Please note that the dates that some of the Kings of Israel
and Judah ruled are approximate, and somewhat difficult to reconcile because Scripture
often states that these kings came to power while after the king of the
opposite kingdom had been ruling for so many years.
APPROX
DATES EVENT
758 – 725 BC:
Hosea prophesying to Northern Kingdom of Israel, “My people are destroyed for
lack of knowledge. Because you have rejected knowledge, I also will reject you
from being My priest. Since you have forgotten the law of your God, I also will
forget your children. The more they multiplied, the more they sinned against
Me; I will change their glory into shame.”
753 BC: According to Tradition, Rome was
founded by Romulus.
740 BC: Ahaz (Hezekiah’s father) begins to
reign in the Southern Kingdom of Judah (2 Kings 16).
732 BC: Hoshea becomes the last king of Israel
(2 Kings 17: 1-6)
729 BC: Hezekiah becomes king of Judah (2
Kings 18:1-6).
726 BC: Shalmaneser V becomes king of Assyria.
725 BC: Shalmaneser V and coregent Sargon II
march on the Northern Kingdom of Israel and besieges it for three years.
722 BC: Israel is conquered by the Assyrians and
all her people are deported (2 Kings 17:6-23).
719 BC: King Huan of Zhou of the Zhou Dynasty
becomes ruler of China.
705 BC: Sennacherib succeeds Sargon II and
moves the capital of Assyria back to Ninevah.
704 BC: King Hezekiah shows off his Treasure House
to Babylonian ambassadors (Isaiah 39, 2 Kings 20:12-19).
701 BC: Homer dies.
700 BC: Pythagorean Theorem is copied into the
Baudhayana Sulbasutra text on altar construction.
697 BC: Manasseh, son of Hezekiah, becomes
King of Judah at 12 years old (2 Kings 21:1-18).
689 BC: King Sennacherib of Assyria sacks
Babylon.
675 BC: King Esarhaddon of Assyria begins to
rebuild Babylon.
668 BC: Nineveh, capital of Assyria, becomes
the largest city in the world, surpassing Thebes, Egypt.
664 BC: Corinth and Coicyra engage in the
first recorded Greek naval battle in history.
660 BC: Traditional founding date of Japan by
Emperor Jimmu.
655 BC: The
Spartan Creed is written by Ancient Greek Poet, Tyrtaeus.
655 BC: Mayans
begin to occupy Piedras Negras, Guatemala.
650 BC: Assyrian King, Ashurbanipal, founds a
library which includes one of the earliest complete copies of the Gilgamesh
Epic; a tale which describes the Babylonian Account of the great Flood (a.k.a.
Noah’s flood, see Genesis 6-9).
643 BC: Amon, son of Manasseh, becomes King
of Judah (2 Kings 21:19-26).
641 BC: Josiah, son of Amon, becomes King of
Judah (2 Kings 22:1 – 23:30).
626 BC: Nabopolassar, Nebuchadnezzar’s father,
rebels against Assyrian rule and founds the Neo-Babylonian empire. Beginning of
the Assyrian Empire’s demise.
623 BC: Book of the Law found in the Temple.
Josiah commands large reforms to the religious system in Jerusalem and
reinstitutes the Passover celebration. (2 Kings 22:8 – 23:25).
614 BC: Medes and Babylonians sack Asshur, a
large city of Assyria, quite close to Nineveh.
612 BC: Babylonians, Medes, and Susianians
(from the city of Susa), form an alliance to conquer Nineveh.
612 BC: City of Babylon becomes the largest
in the world, taking the lead from Nineveh.
609 BC: Josiah, King of Judah, is killed by Pharaoh
Necho II of Egypt in the Battle of Megiddo. Jehoahaz becomes King of Judah, and
reigns for 3 months before being captured by Pharaoh Necco II and taken to
Egypt. Necco II then installed Eliakim (also called Johioakim), one of Josiah’s
other sons, on the throne of Judah (2 Kings 23:28-36).
605 BC: Nebuchadnezzar succeeds his father,
Nabopolassar, as King of Babylon.
605 BC: First deportation of the Jews to
Babylon under Nebuchadnezzar, king of Babylon (2 Kings 24:1)
600 BC: Nebuchadnezzar builds the Hanging
Gardens of Babylon.
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