3408–3827 AM · 353 BCE — 67 CE
The Second Temple
50 events of Jewish history and world parallels.
3408 · 353 BCEThe Decree of Darius and the Resumption of the Temple's Construction3412 · 349 BCEThe Dedication of the Second Temple3413 · 348 BCEThe Men of the Great Assembly: Prayer, the Canon, and the End of Prophecy3413 · 348 BCEThe Ascent of Ezra the Scribe and the Renewal of Torah3426 · 335 BCENehemiah and the Walls of Jerusalem3427 · 334 BCEAlexander the Great3431 · 330 BCEThe fall of the Achaemenid Empire3435 · 326 BCEAlexander reaches the Indus3440 · 321 BCEChandragupta Maurya and the Arthashastra3448 · 313 BCEGreek Rule over the Land of Israel3448 · 313 BCEShimon the Righteous and the Meeting with Alexander the Great3456 · 305 BCEThe Ptolemies and Alexandria3460 · 301 BCEThe Hellenistic Kingdoms3466 · 295 BCEThe Library of Alexandria3474 · 287 BCEArchimedes3493 · 268 BCEAshoka and the spread of Buddhism3497 · 264 BCEThe Punic Wars and Hannibal3514 · 247 BCEThe Parthian Empire3515 · 246 BCEThe Septuagint: the Torah in Greek3540 · 221 BCEQin Shi Huang and the Great Wall3555 · 206 BCEThe Han dynasty3593 · 168 BCEAntiochus IV and the Decrees against the Torah3596 · 165 BCEThe Hasmonean Revolt and the Miracle of Hanukkah3597 · 164 BCEThe Independent Hasmonean Kingdom3598 · 163 BCEThe First Pair: Yose ben Yoezer and Yose ben Yochanan3626 · 135 BCEYochanan Hyrcanus and the Split between Pharisees and Sadducees3628 · 133 BCEThe Gracchi Brothers3630 · 131 BCEThe Second Pair: Yehoshua ben Perachyah and Nittai the Arbelite3631 · 130 BCEThe Silk Road3661 · 100 BCENabataea and Petra3684 · 77 BCEThe Third Pair: Yehudah ben Tabbai and Shimon ben Shatach3685 · 76 BCEQueen Shlomtzion: nine years of peace3688 · 73 BCEThe Revolt of Spartacus3695 · 66 BCEPompey in the East3697 · 64 BCEThe Feud of Aristobulus and Hyrcanus: Pompey and the Coming of Rome3712 · 49 BCEThe Fourth Pair: Shemaiah and Avtalyon3717 · 44 BCEJulius Caesar3724 · 37 BCEHerod and the Rebuilding of the Temple3724 · 37 BCEHerod destroys the Hasmonean house3728 · 33 BCEHillel and Shammai, the Last of the Pairs3730 · 31 BCEThe Battle of Actium3731 · 30 BCECleopatra and the End of Independent Egypt3734 · 27 BCEAugustus and the Roman Empire3741 · 20 BCEBava ben Buta, the Sage Who Survived3760 · 1 BCEThe Beginning of the Common Era3766 · 6 CEThe Roman Procurators and the Rising Tension3798 · 38 CEA statue in the Temple: the Alexandria pogrom and the embassy to Gaius3820 · 60 CEKamtza and Bar Kamtza: Baseless Hatred3826 · 66 CEThe Great Revolt against Rome3827 · 67 CEBuddhism reaches China