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| | 1500 BC | Abraham, the father of the Jewish People, lived during this era | |
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| | 63 BC | The Romans conquered the region | |
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| | 66 AD | 66-70 AD the Jews stage a rebellion against the Roman rule | |
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| | 132 | 132-135 AD The Romans forced the Jews to leave the region of Israel when it then became known as Palestine | |
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| | 600s | The Arabs conquered the region | |
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| | | 1000s -1200s The Crusades when Christians tried to claim the area and particularly Jerusalem | |
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| | 1800s | The Zionists start a movement to set up a Jewish state in Palestine | |
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| | 1900s | Conflict between the Jewish and Arab populations | |
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| | 1914 | 1914 - 1918 World War I | |
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| | 1917 | The Balfour Declaration issued by Great Britain supporting the idea of a Jewish homeland in Palestine | |
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| | 1939 | 1939-1945 World War II and the Holocaust when approximately 6 million Jews were killed by the Nazis | |
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| | 1945 | August: The United States dropped atomic bombs on Hiroshima and Nagasaki | |
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| | 1947 | The United Nations divided the region into an Arab and a Jewish state | |
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| | 1948 | 17 May: The Nation of Israel was established | |
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| | 1949 | Israel take half of the Arab state | |
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| | 1950 | The Law of Return was passed allowing any Jew, with just a few exceptions, to settle in Israel | |
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| | 1967 | Six-Day War, Jerusalem reunited. Israel occupies the Gaza Strip and the West bank at the end of one of the Israeli-Palestinian conflicts | |
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| | 1968 | 1968-1970 Egypt's War of Attrition against Israel | |
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| | 1973 | Yom Kippur War | |
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| | 1979 | Israel-Egypt Peace Treaty | |
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| | 1984 | Operation Moses, immigration of Jews from Ethiopia | |
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| | 1992 | New government headed by Yitzhak Rabin | |
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| | 1995 | Prime Minister Rabin assassinated at peace rally and Shimon Peres becomes prime minister | |
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| | 2000 | September 28: Palestinians initiated riots after Israeli opposition leader Ariel Sharon visited the Temple Mount | |
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