Jerusalem:
History of Jerusalem

Jerusalem: Table of Contents | Archaeology | Sites & Places

• Chronological Timeline (4500 BCE - Present)
• Four Periods in Jerusalem's History
• Muftis of Jerusalem (1890-Present)
• Mayors of Jerusalem (1899-Present)

Jerusalem, 1913.

• Jerusalem in the Bible
• Ancient Canaanite City
• King David and Jerusalem (~1000 BCE)
  • Water Systems of Biblical Times
• The First Temple (~900 - 586 BCE)
  • Jerusalem in the First Temple Period
• The Second Temple (516 BCE - 70 CE)
• The Great Revolt (66-70)
• The Destruction of the Second Temple (70)
• The Bar-Kokhba Revolt (132-135)
• Antiochus' Sack of Jerusalem (614)
• Capture of Jerusalem by Saladin (1187)
• Richard the Lionheart Accepts Saladin's Peace (1192)
• British Mark Capture of Jerusalem from Turks (1917)
• Supreme Moslem Council Recognizes Jewish Temple Mount (1930)
• The Bombing of the King David Hotel (1946)
• The Battle For Gush Etzion (1948)
• The Battle For Jerusalem (1948)
• Jordanian Annexation of the West Bank (1950)
  • Jordan'ss Desecration of Jerusalem (1948-1967)