| Event | Year |
| Irenaeus dies | |
| Abraham called by God | |
| Moses born | |
| Moses dies; Joshua conquers Canaan | |
| Eli becomes priest | |
| Samuel born | |
| Saul becomes king | |
| Saul, Jonathan slain; David king of Judah | |
| David becomes king over all Israel | |
| Solomon begins to build the Temple in Jerusalem | |
| Jonah begins his ministry | |
| Rome founded | |
| Sargon II becomes king of Assyria, Israel falls; the ten tribes of Israel go into captivity | |
| Zoroaster born | |
| Nineveh falls | |
| The Babylonians destroy Jerusalem and the Temple, Jews deported to Babylon | |
| Buddhism founded by Siddhartha | |
| Confucius begins to teach | |
| Babylon falls to Darius the Persian | |
| The Second Temple completed | |
| The Roman Republic completed | |
| Xerxes becomes king of Persia | |
| Esther becomes queen of Persia | |
| Socrates condemned to death | |
| Alexander the Great dies | |
| Caesar crosses the Rubicon | |