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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