Timeline

The Bible and the Scriptural genealogies provide a proper timeline for the chronology of biblical events and earth's history.

The Beginning

Year	Date	Events	Verse
		Before the mountains were born or you brought forth the whole world, from everlasting to everlasting your are God.	Psalm 90:2
		In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God. He was with God in the beginning. Through him all things were made; without him nothing was made that has been made.	John 1:1–3
		The spirit of God has made me.	Job 33:4
		In the beginning God created the heavens and the earth.	Genesis 1:1
		I will proclaim the name of the Lord. Oh, praise the greatness of our God! He is the Rock, his works are perfect, and all his ways are just. A faithful God who does no wrong, upright and just is he.	Deuteronomy 32:3–4
		In speaking of the angels he says, "He makes his angels spirits, and his servants flames of fire."	Hebrews 1:7
		Lucifer rebels against God. The Great Controversy between Christ and Satan begins.
		Michael/Jesus casts Lucifer/Satan from Heaven.	Revelation 12:7–9

41st century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
4004 BC		God creates life on the earth.	Genesis 1:2–2:4

40th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
4000 BC		Marriage and 7th day Sabbath instituted in Eden.	Genesis 2:1–4, 18–25
3960 BC		The woman/Eve deceived by the serpent/Satan.	Genesis 3:1–7
		The Fall.

39th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
3825 BC		Cain murdered his brother Abel.

31st century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
3030 BC		Death of Adam.

30th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
2973 BC		Enoch translated to Heaven without dying.

25th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
2424 BC		Noah began preaching and building the ark 120 years before the Flood.

24th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
2304 BC		The Flood.

23th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
2203 BC		The Tower of Babel.

19th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
1877 BC		The call of Abraham. 430 years of sojourning in land of Egypt begins.
1852 BC		Birth of Isaac.
1847 BC		Ishmael mocks Isaac. 400 years of oppression began.	Genesis 15:13, 21:9

18th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
1792 BC		Birth of Jacob and Esau.
1701 BC		Birth of Joseph.

17th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
1684 BC		The selling of Joseph.
1671 BC		Joseph interprets dream of Pharaoh.
1662 BC		Jacob enters Egypt.
c. 1620 BC		Job's trial. Chaldeans raid his 3000 camels.	Job 1:8, 42:16

16th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 1570–1546 BC		Pharaoh Ahmose I expels the Hyksos from Egypt and founds the New Kingdom.
c. 1527–1514 BC		Pharaoh Thutmose I.
c. 1527 BC		Pharaoh Thutmose I orders death of Hebrew newborn males.
		Birth of Moses.
		Hatshepsut the daughter of Pharaoh rescues Moses from the Nile River.

15th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 1487 BC		Flight of Moses to Midian.
1448 BC		Moses at the burning bush.
1501–1447 BC		Thutmose III the Pharaoh of the Exodus.
Autumn 1448 BC		Moses confronts Pharaoh Thutmose III.
1448–1447 BC		Ten Plagues of Egypt.
1447 BC	March/April	The Exodus.
		Death of Thutmose III.
Pentecost 1447		Moses receiving the Ten Commandments from God upon Mount Sinai.
1446 BC	March/April	Erection and Dedication of the Tabernacle.
1446–1406 BC		40 years of wilderness wanderings.
1407 BC		Aaron consecrates Eleazar the High priest.
		Death of Aaron.
		Israelites defeat Sihon the king of Amorites.
		Death of Moses.
1406 BC		Crossing the Jordan River.
		The Fall of Jericho.
c. 1406–1399 BC		Conquest of Canaan.

14th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 1399 BC		Israelite gathering the Gilgal.	Joshua 14:6–15
c. 1847–1397 BC		Isaac chosen & Ishmael rejected. 400 years of oppression. 40 years of wilderness wanderings. 10 years for dividing the land for inheritance. About 450 years total.	Acts 13:17–20
c. 1376 BC		Othniel the Judge.	Judges 3:7–11
c. 1336 BC		Ehud the Judge.	Judges 3:12–30

13th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 1265 BC		Shamgar slays six hundred Philistines.	Judges 3:31
c. 1237 BC		Deborah the prophetess.	Judges 4–5
c. 1211–1171 BC		Gideon the Judge.	Judges 6–8

12th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 1200 BC		Collapse of Bronze Age societies.
1177 BC		Abimelech the Judge.	Judges 9
1176 BC		Tola the Judge.	Judges 10:1–2
1153 BC		Jair the Judge.	Judges 10:3–5
1140 BC		Ruth the Moabitess.
1107 BC		Jephthah defeats the Ammonites. 300 years after defeat Sihon the king of Amorites.	Judges 11:26–33

11th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
1106–1099 BC		Ibzan the Judge.	Judges 12:8–10
1099–1089 BC		Elon the Judge.	Judges 12:11–12
1089–1081 BC		Abdon the Judge.	Judges 12:13–15
c. 1101–1080 BC		Samson the Judge.	Judges 13–16
c. 1079–1050 BC		Samuel the prophet and last Judge.
c. 1050–1011 BC		King Saul.
c. 1025 BC		David kills Goliath.
c. 1011–971 BC		King David.

10th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 971–931 BC		King Solomon.
Spring 967 BC		King Solomon begins to build the Temple in 4th year of his reign 480 years after the Exodus.	1 Kings 6:1
931–913 BC		Rehoboam begins to reign. Judah and Israel divided. Ruler of Judah.
931–910 BC		Jeroboam, 1st king of Israel, leads the people into idolatry.

9th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 874–853 BC		Ahab, king of Israel, did more evil than all the kings before him.
c. 874–841 BC		Jezebel, wife of Ahab, leads her husband and Israel into idolatrous apostasy.
c. 870–847 BC		Elijah the prophet.
c. 853 BC		Elijah anoints Elisha to succeed him.
c. 873–849 BC		Jehoshaphat, the 4th king of the separated kingdom of Judah.
c. 847 BC		Elijah translated alive and take to Heaven.
841 BC		Jehoiada makes Joash king of Judah.
840 BC		Obadiah the prophet.
810–785 BC		Amos the prophet.

8th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
800 BC		Joel the prophet.
c. 790 BC		Jonah the prophet.
785–725 BC		Hosea the prophet.
751–690 BC		Micah the prophet.
c. 745–685 BC		Isaiah the prophet.
722 BC		The Fall of Samaria. The end of kingdom of Israel.

7th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 688 BC		Sennacherib king of Assyria and Rabshakeh blaspheme the God of Israel and insult King Hezekiah.
		King Hezekiah prays for deliverance from the Assyrians.
		The Angel of the Lord kills 185,000 Assyrian soldiers.	2 Kings 19:35
661–612 BC		Nahum the prophet.
c. 697–642 BC		King Manasseh of Judah did more wickedly than the heathen who had dwelt in the land before him.
c. 640–609 BC		King Josiah of Judah.
630 BC		Zephaniah the prophet.
c. 627–580 or 560 BC		The prophet Jeremiah.
610 BC		Habakkuk the prophet.
c. 605–562 BC		King Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon.
c. 605–536 BC		Babylonian captivity.
c. 603–535 BC		The prophet Daniel.

6th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
c. 593/92–570 BC		Ezekiel the prophet.
586 BC		The Fall of Jerusalem and destruction of Solomon's Temple.
539–530 BC		Cyrus the Great, king of Persia and conqueror of Babylon.
536 BC		The return of Jews under Zerubbabel.
520–518 BC		The ministry of Haggai and Zechariah.
Spring 515 BC		Completion of Zerubbabel's Temple.

5th century BC

Year	Date	Events	Verse
479/78 BC		Esther made queen in 7th year of Xerxes.
457 BC		The return of Ezra to Jerusalem. 2300 day/year and 70 weeks prophecies begin.
444 BC		The return of Nehemiah. The building of wall of Jerusalem.
c. 425 BC		Malachi the prophet.