Timeline of Events

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