Circa 3340 BC
In Egypt, just before the foundation of the First Dynasty, geometry, complex building, mathematics and the practise of magic all develop.
Circa 1250 BC
Moses leads the Children of Israel out of Egypt.
Circa 1240 BC
Yahweh - God - speaks to Moses on Mount Sinai. The Ark of the Covenant is built following precise instructions - materials, techniques and so on - given directly to Moses by God himself. According to some, the Ark is built by craftsmen using skills learned in Egypt.
Circa 966 BC
Solomon, the son of King David, begins the construction of the Temple in Jerusalem as a shrine to house the Ark of the Covenant.
Circa 955 BC
The Temple is finished - and the Ark placed in the Holy of Holies at its heart.
Circa 950 BC
According to the Kebra Nagast, Menelik - the son of Solomon and the Queen of Sheba - takes the Ark to Ethiopia.
Hiram III who reigned 553-533 B.C.
740-640 BC
Within this hundred-year-period, before the reign of Josiah, the Ark disappears from the Bible and from history.
587 BC
Nebuchadnezzar sacks Jerusalem and destroys the Temple. In the list of treasure looted from the Temple, no mention is made of the Ark. But the reason the Temple was built was to house the Ark.
538 BC
The Jews return from exile and building begins on the Second Temple.
517 BC
The Second Temple is completed. The loss of the Ark of the Covenant becomes widely known.
33 AD
The crucifixion of Jesus, the Nazarene. Joseph of Arimathea and Mary Magdalene flee to France.
70 AD
The Second Temple is razed by the Romans.
200-500 AD
The Talmud - the modern Judaic scripture - is compiled. (The Talmud supplements the Torah, the first five books of the Old Testament, believed to have been written by Moses himself.)
330 AD
Ethiopia is converted to Christianity.
410 AD
Visigoth gold - perhaps including artefacts and treasure stolen from the Temple - is found in the hills around Rhedae, in southwest France. This area is now known as Rennes.
683 AD
Muslim armies take Jerusalem and build the Dome of the Rock on the site of Solomon’s Temple. The Dome of the Rock marks the place where Mohammed ascended to Heaven.
650 AD
Le bon roi Dagobert, Dagobert II, rules over France, founding the Merovingian dynasty.
743 AD
The first reference in history to the destruction of a cathedral at Chartres.
1059 AD
The church at Rennes-le-Château in southwest France is consecrated to Mary Magdalene.
1095 AD
Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade:
'You must hasten to carry aid to your brethren dwelling in the East … For the Turks, a Persian people, have attacked them … Wherefore with earnest prayer I - not I but God exhorts you as heralds of Christ to repeatedly urge men of all ranks whatsoever … to hasten to exterminate this vile race from our lands …'
1099 AD
The Crusaders enter the Holy City of Jerusalem on the 15th of July.
1119 AD
Nine Poor Knights - led by Hugues de Payan - arrive in Jerusalem and occupy the stables of Solomon’s Temple. They become known as the Knights Templar. Over the following years, the Templars conduct all manner of exploration of the site, including digging and tunnelling.
1134 AD
The high north tower of Chartres cathedral is completed.
1177 AD
Envoys of the King of Ethiopia visit the Holy City of Avignon.
1187 AD
The Knights Templar are expelled from Jerusalem by Saladin.
Circa 1190 AD
Chrétien de Troyes writes The Story of the Grail (Perceval). From this point, stories of the Ark of the Covenant and search for the Holy Grail become intertwined.
1194 AD
Fire destroys most of the city of Chartres. The sancta camisia - the cathedral’s holiest relic, the robe supposedly worn by Mary at the birth of Christ - is saved by monks who hide it in the crypt.
Circa 1200 AD
Wolfram von Eschenbach begins his retelling and elaboration of Chrétien de Troyes' The Story of the Grail. Wolfram calls his work Parzival.
1223 AD
The rebuilding of Chartres Cathedral is more or less complete.
1470 AD
Thomas Mallory finishes his La Morte d’Arthur, a further retelling of the grail and related stories. Mallory dies the following year and his masterwork is printed in 1485 by William Caxton.
1882 AD
On the 26 July 1882, the first performance of Richard Wager's opera Parsifal is given.
1885 AD
Bérenger Saunière is installed as parish priest of the little hilltop village of Rennes-le-Château in southwest France. His extraordinary career is marked by unexplained wealth and mystery.
1917 AD
Abbé Bérenger Saunière suffers a stroke on 17 January. A local priest refuses to give him the Last Rites. He dies - unshriven - on 22 January.
1933 AD
Wewelsburg in Westphalia is established as the headquarters for Himmler’s secret order of brother knights. Archeologists, historians and treasure hunters scour the area looking for esoteric materials, books and artefacts.
1944 AD
Nazi treasure hunters excavate the hills around Montségur and Rennes-le-Château, supposedly looking for the Grail or Ark of the Covenant.
1953 AD
On 29 January, Abbé Bérenger Saunière’s housekeeper and inheritor, Marie Denarnaud, suffers a stroke which renders her incapable of speech. She dies shortly afterwards,
without having divulged the secrets.
1972 AD
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