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Timeline of Events Regarding the Fall of the Northern Kingdom
BC
745 Tiglath-pileser III becomes king of Assyria
742 Pekahiah becomes king of Israel
740 Pekah becomes king of Israel
739 Uzziah dies; Isaiah begins to prophesy
739 Jotham becomes king of Judah
736 Micah begins to prophesy
735 Ahaz becomes king of Judah
732 Hoshea becomes king of Israel
727 Shalmaneser IV becomes king of Assyria
722 Sargon II becomes king of Assyria Samaria falls;
722 The ten tribes of Israel go into captivity
715 Hezekiah becomes king of Judah
705 Sennacherib becomes king of Assyria
Assyrian Timeline
742 Isaiah is a prophet in Judah till 700
740 Jonah is a prophet in Judah till 730
738 Assyria invades Phoenicia
737 Pekahiah becomes king of Israel till 736
736 Pekah becomes king of Israel till 732
735 Ahaz becomes king of Judah till 715
734 Tyre falls to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria
733 Syracuse is founded on Sicily by the Greeks
732 Damascus city-state falls to Tiglath-Pileser III of Assyria
732 Hoshea becomes king of Israel till 724
729 Tiglath-Pileser captures Babylon and reigns as king
725 King Midas rules over Phrygia
722 Sargon II of Assyria captures Samaria, the capital of Israel
722 The northern kingdom of Israel comes to an end.
722 Sargon II of Assyria deports 28,000 Israelites who become the "Ten Lost Tribes"
722 Micah is a prophet in Judah till 701
721 Chaldaeans enter Babylonia and compete for the Babylonian throne
721 Sargon II defeats the Urartians
720 Egypt reunited under Nubian (Ethiopian) rule (25th Dynasty)
715 Hezekiah becomes king of Judah till 687
710 The Assyrians destroy the kingdom of Chaldea
709 Phrygia becomes a tributary to Assyria
706 Tarentum is established in southern Italy by Sparta
705 Sennacherib becomes king of Assyria till 682
701 Sennacherib establishes his capital at Nineveh
701 Sennacherib begins his campaign on the west to Phoenicia
701 Sennacherib Devastates Northern Judah and Lachish
701 Assyrians invade and conquer most of Phoenicia
701 Sennacherib, king of Assyria besieges Jerusalem
701 The Assyrian army is smote by God