Ancient History 12500 - 9500 BCE Natufian Culture
8500 – 6000 BCE Jericho and Large Settlements 3000 – 1200 BCE The Bronze Age
2000 BCE The Story of Abraham
1208 BCE Merneptah Stele & Extra Biblical Records
1020 BCE The United Kingdom of Israel – Hebrew Bible 930 BCE A Split Region
925 BCE Pharaoh Shoshenq Invades Canaan
738 BCE Neo-Assyrian Empire & Invasion of Israel
626 – 539 BCE Neo-Babylonian Empire
550 – 330 BCE The Achaemenid Empire & Cyprus the Great 330 BCE Alexander the Great Conquers Persian Empire 312 – 63 BCE The Seleucid Empire
116 BCE The Seleucid Empire Civil War
The Rise of Christianity
63 BCE The Roman Republic Conquers Judea
66 – 136 Jewish & Roman Wars
Diaspora
132 Hadrian Joins Syria and Judea
270 – 273 The Palmyrene Empire
306 – 324 Roman Civil Wars & Emperor Constantine The Rise of Islam
570 Approx. Birth of Muhammad
614 Sasanian Empire Captures Palestine
628 The Byzantines Recapture Palestine
632 – 661 The Rashidun Caliphate
662 – 750 The Ummayad Caliphate
750 – 1258 The Abbasid Caliphate
The Crusades
1095 – 1099 Pope Urban Calls for 1st Crusade 1187 Saladin’s Campaign
The Rise of Islam (cont.)
1206 Genghis Khan Declared Ruler of Mongolia 1251 Mongke Khan Extends the Empire 1250 – 1517 The Mamluk Sultanate
1516 The Ottoman Empire Conquers Palestine 1834 The Peasant’s Revolt
1840 The Convention of London
The Rise of Zionism 1860 The 1st Jewish Neighbourhood 1882 – 1903 Jewish Migration
1897 1st Zionist Congress
1915 Britain’s Promise of Independence 1917 The Balfour Declaration
1917 – 1918 Britain Secures Jerusalem & Defeats Ottomans 1923 Realisation of The Sykes-Picot Agreement
1920 The League of Nations Palestine Population report 1922 Britain Awarded Governing Mandate
1929 The Palestine Riots
1936 – 1939 The Arab Revolt
1937 British Palestine Royal Commission: Two State Solution 1939 – 1945 The Second World War and The Holocaust
The Creation of Israel
1948 British Mandate Expires
1948 – 1949 Arab & Israeli War
1950 The Law of Return
1956 The Sinai Campaign
1964 The Palestine Liberation Organisation is Created
1967 The Six – Day War
1978 – 1979 Peace Treaties between Israel & Egypt
1982 Invasion of Lebanon
1987 – 1991 The 1st Intifada
1987 The Creation of Hamas
1988 The Declaration of an Independent State of Palestine 1991 The Madrid Conference
1993 – 1995 The Oslo Accords
1994 An Illegal Separation Wall
2000 – 2005 The 2nd Intifada
2006 Democratic Election of Hamas
2006 The 2nd Lebanese War
2008 Operation Cast Lead
2012 Operation Pillar of Cloud 2012 Palestine & The United Nations