Jewish History |
Jewish Time Periods
Tannaim
312 bce - 200
Amoraim
200 - 600
Biblical
3760 bce - 312 bce
The Gaonim
589 ad - 1030 ad
The Rishonim
1000 ad - 1500 ad
Early Achronim
1400 - 1650
Later Achronim
1650 - Present
Contextual World History
Shakespeare
1564 - 1616
Columbus
1451 - 1506
King Arthur
500 - 550
Islam Starts
622 - 632
Beowulf Written?
800 - 1000
Copernicus
1473 - 1543
Galileo
1564 - 1642
Newton
1643 - 1727
Voltaire
1694 - 1778
French Revolution
1789 - 1799
Mozart
1756 - 1791
Leonardo Da Vinci
1452 - 1519
Martin Luther
1483 - 1546
Pilgrims land on Plymouth Rock
1620
Spanish Armada
1688
Charlemagne
742 - 814
America Revolution
1776
George Washington
1732 - 1799
Abraham Lincoln
1809 - 1865
Theodore Roosevelt
1858 - 1919
Vandals sack Roman Empire
455
Fall of Roman Empire
476
Mohamed
570 - 632
Black Death
1347 - 1351
Hundred Years War
1337 - 1453
Gengis Khan
1162 - 1227
Printing Press
1439
Napoleon
1769 - 1821
Civil War
1861 - 1865
Jewish Personalities
Rambam
1137 - 1204
Abraham
1812 bce - 1637 bce
Isaac
1712 bce - 1532 bce
Jacob
1652 bce - 1505 bce
Joseph
1561 bce - 1451 bce
Shabtai Zvi
1625 - 1676
Ramchal
1707 - 1746
Vilna Gaom
1720 - 1797
Rav Shimshon Rafael Hirsch
1808 - 1888
Rabbi Yisroel Salanter
1810 - 1883
The Kotzker Rebbe
1787 - 1859
The Chofetz Chaim
1838 - 1933
Bustenai
590 - 670
Hai Gaon
939 - 1038
Saadia Goan
892 - 942
Achai Gaon
700 - 800
Rough dates
Amram Gaon
800 - 900
Rough dates
Ramban
1194 - 1270
Rashi
1040 - 1105
Ibn Ezra
1089 - 1164
Yehudah Ha'Levi
1075 - 1141
Rabeinu Tam
1100 - 1171
Rashbam
1235 - 1310
Ran
1320 - 1380
Terumat Ha'Deshem
1390 - 1460
Arizal
1533 - 1572
Rabbi Joseph Karo
1488 - 1575
Author: Shulchan Aruch, Beis Yoseph
Rema
1520 - 1572
Maharal
1520 - 1609
Baruch Spinoza
1632 - 1677
Baal Shem Tov
1698 - 1760
Moses Mendolssohn
1729 - 1786
Ben Ish Chai
1832 - 1909
Sforno
1475 - 1550
Eliyahu Eliezer Dessler
1892 - 1953
Jewish Events
Cyrus Allows Jews to Return
370 BCE
Ahashverosh Becomes King
368 BCE
Ahashverosh's Banquet
366 BCE
Jehoyachin and 10,000 Leaders Exiled
433 BCE
Purim Victory!
355 BCE
Darius II Becomes King
354 BCE
Darius Allows Rebuilding of Second Teple
352 BCE
Second Temple
352 BCE - 70 AD
Anshei Kneset Hagedola
410 BCE - 312 BCE
Antiochus's Rule
140 BCE - 138 BCE
Hasmonean Reign
135 BCE - 63 BCE
Macabbee Revolt Begins
138 BCE
Herod's Reign
37 BCE - 4 BCE
Herod Renovates the Temple
18 BCE
Jewish Great Revolt
66 AD
Second Temple Destroyed
70 AD
Bar Kochva Revolt
132 AD
Mishna Compiled
188 AD
Compliation of the Gemara
300 AD - 500 AD
Exile from England
1290 - 1660
Crusades - Inquisition
1096 ad - 1391 ad
The First Crusade (1096 AD) – The Inquisition (1391 AD)
The End of Spanish Jewry
1391 - 1492
Inquisition begins in 1391 Expulsion takes place in 1492
Chasidus Begins
1760
Reform Judaism Begins
1810
Polish Partition
1772 - 1795
Cantonist Decree
1825
The Mussar Movement
1838
Great Calendar Dispute
930
Earliest Yiddish Writing
1272
First Ban on Chassidus
1772
Napolean's "Sanhedrin"
1807
Conservative Begins
1887
Volozhin Yeshiva
1803 - 1892
First Lubavitch Rebbe
1745
Disputation at Barcelona
July 20 1263 - July 24 1263
Destruction of First Temple and Exile
422 BCE
Belshazar's Feast
371 BCE