Destruction of Solomon's Temple and Babylonian Exile
586 BCE
Nebuchadnezzar II destroys Jerusalem and deports Judean elites, triggering the canonization of the Hebrew Bible.
Sources and References
Tablettes d'Al-Yahudu (Archives cunéiformes privées des exilés juifs)
Bible (Livre de Jérémie & Deuxième Livre des Rois, 25)
Semantic cluster
Mesopotamia clusterSumer, Akkad, Babylon, Assyria: writing, law codes, Fertile Crescent empires.
Cluster internal links
- Previous (cluster)
Victory at Carchemish and Peak of Nebuchadnezzar II
605 BCE
- Next (cluster)
Erection of Ishtar Gate and Etemenanki Ziggurat
575 BCE
- Same cluster
Sack and Fall of Nineveh to Babylonians and Medes
612 BCE
- Same cluster
Capture of Babylon by Cyrus the Great and Cyrus Cylinder
539 BCE
- Same cluster
Sack of Thebes by Assyrian Emperor Ashurbanipal
663 BCE
- Same cluster
Creation of Ashurbanipal's Royal Library at Nineveh
668 BCE
- Semantic bridge
Birth and Philosophy of Confucius (Kong Fuzi)
551 BCE
- Semantic bridge
Enlightenment of Gautama Buddha
528 BCE
- Semantic bridge
Persian Conquest of Egypt by Cambyses II (Battle of Pelusium)
525 BCE