From the exile to the Maccabees

Judah and the empires around it, from the fall of Jerusalem to Babylon to the arrival of Rome: the Persian, Greek and Hasmonean centuries, 586 to 63 BC.

A timeline of 19 events from 626 BC to 63 BC, by stevejeffery1703, on Timeline Source.

Events

1. Neo-Babylonian Empire: 626 BC – 539 BC
2. Fall of Jerusalem to Babylon: 586 BC
3. Babylonian exile: 586 BC – 538 BC
4. Persian Empire: 550 BC – 330 BC
5. Cyrus takes Babylon: Oct 12, 539 BC
6. Decree of Cyrus: 538 BC
7. Second Temple completed: 516 BC
8. Ezra comes to Jerusalem: 458 BC
9. Nehemiah rebuilds the walls: 445 BC
10. Alexander conquers Judea: 332 BC
11. Ptolemaic rule: 301 BC – 200 BC
12. The Torah put into Greek: 250 BC
13. Battle of Panium: 200 BC
14. Seleucid rule: 200 BC – 140 BC
15. Maccabean revolt: 167 BC – 160 BC
16. Antiochus IV desecrates the Temple: Dec 167 BC
17. Temple rededicated: Dec 164 BC
18. Hasmonean independence: 140 BC – 63 BC
19. Pompey takes Jerusalem: 63 BC