Timeline of the history of the region of Palestine

From Infogalactic: the planetary knowledge core
Jump to: navigation, search

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

Satellite image of the Israel region from 2003

This timeline represents major events in the region of Palestine, which at different times during human habitation included a diverse number of people, cultures, religions and nations while being a part of several major empires and an important trade link between Europe and North African coast in the west and Asia and India in the East.

For a more detailed article about the history of region see History of Palestine (region).


Prior to the 2nd millennium BC

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

2nd millennium BC

1st millennium BC

10th century BC

Entrance to the First Temple (20th-century painting)
Rehoboam's Kingdom of Judah

9th century BC

8th century BC

7th century BC

6th century BC

The Babylonian captivity (painting by James Tissot from c. 1896 to 1902)

5th century BC

4th century BC

3rd century BC

2nd century BC

1st century BC

Model of the Second Temple at the Israel Museum
Birth of Jesus (painting by Gerard van Honthorst from 1622)

1st millennium

1st century

2nd century

  • 130 AD – Roman emperor Hadrian builds a Roman city he called "Colonia Aelia Capitolina" on the ruins of Jerusalem.
  • 132–135 AD – The Bar Kokhba revolt takes place, the third major rebellion by the Jews of Iudaea Province against the rule of the Roman Empire. After the rebellion failed emperor Hadrian changed the name of the province from Iudaea to "Syria Palaestina" in order to complete the dissociation between the Jewish rebels to the region.

3rd century

4th century

5th century

6th century

The Madaba Map depiction of 6th-century Jerusalem

7th century

The Dome of the Rock (photograph from 1856)

8th century

File:Skitop111.jpg
Scythopolis (Beit She'an) was one of the cities destroyed during the earthquake of 749
  • 749The Seventh Earthquake: Another powerful earthquake is recorded in the Jordan Rift Valley. The cities of Tiberias, Beit She'an, Hippos and Pella were largely destroyed while many other cities throughout the Jordan Rift Valley region were heavily damaged. In addition, the earthquake reportedly claimed tens of thousands of victims.[24][25]
  • 750 – The Abbasids overthrew the Umayyad Caliphate.

9th century

10th century

  • 905 – The Abbasids reconquered the region.
  • 970 – The Fatimids, a self-proclaimed Shia caliphate, took control and appointed a Jewish governor.

2nd millennium

11th century

Conquest of Jerusalem in 1099 during the First Crusade (painting from the middle ages)

12th century

Battle of Cresson (painting from the middle ages)

13th century

Siege of Acre (painting by Dominique Papety from 1840)

14th century

15th century

16th century

Walls of Jerusalem (photo taken in 2005)

17th century

18th century

Battle of Nazareth (painting by Antoine-Jean Gros from 1801)

19th century

20th century

Ottoman machine gunners during the Second Battle of Gaza, 1917
File:Weizmann and feisal 1918.jpg
Emir Feisal and Chaim Weizmann during their meeting in 1918.
File:Palestinian refugees.jpg
Palestinian Arab refugees in 1948
1948: declaration of the establishment of the State of Israel
1993: Bill Clinton , Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat after signing the Oslo Accords

3rd millennium

Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.

21st century

File:Idf back from lebanon.jpg
Summer 2006: The Second Lebanon War (photograph taken on August 15, 2006)
  • June 2002 – As a result of the significant increase of suicide bombing attacks within Israeli population centers during the first years of the Second Intifada, Israel began the construction of the West Bank Fence along the Green Line border arguing that the barrier is necessary to protect Israeli civilians from Palestinian militants. The significantly reduced number of incidents of suicide bombings from 2002 to 2005 has been partly attributed to the barrier.[35] The barrier's construction, which has been highly controversial, became a major issue of contention between the two sides.
  • 23 August 2005Israel's unilateral disengagement plan: The evacuation of 25 Jewish settlements in the Gaza Strip and West Bank is completed.
  • 12 July – 14 August 2006 – The Second Lebanon War took place, which began as a military operation in response to the abduction of two Israeli reserve soldiers by the Hezbollah, and gradually grew to a wider conflict. 1,191 Lebanese were killed, 4,409 were injured.
  • 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009Operation Cast Lead: IDF forces conducted a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip during which dozens of targets were attacked in the Gaza Strip in response to ongoing rocket fire on the western Negev. 1,291 Palestinians were killed.
  • 14 November 2012 – 21 November 2012Operation Pillar of Cloud: IDF forces launches a large-scale military operation in the Gaza Strip in response to Palestinian militants firing over a hundred rockets from the Gaza Strip into southern Israel beginning on 10 November, with the aims of restoring quiet to southern Israel and to strike at what it considers terror organizations.[36] The operation officially began with the assassination of Ahmed Jabari, chief of the Gaza military wing of Hamas.[37] 158 Palestinians were killed.
  • 29 November 2012United Nations General Assembly resolution 67/19: Upgrading of Palestine to non-member observer state status in the United Nations.[38]

See also

References

  1. Vertebrates - dinosaurs – University of Copenhagen
  2. Discovery Online, Discovery News Brief
  3. Qesem Cave Project - Introduction
  4. 4.0 4.1 4.2 The Historical Context of the Hebrew Bible and New Testament
  5. Historic Battles presented by the South Hill Brass
  6. Oxford University Press: 100 Decisive Battles: Paul K. Davis
  7. 7.0 7.1 7.2 7.3 IRONI
  8. Shiloh (ancient city, Palestine) - Britannica Online Encyclopedia
  9. Slavik, Diane. 2001. Cities through Time: Daily Life in Ancient and Modern Jerusalem. Geneva, Illinois: Runestone Press, p. 60. ISBN 978-0-8225-3218-7
  10. Edwin Thiele, The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings, (1st ed.; New York: Macmillan, 1951; 2d ed.; Grand Rapids: Eerdmans, 1965; 3rd ed.; Grand Rapids: Zondervan/Kregel, 1983). ISBN 0-8254-3825-X, 9780825438257
  11. Joseph P. Free, Howard F. Vos. 1992. Archaeology and Bible history. p. 150. ISBN 978-0-310-47961-1
  12. Chronology of the Israelite Tribes from The History Files (historyfiles.co.uk)
  13. Greetham, The Rev. Phil. "King Herod the Great." Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found., 2001.[dead link]
  14. Sebaste, Holy Land Atlas Travel and Tourism Agency.
  15. Votruba, G., 2007, Imported building materials of Sebastos Harbour, Israel, International Journal of Nautical Archaeology 36: 325-335.
  16. "Entry for Herod." The Jewish Virtual Library, American-Jewish Cooperative Enterprise, 2007. Retrieved June 18, 2007.
  17. Temple of Herod, Jewish Encyclopedia
  18. Timothy David Barnes, “The Date of Herod’s Death,” Journal of Theological Studies ns 19 (1968), 204-19; P. M. Bernegger, “Affirmation of Herod’s Death in 4 B.C.,” Journal of Theological Studies ns 34 (1983), 526-31.
  19. Rahner (page 731) states that the consensus among historians is c. 4 BC/BCE. Sanders supports c. 4 BC/BCE. Vermes supports c. 6/5 BC/BCE. Finegan supports c. 3/2 BC/BCE. Sanders refers to the general consensus, Vermes a common 'early' date, Finegan defends comprehensively the date according to early Christian traditions.
  20. H.H. Ben-Sasson, A History of the Jewish People, Harvard University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-674-39731-2, page 246: "When Archelaus was deposed from the ethnarchy in 6 CE, Judea proper, Samaria and Idumea were converted into a Roman province under the name Iudaea."
  21. Ammianus Marcellinus, Res Gestae, 23.1.2–3.
  22. Ostrogorsky, George. 1969. History of the Byzantine State. New Brunswick, New Jersey: Rutgers University Press, p. 104. ISBN 0-8135-0599-2
  23. Sheila Blair, "What is the date of the Dome of the Rock?", Julian Raby & Jeremy Johns (editors), Bayt Al-Maqdis, Oxsford University Press, 1992
  24. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  25. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  26. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  27. Barnai, Jacob. The Jews in Palestine in the Eighteenth Century: under the patronage of the Istanbul Committee of Officials for Palestine (University of Alabama Press 1992) ISBN 978-0-8173-0572-7; p. 14
  28. Joel Rappel. History of Eretz Israel from Prehistory up to 1882 (1980), Vol.2, p.531. "In 1662 Sabbathai Sevi arrived to Jerusalem. It was the time when the Jewish settlements of Galilee were destroyed by the Druze: Tiberias was completely desolate and only a few of former Safed residents had returned..."
  29. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  30. Sbeinati, M.R., Darawcheh, R. & Mouty, M. 2005. The historical earthquakes of Syria: an analysis of large and moderate earthquakes from 1365 B.C. to 1900 A.D. Annals of Geophysics, 48, 347-435.
  31. Mishkenot Sha'ananim
  32. Friedman, Isaiah (1971). German Intervention on Behalf of the "Yishuv", 1917 , Jewish Social Studies, Vol. 33, pp. 23–43.
  33. Baylis Thomas (1999) How Israel was won: a concise history of the Arab-Israeli conflict Lexington Books, ISBN 0-7391-0064-5 p xiv
  34. General Progress Report and Supplementary Report of the United Nations Conciliation Commission for Palestine, Covering the Period from 11 December 1949 to 23 October 1950, published by the United Nations Conciliation Commission, 23 October 1950. (U.N. General Assembly Official Records, 5th Session, Supplement No. 18, Document A/1367/Rev. 1: Retrieved 5 January 2015)]
  35. Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.
  36. [1]
  37. [2]
  38. Resolution adopted by the General Assembly on 29 November 2012: without reference to a Main Committee (A/67/L.28 and Add.1): 67/19. Status of Palestine in the United Nations

Further reading

  • Lua error in package.lua at line 80: module 'strict' not found.