• 1800 BCE - The Jebusites build the wall Jebus (Jerusalem).
  • 993 BCE - King David captures Jerusalem. Jerusalem becomes City of David and capital of Judea.
  • 701 BCE - The Assyrians lay an unsuccessful siege on Jerusalem.
  • 606 BCE - [[586 BCE] - The Babylonians destroy Jerusalem in three waves of attacks.
  • 1099 - Crusaders capture Jerusalem and slaughter most of the city's Muslim and Jewish inhabitants.
  • 1244 - Kharezmian Tatars conquer the city.
  • 1247 - Egyptians conquer the city.
  • 1482 - The visiting Dominican priest Felix Fabri described Jerusalem as "a collection of all manner of abominations". As "abominations" he listed Saracens, Greeks, Syrians, Jacobites, Abyssianians, Nestorians, Armenians, Gregorians, Maronites, Turcomans, Bedouins, Assassins, a sect possibly Druzes, Mamelukes, and "the most accursed of all", Jews. Only the Latin Christians "long with all their hearts for Christian princes to come and subject all the country to the authority of the Church of Rome".
  • 1917 - Jerusalem is captured from the Ottoman Empire by the British in World War I.
  • 1948 - Israel takes West Jerusalem and declares Jerusalem its capital.
  • 1967 - Israel captures East Jerusalem in the Six-Day War.

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