JEWISH HISTORY TIMELINE

Event

Jewish Calendar

Gentile Calendar

Creation	1	-3760
Noah and the Flood	1656	-2104
Abraham born	1948	-1812
Covenant Between the Parts	2018	-1742
Isaac born	2048	-1712
Jacob & Family go down to Egypt	2238	-1522
The Exodus	2448	-1312
The Children of Israel enter the Land of Israel	2489	-1271
King David born	2854	-906
King Solomon born	2912	-848
King Solomon builds the Holy Temple	2935	-825
Rebellion of the Ten Tribes; kingdom is split into two kingdoms: Israel of ten tribes, and Judah of two	2964	-796
Israel conquered by Shalmanesser. Israel exiled to places unknown	3205	-555
Holy Temple destroyed; Judah exiled to Babylon	3338	-422
Holy Temple rebuilt. End of Era of Prophecy; beginning of Mishnaic Era	3408	-352
Second Holy Temple destroyed	3828	68
Mishnaic Rabbis: Rabbi Eliezer, Rabbi Yehoshua, Rabbi Elazar ben Azaryah, Rabbi Akiva, and Rabbi Tarfon conduct the Seder in Bnai Brak	3870?	110?
End of Mishnaic Era; beginning of Talmudic (Amoraic) Era	3948	188
Abbaye and Rava teach the Talmud	4100	340
End of Talmudic Era; beginning of Savoraic Era	4260	500
End of Savoraic Era; beginning of Gaonic Era	4349	589
Rav Saadya Gaon born	4642	882
End of Gaonic Era; beginning of Rishonim Era	4798	1038
Rashi born	4800	1040
Maimonides born	4895	1135
End of Rishonim Era; beginning of Achronim Era	5200?	1440?
Rabbi Yosef Karo, author of Shulchan Aruch, born	5248	1488
Rabbi Isaac Luria, the Arizal, born	5294	1534
Bal Shem Tov born	5458	1698

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