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| 70 |
| | | Titus recovers Jerusalem for Rome, after four years of Jewish rule | |
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| 70 |
| | | The complete destruction of the Jewish Temple follows the fall of Jerusalem to the Romans | |
|  | The Western Wall supporting the Temple built by Herod
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| 70 |
| | | The first yeshiva, established by Johanan ben Zakkai at Yavne, begins a strong tradition of Jewish scholarship in the Diaspora | |
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| 73 |
| | | The last of the Jewish insurgents are besieged in the stronghold of Masada, eventually killing each other to end their ordeal | |
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| 130 |
| | | Hadrian, visiting Jerusalem, decides to rebuild it as a Roman city - an act which provokes the final Jewish uprising | |
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| 132 |
| | | Simon Bar-Cochba drives the Romans out of Jerusalem and holds it for three years, until a large Roman army recovers the city | |
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| 135 |
| | | After the Roman recovery of Jerusalem from Simon Bar-Cochba, all Jews are expelled from the city | |
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| c. 200 |
| | | Rabbi Judah ha-Nasi compiles the Mishnah, a six-part digest of the Oral Torah | |
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| c. 245 |
| | | Origen, living in Caesarea, compiles the Hexapla, displaying versions of the Old Testament in six columns for comparative study | |
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| c. 327 |
| | | Helena, mother of the emperor Constantine, discovers in Jerusalem the cross on which Christ died - or so it is later claimed | |
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