Jerusalem Timeline

First Bronze Age settlement in Jerusalem.

David captures Jerusalem.

Solomon builds the first Temple of Jerusalem.

King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks the city of Lachish in Judah but fails to take the capital Jerusalem.

Babylonian king Nebuchadnezar captures Jerusalem.

Destruction of the First Temple in Jerusalem and exile of upper class Judeans.

Herod the Great is installed as King of Judaea. Rebuilding of the Temple of Jerusalem.

Reign of Herod the Great over Judea.

Herod the Great retakes Jerusalem from the Parthians.

Life of Jesus Christ.

The city of Jerusalem is besieged and captured by Rome; the Second Temple destroyed.

The Arch of Titus is built in Rome's Forum Romanum to commemorate the conquest of Jerusalem.

The temple in Jerusalem, destroyed in 586 BCE by the Babylonians, is rebuilt.

Arabs capture Jerusalem.