Last updated June 5, 2007
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Middle East Time Table: All Dates are "ca." -- with much dispute & constant discoveries |
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Date |
Event |
Participants |
Secondary |
| 3000-2500 | Old Sumerian | Mesopotamia | |
| 2500-2100 | Sargon/Akkadian/Enlil Period | Mesopotamia | |
| 2100 ff | Neo-Sumerian | Mesopotamia | |
| 2000-1700 | Old Babylonian | Mesopotamia | |
| 1600-1000 | Middle Babylonian; Old Assyrian | Mesopotamia | |
| 1000-600 | Neo-Assyrian (621=Fall of Nineveh) | Mesopotamia | |
| 600-300 | Neo-Babylonian/Medeo-Persian | Mesopotamia | |
| Link | Hebrew Chronology of the following Era in greater depth | ||
| 1900-1800s | Abraham, Isaac & Ismael, Jacob | Israel | |
| 1500/1200 | The Exodus | Israel | |
| 1200-1000 | Deborah and the Jewish conquest & settlement of the Holy Land | Israel et alia | |
| ca 1000 | David conquered Jerusalem; Solomon his son built the first temple | Israel | |
| 722 | (Neo) Assyrians conquered the Northern Kingdom of the 10 Tribes | ||
| 586 | (Neo) Babylonians conquered Southern Kingdom of the remaining 2 Tribes | ||
| early 500s BC | Persians allow Jews to return to the Holy Land, re-build the Temple | ||
| 333-62 BC | Hellenistic Period | ||
| Link | Early Church Chronology -- covering the Book of Acts and Pauline periods | ||
| Link | Early Church Chronology -- covering the Acts and Pauline periods with some detail | ||
| 62 BC-312 AD | Roman Period of persecution and oppression, including both rebellions of the Jews in the 60s AD & 120s AD | ||
| Link | Early Christian Chronology -- covering writings outside the New Testament about early Christianity | ||
| 203 A.D. | Passio of Perpetua -- the reality and the writing | ||
| 312-614 | Roman-Christian-Byzantine period, including Helena's building of the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem and establishing the Pilgrim sites and routes | ||
| 614 | Persian conquest of Jerusalem | ||
| 622 | Hegira/Hijrah | Ansar | |
| 632 | Death of Muhammed; beginning of Caliphate | Abu Bakr | |
| 638 | Omar conquered Jerusalem, began the Mosque of Omar on Mt Moriah | ||
| 750 | Umayyards of Damascus waned; Abbasids of Baghdad waxed; Both patronized Jerusalem | ||
| 1009 | Mad Caliph Hakkim destroyed Helena's Church of the Holy Sepulchre | ||
| ca 1050 | Turks conquered Baghdad; over-running all in sight | ||
| 1071 | Turks beat Byzantium at Manzikert; conquered and occupied Anatolia (Turkey) | ||
| 1095 | Pope Urban II preached the First Crusade at Clermont, France | ||
| 1099 | First Crusaders conquered Jerusalem; established the Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem | ||
| 1187 | Saladin beat the Latin/crusader army at Hattin, occupied Jerusalem shortly afterward | ||
| 1291 | Muslim Mamlukes conquered Acre, pushed Latin/crusader presence off the mainland | ||
| Link | Crusade Chronology along with the Basic Books on the crusades | ||
| 1881 | First Aliya: Jews migrating to Palestine | Israel | |
| 1886 | Theodor Herzl published Der Judenstaat: Zionism beginning | Israel | |
| 1917 | Balfour Declaration | Israel | Britain |
| 1920 | Versailles Peace Conference Mandate to Britain in the Middle East | Israel | Britain |
| 1929 | Muslim riots against Jews in Palestine begin: years of bitter fighting ongoing | Israel | Palestine |
| 1938 | Kristallnacht in Nazi Germany: no doubt remains | Germany | |
| 1939 | WW II began | Germany | World |
| 1946 | Britain granted Jordan independence, not Israel; bombing of King David Hotel | Israel | Terrorism |
| 1947 | UN Partition: Israel for Jews, Palestine for Muslims | Israel | Palestine |
| 1948 | David ben Gurion begins fight for survival | Israel | Palestine |
| 1956 | Nasser nationalized the Suez; Israel invaded; debacle | Israel | US |
| 1956 | Sudan independence from Britain | Sudan | Britain |
| 1961 | Adolf Eichmann captured, tried, convicted of war crimes | Israel | |
| 1967 | 6-Days' War | Israel | Egypt, Jordan, Syria |
| 1968 | Baathist return to power in Iraq | Iraq | Saddam |
| 1968 | PLO adopts is charter | Palestine | Israel |
| 1971 | Britain pulled out military from the Persian Gulf | Britain | Persian Gulf |
| 1971 | King Hussein drove PLO out of Jordan and to Lebanon | Jordan | Lebanon |
| 1972 | Munich Olympics terrorism against Israelis | Israel | Terrorism |
| 1973 | Yom Kippur War | Israel | Egypt |
| 1976 | Entebbe hostages and raid to free them | Israel | Terrorism |
| 1977 | Anwar Sadat addressed the Knesset | Israel | Egypt |
| 1978 | Camp David Accords | Israel | Egypt, US |
| 1980 | Saddam's 8-Year War against Iran (U.S. cat's paw) | Iraq | Iran |
| 1981 | Israel Air Force destoyed the nuclear reactor at Osirak, Iraq | Israel | Iraq |
| 1983 | Second Sudanese Civil war: N Muslim ag S Christian & animist | Sudan | |
| Oct 1985 | Palestine Liberation Forces hijacked the ship, Achille Lauro, and a hijacker, Abu Abbas, murdered the wheel-chair bound Jewish man, Leon Klinghoffer | ||
| 1987 | First Intifada | Israel | Palestine |
| 1989 | Afgan jihad in-fighting, Osama left | Osama | Afganistan |
| 1989 | Militarist Islamicist revolt took over Sudan | Sudan | |
| 1989 | Osama established al-Qaeda | Terrorism | |
| 1990 | Osama in Jeddah orchestrating the revolt of Jihadist Southern Yemenis against Marxist North Yemen | Osama | Yemen |
| 1990 | Osama in Saudi Arabia predicted Saddam's expansion into Kuwait and warned that Saudi Arabia was Saddam's objective | Osama | Saddam |
| 1990 | Saudi Arabia revoked Osama's passport for a year to contain his meddling after the Yemen adventure | Saudi Arabia | Osama |
| 1991 | Osama left Saudi Arabia for a couple months in Pakistan | Saudi Arabia | Pakistan |
| 1991 | Osama left Pakistan for the Sudan with 4 wives & kids | Pakistan | Sudan |
| 1993 | Mogadishu, Somalia warlords beat the US | Somalia | US |
| 1994 | Sudan turned Carlos the Jackal over to France | Sudan | Terrorism |
| 1995 | Yitzhak Rabin assassinated by an Israeli Zionist | Israel | Terrorism |
| 1995 | 06: Hosni Mubarak nearly assassinated in Ethiopia by Jihadists | Egypt | Terrorism |
| 8/2/1990 | Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait | Iraq | Kuwait |
| 8/6/1990 | Dick Cheney @ Riyadh: 'Ask us to come, we come; ask us to leave, we leave' | Saudi Arabia | Iraq |
| 2/26/1993 | World Trade Center hit by 1,000 lb bomb in parking center, 6 dead | US | Terrorism |
| 12/25/1994 | French Airbus hijacked, aimed for Eiffel Tower, stormed in Marseilles | France | Terrorism |
| 5/18/1996 | 05: Sudan deported Osama | Sudan | Afganistan |
| 5/18/1996 | 05: Osama moved to Jalalabad | Afganistan | Sudan |
| 6/25/1996 | Bombing of al-Khobar Towers, US military barracks | Saudi Arabia | Terrorism |
| 8/7/1998 | Nairobi, Kenya & Dar es Salaam, Tanzania Embassies bombed | Kenya | Terrorism |
| 8/20/1998 | US cruise missles to Khartoum Pharmacy & Afgan redoubt | Sudan | Afganistan |
| 12/19/1999 | Al-Qaeda Ahmad Ressam captured @ Canadian border w/ exlplosives for LAX | US | Terrorism |
| 10/12/2000 | Suicide bombers ram the USS Cole in Aden, Yemen; 17 dead | Yemen | Terrorism |
| 9/11/2001 | Twin Towers, Pentagon hit by passenger planes | US | Terrorism |
| 10/7/2001 | US & Britain attack Afganistan | US | Afganistan |
| 10/15/2001 | Letter sent to Tom Daschle tests positive for Anthrax | US | Terrorism |
| 12/2/2001 | Osama escaped Tora Bora for parts unknown, according to Christian Science Monitor | Afganistan | Terrorism |
| 12/22/2002 | Britisher Richard Reid tried to blow up his shoes aboard AA flight | US | Terrorism |
| Recently | A recent (from 9/11) U.S./Middle East Chronology here | ||
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Other Chronologies at this site |
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| Early Hebrew | Includes Biblical, Greek, Persian, Egyptian references |
| Early Christian | Includes Biblical, Roman references |
| Christian | Includes Patristics as well as a large overview |
| The Crusades | The whole period of the Crusades, link to bibliography |
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Last updated June 5, 2007 |