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This is a timeline of the development of Jews and Judaism. All dates are given according to the Common Era, not the Hebrew calendar.

See also Jewish history which includes links to individual country histories. For the history of persecution of Jews, see Timeline of antisemitism.

Biblical period[]

c. 1047 BCE–c. 1007 BCE
King Saul
c. 1037 BCE–c. 970 BCE
King David
c. 960 BCE
Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem completed, according to secular historians; (see 832 BCE)
c. 1001 BCE–c. 931 BCE
King Solomon
c. 930 BCE–c. 910 BCE
King Jeroboam
c. 920 BCE
Split between Kingdom of Israel (Samaria) and Kingdom of Judah
c. 832 BCE
Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem completed, according to traditional rabbinic sources; (see 960 BCE)
c. 740 BCE–c. 700 BCE
prophesy of Isaiah
c. 740 BCE–c. 722 BCE
Kingdom of Israel falls to Neo-Assyrian Empire
c. 715 BCE–c. 687 BCE
King Hezekiah of Judah
586 BCE
Jerusalem falls to Nebuchadnezzar and Solomon's Temple destroyed, according to secular historians; (see 422 BCE)
539 BCE
Jews return to Jerusalem, by permission of Cyrus
516 BCE
Second Temple of Jerusalem consecrated, according to secular historians; (see 351 BCE)
c. 460 BCE
Ezra comes to Jerusalem
c. 422 BCE
Solomon's Temple in Jerusalem destroyed, according to traditional rabbinic sources; (see 586 BCE)

Post-Biblical history[]

332 BCE
Alexander the Great conquered Phoenicia and Gaza, passing by Judea probably without entering the Jewish dominated hill country, on his way into Egypt.
Rabbinical Eras
200 BCE–100 CE
Throughout this era the Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) is gradually canonized. Jewish religious works that were written after the time of Ezra were not canonized, although many became popular among many groups of Jews. Those works that made it into the Greek translation of the Bible (the Septuagint) became known as the deuterocanonical books.
167–161 BCE
The Maccabees (Hasmoneans) revolt against the Hellenistic Empire of Seleucids, led by Judah Maccabee, resulting in victory and installation of the Hanukkah holiday.
157–129 BCE
Hasmonean dynasty establishes its royal dominance in Judea during renewed war with Seleucid Empire.

1st century BCE[]

63 BCE
The Romans intervene in a civil war in Judea, which becomes a Roman province, see Iudaea Province.
40 BCE–4 BCE
Herod the Great, appointed King of the Jews by the Roman Senate

1st century[]

6 CE
Census of Quirinius
10 CE
Hillel the Elder, considered the greatest Torah sage, dies, leading to the dominance of Shammai till 30, see also Hillel and Shammai.
30–70 CE
Schism within Judaism during the Second Temple era. A sect within Hellenised Jewish society starts Jewish Christianity, see also Rejection of Jesus.
66–70
The Great Jewish Revolt against Roman occupation ended with destruction of the Second Temple and the fall of Jerusalem. The Sanhedrin was relocated to Yavne by Yochanan ben Zakai, see also Council of Jamnia.
70–200
Period of the Tannaim, rabbis who organized and elucidated the Jewish oral law. The decisions of the Tannaim are contained in the Mishnah, Beraita, Tosefta, and various Midrash compilations.[1]
73
Final events of the Great Jewish Revolt - the fall of Masada.

2nd century[]

115–117
Kitos War (Revolt against Trajan) was a second Jewish-Roman War initiated in large Jewish communities of Cyprus, Cyrene (modern Libya), Aegipta (modern Egypt) and Mesopotamia (modern Syria and Iraq). It led to mutual killing of hundreds of thousands Jews, Greeks and Romans , ending with a total defeat of Jewish rebels and extermination of Jewish presence in Cyprus and Cyrene by the newly installed Emperor Hadrian.
131–135
The Roman emperor Hadrian, among other provocations, renames Jerusalem "Aelia Capitolina". Bar Kokhba (Bar Kosiba) leads a large doomed Jewish revolt against Rome in response to Hadrian's actions. In the aftermath of the revolt, most Jewish population was annihilated and Hadrian renamed the province of Judea as Syria Palaestina forbidding Jews to set foot in Jerusalem, except for Tisha B'av.

3rd century[]

200
The Mishnah, the standardization of the Jewish oral law as it stands today, is redacted by Judah haNasi in Eretz Israel.
220–500
Period of the amoraim, the rabbis of the Talmud.

4th century[]

315–337
Roman Emperor Constantine I enacts new restrictive legislature. Conversion of Christians to Judaism is outlawed, congregations for religious services are curtailed, but Jews are also allowed to enter Jerusalem on the anniversary of the Temple's destruction.
351-352
Another Jewish revolt, directed against Constantius Gallus, is put down.
358
Because of the increasing danger of Roman persecution, Hillel II creates a mathematical calendar for calculating the Jewish month. After adopting the calendar, the Sanhedrin in Tiberias is dissolved.
361–363
The last pagan Roman Emperor, Julian, allows the Jews to return to "holy Jerusalem which you have for many years longed to see rebuilt" and to rebuild the Second Temple
363
Galilee earthquake of 363

5th century[]

438
The Empress Eudocia removes the ban on Jews' praying at the Temple site and the heads of the Community in Galilee issue a call "to the great and mighty people of the Jews": "Know that the end of the exile of our people has come"!
450
Redaction of Talmud Yerushalmi (Talmud of Jerusalem)

6th century[]

500–523
Yosef Dhu Nuwas,the last King of Himyarite Kingdom (Modern Yemen) is converted to Judaism, upgrading an already existing Yemenese Jewish center. His kingdom fell in war against Axum and the Christians, yet was later restored in the 7th century as a vassal kingdom of Sassanid Persia until the Muslim conquest.
550
The main redaction of Talmud Bavli (Babylonian Talmud) is completed under Rabbis Ravina and Ashi. To a lesser degree, the text continues to be modified for the next 200 years.
550–700
Period of the savoraim, the sages in Persia who put the Talmud in its final form. Jews at this time in Israel were living under the oppressive rule of the Byzantines under whom there were one more Jewish revolt and three Samaritan revolts.

7th century[]

613
Jews led by Benjamin of Tiberias gain autonomy in Jerusalem after the revolt in 613 as a joint military campaign with ally Sassanid Empire under Khosrau II, but are subsequently annihilated and expelled in 628, leaving Israel (part of Syria Palaestina province) empty of Jewish presence for the first time since Babylonian exile.
7th century
The rise and domination of Islam among largely pagan Arabs in the Arabian peninsula results in the almost complete removal and conversion of the ancient Jewish communities there, and sack of Syria-Palaestina from the hands of Byzantines.
7th century
The Khazars (a Turkic semi-nomadic people from Central Asia whose king and members of the ruling "Jidi" class would adopt Judaism in 740 CE) founded the independent Khazar kingdom in the southeastern part of today's Europe. The Khazarate would last until the 10th century, being overrun by Russians, and finally conquered by Russian and Byzantian forces in 1016.

8th century[]

700–1250
Period of the Gaonim (the Gaonic era). Jews in southern Europe and Asia Minor lived under the often intolerant rule of Christian kings and clerics. Most Jews lived in the Muslim Arab realm ( Andalusia, North Africa, Palestine, Iraq and Yemen). Despite sporadic periods of persecution, Jewish communal and cultural life flowered in this period. The universally recognized centers of Jewish life were in Jerusalem and Tiberias (Syria), Sura and Pumbeditha (Iraq). The heads of these law schools were the Gaonim, who were consulted on matters of law by Jews throughout the world. During this time, the Niqqud is invented in Tiberias.
711
Muslim armies invade and occupy most of Spain (At this time Jews made up about 8% of Spain's population). Under Christian rule, Jews had been subject to frequent and intense persecution, but this was alleviated under Muslim rule. Some mark this as the beginning of the Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain.
760
The Karaites reject the authority of the oral law, and split off from rabbinic Judaism.

9th century[]

846
In Sura, Iraq, Rav Amram Gaon compiles his siddur (Jewish prayer book.)
871
An incomplete marriage contract dated to October 6 of this year is the earliest dated document found in the papers of the Cairo Geniza.

10th century[]

900–1090
The Golden age of Jewish culture in Spain. Abd-ar-Rahman III becomes Caliph of Spain in 912, ushering in the height of tolerance. Muslims granted Jews and Christians exemptions from military service, the right to their own courts of law, and a guarantee of safety of their property. Jewish poets, scholars, scientists, statesmen and philosophers flourished in and were an integral part of the extensive Arab civilization. This ended with the invasion of Almoravides in 1090.
940
In Iraq, Saadia Gaon compiles his siddur (Jewish prayer book).

11th century[]

1013–1073
Rabbi Yitchaki Alfassi (from Morocco, later Spain) writes the Rif, an important work of Jewish law.
1040–1105
Rabbi Shlomo Yitzhaki (Rashi) writes important commentaries on almost the entire Tanakh (Hebrew Bible) and Talmud.
1095–1291
Christian Crusades begin, sparking warfare with Islam in Palestine. Crusaders temporarily capture Jerusalem in 1099. Tens of thousands of Jews are killed by European crusaders throughout Europe and in the Middle East.

12th century[]

1100–1275
Time of the tosafot, Talmudic commentators who carried on Rashi's work. They include some of his descendants.
1107
Moroccan Almoravid ruler Yoseph Ibn Tashfin expels Moroccan Jews who do not convert to Islam.
1135–1204
Rabbi Moses ben Maimon, aka Maimonides or the Rambam is the leading rabbi of Sephardic Jewry. Among his many accomplishments, he writes an influential code of law (The Mishneh Torah) as well as, in Arabic, the most influential philosophical work (Guide for the Perplexed) in Jewish history.
1141
Yehuda Halevi issues a call to the Jews to emigrate to Palestine and eventually dies in Jerusalem.

13th century[]

1250–1300
The life of Moses de Leon, of Spain. He publishes to the public the Zohar the 2nd century C.E. esoteric interpretations of the Torah by Rabbi Shimon bar Yochai and his disciples. This begins the modern form of Kabbalah (esoteric Jewish mysticism).
1250–1550
Period of the Rishonim, the medieval rabbinic sages. Most Jews at this time lived in lands bordering the Mediterranean Sea or in Western Europe under feudal systems. With the decline of Muslim and Jewish centers of power in Iraq, there was no single place in the world which was a recognized authority for deciding matters of Jewish law and practice. Consequently, the rabbis recognized the need for writing commentaries on the Torah and Talmud and for writing law codes that would allow Jews anywhere in the world to be able to continue living in the Jewish tradition.
1267
Nahmanides (Ramban) settles in Jerusalem and builds the Ramban Synagogue.
1270–1343
Rabbi Jacob ben Asher of Spain writes the Arba'ah Turim (Four Rows of Jewish Law).
1290
Jews are expelled from England by Edward I after the banning of usury in the 1275 Statute of Jewry.

14th century[]

1300
Rabbi Levi ben Gershom, aka Gersonides. A 14th century French Jewish philosopher best known for his Sefer Milhamot Adonai ("The Book of the Wars of the Lord") as well as for his philosophical commentaries.
1306–1394
Jews are repeatedly expelled from France and readmitted, for a price.
1343
Jews persecuted in Western Europe are invited to Poland by Casimir the Great.

15th century[]

1478
King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain institute the Spanish Inquisition.
1486
First Jewish prayer book published in Italy.
1488–1575
Rabbi Yosef Karo spends 20 years compiling the Beit Yosef, an enormous guide to Jewish law. He then writes a more concise guide, the Shulkhan Arukh, that becomes the standard law guide for the next 400 years. Born in Spain, Yosef Karo lives and dies in Safed.
1488
Obadiah ben Abraham, commentator on the Mishnah, arrives in Jerusalem and marks a new epoch for the Jewish community.
1492
The Alhambra Decree: Approximately 200,000 Jews are expelled from Spain, The expelled Jews relocate to the Netherlands, Turkey, Arab lands, and Judea; some eventually go to South and Central America. However, most emigrate to Poland. In later centuries, more than 50% of Jewish world population lived in Poland. Many Jews remain in Spain after publicly converting to Christianity, becoming Crypto-Jews.
1492
Bayezid II of the Ottoman Empire issued a formal invitation to the Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal and sent out ships to safely bring Jews to his empire.
1493
Jews expelled from Sicily. As many as 137,000 exiled.
1496
Jews expelled from Portugal and from many German cities.

16th century[]

1501
King Alexander of Poland readmits Jews to Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1516
Ghetto of Venice established, the first Jewish ghetto in Europe. Many others follow.
1525–1572
Rabbi Moshe Isserles (The Rema) of Kraków writes an extensive gloss to the Shulkhan Arukh called the Mappah, extending its application to Ashkenazi Jewry.
1534
King Sigismund I of Poland abolishes the law that required Jews to wear special clothes.
1534
First Yiddish book published, in Poland.
1534–1572
Isaac Luria ("the Arizal") teaches Kabbalah in Jerusalem and (mainly) Safed to select disciples. Some of those, such as Ibn Tebul, Israel Sarug and mostly Chaim Vital, put his teachings into writing. While the Sarugian versions are published shortly afterwards in Italy and Holland, the Vitalian texts remain in manuscripti for as long as three centuries.
1547
First Hebrew Jewish printing house in Lublin.
1550
Moses ben Jacob Cordovero founds a Kabbalah academy in Safed.
1567
First Jewish university Jeshiva was founded in Poland.
1577
A Hebrew printing press is established in Safed, the first press in Palestine and the first in Asia.
1580–1764
First session of the Council of Four Lands (Va'ad Arba' Aratzot) in Lublin, Poland. 70 delegates from local Jewish kehillot meet to discuss taxation and other issues important to the Jewish community.

17th century[]

1621–1630
Shelah HaKadosh writes his most famous work after emigrating to the Land of Israel.
1623
First time separate (Va'ad) Jewish Sejm for Grand Duchy of Lithuania.
1626–1676
False Messiah Sabbatai Zevi.
1633
Jews of Poznań granted a privilege of forbidding Christians to enter into their city.
1648
Jewish population of Poland reached 450,000 (i.e. 4% of the 11000000 population of Polish-Lithuanian Commonwealth is Jewish), Bohemia 40,000 and Moravia 25,000. Worldwide population of Jewry is estimated at 750,000.
1648–1655
The Ukrainian Cossack Bohdan Chmielnicki leads a massacre of Polish gentry and Jewry that leaves an estimated 65,000 Jews dead and a similar number of gentry. The total decrease in the number of Jews is estimated at 100,000. [2]
1655
Jews readmitted to England by Oliver Cromwell.

18th century[]

1700–1760
Israel ben Eliezer, known as the Ba'al Shem Tov, founds Hasidic Judaism, a way to approach God through meditation and fervent joy. He and his disciples attract many followers, and establish numerous Hasidic sects. The European Jewish opponents of Hasidim (known as Mitnagdim) argue that one should follow a more scholarly approach to Judaism. Some of the more well-known Hasidic sects today include Bobover, Breslover, Gerer, Lubavitch (Chabad) and Satmar Hasidim.
1700
Rabbi Yehuda HeHasid makes aliyah to Palestine accompanied by hundreds of his followers. A few days after his arrival, Rabbi Yehuda dies suddenly.
1720
Unpaid Arab creditors burn the synagogue unfinished by immigrants of Rabbi Yehuda and expel all Ashkenazi Jews from Jerusalem.
1720–1797
Rabbi Elijah of Vilna, the Vilna Gaon.
1729–1786
Moses Mendelssohn and the Haskalah (Enlightenment) movement. He strove to bring an end to the isolation of the Jews so that they would be able to embrace the culture of the Western world, and in turn be embraced by gentiles as equals. The Haskalah opened the door for the development of all the modern Jewish denominations and the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, but it also paved the way for many who, wishing to be fully accepted into Christian society, converted to Christianity or chose to assimilate to emulate it.
1740
Parliament of Great Britain passes a general act permitting Jews to be naturalized in the American colonies. Previously, several colonies had also permitted Jews to be naturalized without taking the standard oath "upon the true faith of a Christian."
1740
Ottoman authorities invite Rabbi Haim Abulafia (1660–1744), renowned Kabbalist and Rabbi of Izmir, to come to the Holy Land. Rabbi Abulafia is to rebuild the city of Tiberias, which has lain desolate for some 70 years. The city’s revival is seen by many as a sign of the coming of the Messiah.[3]
1740–1750
Thousands immigrate to Palestine under the influence of Messianic predictions. The large immigration greatly increases the size and strength of the Jewish Settlement in Palestine.[3]
1747
Rabbi Abraham Gershon of Kitov (d. 1761) is the first immigrant of the Hasidic Aliyah. He is a respected Talmudic scholar, mystic, and brother-in-law of Rabbi Israel Baal Shem Tov (founder of the Hasidic movement). Rabbi Abraham first settles in Hebron. Later, he relocates to Jerusalem at the behest of its residents.[4]
1759
Followers of Jacob Frank joined ranks of Polish szlachta (gentry) of Jewish origins.
1772–1795
Partitions of Poland between Russia, Kingdom of Prussia and Austria. Main bulk of World Jewry lives now in those 3 countries. Old privileges of Jewish communities are denounced.
1775–1781
American Revolution guaranteed the freedom of religion.[5][6]
1789
The French revolution. In 1791 France grants full right to Jews and allows them to become citizens, under certain conditions.[7]
1790
In the USA, President George Washington sends a letter to the Jewish community in Rhode Island. He writes that he envisions a country "which gives bigotry no sanction...persecution no assistance". Despite the fact that the US was a predominantly Protestant country, theoretically Jews are given full rights. In addition, the mentality of Jewish immigrants shaped by their role as merchants in Eastern Europe meant they were well-prepared to compete in American society. So far, their number is limited.
1791
Russia creates the Pale of Settlement that includes land acquired from Poland with a huge Jewish population and in the same year Crimea. The Jewish population of the Pale was 750,000. 450,000 Jews lived in the Prussian and Austrian parts of Poland.[8]
1798
Rabbi Nachman of Breslov travels to Palestine.
1799
While French troops were in Palestine besieging the city of Acre, Napoleon prepared a Proclamation making Palestine an independent Jewish state, but his unsuccessful attempt to capture Acre prevented it from being issued.

19th century[]

1800–1900
The Golden Age of Yiddish literature, the revival of Hebrew as a spoken language, and the revival of Hebrew literature.[9]
1808–1840
Large-scale aliyah in hope of Hastening Redemption in anticipation of the arrival of the Messiah in 1840.[10]
1820–1860
The development of Orthodox Judaism, a set of traditionalist movements that resisted the influences of modernization that arose in response to the European emancipation and Enlightenment movements; characterized by continued strict adherence to Halakha.
1830
Greece grants citizenship to Jews.
1831
Jewish militias take part in the defense of Warsaw against Russians.
1837
Moses Haim Montefiore is knighted by Queen Victoria, the first Jew to receive an English Knighthood.
1837
Galilee earthquake of 1837 devastates Jewish communities of Safed and Tiberias.
1838–1933
Rabbi Yisrael Meir Kagan|Yisroel Meir ha-Kohen (Chofetz Chaim) opens an important yeshiva. He writes an authoritative Halakhic work, Mishnah Berurah.
Mid 1800s
Beginning of the rise of classical Reform Judaism.
Mid-1800s
Rabbi Israel Salanter develops the Mussar Movement. While teaching that Jewish law is binding, he dismisses current philosophical debate and advocates the ethical teachings as the essence of Judaism.
Mid-1800s
Positive-Historical Judaism, later known as Conservative Judaism, is developed.
1841
David Levy Yulee of Florida is elected to the United States Senate, becoming the first Jew elected to Congress.
1851
Norway allows Jews to enter the country. They are not emancipated until 1891.
1858
Jews emancipated in England.
1860
Alliance Israelite Universelle, an international Jewish organization is founded in Paris with the goal to protect Jewish rights as citizens.
1860–1875
Moshe Montefiori builds Jewish neighbourhoods outside the Old City of Jerusalem starting with Mishkenot Sha’ananim.
1860–1864
Jews are taking part in Polish national movement, that was followed by January rising.
1860–1943
Henrietta Szold: educator, author, social worker and founder of Hadassah.
1861
The Zion Society is formed in Frankfurt am Main, Germany.
1862
Jews are given equal rights in Russian-controlled Congress Poland. The privileges of some towns regarding prohibition of Jewish settlement are revoked.
1867
Jews emancipated in Hungary.
1868
Benjamin Disraeli becomes Prime Minister of the United Kingdom. Though converted to Christianity as a child, he is the first person of Jewish descent to become a leader of government in Europe.
1870–1890
Russian Zionist group Hovevei Zion (Lovers of Zion) and Bilu (est. 1882) set up a series of Jewish settlements in the Land of Israel, financially aided by Baron Edmond James de Rothschild. In Rishon LeZion Eliezer ben Yehuda revives Hebrew as spoken modern language.
1870
Jews emancipated in Italy.
1871
Jews emancipated in Germany.
1875
Reform Judaism's Hebrew Union College is founded in Cincinnati, Ohio. Its founder was Rabbi Isaac Mayer Wise, the architect of American Reform Judaism.[11]
1877
New Hampshire becomes the last state to give Jews equal political rights.
1878
Petah Tikva is founded by religious pioneers from Jerusalem, led by Yehoshua Stampfer.
1880
World Jewish population around 7.7 million, 90% in Europe, mostly Eastern Europe; around 3.5 million in the former Polish provinces.
1881–1884, 1903–1906, 1918–1920
Three major waves of pogroms kill tens of thousands of Jews in Russia and Ukraine. More than two million Russian Jews emigrate in the period 1881–1920.
1881
On December 30–31, the First Congress of all Zionist Unions for the colonization of Palestine was held at Focşani, Romania.
1882–1903
The First Aliyah, a major wave of Jewish immigrants to build a homeland in Palestine.[12]
1886
Rabbi Sabato Morais and Alexander Kohut begin to champion the Conservative Jewish reaction to American Reform, and establish The Jewish Theological Seminary of America as a school of 'enlightened Orthodoxy'.
1890
The term "Zionism" is coined by an Austrian Jewish publicist Nathan Birnbaum in his journal Self Emancipation and was defined as the national movement for the return of the Jewish people to their homeland and the resumption of Jewish sovereignty in the Land of Israel.
1895
First published book by Sigmund Freud.
1897
In response to the Dreyfus affair, Theodore Herzl writes Der Judenstaat (The Jewish State), advocating the creation of a free and independent Jewish state in Israel.
1897
The Bund (General Jewish Labour Bund) is formed in Russia.
1897
The First Zionist Congress was held at Basel, which brought the World Zionist Organization (WZO) into being.

20th century[]

1902
Rabbi Dr. Solomon Schechter reorganizes the Jewish Theological Seminary and makes it into the flagship institution of Conservative Judaism.
1903
St. Petersburg's Znamya newspaper publishes a literary hoax The Protocols of the Elders of Zion. Kishinev Pogrom caused by accusations that Jews practice cannibalism.
1905
1905 Russian Revolution accompanied by pogroms.
1915
Yeshiva College (later University) and its Rabbi Isaac Elchanan Rabbinical Seminary is established in New York for training in a Modern Orthodox milieu.
1916
Louis Brandeis, on the first of June, is confirmed as the United States' first Jewish Supreme Court justice. Brandeis was nominated by American President Woodrow Wilson.
1917
The British defeat the Turks and gain control of Palestine. The British issue the Balfour Declaration 1917 which gives official British support for "the establishment in Palestine of a national home for the Jewish people...it being clearly understood that nothing shall be done which may prejudice the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities in Palestine". Many Jews interpret this to mean that all of Palestine was to become a Jewish state.[13]
1917 February
The Pale of Settlement is abolished, and Jews get equal rights. The Russian civil war leads to over 2000 pogroms with tens of thousands murdered and hundreds of thousand made homeless.
1918–1939
The period between the two World Wars is often referred to as the "golden age" of hazzanut (cantors). Some of the great Jewish cantors of this era include Abraham Davis, Moshe Koussevitzky, Zavel Kwartin (1874–1953), Jan Peerce, Josef "Yossele" Rosenblatt (1882–1933), Gershon Sirota (1874–1943), and Laibale Waldman.
1920
At the San Remo conference Britain receives the League of Nations' British Mandate of Palestine.
1920s-Present
A variety of Jewish authors, including Gertrude Stein, Allen Ginsberg, Saul Bellow, Adrienne Rich and Philip Roth, sometimes drawing on Jewish culture and history, flourish and become highly influential on the Anglophone literary scene.
1921
British military administration of the Mandate is replaced by civilian rule.
1921
Britain proclaims that all of Palestine east of the Jordan River is forever closed to Jewish settlement, but not to Arab settlement.
1921
Polish-Soviet peace treaty in Riga. Citizens of both sides are given rights to choose the country. Hundred thousands of Jews, especially small businesses forbidden in the Soviets, move to Poland.
1922
Reform Rabbi Stephen S. Wise established the Jewish Institute of Religion in New York. (It merged with Hebrew Union College in 1950.)
1923
Britain gives the Golan Heights to the French Mandate of Syria. Arab immigration is allowed; Jewish immigration is not.
1924
2,989,000 Jews according to religion poll in Poland (10.5% of total). Jewish youth consisted 23% of students of high schools and 26% of students of universities.
1926
Generally, prior to World War I, there were no chassidic yeshivot in Europe, but on Lag Ba'Omer 1926, the Rabbi Shlomo Chanoch Hacohen Rabinowicz, the fourth Radomsker Rebbe [14] said, "The time has come to found yeshivos where the younger generation will be able to learn and toil in Torah.", leading to the founding of the "Kesser Torah" yeshivot throughout Poland.
1930
World Jewry: 15,000,000. Main countries USA(4,000,000), Poland (3,500,000 11% of total), Soviet Union (2,700,000 2% of total), Romania (1,000,000 6% of total). Palestine 175,000 or 17% of total 1,036,000.
1933
Hitler takes over Germany; his anti-Semitic sentiments are well-known, prompting numerous Jews to emigrate.
1937
Adin Steinsaltz born, author of the first comprehensive Babylonian Talmud commentary since Rashi in the 11th century.
1939
The British government issues the 'White Paper'. The paper proposed a limit of 10,000 Jewish immigrants for each year between 1940–1944, plus 25,000 refugees for any emergency arising during that period.
1938–1945
The Holocaust (Ha Shoah), resulting in the methodical extermination of nearly 6 million Jews across Europe.
1940s-Present
Various Jewish filmmakers, including Billy Wilder, Woody Allen, Mel Brooks and the Coen Brothers, frequently draw on Jewish philosophy and humor, and become some of the most artistically and popularly successful in the history of the medium.
1945–1948
Post-Holocaust refugee crisis. British attempts to detain Jews attempting to enter Palestine illegally.
1946–1948
The violent struggle for the creation of a Jewish state in the British mandate of Palestine is intensified by Jewish defense groups: Haganah, Irgun, and Lehi (group).
November 29, 1947
The United Nations approves the creation of a Jewish State and an Arab State in the British mandate of Palestine.
May 14, 1948
The State of Israel declares itself as an independent nation. Andrei Gromyko, the Soviet Union's UN ambassador, calls for the UN to accept Israel as a member state. The UN approves.
May 15, 1948
1948 Arab-Israeli War: Syria, Iraq, Transjordan, Lebanon and Egypt invade Israel. The attack fails. See also 1949 Armistice Agreements and Immigration to Israel from Arab lands.
1948–1949
Almost 250,000 Holocaust survivors make their way to Israel. "Operation Magic Carpet" brings thousands of Yemenite Jews to Israel.
1956
The 1956 Suez War Egypt blockades the Gulf of Aqaba, and closes the Suez canal to Israeli shipping. Egypt's President Nasser calls for the destruction of Israel. Israel, England, and France go to war and force Egypt to end the blockade of Aqaba, and open the canal to all nations.
1964
Jewish-Christian relations are revolutionized by the Roman Catholic Church's Vatican II.
1966
Shmuel Yosef Agnon (1888–1970) becomes the first Hebrew writer to win the Nobel Prize in literature.
May 16, 1967
Egyptian President Nasser demands that the UN dismantle the UN Emergency Force I (UNEF I) between Israel and Egypt. The UN complies and the last UN peacekeeper is out of Sinai and Gaza by May 19.
1967 May
Egyptian PresidentGamal Abdel Nasser closes the strategic Straits of Tiran to Israeli shipping and states that Egypt is in a state of war with Israel. Egyptian troops group in the Sinai.
June 5–10, 1967
The Six-Day War.
September 1, 1967
The Arab Leaders meet in Khartoum, Sudan. The Three No's of Khartoum: No recognition of Israel. No negotiations with Israel. No peace with Israel.
1968
Rabbi Mordechai Kaplan formally creates a separate Reconstructionist Judaism movement by setting up the Reconstructionist Rabbinical College in Philadelphia.[15] [16]
Mid-1970s to present
Growing revival of Klezmer music (The folk music of European Jews). [7], [8]
1972
Mark Spitz sets the record for most gold medals won in a single Olympic Games (seven) in the 1972 Summer Olympics the site of the Munich massacre.
October 6–24, 1973
The Yom Kippur War. Syria, Egypt and Morocco launch a surprise attack against Israel. Subsequently, OPEC reduces oil production, driving up oil prices and triggering a global economic crisis.
1975
President Gerald Ford signs legislation including the Jackson-Vanik amendment, which ties U.S. trade benefits to the Soviet Union to freedom of emigration for Jews.
1975
United Nations adopts resolution equating Zionism with racism. Rescinded in 1991.
1976
Israel rescues hostages taken to Entebbe, Uganda.
September 18, 1978
At Camp David, near Washington D.C., Israel and Egypt sign a comprehensive peace treaty, The Camp David Accord, which included the withdrawal of Israel from the Sinai.
1978
Yiddish writer Isaac Bashevis Singer receives Nobel Prize
1979
Prime Minister Menachem Begin and President Anwar Sadat are awarded Nobel Peace Prize.
1979–1983
Operation Elijah: Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry.
1982 June–December
The Lebanon War. Israel invades Southern Lebanon to drive out the PLO.
1983
American Reform Jews formally accept patrilineal descent, creating a new definition of who is a Jew.
1984–1985
Operations Moses, Joshua: Rescue of Ethiopian Jewry by Israel.[17]
1986
Elie Wiesel wins the Nobel Peace Prize
1986
Nathan Sharansky, Soviet Jewish dissident, is freed from prison.
1987
Beginning of the First Intifada against Israel.
1989
Fall of the Berlin Wall between East and West Germany, collapse of the communist East German government, and the beginning of Germany's reunification (which formally began in October 1990).
1990
The Soviet Union opens its doors to the three million Soviet Jews who had been held as virtual prisoners within their own country. Hundreds of thousands of Soviet Jews choose to leave the Soviet Union and move to Israel.
1990–1991
Iraq invades Kuwait, triggering a war between Iraq and Allied United Nations forces. Israel is hit by 39 Scud missiles from Iraq.
1991
Operation Solomon: Rescue of the remainder of Ethiopian Jewry in a twenty four hour airlift.
October 30, 1991
The Madrid Peace Conference opens in Spain, sponsored by the United States and the Soviet Union.
September 13, 1993
Israel and PLO sign the Oslo Accords.
1994
The Lubavitcher (Chabad) Rebbe, Menachem Mendel Schneerson, dies.
October 26, 1994
Israel and Jordan sign an official peace treaty. Israel cedes a small amount of contested land to Jordan, and the countries open official diplomatic relations, with open borders and free trade.
December 10, 1994
Arafat, Rabin and Israeli Foreign Minister Shimon Peres share the Nobel Peace Prize.[18]
November 4, 1995
Israeli Prime Minister Yitzhak Rabin is assassinated.
1996
Peres loses election to Benyamin (Bibi) Netanyahu (Likud party).
1999
Ehud Barak elected Prime Minister of Israel.

21st century[]

May 24, 2000
Israel unilaterally withdraws its remaining forces from its security zone in southern Lebanon to the international border, fully complying with the UN Security Council Res. 425.
2000 July
Camp David Summit.[19]
2000, Summer
Senator Joseph Lieberman becomes the first Jewish-American to be nominated for a national office (Vice President of the United States) by a major political party (the Democratic Party).
September 29, 2000
The al-Aqsa Intifada begins.
2001
Election of Ariel Sharon as Israel's Prime Minister.
2001
Jewish Museum of Turkey is founded by Turkish Jewry.
2004
Avram Hershko and Aaron Ciechanover of the Technion win the Nobel Prize in Chemistry. The Jewish Autonomous Oblast builds its first synagogue, Birobidzhan Synagogue, in accordance with halakha.[20]
March 31, 2005
The Government of Israel officially recognizes the Bnei Menashe people of North-East India as one of the Ten Lost Tribes of Israel, opening the door for thousands of people to immigrate to Israel.
2005 July
Jordan Farmar becomes only Jew in the National Basketball Association.
2005 August
The Government of Israel withdraws its military forces and Jewish settlers from the Gaza Strip.
2005 December
Prime Minister Ariel Sharon falls into a coma; Deputy Premier Ehud Olmert takes over as Acting Prime Minister
2006 March
Ehud Olmert leads the Kadima party to victory in Israeli elections, becomes Prime Minister of Israel.
2006 July-August
a 34-day military conflict in Lebanon and northern Israel started on July 12.
2008 December
Israeli armed forces (IDF) launch Operation Cast Lead (מבצע עופרת יצוקה‎).
2009 March
Benjamin Netanyahu becomes Prime Minister of Israel (also, continues as the Chairman of the Likud Party).

See also[]

References[]

  1. Torah (Shamash.org)
  2. http://www.virtual.co.il/communities/wjcbook/poland/
  3. 3.0 3.1 Morgenstern, Arie. “Dispersion and Longing for Zion, 1240–1840”. Azure. [1]
  4. Encyclopedia Judaica, vol. 9, pp. 514. Gershon of Kitov
  5. [2][dead link]
  6. Declaring Independence: Drafting the Documents
  7. [3]
  8. The Pale of Settlement
  9. [4]
  10. Hastening Redemption: Messianism and the Resettlement of the Land of Israel, Arie Morgenstern, Oxford University Press, 2007
  11. Hebrew Union College—Jewish Institute of Religion
  12. Aliyah
  13. Balfour Declaration
  14. Radomsker History
  15. [5]
  16. Jewish Reconstructionist Federation | JRF
  17. The Zionist Century | Concepts | Aliyah
  18. [6]
  19. The 2000 Camp David Summit
  20. http://www.fjc.ru/news/newsArticle.asp?AID=175487

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