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B.C.
Antiochus Epiphanes takes the city without siege, 170.
Antiochus Eupator takes the city, 163.
Jonathan builds a new wall, 143.
Simon takes the Akra citadel, 139.
Antiochus Sidetes besieges Jerusalem, 134.
Aretas, the Arab, besieges the city, 65.
Pompey takes the city, 63.
Antipater rebuilds the walls, 58.
Herod and Sosius take Jerusalem, 37.
A.D.
Agrippa builds the third wall, 43.
Cestius Gallus attacks Jerusalem, 66.
Titus takes Jerusalem (fifteenth siege) and utterly destroys it, 70.
Bar Cocheba revolts, 132.
Bar Cocheba is expelled, 135.
Rufus ploughs the temple site, 135.
Hadrian founds Ælia Capitolina, 136.
The Jews revolt and are excluded from the city, 339.
Eudoxia rebuilds the walls, 450.
Chosroes II. takes Jerusalem, 614.
Omar the Caliph takes the city, 637.
Caliph Moez takes possession of the city, 969.
Turkomans expel Egyptians from the city, 1094.
The Egyptians retake Jerusalem, 1098.
Crusaders take Jerusalem (nineteenth siege), 1099.
Walls of Jerusalem repaired, 1178.
Saladin takes Jerusalem (twentieth siege), 1187.
Saladin repairs the walls of the city, 1192.
Melek el Muazzam dismantles the walls, 1192.
Frederic II. rebuilds the walls, 1229.
Daud, Emir of Kerak, destroys the walls, 1239.
Christians obtain Jerusalem by treaty, 1243.
Soliman the Magnificent builds walls, 1542.