ARCHAEOLOGICAL BIBLICAL TIMELINE
The Ancestry of Jesus
ALL DATES ARE B.C.
Adam | 3975 | |
Seth | 3845 | |
Enos | 3740 | |
The Wheel Invented |
3700 | |
Cainan | 3650 | |
Mahalaeel | 3580 | |
Jarred | 3515 | |
Enoch | 3353 | |
Methuselah | 3288. | |
Writing Developed |
3200 | |
Lamech | 3101 | |
Death of Adam |
3045 | |
World Population is 100 Million |
3000 | |
Noah | 2919 | |
Great Pyramid at Gizeh Built |
2570 | |
Shem |
Ham and Japheth |
2417 |
The Great Flood |
2319 | |
Arphaxad | 2317 | |
Cainan | 2300 | |
Shelah | 2282 | |
Terah |
2263 | |
Eber | 2252 | |
Tower of Babel - Languages Introduced |
2144 | |
Abraham |
Abraham |
2133 |
Abraham Enters Canaan |
2058 | |
Isaac |
2033 | |
Jacob |
1973 | |
Job ? |
1967 | |
Joseph |
1882 | |
Jacob's Descent to Egypt |
1843 | |
Code of Hammurabi |
1700 | |
Moses |
1527 | |
Exodus |
1446 | |
Balaam's Prophecy "A Star Out of Jacob" |
1423 | |
Reentrance into Canaan |
1406 | |
King Tut Reigns |
1361 | |
Boaz | 1355 | |
Ehud's Victory |
1315 | |
Obed | 1251 | |
Deborah & Barak's Victory |
1215 | |
Gideon's Victory |
1169 | |
Jesse | 1155 | |
Samson & Delilah |
1074 | |
Samuel's Victory |
1063 | |
David | 1055 | |
Saul's Succession |
1043 | |
Solomon | 1015 | |
Solomon's Temple Completed |
975 | |
Solomon's Temple Dedicated |
971 | |
Rehoboam |
Kingdom of Israel Divided |
931 |
Abijam | 913 | |
Asa | 910 | |
Jehoshaphat | 870 | |
Elijah Taken up in Chariot |
868 | |
Jehoram | 848 | |
Jehu Slays Kings, North & South |
841 | |
Joel, Hosea, Amos |
820 | |
Homer Writes the Iliad And the Odyssey |
800 | |
Olympic Games Begin |
776 | |
Uzziah (Azariah) |
Jonah & The Whale |
767 |
Rome Founded |
753 | |
Jotham | 740 | |
Isaiah Prophesies "A Virgin Shall Conceive" |
734 | |
Ahaz | 732 | |
Fall of Northern Kingdom |
722 | |
Hezekiah | 716 | |
Isaiah Fortells of Cyrus The Great |
712 | |
Manasseh | 687 | |
Josiah | 639 | |
1st Capture of Jerusalem |
605 | |
2nd Capture of Jerusalem |
597 | |
3rd Capture of Jerusalem and Solomon's Temple Destroyed |
587 | |
Jechoniah | 586 | |
Jeremiah, Obadiah |
585 | |
Ezekiel Gets Plans for Jesus' Millennial Temple April 15 |
572 | |
Shealtiel | 561 | |
Buddha Born |
557 | |
Birth of Confucius |
551 | |
Zerubbabel |
Cyrus King of Medes & Persians |
539 |
Zerubbabel Authorized to Rebuild the Temple |
537 | |
Zechariah, Haggai |
520 | |
70 Years of Captivity Ends Temple Rebuilt March 3 |
516 | |
Beginning of the Roman Empire |
509 | |
Abiud | 490 | |
Esther Made Queen |
479 | |
Eliakim | 472 | |
Rebuilt Temple Dedicated by Ezra, The High Priest, at October Feast of Tabernacles |
458 | |
Azor | 458 | |
Nehemiah's refortification |
444 | |
Approximate time of Malachi (Ends Old Testament) |
424 | |
Socrates |
399 | |
Plato |
387 | |
Zadok | 372 | |
Aristotle |
335 | |
Alexander the Great captures Judah |
332 | |
Death of Alexander the Great |
323 | |
Achim | 322 | |
Paris Founded |
300 | |
Eliud | 272 | |
Eleazar | 222 | |
Hannibal Crosses the Alps |
218 | |
Great Wall of China Begun |
214 | |
Matthan | 172 | |
Maccabaeus Cleanses & Rededicates Temple Dec. 25 |
164 | |
Jacob | 122 | |
Julius Caesar Born |
102 | |
Temple Destroyed by Pompey - Wailing Wall Survives |
63 | |
Joseph the Husband of Mary | 46 | |
Present Day Julien Calendar Developed by Thoth an Egyptian, Adopted by Julius Caesar |
45 | |
Emperor Octavian |
27 | |
Herod Begins to Rebuild Temple |
20 | |
Main Temple Building Finished |
9 | |
JESUS THE CHRIST IS BORN | 5 or 4 |
Note that all dates before Abraham are Estimated