Timeline

Chronological listing of all events and life dates

49 centuries 116 years 146 entries

Eras

The Pre-Flood Era The Patriarchal Period The Egyptian Sojourn and Oppression The Exodus Period The Conquest Period The Period of the Judges The United Monarchy The Divided Kingdom The Exile Period The Post-Exilic Period The Intertestamental Period The New Testament Period The Rise of Islam
🌍 World History
4100 BCE
4004 BCE
📜 Creation · 📜 Expulsion from Eden · 📜 The Fall · 👶 Adam · 👶 Eve
4000 BCE
4000 BCE
👶 Abel (Adam & Eve) · 👶 Cain (Adam & Eve) · ✝ Abel
3900 BCE
3900 BCE
👶 Seth (Adam & Eve)
3800 BCE
3800 BCE
👶 Enosh (Seth)
3700 BCE
3600 BCE
3500 BCE
3400 BCE
3400 BCE
👶 Enoch
3300 BCE
3300 BCE
👶 Methuselah (Enoch)
3200 BCE
3100 BCE
3100 BCE
👶 Lamech (Methuselah)
3074 BCE
✝ Adam (age 930)
3100 BCE Egyptian unification begins
3000 BCE
2988 BCE
✝ Seth (age 912)
2900 BCE
2900 BCE
👶 Noah (Lamech)
2895 BCE
✝ Enosh (age 905)
2800 BCE
2700 BCE
2600 BCE
2560 BCE Great Pyramid of Giza built
2500 BCE
2448 BCE
👶 Ham (Noah) · 👶 Japheth (Noah) · 👶 Shem (Noah)
2400 BCE
2353 BCE
✝ Lamech (age 777)
2348 BCE
📜 Great Flood; covenant of rainbow · ✝ Methuselah (age 969)
2300 BCE
2296 BCE
👶 Terah (Nahor)
2246 BCE
👶 Nahor (Terah)
2238 BCE
👶 Haran (Terah)
2200 BCE
2198 BCE
✝ Haran (age 40)
2166 BCE
📜 Born in Ur of the Chaldeans · 👶 Abraham (Terah)
2156 BCE
👶 Sarah (Terah)
2100 BCE
2100 BCE
👶 Keturah
2098 BCE
✝ Nahor (age 148)
2091 BCE
📜 Called by God; leaves Haran for Canaan · ✝ Terah (age 205)
2080 BCE
📜 Born when Abraham was 86 · 👶 Ishmael (Abraham & Hagar)
2066 BCE
📜 Born when Abraham was 100 · 👶 Isaac (Abraham & Sarah)
2029 BCE
✝ Sarah (age 127)
2006 BCE
📜 Born when Isaac was 60 · 👶 Esau (Isaac & Rebekah) · 👶 Jacob (Isaac & Rebekah)
2000 BCE
1991 BCE
📜 Dies at age 175 · ✝ Abraham (age 175)
1950 BCE
✝ Noah (age 950)
1943 BCE
✝ Ishmael (age 137)
1900 BCE
1900 BCE
👶 Benjamin (Jacob & Rachel) · ✝ Rachel
1898 BCE
👶 Joseph (Jacob & Rachel)
1886 BCE
✝ Isaac (age 180)
1859 BCE
✝ Jacob (age 147)
1848 BCE
✝ Shem (age 600)
1800 BCE
1800 BCE
✝ Joseph (age 110)
1754 BCE Code of Hammurabi written
1700 BCE
1600 BCE
1533 BCE
👶 Miriam (Amram & Jochebed)
1529 BCE
👶 Aaron (Amram & Jochebed)
1526 BCE
👶 Moses (Amram & Jochebed)
1550 BCE Egyptian New Kingdom begins
1500 BCE
1447 BCE
📜 The Burning Bush
1446 BCE
📜 The Exodus Departure · 📜 Institution of Passover · 📜 The Ten Plagues of Egypt
1407 BCE
✝ Aaron (age 123) · ✝ Korah · ✝ Miriam (age 126)
1406 BCE
✝ Moses (age 120)
1400 BCE
1380 BCE
✝ Joshua (age 110)
1300 BCE
1200 BCE
1200 BCE Bronze Age Collapse
1100 BCE
1070 BCE
✝ Eli (age 98)
1050 BCE
✝ Samson
1040 BCE
👶 David (Jesse)
1025 BCE
✝ Goliath
1010 BCE
✝ Jonathan · ✝ Samuel · ✝ Saul
1000 BCE
1000 BCE
✝ Uriah the Hittite
990 BCE
👶 Solomon (David & Bathsheba)
975 BCE
✝ Absalom
970 BCE
👶 Rehoboam (Solomon) · ✝ David (age 70) · ✝ Joab
930 BCE
📜 Kingdom splits north/south · ✝ Solomon (age 60)
913 BCE
✝ Rehoboam (age 57)
909 BCE
✝ Jeroboam I
1000 BCE Phoenician alphabet spreads
900 BCE
853 BCE
✝ Ahab
841 BCE
✝ Jezebel
800 BCE
722 BCE
📜 Assyria conquers northern kingdom
776 BCE First Olympic Games 753 BCE Traditional founding of Rome
700 BCE
687 BCE
✝ Hezekiah
650 BCE
👶 Jeremiah
649 BCE
👶 Josiah
634 BCE
👶 Nebuchadnezzar II
622 BCE
👶 Ezekiel
620 BCE
👶 Daniel
609 BCE
✝ Josiah (age 40)
600 BCE
600 BCE
👶 Cyrus the Great
586 BCE
📜 Jerusalem and Temple destroyed; exile
562 BCE
✝ Nebuchadnezzar II (age 72)
538 BCE
📜 Decree allowing Jews to return
530 BCE
✝ Cyrus the Great (age 70)
516 BCE
📜 Second Temple completed
550 BCE Persian Empire founded 509 BCE Roman Republic established
500 BCE
490 BCE Battle of Marathon
400 BCE
356 BCE
👶 Alexander the Great
323 BCE
✝ Alexander the Great (age 32)
331 BCE Alexander conquers Persia
300 BCE
215 BCE
👶 Antiochus IV Epiphanes
264 BCE First Punic War begins 221 BCE Qin unifies China
200 BCE
166 BCE
✝ Mattathias
164 BCE
✝ Antiochus IV Epiphanes (age 51)
160 BCE
✝ Judah Maccabee
146 BCE Rome destroys Carthage
100 BCE
73 BCE
👶 Herod the Great
63 BCE
📜 Rome takes control of Judea
20 BCE
👶 Mary
6 BCE
👶 John the Baptist (Zechariah & Elizabeth)
4 BCE
✝ Herod the Great (age 69)
44 BCE Julius Caesar assassinated 27 BCE Roman Empire begins (Augustus)
0 CE
5 CE
👶 Paul
33 CE
✝ Judas Iscariot
37 CE
✝ Pontius Pilate
39 CE
👶 Titus (Roman Emperor)
44 CE
✝ James (son of Zebedee)
62 CE
✝ James (brother of Jesus)
70 CE
📜 Destruction of Second Temple
81 CE
✝ Titus (Roman Emperor) (age 42)
79 CE Vesuvius destroys Pompeii
100 CE
100 CE
✝ John (son of Zebedee)
117 CE Roman Empire at greatest extent
200 CE
300 CE
313 CE Edict of Milan (Christianity legal) 380 CE Christianity becomes state religion
400 CE
410 CE Visigoths sack Rome 476 CE Fall of Western Roman Empire
500 CE
555 CE
👶 Khadijah
568 CE
👶 Hamza
570 CE
📜 Born in Mecca · 👶 Muhammad
573 CE
👶 Abu Bakr
576 CE
👶 Uthman
580 CE
👶 Bilal
584 CE
👶 Umar
600 CE
600 CE
👶 Ali
610 CE
📜 First revelations; beginning of Quran
619 CE
✝ Khadijah (age 64)
622 CE
📜 Hijra (migration) to Medina
624 CE
👶 Hasan ibn Ali (Fatimah)
625 CE
✝ Hamza (age 57)
626 CE
👶 Husayn ibn Ali (Fatimah)
630 CE
📜 Conquest of Mecca
632 CE
📜 Dies in Medina · ✝ Fatimah · ✝ Muhammad (age 62)
634 CE
✝ Abu Bakr (age 61)
640 CE
✝ Bilal (age 60)
644 CE
✝ Umar (age 60)
656 CE
✝ Salman the Persian · ✝ Uthman (age 80)
661 CE
✝ Ali (age 61)
670 CE
✝ Hasan ibn Ali (age 46)
678 CE
✝ Aisha
680 CE
✝ Husayn ibn Ali (age 54)
700 CE