The Levant
Explore The Levant on Ever-When, an interactive timeline of history from the Big Bang to the present day.
Key events on this timeline
- Founding of the State of Israel (1948)
- Crucifixion of Jesus (33)
- Jesus of Nazareth (4 BCE)
- Destruction of the Second Temple in Jerusalem (70)
- Battle of Yarmouk (636)
- Jericho settled (9000 BCE)
- Domestication of wheat in the Levant (9000 BCE)
- Phoenician alphabet emerges (1050 BCE)
- Capture of Jerusalem by First Crusade (1099)
- Six-Day War (1967)
- Nakba (1948)
- First Crusade (1096)
- Umayyad Caliphate (661)
- Phoenician civilisation (1500 BCE)
- King David (1040 BCE)
- Saladin retakes Jerusalem (1187)
- Battle of Hattin (1187)
- First Arab-Israeli War (1948)
- Saladin (1137)
- Kingdom of Jerusalem founded (1099)
- Destruction of Solomon's Temple (587 BCE)
- Balfour Declaration (1917)
- Ottoman conquest of the Levant (1516)
- David captures Jerusalem (1000 BCE)
- Yom Kippur War (1973)
- British Mandate for Palestine begins (1920)
- King Solomon (990 BCE)
- Construction of Solomon's Temple (957 BCE)
- Fall of Acre (1291)
- Hamas attack and Gaza war (2023)