Monday, September 3, 2012

4,000 Years - A Bird's Eye view of Israel

There are few countries where nearly every mountain,road,city and river has historical or religioous significance as they do in Israel. In the days when the stone age was at its height in most countries,great events were taking place in Israel - the Bible was written and faiths that were to shape the history of the world were created. Israel's story has been going 4,000 years and if you have not got the time to delve into history books, the following table is for you.

The Patriarch, Abraham                                                                  c.2,000 B.C.E.
The Exodus from Egypt                                                                  c.1,250 B.C.E.
King David                                                                                      1006-968 B.C.E.
King Solomon                                                                                    968-928 B.C.E.
Building of 1st Temple                                                                      964-956  B.C.E.
Destruction of 1st Temple and the start of the Babylonian Exile             587 B.C.E.
The Return of Zion                                                                                   538  B.C.E.
The Consecration of 2nd Temple                                                             515  B.C.E.
The Hasmonean Revolt                                                                            167  B.C.E.
The Birth of Jesus                                                                                        5  B.C.E.
The Destruction of 2nd Temple                                                                  70 C.E
The Bar-Kokhba Revolt                                                                              132-135
The Arab Conquest of Eretz Israel                                                              634-638
The Crusades                                                                                             1096-1291
The Turkish Conquest of Eretz Israel                                                        1516-1517
Nopoleon's Campaign in Eretz Israel                                                                  1799
First Jewish Quarter outside the walls of Jerusalem                                            1860 
The Establishment of the first jewish Agricultural Settelement in
Modern Times - Petah Tikvah                                                                              1878
The Beginning of Organized Jewish Immigration                                               1882
The First Zionist Congress                                                                                   1897
The Foundation - Laying of Tel-Aviv                                                                  1909
The Establishment of the 1st Kibbutz - Deganiah                                               1910
The Balfour Declaration Calling for a Jewish National Home in Eretz Israel    1917
The End of Turkish Period and the Conquest of Eretz Israel by the British        1917-1918
The British Mandate                                                                                             1918-1948
Organized Arab Pogroms against Jews of Eretz Israel                      1920,1921,1929,1936-1939
The Struggle for the Jewish State                                                                         1945-1948
The U.N. Resolution to Create a Jewish State                                                                1947
Israel's War of Independence                                                                                 1947-1949
The Sinai Campaign                                                                                               1948-1951
The Six-day war                                                                                                               1956
The Liberation of the Old city of Jerusalem                                                                     1967
The Yom-Kippur war                                                                                                        1973
The Signing of the Egypt-Israel Peace Treaty                                                                  1979
Peace for Galilee war                                                                                                        1982

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