Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews

Josephus, Jewish War and Antiquities of the Jews: a Standard history source. Covers 175 BC – AD 74, with 345 events in chronological order. Text license and provenance included.

Type	Standard history
Viewpoint	Insider account
Years covered	175 BC – AD 74
Events	345 events, 341 placed on the map
Author	Flavius Josephus
Original title	Περὶ τοῦ Ἰουδαϊκοῦ πολέμου

Regions: West Asia 302 · Southern Europe 30 · Egypt & North Africa 13

Events

Year	Place	Event	Passage
175 BC	Jerusalem	A dispute over the high priesthood arises in Jerusalem (title: Antiochus's expedition to Jerusalem over the high-priesthood dispute)	12.237
169 BC	Pelusium	Antiochus comes to Pelusium with a large army, deceives the king of Egypt and takes Egypt	12.243
168 BC – 167 BC	Jerusalem	Antiochus Epiphanes captures Jerusalem and plunders the Temple, amid the Syrian disputes over Egypt	BJ 1.31–33
167 BC	Modein	At Modein, Mattathias and his five sons take up arms and stab Antiochus's officer (Bacchides) to death, starting the revolt	BJ 1.36–37
167 BC	Jerusalem	On the 25th of Chaseleu (December), year 145, Antiochus feigns peace and takes Jerusalem by trickery	12.248
167 BC	Modein	Antiochus's officers come to Modein and force sacrifice, but Mattathias refuses	12.265
166 BC	Modein	Mattathias gives his last words to his sons and is buried at Modein, and Judas takes command	12.285
166 BC	Samaria	Judas attacks and defeats Apollonius, the Samaritan army's general	12.287
165 BC	Emmaus	The army sent by Lysias camps on the plain of Emmaus, and Gorgias's night raid fails	12.298
164 BC	Beth-zur	The next year Lysias confronts Judas at Bethsura and withdraws	12.313-315
164 BC	Jerusalem	Judas goes up to Jerusalem, purifies the Temple and keeps the eight-day festival of rededication	12.321
163 BC	Jordan	Judas and Jonathan cross the Jordan, travel three days and meet the Nabateans (to rescue the Jews of Gilead)	12.335
163 BC	Raphon	Timothy fights Judas at the stream opposite Raphon and is defeated	12.341-344
163 BC	Ptolemais (Akko)	Simon goes to help the Jews of Galilee and fights the people of Ptolemais	12.331
163 BC	Jerusalem	Antiochus V and Lysias come through Bethsura and besiege Judas, shut up in the Temple, then withdraw on peace terms	12.367
162 BC	Bethzur	Antiochus marches into Judea with a great army and elephants and takes the small city of Bethsura	BJ 1.41–46
162 BC	Antioch on the Orontes	Demetrius becomes king and sends Bacchides to Judea	12.393
161 BC	Jerusalem	Nicanor comes to Jerusalem and tries to seize Judas by trickery under a show of peace, but is exposed and goes to war	12.403
160 BC	Jerusalem	Bacchides advances again and Judas falls in battle	12.423
160 BC	Jordan	Jonathan camps between the Jordan lakes and is attacked by Bacchides on the Sabbath	13.12
152 BC	Ptolemais (Akko)	In the year 160 Alexander Balas takes Ptolemais and grants Jonathan the high priesthood	13.35
152 BC	Jerusalem	At the Feast of Tabernacles Jonathan puts on the high priest's robes (year 160)	13.46
150 BC	Antioch on the Orontes	Alexander defeats and kills Demetrius in battle and becomes king of Syria	13.58
150 BC	Alexandria	Onias builds a temple in Egypt resembling the Jerusalem Temple	13.64
150 BC	Ptolemais (Akko)	At Ptolemais Alexander marries Ptolemy's daughter and honors Jonathan	13.81
147 BC	Joppa	Jonathan and Simon attack and take the city of Joppa that had shut its gates	13.91
145 BC	Antioch on the Orontes	Ptolemy abandons his son-in-law Alexander, joins Demetrius and defeats Alexander in the fighting near Antioch	13.110
144 BC	Antioch on the Orontes	Tryphon sets the young Antiochus up as king and fights Demetrius	13.131
144 BC	Jerusalem	Jonathan sends envoys and gifts to Demetrius asking him to remove the garrison of the Jerusalem citadel	13.133
144 BC	Scythopolis	With the young Antiochus's permission Jonathan raises an army, tours the cities of Syria and is welcomed at Ascalon	13.149
143 BC		Demetrius's generals gather at Kedesh (between Galilee and Tyre) to face Jonathan	13.154-162
143 BC	Jerusalem	Jonathan sends envoys to Rome to renew the old friendship	13.163
143 BC	Jerusalem	Jonathan rebuilds the walls of Jerusalem and the wall around the Temple	13.181
143 BC	Ptolemais (Akko)	Tryphon lures Jonathan to Ptolemais and captures him	13.190
142 BC	Gazara	Simon seizes the neighboring Gazara, Joppa and Jamnia, drives out the garrisons and razes the fortresses	BJ 1.50–53
142 BC	Jerusalem	With Jonathan captured, Simon is acclaimed by the people and becomes high priest and leader	13.197
142 BC	Adora	When Tryphon enters Judea leading the bound Jonathan, Simon confronts him at Adida	13.203-207
142 BC	Jerusalem	In year 170, Simon's first year, the Jewish people are freed from Macedonian rule and tribute	13.213
134 BC – 133 BC	Jerusalem	As Antiochus besieges Jerusalem, Hyrcanus opens David's tomb and takes out money	BJ 1.61
134 BC	Jerusalem	Antiochus VII invades Judea and besieges Jerusalem, where Hyrcanus is	13.243
134 BC	Jerusalem	Hyrcanus opens David's tomb and takes out 3,000 talents of silver	13.249
128 BC	Rome	Hyrcanus sends envoys to the Roman Senate to renew the friendship treaty	13.259
111 BC	Samaria	Hyrcanus besieges Samaria for a long time and takes it	13.275
108 BC – 107 BC	Samaria/Sebaste	Hyrcanus's sons Aristobulus and Antigonus surround Samaria (later Sebaste) with a wall and besiege it	BJ 1.64–66
104 BC	Jerusalem	Aristobulus is the first to wear the diadem; after killing his mother and brother, he dies within a year	BJ 1.70–71
104 BC	Jerusalem	Aristobulus puts on the crown and imprisons his mother and brothers	13.301
103 BC – 102 BC	Asochis	Alexander Jannaeus fights Ptolemy Lathyrus, who held Asochis; he kills many foes, but victory leans to Ptolemy	BJ 1.86–87
103 BC	Ptolemais (Akko)	Alexander Jannaeus is besieging Ptolemais but lifts the siege in fear of Ptolemy Lathyrus	13.324
103 BC	Jordan	Ptolemy crushes Alexander's army at Asophon by the Jordan	13.338
100 BC	Gaza	Alexander razes Gaza completely	13.348
96 BC	Gadara	Alexander takes Gadara after a ten-month siege	13.356
88 BC	Jerusalem	At the Feast of Tabernacles the people pelt Alexander with citrons and rise in revolt	13.372
88 BC	Jerusalem	Demetrius Eucaerus camps near Shechem and defeats Alexander but soon withdraws	13.377
80 BC	Jerusalem	After a long illness Alexander dies around the fortress of Ragaba	13.398
76 BC	Jerusalem	Alexandra succeeds her husband Jannaeus and rules for nine years, with the Pharisees holding real power	BJ 1.107–109
76 BC	Jerusalem	Alexandra hands power to the Pharisees and rules for nine years	13.405
69 BC	Jericho	In the year Hyrcanus became high priest (3rd year of the 177th Olympiad, consuls Hortensius and Metellus), he fights Aristobulus at Jericho and loses	14.4
65 BC – 64 BC	Petra (Arabia)	Antipater and Hyrcanus go to seek help from the Arab king, which sets the stage for Pompey's intervention	BJ 1.123–127
65 BC	Petra	At Antipater's urging Hyrcanus flees to Aretas; the king of Petra, given promises, raises an army	14.16
65 BC	Jerusalem	Aretas and Hyrcanus attack Aristobulus with 50,000 men, shut him in the Jerusalem Temple and besiege it	14.19
64 BC	Damascus	Pompey reaches Damascus via Syria, and Hyrcanus, Antipater and Aristobulus rush to him to plead their cases	BJ 1.131–132
64 BC	Damascus	Scaurus, sent by Pompey, comes through Damascus into Judea and orders Aretas to lift the siege	14.29
63 BC	Alexandreion	Pompey marches with Roman troops and Syrian auxiliaries against Aristobulus at Alexandreion	BJ 1.133–137
63 BC	Jerusalem	While the factions of Aristobulus and Hyrcanus split inside Jerusalem, Pompey fills the ditch and ravine north of the Temple and assaults it	BJ 1.145–147
63 BC	Jerusalem	Pompey and his men enter the sanctuary that no one had ever seen — the nation's greatest wound	BJ 1.152–154
63 BC	Damascus	When Pompey comes to Damascus, Aristobulus and Hyrcanus come to plead their claims to the kingship	14.34
63 BC	Scythopolis	Pompey goes to attack Aristobulus by way of Pella and Scythopolis	14.49
63 BC	Jericho	Pompey camps at Jericho and heads for Jerusalem	14.54
63 BC	Jerusalem	Pompey keeps building earthworks even on the Sabbath, breaches the wall and takes Jerusalem, with Faustus first on the wall	14.69
62 BC	Petra	Scaurus attacks and burns Arabia toward Petra and makes a truce with Aretas	14.80
57 BC – 56 BC	Alexandreion	Gabinius promises amnesty to the crowd gathered at Alexandreion, urging surrender while pressing the siege	BJ 1.164–166
57 BC	Alexandreion	Gabinius drives Alexander into the fortress of Alexandreion, receives his surrender and razes the fortress	14.86
56 BC	Machaerus	Aristobulus, escaped from Rome, regathers like-minded Jews and tries to fortify Machaerus	BJ 1.171–174
55 BC	Alexandreion	Aristobulus escapes from Rome and rebuilds Alexandreion, but Gabinius captures him and sends him to Rome	14.92
54 BC	Jerusalem	Crassus takes all the gold left in the Jerusalem Temple to fund his Parthian campaign	BJ 1.179
54 BC	Jerusalem	On his Parthian expedition Crassus takes the Temple's treasures	14.105
53 BC	Carrhae	Crassus dies in Parthia with his army, and Cassius takes Syria and holds off the Parthians	14.119
52 BC	Tarichaeae (Magdala)	After blocking the Parthian entry into Syria, Cassius hurries on and storms Tarichaeae	BJ 1.180–182
49 BC	Antioch	On Pompey's orders, Scipio beheads Aristobulus's son Alexander at Antioch	BJ 1.185–186
48 BC	Pelusium	Antipater joins Mithridates, blocked at the entrance to Pelusium, and they capture Pelusium	BJ 1.187–189
47 BC – 46 BC	Jerusalem	After seeing Caesar off from Syria, Antipater returns to Judea and first rebuilds the Jerusalem walls Pompey had torn down	BJ 1.201–203
47 BC	Galilee	Herod captures and executes Hezekias, the bandit chief who had been ravaging Syria	BJ 1.204–207
47 BC	Pelusium	After Pompey's death Antipater helps Caesar in the Egyptian war and advances via Pelusium	14.130
47 BC	Jerusalem	Caesar confirms Hyrcanus as high priest and makes Antipater procurator of Judea	14.143
47 BC	Jerusalem	Antipater puts his eldest son Phasael in charge of Jerusalem and the 15-year-old Herod in charge of Galilee	14.158
46 BC	Jerusalem	Hyrcanus summons Herod to trial, and Herod appears as his father advised	BJ 1.210–211
46 BC	Jerusalem	Herod is summoned to the Sanhedrin for killing bandits but flees to Damascus on a tip from Hyrcanus	14.178
43 BC	Tyre	Among the notables gathered after the Laodicea affair, Herod seizes the moment to punish Malichus	BJ 1.231–232
43 BC	Jerusalem	Cassius collects taxes in Judea, and Malichus poisons Antipater	14.277
43 BC	Tyre	With Cassius's permission Herod punishes Malichus at Tyre	14.288
41 BC	Antioch	At Daphne near Antioch, a hundred Jewish envoys appeal to Antony, who backs Herod and Phasael and makes them tetrarchs	BJ 1.243–244
41 BC	Ephesus	Antony meets Jewish envoys in Asia Minor and makes Herod and Phasael tetrarchs	14.304
40 BC	Jerusalem	The Parthians bring Antigonus to Judea, and as Jerusalem fills with Pentecost crowds, unrest engulfs the Temple area	BJ 1.253–255
40 BC	Galilee	Phasael meets the Parthian commander in Galilee but finds the Galileans already in armed revolt	BJ 1.256–258
40 BC – 39 BC	Jerusalem	Herod, sensing a Parthian plot, slips out of Jerusalem by night with his family	BJ 1.263–264
40 BC	Masada	Herod leaves his family at Masada and flees	BJ 1.265–267
40 BC – 39 BC	Pelusium	Rebuffed in Arabia, Herod reaches Pelusium on the Egyptian side	BJ 1.277–279
40 BC	Rhodes	Off Pamphylia, Herod survives the danger by jettisoning cargo and barely reaches Rhodes	BJ 1.280–281
40 BC	Rome	Antony, moved by pity for Herod, joins Caesar in making him king — Herod receives the royal title in Rome	BJ 1.282–285
40 BC	Jerusalem	The Parthian Barzapharnes enters Jerusalem with Antigonus in front and, at Pentecost, captures Hyrcanus and Phasael	14.330
40 BC	Masada	Herod leaves his family at Masada and flees toward Arabia and Egypt	14.358
40 BC	Rhodes	Herod goes to Rhodes through a storm and sets out for Rome	14.377
40 BC	Rome	Herod is made king of Judea by the Roman Senate	14.382
39 BC	Ptolemais (Akko)	Herod sails from Italy to Ptolemais, raises an army of foreign troops and his countrymen, and marches into Galilee	BJ 1.290–292
39 BC	Joppa	Herod takes Joppa and hurries to rescue his kinsfolk at Masada	BJ 1.293–294
39 BC	Jerusalem	Herod camps west of Jerusalem, but the guards on the walls resist with arrows and javelins	BJ 1.295–296
39 BC	Ptolemais (Akko)	Herod returns from Italy to Ptolemais, passes through Galilee and confronts Antigonus	14.394
38 BC – 37 BC	Sepphoris	Through heavy snow Herod reaches Sepphoris and takes the city easily, the defenders having fled first	BJ 1.304–306
38 BC	Arbela (Galilee)	Herod subdues the bandits hiding in caves and leaves part of his force behind	BJ 1.314–316
38 BC	Samosata	Herod goes to Antony, who was besieging Samosata, to denounce Machaeras	BJ 1.320–322
38 BC	Samosata	Herod leads his troops to help Antony in the siege of Samosata	14.439
37 BC	Jericho	Hurrying to avenge his brother, Herod passes Jericho and survives an unexpected peril, which he takes as an omen	BJ 1.331–332
37 BC	Samaria/Sebaste	Antigonus sends Pappus with an army to Samaria, but Herod's side defeats him and Pappus is killed	BJ 1.333–334
37 BC	Jerusalem	Sosius joins Herod with a large army, and together they surround Jerusalem	BJ 1.345–346
37 BC	Jerusalem	Herod and Sosius take Jerusalem by force, and Antigonus meets his end	BJ 1.347–348
37 BC	Jerusalem	In the consulship of Agrippa and Gallus, Herod and Sosius take Jerusalem by storm	14.477
37 BC	Jerusalem	Having taken Jerusalem, Herod offers its wealth to Antony and kills the rich	15.8
36 BC	Jerusalem	Herod installs Aristobulus, brother of his queen Mariamne, as high priest and soon has him killed	15.41
34 BC	Damascus	Cleopatra comes to Judea through Damascus with the lands she got from Antony, and Herod leases the Arabian and Jericho lands	15.96
32 BC	Jerusalem	Citing the Arab king's ingratitude, Herod prepares for war and addresses his soldiers	15.110
31 BC	Judea	In Herod's 7th year, as the Actium war began, Antony sends Herod to fight Arabia at Cleopatra's request	BJ 1.364–365
31 BC	Judea	An earthquake strikes Judea with great damage — Herod's 7th year	BJ 1.369–372
31 BC	Jerusalem	In the year of the Battle of Actium (Herod's 7th year) a great earthquake strikes Judea	15.121
31 BC	Actium	Octavian and Antony fight at Actium	15.121
30 BC	Rhodes	Herod meets Octavian at Rhodes, has his kingship confirmed and is promised favor	BJ 1.386–390
30 BC	Jerusalem	Herod kills the aged Hyrcanus on suspicion of treason	15.165
30 BC	Rhodes	Herod goes to Rhodes, meets Octavian, takes off his crown to plead his case and has his kingship confirmed	15.187
29 BC	Jerusalem	Herod executes his wife Mariamne and also kills her mother Alexandra	15.202
27 BC – 25 BC	Samaria/Sebaste	Herod builds a fine wall around Samaria and rebuilds it as Sebaste in honor of Caesar	BJ 1.403
27 BC	Sebaste (Samaria)	Herod rebuilds Samaria as Sebaste and makes it a fortress city	15.292
25 BC	Jerusalem	In Herod's 13th year a great famine and plague strike, and Herod buys grain abroad and distributes it	15.299-316
22 BC – 10 BC	Caesarea Maritima	Herod greatly rebuilds the decayed coastal city of Strato's Tower — construction of Caesarea's harbor	BJ 1.408–410
22 BC	Caesarea Maritima	Herod begins building the great port city of Caesarea on the site of Strato's Tower	15.331
20 BC – 19 BC	Paneas (Caesarea Philippi)	On land given by Caesar, Herod builds a white marble temple at Panion near the source of the Jordan	BJ 1.404–406
20 BC – 15 BC	Herodium	Herod builds a fortress on a mountain toward Arabia and names it after himself — Herodium	BJ 1.419–421
20 BC	Jerusalem	In his 18th year Herod begins tearing down the Temple and rebuilding it larger	15.386
17 BC	Rome	Herod goes to Italy and brings back his two sons, who studied in Rome	16.6
14 BC	Ephesus	Herod meets Agrippa in Ionia and defends the Jews' rights, and Agrippa confirms their laws	16.15
12 BC – 11 BC	Rome	Herod drags his son Alexander all the way to Rome and accuses him before Caesar of a poisoning plot	BJ 1.452–454
12 BC	Rome	Herod accuses his two sons before Caesar in Rome and then reconciles them	16.90
12 BC	Caesarea Maritima	Caesarea is completed and dedicated with great pomp, with games to be held every five years	16.136
8 BC	Jerusalem	Over unrest in Trachonitis Herod fights Arabia, and Syllaeus accuses Herod in Rome	16.280
7 BC	Berytus	As Caesar directed, Herod convenes a tribunal at Berytus and accuses his sons, who are found guilty without being summoned	BJ 1.538–539
7 BC	Samaria/Sebaste	Herod's two sons are sent to Sebaste and strangled	BJ 1.550–551
7 BC	Berytus	Herod gathers judges at Berytus, accuses his two sons and has the death sentence confirmed	16.357
7 BC	Sebaste (Samaria)	The two sons are strangled at Sebaste and buried at Alexandreion	16.392-393
5 BC – 4 BC	Rome	Antipater is sent to Rome carrying Herod's will	BJ 1.567–570
5 BC	Jerusalem	Herod tries Antipater at Jerusalem with the Syrian governor Varus and imprisons him	17.89
4 BC	Jerusalem	The Syrian governor Varus happens to be in Jerusalem, and Herod accuses Antipater before him	BJ 1.617–619
4 BC	Jerusalem	Uproar over pulling down the golden eagle from the Temple gate — Herod, gravely ill, is enraged	BJ 1.648–650
4 BC	Callirhoe	Herod's illness spreads through his whole body, and he tries a hot-water cure at Callirrhoe	BJ 1.656–658
4 BC	Jericho	Back at Jericho, Herod gathers the notables and gives a cruel order	BJ 1.659–660
4 BC	Jericho	Five days after the news that his son Antipater was sentenced to death, Herod dies — 34 years after Antigonus's execution, 37 after Rome made him king	BJ 1.665–669
4 BC	Herodium	Herod's funeral procession goes to Herodium, where he is buried	BJ 1.670–673
4 BC	Jerusalem	When Archelaus holds a feast for his father's funeral, the crowd riots, and he unleashes the army, killing about 3,000	BJ 2.1–3
4 BC – 3 BC	Rome	Archelaus and Antipas go to Rome to contest the throne before Caesar, with Nicolaus defending Archelaus	BJ 2.37–38
4 BC	Jerusalem	Before the verdict, the Roman procurator Sabinus fights a great battle with the Jewish crowd in Jerusalem, and the Temple porticoes burn	BJ 2.39–44
4 BC	Sepphoris	In the chaos after Herod's death, Judas rebels at Sepphoris and seizes weapons	BJ 2.55–56
4 BC	Jericho	In Perea, Simon, a former royal slave, puts a crown on his head and leads a band of brigands	BJ 2.57–59
4 BC	Jerusalem	Varus, on receiving a letter from Sabinus and others, leads his army to Jerusalem and crucifies about 2,000	BJ 2.66–71
4 BC – 3 BC	Rome	Caesar hears both sides, divides Herod's kingdom among his sons and makes Archelaus ethnarch	BJ 2.93–100
4 BC	Jerusalem	During Herod's illness, teachers of the Law pull down and smash the golden eagle at the Temple gate, and Herod punishes them	17.151
4 BC	Jericho	Before dying at Jericho, Herod shuts the Jewish nobles in the hippodrome and orders Antipater executed	17.173
4 BC	Jerusalem	As Herod's will provided, Archelaus becomes king and holds a grand funeral for his father	17.200
4 BC	Jerusalem	At Passover the people rise in revolt, and Archelaus sends troops	17.218
4 BC	Rome	Archelaus and Antipas contend for the throne before Augustus in Rome	17.227
4 BC	Jerusalem	At Pentecost, a crowd angered by Sabinus's tyranny surrounds the Temple and palace and fights	17.254
4 BC	Jerusalem	Varus comes with two legions, suppresses the revolt and crucifies 2,000	17.286
4 BC	Rome	Augustus makes Archelaus not king but ethnarch over half the territory	17.317
4 BC	Rome	Herod's territory is divided among Archelaus, Antipas and Philip, and Salome is given Jamnia, Azotus and other places	17.321
AD 6	Judea	Archelaus's territory becomes a Roman province and Coponius is sent as governor; Judas of Galilee resists the tax	BJ 2.117–118
AD 6	Rome	In Archelaus's 10th year his brothers and the Jewish leaders accuse him to Caesar, and he is exiled to Vienne	17.344
AD 6	Jerusalem	Quirinius conducts the census and taxation of Syria and Judea, Coponius comes as governor of Judea, and Judas of Galilee resists	18.1
AD 10	Jerusalem	Under Coponius, at midnight at Passover when the Temple gates are opened, Samaritans scatter human bones in the Temple	18.30
AD 20	Tiberias	Herod Antipas founds Tiberias on the shore of the Sea of Galilee in honor of Tiberius	18.36
AD 26 – 27	Jerusalem	Pilate brings standards bearing images of Caesar into Jerusalem by night, causing a great uproar	BJ 2.169–171
AD 26	Caesarea Maritima	The next day Pilate sits on his tribunal in the middle of the marketplace, summons the crowd and signals his soldiers	BJ 2.172–174
AD 26	Jerusalem	Pilate moves his troops from Caesarea to Jerusalem and brings in standards bearing the emperor's image, causing unrest	18.55
AD 30	Jerusalem	Pilate uses Temple funds for an aqueduct and the crowd protests; about this time there is a passage saying Jesus was crucified by Pilate's sentence	18.63
AD 34	Paneas	In Tiberius's 20th year the tetrarch Philip dies after a 37-year reign	18.106
AD 35	Mount Gerizim	When Samaritans gather to see the sacred vessels on Mount Gerizim Pilate massacres them, and afterward Vitellius sends Pilate to Rome	18.85
AD 36	Jerusalem	Vitellius goes up to Jerusalem at Passover, waives the tax on fruit and returns custody of the high priest's vestments	18.90-94
AD 36	Euphrates bridge (Zeugma 추정)	Vitellius and the Parthian king Artabanus meet on a bridge over the Euphrates and make peace	18.101
AD 36	Petra	Herod Antipas's army is wiped out in battle with Aretas, which some see as punishment for killing John the Baptist	18.109
AD 36	Capri	At Puteoli Agrippa writes to Tiberius and obtains permission to visit Capreae	18.161
AD 36	Rome	In a carriage Agrippa wishes for Tiberius's early death and is chained after a freedman's accusation	18.168
AD 37	Rome	When Gaius becomes emperor, he frees Agrippa from his chains and makes him king of Philip's tetrarchy	BJ 2.181–183
AD 37	Capri	Tiberius falls ill at Capreae, names Gaius his successor and dies after a 22-year reign	18.205
AD 37	Seleucia on the Tigris	The Jewish brothers Asineus and Anileus defeat a Parthian satrap in Babylonia, and Artabanus summons them and recognizes their power	18.314
AD 39	Tiberias	Because of Herodias's ambition, Antipas is accused in Rome and banished	18.240
AD 40 – 41	Ptolemais (Akko)	On the order to set up Gaius's statue in the Temple, the Jews gather with wives and children on the plain of Ptolemais to petition Petronius	BJ 2.192–194
AD 40	Alexandria	At Alexandria Jews and Greeks clash and both sides send embassies to Gaius	18.257
AD 40	Ptolemais (Akko)	Gaius sends Petronius to Syria to set up his statue in the Temple, and troops gather at Ptolemais	18.262
AD 40	Tiberias	At Tiberias Petronius gathers tens of thousands of Jews, announces the emperor's order and postpones setting up the statue	18.269
AD 41	Rome	Gaius dies after reigning 3 years 8 months; Claudius is acclaimed in the camp, and Agrippa mediates with the Senate	BJ 2.206–208
AD 41	Rome	At Agrippa's banquet plea Gaius withdraws the plan to set up the statue in the Temple and writes to Petronius	18.289
AD 41	Rome	Chaerea and other officers of the guard assassinate Gaius during the games on the Palatine	19.18
AD 41	Rome	The army takes Claudius to the camp and acclaims him emperor, and the Senate yields through Agrippa's mediation	19.162
AD 41	Alexandria	After Gaius's death, when the Jews of Alexandria take up arms again, Claudius confirms their rights by edict	19.279
AD 41	Jerusalem	Claudius returns his grandfather's kingdom to Agrippa, and Agrippa offers sacrifices at Jerusalem	19.277

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