Jerusalem

Events (31)

• 1009

  10/18 — The Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church in Jerusalem, is completely destroyed by the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, who hacks the Church's foundations down to bedrock.

• 1099

  7/15 — First Crusade: Christian soldiers take the Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after the final assault of a difficult siege.

• 1187

  10/2 — Siege of Jerusalem: Saladin captures Jerusalem after 88 years of Crusader rule.

• 1190

  6/10 — Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the river Saleph while leading an army to Jerusalem.

• 1229

  2/18 — The Sixth Crusade: Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor signs a ten-year truce with al-Kamil, regaining Jerusalem, Nazareth, and Bethlehem with neither military engagements nor support from the papacy.

• 1720

  11/9 — The synagogue of Judah HeHasid is burned down by Arab creditors, leading to the expulsion of the Ashkenazim from Jerusalem.

• 1917

  12/11 — World War I: British General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem on foot and declares martial law.

• 1946

  7/22 — King David Hotel bombing: A Zionist underground organisation, the Irgun, bombs the King David Hotel in Jerusalem, site of the civil administration and military headquarters for Mandatory Palestine, resulting in 91 deaths.

• 1947

  12/2 — Jerusalem Riots of 1947: Riots break out in Jerusalem in response to the United Nations Partition Plan for Palestine.

• 1947

  12/9 — Security Council passes a resolution to internationalize Jerusalem.

• 1948

  4/9 — Fighters from the Irgun and Lehi Zionist paramilitary groups attacked Deir Yassin near Jerusalem, killing over 100.

• 1948

  5/23 — Thomas C. Wasson, the US Consul-General, is assassinated in Jerusalem, Israel.

• 1949

  12/13 — The Knesset votes to move the capital of Israel to Jerusalem.

• 1950

  1/23 — The Knesset resolves that Jerusalem is the capital of Israel.

• 1951

  7/20 — King Abdullah I of Jordan is assassinated by a Palestinian while attending Friday prayers in Jerusalem.

• 1961

  4/11 — The trial of Adolf Eichmann begins in Jerusalem.

• 1967

  6/7 — Six-Day War: Israeli soldiers enter Jerusalem.

• 1977

  11/20 — Egyptian President Anwar Sadat becomes the first Arab leader to officially visit Israel, when he meets Israeli prime minister Menachem Begin and speaks before the Knesset in Jerusalem, seeking a permanent peace settlement.

• 1987

  2/16 — The trial of John Demjanjuk, accused of being a Nazi guard dubbed "Ivan the Terrible" in Treblinka extermination camp, starts in Jerusalem.

• 1990

  10/8 — Israeli-Palestinian conflict: In Jerusalem, Israeli police kill 17 Palestinians and wound over 100 near the Dome of the Rock mosque on the Temple Mount.

• 2000

  9/28 — Al-Aqsa Intifada: Ariel Sharon visits Al-Aqsa Mosque known to Jews as the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.

• 2003

  8/19 — A suicide attack on a bus in Jerusalem, Israel, planned by Hamas, kills 23 Israelis, seven of them children, in the Shmuel HaNavi bus bombing.

• 2007

  5/7 — Israeli archaeologists discover the tomb of Herod the Great south of Jerusalem.

• 2008

  3/6 — A suicide bomber kills 68 people (including first responders) in Baghdad on the same day that a gunman kills eight students in Jerusalem.

• 597 BC

  3/16 — Babylonians capture Jerusalem, and replace Jeconiah with Zedekiah as king.

• 630

  3/21 — Emperor Heraclius returns the True Cross, one of the holiest Christian relics, to Jerusalem.

• AD 70

  5/10 — Siege of Jerusalem: Titus, son of emperor Vespasian, opens a full-scale assault on Jerusalem and attacks the city's Third Wall to the northwest.

• AD 70

  5/30 — Siege of Jerusalem: Titus and his Roman legions breach the Second Wall of Jerusalem. Jewish defenders retreat to the First Wall. The Romans build a circumvallation, cutting down all trees within fifteen kilometres.

• AD 70

  6/5 — Titus and his Roman legions breach the middle wall of Jerusalem in the Siege of Jerusalem.

• AD 70

  7/12 — The armies of Titus attack the walls of Jerusalem after six months of battle. Three days later they breach the walls, which enables the army to destroy the Second Temple.

• AD 70

  9/7 — A Roman army under Titus occupies and plunders Jerusalem.