Timeline Of History, In Brief
Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI
Biblical Authority Ministries, August 8, 2022
This timeline is abased on the work of Archbishop James Ussher as well as other historical sources.
4004 B.C. Creation
- Day 1 Heavens, Earth, Water, Light
- Day 2 Expanse/Firmament
- Day 3 Dry Land and Plants
- Day 4 Sun, Moon and Stars
- Day 5 Flying (Winged) and Sea Creatures
- Day 6 Land Animals and Man
- Day 7 God rests and sanctifies that day [as a model for us (Exodus 20:11)]
4004 Adam and Eve in the Garden
~Day 10 The Fall with the Serpent and Adam and Eve eating (Per Ussher)
~Day 10 Death and suffering enter the creation, clothing the need for a Savior, the first sacrifice (Per Ussher)
Cain kills Abel because he mimicked the first sacrifice (fat portions) and Cain only brought first fruits. Cain banished to the land of wandering (Nod) and takes his wife (his sister)
3874 Seth is born and other sons and daughters
Musical instruments invented (Genesis 4:21)
Bronze and iron working begins (Genesis 4:22)
3017 Enoch is taken to heaven without death.
2948 Noah was born
Over 2000 years of history: Lineage from Adam to Noah: Adam-Seth-Enosh-Cainan-Mahalalel-Jared-Enoch-Methuselah-Lamech-Noah FLOOD – Shem to Jacob (Israel)
2448 Japheth is born – Noah’s first son when he is 500 years old which is 100 years before the Flood
2446 Shem is born to Noah
Ham is born
2349
Flood Animals on – Noah and his family 8 in all get on the
2348 End of the Flood, Animals came off and begin filling the earth
Noah’s family living in tents
2242
2234 Nimrod founds the first post-Babel, Babylonian Empire (Per Ussher)
2188
Mizraim founds of
2089
Javan founds of
- Germany, Scytha, China, India, and other civilizations began forming as well – people migrating around the world
Ice Age had been triggered by the Flood and peaking about 500 years after the Flood then going back down
1998 Noah dies
1996 Abraham is born to Terah
1922 Call of Abraham
The
first recorded war [Genesis 14:1-2 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel
king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
king of nations that
they made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of
Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).] Abraham
was forced to get involved to save
1896 Isaac is born to Abraham
1846 Shem, Noah son dies
1836
Jacob (renamed
12 sons
of Jacob (
1. Reuben (Leah)
2. Simeon (Leah)
3. Levi (Leah)
4. Judah (Leah)
5. Issachar (Leah)
6. Zebulun (Leah)
7. Joseph
(Rachel)
8. Benjamin
(Rachel)
9. Dan (Rachel’s
Maidservant Bilhah)
10. Naphtali (Rachel’s
Maidservant Bilhah)
11. Gad (Leah’s
Maidservant Zilpah)
12. Asher (Leah’s Maidservant Zilpah)
1707
Joseph in Egypt sold as a slave and then rises to power and Jacob and Joseph’s
brothers come to seek help from Egypt, where the Israelites were in
1635 Joseph dies book of Genesis comes to an end
Between 1635 and 1571 Ussher places Job; I (Bodie Hodge) leaves this open but also leaves open the time of the Judges based on internal clues in the book of Job itself (see Bodie Hodge Tower of Babel, Master Books, Green Forest AK appendix pp. 253-263.)
1571 Moses Born
1491 The 10 Plagues of Egypt with Moses and Aaron leading the cause of God to free the enslaved Israelites – the first Passover
1491
Parting of the
40 years of wandering in the desert
1452 Israelites, led by Joshua, enter the Promised Land
Inheritance in the Promised Land as follows:
1. Reuben
(Leah)
2. Simeon
(Leah)
3. Levi (Leah) Spiritual Inheritance
4. Judah
(Leah)
5. Issachar
(Leah)
6. Zebulun
(Leah)
7. Joseph (Rachel)
8. Benjamin
(Rachel)
9. Dan
(Rachel’s Maidservant Bilhah)
10. Naphtali
(Rachel’s Maidservant Bilhah)
11. Gad
(Leah’s Maidservant Zilpah)
12. Asher (Leah’s Maidservant Zilpah)
Because of the Levites receiving a spiritual inheritance as priests one of Joseph’s sons received an inheritance in place of Levi while the other son retained the place of Joseph:
13.
Ephraim (son of Joseph)
14. Manasseh (son of Joseph)
1451
~1413 (death of Joshua) to ~1100, the Judges were:
|
1 |
The
Lord God is the Ultimate Judge |
|
2 |
Moses
(Note: Moses and Joshua were really the
first judges) |
|
3 |
Joshua
[as Moses successor] (Note: Moses and
Joshua were really the first judges) |
|
4 |
Othniel
|
|
5 |
Ehud
|
|
6 |
Shamgar
|
|
7 |
Deborah
|
|
8 |
Barak
|
|
9 |
Gideon
|
|
10 |
Abimelech
|
|
11 |
Tola
|
|
12 |
Jair
|
|
13 |
Jephthah
|
|
14 |
Ibzan
|
|
15 |
Elon
|
|
16 |
Abdon |
|
17 |
Samson |
|
18 |
Eli |
|
19 |
Samuel |
|
20 |
Joel
and Abijah, These sons of Samuel did evil and so the Israelites rejected them and subsequently God as their king
and asked for a human king and God granted them Saul |
David kills goliath
1048 David becomes King, many psalms were written
1015
Solomon becomes King and builds the
975
Kings
of
|
1 |
Jeroboam
I |
|
2 |
Nadab |
|
3 |
Baasha |
|
4 |
Elah |
|
5 |
Zimri |
|
6 |
Omri |
|
7 |
Ahab |
|
8 |
Ahaziah |
|
9 |
Jehoram
(Variant: Joram) |
|
10 |
Jehu |
|
11 |
Jehoahaz
(Variant: Joahaz) |
|
12 |
Jehoash
(Variant: Joash) |
|
13 |
|
|
14 |
Zechariah |
|
15 |
Shallum |
|
16 |
Menahem |
|
17 |
Pekahiah |
|
18 |
Pekah |
|
19 |
Hoshea
(Variant: Hosea), Sargon II’s Assyrian Empire conquers them |
|
1 |
Rehoboam, |
|
2 |
Abijah
(Variants: Abia and Abijam) |
|
3 |
Asa |
|
4 |
Jehoshaphat |
|
5 |
Jehoram
(Variant: Joram) |
|
6 |
Ahaziah |
|
7 |
Athaliah |
|
8 |
Joash
(Variant: Jehoash) |
|
9 |
Amaziah |
|
10 |
Uzziah
(or Azariah) |
|
11 |
Jotham |
|
12 |
Ahaz |
|
13 |
Hezekiah |
|
14 |
Manasseh |
|
15 |
Amon |
|
16 |
Josiah
(Variant: Josias) |
|
17 |
Jehoahaz
(Variant: Joahaz) |
|
18 |
Jehoiakim |
|
19 |
Jehoiachin
(Variants: Jeconiah and Jechoniah) |
|
20 |
Zedekiah,
Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian Empire conquers them |
808
Jonah was swallowed by a great fish because he refused to go to
776 The first Olympics were held
~759 – ~698 Isaiah, prophecies about a virgin birth
748
721
Captivity for the Northern Kingdom
~629 – ~588 Jeremiah, thrown into a well
607
Captivity for the Southern Kingdom to
~607 – ~534 Daniel and also Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace
538
God writes on the wall and Belshazzar, king of
510 Esther saves the Israelites
467–
~442 Nehemiah and Ezra – Permission to resettle and rebuild the Jewish religion
and State, Nehemiah is permitted to rebuilt the wall at
447
The Parthenon is built in
397 Last Prophet until Christ: Malachi
400 years of silence from God, e.g., no prophets, thus no Scripture
Solon taught Socrates who taught Plato who taught Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great
356 Alexander the Great is born
348 Plato died
341 Epicurus is born and founds the first major evolutionary philosophy. Paul later argues against this when debating with the Epicureans (Acts 17:18)
331
323 Alexander the Great died in Babylon
263
218
the Second Punic War between
166-161
the Israelites fight against the Greeks, who had conquered them and finally
make a truce with
149-146
Third Punic War,
146
Roman Empire conquers the whole of
88
Anna, the prophetess’s husband died and she remained at the
55
Julius Caesar invades
48 Julius Caesar keeps the power given to him from the Senate of Roman as becomes the first unofficial emperor of Rome (hence the name Caesar, Tsar, Kaisar, and so on given as a title for many kings to follow from Rome to Russia)
44 Julius Caesar was murdered on the Ides of
March (March 15), Augustus Caesar takes power over
40 Herod the Great is set up as king under Caesar over the Israelites
19
Herod begins expanding the
5 B.C. John the Baptist is born
4
B.C. Mary is visited by Gabriel, Jesus is born; Magi visit, Mary Joseph and
Jesus flee to
4-3 B.C. Herod the Great gets sick and dies and his son Herod Antipas takes over and rules Galilee throughout the duration of Jesus’ earthly life, under the Roman authorities of course until 39 A.D.
----------BC (Before Christ) to AD (Anno Domini, meaning: in the day of our Lord in Latin) ---
9
A.D. Jesus as a young boy in the
~26 A.D. John baptizes Jesus
~27 Satan tempts Jesus 3 times and Jesus countered with the Word of God 3 times
~30
Jesus turns water into wine at a wedding reception at
Jesus begins his ministry; heals and raises people from the dead
33 Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead
33 Last Supper
33
Betrayed in
33 Crucifixion of Christ
33 Resurrection of Christ
33 Apostles begin preaching Christ
Apostles
1.
Simon Peter
2. Andrew (Peter’s brother)
3. James the son of Zebedee
4. John son of Zebedee and brother of
James
5. Philip
6. Bartholomew
7. Thomas
8. Matthew the tax collector
9. James the son of Alphaeus
10. Lebbaeus Thaddaeus
11. Simon the Canaanite
12. Judas Iscariot, who forfeited his
right as an Apostle
13.
Matthias (Acts 1:20-26) Replaced Judas
14.
Paul (2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 Corinthians 12:11, etc.)
15.
Barnabas (Acts 14:14)
16.
James the brother of Jesus (Galatians 1:19)
17. Jesus is THE Apostle (Hebrews 3:1)
33 The martyrdom of Stephen
35
Call of Paul on the
- Paul’s missionary journeys begin—Paul’s very first missionary journey often goes neglected to Arabia (Galatians 1:17 and much of the book of Galatians outlines the distinctions between the descendants of Sarah and Hagar). Many Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham with Hagar. Then Paul goes to Jerusalem and then to Syria and Cilicia (Galatians 1:18-21)
60 St. Andrew was crucified on and X shaped cross, hence the Saltire cross of Andrew
66-70
Jewish revolt against
67 Peter and Paul executed, Paul beheaded and Peter crucified upside down, hence the Petrine cross)
- New Testament is completed in the First Century, to cap the authoritative 66 Books of the Bible (i.e., the canon). They were written or affirmed by the authority of the Apostles as imposed on the church
70
Destruction of the
Church fathers Clement (who learned from Paul), Ignatius and Polycarp (who learned from John) and other continue to preach and spread the good news of Jesus Christ
~108
Ignatius, disciple of John, was killed by beasts in
155
Polycarp died. He was also a disciple of John and was a bishop of
155 Justin Martyr famous church leader
70-300 Roman oppression against Christians, but Christianity continues to spread
306
325
Council of
350
Angles (from South Denmark), Jutes (from Jutland or northern
354 Augustine – famous church leader and Bishop (minister/pastor) of Hippo was born
395
The
Next few hundred years, German peoples continued to settle in the Western
portions of
404 Jerome translates the Bible into Latin
410
Romans leave
~450-550
Anglo-Saxons settle much of
451 Oriental Church Split
570
Muhammad is born and founds Islam and later begins to conquer larges stretches
of the
613-614
711
Moorish Islamic forces invade
732
Charles Martel defeats Islamic forces as they try to invade the whole of
793
Vikings begin their raid throughout
843
(846 and 849) Islamic forces invade
874 Iceland first Settled by Ingolfur Arnarson
902
Muslims conquer
916
Greek and German forces stop the spread of Islamic forces in
920
Islamic Forces cross the Pyrenees mountains to invade
939
For the next couple hundred years Islamic forces and Christian forces go back
and forth in various places throughout southern Europe from
~1021 Viking settle in North America
1054 For centuries, there has been a growing split in the churches in the East and West over the filoque clause. In 1054, they officially part ways Orthodox in the East and Roman in the West…with many others in between!
1066
William the Conqueror (of
1071
Islamic Forces begin conquering the
1097
The First Crusade was to remove Islamic forces from Europe and free the
1206
Genghis Khan conquers a huge portion of Asia and
1255 Thomas Aquinas famous Christian philosopher
1337
– 1453 The Hundred Years War over the French throne between competing houses
from
1348
– 1351 Bubonic (Black) plague wipes out 1/3 of
1382 John Wycliffe translates the Bible from Latin into English
1440 Johannes Gutenburg invents the printing press, the Bible is the first book printed en mass
1451 Christopher Columbus is born
1457
Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese sailor was born and later in life was the first
European to map a course sailing south around
1492
The last of Islamic forces are removed from
Age
of Discovery begins with
1509 John Calvin, a French theologian was born. He is best-known for his commentaries on the Bible and the development of a system of theology known as Calvinism. Though, he was instrumental in the reformation
1516 Erasmus publishes The New Testament in Greek from various incomplete copies he put together
1517 Martin Luther triggers the Reformation a multitude of protestant denominations ultimately result
1519-1522 Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan tried to sail around the world, he died on the trip but his 22 of his men completed the journey – so Magellan gets the credit
1525 William Tyndale translates the New Testament into English and is burnt at the stake for it
1526 Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro make the first contact with the Incas
1528 Incan Civil war begins between two brothers (Atahualpa and Huascar) for control
By 1533 Pizarro and precious few Spanish were able to conquer the Incan Empire but there was still aftermath fighting until 1572
1558
Queen
1560
1560 Jacobus Arminius was a professor of theology and his views of theology were at odds with at least three point of Calvinism. This spawns the Articles of Remonstrance, which outline the views of Arminians. Calvinists then responded with a written response detailing the 5 Points of Calvinism or TULIP. To this day, denominations are split over these two systems
1564 William Shakespeare is born and died in 1616
1564 Creationist Galileo Galilei was born. He later argued that the earth revolved around the sun, dispelling the Greek myth that the sun went around the earth. Sadly, he had to argue against some in the Catholic Church who bought into the Greek idea
1571 Henry Ainsworth became a scholar well-versed in Hebrew and commented on a number of books of the Bible, particularly the books of Moses. His commentary on Genesis is still a valued resource to modern readers
1571 Johannes Kepler, a creationist, is born. He goes on to formulates the laws of planetary motion
1581 Archbishop James Ussher was born and later published the book The Annals of the World, which gives the history of the world from creation to 70 A.D., in immense detail and calculation (many of his dates are in this timeline). His life’s work was published the same year he died, 1656
1588
The Spanish Armada (22 warships and 108 converted merchant vessels) came
against
1611 King James Version Published
1607
The first permanent English colony established in the
1627
Creationist Robert Boyle was born in
1628
1642 Galileo, a Christian, argued that the earth moved around the sun
1643 Creationist Isaac Newton is born, arguably the greatest scientist who ever lived. His mark can be heavily felt in many fields of science from gravitation to laws of motion to mathematics such as calculus. He affirmed Archbishop James Ussher’s chronology of earth history
1646
The
1656 Archbishop Ussher’s book the Annals of the World have a detail account of historical dates to arrive at 4004 BC as the creation of the World
1662 Presbyterian minister Matthew Henry was born and is well known for his commentary on the Bible Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (from 1708–1710)
1664 Rene Descartes states in his book Principles of Philosophy “I think therefore I am” which subtly excludes God as being the “I AM” (Exodus 3:14)
1697 John Gill was born. He was a leading Baptist theologian and scholar of Greek and Hebrew and produced a long standing and well-respected commentary of the Bible (Exposition of the Old and New Testaments from 1746-1763) still used today
1703 John Wesley was born Founders of the Methodist movement and known for his open air-preaching
1714 Anglican minister George Whitfield was born and was later famous for preaching that spurred on the Great Awakening to Christianity
1727 Arguably the greatest scientist who ever lived, creationist Isaac Newton, died. He co-developed calculus, described gravity, laws of motion, invented a reflecting telescope, and many other things
1728
Captain James Cook, and English sailor in the Royal Navy, was the first to map
1730-1760 The Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield that swept across the American colonies to become very Christian
1732 George Washington was born
1769
Napoleon Bonaparte was born. He was a military and political leader of
1776
1779 Comte de Buffon estimates the age of the earth at 78 thousand years
1788
1789
George
1789 French Revolution which marked the end of the monarchy and Napoleon took power
1791 Creationist Michael Faraday is born and is best-known for his work on electromagnetism – though his influence is science is great all-round
1795 Geological evolution introduced by James Hutton in his book The Theory of the Earth where he argues that only natural process that we observe today can be used to evaluate earth’s past (in other words, leave the Bible out of it)
1796 Pierre-Simon Laplace declares the universe to be ancient with countless ages, he too was leaving the Bible out of it
1796-1809 Erasmus Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck write books resurrecting biological evolution (first proposed by Epicurus), but they do it by “acquired characteristics”
1804 Thomas Chalmers, a Scottish theologian who was trying to deal with longs ages from a naturalistic worldview, popularized “gap theory” where he put vast ages between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 to mix a secular worldview with the Bible
1819
Queen
1822
1822
Creationist Louis Pasteur is born in
1830-1833 Charles Lyell (Lawyer turned geologist) rejects the global Flood in favor of the rock layers being evidence of slow gradual change over millions of years (in his book Principles of geology). The idea of millions of years then spread throughout the Western World
1836
1842, After the Opium wars between China and Britain, Hong Kong became part of British territory – the Japanese took control of the city during WWII from 1941-1945
1845
1854 Christian Hugh Miller, also trying to deal with naturalistic long ages, proposes day-age views where the days in Genesis 1 are stretched out to be millions of years
1859 On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection for the Preservation of Favoured Races is released by Charles Darwin, building on Lyell’s and Hutton’s long ages, now introduces a mechanism for biological evolution of animals
1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln wins the presidency of the
1861-1865 US Civil War; slavery finally abolished in the United States with the 13th Amendment
1866 Gregor Mendel, a creationist, develops the field of genetics during his research on pea plants
1870-1880 Many Universities that were once Christian such as Harvard, Yale, and so on switched to secular universities due to influence of naturalism, especially millions of years, throughout the 1870s
1870-1871 Franco-Prussian War (or Franco-German War)
1871 Charles Darwin published the Descent of Man where he argues for human evolution specifically
1877 Thomas Edison invents the phonograph to record messages on a foil cylinder and could play it back. This became essential for communications
1879 Thomas Edison developed a practical incandescent light bulb
1879 Albert Einstein was born in Germany and was later known for a number of concepts in physics but is best known for general and special relativity as well as the famous equation E=mc2
1882
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. Trying to keep the
1892 Charles Spurgeon, British Baptist preacher, known as the “Prince of Preachers” died. His published sermons still reach thousands today
1894
– 1895 The First Sino-Japanese War between
1895 Cornelius Van Til born, a brilliant Christian philosopher
1901
1902 Air conditioning invented (greatest invention ever!) by Willis Carrier
1903 The Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) are the first to fly a powered airplane
1904-1905
Russo-Japanese war between Russian and
1914 Expansion of Pan-Germanism born out of Darwinism finally ignited World War I with the "shot heard around the world", it was primarily the Central Powers (
1918 Russian revolution with Communism taking over under Lenin
1918 Billy Graham born
1919 Treaty of Versailles – the end of WWI
1919-1921 The British Empire (United Kingdom) reached its peak size with over 1/4 of the world's area
1925 John T. Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee over the teaching of human evolution in state schools and publicly mocks Christianity and begins a trend to remove God, the Bible, and Christianity from public life in America, even though the Christians won the case. Christianity was replaced by secular humanism, the reigning state religion even up to today
1937 The Great Depression; Stock market crashed and people were struggling to get any food and money
1937
1939 World War II due to Hitler’s and the Nazi’s rise to power in Germany and his aggressions to conquer Europe; Holocaust begins then ends in 1945
1939
The first manufactured jet, Heinkel He 178, took flight by Erich Warsitz in
1941
Pearl Harbor in
1945
Allied forces which were largely dominated by the
1945
The first Atomic Bomb was detonated at
1947
President Harry Truman declared the
1948 Israel becomes a nation; Greg Bahnsen, pastor and philosopher was born and later earned the title "the man most feared by atheists" after the Great Debate with Gordon Stein
1948 The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
1949
Communist revolution in
1950
The Korean War begins and lasts until 1953 with an armistice between the
communist North Korea and democratic South Korea. The North being helped by
1951 Ken Ham was born in Australia
1959-1975 The Vietnamese conflict, an unofficial war that has roots back to WWII with the Vietnamese, Japanese, French, Chinese, Soviets, and the US over French control, communist control, or democratic control. It is arguably one of the most unusual and complex conflicts post-WWII
1961 First man in space Yuri Gagarin
1962
Prayer was removed from state schools in the
1962 First American in space John Glenn
1962 Henry Morris and John Whitcomb publish The Genesis Flood to get Christians back to the authority of the Bible by challenging to now popular idea of million of years
1963
The Bible was removed from state schools in the
1963
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in
1968 Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr., civil right leader, was assassinated
1969 First moon landing by Apollo astronauts with Neil Armstrong and Edwin Eugene “Buzz” Aldrin, Jr.
1974 Bodie Hodge was born
1977 The Apple II was the first successful personal computer readily available to the public. It was produced by Apple Computer, (now Apple, Inc.)
1977 Elvis Presley, American musician and actor died
1978 The first solar powered calculator, the Chicago Statement of Inerrancy was drawn up and signed by a number of evangelicals and its sister statement on Hermeneutics (interpretation) was also written but sadly, it did not take a stand on Genesis, particularly a global Flood, and many refused to sign it because it allows compromise between the Bible and the religion of Secular Humanism
1980
Mt St. Helens erupts in
1982
1983 Microsoft Windows was first released
1986
1986 Space Shuttle Challenger explodes after take-off killing all 7 on board
1987
Creation was removed from state schools in the
1989-1991
The Iron Curtain of communism comes down – the Soviet Union dissolves into
multiple countries,
1990
1990 Hubble Telescope was launched into space
1992 European Union forms
1997
Hong Kong returns to
1998 The International Space Station begin construction
1999
2000 Teachers are forced to teach evolution and not question it or they can be fired, Rodney LeVake was fired for questioning evolution in the classroom, the Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal
2001
“9-11” or the September 11 terrorist attacks on the
2003
Space Shuttle
2003 The Human genome was successfully mapped
2004
Tsunami levels coasts and kills around 230,000 people. It was triggered by an
earthquake in the
2005
The Ten Commandments are to be
removed from public buildings in the
2005
Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3, devastates the
2007
2010
President Barrack Obama declares the
2016
The Ark Encounter Opens
2022+ Jesus Christ still reigns over heaven and earth with all authority!
