| J-18th century bce | Habirus move to Egypt |
| J-17th century bce | Hyksos ruled Egypt |
| J-15th-13th centuries bce | Egyptians build monuments and Hyksos are made the slaves |
| J-1290-1224 bce | reign of Ramses II; also exodus |
| J-722 bce | Assyrians conquer Israel and kill and deport many Jews |
| J-612 bce | Babylonians defeat Assyrians |
| J-586 bce | Babylonians conquer Israel; Babylonian exile/captivity; Diaspora occurs |
| J-538 bce | Persian emperor, Cyrus, allows Jews to return home and allower religious freedom |
| J-333-331 bce | Persians are conquered by Greeks |
| J-70 ce | Romans conquer and destroy Jerusalem and the Temple |
| J-10th-2nd centuries bce | Tanakh is written |
| J-950 bce | Jahwist strand |
| J-850 bce | Eloist strand |
| J-650 bce | Deuteromist historian strand |
| J-6th century bce | Priestly authors strand (before/during Babylonian captivity) |
| C-4 bce | birth of Jesus of Nazareth |
| C-64 ce | Paul arrives in Rome during the reign of Nero |
| C-65 ce | Paul is beheaded in Rome |
| C-81-96 ce | Domitian's persecution |
| C-1st-2nd centuries ce | Revelation is written |
| C-312-313 ce | Constantine passed the Edict of Toleration (Milan) |
| C-395 ce | Christianity becomes the only allowable religion in the empire under Theodosius I |
| C-330 ce | Constantine moves church to Constantinople |
| C-4th century ce | beginnings of separation of east and west churches |
| C-1054 ce | Great Schism |
| C-1517 ce | Martin Luther tacked his 95 theses on church door |
| C-1545 ce | Council of Trent and Catholic Counter Reformation |
| C-70 ce | Gospel of Mark |
| C-80s ce | Gospel of Matthew |
| C-85-95 ce | Gospel of Luke |
| C-90-117 ce | Gospel of John |
| C-190s ce | Acts |
| I-7th century ce | Islam began |
| I-570 ce | birth of Muhammed |
| I-620 ce | people of Medina invite Muhammed to come to their city |
| I-622 ce | Muhammed escapes Mecca and travels to Medina; Hijra |
| I-630 ce | Muhammed and 6,000 men took over Mecca and kept the Kaaba standing |
| I-632 ce | Muhammed dies |
| J-1933 ce | Holocaust |
| J-1947 ce | UN passes resolution making Palestinve half Jewish and half Arab |