{"slug": "temple-in-jerusalem", "label": "Temple in Jerusalem", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Temple_in_Jerusalem", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q3906600", "qid": "Q3906600", "description": "Structures on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem serving as Israelite religious centers", "entries": 10, "years": 9, "span": [-163, 534], "span_label": ["164 BCE", "534 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 4}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 2}, {"title": "Disasters & Accidents", "count": 2}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 1}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "syria", "label": "Syria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "caligula", "label": "Caligula", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jerusalem", "label": "Jerusalem", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "justinian-i", "label": "Justinian I", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "roman-triumph", "label": "Roman triumph", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "claudius", "label": "Claudius", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "jew", "label": "Jew", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "antiochus-iv-epiphanes", "label": "Antiochus IV Epiphanes", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "herod-the-great", "label": "Herod the Great", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": -163, "year_label": "164 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "The Battle of Beth Zur was fought between Jewish rebel forces led by Judas Maccabeus and a Seleucid army led by the regent Lysias. Judas Maccabeus wins the battle and is able to recapture Jerusalem soon after. Judas purifies the defiled Temple in Jerusalem, destroys the idols erected there by Antiochus IV and restores the service in the Temple. The reconsecration of the Temple becomes an annual feast of dedication in the Jewish calendar, Hanukkah.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1288884961#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "164 BC", "revid": 1288884961, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -161, "year_label": "162 BCE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": null, "text": "Lysias then lays siege to the city. Just when capitulation by the Maccabees seems imminent, Lysias has to withdraw when the commander-in-chief under the late Seleucid king Antiochus IV Epiphanes, Philip, rebels against him. As a result, Lysias decides to propose a peaceful settlement which is accepted by the Maccabees. The terms of peace involve the restoration of religious freedom, permission for the Jews to live in accordance with their own laws, and the official return of the Temple in Jerusalem to the Jews.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370480795#Seleucid_Empire", "title": "162 BC", "revid": 1370480795, "section": "Events › By place › Seleucid Empire"}}, {"year": -52, "year_label": "53 BCE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "Crassus sacks the Temple of Hierapolis and the Temple in Jerusalem on his way to engage the Parthians.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1325862163#Roman_Republic", "title": "53 BC", "revid": 1325862163, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Republic"}}, {"year": -18, "year_label": "19 BCE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "King Herod the Great begins renovation of the Temple in Jerusalem.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371877599#Roman_Empire", "title": "19 BC", "revid": 1371877599, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 39, "year_label": "39 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Caligula orders that a statue of himself be placed in the Temple in Jerusalem. The governor of Syria, Publius Petronius, who is responsible for having an erecting the statue, faces mass demonstrations by Jews of the region and manages to delay construction of the statue until the death of Caligula in AD 41.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1369986487#Palestine", "title": "30s", "revid": 1369986487, "section": "Events › 39 AD › Palestine"}}, {"year": 48, "year_label": "48 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Emperor Claudius invests Agrippa II with the office of superintendent of the Temple in Jerusalem.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373289291#AD_48", "title": "40s", "revid": 1373289291, "section": "Timeline › AD 48"}}, {"year": 70, "year_label": "70 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Pentecost (Shavuot, 6th of Sivan, about June 4) – Priests in the Temple in Jerusalem feel a quaking and hear \"a sound as of a great multitude saying, Let us remove hence\".", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359120161#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 70", "revid": 1359120161, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 70, "year_label": "70 CE", "section": "Disasters & Accidents", "date": null, "text": "10th of Loios (9th or 10th of Av, about August 4) – Titus destroys the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem. Roman troops are stationed in Jerusalem and abolish the Jewish high priesthood and Sanhedrin. This becomes known as the Fall of Jerusalem, a conclusive event in the First Jewish–Roman War (the Jewish Revolt), which began in 66 AD. Following this event, the Jewish religious leadership moves from Jerusalem to Jamnia (present-day Yavne), and this date is mourned annually as the Jewish fast of Tisha B'Av.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1359120161#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 70", "revid": 1359120161, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 135, "year_label": "135 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "An altar to Jupiter is erected, on the site of the Temple in Jerusalem.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1285604542#Roman_Empire", "title": "AD 135", "revid": 1285604542, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 534, "year_label": "534 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": null, "text": "Summer – Belisarius arrives in Constantinople and is permitted by Emperor Justinian I to celebrate a triumph, the first non-imperial triumph for over 500 years. In the procession the spoils of the Temple of Jerusalem and the Vandal treasure are paraded.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1353013996#Byzantine_Empire", "title": "534", "revid": 1353013996, "section": "Events › By place › Byzantine Empire"}}]}