B.C.E
3000	Early Canaanite settlement
1850	Jerusalem first mentioned in Egyptian texts
18th - 16th C	Hyksos period
1370	The Tel-Armana clay tablets mention Jerusalem
1000 - 961	David captures Jerusalem from the Jebusites and makes it the capital city of Israel
960	First Temple built by King Solomon
922	The Egyptians sack the city
701	Sennacherib attacks the city, repulsed by King Hezekiah
586	Jerusalem destroyed by Nebuchadnezzar
	Persian Period
537	Jews returned from Babylon
515	2nd Temple rebuilt
440-435	Jerusalem rebuilt by Nehemia and Ezra
	Hellenistic Period
305-199	Seleucids rule
176	Temple desecrated by Antiochus Epiphanes
	Hasmonean Period
167-144	Maccabean wars of liberation
165-163	Hasmonean rule
	Roman Period
63	Jerusalem captured by Pompey
37	Reign of King Herod
	A.D.
33	Crucifixion of Jesus
41-44	Agrippa King of Judea
66-70	Jewish uprising against Rome
70	Second Temple destroyed by Titus
132-135	Reign of Bar Kochba
135	Jerusalem destroyed by Hadrian
136	Rebuilt and named Aelia Capitolina
	Byzantine Period
326	Constantines mother Helena visits the city
335	The church of the Holy Sepulchre built by Constantine
614	Persian conquest
629	Jerusalem recaptured by the Byzantines
	Moslem Period
638	Omar captures the City
641	Dome of the Rock built
	Crusader Period
1099	Jerusalem captured by the Crusaders
1187	Saladin captures the city
	Mameluke Period
1260	Jerusalem destroyed by the Mongols
1267	Jewish community established
	Ottoman Period
1517	Ottoman Conquest
1538	Sultan Suleiman The Great rebuilds the city walls
	British Mandate
1917	General Allenby enters the city
1948	Mandate ends. Jordanians take over the Old City
1949	Jerusalem divided under armistice agreement
1967	Israeli troops recapture the Old City
1977	President Anwar Sadat of Egypt visits Jerusalem as part of the Camp David Peace accord
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