2165 B.C. -- birth of Abraham (Abram).
2155 B.C. -- birth of Sarah (Sarai).
2090 B.C. -- Abram enters Canaan.
2079 B.C. -- birth of Ishmael.
2065 B.C. -- birth of Isaac.
2028 B.C. -- death of Sarah at the age of 127 (Genesis 23:1).
2025 B.C. -- Isaac marries Rebekah.
2005 B.C. -- birth of Esau and Jacob.
1990 B.C. -- death of Abraham at the age of 175 (Genesis 25:7).
1942 B.C. -- death of Ishmael at the age of 137 (Genesis 25:17).
1914 B.C. -- birth of Joseph.
1885 B.C. -- death of Isaac at the age of 180 (Genesis 35:28).
1525 B.C. -- birth of Moses.
1485 B.C. -- Moses kills an Egyptian and flees to the land of Midian.
1445 B.C. -- the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, and the year that Moses receives the commandments for the Old Covenant from God on Mount Sinai.
1405 B.C. -- death of Moses at the age of 120 (Deuteronomy 34:7), and the year that the children of Israel cross the Jordan River and enter the land of Canaan.
605 B.C. -- Nebuchadnezzar II (Nebuchadrezzar II) of Babylonia invades Judah and takes a number of Jews captive to Babylon, Babylonia, including Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah (This is known as the first deportation.), thus signifying the beginning of the Babylonian Captivity.
601 B.C. -- Babylonia attacks Egypt.
597 B.C. -- the second deportation of Jews from Judah to Babylon, Babylonia.
587 B.C. -- the destruction of Jerusalem and the temple, and the third deportation of Jews from Judah to Babylon, Babylonia.
582 B.C. -- the fourth deportation of Jews from Judah to Babylon, Babylonia.
568 B.C. -- Babylonia attacks Egypt.
562 B.C. -- King Nebuchadnezzar II dies and Evil-Merodach (Amel-Marduk), the son of Nebuchadnezzar II, begins to reign.
560 B.C. -- King Evil-Merodach dies and Nergal-Sharezer (Nergal-Sarezer, Nergal-shar-usur, Nariglissar), the husband of Nebuchadnezzar II's daughter, ?, begins to reign.
556 B.C. -- King Nergal-Sharezer dies and Labashi-Marduk, the son of Nergal-Sharezer, begins to reign and reigns for 9 months.
556 B.C. -- King Labashi-Marduk dies and Nabonidus (Nabunaid), the husband of Nebuchadnezzar II's daughter, Nitocris, begins to reign.
563 B.C. -- Belshazzar (Bel-shar-usus), the oldest son of King Nabonidus, begins to reign with his father.
539 B.C. -- King Cyrus II (the Great, the Persian), the king of the Persian empire, the son of Cambyses I, conquers Babylon (by his general, Ugbaru, because he, himself, did not arrive until about 2½ weeks later), killing King Belshazzar in the process, and appoints 62 year old Darius the Mede (Median), the son of Ahasuerus, as the king of Babylon under him. (King Darius the Mede is not to be confused with Ugbaru (Gubaru or Gobryas), the former Guti governor of Gutium, who was Cyrus the Great's general and who died about 3½ weeks after conquering Babylon.)
535 B.C. -- the first group of Jews return to Judah from Babylon, thus signifying the end of the Babylonian Captivity.
6 B.C. -- Jesus is born in Bethlehem, Judea, Israel on or about the first day of autumn. (Tishri 1st on the Jewish calendar.)
8 -- Jesus, at the age of 12½, stays behind at Jerusalem after the Feast of Passover, without telling His parents.
29 -- Jesus, at the age of 33½, is crucified, dies, is buried, and raised from the dead.
313 -- the Roman emperor Constantine founds the Roman Catholic Church.
476 -- the Western Roman Empire falls, thus signifying the beginning of the Dark Ages.
1200 -- the approximate year that the Bible is divided into chapters.
1450 -- Johannes Gutenberg invents the printing press in Mainz, Germany.
1453 -- Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantium Empire) fall, thus signifying the end of the Dark Ages.
1456 -- the Gutenberg Bible (a.k.a. the Mazarin Bible or the 42-Line Bible), the first book produced on a printing press, is printed in Latin.
1517 -- Martin Luther affixes his 95 theses to the castle church door of the University of Wittenberg, in Wittenberg, Saxony, Germany, on October 31st, thus signifying the beginning of the Reformation.
1551 -- the New Testament is divided into verses.
1560 -- the Old Testament is divided into verses.
1603 -- King James I succeeds to the throne of England.
1604 -- the Christians (many of which were Puritans) request of King James I that a new English translation of the Bible be made.
1604 -- translation begins on the Authorized Version (the King James Version) of the Bible under the order of King James I.
1611 -- the Authorized Version (the King James Version) of the Bible is finished being translated from the Masoretic Text (the Old Testament) and Textus Receptus (the New Testament) and is published.
1988 -- Batavia Christian Center / Matthew Norville Ministries is founded in Batavia, Illinois, U.S.A., and holds its first service on Sunday, June 5th. This page last updated January 3, 2012.
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