Historical timeline
Timeline 1: 5508 BC to AD 64
A chronological window containing 57 source-grounded records.
Record details
- Timeline ID
- timeline-01
- Span
- 5508 BC to AD 64
- Dated records
- 57
- Method
- Equal-count chronological window across political chronology, atlas events and Church-history records.
Dated sequence
- Creation of Adam and Eve
Adam and Eve stand at the historical beginning of the human race and every later line of nations.
atlas_event · BIBLE, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- The Fall
Humanity loses original justice; a central salvation-historical turning point.
atlas_event · BIBLE
- Cain and Abel
The first fraternal narrative and first murder in Genesis.
atlas_event · BIBLE
- Seth and the line to Noah
With Seth begins the principal line from Adam to Noah set out in Genesis 5.
atlas_event · BIBLE, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Shem, Ham and Japheth
The three sons of Noah stand before the principal post-Flood branches of the nations.
atlas_event · BIBLE, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- The Flood and Noah
The antediluvian world ends; Noah and his household become the origin of post-Flood mankind.
atlas_event · BIBLE, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- The forefathers of the Table of Nations
Genesis 10 names the sons and grandsons after whom lands and nations emerge in later history.
atlas_event · BIBLE, JOSEPHUS_ANTIQUITIES_I, ISIDORE_ETYMOLOGIES_IX, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Unification of Egypt
Key event in world history: Unification of Egypt.
atlas_event · OXFORD_EGYPT, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Babel and the dispersion of nations
After Babel the languages are confused and the Noahic families are dispersed over the earth as nations.
atlas_event · BIBLE, ETCSL, ORACC
- Eber, Peleg and the division
The Shemite line continues through Eber and Peleg toward the patriarchal history; in Peleg's days the division of the earth is recorded.
atlas_event · BIBLE, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Pyramid age at Giza
Key event in world history: Pyramid age at Giza.
atlas_event · OXFORD_EGYPT, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Sargon of Akkad
Key event in world history: Sargon of Akkad.
atlas_event · ORACC, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Call of Abraham
Abram journeys from Ur through Haran to Canaan.
atlas_event · BIBLE, PLEIADES
- Joseph in Egypt
Jacob's household reaches Egypt; the precise historical setting remains debated.
atlas_event · BIBLE, OXFORD_EGYPT
- Hammurabi in Babylon
Key event in world history: Hammurabi in Babylon.
atlas_event · ORACC, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Flourishing of Shang culture
Key event in world history: Flourishing of Shang culture.
atlas_event · CHGIS, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Exodus and Sinai covenant
Liberation of Israel from Egypt and covenant at Sinai; date and route are disputed.
atlas_event · BIBLE, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Battle of Kadesh
Key event in world history: Battle of Kadesh.
atlas_event · CAMBRIDGE_ANCIENT, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Collapse of Late Bronze Age systems
Key event in world history: Collapse of Late Bronze Age systems.
atlas_event · CAMBRIDGE_ANCIENT, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- David captures Jerusalem
Jerusalem becomes the royal city and centre of Davidic kingship.
atlas_event · BIBLE, IMJ_TEL_DAN
- First Temple
Solomon builds the Temple in Jerusalem.
atlas_event · BIBLE
- Mesha Stele
Moabite royal account of conflicts with Israel; an important extra-biblical witness.
atlas_event · LOUVRE_MESHA, BIBLE
- Traditional date of the first Olympic Games
Key event in world history: Traditional date of the first Olympic Games.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Traditional founding of Rome
Key event in world history: Traditional founding of Rome.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Fall of Samaria
The Neo-Assyrian Empire conquers the northern kingdom of Israel and deports part of its population.
atlas_event · BIBLE, ORACC
- Siege of Lachish
Assyrian texts and reliefs document Sennacherib's campaign against Judah.
atlas_event · BIBLE, BM_SENNACHERIB, BM_LACHISH
- Draco's law code in Athens
Key event in world history: Draco's law code in Athens.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Daniel 2 — The statue of the world empires
Nebuchadnezzar’s dream orders successive world empires and ends with the kingdom established by God that will not be destroyed.
atlas_event · BIBLE, JEROME_DANIEL, HIPPOLYTUS_ANTICHRIST
- Destruction of Jerusalem and exile
Babylon captures Jerusalem, destroys the Temple and deports part of Judah.
atlas_event · BIBLE, ORACC
- Daniel 7 — The four beasts
Four beasts correspond to four kingdoms; thereafter appears the dominion of the Son of Man and of the saints.
atlas_event · BIBLE, HIPPOLYTUS_ANTICHRIST, IRENAEUS_DANIEL, CYRIL_DANIEL
- Daniel 8 — The ram and the he-goat
The text itself identifies the ram with Media and Persia and the he-goat with Greece; the great horn is connected with the first king.
atlas_event · BIBLE, JEROME_DANIEL
- Cyrus conquers Babylon
The Persian ruler Cyrus takes Babylon; the Cyrus Cylinder preserves the Babylonian presentation of his rule.
atlas_event · BM_CYRUS, ORACC, BIBLE
- Daniel 11 — Kings of the North and South
Detailed sequence of Hellenistic conflicts with later eschatological typology in traditional interpretation.
atlas_event · BIBLE, JEROME_DANIEL
- Daniel 9 — The seventy weeks
Messianic time prophecy concerning the Anointed One, the city and the sanctuary. The exact computational scheme is exposed as an interpretive question in research mode.
atlas_event · BIBLE, JEROME_DANIEL
- Return under Persian rule
Beginning of return and rebuilding of the Temple.
atlas_event · BIBLE, BM_CYRUS
- Battle of Marathon
Key event in world history: Battle of Marathon.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Thermopylae and Salamis
Key event in world history: Thermopylae and Salamis.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Beginning of the Peloponnesian War
Key event in world history: Beginning of the Peloponnesian War.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Alexander defeats Darius III
The Macedonian conquest opens the Hellenistic world-system.
atlas_event · CAMBRIDGE_ANCIENT, PLEIADES
- Qin unifies China
Key event in world history: Qin unifies China.
atlas_event · CHGIS, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Beginning of the Han dynasty
Key event in world history: Beginning of the Han dynasty.
atlas_event · CHGIS, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Maccabean revolt
Revolt against Seleucid religious policy and rededication of the Temple.
atlas_event · BIBLE, PLEIADES
- Rome destroys Carthage
Key event in world history: Rome destroys Carthage.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Assassination of Caesar
Key event in world history: Assassination of Caesar.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Beginning of the Augustan Principate
Key event in world history: Beginning of the Augustan Principate.
atlas_event · PLEIADES, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Nativity of Christ
The Incarnation stands at the centre of salvation history; historically the birth is usually placed a few years before AD 1.
atlas_event · BIBLE, PLEIADES
- Crucifixion and Resurrection of Christ
The Paschal mystery: Christ's death and bodily Resurrection, the foundational event of Christian faith.
atlas_event · BIBLE, PLEIADES
- Pentecost
Public manifestation of the Church and beginning of the apostolic mission.
atlas_event · BIBLE
- Pentecost and the public mission of the Church
The apostles receive the Holy Spirit; the public apostolic mission begins.
church_history · BIBLE
- Antioch — Christian name and apostolic centre
At Antioch the disciples are first called Christians; the city becomes an apostolic centre.
church_history · BIBLE, EUSEBIUS_CHURCH_HISTORY
- Peter and the Roman Church
The Petrine line and the Roman Church are followed as a central apostolic reference point.
church_history · BIBLE, EUSEBIUS_CHURCH_HISTORY
- Mark and Alexandria
The Alexandrian Church associates its apostolic tradition with Mark the Evangelist.
church_history · EUSEBIUS_CHURCH_HISTORY
- Pauline mission in the Mediterranean
Paul undertakes his missionary journeys from Antioch and ministers as far as Rome.
church_history · BIBLE, EUSEBIUS_CHURCH_HISTORY
- Council of Jerusalem
Important local, regional, or apostolic council/synod; not automatically classified as an ecumenical council.
church_history · BIBLE
- Council of Jerusalem
Decision concerning Gentile converts and the Mosaic law.
atlas_event · BIBLE
- Thomas tradition in India
Ancient Christian tradition associates the apostle Thomas with mission in India; the exact route is traditional, not mapped by Acts.
church_history · EUSEBIUS_CHURCH_HISTORY, KATHOLON_SYNTHESIS
- Neronian Persecution
One of the major ancient periods of persecution; places and intensity differed regionally.
church_history · EUSEBIUS_CHURCH_HISTORY, CE_CHURCH_HISTORY
Method and limits
Items are ordered by their recorded year. Coincidence in the same window does not by itself establish causation. Church, political and atlas records retain their source classes and IDs.