Biblical timeline

Date  |  Event  |  Comment

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4004 BC  | Creation of the universe, Adam and Eve |
3000 BC  | Menes unifies Upper and Lower Egypt, and a new capital is erected at Memphis.  | http://library.thinkquest.org/10805/timeline.html
2704 BC  | Birth of Noah |
2600 BC  | Pyramids in Egypt start being built  |
2348 BC  | The Flood |
2200 BC  | Stonehenge built  |
1976 BC  | Birth of Abraham |
1576 BC  | Birth of Moses | http://www.matthewmcgee.org/ottimlin.html
1491 BC  | The Exodus from Egypt  |
990 BC  | Birth of Solomon |
967 BC  | Solomon begins to build first temple  |
931 BC  | Israel, led by Jeroboam, revolts and divides itself from Judah  |
776 BC  | First Olympic Games  | http://library.thinkquest.org/10805/timeline.html
753 BC  | Founding of Rome |
739 BC  | Hezekiah, king of Judah born  |
721 BC  | Samaria conquered by Shalmaneser V and Israel deported  |
701 BC  | Assyrian king Sennacherib invades Judah and besieges Jerusalem  |
673 BC  | Author of Roman traditions Numa Pompilius dies  |
648 BC  | Birth of Josiah, king of Judah  |
638 BC  | Athens law-giver Solon born  |
625 BC  | Nabopolassar conquers Babylon  |
609 BC  | Nabopolassar conquers Assyria  |
588 BC  | Destruction of Solomon's Temple |
546 BC  | Croesus, King of Lydia in Asia Minor invades and is defeated by the Persian Empire  |
539 BC  | Fall of Babylon, defeated by Persian Empire, Judeans freed  |
525 BC  | Aeschylus, playwright, father of Greek tragedy born  |
490 BC  | Greek Battle of Marathon against the Persians  |
431 BC  | Greek Peloponnesian War starts  |
428 BC  | Greek philosopher Plato born  |
399 BC  | Greek philosopher Socrates executed  |
356 BC  | Greek conqueror Alexander the Great born  |
4BC  | The birth of Christ |