Jerusalem Timeline

Arts & Culture History
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Excerpted from a magazine ‘Friends of Zion, a special Jerusalem Edition’.

ca 1000 BC: David captures Jerusalem, and establishes it as Israel’s capital

953 BC: Solomon dedicates First Temple in Jerusalem

586 BC: Nebuchadnezzar captures Jerusalem, Temple is destroyed

516 BC: Second Temple is completed

445 BC: Nehemiah rebuilds the walls of Jerusalem

332 BC: Alexander the Great conquers the region

164 BC: Temple recaptured during Maccabean Revolt

63 BC: Roman army under Pompey captures Jerusalem

20 BC: Herod the Great begins work on expanded Temple

ca 30 AD: Jesus Christ crucified in Jerusalem

70 AD: Jerusalem and Temple destroyed by Roman army under Titus

132 AD: Bar-Kochba uprising temporarily drives Roman from Jerusalem

135 AD: Hadrian recaptures Jerusalem bans Jewish people from entering the Holy City

638 AD: Jerusalem captured by Caliph Omar, Muslim domination begins

691 AD: Dome of the Rock built on or near former Temple site

1099 AD: First Crusade captures Jerusalem from the Muslims

1187 AD: Saladin recaptures Jerusalem

1541 AD: Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilds walls of Jerusalem

1860 AD: First Jewish settlement built outside walls of Jerusalem

1897 AD: First World Zionist Conference held in Geneva, Switzerland

1971 AD: British General Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Turkish Empire

1948 AD: Israel declares independence, Jordan seizes control of most of Jerusalem

1967 AD: Israel liberates Jerusalem during Six Day War

1980 AD: Israel passes law declaring “Jerusalem complete and united, is the capital of Israel”

1988 AD: PLO declares that Jerusalem is the capital of the Palestinian state

1995 AD: US Congress passes Jerusalem Embassy Act

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Nice information. Thanks for sharing.

Now point of discussion?

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I already pm'd you Muqawwee bhai :)

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why was 'Dome of the Rock' built on or near former Temple site, when Muslim Caliph is reportedly avoid to offer prayers in church by saying that Muslims might built a mosque where I pray?

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Jews seem to be evicted from Israel for almost 2000 years.

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[QUOTE]
1971 AD: British General Allenby captures Jerusalem from the Turkish Empire
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should be 1871.

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Actually 1917.

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Ironically, to build the Dome of the Rock, the Umayyads demolished the Church of St Cyril and St John that the Byzantines had built over the Temple ruins.

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Strange that lesson of tolerance was forgotten so early. What could be expected from people who killed children of their prophet.

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The best city I ever lived.

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For how long you lived in that city?

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6 months in year 2001, and later for a week in 2010 :)

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Kaur be kind and share some interesting info related to it :@:

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What kind of information you are interested in? :5:

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The most startling thing, person of India can find, that even old city, part of a big metropolis can be clean :D, because in India not a single old city locality are generally clean. Jerusalem is highly religious place, with all three Abrahamic religions intersecting each other. For the first time I saw jews in my life. Muslims and christians are so comman in India that they look normal :D. The other thing is that Israel in many ways was like India then, especially untrustworthy Israeli railway system then. We have improved a lot in railways since then, but I don't know if Israel has, though its size doesn't require much of Railway anyway.

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That they show on TVs about fight, bomb-blast, civilian conflict (fights) etc., if it is true of false?

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lols. Yesterday, a client from Lahore asking the same for Karachi

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Try going to Port Louis, the capital of Mauritius. It is a city mostly populated by desis and run by desis, and it is completely clean and tidy.

Going to Port Louis made me realise that the filthy state of cities in India and Pakistan is nothing at all other than the conscious choice of the people who live there to live filthily and to constantly elect politicians who do nothing about it.

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It not that easy to blast a bomb in Israel, though city is highly divided between Muslim and Jew camps, both sides are just the same, One was victim and another is victim, both playing their victim card internationally. For Hindus/Sikhs, the city has nothing to offer except a little historic view of which we have no knowledge and of which we need no knowledge unless it fulfills our political existence with the state of Israel.

It is choice of people and people alone. Politicians are part of society and represent the society they are part of.