Any unconfirmed but noteworthy conclusions are placed in parentheses, and I account for them from my own research. The method of research I use is virtually identical to that used by Dr. Hoeh. Dates given in parentheses are those which he would be the least likely to confirm.
Dates B.C.: Following the old Julian system unless otherwise indicated.
3980-3050: Adam lives 930 years (Gen. 5:5).
3850-2938: Born in Adam's 130th year, Seth lives 912 years (Gen 5:3, 8).
3745-2840: Born in Seth's 105th year, Enosh lives 905 years (Gen 5:6, 11).
3655-2745: Born in Enosh's 90th year, Kenan lives 910 years (Gen 5:9, 14).
3585-3585-2690: Born in Kenan's 70th year, Mahalalel lives 895 years (Gen 5:12, 17).
3520-2558: Born in Mahalalel's 65th year, Jared lives 962 years (Gen 5:15, 20).
3358-2993: Born in Jared's 162nd year, Enoch lives 365 years (Gen 5:18, 23).
3293-2324: Born in Enoch's 65th year, Methuselah lives 969 years (Gen 5:21, 27).
3273-2324: First 7 or 8 Egyptian dynasties total 949 years (Dr. Hoeh 4-3-1980).
3106-2329: Born in Methuselah's 187th year, Lamech lives 777 Years (Gen. 5:25, 31).
2924-1974: Born in Lamech's 182nd year, Noah lives 950 years (Gen. 5:28, 9:29).
2422-1822: Born 98 years before the flood, Shem lives 600 years (Gen. 11:10-11).
Autumn of 2325 or spring of 2324: In Noah's 600th year, the flood begins (Gen. 7:6, 11).
2322-1884: Born 2 years later in Shem's 100th year, Arpachshad lives 438 (Gen. 11:10+).
2287-1854: Born in Arpachshad's 35th year, Shelah lives 433 years (Gen. 11:12, 14-15).
2257-1793: Born in Shelah's 30th year, Eber lives 464 years (Gen. 11:14, 16-17).
2223-1984: Born in Eber's 34th year, Peleg lives 239 years (Gen. 11:16, 18-19). ["In Peleg's days the earth was divided," (Gen. 10:25).]
2193-1954: Born in Peleg's 30th year, Reu lives 239 years (Gen 11:18, 20-21).
2161-1931: Born in Reu's 32nd year, Serug lives 230 years (Gen. 11:20, 22-23).
2131-1983: Born in Serug's 30th year, Nahor lives 148 years (Gen. 11:22, 24-25).
2102-1897: Born in Nahor's 29th year, Terah lives 205 years (Gen. 11:24, 32).
1991-1786: 12th dynasty (Calendars of Ancient Egypt by Parker, Page 68).
1972-1797: Born 75 years before Terah's death, Abraham lives (Gen 12:4, 25:7, Acts 7:Verse Missing on Original).
1962-1835: Born in Abraham's 10th year, Sarah lives 127 (Gen. 17:17, 23:1).
1897-1879: Sesostris II rules Egypt (Calendars of Ancient Egypt Page 69).
1897: Abram, at age 75 (Gen. 12:4), leaves Haran after Terah's death (Acts 7:4).
1886-1749: Born in Abraham's 86th year, Ishmael lives 137 years (Gen. 16:16, 25:17).
1873-1443: 430 sojourning from the covenant to the law (Gen 17:23, Ex. 12:40, Gal. 3).
1872-1692: Born in Abraham's 100th year, Isaac lives 180 years (Gen. 21:5, 35:28).
(Abib 14, 1749?): Abraham offers up Isaac (Book of Jubilees 17:15+, Gen. 22:4).
1832: Isaac takes Rebekah as his wife (Gen. 25:20).
1812: In Isaac's 60th year, Esau and Jacob are born (Gen. 25:25-26).
1797-1397: Abraham's off spring oppressed 400 years (Gen. 15:13, Acts 7:6).
1772: Esau at age 40 takes two Hittite wives (Gen. 26:34).
1755-1715 or 1735-1715: Jacob lives with Laban 40 or 20 years (Gen 31:41).
1741?-1604? or 1725-1588: First generation (Gen. 15:16), Levi lives (Ex 6:16).
Spring of 1730? or 1723: Reuben finds the mandrakes; Leah conceives Issachar (30:14+).
1721-1611: A son of Jacob's old age, Joseph lives 110 years (Gen. 37:3, 50:22).
1715 at the earliest: Jacob takes a Canaanite wife and fathers Er (Gen. 38:1-3).
About 1712: Dinah's humiliation, Benjamin's and Onan's births (Gen. 34, 35:20, 38:4).
By 1710: Judah's third son Shelah is born (Gen. 38:5).
1704: Joseph offends his half-brothers and is sold into slavery (Gen. 37).
About 1701: Judah takes Tamar to be his first-born Er's wife (Gen. 38:6).
About 1697: Tamar plays the harlot against Judah and conceives twins (Gen. 38:12-27).
1693: The peril of the butler and the baker two years before Joseph's freedom (Gen. 40).
1691: Joseph, a son of 30 years, begins working for the pharaoh (Gen. 41:1-46).
1691-1684: Seven years of prosperity (Gen. 41:47).
1684-1677: Seven years of famine (Gen. 41:54).
By 1682: Levi has three sons; Tamar has grandchildren (Gen. 46:11-12).
1682: Two years into the famine, Jacob at age 130 comes to Egypt (Gen. 45:6; 47:9).
1665: Jacob dies 222 years before the exodus (Book of Jubilees 45:13, 48:2, 50:4).
About 1600: Moses parents are alive (Ex. 16:20); Job is afflicted (if not of Gen. 46:1).
1570-1293, 1291: 18th dynasty (Studies In Honor of Hughes; Chicago Uni.; Page 218+).
1567: Ahmose I expells the Hyksos and knows nothing of Joseph (Ex. 1:8).
1527-1404: Aaron of the 4th generation from Levi lives 123 years (Ex. 6:20, Num. 33:39).
March of 1524 - Oct. 1518: Thutmose I, father o f Hatshepsut reigns as Pharaoh.
1524-1403: Born contrary to Thutmose's decree, Moses lives 120 years (Deut. 34:7).
May of 1504 - March of 1450: Thutmose III reigns as Pharaoh.
1503, 1498-1483: Hatshepsut coreigns with her nephew over Egypt.
1484: Moses intervenes in Israelite affairs and flees from Egypt (Acts 7:23-28).
1484-about January of 1443: Moses lives in Midian 40 years (Acts 7:29-30).
November of 1453-1419: After many days (Ex. 2:23), Amenhotep II reigns as Pharaoh.
Early 1443: Moses at age 80 and Aaron at age 83 speak to the Pharaoh (Ex. 7:7).
Friday, called "Sabbath eve," April 6, 1443: Abib 1 (Ex. 12:2, Seder Moed Shabbat 87B).
Friday April 20, Abib 15, 1443: the exodus (Num. 33:3).
May 26, Iyar 21 or 22, 1443: No manna on sabbath (Ex. 16:24-30, Seder Moed Shab. 87B).
June 4, Monday Sivan 1 say the rabbis, 1443: They enter the Sinai (Ex. 19:1, SMS 86B).
Sabbath June 9, Sivan 6 or 7, 1443: The giving of the law (Seder Moed Shabbat 86B-87A).
Sunday June 10, 1443: Covenant ratified; Moses ascends Mount Sinai (Ex. 24:4-17).
June 10-July 20, 1443: Moses's first 40 days and nights on the mountain (Ex. 24:18).
Friday, July 20, 1443: The catastrophe with the golden calf (Ex. 32:6-29).
Sabbath July 21, 1443: Moses consults with God (Ex. 32:30 - 34:3).
July 22-August 31, 1443: Moses's second 40 days and nights on the mountain (Ex. 34:28).
Abib 1, by Thursday March 28, 1442: The tabernacle is erected (Ex. 40:17).
Iyar 22, by Friday May 17, 1442: Three travel days from Sinai ended (Nun. 10:11, 33).
Iyar 22-Sivan 21, 1442: The disaster with the quail (Num. 11:19-34).
Sivan 22-29, 1442: Miriam is put out seven days (Num. 12:14, Ta'anith 29A).
Sivan 29-Ab 9, 1442: Israelites spy out the land 40 days (Num. 14:34, Ta'anith 29A).
1442-1397: Caleb waits 45 years for his inheritance (Joshua 14:10).
1442-1404: 38 years until the faithless generation perishes (Deut. 2:14).
1419-May of 1386: Thutmose IV reigns as Pharaoh.
January of 1403: Israelites take east-bank land; Moses orates the Deuteronomy (1:3-4).
1403-1103: East-bank Israelites possess the land in peace (Judges 11:26).
April 27, Abib 14, but Abib 13 by observation, 1403: Passover at Gilgal (Josh. 5:10).
Sunday April 28, Abib 15, 1403: They eat after wave offering (Lev. 23:14+, Josh. 5:11).
1397: Abraham's offspring are no longer foreigners (Gen. 15:13-16, Josh. 14:10).
May of 1386-1349: Amenhotep III reigns. The Amarna dispatches begin.
By about 1360: Dwelling in booths annually has ceased (Neh. 8:17) Joshua dies (Joshua 24:29).
1357-1349: Cushan-rishathaim from Mittani oppresses Israel 8 years (Judges 3:8).
1350-1334: Amenhotep IV or Akhenaton reigns as Pharaoh.
1349-1309: Othni-el establishes 40 years of rest (Judges 3:11).
About 1340: The king of Hatti devistates Mittani (Prichard's texts Page 318).
1334-1325: Tutankhamon reigns as Pharaoh.
1325?: Probably Tut's widow requests a prince from Hatti for marriage (Prichard P 319).
1321-1293 or 1319-1291: Haremhab, last of the 18th dynasty, is a strong Pharaoh.
1309-1291: Eglon of Moab oppresses Israel 18 years (Judges 3:14).
1293-1291 or 1291-1289: Ramesses I is the first 19th-dynasty Pharaoh.
1291-1279 or 1289-1279: Sety I restores order and crushes revolts in Palestine.
1291-1211: Israelites have 80 years of rest in the days of Ehud and Shamgar (Jg. 3:30+).
September of 1279-July of 1212: Ramesses II reigns as a strong Pharaoh.
July of 1212-May 1202: Merenpthah rules Egypt and immediately faces rebellions.
2111-1191: Canaanites oppress Israel 20 years (Judges 4:3).
1207: Says Pharaoh in a victory song, "Israel is laid waste," (Prichard Page 376).
1191-1151: Deborah establishes a 40-year rest (Judges 5:31).
1185-1184 - March of 1182: Setnakht is the first 20th dynasty Pharaoh.
March of 1182-April of 1151: Ramesses II is a strong Pharaoh:
1151-1144: The Midianites oppress Israel 7 years (Judges 6:1).
1144-1104: Gideon establishes a 40-year rest (Judges 8:28).
1141-1134, 33: Ramesses VI is the last Pharaoh for a while important in Palestine (History of the Holy Land by Michael Avi-Yonah; Toronto; Macmillan; 1969; P 44+).
1124-1086: Eli Judges Israel years (I Sam. 4:18).
About 1110-1100: Ending a ten-year episode, Ruth bears David's grandfather (Ruth 1:4+).
1112-1109: Abime1ech's 3-year rebellion (Judges 9:22 [had written Ezk. 4:6 390 years begin]).
1104-1086: The Amonites oppress Israel from the east (Judges 10:7-8).
1104-1064: The Philistines oppress Israel from the west 40 years (Judges 10:7, 13:1).
1109-1086: Tola judges from Ephraim 23 years (Judges 10:1-2).
1086-1080: Jephthah judges east of the Jordan 6 years (Judges 12:7).
1084: The Philistines have the ark of the Eternal 7 months (I Sam. 6:1).
About 1084-1064: The ark is safe at Kiriath-jearim (I Sam. 7:2).
1080-1074: Ibzan succeeds Jephthah 7 years (Judges 12:8-9).
1086-1064: Jair succeeds Tola 22 years (Deut. 3:14, Judges 10:3-4).
1073-1063: Elon succeeds Ibzan 10 years (Judges 12:11).
1064?: God drives the Philistines from Mizpah (I Sam. 7:3-13).
1063-1055: Abdon succeeds Elon as judge 8 years (Judges 12:14).
1055-about 1028: Samuel remains as the last of the judges (I Sam. 7:15, 25:1).
1048-1008: Saul reigns in Israel 40 years (Acts 13:21).
1008-1006: Ish-bosheth, son of Saul, rules Israel 2 years (II Sam. 2:10).
(Fall) 1008-(spring) 1000: David rules Judah 7 years 6 months (II Sam. 2:11).
1000-967: David rules Israel and Judah from Jerusalem 33 years (II Sam. 5:5).
976, 975-942: Hiram rules Tyre 34 years (Josephus Against Apion 1:17-18).
968-928: Solomon rules Judah and Israel 40 years (II Kg. II Chron. 9:30).
Ziv or Iyar of 964: In his 4th year, the 480th after the Exodus, Solomon starts work on the temple (I Kings 6:1) in Hiram's 12th year (Against Apion 1:18).
Dry season of 928: Solomon dies; the nation is split (I Kings 12, II Chron. 11).
The Jewish king weights until Trumpets day to begin numbering his first year, but the Israelite king counts from Abib 1 just before his accession.
Contemporary Rulers
Related to Judah
I Kings
II Chron.
Related to Israel
I Kings
928-911: Rehoboam
I Kings 14:21
II Chron. 12:13
928-906: Jeroboam I
I Kings 14:20
911-908: Abijah
I Kings 15:1-2
II Chron. 13:1-2
907-905: Nadab
I Kings 15:25
908-867: Asa
I Kings 15:9-10
II Chron. 16:13
906-882: Baasha
I Kings 15:33
898-893: Wars
II Chron. 14:1, 15:13
883-881: Elah
I Kings 16:8
884?-844 Ben-hadad
I Kings 15:17-22
II Chron. 15:19, 16:10
882-870: 'omri
I Kings 16:21, 23
969: Asa retires
II Chron. 16:12
871-850: Ahab
I Kings 16:29
Starts numbering from before accession
859-824: Shalmaneser III of Assyria
870-845: Jehoshaphat
I Kings 22:41-42,
II Chron. 20:31
854-843: Jehoram
(II Kings 3:1)
II Kings
II Chron.
853: Ahab's troops at Karkara (Prichard P 278+)
851-843: Jehoram
II Kings 8:16-17
II Chron. 21:5
850-848?: Ahaziah
I Kings 22:51, II Kings 1:verse missing
843: Ahaziah
II Kings 8:25-26
II Chron. 22:2
844-about 799: Hazael
I Kings 8:7-15, 13:22 of Syria
844-837: Athaliah
II Kings 11:1-4
II Chron. 22:10, 23:1
843-815: Jehu
I Kings 10:36
843-803: Jehoash
II Kings 12:1
II Chron. 24:1
820-803: Jehoahaz
I Kings 13:1
805?-776?: Amaziah
II Kings 14:1-2
II Chron. 25:1
806-790: Jehoash
I Kings 13:10, 14:17
789-737: Azariah
II Kings 15:1-2
II Chron. 26:3
802-751: Jeroboam II
I Kings 14:23
775: Jotham's birth
II Kings 15:33
II Chron. 27:1
Elul, 751-Adar, 750:
Zechariah 15:8
755: Ahaz's birth
II Kings 16:2
II Chron. 28:1
Adar-Abib, 750: Shallum
I Kings 15:13 (not leap year)
751-735: Jotham
II Kings 15:32-33
II Chron. 27:1
751-731: Pekah
I Kings 15:27, 18 years Gilead
745-727: Tiglath-pileser
I Chron. 5:26
749-739: Menahem
I Kings 15:17, 23 changes numbering
740: Hezekiah's birth
II Kings 18:2
II Chron. 29:1
739-737: Pekahiah
I Kings 15:23
743-735: Ahaz minor
II Kings 17:1 rule
737-731: Pekah at
I Kings 15:27 Samaria
735-731: Ahaz major
II Kings 16:1 ruler
Ending 734: Events of
Isaiah 7
731-715: Ahaz
II Kings 16:2
II Chron. 28:1
731-722: Hoshea
I Kings 17:1
729?-715: Hezekiah's corule under Ahaz
727-722: Shalmaneser V
I Kings 17:3 of Assyria
721-705: Sargon of Assyria
Isa. 20:1
725-723: Smaria's
I Kings 18:9-10 destruction
711: Sargon crushes Ashdod
Isa. 20:1?
721: Sargon takes 27, 290 captives from Samaria.
715-686: Hezekiah is king of Judah 29 years (II Kings 18:2, II Chron. 29:1).
Spring of 714: Hezekiah's reforms (II Chron. 29:3).
705-681: Sennacherib rules Assyria (Ancient Mesopotamia by Oppenheim; Page 346).
703: Sennacherib defeats Merodach-baladan (Babylon by Joan Oates; P 115+; Is. 39:1).
701: Sennacherib invades Judah in Hezekiah's 14th year (Is. 36:1+, II Kings 18:13+).
690-664: Taharqa or Tirhakah of Ethiopia (Is. 37:9) is a 25th-dynasty Pharaoh (Third Intermediate Period In Egypt by Kitchen; 1973; Pages 467-468).
697-642: Manasseh reigns 55 years in Judah (II Kings 21:1, II Chron. 33:1).
681-669: Esarhaddon rules Assyria and sends captives to Samaria (Ezra 4:2).
6: Lepidus and Aruntius were among the proconsuls for that year (Chronology of the Ancient World by E. J. Bickerman; Ithaca, N.Y.; Cornell; 1968; Page 183 within a year-by-year proconsul list). Archelaus is dethroned under the consult of Lepidus and Aruntius (says Dio Casjus 1:10:27, McClintock and Strong's Biblical Cyclopaedia Vol. 1, "Archelaus" Page 371). Quirinus after the banishment of Archelaus holds a census in Judea (Josephus's Ant. 18:1:1, Acts 5:37, M. and S. Ibid II, P. 630).
9 or 10, Passover: Jesus at the temple at age twelve (Luke 2:42).
August 19, 14-March 16, 37: Tiberius rules Rome (Was Christ Born At Bethlehem by W. M. Ramsay; London; Hodder and Stoughton; 1898; Page 223; Ramsay realized that Tiberius's first year by Luke's counting ended around the September equinox, See Page 221).
Nisan of 27-February of 37: Pontius Pilate governed ten official years until he got fired and was en route to Rome to give account when the emperor died (Ant. 18:4:2). If Josephus numbered the years beginning around Nisan after the appointment, conceivably Pilate was in office before September of 26.
October of 27-October of 28: This fifteenth year of Tiberius (Luke 3:1) included the first passover of Jesus's ministry 46 years since 19 B.C. when work by Herod's people began on the temple (Ant. 15:11:1, Anchor Bible: Book of John, concerning John 2:20).
January of 29: Jesus passes through Samaria four months before harvest (Anchor Bible concerning John 4:35).
April of 29: Grain harvest shows this was Spring (Luke 6:1).
June? of 29: Soon after Luke 6:17, a kind of lawgiving on a mountain is a Pentecost-season format alluding to Sinai? (Matt. 5:1).
Trumpets? September 27 (M.H.C.), of 29: "The feast of the Jews" (Byz. John 5:1). Parables indicative of Tabernacles themes Luke 8:4-18) after festival.
Rainy season of early 30: Feeding 5000 (John 6:4, 10, Luke 9:12-17).
Autumn of 30: Old themes to new audiences (Luke 10:1, 13:21).
December of 30: The feast of dedication (John 10:22-39).
Thursday April 19 of 31: Supper at Bethany six days before passover (John 12:1).
Friday, April 20 of 31: Crowds learn of Jesus's arrival (John 12:9-11).
Sabbath, April 21, Nisan 10, 31: Entry into Jerusalem (John 12:12-19).
The next day, Sunday, April 22, 31: Temple cleansing (Mark 11:12-19).
Monday, Nisan 12, April 23: two days before passover (Mark 11:20, 14:2).
Late afternoon Nisan 13-14, Tuesday: Inquiry about passover (Mark 14:12).
Nisan 14, April 25, 31: Jews yet to eat passover (John 18:28, 19:31).
April 25-28, 31: Jesus in the heart of the earth (Matt. 12:40).
April 29-June 17, 31: Wave offering to Pentecost (John 20:17, Acts 2:1).
34-37: Paul conversion to first visit after to Jerusalem (Gal. 1:18).
Either 34-47 or 37-49: Fourteen years to another visit (Gal. 2:1).
Spring of 37: Aretas's accession at Damascus (II Cor. 11:32, Chronology of the Apostolic Age by Herald Hoehner; Dalas Theological Seminary Disortation of Doctorate; May, 1965; Page 25).
March 16, 37-Jan. 24, 41: Gaius (Caligula) is Emperor (P.E.Q. Pages 36-37).
Nisan of 37-March of 44: Herod Agrippa I rules seven years (Ant. 18: :(.237-238), 19: :(.350-351, P.E.Q. Page 36).
39: Matthew's gospel was written i n the eighth year after Christ's ascension wrote Theophylact in the eleventh century (Introduction to the New Testament by Everett F. Harrison; Grand Rapids; William B. Eerdmans; 1964: Page 165).
Jan. 25 of 41: Claudius succeeds Caligula as Roman emperor (P.E.Q. iBid).
Nisan of 43: Herod kills James; Peter escapes (Acts 12:1-19, P.E.Q. P. 36).
46: Nicephorus in the ninth century dated Matthew's writing to the fifteenth year after the ascension (Harrison Page 165).
46-47: Famine foretold by Agahus and Paul and Barnahus's relief visit.
April of 48-Septemeber of 49: Paul's first missionary journey (Acts 13:1-(Hoehner Page 382+ unless otherwise indicated).
Between September of 49 and September of 50: According to Orosius of the fifth century, Claudius expelled the Jews from Rome in his ninth year, a year before a famine at Home (Hoehner Pages 82-83, Ramsay's Was Christ Born At Bethlehem Page 223).
Autumn of 49: Jerusalem council (Acts 15:1-29).
April of 50-September of 52: Paul's second journey (Acts 15:40, 18:18).
Summer of 51-Summer of 52: Gallio is proconsul (Acts 18:12, Hoehner Pp. 87-96).
Last of September of 52: Paul at Jerusalem (Acts 18:22).
Spring of 53-May of 57: Paul's third missionary Journey (Acts 18:23, 21:15).
October 13, 54: Nero succeeds Claudius as emperor (The Histoy of the Jewish People In the Age of Jesus Christ (175 B.C.-A.D. 135) by Emil Schurer; Edinburgh; T. and T. Clark, L.T.D.; 1973, Vol. 1, P. 466).
Sabbath May 28-Thursday June 9, 57: Paul's 12 days at Jerusalem (Acts 21:18, 24:12) assuming he made it for Pentecost (Acts 20:16).
Summer of 57-Summer of 59: Paul's two year imprisonment till after Festus succeeds Felix (Acts 24:27).
August of 59-Feb. 60: Voyage to Rome (Acts 27:1, 28:29).
February of 60-March of 62: Roman imprisonment (Acts 28:30).
Spring of 62: James, the Lord's brother, murdered (Ant. 20: :(.200) New Testament Background: Selected Documents by by C. K. Barrett; New York; Harper and Rowe; 1961; Pages 199-200).
62-64: Paul in Macedonia, Asia, etc (Philemon 22).
64-66: Paul in Spain (alluded to in 1 Clement 5).
Spring 66-Autumn 67: Paul in Asia and Greece.
Autumn of 67: Paul is arrested and writes II Timothy.
Spring of 68: Paul is executed.
67-76: Linus is bishop at Rome (Popes Through the Ages by Joseph S. Brusher; Princeton, N.J.; D. Van Nostrand Company Inc.; 1959).
68-69: Four emperors succeed within eighteen and a half months upon Nero's death (Josephus's Wars 4:9:2, 4:9:9, 4:11:4) with the accession of Vespasian.
April 14 (Abib 14), 70: Beginning of siege against Jerusalem (Wars 5:13:7). [the fourtenth by observation - the thirteenth by calculation].
Sunday, August 5 (Ab 9), 70: The day commemorated in the Babylonian Talmud Ta'anith 29a dates according to Lunar observation; using calculation Sunday fell on Ab 10. Josephus recognized Ab 10 as the day that fire was set to both first and second temples (Wars 6:4:5 which would be proof of calculation if both days (August 27, 587 B.C. and August 5, 70) were the Ab 9 days of the Talmud.
September 2 (M.H.C. Hebrew calculation), September 3 (Observation), XX Elul 8, 70: Final destruction of Jerusalem in the second year of Vespasian (Wars 6:4:5, 6:8:5).
76-91: Cletus is bishop at Home (Popes Through the Ages).
79-81: Titus is Roman emperor (Eusebius's Church History 3:13).
81-96: Domitian rules as emperor.
91-100: Clement I is bishop at Rome (Popes Through the Ages).
95 or 96: John writes the Revelation during the persecutions by Domitian near the end of his reign (Eus. Church History 3:18).
96: Clement writes to Corinth mentioning the oldest surviving reference to the death both of Peter and Paul (Early Christian Writings translated by Maxwell Staniforth; Harmondsworth, Middlesex, England; Penguin books, L.T.D.; Page 17).