All events

• Extinction of the non-avian dinosaurs — c. 66 million years ago
• Earliest known Homo sapiens — c. 300 thousand years ago ± 20,000 years
• Neolithic Revolution — c. 10th millennium BC – c. 5th millennium BC
• Bronze Age (Near East) — c. 3300 BC – c. 1200 BC
• Invention of writing (cuneiform) — c. 32nd century BC ± 150 years
• Great Pyramid of Giza built — c. 2600s BC ± 50 years – c. 2560s BC ± 50 years
• Code of Hammurabi — c. 1750s BC
• Giving of the Torah at Mount Sinai (traditional date) — c. 1313 BC ± 150 years
• Exodus from Egypt (traditional date) — c. 1313 BC ± 150 years
• Israelites enter Canaan under Joshua (traditional date) — c. 1273 BC ± 150 years
• King David — c. 1040 BC ± 30 years – c. 970 BC ± 30 years
• First Temple built by Solomon — c. 10th century BC
• Destruction of the First Temple — c. 587 BC
• Siddhartha Gautama (the Buddha) — c. 563 BC ± 80 years – c. 483 BC ± 80 years
• Edict of Cyrus and the Return to Zion — c. 539 BC
• Second Temple completed — c. 516 BC
• Alexander the Great — July 356 BC – June 323 BC
• Maccabean Revolt — 167 BC – 160 BC
• Rededication of the Temple (Hanukkah) — c. December 164 BC
• Hasmonean kingdom — c. 141 BC – 37 BC
• Cleopatra VII — 69 BC – August 30 BC
• Assassination of Julius Caesar — 15 March 44 BC
• Roman Empire — 27 BC – AD 476
• Jesus of Nazareth — c. 5 BC ± 2 years – c. AD 31 ± 2 years
• Great Revolt (First Jewish–Roman War) — AD 66 – c. AD 73
• Destruction of the Second Temple — August AD 70
• Siege of Masada — c. AD 72 – c. AD 73
• Bar Kokhba revolt — AD 132 – AD 136
• Mishnah compiled — c. AD 200 ± 20 years
• Fall of the Western Roman Empire — 4 September AD 476
• Babylonian Talmud completed — c. AD 500 ± 50 years
• Muhammad — c. AD 570 – 8 June AD 632
• Black Death — 1346 – 1353
• Gutenberg's printing press — c. 1440
• Columbus's first voyage — 3 August 1492 – 15 March 1493
• Protestant Reformation — 31 October 1517 – 1648
• Newton's Principia published — 5 July 1687
• US Declaration of Independence — 4 July 1776
• French Revolution — 5 May 1789 – 9 November 1799
• Charles Darwin — 12 February 1809 – 19 April 1882
• Slavery Abolition Act (British Empire) — 28 August 1833
• On the Origin of Species published — 24 November 1859
• Emancipation Proclamation — 1 January 1863
• 13th Amendment abolishes slavery in the US — 6 December 1865
• Albert Einstein — 14 March 1879 – 18 April 1955
• Lei Áurea: Brazil abolishes slavery — 13 May 1888
• First Zionist Congress — 29 August 1897 – 31 August 1897
• First powered flight — 17 December 1903
• World War I — 28 July 1914 – 11 November 1918
• Balfour Declaration — 2 November 1917
• Martin Luther King Jr. — 15 January 1929 – 4 April 1968
• World War II — 1 September 1939 – 2 September 1945
• The Holocaust — 1941 – 1945
• Atomic bombing of Hiroshima — 6 August 1945
• United Nations founded — 24 October 1945
• Cold War — 1947 – 1991
• Israeli Declaration of Independence — 14 May 1948
• 1948 Arab–Israeli War — 15 May 1948 – 10 March 1949
• Universal Declaration of Human Rights — 10 December 1948
• Suez Crisis (Sinai Campaign) — 29 October 1956 – 7 November 1956
• Sputnik 1 — 4 October 1957
• Yuri Gagarin: first human in space — 12 April 1961
• Berlin Wall — 13 August 1961 – 9 November 1989
• Six-Day War — 5 June 1967 – 10 June 1967
• War of Attrition — 1 July 1967 – 7 August 1970
• Apollo 11: first Moon landing — 16 July 1969 – 24 July 1969
• Yom Kippur War — 6 October 1973 – 25 October 1973
• 1982 Lebanon War — 6 June 1982 – June 1985
• The Internet (TCP/IP) — 1 January 1983 – present
• First Intifada — 8 December 1987 – 13 September 1993
• World Wide Web proposed — 12 March 1989
• Second Intifada — September 2000 – 8 February 2005
• Continuous human presence on the ISS — 2 November 2000 – present
• 2006 Lebanon War — 12 July 2006 – 14 August 2006
• iPhone announced — 9 January 2007
• Gaza War (2008–2009) — 27 December 2008 – 18 January 2009
• 2014 Gaza War — 8 July 2014 – 26 August 2014
• COVID-19 global health emergency — 30 January 2020 – 5 May 2023
• Gaza war — 7 October 2023 – present
• October 7 attack — 7 October 2023
• Twelve-Day War — 13 June 2025 – 24 June 2025