68 CE - Roman Reconquest of Palestine and Jerusalem Titus, the son of Vespasian, brutally represses a Jewish revolt in Palestine and captures Jerusalem, destroying the Second Temple. In 74 CE, the Romans capture the last Jewish stronghold at the Judean desert fortress of Massada after a long siege. Its defenders commit mass suicide. The conquest ends the preceding period of semi-autonomy for Jews in Judea and Palestine, imposing pagan Roman rule on Jerusalem and the region until the early Fourth Century CE. 8000-4000 BCE 3000-1200 BCE 1700 1200-600 BCE 587-332 BCE 520 BCE 332-63 BCE 166 BCE 63-324 CE 6-3 BCE 66 CE 68 CE 132-135 CE 135-324 CE 324-638 CE 614 CE 638-1099 CE 1099-1291 CE 1291-1917 CE 1492 1517 1886 1918-1948 1948 1950-67 1968-1988 1974 1977 1982 1993 2000