Significant Events In Jewish And World History: The Second Destruction through Rashi.

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Significant Events In Jewish And World History: The Second Destruction Through Rashi.

SOURCES:

(1) Toldot Am Olam. by Rabbi Shlomo Rottenberg
(2) Encyclopedia Judaica
(3) Seder Hadorot, by Rabbi Yechiel Heilpern

Events in Bold Type are illustrated on the Time Line Display Of Jewish History

Years From Creation	Common Era
3828	68	SECOND TEMPLE DESTROYED BY TITUS (1)
3833	73	"P'tirah" (Death) of Raban Yochanan Ben Zakai. Fall of Massadah (3,2)
3840	80	Leadership of Rabbi Akiva (Akiba) begins (3)
3853	93	Josephus completes writing "Jewish Antiquities" (2)
3880	120	Rebellion of Bar Kochbah (3)
3910	150	Leadership of Rebbi Yehudah Hanasi begins (3)
3979	219	MISHNA COMPILED "P'tirah" (Death) of Rebbi Yehudah Hanasi.
4066	306	Constantine the Great begins his rule.He establishes Christianity as the state religion of the Roman Empire (2)
4085	325	Council of Nicea (Christians begin to celebrate Sabbath on Sunday. etc.) (2)
4118	358	Hillel II establishes a permanent Jewish calendar (3)
4128	368	Jerusalem Talmud compiled (3)
4186	426	"P'tirah" (Death) of Rav Ashi. Babylonian Talmud compiled (3,1)
4236	476	Leadership of Rav Yosi begins (Period of Rabanan Saburai begins). Fall of Rome and beginning of Byzantine rule over Eretz Yisrael (Israel) (3,2)
4260	500	BABYLONIAN TALMUD RECORDED (3)
4349	589	Leadership of Rav Chanan begins (Period of Gaonim begins) (3)
4374	614	Jewish revolt and brief rule in Jerusalem (2)
4382	622	Hegira - Mohammed flees from Mecca to Medina -Islam (2)
4398	638	Islamic conquest of Jerusalem (2)
4430	670	"P'tirah" (Death) of Bustenai the Exilarch. Kairouan is founded (approximate dates) (2)
4451	691	Caliph Abdul Malik completes "Dome of the Rock" on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem (2)
4471	711	Islamic conquest of Spain begins (2)
4500	740	Conversion of the Khazars (approximate dates) (2)
4527	767	Anan Ben David founds the Karaite sect (2)
4574	814	Death of Charlemagne (2)
4640	880	Eldad Ha-Dani arrives at Kairouan (approximate date) (2)
4687	927	Leadership of Rav Sa'adia Gaon begins (3)
4730	970	"P'tirah" (Death) of Chasdai Ib'n Shaprut (2)
4797	1037	"P'tirah" (Death) of Rav Hai Gaon. Period of Gaonim ends (3)
4800	1040	BIRTH OF "RASHI". "P'tirah" (Death) of Rabenu Gershom (Germany). Period of Rishonim begins (3)

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