and said, Father, I thank thee that thou hast heard me. 42. And I knew that thou hearest me always: but because of the people which stand by I said it, that they may believe that thou hast sent me. 43. And when he thus had spoken, he cried with a loud voice, Lazarus, come forth. 44. And he that was dead came forth, bound hand and foot with graveclothes: and his face was bound about with a napkin. Jesus saith unto them, Loose him, and let him go.”
33 CE part 1	Nisan 7: Jesus travels from Jericho. Nisan 8: He arrives in Bethany. Nisan 9: He has a meal at the home of Simon. The next morning he enters Jerusalem. Nisan 10: He again cleanses the temple, then teaches in the synagogue; Jehovah says he’s approved. Nisan 11: He ministers in and around Jerusalem. Nisan 12: He rests. Judas offers to betray him to priests. Nisan 13: Passover preparations are made. Nisan 14: The Passover. His trial, impalement and death.	Luke 22:15-16: “He said unto them, With desire I have desired to eat this passover with you before I suffer: 16. For I say unto you, I will not any more eat thereof, until it be fulfilled in the kingdom of God.” Luke 23:33: “When they were come to the place, which is called Calvary, there they crucified him, and the malefactors, one on the right hand, and the other on the left.” Luke 23:46: “When Jesus had cried with a loud voice, he said, Father, into thy hands I commend my spirit: and having said thus, he gave up the ghost.
33 CE part 2	Nisan 15: Pilate permits guards for Jesus’ grave. Nisan 16, Jesus is resurrected. After Nisan 16: Jesus commissions his followers. Sivan 6: The outpouring of the holy spirit  on the Jews takes place at Pentecost.  Peter uses the first “Key”. The Christian congregation is founded at Pentecost. Second key is used by Peter and John who were sent to the Samarians, who had not received the holy spirit even though they had been baptized.	Matthew 28:1, 5-7: “ In the end of the sabbath, as it began to dawn toward the first day of the week, came Mary Magdalene and the other Mary to see the sepulchre. 5. And the angel answered and said unto the women, Fear not ye: for I know that ye seek Jesus, which was crucified. 6. He is not here: for he is risen, as he said. Come, see the place where the Lord lay. 7. And go quickly, and tell his disciples that he is risen from the dead; and, behold, he goeth before you into Galilee; there shall ye see him: lo, I have told you.” Acts 2:1-4: “When the day of Pentecost was fully come, they were all with one accord in one place. 2. And suddenly there came a sound from heaven as of a rushing mighty wind, and it filled all the house where they were sitting. 3. And there appeared unto them cloven tongues like as of fire, and it sat upon each of them. 4. And they were all filled with the Holy Ghost, and began to speak with other tongues, as the Spirit gave them utterance.” Acts 2:38: “Then Peter said unto them, Repent, and be baptized every one of you in the name of Jesus Christ for the remission of sins, and ye shall receive the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Acts 8:14, 17: “Now when the apostles which were at Jerusalem heard that Samaria had received the word of God, they sent unto them Peter and John. 17. Then laid they their hands on them, and they received the Holy Ghost.”
c. 33-34 CE	Stephen is stoned to death. The Ethiopian eunuch is baptized.	Acts 7:59: “They stoned Stephen, calling upon God, and saying, Lord Jesus, receive my spirit.” Acts 8:38: “He commanded the chariot to stand still: and they went down both into the water, both Philip and the eunuch; and he baptized him.”
c. 34 CE	Saul of Tarsus is converted.	Acts 9:3-6: “As he journeyed, he came near Damascus: and suddenly there shined round about him a light from heaven: 4. And he fell to the earth, and heard a voice saying unto him, Saul, Saul, why persecutest thou me? 5. And he said, Who art thou, Lord? And the Lord said, I am Jesus whom thou persecutest: it is hard for thee to kick against the pricks. 6. And he trembling and astonished said, Lord, what wilt thou have me to do? And the Lord said unto him, Arise, and go into the city, and it shall be told thee what thou must do.  Acts 9: 17-18: “And Ananias went his way, and entered into the house; and putting his hands on him said, Brother Saul, the Lord, even Jesus, that appeared unto thee in the way as thou camest, hath sent me, that thou mightest receive thy sight, and be filled with the Holy Ghost.18. And immediately there fell from his eyes as it had been scales: and he received sight forthwith, and arose, and was baptized.”
c. 34-36	Saul preaches in Damascus.	Acts 9:19-20: “Then was Saul certain days with the disciples which were at Damascus. 20. And straightway he preached Christ in the synagogues, that he is the Son of God.”
c. 36 CE	Paul visits Cephas (Peter) in Jerusalem as a Christian.	Galatians 1:18: “Then after three years I went up to Jerusalem to see Peter, and abode with him fifteen days.” Acts 9:26-27: “When Saul was come to Jerusalem, he assayed to join himself to the disciples: but they were all afraid of him, and believed not that he was a disciple. 27. But Barnabas took him, and brought him to the apostles, and declared unto them how he had seen the Lord in the way, and that he had spoken to him, and how he had preached boldly at Damascus in the name of Jesus.”
36 CE	The 70 weeks of years ends in the autumn when Peter visits Cornelius, an Italian centurion, and he becomes the first of the uncircumcised people of the nations to be converted. Peter uses the third key when the Gentile Cornelius and his household are baptized.	Acts 10:1: “There was a certain man in Caesarea called Cornelius, a centurion of the band called the Italian band.” Acts 10:30-33: “Cornelius said, Four days ago I was fasting until this hour; and at the ninth hour I prayed in my house, and, behold, a man stood before me in bright clothing, 31. And said, Cornelius, thy prayer is heard, and thine alms are had in remembrance in the sight of God. 32. Send therefore to Joppa, and call hither Simon, whose surname is Peter; he is lodged in the house of one Simon a tanner by the sea side: who, when he cometh, shall speak unto thee.” Acts 10:44-45: “While Peter yet spake these words, the Holy Ghost fell on all them which heard the word. 45. And they of the circumcision which believed were astonished, as many as came with Peter, because that on the Gentiles also was poured out the gift of the Holy Ghost.” Acts 11:1: “The apostles and brethren that were in Judaea heard that the Gentiles had also received the word of God.”
37 CE	Gaius Caesar becomes emperor after the death of his grand-uncle Tiberius.	Gaius Julius Caesar Augustus Germanicus was given the nickname Caligula, which means"little soldier's boot”, after he accompanied his father on his campaigns in Germania.
c. 41 CE	Matthew writes the book of Matthew in Palestine, covering the years 2 BCE to 33 CE. Paul has his vision of the “third heaven”.	2 Corinthians 12:2: “I knew a man in Christ above fourteen years ago, (whether in the body, I cannot tell; or whether out of the body, I cannot tell: God knoweth;) such an one caught up to the third heaven.”
41 CE	Caligula is assassinated and Claudius becomes the emperor. Herod Agrippa I becomes king of all Palestine.	Caligula is assassinated, but the conspiracy against him is thwarted when the Praetorian Guard declares his uncle Tiberius Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus emperor on the same day. Because he’s a friend of Emperor Claudius, Herod Agrippa I is appointed king over Judea and Samaria. His domain pretty much equals that which was held by his grandfather Herod the Great.
43 CE	Claudius begins his conquest of southern Britain.	During the reign of Claudius, the Empire begins the conquest of Britain
c. 44	Agabus prophesies a famine. James (son of Zebedee) is killed. Peter is imprisoned, then miraculously released	Acts 11:28: “There stood up one of them named Agabus, and signified by the spirit that there should be great dearth throughout all the world: which came to pass in the days of Claudius Caesar.” Acts 12:1-2: “Now about that time Herod the king stretched forth his hands to vex certain of the church. 2. And he killed James the brother of John with the sword.” Acts 12:3-7: “Because he saw it pleased the Jews, he proceeded further to take Peter also. (Then were the days of unleavened bread.) 4. And when he had apprehended him, he put him in prison, and delivered him to four quaternions of soldiers to keep him; intending after Easter to bring him forth to the people. 5. Peter therefore was kept in prison: but prayer was made without ceasing of the church unto God for him. 6. And when Herod would have brought him forth, the same night Peter was sleeping between two soldiers, bound with two chains: and the keepers before the door kept the prison. 7. And, behold, the angel of the Lord came upon him, and a light shined in the prison: and he smote Peter on the side, and raised him up, saying, Arise up quickly. And his chains fell off from his hands.”
44 CE	Herod Agrippa I dies.	After Herod Agrippa I dies, Claudius appoints Herod’s 17 year old son to be king, but keeps him in Rome for a while.
c. 46 CE	The foretold famine strikes. Paul and Barnabas bring relief to Jerusalem.	Acts 2:25: “Barnabas and Saul returned from Jerusalem, when they had fulfilled their ministry, and took with them John, whose surname was Mark.”
c. 47-48 CE	Paul begins his first missionary tour.	Acts 13:1-3: “Now there were in the church that was at Antioch certain prophets and teachers; as Barnabas, and Simeon that was called Niger, and Lucius of Cyrene, and Manaen, which had been brought up with Herod the tetrarch, and Saul. 2. As they ministered to the Lord, and fasted, the Holy Ghost said, Separate me Barnabas and Saul for the work whereunto I have called them. 3. And when they had fasted and prayed, and laid their hands on them, they sent them away.”
c. 47 CE	Paul, Barnabas, and John Mark visit Salamis.	Acts 13:4-5: “So they, being sent forth by the Holy Ghost, departed unto Seleucia; and from thence they sailed to Cyprus. 5. And when they were at Salamis, they preached the word of God in the synagogues of the Jews: and they had also John to their minister.”
c. 49 CE	The Circumcision issue arises at Antioch, which leads to the Conference in Jerusalem. Territory assignments are made between the apostles. The Christian governing body rules against circumcision for uncircumcised believers from the nations. The apostles tell the Christian congregation to abstain from things offered to idols, blood, things strangled and fornication. Paul questions Peter about his hesitation to eat with gentiles.	Acts 15:1-2: “Certain men which came down from Judaea taught the brethren, and said, Except ye be circumcised after the manner of Moses, ye cannot be saved. 2. When therefore Paul and Barnabas had no small dissension and disputation with them, they determined that Paul and Barnabas, and certain other of them, should go up to Jerusalem unto the apostles and elders about this question.” Acts 15:28-29: “For it seemed good to the Holy Ghost, and to us, to lay upon you no greater burden than these necessary things; 29. That ye abstain from meats offered to idols, and from blood, and from things strangled, and from fornication: from which if ye keep yourselves, ye shall do well. Fare ye well. Galatians 2:9: “When James, Cephas, and John, who seemed to be pillars, perceived the grace that was given unto me, they gave to me and Barnabas the right hands of fellowship; that we should go unto the heathen, and they unto the circumcision.” Galatians 2:11-14: “When Peter was come to Antioch, I withstood him to the face, because he was to be blamed. 12. For before that certain came from James, he did eat with the Gentiles: but when they were come, he withdrew and separated himself, fearing them which were of the circumcision. 13. And the other Jews dissembled likewise with him; insomuch that Barnabas also was carried away with their dissimulation. 14. But when I saw that they walked not uprightly according to the truth of the gospel, I said unto Peter before them all, If thou, being a Jew, livest after the manner of Gentiles, and not as do the Jews, why compellest thou the Gentiles to live as do the Jews?”
c. 49-52 CE	Paul begins his second missionary tour. Barnabas and Mark preach in Cyprus.	Acts 15:36: “ some days after Paul said unto Barnabas, Let us go again and visit our brethren in every city where we have preached the word of the Lord, and see how they do.” Acts 15:37-41: “ Barnabas determined to take with them John, whose surname was Mark. 38. But Paul thought not good to take him with them, who departed from them from Pamphylia, and went not with them to the work. 39. And the contention was so sharp between them, that they departed asunder one from the other: and so Barnabas took Mark, and sailed unto Cyprus; 40. And Paul chose Silas, and departed, being recommended by the brethren unto the grace of God. 41. And he went through Syria and Cilicia, confirming the churches.
c. 49-50 CE	Claudius expels Jews from Rome.	Claudius has strong opinions about the proper form for state religion and opposes proselytizing in any religion.
c. 50 CE	Luke joins Paul at Troas. Paul has a vision of a Macedonian man. Paul visits Philippi. Philippian congregation is founded. Thessalonian congregation is founded. Paul visits Athens.	Acts 16:6-7: “ Now when they had gone throughout Phrygia and the region of Galatia, and were forbidden of the Holy Ghost to preach the word in Asia, 7. After they were come to Mysia, they assayed to go into Bithynia: but the Spirit suffered them not.” Acts 16:9-10: “A vision appeared to Paul in the night; There stood a man of Macedonia, and prayed him, saying, Come over into Macedonia, and help us. 10. And after he had seen the vision, immediately we endeavoured to go into Macedonia, assuredly gathering that the Lord had called us for to preach the gospel unto them. Acts 16:12: “From thence to Philippi, which is the chief city of that part of Macedonia, and a colony: and we were in that city abiding certain days.” Acts 17:1: “Now when they had passed through Amphipolis and Apollonia, they came to Thessalonica, where was a synagogue of the Jews.” Acts 17:22-23: “ Then Paul stood in the midst of Mars’ hill, and said, Ye men of Athens, I perceive that in all things ye are too superstitious. 23. For as I passed by, and beheld your devotions, I found an altar with this inscription, TO THE UNKNOWN GOD. Whom therefore ye ignorantly worship, him declare I unto you.”
c. 50-52 CE	Paul visits Corinth. Paul writes 1 Thessalonians from Corinth. Paul writes 2 Thessalonians from Corinth.  Paul writes Galatians from either Corinth or Syrian Antioch.	Acts 18:1: “ After these things Paul departed from Athens, and came to Corinth.” 1 Thessalonians 1:1: “Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians which is in God the Father and in the Lord Jesus Christ.” 2 Thessalonians 1:1: “Paul, and Silvanus, and Timotheus, unto the church of the Thessalonians in God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ.” Galatians 1:1: “Paul, an apostle, (not of men, neither by man, but by Jesus Christ, and God the Father, who raised him from the dead.”
c. 52-56 CE	Paul’s third missionary tour.	Acts 18:23: “After he had spent some time there, he departed, and went over all the country of Galatia and Phrygia in order, strengthening all the disciples.”
54 CE	Nero begins to rule.	Nero Claudius Caesar Augustus Germanicus succeeds his grand-uncle Claudius.
c. 55 CE	Paul writes 1 Corinthians from Ephesus. Titus is sent to Corinth. Paul writes 2 Corinthians from Macedonia.	1 Corinthians 15:32: “If after the manner of men I have fought with beasts at Ephesus, what advantageth it me, if the dead rise not? let us eat and drink; for to morrow we die.” 2 Corinthians 2:12-13: “Furthermore, when I came to Troas to preach Christ’s gospel, and a door was opened unto me of the Lord, 13. I had no rest in my spirit, because I found not Titus my brother: but taking my leave of them, I went from thence into Macedonia.”
c. 56 CE	Paul writes the book of Romans from Corinth. Paul resurrects Eutychus in Troas. Paul and Luke stay with Philip in Caesarea.	Romans 16:1: “I commend unto you Phebe our sister, which is a servant of the church which is at Cenchrea.” Acts 20:9-10: “There sat in a window a certain young man named Eutychus, being fallen into a deep sleep: and as Paul was long preaching, he sunk down with sleep, and fell down from the third loft, and was taken up dead. 10. And Paul went down, and fell on him, and embracing him said, Trouble not yourselves; for his life is in him.” Acts 21:8: “The next day we that were of Paul’s company departed, and came unto Caesarea: and we entered into the house of Philip the evangelist, which was one of the seven; and abode with him.”
56 CE	Paul is arrested in Jerusalem.	Acts 21:15: “After those days we took up our carriages, and went up to Jerusalem.” Acts 21:30-32: “All the city was moved, and the people ran together: and they took Paul, and drew him out of the temple: and forthwith the doors were shut. 31. And as they went about to kill him, tidings came unto the chief captain of the band, that all Jerusalem was in an uproar. 32. Who immediately took soldiers and centurions, and ran down unto them: and when they saw the chief captain and the soldiers, they left beating of Paul.”
c. 56-58 CE	Paul is in custody in Caesarea. Luke writes the book of Luke from Caesarea covering  the years 3 BCE to 33 CE..	Acts 23:33-35: “When they came to Caesarea, and delivered the epistle to the governor, presented Paul also before him. 34. And when the governor had read the letter, he asked of what province he was. And when he understood that he was of Cilicia; 35. I will hear thee, said he, when thine accusers are also come. And he commanded him to be kept in Herod’s judgment hall.” Luke 1:3: “It seemed good to me also, having had perfect understanding of all things from the very first, to write unto thee in order, most excellent Theophilus.”
c. 58 CE	Festus succeeds Felix.	Acts 24:27: “After two years Porcius Festus came into Felix’ room: and Felix, willing to shew the Jews a pleasure, left Paul bound.”
58 CE	Herod Agrippa II hears Paul’s case.	Acts 25:23: “On the morrow, when Agrippa was come, and Bernice, with great pomp, and was entered into the place of hearing, with the chief captains, and principal men of the city, at Festus’ commandment Paul was brought forth.”
c. 59-61 CE	Paul’s first imprisonment in Rome.	Acts 28:16: “When we came to Rome, the centurion delivered the prisoners to the captain of the guard: but Paul was suffered to dwell by himself with a soldier that kept him.’
c. 60-61 CE	Paul writes the book of Colossians from Rome. Paul writes the book of Ephesians from Rome. Paul writes the book of Philippians from Rome. Paul writes the book of Philemon from Rome.	Colossians 4:18: “The salutation by the hand of me Paul.” Ephesians 3:1: “For this cause I Paul, the prisoner of Jesus Christ for you Gentiles.” Philippians 4:22: “All the saints salute you, chiefly they that are of Caesar’s household.” Philemon 1: “Paul, a prisoner of Jesus Christ, and Timothy our brother, unto Philemon our dearly beloved, and fellow labourer,”
c. 60-65 CE	The book of Mark is written by John Mark from Rome and covers the years from 29  to 33 CE.	Philemon 24: “Marcus, Aristarchus, Demas, Lucas, my fellow labourers.”
c. 61 CE	Luke writes the book Acts of the Apostles from Rome. Paul writes the book of Hebrews from Rome.	Hebrews 10:34: “For ye had compassion of me in my bonds, and took joyfully the spoiling of your goods, knowing in yourselves that ye have in heaven a better and an enduring substance.”
c. 61-64 CE	Paul writes 1 Timothy from Macedonia. Paul writes the book of Titus, possibly from Macedonia.	1 Timothy 1:1-3: “Paul, an apostle of Jesus Christ by the commandment of God our Saviour, and Lord Jesus Christ, which is our hope; 2. Unto Timothy, my own son in the faith: Grace, mercy, and peace, from God our Father and Jesus Christ our Lord. 3. As I besought thee to abide still at Ephesus, when I went into Macedonia, that thou mightest charge some that they teach no other doctrine.” Titus 1:5: “Paul, a servant of God, and an apostle of Jesus Christ.”
b. 62 CE	James, the brother of Jesus,  writes the book of James from Jerusalem.	James 1:1: “James, a servant of God and of the Lord Jesus Christ.”
c. 62 CE	James (brother of Jesus) dies.	According to the Jewish historian Josephus, shortly after the death of Roman Governor Porcius Festus, Ananias the high priest “convened the judges of the Sanhedrin and brought before them a man named James, the brother of Jesus who was called the Christ, and certain others.” Ananus “accused them of having transgressed the law and delivered them up to be stoned.”
c. 62-64 CE	Peter writes 1 Peter from Babylon on the Euphrates River. Mark serves with Peter.	1 Peter 1:1: “Peter, an apostle of Jesus Christ.” 1 Peter 5:13: “The church that is at Babylon, elected together with you, saluteth you; and so doth Marcus my son.”
c. 64 CE	Peter writes 2 Peter probably also from Babylon.	2 Peter 1:1: “Simon Peter, a servant and an apostle of Jesus Christ.”
64 CE	Rome burns.	The fire that nearly destroyed Rome brought great persecution upon the Christians as Nero blames them for starting the fire.
c. 65 CE	Paul’s second imprisonment in Rome. Paul writes 2 Timothy from Rome. The book of Jude is written by Jesus’ brother Jude, probably from Palestine. Paul dies in Rome.	2 Timothy 4:16-17: “ At my first answer no man stood with me, but all men forsook me: I pray God that it may not be laid to their charge. 17.  Notwithstanding the Lord stood with me, and strengthened me; that by me the preaching might be fully known, and that all the Gentiles might hear: and I was delivered out of the mouth of the lion.” Jude 1: “Jude, the servant of Jesus Christ, and brother of James.”
66 CE	Some Jews seize Masada in a revolt against Rome. Cestius Gallus attacks Jerusalem, then suddenly withdraws, fulfilling Jesus prophesy for his followers to leave the city.	In a revolt against Rome, a band of fanatical Jewish patriots seize and massacre the Roman garrison at Masada. Luke 21:20-21: “When ye shall see Jerusalem compassed with armies, then know that the desolation thereof is nigh. 21. Then let them which are in Judaea flee to the mountains; and let them which are in the midst of it depart out; and let not them that are in the countries enter thereinto.”
67 CE	Vespasian begins to quell the Jewish uprising.	Vespasian starts to put down the Jewish uprising, but Nero’s unexpected death opens the way for him to become emperor. He returns to Rome leaving his son Titus to continue the campaign.
68 CE	After the death of Nero, Galba becomes emperor.	Servius Sulpicius Galba Caesar Augustus is the Roman Emperor for seven months.
69 CE	Otho becomes emperor. Vitellius becomes emperor. Vespasian becomes emperor and continues his campaign against the Jews.	Marcus Salvius Otho Caesar Augustus is Roman Emperor for three months. Aulus Vitellius Germanicus Augustus is Roman Emperor for eight months. Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus becomes the emperor of Rome.
70 CE	The Tower of Antonia is taken by the Romans. Jerusalem is destroyed and the Temple is burned.	Over a million people are killed in the conquest of Jerusalem and the rest are taken as slaves. Some are sent to Egypt, but many are killed by sword or beasts in the theaters of the Roman provinces. Matthew 23:37-38: “O Jerusalem, Jerusalem, thou that killest the prophets, and stonest them which are sent unto thee, how often would I have gathered thy children together, even as a hen gathereth her chickens under her wings, and ye would not! 38. Behold, your house is left unto you desolate.”
73 CE	Masada falls.	In order to avoid being captured, the Sicarii (Dagger Men) carry out a systematic suicidal massacre of 960 men, women, and children.
75 CE	Titus becomes emperor.	Titus Flavius Caesar Vespasianus Augustus becomes Roman emperor succeeding his father Vespasian upon his death.
81 CE	Domitian becomes emperor.	Titus Flavius Caesar Domitianus Augustus, the younger brother of Titus, becomes Roman emperor.
96 CE	Nerva becomes emperor.	Marcus Cocceius Nerva Caesar Augustus becomes Roman Emperor.
c. 96 CE	John writes the book of Revelation from the Isle of Patmos. In it he predicts the fall of “Babylon the Great”, which eventually leads to a Paradise earth under the rule of Jehovah God.	Revelation 1:9: “I John, who also am your brother, and companion in tribulation, and in the kingdom and patience of Jesus Christ, was in the isle that is called Patmos, for the word of God, and for the testimony of Jesus Christ.” Revelation 14:8: “There followed another angel, saying, Babylon is fallen, is fallen, that great city, because she made all nations drink of the wine of the wrath of her fornication.” Revelation 21:1-5: “ And I saw a new heaven and a new earth: for the first heaven and the first earth were passed away; and there was no more sea. 2. And I John saw the holy city, new Jerusalem, coming down from God out of heaven, prepared as a bride adorned for her husband. 3. And I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away. 5. And he that sat upon the throne said, Behold, I make all things new. And he said unto me, Write: for these words are true and faithful.
96-98 CE	John is released from exile on Patmos.	John is probably released from being a prisoner on Patmos after the death of Domitian since it’s reported so many others are.
c. 98 CE	John writes the books of John, 1 John, 2 John and 3 John.	John was most likely nearing 100 years of age by then as he was born about the same time as Jesus. John 21:22-23: “Then went this saying abroad among the brethren, that that disciple should not die: yet Jesus said not unto him, He shall not die; but, If I will that he tarry till I come, what is that to thee?”
98 CE	Trajan becomes emperor.	Imperator Caesar Nerva Traianus Divi Nervae filius Augustus becomes Emperor of Rome.
c. 100 CE	The apostle John dies.	2 Thessalonians 2:7: “For the mystery of iniquity doth already work: only he who now letteth will let, until he be taken out of the way.
100 CE	Herod Agrippa II dies.	After Jerusalem is destroyed Herod Agrippa II lives in Rome with his sister Bernice. He never had any children.
c. 112 CE	Pliny the Younger sends a letter to Trajan about Christians.	Pliny the Younger, governor of the Roman province of Bithynia and Pontus, reports to Trajan that the “contagion” of Christianity threatens everyone. While he gives those accused of being Christians the opportunity to deny it, those who would not, he executes.
117 CE	The Roman Empire expands to its greatest extent. Hadrian becomes Emperor.	Publius Aelius Hadrianus Augustus becomes Roman Emperor.
122 CE	Hadrian begins building the wall in Britain.	Hadrian is best known for building Hadrian's Wall, which marked the northern limit of Britannia.
c. 200 CE	Other translations of the Hebrew Scriptures are made.	In the second century, Aquila, made a new, literal Greek translation of the Hebrew Scriptures. Only fragments remain. Others were produced by Theodotion and Symmachus. but no copies have been found.
c. 245 CE	Origen completes his Hexapla.	Origen, a noted scholar of Alexandria, Egypt, completes a multiple version of the Hebrew Scriptures called the Hexapla (“sixfold”). Only fragments of it have survived. He arranges it in six parallel columns containing (1) the consonantal Hebrew text, (2) a Greek transliteration of the Hebrew text, (3) Aquila’s Greek version, (4) Symmachus’ Greek version, (5) the Septuagint, which he revised, and (6) Theodotion’s Greek version.
c. 252 CE	Council of Carthage advocates infant baptism.	The practice of Infant baptism is confirmed by The Council of Carthage.
303 CE	Caesar Galerius instigates persecution of professed Christians. Diocletian decrees that Christian meeting places be razed and Scriptures burned.	Vicious persecution led by Caesar Galerius breaks out in the Roman Empire against anyone professing Christianity. Emperor Diocletian’s decrees result in what some historians term “The Great Persecution.”
306 CE	Constantine the Great becomes emperor.	Flavius Valerius Aurelius Constantinus Augustus becomes Emperor of the Roman Empire.
313 CE	Constantine legalizes an apostate form of “Christianity”.	Christianity is granted legal recognition by the pagan Roman Emperor Constantine.
325 CE	The first Council of Nicaea is held.	Constantine, as Pontifex Maximus, convokes the first general council of religious bishops at Nicaea, Asia Minor. It results in the first uniform Christian doctrine, called the Nicene Creed. With it a precedent is established for subsequent local and regional councils of Bishops (Synods) to create statements of belief and canons of doctrinal orthodoxy to define a unity of beliefs for all of Christendom.
330 CE	Constantine makes Byzantium (Constantinople) his capital.	Constantine transfers the capital of the Roman Empire from Rome to Byzantium (Constantinople).
378 CE	Theodosius is made Emperor of the East. Damasus takes the title of Pope.	General Theodosius is made Emperor of the East, to succeed Arian Valens. Damasus, bishop of Rome, takes over the title of Pontifex Maximus relinquished by Emperor Gratian.
c. 381 CE	Theodosius I makes “Christianity” the official religion of Roman Empire.	Theodosius I issues decrees that effectively make Orthodox Nicene Christianity the official state church of the Roman Empire. He neither prevents nor punishes the destruction of prominent Hellenistic temples of classical antiquity, but dissolves the order of the Vestal Virgins in Rome and bans the pagan rituals of the Olympics in Greece.
382 CE	Jerome begins work on his Latin Vulgate translation of the scriptures.	Jerome (Eusebius Sophronius Hieronymus) attempts to end a translation confusion by translating his own version of the scriptures. As secretary to Damasus, the bishop of Rome, he is invited to revise the Latin text of the Gospels. Then he begins a revision of the Latin translation of other Bible books.
395 CE	Roman Empire is permanently divided into East and West.	At the death of Theodosius I, the Roman Empire is divided between his two sons.
405 CE	Jerome completes the Latin Vulgate.	Jerome’s translation, which later comes to be called the Vulgate, initially receives a cool response. Still, it slowly establishes itself as the standard for single-volume Bibles.
476 CE	During the reign of Flavius Glycerius Augustus, Rome falls to Barbarians.	Flavius Odoacer was a soldier who became the first “barbarian” king of Italy. His reign is commonly seen as marking the end of the Western Roman Empire.
c. 570 CE	Muḥammad is born.	Muhammad is the prophet and founder of Islam.
622 CE	Muḥammad flees Mecca.	Muhammad meets hostility from some Meccans. To escape persecution, he and his followers migrate from Mecca to Medina (then known as Yathrib). This event, the Hijra, marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
630 CE	Mecca falls to Muḥammad.	Muhammad gathers an army of 10,000 converts and marches on the city of Mecca. The attack goes largely uncontested and he seizes the city with little bloodshed.
c. 636 CE	Isidore of Seville contends that Hebrew, Greek, and Latin are the only languages suitable for the Bible.	Isidore, the Archbishop of Seville, played a prominent role in the Councils of Toledo and Seville. He argues that, “There are three sacred languages, Hebrew, Greek, and Latin, and they are supreme through all the world. For it was in these three languages that the charge against the Lord was written above the cross by Pilate.”
868 CE	The first books are printed in China.	The first known printed books are produced in China by using carved wooden blocks to make the impressions.
1054 CE	The final break comes between the Greek and Latin churches.	The Greek Orthodox patriarch and the Roman Catholic pope excommunicate each other over theological differences, causing a rift between the Orthodox and Catholic churches that continues to this day.
1079 CE	Pope Gregory VII insists the Bible remain inaccessible to those of “limited intelligence”.	Pope Gregory VII refuses Vratislaus’ request to use the Slavonic language in church, stating that the Scriptures should be inaccessible to those of “limited intelligence”.
1096 CE	The First Crusade begins.	The intent of the crusade is to capture the Holy Land from the Muslims and is called by Pope Urban II at the Council of Clermont. It starts as a widespread pilgrimage of western Christendom and ends as a military expedition by Roman Catholic Europe. Thousands of Jews and Muslims are killed.
1123 CE	A decree is made that the clergy of the Roman church must remain celibate.	The first and second Lateran Councils put an end to the legality of clerical marriages. This remains the position of Roman Catholicism despite there being no scriptural basis.
1184 CE	The first Inquisition is established.	To counter the spread of Catharism, a Gnostic revival movement popular in Italy and France, the Roman Catholic Church charges councils composed of bishops and archbishops with establishing inquisitions. The first Inquisition (the Episcopal Inquisition) is established in Languedoc (south of France) and after that the prosecution of heretics becomes more frequent.
1199 CE	Pope Innocent III declares a heretic to be anyone who translates and discusses the Bible.	Pope Innocent III views a heretic as anyone who dares to translate and discuss the Bible. Those who defy the pope’s order are often tortured and killed.
1204 CE	Fourth Crusade sacks Constantinople.	The armies of the Fourth Crusade, while on their way to Jerusalem, sack Constantinople. Burning, pillaging, and raping in the name of Christ, the crusaders destroy the city and take their plunder to Venice, Paris, Turin, and other Western centers.
1229 CE	The Council of Toulouse bans possession of the Bible in the common tongue.	At the Council of Toulouse, Pope Paul IV’s Index forbade laymen from printing, possessing or using a Bible without the permission of the Holy Office.
1231 CE	The medieval Inquisition begins in Italy and France.	Pope Gregory IX assigned the duty of carrying out inquisitions to the Dominican Order and Franciscan Order. Most inquisitors were friars who taught theology and/or law in the universities. After 1200 CE, a Grand Inquisitor headed each Inquisition.
c. 1382 CE	Wycliffe’s translation of the Bible in English is released.	John Wycliffe and his associates produce the first Bible translation in English.
1455 CE	Pope Nicholas V grants Portugal rights to  the African lands.	Pope Nicholas V grants the Portuguese exclusive rights to explore lands and islands along the Atlantic Coast of Africa and to claim for themselves everything they find there.
c. 1455 CE	Gutenberg prints the Latin Vulgate.	With the invention of movable type, printing of the Bible begins.
1478 CE	The Spanish Inquisition begins.	King Ferdinand II of Aragon and Queen Isabella I of Castile establish the Spanish Inquisition. In contrast to the previous inquisitions, it operates completely under royal Christian authority, though staffed by clergy and orders and independently of the Holy See. It operates in Spain and in all Spanish colonies and territories, which includes the Canary Islands, the Spanish Netherlands, the Kingdom of Naples, and all Spanish possessions in North, Central, and South America. It primarily targets forced converts from Islam and from Judaism.
1479 CE	Treaty of Alcáçovas is made between Spain and Portugal.	Afonso V, King of Portugal, and his son, Prince John, surrender sovereignty over the Canary Islands to Ferdinand and Isabella of Spain. In exchange, Spain recognizes the Portuguese monopoly over African trade and the Portuguese sovereignty over the Azores, the Cape Verde Islands, and Madeira.
1492 CE	Columbus reaches the Americas.	Columbus reaches the West Indies and claims them for Spain.
1493 CE	Pope Alexander VI divides the continents between Spain and Portugal.	Pope Alexander VI draws a line from North to South to divide the continents of America and Africa between Spain and Portugal.
1494 Ce	Treaty of Tordesillas officially divides continents between Spain and Portugal.	The Treaty of Tordesillas maintains the north-south line Pope Alexander VI drew, but moves it 920 miles (1,480 km) farther west. This means that all of Africa and Asia “belongs” to Portugal, while the New World belongs to Spain. This shift of the line, however, brings much of the undiscovered land later known as Brazil into Portuguese territory.
1497-1499 CE	Vasco da Gama voyages to India.	Portuguese explorer Vasco da Gama was the first European to sail to India around the cape of Africa.
1516 CE	Erasmus produces a Greek master text of Christian Scriptures.	Erasmus, a Catholic priest from the Netherlands, translates the new testament from both the Greek and the Latin, comparing them side by side.
1517 CE	According to tradition, Luther nails his 95 theses to the church door.	Martin Luther is a German professor of theology and Roman Catholic priest at Wittenberg, Germany who becomes a seminal figure in the Protestant Reformation.
1520 CE	Luther publicly burns papal bull of excommunication.	Because he rejects several teachings and practices of the church, Martin Luther is excommunicated by the Pope and condemned as an outlaw by the Emperor.
1525 CE	Tyndale completes his English translation of the Christian Scriptures and arranges for it to be distributed in England.	William Tyndale is a Bible scholar whose New Testament English translation is a milestone in making it possible for the common people to read the Bible. Later he produces an English version of the first 5 books of the Hebrew scriptures.
1528-1557 CE	Robert Estienne publishes editions of the Bible and introduces running heads and modern verse divisions in them.	Robert Estienne is a printer and classical scholar in Paris. A former Catholic, he becomes a Protestant late in his life and is the first to print the Bible divided into standard numbered verses.
1535 CE	Coverdale produces his complete English Bible.	Myles Coverdale translates parts of the scriptures from Latin and from Martin Luther’s Bible in German as well as using Tyndale’s translations in English to help produce his own English rendition of the Bible.
1536 CE	Calvin publishes his Institutes of the Christian Religion. William Tyndale is executed.	Jean Cauvin (John Calvin) founds a religious movement that plays a significant role in the life of many people. He is regarded as one of the major church Reformers in Western history. His “Institutes of the Christian Religion”, is a veritable textbook on Protestant faith. William Tyndale is put to death by being tied to a stake, strangled and burned.
1537 CE	Coverdale’s translation of the Bible is published in England. Matthew’s Bible is printed in Antwerp, Belgium.	Coverdale’s Bible reappeared in two editions, which were printed in England. In the same year, a version called Matthew’s Bible, printed in Antwerp, combined the work of Tyndale and Coverdale,
1538 CE	King Henry VIII orders that all churches in England will have a Bible.	King Henry VIII orders that all churches in England have an English Bible for the priests to read from.
1539 CE	An English translation called the Great Bible is produced.	King Henry VIII asked Coverdale to revise the complete manuscript of the Matthew’s Bible and with the sanction of Thomas Cromwell and Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, this new version called the Great Bible because of its size, was put in churches for all to read.
1545-1563 CE	The Council of Trent is held.	By decree of the Council of Trent, any printing of Bible translations must first be approved by the Catholic Church.
1559 CE	Pope Paul IV forbids possession of Bible in the common tongue.	Pope Paul IV forbids possession of Bibles in common languages. Vernacular translations are confiscated and burned, and often their owners are burned with them.
1560 CE	The English version of the Geneva Bible is published in Geneva, Switzerland.	Calvin eventually settles in Geneva, Switzerland and makes that city the focal point of his reforms. Refugees from other lands also come to Geneva, including many from England, where Protestants are under threat from Queen Mary I. The refugees published the Geneva Bible, the first Bible in English to contain numbered verse divisions.
1568 CE	The Bishops’ Bible is produced in English.	Since the Great Bible is so large it fails to gain general acceptance, and the Geneva Bible contains contentious footnotes, a revised Bible is proposed. The Great Bible is chosen as its basis and the task is entrusted to Church of England bishops.
1576 CE	An English version of the Geneva Bible is printed in England.	Because of its compact size, the Geneva Bible facilitated personal study of God’s Word and was probably the Bible translation taken by the Puritans when they emigrated to North America in 1620.
1588 CE	Britain defeats the Spanish Armada.	After a plot is discovered to kill Queen Elizabeth I of England, her half-sister Mary is implicated. Mary is put to death and Phillip of Spain, urged on by the Pope, orders an armada to be built. Elizabeth learns about the plot and sends Sir Francis Drake to destroy the ships that are being built. When the Armada finally leaves port, the English navy is ready. The Spanish fleet comes through the English Channel where the English meet them with eight fireships. The Spanish fleet scatters in panic, and a strong wind blows them toward Scotland where storms wreck half their ships.
1611 CE	King James version of the Bible is completed.	King James I endorses the making of a new Bible translation. He stipulates that it should commend itself to all by omitting any offensive notes or comments. Eventually, 47 scholars in six separate groups across the country prepare sections of the text. Making use of the work of both Tyndale and Coverdale, the Bible scholars basically revise the Bishops’ Bible. However, they also draw from the Geneva Bible and the Roman Catholic Rheims New Testament of 1582.
1640 CE	The Bay Psalm Book is published in England’s American colonies.	The Bay Psalm Book is the first piece of literature published in England’s American colonies. Its original edition contains the Psalms, which are translated directly from Hebrew into the English of that day. It is especially noteworthy as it uses God’s name, “Iehovah" in the passages where the tetragrammaton is in the original Hebrew.
1648 CE	Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years’ War.	The Treaty of Westphalia recognizes that its signers respect the territorial rights of others and that they agree not to interfere in their internal affairs. It also means they respect the other’s religions, something Pope Innocent X is vehemently opposed to. Nevertheless, the religious frontiers that are drawn up are set, although religious freedom for the individual hasn’t yet arrived. The treaty also concludes the Thirty Years’ War, which is the last major religious war in Europe until World War I.
1763 CE	British Empire starts to become the dominant world power.	Britain takes on Spain, the Netherlands and France, and one by one knocks these powers out to become the dominant power on the world scene.
1789 CE	French Revolution.	Inspired by liberal and radical ideas, the French overthrow the monarchy and establish a republic, After a violent period of political turmoil, it culminates in a dictatorship under Napoleone di Buonaparte. It profoundly alters the course of modern history, triggering the global decline of absolute monarchies while replacing them with republics and liberal democracies.
1804 CE	British and Foreign Bible Society formed.	The “Bible Society” was formed on 7 March to encourage the circulation and use of the Scriptures. Its purpose was to make the Bible available throughout the world.
1815 CE	Napoleon is defeated at Waterloo, Belgium.	Hampered by constant rain, Napoleon’s forces fought the Coalition armies commanded by Britain's Duke of Wellington and Prussia’s Gebhard Leberecht von Blücher at the Battle of Waterloo on June 18th. Wellington's army withstood repeated attacks by the French and drove them from the field while the Prussians arrived in force and broke through Napoleon's right flank. Napoleon returned in defeat to Paris and found that both the legislature and the people had turned against him. Realizing his position was untenable, he abdicated on June 22nd in favor of his son.
1819 CE	Robert Morrison completes Chinese translation of Bible.	Even though the emperor of China had issued an edict making the printing of Christian books a crime punishable by death, on November 25, Morrison completes his translation of the entire Bible into Chinese.
1835 CE	Adoniram Judson completes Burmese translation of Bible.	After several years of trying to learn the language, Judson was suspected of being a spy and thrown into prison. His wife Ann sewed his translation of the scriptures inside a pillow and brought it to him in prison. After he was released, he completed his work on it.
1844 CE	Millerites expect Jesus’ return on October 22.	The Millerites were the followers of the teachings of William Miller, a Baptist lay preacher who calculated that the 70 weeks foretold by Daniel as the Second Advent of Jesus Christ would occur October 22 of 1844. Even though his dates were off by several years, his calculations influenced others to do a closer investigation of the scriptural prophecy.
1876 CE	End of appointed times of nations in 1914 first announced by the Bible Students.	An article, “Gentile Times: When Do They End?,” written by Charles Taze Russell was published in the magazine Bible Examiner. It pointed to 1914 as a significant year and linked the “seven times” of Daniel’s prophecy with “the appointed times of the nations” spoken of by Jesus. Daniel 4:16: “Let his heart be changed from man’s, and let a beast’s heart be given unto him; and let seven times pass over him.” Luke 21:24: “ And they shall fall by the edge of the sword, and shall be led away captive into all nations: and Jerusalem shall be trodden down of the Gentiles, until the times of the Gentiles be fulfilled.”
1901 CE	American Standard Version of the Bible in English is published.	The American Standard Version is based on the text of the King James Version, but mades one significant adjustment. The preface explains: “The American Revisers, after a careful consideration, were brought to the unanimous conviction that a Jewish superstition, which regarded the Divine Name as too sacred to be uttered, ought no longer to dominate in the English or any other version of the Old Testament.” While the divine name, Jehovah, appears in four places in the King James version, namely Exodus 6:3; Psalm 83:18; Isaiah 12:2; and Isaiah 26:4, the American Standard Version restores the name to some 7,000 of its rightful places in the Bible.
1905 CE	Einstein publishes his revolutionary papers on physics.	When Albert Einstein is 26, he publishes four scientific papers that alter the way we view our universe. (1) He argues that light can at times be considered to consist of small packets of energy, later called photons. When these photons are of the right energy level, or color, they can dislodge electrons from the atoms of some metals. This interaction causes an electric current to flow in the material. (2) He suggests how vibrating water molecules cause what is known as a Brownian motion. He not only calculates the size of the water molecules but also predicts the specific properties of their atoms. (3) Einstein’s special theory of relativity says when approaching the speed of light, not only does time slow down significantly, but objects also become smaller and their mass increases. His  theory maintains that the speed of light, not time, is constant across the universe. (4) His next paper contains the formula now synonymous with his work, E=mc2. This equation says that the amount of energy released when an atom is split equals the loss of its mass times the speed of light squared. Job 26:14: “Lo, these are parts of his ways: but how little a portion is heard of him? but the thunder of his power who can understand?”
1913 CE	Worldwide optimism about the future. Ford Motor Company opens its first assembly line.	American journalist Herbert Kaufman said, “‘Impossibility’ is now an old-fashioned word . . . Almost every dream of the past is a reality today.” The Ford Motor Company opens a new factory in Highland Park, Michigan. It features an assembly line which allows Ford to assemble its popular Model T automobile in a fraction of the time previously required, thus lowering the cost and making it possible for most people to own one.
1914 CE Part 1	First showing of the “Photo-Drama of Creation.” Archduke of Austria-Hungary is assassinated. World War I begins. The “Time of the Gentiles” mentioned by Jesus in Luke 21:24 ends. Daniel’s prophesy of a tree being cut down and banded only to grow again after 7 times have passed is fulfilled. In comparing scriptures throughout the Bible trees represent rulership. If the three and a half times in Revelation equals “1,260 days.” then “Seven times” would be 2,520 days. Moses says in Numbers that a day is a year to God. Ezekiel says the same.	The Photo Drama of Creation was made up of hand painted slides and moving pictures. It was the first moving picture that was accompanied by sound recordings. Ezekiel 17:22-24: “Thus saith the Lord GOD; I will also take of the highest branch of the high cedar, and will set it; I will crop off from the top of his young twigs a tender one, and will plant it upon an high mountain and eminent: 23. In the mountain of the height of Israel will I plant it: and it shall bring forth boughs, and bear fruit, and be a goodly cedar: and under it shall dwell all fowl of every wing; in the shadow of the branches thereof shall they dwell. 24. And all the trees of the field shall know that I the LORD have brought down the high tree, have exalted the low tree, have dried up the green tree, and have made the dry tree to flourish: I the LORD have spoken and have done it.” Revelation 12:6, 14: “The woman fled into the wilderness, where she hath a place prepared of God, that they should feed her there a thousand two hundred and threescore days. 14. And to the woman were given two wings of a great eagle, that she might fly into the wilderness, into her place, where she is nourished for a time, and times, and half a time, from the face of the serpent. Numbers 14:34: “When thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.” Ezekiel 4:6: “When thou hast accomplished them, lie again on thy right side, and thou shalt bear the iniquity of the house of Judah forty days: I have appointed thee each day for a year.”
1914 CE Part 2	According to 2 Kings, Jerusalem and its temple are completely destroyed by the Babylonians in October of 607 BCE, thus beginning the 2,520 year time period.  Exactly 2,520 years later as foretold by the Psalmist and Daniel, Jesus Christ begins reigning as King of God’s kingdom in heaven. Jesus says war will be the first sign of his presence as king of God’s kingdom. Paul describes to Timothy what the last days will be like.	2 Kings 25:8-9: “ In the fifth month, on the seventh day of the month, which is the nineteenth year of king Nebuchadnezzar king of Babylon, came Nebuzaradan, captain of the guard, a servant of the king of Babylon, unto Jerusalem: 9. And he burnt the house of the LORD, and the king’s house, and all the houses of Jerusalem, and every great man’s house burnt he with fire.” Psalm 2:6, 12: “Yet have I set my king upon my holy hill of Zion.12. Kiss the Son, lest he be angry, and ye perish from the way, when his wrath is kindled but a little. Blessed are all they that put their trust in him.” Daniel 7:13-14: “Behold, one like the Son of man came with the clouds of heaven, and came to the Ancient of days, and they brought him near before him. 14. And there was given him dominion, and glory, and a kingdom, that all people, nations, and languages, should serve him: his dominion is an everlasting dominion, which shall not pass away, and his kingdom that which shall not be destroyed.” Matthew 24:3, 6-7: “What shall be the sign of thy coming, and of the end of the world? 6. And ye shall hear of wars and rumours of wars: see that ye be not troubled: for all these things must come to pass, but the end is not yet. 7. For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” Luke 21:10: “Then said he unto them, Nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom.” 2 Timothy 3:1-5: “In the last days perilous times shall come. 2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4. Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof.”
c. 1915 CE	Britain and America become the Seventh World Power.	Britain has built the largest empire in history and the United States has become the greatest industrial power on earth. During World War I, the United States forges a special partnership with Britain. The seventh head of the beast has now emerged as the Anglo-American World Power.  Daniel 2:41-44: “And whereas thou sawest the feet and toes, part of potters’ clay, and part of iron, the kingdom shall be divided; but there shall be in it of the strength of the iron, forasmuch as thou sawest the iron mixed with miry clay. 42. And as the toes of the feet were part of iron, and part of clay, so the kingdom shall be partly strong, and partly broken. 43. And whereas thou sawest iron mixed with miry clay, they shall mingle themselves with the seed of men: but they shall not cleave one to another, even as iron is not mixed with clay. 44. And in the days of these kings shall the God of heaven set up a kingdom, which shall never be destroyed: and the kingdom shall not be left to other people, but it shall break in pieces and consume all these kingdoms, and it shall stand for ever.”
1918 CE	The Spanish Flu begins. World War I ends.	The Spanish Flu begins in March and quickly spreads throughout all the world. Few people who live through that time are untouched, and all are frightened. The flu strikes mostly healthy young people between 20 and 40 years of age and kills them almost instantly. Some epidemiologists suggest that it’s likely 50 million or perhaps as many as 100 million people die worldwide. Matthew 24:7: “For nation shall rise against nation, and kingdom against kingdom: and there shall be famines, and pestilences, and earthquakes, in divers places.” When World War I ends on November 11th, the world rejoices. Revelation 11:13-15: “And the same hour was there a great earthquake, and the tenth part of the city fell, and in the earthquake were slain of men seven thousand: and the remnant were affrighted, and gave glory to the God of heaven. 14. The second woe is past; and, behold, the third woe cometh quickly. 15. And the seventh angel sounded; and there were great voices in heaven, saying, The kingdoms of this world are become the kingdoms of our Lord, and of his Christ; and he shall reign for ever and ever.”
1919 CE	Paris Peace Conference. Treaty of Versailles is signed.	The Prime Minister of France, Georges Clemenceau; the Prime Minister of the United Kingdom, David Lloyd George; the President of the United States, Woodrow Wilson; and the Prime Minister of Italy, Vittorio Emanuele Orlando, control the Paris Peace Conference. They create five peace treaties with the defeated states. The Treaty of Versailles with Germany lays the guilt for the war on "the aggression of Germany and her allies”. Other treaties are the awarding of German and Ottoman overseas possessions as "mandates", chiefly to Britain and France; reparations imposed on Germany, and the drawing of new national boundaries to better reflect ethnic boundaries.
1920 CE	League of Nations approved on January 10th.	One of the major decisions of the Paris Peace Conference is the creation of the League of Nations. Its primary goals, as stated in its Covenant, includ preventing wars through collective security and disarmament and settling international disputes through negotiation and arbitration. Other issues include labour conditions, just treatment of native inhabitants, human and drug trafficking, the arms trade, global health, prisoners of war, and protection of minorities in Europe. At its greatest extent it had 58 members. Ultimately, however, it proved incapable of preventing its primary purpose, which was to prevent any future world war.
1939 CE	World War II begins.	World War II is a global war that begins on September 1st when Germany invades Poland. It’s the most widespread war in history, directly involving more than 100 million people from over 30 countries. Marked by mass deaths of civilians, including the Holocaust where approximately 6 million Jews are killed, the strategic bombing of industrial and population centers where approximately one million are killed, plus the atomic bombings of Hiroshima and Nagasaki), it results in an estimated 50 million to 85 million fatalities. This makes World War II the deadliest conflict in human history.
1942 CE	Japan and U.S. enter World War II.	In December, Japan attacks the United States and European colonies in the Pacific Ocean and quickly conquers much of the Western Pacific.
1945 CE	World War II ends. The United Nations is established.	The war in Europe culminates in the capture of Berlin by Soviet troops, the suicide of Adolf Hitler and the subsequent German unconditional surrender on May 8th. When Japan refuses to surrender under the terms of the Potsdam Declaration, the United States drops atomic bombs on the Japanese cities of Hiroshima and Nagasaki. Japan surrenders then on August 15th. The United Nations is established on October  24th between 51 countries. Revelation 17:8: “The beast that thou sawest was, and is not; and shall ascend out of the bottomless pit, and go into perdition: and they that dwell on the earth shall wonder, whose names were not written in the book of life from the foundation of the world, when they behold the beast that was, and is not, and yet is.”
1948 CE	State of Israel is established.	The United Nations authorized the creation of an independent Jewish State in 1947 because in May of 1948 the British mandate to occupy Palestine was to end. Even though the threat of war is a very real possibility, the plans are carried out. David Ben-Gurion, the leader of Israel’s National Council, stated, in part: “By virtue of our natural and historic right and on the strength of the Resolution of the United Nations General Assembly, hereby declare the establishment of a Jewish State in Eretz-Israel, to be known as the State of Israel.”
1950 CE	Korean War begins.	The Korean War begins when North Korea invades South Korea. The United Nations, with the United States as the principal force, comes to the aid of South Korea while China comes to the aid of North Korea with the Soviet Union giving some assistance.
1955 CE	Vietnam war begins.	The Vietnam War occurred in Vietnam, Laos, and Cambodia although it was officially fought between North Vietnam and the government of South Vietnam. The North Vietnamese army was supported by the Soviet Union, China and other communist allies and the South Vietnamese army was supported by the United States, South Korea, Australia, Thailand and other anti-communist allies.
1975 CE	Six thousand years of man’s existence on the earth.	The first man, Adam, was created by God in the fall of the year 4026 BCE. There is no year between 1 BCE and 1 CE.
1989 CE	Berlin Wall falls.	The Berlin Wall is a guarded concrete barrier that physically and ideologically divided Berlin, Germany. It was constructed in 1961 by the German Democratic Republic (East Germany), and it prevented anyone from trying to emigrate from the country.
1990 CE	The Gulf War begins.	The Gulf War, also called Operation Desert Shield and Operation Desert Storm is a war waged by a coalition forces from 35 nations led by the United States against Iraq in response to Iraq's invasion and annexation of Kuwait.
2001 CE	Twin Towers of World Trade Center destroyed.	On the morning of September 11th, Al-Qaeda-affiliated hijackers fly two Boeing 767 jets into the North and South Towers of the World Trade Center. Both buildings collapse, killing 2,606 people in and within the vicinity of the towers, as well as all 157 on board the two aircraft.
2003 CE	“Year of the Bible”	Austria, France, Germany, and Switzerland, declare the year 2003 as the “Year of the Bible.”
2007 CE	Great Recession begins.	The Great Recession is an economic downturn that starts in the United States and becomes so severe it affects many other countries. It is caused by a frenzy of irresponsible borrowing leading to severe debt.
2012 CE	Widespread belief that world will end with Maya calendar cycle.	Many people believe the world will end on December 21st, because that ends a 5,125-year-long cycle in the ancient Maya calendar.` Ecclesiastes 1:4: “One generation passeth away, and another generation cometh: but the earth abideth for ever.” Isaiah 45:18: “For thus saith the LORD that created the heavens; God himself that formed the earth and made it; he hath established it, he created it not in vain, he formed it to be inhabited: I am the LORD; and there is none else.”
Unknown.	Future events.	The following prophesied events are yet to take place, but not necessarily in this order.
	1. “Day of Jehovah.”	Future events will take place in the “Day of Jehovah.” 1 Thessalonians 5:2: “For yourselves know perfectly that the day of the Lord so cometh as a thief in the night.” 2 Peter 3:12-13: “Looking for and hasting unto the coming of the day of God, wherein the heavens being on fire shall be dissolved, and the elements shall melt with fervent heat?13. Nevertheless we, according to his promise, look for new heavens and a new earth, wherein dwelleth righteousness.
	2. “The Last Days.”	The “Last Days” are a time of peril and Judgement. 2 Timothy 3:1-5: “This know also, that in the last days perilous times shall come. 2. For men shall be lovers of their own selves, covetous, boasters, proud, blasphemers, disobedient to parents, unthankful, unholy, 3. Without natural affection, trucebreakers, false accusers, incontinent, fierce, despisers of those that are good, 4. Traitors, heady, highminded, lovers of pleasures more than lovers of God; 5. Having a form of godliness, but denying the power thereof: from such turn away.” James 5:3: “Your gold and silver is cankered; and the rust of them shall be a witness against you, and shall eat your flesh as it were fire. Ye have heaped treasure together for the last days.” 2 Peter 3:3: “Knowing this first, that there shall come in the last days scoffers, walking after their own lusts.” 2 Peter 3:7: “But the heavens and the earth, which are now, by the same word are kept in store, reserved unto fire against the day of judgment and perdition of ungodly men.”
	3. “Peace and Security.”	“Peace and security!” may refer to one event or to a series of events where nations may think they are close to solving some of the world’s big problems. 1 Thessalonians 5:3: “For when they shall say, Peace and safety; then sudden destruction cometh upon them, as travail upon a woman with child; and they shall not escape.”
	4. “The Four Winds” and “Final Sealing.”	Four Angels hold back the events of the “Last Days” until the sealing of the 144,000 is complete. Revelation 7:1-4: “After these things I saw four angels standing on the four corners of the earth, holding the four winds of the earth, that the wind should not blow on the earth, nor on the sea, nor on any tree. 2. And I saw another angel ascending from the east, having the seal of the living God: and he cried with a loud voice to the four angels, to whom it was given to hurt the earth and the sea, 3. Saying, Hurt not the earth, neither the sea, nor the trees, till we have sealed the servants of our God in their foreheads. 4. And I heard the number of them which were sealed: and there were sealed an hundred and forty and four thousand of all the tribes of the children of Israel.”
	5. “King of the North.”	The “King of the North” will be disturbed about world events. It is still unknown what nation this king represents. Daniel 11:44: “But tidings out of the east and out of the north shall trouble him: therefore he shall go forth with great fury to destroy, and utterly to make away many.”
	6. “The Great Tribulation.”	The “Great Tribulation” will begin, probably with the destruction of “Babylon the Great.” Matthew 24:21: “For then shall be great tribulation, such as was not since the beginning of the world to this time, no, nor ever shall be.”
	7. “Babylon the Great.”	“Babylon the Great”, the world empire of false religion, will be attacked. Revelation 17:1: “I will shew unto thee the judgment of the great whore that sitteth upon many waters.” Revelation 17:5-6: “Upon her forehead was a name written, MYSTERY, BABYLON THE GREAT, THE MOTHER OF HARLOTS AND ABOMINATIONS OF THE EARTH. 6. And I saw the woman drunken with the blood of the saints, and with the blood of the martyrs of Jesus.”
	8. “The Wild Beast.”	The “Wild Beast” is made up of the kings of the earth who will destroy false religion. They are the World powers, the seventh of which is the current Anglo-American World Power. Revelation 17:10: “There are seven kings: five are fallen, and one is, and the other is not yet come; and when he cometh, he must continue a short space.”
	9. “The Eighth Power.”	The “Wild Beast” will destroy “Babylon the Great” by means of the “Eighth Power”, the United Nations. Revelation 17:11: “And the beast that was, and is not, even he is the eighth, and is of the seven.” Revelation 17:16: “The ten horns which thou sawest upon the beast, these shall hate the whore, and shall make her desolate and naked, and shall eat her flesh, and burn her with fire.” “Babylon the Great” will be wiped out as if in one day. Revelation 18:8: “Therefore shall her plagues come in one day, death, and mourning, and famine; and she shall be utterly burned with fire: for strong is the Lord God who judgeth her.”
	10. “Days Cut Short.”	The days of the destruction of false religion will be cut short, for God won’t allow true religion to be destroyed with the false.” Mark 13:19-20: “For in those days shall be affliction, such as was not from the beginning of the creation which God created unto this time, neither shall be. 20. And except that the Lord had shortened those days, no flesh should be saved: but for the elect’s sake, whom he hath chosen, he hath shortened the days.”
	11. “King of North” will act.	The “King of the North” will make his final stand against God’s servants. Daniel 11:45: “And he shall plant the tabernacles of his palace between the seas in the glorious holy mountain; yet he shall come to his end, and none shall help him.”
	12. “Gog of Magog”	“Gog of Magog” will try to attack God’s people. Ezekiel 38:2, 11-12: “Son of man, set thy face against Gog, the land of Magog. 11. And thou shalt say, I will go up to the land of unwalled villages; I will go to them that are at rest, that dwell safely, all of them dwelling without walls, and having neither bars nor gates, 12. To take a spoil, and to take a prey; to turn thine hand upon the desolate places that are now inhabited, and upon the people that are gathered out of the nations, which have gotten cattle and goods, that dwell in the midst of the land.”
	13. “Anguish of nations.”	The world will be distressed over heavenly signs. Luke 21:25-26: “And there shall be signs in the sun, and in the moon, and in the stars; and upon the earth distress of nations, with perplexity; the sea and the waves roaring; 26. Men’s hearts failing them for fear, and for looking after those things which are coming on the earth: for the powers of heaven shall be shaken.”
	14. “Son of Man.”	The “Son of Man”, Jesus, will be “seen”. Matthew 24:30: “And then shall appear the sign of the Son of man in heaven: and then shall all the tribes of the earth mourn, and they shall see the Son of man coming in the clouds of heaven with power and great glory.”
	15. “Chosen Ones.”	The 144,000 that are chosen from the earth to rule as judges with Jesus will be gathered. Matthew 24:31: “And he shall send his angels with a great sound of a trumpet, and they shall gather together his elect from the four winds, from one end of heaven to the other.
	16. “Armageddon.”	The political nations of the earth along with “Gog of Magog” will attack one another, but God himself will intervene and they will be forced to recognize who defeats them. Ezekiel 38:21-23: “And I will call for a sword against him throughout all my mountains, saith the Lord GOD: every man’s sword shall be against his brother. 22. And I will plead against him with pestilence and with blood; and I will rain upon him, and upon his bands, and upon the many people that are with him, an overflowing rain, and great hailstones, fire, and brimstone. 23. Thus will I magnify myself, and sanctify myself; and I will be known in the eyes of many nations, and they shall know that I am the LORD. Revelation 16:14: “And he gathered them together into a place called in the Hebrew tongue Armageddon.” Revelation 19:11, 19-20: “I saw heaven opened, and behold a white horse; and he that sat upon him was called Faithful and True, and in righteousness he doth judge and make war. 19. I saw the beast, and the kings of the earth, and their armies, gathered together to make war against him that sat on the horse, and against his army. 20. And the beast was taken, and with him the false prophet that wrought miracles before him, with which he deceived them that had received the mark of the beast, and them that worshipped his image. These both were cast alive into a lake of fire burning with brimstone.”
	17. “1,000 year Judgment day.”	The chosen 144,000, will join Jesus and judge mankind for 1,000 years. Revelation 20:4: “And I saw thrones, and they sat upon them, and judgment was given unto them: and I saw the souls of them that were beheaded for the witness of Jesus, and for the word of God, and which had not worshipped the beast, neither his image, neither had received his mark upon their foreheads, or in their hands; and they lived and reigned with Christ a thousand years.
	Earth returned to Paradise state.	During the 1,000 years, the earth will be returned to the same Paradise state it enjoyed in the Garden of Eden Isaiah 65:21: “They shall build houses, and inhabit them; and they shall plant vineyards, and eat the fruit of them.” Micah 4:4: “They shall sit every man under his vine and under his fig tree; and none shall make them afraid: for the mouth of the LORD of hosts hath spoken it.” Isaiah 11:6-9: “The wolf also shall dwell with the lamb, and the leopard shall lie down with the kid; and the calf and the young lion and the fatling together; and a little child shall lead them. 7. And the cow and the bear shall feed; their young ones shall lie down together: and the lion shall eat straw like the ox. 8. And the sucking child shall play on the hole of the asp, and the weaned child shall put his hand on the cockatrice’ den. 9. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain: for the earth shall be full of the knowledge of the LORD, as the waters cover the sea. Isaiah 65:25: “The wolf and the lamb shall feed together, and the lion shall eat straw like the bullock: and dust shall be the serpent’s meat. They shall not hurt nor destroy in all my holy mountain, saith the LORD.”
	“Resurrection of dead.”	The dead will be resurrected and they will be given the opportunity to learn about Jehovah God and his son Jesus Christ. They will then be judged according to their choice of worship. Revelation 20:13: “And the sea gave up the dead which were in it; and death and hell delivered up the dead which were in them: and they were judged every man according to their works.” John 5:28-29: “Marvel not at this: for the hour is coming, in the which all that are in the graves shall hear his voice, 29. And shall come forth; they that have done good, unto the resurrection of life; and they that have done evil, unto the resurrection of damnation.
	18. “Satan’s final attack.”	At the end of the 1,000 years, Satan will be released from the abyss for a while. With humanity now returned to the perfection Adam enjoyed, they will be given the opportunity to choose whether they will serve Jehovah or Satan as their ruler. Revelation 20:7-8, 10: “And when the thousand years are expired, Satan shall be loosed out of his prison, 8. And shall go out to deceive the nations which are in the four quarters of the earth, Gog and Magog, to gather them together to battle: the number of whom is as the sand of the sea. 10. And the devil that deceived them was cast into the lake of fire and brimstone, where the beast and the false prophet are,”
	Humans will live forever on the earth in Peace.	After Satan and his followers are eliminated forever, the remaining humanity will have the opportunity to live forever on a perfect earth with Jehovah God as its undisputed ruler. Revelation 21:3-4: “I heard a great voice out of heaven saying, Behold, the tabernacle of God is with men, and he will dwell with them, and they shall be his people, and God himself shall be with them, and be their God. 4. And God shall wipe away all tears from their eyes; and there shall be no more death, neither sorrow, nor crying, neither shall there be any more pain: for the former things are passed away.” Psalm 99:1-3: “The LORD reigneth; let the people tremble: he sitteth between the cherubims; let the earth be moved. 2. The LORD is great in Zion; and he is high above all the people. 3. Let them praise thy great and terrible name; for it is holy.”