Historical Events

Historical Timeline

6 Days of Creation

    Day 1

    Day 2

    Day 3

    Day 4

    Day 5

    Day 6

Flood of Noah

Tower of Bavel

Akeidat Yitzchak (The Binding of Yitzchak)

Going Down to Egypt

Slavery to Sinai

Exodus from Egypt / Receiving the Torah

Revelation at Sinai

Conquering Canaan

Construction of First Temple

First Temple Era

Destruction of First Temple

Babylonian Exile (First Temple)

The Return from Babylon

Purim Story

Ezra / Nechemia

Greek Repression

Chanukah Story

Hasmonean Revolt

Roman Rule

Great Revolt Against Rome

Second Temple Destruction; Second Temple Destruction 2

Bar Kochva Revolt

Babylonian Jewry

Recording the Oral Law

Spread of Christianity

Ashkenazim and Sephardim

    Ashkenazic (Definition)

Jewish Life in Medieval Spain

Jewish Life in Medieval France / Germany

Jewish Life in Eastern Europe (Medieval)

Jewish Life in Eretz Yisrael

Crusader Period

Black Death

Spanish Expulsion

Chmelnitzky Pogroms (1648-1649)

Chasidic Movement

    Chasidim

Yeshiva Movement

Bais Yaakov Movement

Haskala (Enlightenment); Haskala 2

Reform Movement (Moses Mendelssohn)

Dreyfus Affair (France); Alfred Dreyfus

First 12 Zionist Congresses (Basel)

Russian Pogroms

Beginnings of Zionism

Balfour Declaration (1917)

Between the World Wars

The Holocaust; The Holocaust 2

    Nazi Leaders

        Adolf Eichmann

        Joseph Goebbels

        Hermann Goering  

        Reinhard Heydrich    

        Heinrich Himmler

        Adolf Hitler       

        Julius Streicher

State of Israel

    Struggle for Statehood

    State of Israel Declaration

    American Recognition

    List of Israel's Presidents

    List of Israel's Prime MInisters

    Peace Treaty with Egypt (1979)

Soviet Jewry Resistance

Israeli Wars

    War of Independence (1948); War of Independence 2

        Declaration of Independence

    Suez War (1956)

    Six Day War (1967)

    Yom Kippur War (1973)

    Raid on Iraqi Nuclear Reactor (1981)

        Haganah

        Irgun

Israel: The First Half Century

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