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Date |
Judaism |
Christianity |
Islam |
| 2000 BCE |
A g e o f A b r a h a m a n d a n c e s t o r s (?) |
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| 1300 BCE | Exodus from Egypt (?) | ||
| 1000 BCE | Founding kingdom of Israel (?) | ||
| 900 BCE | Division of kingdoms of Israel and Judah | ||
| 722 BCE | Fall of kingdom of Israel to the Assyrians | ||
| 586-538 BCE | Babylonian exile | ||
| 533-333 BCE | yehud under Persian rule | ||
| 300-200 BCE | Ioudaia under Egyptian Greek (Ptolemaic) rule | ||
| 200-164 BCE | Ioudaia under Syrian Greek (Seleucid) rule | ||
| 154-63 BCE | Hasmonean kingdom | ||
| circa 30 CE | Crucifixion of Jesus | ||
| 50-60 CE | Mission of Paul | ||
| 70 CE. | Destruction of second temple | ||
| 132-35 CE | second Jewish war | ||
| circa 150 CE | Last new testament documents written | ||
| 200 CE | Writing of the Mishnah | Christians subject to sporadic persecution by Romans | |
| 313 CE | legalization of Christianity by Constantine the great | ||
| 390 CE | Christianity made "state" religion of the roman empire | ||
| 425 CE | Palestinian Talmud written | ||
| circa 550 CE | Babylonian Talmud written | ||
| circa 570 CE | Birth of Muhammad | ||
| circa 600 CE | Gregory "the great" consolidates the authority of the pope | ||
| 600s-700s CE | Rabbinic academies established near Babylon | ||
| 622 CE | Hijra (flight from Mecca) | ||
| 632 CE | Death of Muhammad | ||
| 630s-730s CE | Expansion of Islamic empire (from Persia to Spain) | ||
| 661-750 CE | Umayyad dynasty rules from Damascus | ||
| 732 CE | Battle of poitiers | First major biography of Muhammad written (ibn Ishaq) | |
| 750-1258 CE | Abbasid dynasty rules from Baghdad; Spain secedes from caliphate and remains an Umayyad Islamic state | ||
| 800 CE | Charlemagne crowned "emperor of the Romans" by the pope | (801): Death of Rabiah, female mystic | |
| 800s CE | Rabbinical academies established in Baghdad | ||
| 800s-1000s CE | Rise of Karaism (anti-rabbinism) throughout middle east | ||
| ca. 900-1171 CE | Fatimid dynasty rules in Egypt | ||
| 1050s CE | Rabbinism predominates among European Jews; Rashi writes talmudic commentaries | schism between catholic and orthodox churches | |
| 1096-1350 CE | crusades l a u n c h e d a c r o s s E u r o p e a n d i n t o t h e m i d d l e e a s t | ||
| 1180s-1190s CE | Moses ben Maimon (Maimonides), Jewish philosopher | Abu al-Walid Ahmad ibn Rushd (Averroes), Islamic philosopher | |
| 1200s-1400s CE | Jews systematically expelled from western and central European countries, migrate eastward to Poland and Russia | Mongol "hordes" devastate Asia, from China to Turkey; establish four kingdoms, eventually convert to Islam | |
| 1215 CE |
Fourth Lateran Council under Pope Innocent III |
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| 1280s CE | Circulation of Zohar, rise of Kabbalah mysticism | Height of catholic scholasticism (1274: death of Thomas Aquinas) | |
| 1378-1415 CE | "great schism": rival popes sit in Rome and Avignon | Rise of the ottoman empire from Turkey throughout eastern Mediterranean | |
| 1453 CE | ottoman Muslims conquer Constantinople; transform it into Istanbul, capital of the ottoman empire | ||
| 1492 CE | S p a n i s h reconquista d r i v e s Jews a n d Muslims f r o m t h e I b e r i a n p e n i n s u l a | ||
| 1500s CE | Shi'i Safavid dynasty established in Persia/Iran; Mughal (Sunni) dynasty established in India | ||
| 1517-1600s CE | Protestant reformation transforms European Christianity; culminates in the 30 years war (1618-1648) over religious affiliation | ||
| 1560s-1600s CE | Revival of Kabbalah mysticism; publication of rabbinic legal codes among Ashkenazi and Sephardi Jews | ||
| 1665-1666 CE | Shabati Zvi starts messianic movement (Sabbateanism) | ||
| 1700s CE | Rise of Hasidism in eastern Europe | European enlightenment | Wahhabi reform movement in Arabia |
| 1780s CE | Moses Mendelssohn initiates Jewish enlightenment (Haskalah) | constitutional movement in U.S. institutes church/state separation | |
| 1791 CE | Limited emancipation of Jews in German states; French revolutionary government grants full citizenship to Jews | Rise of European colonialism in Asia and Africa; first Islamic reform movements coalesce | |
| 1820s-1870s CE | reform movement emerges in Europe, along with responses (conservative and orthodox movements); final emancipation of Jews in most of Europe by end of century | Rise of Mormon (LDS) and other new Christian movements in U.S.; rise of "higher criticism" and fundamentalism | Rise of nationalism and modernization in middle eastern nations; British imperial control of India; French control of north Africa |
| 1840 CE | Damascus blood libel | ||
| 1890s CE | Zionist movements form | ||
| 1920s CE | Collapse of ottoman empire; Pahlavi dynasty established in Iran; Egyptian independence | ||
| 1932 CE | Kingdom of Saudi Arabia founded | ||
| 1940s CE | Rise of Muslim brotherhood in Egypt | ||
| 1939-1945 CE | Shoah (Nazi holocaust) decimates European Jewry | Emergence of independent Islamic nation-states in Africa and Asia | |
| 1948 CE | State of Israel founded | ||
| 1965 CE | second Vatican council "modernizes" Catholicism | ||
| 1967 CE | six-day war | six-day war | |
| 1979 CE | Iranian revolution | ||
| 1990-1991 CE | Persian gulf war | ||
| 2001-present CE |
war on terror h a r d e n s e a s t e r n / w e s t e r n r e l i g i o u s s t e r e o t y p e s |
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