c. 967 BCE May
King Solomon is believed to have begun construction of the First Temple in Jerusalem c. May 967 although other estimates range from 1012 BCE to 832 BCE. The Temple took about seven years to complete.
The biblical narrative in 1 Kings 6:1, cites "the foundation was laid in the month of Ziv (the second month of the religious year, roughly mid-spring) during the fourth year of Solomon's reign". The year is also cited in the Bible as being 480 years after the Israelites left Egypt. Some often cited sources include: The Seder Olam Rabbah and historians Edwin Thiele and Valerius Coucke,
