Time line

B.C.	Principal Events
4004	Adam created.
3874	Seth b. "Adam begat a son in his own likeness" (Gen. 5:3).
3769	Enos b.
3679	Cainan b.
3609	Mahalaleel b.
3544	Jared b.
3382	Enoch b. "seventh from Adam" (Jude 14).
3317	Methuselah b.
3194	Adam's "day of grace" begins when he is 810 (Gen. 6:3).
3130	Lamech b.
3074	Adam d. (930).
3017	Enoch translated, fifty-seven years after Adam's d.
2962	Seth d. (912).
2948	Noah b.
2864	Enos d. (905).
2769	Cainan d. (910).
2714	Mahalaleel d. (895).
2582	Jared d. (962).
2448	Japheth b.
2447	Ham b.
2446	Shem b. (Noah 502).
2353	Lamech d. (777).
2348	Methuselah d. (969) in the first month of the Flood year.
2348-2347	The Flood year. (Noah's 600th year. Gen. 7:6, 11.)
2346	Arphaxad b. "two years after the Flood".
2311	Salah b.
2281	Eber b.
2247	Peleg b. "In his days the earth was divided" (Gen. 10:25). See note on 50. II.
2217	Reu b.
2185	Serug b.
2155	Nahor b.
2126	Terah b.
2056	Terah's "generations" begin with the b. of Haran.
2008	Peleg d. (239).
2007	Nahor d. (148).
1998	Noah d. (950).
1996	Abraham b. (1,992 years from the Nativity).
1978	Reu d. (239).
1955	Serug d. (230).
1946?	Abraham's First "Call", in Ur of the Chaldees (Acts 7:2-4).
1921	Terah d. (205). Abraham's Second "Call" (Haran). The 430 year sojourning begin. (See note on Gen. 12:1, and Ap. 50. III).
1920-1912	Abraham goes down into Egypt. Attempted destruction of the Seed (see note on Gen. 12:10, and Ap. 23). Abraham returns from Egypt.
1911	Abraham (85) marries Hagar (Gen. 16:3).
1910	Ishmael b. (Abraham 86).
1897	Covenant of Circumcision. (Abraham 99).
1896	Isaac b. (Abraham 100).
1891	Isaac becomes "the Seed" (Gen. 21:10; 12:7). Ishmael "cast out". The 400 years of Acts 7:6 begin.
1878	Salah d. (433).
1863?	Isaac (33) offered up.
1859	Sarah d. (127). The only woman whose age is given in Scripture. For significance of this, cp. Gal. 4. In Sarah's age we have, all 1000 egorically, the period of duration of the Old Covenant.
1856	Isaac (40) marries Rebekah.
1846	Shem (Melchizedek?) d. (600). Abraham (150) marries Keturah?
1836	Jacob b. (Isaac 60).
1821	Abraham d. (Isaac 75. Jacob 15).
1817	Eber d. (464), outlives Abraham by four years.
1812?	The famine of Gen. 26:1. The cause of sale of the birthright?
1796	Esau (40) marries Hittite wives.
1773	Ishmael d. (137. Jacob 63).
1759	Jacob (77) gets the Blessing, and flees to Padan-aram.
1758	His "servitude" begins.
1752	His marriages.
1751	Reuben b.
1750	Simeon b.
1749	Levi and Dan b.
1748	Judah and Naphtali b.
1747	Gad b.
1746	Asher and Issachar b.
1745	Zebulun and Dinah (twins?) and Joseph b.
1742	Jacob's bargain about the cattle.
1739	Jacob flees from Padan-aram.
1738	Jacob meets Esau.
1737	Jacob at Succoth.
1736	Jacob comes to Shechem.
(1732-1727)	(The six years of "Jacob's trouble" in the Land.)
1732	Dinah raped. Another attempt to destroy the "Seed", by raising the country against the "tribe". (Cp. Gen. 34:30; 35:5; and see Ap. 23.)
1731	Jacob at Beth-el.
1728	Rachel d. Benjamin b. Reuben forfeits the birthright to Joseph (17), to whom it rightly belonged. (Cp. 1Chron. 5:1, 2.)
1727	Joseph sold (18).
1726	Jacob (110) joins his father Isaac (170) at Hebron (after a separation of thirty-three years).
1717	Joseph (28) in Egypt. Interprets butler's dream.
1716	Isaac d. (180. Jacob 120. Joseph 29).
1715	Joseph (30) interprets Pharaoh's dream.
1707	First year of the famine.
1706	Second year of the famine. Jacob (130) goes down into Egypt. The 215 years of the sojourning in Egypt begin. (Half of the 430 years from Gen 12:4.)
1705	Third year of the famine.
1704	Fourth year of the famine.
1703	Fifth year of the famine.
1702	Sixth year of the famine.
1701	Seventh year of the famine.
1689	Jacob d. (147), after seventeen years in Egypt. (Joseph 56. Benjamin 39.)
1635	Joseph d. (110).
1612	Levi d. (137).
1635-1571	Gap of sixty-four years from d. of Joseph to b. of Moses.
1571	Moses b.
1544	Joshua b. (Moses 27).
1529	Caleb b.
1491	The Exodus. 430 years from Gen. 12:4, and 400 years from Gen. 21:10.
1490	The Tabernacle set up. This year the people should have entered the Land.
1452	Miriam, Aaron, and Moses d.
1451	Entry into the Land.
1444	The "Wars of the Lord" end (Josh. 14:15). Caleb 85. Joshua hands over the leadership to Eleazar.
1444-1443	First Sabbatic year.
1434	Joshua d. (110).

B.C.	Judges		Years.	Years.
1431	First servitude.	Mesopotamia		8
1423	Othniel.		40
1393-1392	First Jubilee year (Anno Dei reckoning).
1383	Second servitude.	Moab		18
1365	Ehud.		80
1285	Third servitude.	Canaan		20
1265	Barak.		40
1225	Fourth servitude.	Midian		7
1218	Gideon.		40
1178	Tola.		23
1155	Jair.		4
1151	Jephthah.		6 (*)
1145	Ibzan.		7
1138	Elon.		10
1128	Abdon.		8
1120	Fifth servitude.	Philistine.		40
			258	93

B.C.	Principal Events
1808	Eli, 40 years.
1040	Samuel, 40 years.
1020	The "Reformation". 1Sam. 7.
1000	Ends the 45 years of Acts 13:20, and 490 years from the year they should have entered into the Land.
1000	THE KINGDOM. Saul, 40 years.
990	David b.
974	David's first anointing (16).
960	David, 40 years. Second anointing (30).
953	David's third anointing (37).
920	Solomon, 40 years.
917	The Temple begun. 573 years after the Exodus. (Cp. Acts 13:20-23).
910	The Temple finished.
897	At the end of twenty years, the "two houses" finished (1Kings 9:10).
880	The Disruption. Rehoboam, 17 years.
863	Abijam, 3 years.
860	Asa, 41 years.
819	Jehoshaphat, 25 years.
796	Jehoram's accession.
794	Jehoshaphat d.
789	Ahaziah's accession.
788	Ahaziah slain by Jehu.
788-782	Gap, 6 years. Athaliah's usurpation.
782	Jehoash, 41 years.
743	Amaziah, 29 years.
714	Amaziah ends.
714-701	Gap, 13 years.
701	Uzziah, 52 years.
687	Hosea's prophecies begin?
649	Gap. One year between Uzziah's death and Jotham's accession.
647	Jotham, 16 years.
634	Micah's prophecies begin?
632	Ahaz, 16 years.
617	Hezekiah's accession.
616	Ahaz d.
615	Hosea ends?
613	Siege of Samaria begun.
611	Samaria taken and Israel ends.
603	Sennacherib invades Judah in the fourteenth year of Hezekiah (2Kings 18:13).
588	Manasseh, 55 years.
584	Isaiah killed? (Cp. Isa. 7:6).
533	Amon, 2 years.
531	Josiah, 31 years.
530	Zephaniah
518	Jeremiah's prophecies begin in Josiah's thirteenth year.
513	The Book "found" and the Passover in Josiah's eighteenth year.
500	Jehoahaz, 3 months.
499	Jehoiakim, 11 years.
497	Nebuchadnezzar's first siege of Jerusalem.
496	Jehoiakim's fourth year, Nebuchadnezzar's first. Daniel taken to Babylon.
495	Jehoiakim burns the roll.
494	Nebuchadnezzar's second year. His dream of the Great Image. Daniel interprets.
489	Jehoiachin, 3 months. Captivity begins in Nebuchadnezzar's eighth year (second siege).
488	Zedekiah, 11 years.
484	Ezekiel's prophecies begin.
478	Nebuchadnezzar's third siege of Jerusalem begins.
477	Jerusalem taken and Temple destroyed in Nebuchadnezzar's nineteenth year. Jeremiah ends.
473	Punishment for the murder of Gedaliah (Jer. 52:30).
462	Ezekiel's last dated prophecy.
461-454	Nebuchadnezzar's seven years of "madness".
454	Twentieth year of Asteiages (Artaxerxes). The commandment to rebuild Jerusalem. (See 50. VI, VII. 5, 12.) Nehemiah's first visit to Jerusalem.
452	Nebuchadnezzar d. after forty-four years' reign.
452	Evil-Merodach. Jehoiachin's captivity ends.
446	Nabonidus.
429	Belshazzar, 3 years.
426	Belshazzar slain. "Darius the Median" (Asteiages) takes the kingdom. Cyrus (Asteiages' son) issues the Decree to rebuild the Temple. Daniel's vision of the "seventy sevens". The "seven sevens" begin. Foundations of the Temple laid. Nehemiah's second visit to Jerusalem.
421	Cyrus ends.
418	Cambyses makes Nehemiah governor. Nehemiah's third visit to Jerusalem.
411	Darius Hystaspis re-enacts the decree of Cyrus.
410	Haggai and Zechariah begin. The temple superstructure commenced and carried on to completion, from the second to the sixth year of Darius.
408	Zechariah's last date.
405	The Temple finished and dedicated. The "seven sevens" end, and the "sixty-two sevens" commence.
404	The Passover.
403	Ezra's last date : 1st of Nisan.
375?	Darius Hystaspis d. (according to Herodotus, 63 years old).
4	The Nativity.

A.D.
0	The Common Era of A.D.
29	The "sixty-nine sevens" end with the "cutting off of the Messiah", 483 years from the "going forth of the commandment to build Jerusalem" in 454 B.C.
69	Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus.

50. VIII SUMMARY OF PRINCIPAL EVENTS.