Timeline of Jewish history

This is a list of notable events in the development of Jewish history.

All dates are given according to the Common Era, not the Hebrew calendar.

This is a timeline of events in the State of Israel since 1948.

Abraham by Guercino
Isaac by Jusepe de Ribera
Jacob by Jan Victors
The Crossing of The Red Sea
Samson by Lucas Cranach the Elder
King Saul by Ernst Josephson
King David by Gerard van Honthorst
King Solomon by Simeon Solomon
King Rehoboam of Judah by Hans Hollein
King Jeroboam of Israel by Jean-Honoré Fragonard
Mesha Inscription
Isaiah by Michelangelo
King Hezekiah
Babylonian Exile by James Tissot
Model of the Second Temple
Sculpture of Alexander the Great
Set of scrolls comprising the entire Tanakh
Birth of Jesus by Hans Pleydenwurff
Crucifixion of Christ as depicted by Giotto
Siege and Destruction of Jerusalem by the Romans (1850 painting by David Roberts)
Depiction of the Roman triumph celebrating the Sack of Jerusalem on the Arch of Titus in Rome.
Pottery in the museum of the synagogue of Sopron, Hungary , built around 1300.
Banner from the first issue of the Jidische Folkschtime (Yiddish People's Voice), published in Stockholm, 12 January 1917.
The Balfour Declaration which supported the establishment of a Jewish homeland in Palestine and protected the civil and religious rights of existing non-Jewish communities.
A single man, adorned on both sides by a dozen sitting men, reads a document to a small audience assembled before him. Behind him are two elongated flags bearing the Star of David and portrait of a bearded man in his forties.
David Ben-Gurion proclaiming Israeli independence on May 14, 1948, below a portrait of Theodor Herzl
A stolid balding man in a dark suit on the left shakes the hand of a smiling man in traditional Arab headdress on the right. A taller, younger man stands with open arms in the center behind them.
Yitzhak Rabin and Yasser Arafat shake hands at the signing of the Oslo Accords , with Bill Clinton behind them, 1993