1085 BCE: 21st Dynasty in Egypt
Power splits between Upper and Lower Egypt
1050 BCE: Saul is Israel's first king, establishment of monarchy
1000 BCE: David enthroned as King of Israel
950 BCE: The temple in Jerusalem is built by King Solomon
950 BCE - 850 BCE: Yahwist source is written (found in the present Torah)
922 BCE: Israel's kingdom is split in two: Northern Israel and Southern Judah
922 BCE: In Israel, the Northern Kingdom, the Davidic line stops with Jeroboam I
895 BCE: King Asa of Judah initiates temple reforms (2 Chronicles 15:8-15)
880 BCE: King Omri establishes Samaria as the capital of the Northern Kingdom - not sure of date (I Kings 16:23-24)
862 BCE: Elijah rises as Israel's first independent prophet (I Kings 17)
860 BCE - 840 BCE: Elijah and Elisha denounce Canaanite practices and advocate God and worship of him only
852 BCE: Elisha, Elijah's successor rises as a prophet (I Kings 19:19-22)
850 BCE - 750 BCE: Homer and Hesiod, Greek poets, articulate who the Greek gods are
812 BCE: King Joash of Judah initiates temple reforms
800 BCE - 750 BCE: Elohist source composed (found in the present Torah)
776 BCE: Olympic Games begin in Greece
750 BCE: Amos and Hosea, prophets, prophesy in Israel
740 BCE - 701 BCE: Isaiah speaks his prophecies warning Jerusalem of Assyria’s threat to Judah
721 BCE: The Northern 10 tribes of Israel are destroyed by the Assyrians; Isaiah prophesies in Judah
700 BCE - 621 BCE: most of Deuteronomy written
630 BCE - 609 BCE: Zephaniah compiled
621 BCE - 609 BCE: first editions of Joshua, Judges, 1-2 Samuel, and 1-2 Kings are written
621 BCE: first canonization - Huldah authorizes early edition of Deuteronomy
621 BCE: King Josiah begins his reforms to serve Yahweh only; after early parts of Deuteronomy is discovered
609 BCE - 598 BCE: Habbakuk speaks his prophecies about the Babylonian threat
587 BCE: Under King Nebuchadnezzar, the Babylonians destroy Jerusalem which ends David’s royal dynasty
586 BCE: Southern 2 tribes of Judah fall to the Babylonians
580 BCE: Baruch compiles Jeremiah's oracles
550 BCE: Beginning of priestly revisions/insertions
538 BCE - 330 BCE: Persia rules Judah
500 BCE - 400 BCE: book of Job constructed
499 BCE - 479 BCE: Persian War
490 BCE - 400 BCE: Malachi, Joel, Jonah compiled; Ruth written
450 BCE - 400 BCE: final priestly revision of legal matters in Torah
427 BCE - 347 BCE: Plato
Greek philosopher, founded the Academy of Athens in 387. Platoism was later used by some early Christian apologetics in the defense of Christianity.
400 BCE: Proverbs compiled
400 BCE - 300 BCE: Torah canonized; Esther, Chronicles, Exra-Nehemiah composed; Ecclesiastes compiled
323 BCE - 146 BCE: Hellenistic Age
250 BCE: Greek translation of the Torah (beginning of the Septuagint)
200 BCE - 100 BCE: Canonization of prophets
197 BCE: Rise of the Roman Empire
167 BCE - 164 BCE: Maccabean revolt begins
142 BCE - 63 BCE: Maccabean kings rule Judah
63 BCE: Judea becomes part of the Roman Empire
