| 10,000 | Community life in Palestine, Natufian |
| 9,000 | Sheep domesticated, crops planted, Jericho |
| 8,500 | Neolithic period begins, Jericho tower |
| 7,000 | Pottery appears, ‚atal HŸyŸk founded |
| 6,000 | Metal smelting in Mesopotamia |
| 4,300 | Calcolithic period begins |
| 3,500 | Sumerians appear, invent writing |
| 3,150 | Early Bronze Age begins |
| 3,100 | Upper and Lower Egypt united |
| 2,650 | First Egyptian pyramid |
| 2,530 | Great Pyramid of Khufu (Cheops) |
| 2,500 | City-States emerge |
| 2,300 | Middle Bronze Age begins, first world empire (Akkadian) |
| 2,000 | First known legal code, Sumerian (Stonehenge) |
| 1,900 | Abraham? |
| 1,760 | Code of Hammurabi |
| 1,750 | Hyksos in Egypt |
| 1,650 | Hittite empire |
| 1,570 | Hyksos expelled |
| 1,550 | Late Bronze Age begins |
| 1,500 | Ugarit flourishing, alphabet |
| 1,450 | Egyptian empire |
| 1,350 | Akhenaton |
| 1,340 | Tutankhamen |
| 1,280 | Battle of Kadesh on the Orontes |
| 1,250 | Moses? Exodus? |
| 1,200 | Iron Age I begins |
| 1,188 | Sea Peoples rebuffed from Egypt |
| 1,150 | Period of the Judges begins |
| 1,020 | Saul becomes king |
| 1,000 | Iron Age II begins, David becomes king |
| 960 | Solomon |
| 950 | Assyrian empire |
| 922 | Israel and Judah split, Divided Monarchy |
| 869 | Omri becomes king of Israel |
| 850 | Rome founded, end of Ahab's reign |
| 786 | Jeroboam II king of Israel |
| 750 | Amos's ministry |
| 746 | Tiglath-Pilesar coming to power, Hosea's ministry |
| 742 | Isaiah's ministry, Micah's ministry |
| 734 | Syro-Ephraimite conflict |
| 722/1 | Fall of the Northern Kingdom |
| 715 | Hezekiah king of Judah |
| 701 | Sennacherib of Assyria invades Judah, Homer |
| 640 | Josiah king of Judah, Zephaniah, Nahum, Habakkuk |
| 627 | Assurbanipal of Assyria dies, Jeremiah's ministry |
| 626 | Babylonian empire, Nabopolassar |
| 621 | Deuteronomy |
| 609 | Josiah dies, Judah under hegemony of Egypt |
| 605 | Nebuchadrezzar king of Babylonia |
| 598/7 | First deportation |
| 587/6 | Fall of Jerusalem |
| 563 | Siddhartha Gautama (Buddha) born |
| 556 | Nabonidus king of Babylonia |
| 550 | Cyrus king of Persia |
| 539 | Cyrus conquers Babylonia |
| 538 | Edict of Cyrus |
| 522 | Zerubbabel and Joshus return to Judah |
| 486 | Xerxes I, Esther? |
| 458 | Ezra? |
| 445 | Nehemiah's governorship |
| 428/7 | Plato born |
| 410 | Ezra? |
| 336 | Alexander the Great |
| 333 | Alexander the Great conquers Israel |
| 198 | Seleucids take control of Palestine |
| 167 | Book of Daniel |
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