1600s BCE – Jews migrate from Canaan to Egypt

1200s BCE – Exodus from Egypt

1250 BCE – Jewish conquest of Canaan

1025-1006 BCE – Kingdom of Saul

990-968 BCE – Kingdom of David

968-928 BCE – Kingdom of Solomon

940 BCE – First Temple is built

928 BCE – Division of Jewish kingdom into separate states of
Israel/Samaria and Judea

722 BCE – Assyrian conquest of Israel/Samaria

586 BCE – Babylonian conquest of Judea and destruction of First Temple

538 BCE – First exiled Jews return from Babylonia

515 BCE – Construction of Second Temple completed

167-164 BCE – Maccabean revolt, reestablishment of Jewish sovereignty

63 BCE – Roman occupation of Jewish kingdom

66 – 70 CE – Jewish revolt against Rome, Roman destruction of Second
Temple

73 CE – Mass suicide of last Jewish rebels against Rome, atop Masada

132-135 CE – Bar Kochba revolt

135 – Romans rename Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina" and change
the name Eretz Yisrael to "Syria-Palaestina"

637 – Muslim conquest of Eretz Yisrael

1099 – First Crusaders conquer Palestine

1187 – Muslims, led by Saladin, defeat Crusaders and occupy Palestine

1211 – Three hundred French and English rabbis settle in Acre and
Jerusalem

1267 – Nachmanides settles in Jerusalem

1517 – Ottoman Turks conquer Palestine

1665 – Shabtai Zvi, in Jerusalem, declares himself to be the messiah

1700 – Group of Polish hasidim settle in Jerusalem

1862 – Moses Hess writes Rome and Jerusalem Rabbi Zvi Hirsch Kalischer
writes Drishat Tzion

1870 – Mikveh Israel Agricultural School is founded near Jaffa

1878 – Petah Tikvah is founded

September 1882 – Leo Pinsker’s Auto-Emancipation is published

1882 – Bilu movement is founded

1882 – 1904 – First Aliyah

1885 – American Reform rabbis adopt anti-Zionist "Pittsburgh
Platform"

1886 – "Hatikvah," later to become the Zionist anthem, is
published in Jerusalem

1889 – Ahad Ha’am founds Benei Moshe society

1891 – Christian Zionists’ Blackstone Memorial petition delivered to
U.S. President

December 1894 – Capt. Alfred Dreyfus convicted of treason in France

February 1896 – Theodor Herzl’s Der Judenstaat is published

August 29-31, 1897 – First Zionist Congress, held in Basle

July 4, 1898 – Federation of American Zionists (Zionist Organization of
America) is founded

April 6-7, 1903 – Kishinev Pogrom

August 23-28, 1903 – Sixth Zionist Congress endorses Herzl’s proposal
to explore the "Uganda Plan"

1904 – 1914 – Second Aliyah

July 27-August 2, 1905 – Seventh Zionist Congress rejects all proposals
for settling Jews outside of Palestine

1907 – First world union of Labor Zionists is founded

1909 – Tel Aviv is founded Deganya, first kibbutz, is founded

1912 – Hadassah, U.S. women’s Zionist organization, is founded

1913 – Hashomer Hatzair is founded

1913-1914 – "Language War" in Palestine

August 1914 – Louis D. Brandeis becomes leader of American Zionist
movement

1915 – Palestine Jewish espionage group, Nili, is founded

August 23, 1917 – Jewish Legion is founded

November 2, 1917 – Balfour Declaration is issued

December 11, 1917 – British conquest of Jerusalem

1917 – 1921 – Third Aliyah

February 1920 – Haganah is founded

December 1920 – Histadrut is founded

March 1, 1920 – Yosef Trumpeldor killed at Tel Hai

April 1920 – Palestinian Arab mob violence against Jews in Jerusalem

April 25, 1920 – League of Nations, meeting in San Remo, awards
Palestine Mandate to Great Britain

May 1921- Palestinian Arab mob violence against Jews in Jaffa

September 16, 1922 – British announce severance of Transjordan from
Palestine Mandate

1923 – Betar Zionist youth movement founded, in Riga

1924-1931 – Fourth Aliyah

April 1, 1925 – Hebrew University of Jerusalem opens

1925 – Revisionist Zionist movement is founded

1928 – Soviet Union establishes alternative Jewish homeland in Siberian
region of Birobidzhan

August 23-26, 1929 – Arab riots throughout Palestine

1931-1939 – Fifth Aliyah

January 30, 1933 – Adolf Hitler becomes chancellor of Germany

June 16, 1933 – Labor Zionist official Haim Arlosoroff is killed in Tel
Aviv

April 15, 1936 – Palestinian Arabs launch general strike and mass
violence

April 1937 – Irgun Zvai Leumi is founded

July 1937 – British Peel commission recommends partition of Palestine

November 9-10, 1938 – Kristallnacht Pogrom

May 15, 1939 – British White Paper restricts Jewish immigration to
Palestine

1939-1948 – Sixth Aliyah

February 28, 1940 – British restrict Jewish land purchases in Palestine

July 1940 – Militant underground later known as Lohamei Herut Yisrael (Lehi)
is founded

November 25, 1940 – Sinking of the Jewish refugee ship
"Patria"

February 24, 1942 – Sinking of the Jewish refugee ship "Struma"

May 11, 1942 – American Zionists adopt Biltmore Program

December 17, 1942 – Allies confirm Nazi genocide

April 19, 1943 – Warsaw Ghetto revolt erupts

August 1943 – Abba Hillel Silver becomes leader of the American Zionist
movement

February 1, 1944 – Irgun Zvai Leumi launches revolt against British in
Palestine

June 1944 – Hannah Senesh captured by the Nazis in Hungary

September 20, 1944 – Jewish Brigade is founded

November 6, 1944 – Assassination of Lord Moyne by Lehi

October 1945 -July 1946 – Joint Haganah-Irgun-Lehi revolt against the
British

April 20, 1946 – Anglo-American Committee of Inquiry on Palestine
recommends United Nations trusteeship

July 22, 1946 – Irgun bombing of British headquarters in the King David
Hotel, Jerusalem

May 4, 1947 – Mass escape of Irgun and Lehi members from Acre Prison

July 1947 – Voyage of the Exodus

July 30, 1947 – Irgun hanging of two British soldiers

November 29, 1947 – United Nations General Assembly recommends
partition of Palestine

May 15, 1948 – State of Israel is born

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