Significant Events In Jewish And World History: Purim To Chanukah

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

Years From Creation	Years Before The Common Era
3404	356	PURIM MIRACLE (Downfall of Haman, etc.) (1)
3405	355	Purim war and victory (1)
3408	352	CONSTRUCTION OF THE SECOND TEMPLE (1)
3413	347	Return to Israel of Ezrah and the "Anshei K'nesset Hagedolah" (Men of the Great Assembly) (1)
3426	334	Wall around Jerusalem is completed by Nechemia (1)
3448	312	P'tirot (Deaths) of last prophets - Chagai, Zecharia, and Malachai (Ezrah). Alexander the Great conquers Darius of Persia. Shimon Hatzadik (First Tannah) meets Alexander. Beginning of Greek rule (1)
3500	260	Leadership of Yosi Ben Yoezer and Yoseph Ben Yochanan begins (First set of "Zuggot") (1)
3515	245	"Tirgum Hashivim" (Septuagint) - Translation of the Torah into Greek (1)
3616	144	Religious persecution of Antiochus Epiphanes begins. Temple is desecrated (1)
3622	139	MIRACLE OF CHANUKAH. Kingdom of Chashmonaim (Hasmoneans) begins (1)

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