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The Romans destroyed the Western Wall and It is now called the Walling Wall, because they started walling at it.
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Hasmonean Dynasty Begins; Jerusalem Again Expands Limits to Western Hill
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Ptolemaic and Seleucid Rule in Jerusalem
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Cyrus Permits Jews in Bablyonian Exile to Return to Jerusalem; Second Temple Built
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Jerusalem ruled under Umayyad Dynasty
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Assyrian Ruler Sennacherib Lays Seige to Jerusalem
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Jerusalem Ruled Under Abassid Dynasty
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First Crusaders capture Jerusalem
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Saladi captures jerusalem from Crusaders
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Crusaders Briefly Recapture Jerusalem Two Times
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Muslim Caliph Dismantles Walls of Jerusalem; Population Rapidly drops
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Suleiman the Magnificent Rebuilds the Walls of Jerusalem
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Theodor Herzl, father of Zionism, is born
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Jews become a majority of Jerusalem
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Petah Tikvah, first Zionist agricultural settlement, founded by Orthodox Jews.
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First Aliyah, made up of mostly Eastern European Jews. Started settlements of Rishon Lezion, Rosh Pina and Zichron Yaakov. Also a small number of them from Yemen.
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First kibbutz, Degania, founded on the shores of the Kinneret. Tel Aviv founded as Hebrew speaking Jewish city.
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HaShomer, the first Jewish self-defense orgnaizaion was found to replace Arab guards protecting Jewish settlements
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British Capture Jerusalem in World War I
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Israel Captures Jerusalem's Old City and Eastern Half; Reunites City
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Roman Forces Destroy Jerusalem and Demolish Second Temple
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Ottoman Empires captures Jerusalem
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Dome of the Rock built on site of destroyed jewish temples
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Caliph Omar Enters Jerusalem
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Byzantine Christians Recapture Jerusalem from Persians