1543 OTTOMAN WALLSPOPULATION516 B.C. SECOND TEMPLE10 B.C. HEROD’S TEMPLE335 CHURCH OF
THE HOLY SEPULCHRE543 NEA CHURCH691 DOME OF THE ROCK960 B.C. SOLOMON’S TEMPLE
ca 1010-970 B.C. Reign
of King David; Jerusalem
conquered and made
Israelite capital586 B.C. Babylonian
conquest of Judah135 Streets laid out
A.D. 70 Romans sack city638 Muslim conquest1099 Crusaders
capture the city1187 Saladin conquers
Jerusalem1300 Egyptian Mamluks
gain control from Mongols1537 Ottoman sultan
Süleyman rebuilds city1917 British-led troops
take Jerusalem in WWI1948 State of Israel
declared1967 Six Day War538 B.C. Cyrus the Great
of Persia allows the Jews
to return to Jerusalemca 930 B.C. The Israelite
kingdom divides into
Iron Age: Israelite period 3,000 Israel and Judah
Persian 1,000
Hasmonean 8,000
Byzantine 15,000
Mamluk 10,000
Ottoman 20,000
M34,000 peopleodern Jerusalem
in the Old City
Babylonian 1,000
Roman 4,000
Aelia CapitolinaHerodian 30,000
Roman client kingdom
Early Islamic 10,000
1000 B.C.A.D. 1000A.D. 1500TodayA.D. 500A.D. 1715 AL AQSA MOSQUECrusader and Ayyubid 7,000
Bronze Age: Canaanite period 700 people
Early Hellenistic 3,000
500 B.C.JERUSALEM’S PEOPLE ... AND STRUCTURES
The width of the bar shows the peak of the population estimate for that
period; height indicates duration.Orange indicates when key buildings in the time line were
dedicated or opened for use.