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B.C. | |
Antiochus Epiphanes takes the city without siege, | 170. |
Antiochus Eupator takes the city, | 163. |
Jonathan builds a new wall, | 143. |
Simon takes the Akra citadel, | 139. |
Antiochus Sidetes besieges Jerusalem, | 134. |
Aretas, the Arab, besieges the city, | 65. |
Pompey takes the city, | 63. |
Antipater rebuilds the walls, | 58. |
Herod and Sosius take Jerusalem, | 37. |
A.D. | |
Agrippa builds the third wall, | 43. |
Cestius Gallus attacks Jerusalem, | 66. |
Titus takes Jerusalem (fifteenth siege) and utterly destroys it, | 70. |
Bar Cocheba revolts, | 132. |
Bar Cocheba is expelled, | 135. |
Rufus ploughs the temple site, | 135. |
Hadrian founds Ælia Capitolina, | 136. |
The Jews revolt and are excluded from the city, | 339. |
Eudoxia rebuilds the walls, | 450. |
Chosroes II. takes Jerusalem, | 614. |
Omar the Caliph takes the city, | 637. |
Caliph Moez takes possession of the city, | 969. |
Turkomans expel Egyptians from the city, | 1094. |
The Egyptians retake Jerusalem, | 1098. |
Crusaders take Jerusalem (nineteenth siege), | 1099. |
Walls of Jerusalem repaired, | 1178. |
Saladin takes Jerusalem (twentieth siege), | 1187. |
Saladin repairs the walls of the city, | 1192. |
Melek el Muazzam dismantles the walls, | 1192. |
Frederic II. rebuilds the walls, | 1229. |
Daud, Emir of Kerak, destroys the walls, | 1239. |
Christians obtain Jerusalem by treaty, | 1243. |
Soliman the Magnificent builds walls, | 1542. |