60-66 Roman procurators Festus, Albinus, and Florus deal with
brigands and popular uprisings in Judea
62 Roman governor Flaccus seizes Jewish Temple tax from
Apamea, Adramyttium, Laodicea, and Pergamum in Asia
Minor
64 Fire in Rome; death of James (brother of Jesus), Paul, and
Peter
66 Anti-Jewish riots in Alexandria; Tiberius Julius Alexander
enforces reprisals
66-70 First Jewish Revolt against Rome
68-69 Year of the four emperors (Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and
Vespasian)
69-79 Vespasian, emperor
70 Jerusalem Temple destroyed by Romans;fiscus Iudaicus
imposed on Jews in lieu of Temple tax
73/74 Masada, the last refuge of Jewish rebels under Eleazar ben
Yair, falls to Romans; Oniad temple at Leontopolis in
Egypt destroyed by Romans
79-81 Titus, emperor
80-90 Beginnings of rabbinic academy at Yavneh (Jamnia);
House of Hillel gains ascendancy over the House of
Shammai; YoFanan ben Zakkai is the leading rabbinic
sage in Palestine
81-96 Domitian, emperor
90-115 Gamaliel II is the leading rabbinic sage
96-98 Nerva, emperor
98-117 Trajan, emperor
100-135 Ishmael ben Elisha and Akiba ben Joseph are the leading
rabbinic sages
116-117 Diaspora Jewish uprisings in Egypt, Cyprus, and Cyrene
117-138 Hadrian, emperor
132-135 Bar Kokhba Revolt
200 Rabbi Judah the Patriarch edits the MishnahxixChronologyEERDMANS -- Early Judaism (Collins and Harlow) final text
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