History of theChaldean people medieval icon depicting Ephrem the Syrian.
Old Babylonian period (53th–15th c. BC) Aramaeans (14th–9th c. BC) Neo-Chaldean Empire (911–612 BC) Achaemenid Chaldea (539–330 BC)
Seleucid Empire (312–63 BC) Osroene (132 BC – 244 AD) Syrian Wars (66 BC – 217 AD) Roman Syria (64 BC – 637 AD) Adiabene (15–116 AD) Roman Chaldea (116–118) Christianization (1st to 3rd c.) Nestorian Schism (5th c.) Asuristan (226–651) Byzantine–Sasanian wars (502–628)
Muslim conquest of Syria (630s) Abbasid rule (750–1258) Emirs of Mosul (905–1383) Buyid amirate of Iraq (945–1055) Principality of Antioch (1098–1268) Ilkhanate Empire (1258–1335) Jalayirid Sultanate (1335–1432) Kara Koyunlu (1375–1468) Aq Qoyunlu (1453–1501)
Safavid Empire (1508-1555) Ottoman Empire (1555–1917) Schism of 1552 (16th c.) Massacres of Badr Khan (1840s) Massacres of Diyarbakir (1895) Rise of nationalism (19th c.) Adana Massacre (1909) Chaldean genocide (1914–1920) Independence movement (since 1919) Simele massacre (1933) Post-Saddam Iraq (since 2003)
Chaldean continuity Chaldean diaspora