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| 721. | Fall of Samaria. Captivity of Northern Israel. |
| 701. | Deliverance of Jerusalem from Sennacherib. |
| 696?-641. | Reign of Manasseh. Supposed time of Isaiah's death. |
| 630. | Josiah's Reformation begun. |
| 629 or 628. | Jeremiah called to be a prophet. |
| 621. | The Book of Deuteronomy discovered. |
| 607. | Fall of Nineveh and Assyria. Babylon supreme. |
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| 599-598. | Siege of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar. First Captivity of the Jews. |
| 594. | Ezekiel begins to prophesy in Chaldea. |
| 587. | Destruction of Jerusalem by Nebuchadrezzar. Second Captivity of the Jews. Flight of many Jews with Jeremiah to Egypt. |
| 585. | Battle of the Eclipse. Triple League: Babylon, Media, Lydia. |
| 561. | Nebuchadrezzar dies. Evil-Merodach succeeds. |
| 559. | Neriglissar succeeds Evil-Merodach. |
| 554. | Nabunahid or Nabonidos usurps the throne of Babylon. Harder times for the Jews. |
| 549. | Fall of Median monarchy before Cyrus. |
| 545. | Cyrus attacks Babylonia from the north, and is repulsed. Invades Lydia, and takes Sardis and King Crœsus. |
| 538. | Cyrus captures Babylon. |
| | Permission to the Jews to return and rebuild Jerusalem. Zerubbabel, Joshua. |
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| 529. | Cyrus dies. Cambyses sole king. |
| 522. | Cambyses dies. |
| 521. | Babylon revolts. Retaken by Darius |
| 486. | Xerxes succeeds Darius. |
| 466. | Artaxerxes Longimanus. |
| 458. | Second great return of Jews. Ezra. |
| 401. | Revolt and defeat of Cyrus. The Anabasis. |