Overview of Jewish History
| DATE | EVENT |
| 1700 BCE | The Patriarchs: Abraham, Isaac, and Jacob |
| 1700 BCE | The Matriarchs: Sarah, Rebecca, Rachel and Leah |
| 1300 BCE | Exodus – Leaving Slavery in Egypt to enter the Promised Land |
| 950 BCE | First Temple Built |
| 586 BCE | First Temple Destroyed; Babylonian Exile |
| 515 BCE | Second Temple Built |
| 167-164 BCE | Maccabbee Revolt (Hasmonean Rebellion) |
| 70 CE | Destruction of Second Temple; Roman Exile |
| 200 CE | Compilation of the Mishnah |
| 600 CE | Compilation of the Babylonian Talmud |
| 1096 CE | First Crusade |
| 1135-1204 CE | Maimonides |
| 1290 CE | The Book of the Zohar |
| 1492 | Expulsion of Spanish Jewry |
| 1525-1575 | Revival of Kabbalah in Safed |
| 1654 | First Jews Arrive in the US (New Amsterdam) from Brazil |
| 1729-1786 | Moses Mendelsohn (forerunner of the Jewish Enlightenment) |
| 1772 | Rise of Eastern European Hasidism |
| 1792 | Jewish Emancipation in France |
| 1770s-1880s | Haskalah (Jewish Enlightenment) |
| 1800-1900 | Development of Reform, Orthodox, and Conservative Judaism |
| 1882 | First Aliyah (large-scale immigration, mainly from Russia) |
| 1897 | First Zionist Congress |
| 1939-1945 | The Holocaust |
| 1948 | Establishment of the State of Israel |
| 1967 | Six Day War; Reunification of Jerusalem |
| 1979 | Israel and Egypt Sign Peace Treaty |
| 1984, 1985, 1991 | Operations Moses, Joshua, and Solomon (Ethiopian Jews brought to Israel) |
| 1998 | ICQ (Instant Messenger) Sold to AOL – Major Catalyst for the Israeli Start-Up Economy |
| 2004 | 350th Anniversary of American Jewish Life |
| 2009 | Start Up Nation Published |
| 2013 | Israel’s 65th Anniversary |
The Hanukkah Chronology
| DATE | EVENT |
| 3408/352 | Athens defeat Persia at Marathon |
| Plato; Greek philosophy | |
| Sparta defeats Athens | |
| Second Temple built | |
| 3594/167 | Philip of Macedon conquers Athens and controls Greece |
| Alexander the Great rules Macedonia/Greece | |
| Alexander dies; Ptolemies control Egypt and Israel | |
| Seleucid Syrian/Greeks conquer Israel | |
| Greek decrees against Judaism; desecration of Temple | |
| 3595/167 | Mattityahu begins Maccabee Revolt (Hasmonean Rebellion) in Modin |
| 3596/166 | Mattityahu dies; Judah Maccabee leads Hasmonean family and war against Greeks |
| 3597/165 | Temple recaptured; miracle of the oil occurs |
| 165-140 | Jewish war against the Greeks continues |
| 140-36 | Hasmonean dynasty |
| 3698/63 | Rome conquers Jerusalem |
