2165 B.C. – birth of Abraham (Abram).
2155 B.C. – birth of Sarah (Sarai).
2090 B.C. – Abram enters Canaan (Genesis 12:5).
2079 B.C. – birth of Ishmael (Genesis 16:15).
2066 B.C. – God destroys four of the five “cities of the plain” (Sodom, Gomorrah, Admah, and Zeboiim) by raining brimstone and fire upon them because of their sinfulness (Genesis 18:20–19:29).
2065 B.C. – birth of Isaac (Genesis 21:2–3).
2028 B.C. – death of Sarah at the age of 127 (Genesis 23:1).
2025 B.C. – Isaac, at the age of 40, marries Rebekah (Genesis 24:67; 25:20).
2005 B.C. – birth of Esau (Edom) and Jacob (Israel) (Genesis 25:22–26).
1990 B.C. – death of Abraham at the age of 175 (Genesis 25:7).
1965 B.C. – Esau (Edom), at the age of 40, marries Judith (Aholibamah), the daughter of Beeri the Hittite and Anah the Hivite, and Bashemath (Adah), the daughter of Elon the Hittite (Genesis 26:34; 36:2). (He later married Mahalath (Bashemath), the daughter of Ishmael (Genesis 28:9; 36:3).)
1942 B.C. – death of Ishmael at the age of 137 (Genesis 25:17).
1914 B.C. – birth of Joseph (Genesis 30:22–24).
1897 B.C. – Joseph, at the age of 17, is sold for twenty pieces of silver by his brothers to Ishmeelite traders who are on their way to Egypt (Genesis 37:2, 28).
1885 B.C. – death of Isaac at the age of 180 (Genesis 35:28).
1884 B.C. – Joseph, at the age of 30, is made ruler (under Pharaoh) over all the land of Egypt (Genesis 41:41–46).
1875 B.C. – Jacob (Israel), his children (other than Joseph because he was already in Egypt), their spouses, and their children move to the land of Egypt (Genesis 46:5–7).
1858 B.C. – death of Jacob (Israel) at the age of 147 (Genesis 47:28; 49:33).
1804 B.C. – death of Joseph at the age of 110 (Genesis 50:26).
1528 B.C. – birth of Aaron.
1525 B.C. – birth of Moses (Exodus 2:2).
1485 B.C. – Moses, at the age of 40, kills an Egyptian and flees to the land of Midian (Exodus 2:11–15; Acts 7:23–29).
1484 B.C. – birth of Caleb, the son of Jephunneh (jeh-FUNN-ee), the Kenizite.
1445 B.C. – the year of the ten plagues of Egypt, the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, and the year that Moses, at the age of 80, receives the commandments for the Old Covenant from God on Mount Sinai.
1444 B.C. – The Israelites reach the Promised Land, the land of Canaan, but refuse to go in, so God sentences them to wander 40 years in the wilderness until all the adults—except for Joshua and Caleb and their families—die. (They received a one-year credit for “time served” because they had already been in the wilderness for one year on their way to the Promised Land.)
1405 B.C. – death of Miriam in the first month of the (Jewish) year (Numbers 20:1); death of Aaron at the age of 123 in the fifth month of the (Jewish) year (Numbers 20:28; 33:38–39); death of Moses at the age of 120 (Deuteronomy 34:7); and the year that the children of Israel cross the Jordan River and enter the land of Canaan (Joshua 3).
722 B.C. – Shalmaneser V, the king of Assyria, conquers the northern kingdom of Israel and carries away its ten tribes (Reuben, Simeon, Dan, Naphtali, Gad, Asher, Issachar, Zebulun, Manasseh, Ephraim) to Assyria. This was the end of the northern kingdom of Israel as these tribes never returned to Israel and became known as “the ten lost tribes of Israel.”
648 B.C. – birth of Josiah.
640 B.C. – Josiah, at the age of 8, begins to reign over Judah as Judah's 16th king (II Kings 22:1).
??? B.C. – birth of Johanan, the first son of King Josiah (who is ?? years old) (I Chronicles 3:15).
634 B.C. – birth of Eliakim (Jehoiakim), the second son of King Josiah (who is 14 years old).
632 B.C. – birth of Shallum (Jehoahaz), the third son of King Josiah (who is 16 years old).
618 B.C. – birth of Mattaniah (Zedekiah), the fourth son of King Josiah (who is 30 years old).
609 B.C. – King Josiah dies at the age of 39 after a reign of 31 years and the people of Judah make Jehoahaz, the third son of King Josiah, the 17th king of Judah at the age of 23, and he reigns for three months (II Chronicles 35:20–36:2).
609 B.C. – Pharaoh Necho II of Egypt deposes King Jehoahaz and makes Jehoiakim, the second son of King Josiah, the 18th king of Judah at the age of 25, and takes Jehoahaz to Egypt (II Kings 23:33–36).
608 B.C. – Jehoiachin (Jeconiah, Coniah), the son of King Johoiakim, at the age of 8, begins to reign over Judah with his father (II Chronicles 36:9).
605 B.C. – Nebuchadnezzar II (Nebuchadrezzar II), the king of Babylonia, invades Judah and takes a number of Jews captive to Babylon, Babylonia, including Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (This is known as the first deportation.), thus signifying the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity.
601 B.C. – Babylonia attacks Egypt.
598 B.C. – King Jehoiakim dies at the age of 36 after a reign of 11 years and his son, Jehoiachin, at the age of 18, begins to reign by himself over Judah as Judah's 19th king and reigns for three months and ten days, from December of 598 B.C. to March of 597 B.C. (II Kings 24:6,8; II Chronicles 36:9).
597 B.C. – King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia besieges the city of Jerusalem and deposes King Jehoiachin and makes Zedekiah, Jehoiachin's uncle, the fourth son of King Josiah, the 20th king of Judah at the age of 21, and takes Jehoiachin to Babylon along with a number of other Jews including the Mordecai of the book of Esther (II Kings 24:10–18; Esther 2:5–7; Jeremiah 52:28). (This is known as the second deportation.)
586 B.C. – King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylonia deposes King Zedekiah at the age of 32 after a reign of 11 years and destroys Jerusalem and its walls and the temple. And after killing Zedekiah's sons and putting Zedekiah's eyes out, takes Zedekiah and a number of other Jews to Babylon (II Kings 24:18; 25:7–10). (This is known as the third deportation.)
582 B.C. – the fourth deportation of Jews from Judah to Babylon, Babylonia.
568 B.C. – Babylonia attacks Egypt.
562 B.C. – King Nebuchadnezzar II dies and Evil-Merodach (Amel-Marduk), the son of Nebuchadnezzar II, begins to reign over Babylonia.
560 B.C. – King Evil-Merodach dies and Nergal-Sharezer (Nergal-Sarezer, Nergal-shar-usur, Nariglissar), the husband of Nebuchadnezzar II's daughter, ?, begins to reign over Babylonia.
559 B.C. – Cyrus II (the Great, the Persian, the Elder), the son of Cambyses I, begins to reign over Persia.
556 B.C. – King Nergal-Sharezer dies and Labashi-Marduk, the son of Nergal-Sharezer, begins to reign over Babylonia and reigns for nine months.
556 B.C. – King Labashi-Marduk dies and Nabonidus (Nabunaid), the husband of Nebuchadnezzar II's daughter, Nitocris, begins to reign over Babylonia.
553 B.C. – Belshazzar (Bel-shar-usus), the oldest son of King Nabonidus and Nitocris, begins to reign over Babylonia with his father.
550 B.C. – King Cyrus II of Persia defeats the Medes and their king, Astyages (Ahasuerus), King Cyrus II's maternal grandfather, and the two kingdoms are combined into the Media-Persian or Medo-Persian empire.
539 B.C. – King Cyrus II, the king of the Medo-Persian empire, conquers Babylon (by his general, Ugbaru (Gubaru or Gobryas), because he, himself, did not arrive until about two-and-a-half weeks later), killing King Belshazzar in the process (King Nabonidus, the father of King Belshazzar and the co-regent of Babylonia, was not killed.), and appoints 62-year-old Darius (Cyaxares II) the Mede (Median), King Cyrus II's maternal uncle, the son of Ahasuerus (Astyages), as the king of Babylon under him (Daniel 5:30–31; 9:1). (King Darius the Mede is not to be confused with Ugbaru (Gubaru or Gobryas), the former Guti governor of Gutium, who was Cyrus's general and who died about three-and-a-half weeks after conquering Babylon.)
537 B.C. – King Cyrus II issues a decree that the Jews may return to Judah and rebuild the temple in Jerusalem (Ezra 1:1–4).
535 B.C. – The first group of Jews return to Judah from Babylon, thus signifying the end of the Babylonian Captivity.
486 B.C. – Ahasuerus (the Great), the son of Darius I (the Great), begins to reign over Persia (Medo-Persia) from the capital city of Shushan (Susa). (Ahasuerus was his Hebrew name. His Greek name was Xerxes I (the Great) and his Persian name was Khshayarsha I (the Great).)
473 B.C. – The Feast of Purim is first observed on Adar 14th and 15th commemorating the Jewish smiting of, and deliverance from, their enemies on Adar 13th and 14th.
168 B.C. – Antiochus IV Epiphanes and his Syrian Greek army invade Jerusalem, ban Judaism, and desecrate the temple by erecting a statue of Zeus and sacrificing a pig on the altar.
168 B.C. – The Maccabees, a band of Jewish fighters, revolt and begin a three-year war to reclaim Jerusalem and the temple.
165 B.C. – The Maccabees win the war and reclaim Jerusalem and rededicate the temple.
164 B.C. – On the first anniversary of the Maccabees' victory of reclaiming Jerusalem and rededicating the temple, the first Hanukkah, an eight-day celebration, is observed.
27 B.C. – Augustus Caesar (whose birth name was Gaius Octavius, the adopted son of his great-uncle, Julius Caesar (who named him Gaius Julius Caesar Octavianus (Octavian))) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's first emperor. (He was known as Octavian before he became emperor and he was known as Augustus Caesar after he became emperor.)
7 B.C. – about June 21st (about the first day of summer) the angel, Gabriel, appears to Zacharias in the temple, and shortly thereafter Zacharias' wife, Elizabeth, becomes pregnant with John the Baptist (Luke 1:5–25).
7 B.C. – sometime during the last month of autumn (about November 21st to December 20th) the angel, Gabriel, appears to Mary of Nazareth, Galilee, and shortly thereafter Mary supernaturally becomes pregnant with Jesus (Luke 1:26–38).
6 B.C. – about March 21st (about the first day of spring) Elizabeth gives birth to John the Baptist (Luke 1:57).
6 B.C. – about spring or early summer Caesar Augustus (Augustus Caesar) issues a decree that everyone needs to be enrolled for taxation purposes (Luke 2:1).
6 B.C. – about September 21st (about the first day of autumn; Tishri 1st on the Jewish calendar) Jesus is born in Bethlehem, Judea, Israel (Luke 2:6–7).
6 B.C. – about September 29th (Tishri 9th on the Jewish calendar) Jesus is circumcised (Luke 2:21).
6 B.C. – sometime in November, Joseph, Mary, and the baby Jesus arrive back home in Nazareth, Galilee (Luke 2:39).
4 B.C. – about January the wise men arrive in Israel, and after stopping in Jerusalem, visit Joseph, Mary, and the young child, Jesus, at their home in Nazareth, Galilee (Matthew 2:1–11).
4 B.C. – about January or February the wise men return (begin their journey) home; Joseph, Mary, and Jesus flee to Egypt; and King Herod I (the Great) has all the children in Israel from two years old and younger murdered (Matthew 2:12–18).
4 B.C. – on March 13th King Herod I (the Great) dies (Matthew 2:19).
4 B.C. – about springtime Joseph, Mary, and Jesus return home to Nazareth, Galilee from Egypt (Matthew 2:19–23).
8 – Jesus, at the age of 12½, stays behind at Jerusalem after the Feast of Passover, without telling His parents (Luke 2:41–50).
11 – Tiberius Julius Caesar Augustus (Tiberius Caesar, whose birth name was Tiberius Claudius Nero), the stepson and adopted son of Augustus Caesar, begins to reign over the Roman Empire with his adoptive father.
14 – Augustus Caesar dies and Tiberius Caesar begins his reign alone over the Roman Empire as Rome's second emperor.
25 – about March 21st (about the first day of spring, about the time John the Baptist turns 30, in the fifteenth year of the reign of Tiberius Caesar) John the Baptist enters the ministry and begins baptizing people in the Jordan River at Bethabara (Luke 3:1–6).
25 – about September 21st (about the first day of autumn, about the time Jesus turns 30) Jesus is baptized by John the Baptist in the Jordan River at Bethabara and He is led by the Holy Spirit into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil for 40 days (Luke 3:21–23; 4:1).
25 – about October 31st Jesus returns to Judea in the power of the Holy Spirit and enters the ministry. And a few days later, when John the Baptist is put in prison, He travels to Galilee (Matthew 4:12; Mark 1:14; Luke 4:2–14; John 1:19–51).
29 – on Wednesday, Nisan 14th, the Old Testament Day of Passover on the Jewish calendar, Jesus, at the age of 33½, is crucified, dies, and is buried.
29 – on Saturday, Nisan 17th on the Jewish calendar, Jesus rises from the dead.
Note: Some timelines have the birth of Christ in the fall of 5 B.C. (instead of 6 B.C.) and the beginning of the reign of Tiberius Caesar with his father in 12 A.D. (instead of 11 A.D.).
Therefore, they then have John the Baptist beginning his ministry in the beginning of the spring of 26 A.D. (instead of 25 A.D.), Jesus beginning His ministry in the fall of 26 A.D. (instead of 25 A.D.), and Jesus' death, burial, and resurrection in 30 A.D. (instead of 29 A.D.).
This is because they do not account for the fact that Jesus was a “young child” (almost two years old (Matthew 2:8,9,11,13,14,20,21) and no longer a “baby” (Luke 2:12,16)) in 4 B.C. when King Herod I (the Great) killed all the children “from two years old and under according to the time which he had diligently enquired of the wise men” (Matthew 2:16).
This is also how they come up with the erroneous doctrine that the wise men came to the manger in Bethlehem when Jesus was a newborn baby.
29 – on Thursday, Ijar 27th on the Jewish calendar, Jesus ascends back to the Father in Heaven.
29 – on Friday, Sivan 6th, the Old Testament Feast Day of Pentecost on the Jewish calendar, God the Father sends the Holy Spirit.
37 – Tiberius Caesar dies and Caligula (whose birth name was Gaius Julius Caesar) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's third emperor.
41 – Caligula dies and Claudius (whose birth name was Tiberius Claudius Caesar) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's fourth emperor.
54 – Claudius dies and Nero (whose birth name was Lucius Domitius Ahenobarbus) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's fifth emperor.
66 – the Jews rise up in rebellion to Rome.
68 – Nero dies and Galba (whose birth name was Servius Sulpicius Galba) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's sixth emperor.
69 – on January 15th Galba dies and Otho (whose birth name was Marcus Salvius Otho) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's seventh emperor.
69 – on April 16th Otho dies and Vitellius (whose birth name was Aulus Vitellius) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's eighth emperor.
69 – on December 20th Vitellius dies and Vespasian (whose birth name was Titus Flavius Vespasianus) begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's ninth emperor.
70 – the Romans finally quell the rebellion (win the war) and destroy and burn Jerusalem and the temple and take tens of thousands of Jews (including some Christian Jews) to Rome as slaves.
79 – on June 23rd Vespasian dies and his son, Titus (whose birth name was Titus Flavius Vespasianus (the same as his father's)), begins to reign over the Roman Empire as Rome's tenth emperor.
79 – Mount Vesuvius, on the western coast of the nation of Italy, erupts, and the cities of Herculaneum and Pompeii are destroyed. This was God's judgment on these cities because of their wickedness. Archeologists have found abundant evidence in the ruins of Herculaneum and Pompeii of the sin and iniquity that they were involved in. This was very similar to what happened to the cities of Sodom and Gomorrah in 2066 B.C. (Genesis 18:20–19:29), when they were destroyed because of their sinfulness.
313 – the western Roman emperor, Constantine I (the Great), along with the eastern Roman emperor, Licinius I, issue the Edict of Milan. The edict gives all people in the Roman Empire freedom of religion, meaning, “that each one may have the free opportunity to worship as he pleases.” Constantine also founds the Roman Catholic Church and becomes its first pope. Pope Constantine presides over the Roman Catholic Church until his death in 337, and is succeeded by the second pope, Pope Julius I, who is pope from 337 to 352.
321 – the Roman emperor/pope Constantine issues the Edict of Constantine declaring that Sunday (the Venerable Day of the Sun) shall be a day of rest for all people in the Roman Empire and the Roman Catholic Church.
324 – after emerging victorious in civil wars against emperors Maxentius and Licinius, the Roman emperor/pope Constantine becomes the sole ruler of the Roman Empire.
325 – the first Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the first Council at Nicaea) presided over by Pope Constantine.
337 – the Roman emperor/pope Constantine dies and is succeeded by a tetrarchy of his three sons Constantine II, Constantius II, Constans I, and his nephew Dalmatius for the ruling of the Roman Empire, and is succeeded by Pope Julius I for the papacy.
352 – Pope Julius I dies and is succeeded by Pope Liberius.
354 – the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Liberius (the third pope of the Roman Catholic Church (352–366)) choose the date of December 25th for the celebration of Jesus' birth.
380 – the Roman emperor Theodosius I (the Great) issues the Edict of Thessalonica making Roman Catholicism the official state religion of the Roman Empire.
381 – the second Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the first Council at Constantinople).
431 – the third Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the first Council at Ephesus).
451 – the fourth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the first Council at Chalcedon).
476 – the Western Roman Empire falls, thus signifying the beginning of the Dark Ages.
553 – the fifth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the second Council at Constantinople).
680–681 – the sixth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the third Council at Constantinople).
787 – the seventh Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the second Council at Nicaea)
869–870 – the eighth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the fourth Council at Constantinople).
1123 – the ninth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the first Council at Lateran).
1139 – the tenth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the second Council at Lateran).
1179 – the eleventh Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the third Council at Lateran).
1200 – the approximate year that the books of the Bible are divided into chapters.
1215 – the twelfth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the fourth Council at Lateran). It was at this council, presided over by Pope Innocent III (the 143rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1198–1216)), that the (false) doctrine of transubstantiation was officially made a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.
1245 – the thirteenth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the first Council at Lyon).
1254 – the Roman Catholic Church and Pope Innocent IV (the 147th pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1243–1254)) formulate the (false) doctrine of purgatory.
1274 – the fourteenth Ecumenical Council of the Roman Catholic Church (the second Council at Lyon). It was at this council, presided over by Pope Gregory X (the 151st pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1271–1276)), that the (false) doctrine of purgatory was officially made a doctrine of the Roman Catholic Church.
1450 – Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press (with movable type) in Mainz, Germany.
1453 – Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantium Empire) fall, thus signifying the end of the Dark Ages and the beginning of the Early Modern Period.
1456 – the Gutenberg Bible (a.k.a. the Mazarin Bible or the 42-Line Bible), the first book produced on a printing press (with movable type), is printed in Latin.
1517 – Martin Luther affixes his 95 theses to the castle church door of the University of Wittenberg in Wittenberg, Saxony, Germany, on October 31st, thus signifying the beginning of the Reformation.
1551 – the New Testament is divided into verses.
1560 – the Old Testament is divided into verses.
1582 – the Gregorian calendar—named after Pope Gregory XIII, the 193rd pope of the Roman Catholic Church (1572–1585)—is adopted, replacing the Julian calendar. Ten days are skipped. Thursday, October 4, 1582 (of the Julian calendar) is followed by Friday, October 15, 1582 (of the Gregorian calendar).
1603 – Queen Elizabeth I dies and King James I succeeds to the throne of England.
1604 – the Christians (many of which were Puritans) request of King James I that a new English translation of the Bible be made.
1604 – translation begins on the Authorized Version (the King James Version) of the Bible under the order of King James I.
1611 – the Authorized Version (the King James Version) of the Bible is finished being translated from the Masoretic Text (the Old Testament) and Textus Receptus (the New Testament) and is published.
1752 – North America converts from the Julian calendar to the Gregorian calendar. Eleven days are skipped. Wednesday, September 2, 1752 (of the Julian calendar) is followed by Thursday, September 14, 1752 (of the Gregorian calendar).
1789 – the French Revolution begins, thus signifying the end of the Early Modern Period and the beginning of the Late Modern Period.
1945 – World War II ends, thus signifying the end of the Late Modern Period and the beginning of Contemporary History.
1965 – After reading a chapter of a manuscript of her husband's book entitled “World Aflame” that described the sinful conditions of America, Ruth Graham says to Billy, “If God doesn't judge America, He'll have to apologize to Sodom and Gomorrah.”
1988 – Batavia Christian Center / Matthew Norville Ministries is founded in Batavia, Illinois, U.S.A., and holds its first service on Sunday, June 5th.