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c. 4 BC |
Birth of Jesus |
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c. 26 AD |
John the Baptist begins ministry |
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c. 27 AD |
Jesus begins ministry |
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c. 30 AD |
Crucifixion of Jesus |
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c. 35 |
Conversion of Paul |
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c. 44 |
Martyrdom of James |
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c. 46-48 |
Paul's first missionary journey |
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c. 49 |
Council of Jerusalem |
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c. 50-52 |
Paul's second missionary journey |
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c. 51-52 |
First and Second Thessalonians written |
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c. 53-57 |
Paul's third missionary journey |
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c. 57 |
Letter to the Romans written |
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c. 59-62 |
Paul imprisoned in Rome |
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c. 60 |
Andrew martyred by crucifixion in Achaia (Greece). |
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c. 66-67 |
Second Timothy written |
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c. 68 |
Martyrdom of Paul |
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70 |
Fall of Jerusalem |
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c. 90-95 |
John exiled on island of Patmos |
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c. 95 |
Book of Revelation written |
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c. 96 |
Clement of Rome's Letter to the Corinthians written |
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c. 120 |
Didache written |
|
202 |
Christians persecuted under Septimus Severus |
|
211 |
Christians tolerated under Emperor Antoninus Caracalla |
|
222 |
Christians favored Emperor Alexander Severus |
|
230 |
Origen's On First Principles |
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235 |
Christians persecuted under Emperor Maximin the Thracian |
|
238 |
Christians tolerated under Emperor Gordian III |
|
244 |
Christians favored under Emperor Philip the Arabian |
|
251 |
Cyprian's Unity of the Catholic Church |
|
254 |
Death of Origen |
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303 |
Diocletian orders burning of Christian books and churches |
|
312 |
Emperor Constantine's conversion to Christianity |
|
313 |
Edict of Milan establishes official toleration of Christianity |
|
325 |
Council of Nicea |
|
336 |
Death of Constantine |
|
354 |
Birth of Augustine |
|
367 |
Athanasius lists all 27 books of NT |
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379 |
Basil the Great dies |
|
380 |
Christianity made official religion of Roman Empire |
|
381 |
Council of Constantinople |
|
386 |
Augustine converts to Christianity |
|
389 |
Gregory of Nazianzus dies |
|
395 |
Gregory of Nyssa dies |
|
c. 400 |
Jerome's Vulgate (translation of the Greek Bible into Latin) |
|
407 |
John Chrysostom dies |
|
411 |
Council of Carthage condemns Donatists |
|
417 |
Pope Innocent I condemns Pelagianism |
|
420 |
Death of Jerome |
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430 |
Death of Augustine |
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431 |
Council of Ephesus |
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451 |
Council of Chalcedon |
|
787 |
Second Council of Nicea |
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950 |
Olga of Russia converts to Christianity |
|
1054 |
Great Schism between East and West |
|
1093 |
Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury |
|
1095 |
Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade |
|
1098 |
Crusaders take Antioch from Turks |
|
1099 |
Crusaders recapture Jerusalem from Turks |
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1122 |
Concordat of Worms |
|
1141 |
Peter Abelard condemned |
|
1144 |
Fall of Edessa (crusader state) |
|
1187 |
Fall of Jerusalem to Turks |
|
1215 |
Fourth Lateran Council |
|
1309 |
"Babylonian Captivity" (until 1377) |
|
1337 |
Hundred Years' War (until 1453) |
|
1378 |
Great Western Schism (until 1423) |
|
1409 |
Council of Pisa |
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1413-14 |
Lollard rebellion |
|
1415 |
Council of Constance. Martyrdom of Jan Hus. |
|
1420 |
Crusade against Hussites |
|
1431 |
Joan of Arc martyred |
|
1431-49 |
Council of Basel |
|
1438-45 |
Council of Ferrara-Florence |
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1453 |
Fall of Constantinople to Turks |
|
1478 |
Spanish Inquisition founded by Ferdinand and Isabella |
|
1483 |
Birth of Martin Luther |
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1492 |
Expulsion of Jews from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella |
|
1505 |
Luther becomes a monk |
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1517 |
Luther posts 95 Theses |
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1521 |
Luther excommunicated |
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1530 |
Augsburg Confession |
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1534 |
Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy |
|
1536 |
Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion |
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1541 |
Colloquy of Regensburg |
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1555 |
Peace of Augsburg |
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1559 |
Elizabeth I's Act of Uniformity |
|
1590 |
Michelangelo completes the dome of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome |
|
1609 |
Baptist Church founded by John Smyth |
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1611 |
King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible produced |
|
1729 |
Beginnings of Methodism, led by John Wesley |
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1738 |
John Wesley feels his "heart strangely warmed" during a reading of Luther's preface to Romans on Aldersgate Street in London |
|
1775 |
American Wars of Independence begin |
|
1783 |
America wins independence from Britain |
|
1793 |
Louis XVI executed |
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1797 |
Second Awakening begins |
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1798 |
Pope Pius VI is prisoner of France |
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1799 |
Schleiermacher writes Speeches |
|
1801 |
Cane Ridge Revival |
|
1804 |
Napoleon becomes emperor |
|
1807 |
Hegel writes Phenomenology of the Spirit |
|
1808 |
French occupy Rome |
|
1810 |
Mexico wins independence |
|
1812-14 |
British-American War |
|
1814 |
Reorganization of the Jesuits |
|
1816 |
American Bible Society established |
|
1822 |
Schleiermacher writes Christian Faith |
|
1826 |
American Society for the Promotion of Temperance founded |
|
1830 |
Joseph Smith produces Book of Mormon |
|
1834 |
Spanish Inquisition officially abolished |
|
1838 |
Abolition of slavery in the British Caribbean |
|
1841 |
David Livingstone to Africa |
|
1845 |
Methodists and Baptists split over the issue of slavery |
|
1846 |
Pope Pius IX (until 1878) |
|
1854 |
Dogma of Immaculate Conception of Mary |
|
1859 |
Darwin publishes Origin of the Species |
|
1861-65 |
American Civil War |
|
1861 |
Presbyterians divide over the issue of slavery |
|
1869 |
First Vatican Council |
|
1870 |
Dogma of Papal Infallibility |
|
1872 |
Moody begins preaching |
|
1875 |
Mary Baker Eddy writes Science and Health |
|
1882 |
Neitzsche declares "God is dead" |
|
1895 |
Five Fundamentals |
|
1900 |
Freud's Interpretation of Dreams |
|
1906 |
Azusa Street revival |
|
1908 |
Henry Ford introduces the Model T |
|
1910 |
World Missionary Conference, Edinburgh |
|
1914 |
Assemblies of God founded |
|
1914-18 |
World War I |
|
1917 |
Russian Revolution |
|
1919 |
Prohibition passed into law |
|
1925 |
Scopes "Monkey" trial |
|
1932 |
Barth's Church Dogmatics |
|
1939 |
Hitler invades Poland and sparks WWI |
|
1945 |
Nag Hammadi Library discovered in Egypt;
US drops atomic bombs on Japan |
|
1947 |
India wins independence from U.K. |
|
1948 |
World Council of Churches founded |
|
1950 |
Papal encyclical Humani generis |
|
1956 |
First issue of Christianity Today |
|
1960 |
Birth control pill approved by FDA |
|
1961 |
First human in space
Papal encyclical Mater et Magistra |
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1962-65 |
Second Vatican Council |
|
1963 |
MLK's "I Have a Dream" speech |
|
1968 |
Papal encyclical Humanae vitae |
|
1969 |
First man on the moon |
|
1971 |
Intel introduces the microprocessor |
|
1973 |
Roe vs. Wade |
|
1987-88 |
Televangelist scandals |
|
1989 |
First woman ordained in an apostolic-succession church (the Protestant Episcopal church). Fall of the Berlin Wall. |
|
1997 |
Birth of the internet |