SOURCES:
Events in Bold Type are illustrated on the Time Line Display Of Jewish History
| Years From Creation |
Common Era |
|
| 3828 | 68 | SECOND TEMPLE DESTROYED BY TITUS (1) |
| 3833 | 73 | "P'tirah" (Death) of Raban Yochanan Ben Zakai. Fall of Massadah (3,2) |
| 3840 | 80 | Leadership of Rabbi Akiva (Akiba) begins (3) |
| 3853 | 93 | Josephus completes writing "Jewish Antiquities" (2) |
| 3880 | 120 | Rebellion of Bar Kochbah (3) |
| 3910 | 150 | Leadership of Rebbi Yehudah Hanasi begins (3) |
| 3979 | 219 | MISHNA COMPILED "P'tirah" (Death) of Rebbi Yehudah Hanasi. |
| 4066 | 306 | Constantine the Great begins his rule.He establishes Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire (2) |
| 4085 | 325 | Council of Nicea (Christians begin to celebrate Sabbath on Sunday. etc.) (2) |
| 4118 | 358 | Hillel II establishes a permanent Jewish calendar (3) |
| 4128 | 368 | Jerusalem Talmud compiled (3) |
| 4186 | 426 | "P'tirah" (Death) of Rav Ashi. Babylonian Talmud compiled (3,1) |
| 4236 | 476 | Leadership of Rav Yosi begins (Period of Rabanan Saburai begins). Fall of Rome and beginning of Byzantine rule over Eretz Yisrael (Israel) (3,2) |
| 4260 | 500 | BABYLONIAN TALMUD RECORDED (3) |
| 4349 | 589 | Leadership of Rav Chanan begins (Period of Gaonim begins) (3) |
| 4374 | 614 | Jewish revolt and brief rule in Jerusalem (2) |
| 4382 | 622 | Hegira - Mohammed flees from Mecca to Medina -Islam (2) |
| 4398 | 638 | Islamic conquest of Jerusalem (2) |
| 4430 | 670 | "P'tirah" (Death) of Bustenai the Exilarch. Kairouan is founded (approximate dates) (2) |
| 4451 | 691 | Caliph Abdul Malik completes "Dome of the Rock" on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (2) |
| 4471 | 711 | Islamic conquest of Spain begins (2) |
| 4500 | 740 | Conversion of the Khazars (approximate dates) (2) |
| 4527 | 767 | Anan Ben David founds the Karaite sect (2) |
| 4574 | 814 | Death of Charlemagne (2) |
| 4640 | 880 | Eldad Ha-Dani arrives at Kairouan (approximate date) (2) |
| 4687 | 927 | Leadership of Rav Sa'adia Gaon begins (3) |
| 4730 | 970 | "P'tirah" (Death) of Chasdai Ib'n Shaprut (2) |
| 4797 | 1037 | "P'tirah" (Death) of Rav Hai Gaon. Period of Gaonim ends (3) |
| 4800 | 1040 | BIRTH OF "RASHI". "P'tirah" (Death) of Rabenu Gershom (Germany). Period of Rishonim begins (3) |
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