Timeline (Rise of Babel)

The dates for these pages were established as standard in the days of the Jewish Renaissance under Governor Solomon of the province of Judah in the 31st century before the present. Consequently, the proposed date of the emergence of the first humans from the jungle which once covered much of Shinar was designated Year 1. Verifiable dates, based on the archives in Babel, were at that time reassigned to add 1802 years to the "Year of the City" used until then. Since these dates became the norm, used throughout the solar system as a standard from the time of Augustus of Rome (Italian province, Erets), no attempt has been made to use any other system.

Pre-history
Year 1. The original pair of modern man came out of the jungle. All mankind, from Eretz to the Nimru system over 2000 light years away, has been genetically traced back to this area. Population studies are inconclusive due to the great flood that almost destroyed the ancient community.

1656. Survivors of the great flood make their way down from the "mountains of Ararat" into the plains of Shinar. No other surviving communities have ever been found. It is assumed that these survivors were the remnant of the estimated one million descendants of the original pair.

The Babylonian Era
1802. Nimrod, the first king of Shinar, begins building the great tower that was to become the center of mankind for over a millennium. This date was called Year 1 until the Jewish Renaissance. The influence of the Jewish religion over the leadership at Babel at the time caused a change in the calendar that has lasted until the present day.

1969. Mankind steps foot on Luna as the dreams in the 267th year of the Nimrod Dynasty. Declarations from Babel proclaim the beginning of a glorious era as "God's throne has been usurped." Many among his cabinet, especially the oldest of the elders (reported to be "the ancestors"), object to such presumptive language. Shem, son of Noah, and much of his clan, are exiled to the shore of the southern Sea because of their opposition.

2006. Noah dies in the province of Aram among the Semites who had resettled there.

2008. Abram Ben-Terah is born in Ur, the town by the sea that had been founded by Noah's son Ur (also known as Ar-p-haxad, "Light of the plain").

2020. Explorers from the Babylonian province of Asia step foot on the planet Mars.

2050. Probes begin aggressive terraforming of Venus begins with hopes of landing men on its surface within a century.

2200. The first permanent settlement is established on Venus, though full colonization doesn't come until complete terraformation is complete in 2700.

3020. The population of Mars celebrates a thousand years on the planet, having transformed the planet into Erets smaller sibling hundreds of years earlier. Travel between the planets is accomplished in ships of great size and power in a matter of weeks.

3050. Calendar reforms during the time of governor Solomon of Judah lead to widespread acceptance of the traditional date of Creation among the Yahwehists, believers in the "one true God." Scientists in Babel confirm that genetic and population studies show that, in the least, the progenitors of humanity had lived about two thousand years before Babel.

3250. The "royal family" of Judah is banished to Mars along with thousands of loyalists. Babylonian authorities had determined that the dynastic structure of the leadership of Judah might lead to seditious acts of an "independence" movement.

The Roman Era
3251. The colony of Rome is established on the Italian Peninsular.

3960. Gaius Julius becomes king as the capitol city is moved to Rome. This same year, though, he is assassinated and his chief of staff Octavius Augustus becomes the new leader of Erets.

4004. Jesus of Nazareth, is born in the Martian province of Galilee.

4034 - 4037 Jesus gathers followers in Galilee of Mars and, by remote links, even on Erets. He tours the province of Judah on Erets in 4035, but returns to Israel, Mars, where he lynched by a mob hired by the Jewish leadership of that world, being charged with blasphemy against there God. Said to be a descendant of influential governor Solomon, Jesus is charged also with sedition in an attempt to take over the government of Mars.

4038. Followers of Jesus begin teaching in many cities on Erets, saying he had risen from the grave he had been put in after his execution. Records on Mars seem to indicate that the grave is indeed empty after extraordinary attempts had been made to secure it by both Martian and Jewish authorities. Hundreds report seeing Jesus on both Mars and on Eretz.

4074. Government troops destroy the temples in Jerusalem, Judah (on Erets), and Jerusalem, Israel (on Mars), due to system-wide revolts among the Yawehists. Hundreds of thousands of Jews become slaves of the state, ten of thousands die in the rebellion on both sides.

4094. John, a missionary of the new religion worshiping Jesus as God, reports a visit from Jesus. This visit includes unbelievable predictions of the end of the universe, with Jesus as the judge. Persecution of "Christians" (from an ancient term meaning "the anointed one," a title for Jesus) begins in earnest on all four inhabited worlds of the solar system - Eretz, Luna, Mars and Venus.

4316. Governor Constantine of Asia declares Christianity the official religion of the whole Asian province. Video of the declaration reaches throughout the Solar system within hours. Christian groups on Mars and Venus rejoice, for both planets had been colonized by Asian explorers and political ties meant that whatever happened in Rome, happened on the daughter worlds. Babylonian Luna, though, would not follow suit. Even to this day, Luna is a dependent colony requiring resources from Erets to maintain life there.