 33 AD Jesus Christ crucified and resurrected
32-35 First persecution of the Church by Saul, Stephen martyred.
40 Persecution under Herod Agripa
41 Jerusalem walls expanded, bringing Golgotha inside the walled
parameter.
42 James beheaded (brother of John) Acts 12:2.
43 Barnabas brings Saul to Antioch Acts 11:25
49 Council of Jerusalem decides Gentile circumcision not
required.
51-96 Emperor Domitian
62 Apostle James is killed in the Temple
64 The Temple is finished during the reign of Nero
64 Fire of Rome
64 First nation-wide persecution
64 Paul and Peter martyred
64 Church in Alexandria founded by Mark, a
disciple of Peter
66 First Jewish revolt against Rome
66 Christians flee to Jordan and Syria
65 Claudius conquers Britain
69 Ignatius becomes bishop of Antioch, Syria
70-312 Age of Catholic Christianity
70 Temple is destroyed by General Titus and Jerusalem is sacked.
70-156 Polycarp
73 Masada and the Zealots
80 Apostolic Council rejects the necessity of
Circumcision
81-96 Persecution under Domitian
90 Rules of faith developed
97 Apostle John dies in Ephesus
107 Ignatius dies
112 Romans complain pagan temples are slowly emptying
112 Christianity becomes a capital offence
130-202 Irenaeus
132 Ba Kokhba leads the second rebellion against Rome
135 Judea renamed Palestine by the Romans
140 Marcionism founded
156 Polycarp martyred
160 Montanism founded
160-225 Tertullian
170 Muritorian canon compiled
180 Tertullian mentions Trinitas (Trinity)
185-254 Origen
200-258 Cyprian
200 Septuagint Greek manuscript completed with Apochrypha
included
217 Bishop Callistus readmits penitent adulterers
245-312 Emperor Diocletian
249 Caesar Worship made law
250 Persecution under Emperor Decius
251 Cyprian Plague
256-336 Arius
263-340 Eusebius
295-373 Athanasius
302 Galerius, under Diocletian burns Scripture and persecutes
Christians.
311 Galerius employs Edict of Toleration
312-590 Age of Christian Roman Empire
312 Edict of Milan granting freedom to
Christians
318 Arian Controversy
315 Athenasius identifies 27 books of NT
325 Council of Nicea
354-430 Augustine
363 Council of Laodicea recognises 27 NT books
366 Pope Damasus orders the murder of 137
opponents of his election
367 Athanasius lists all 27 books of N.T
379 Emperor Theodosius outlaws Arianism
380 Emperor Theodosius penalises non-Christians
381 Council of Constantinople
382 Jerome commissioned to prepare Vulgate Bible.
382 Roman See claims pre-eminence
386 Augustine converted
395 Theodosius divides Roman Empire
410 Alaric sacks Rome
431 Council of Ephesus
431 Vandals sack Hippo, North Africa
440 Leo (the Great) becomes Pope and thereby
establishes Peter’s dynasty
451 Council of Chalcedon
452 Attila plunders Rome
452 Pope demands allegiance from all bishops
455 Fall of Rome. (Vandals)
476 marks the end of the Christian Roman Empire
482-565 Emperor Justinian
500-1500 Dark Ages
590 Gregory (the Great) becomes pope
590 Rome dissipated by the Black Plague
597 Augustine sent to evangelize England
600 Latin only allowed for scripture
638 Arab Muslims conquer Jerusalem
726 Pope Leo forbids the use of icons
950 Clunanic order established
1000-1100 High Middle Ages
1049 Leo IX becomes Pope1054 Bull of excommunication placed at
Hagia
Sophia splitting East from West
1059 Cardinals only to elect popes
1061 Turks conquer Jerusalem
1080 Gregory VII (Hilderbrand) excommunicates Henry VI restoring
papalauthority.
1095-99 Crusades begin under Pope Urban II
1099 Knights conquer Jerusalem
1147-49 Second Crusade
1150-1218 Peter Waldo
1163-1235 Notre Dame built
1170 Cathedrals begin to be built
1170-1221 Dominic
1182-1226 Francis of Assisi -
1184 Pope Lucius starts Inquisition
1187 Saladin defeats Crusaders at Hattin
1188-92 Third Crusade
1202-04 Fourth Crusade
1204 Constantinople sacked by Crusaders
1217-1221 Fifth Crusade
1220 Dominicans enforce Inquisition
1228-29 Sixth Crusade
1233 Pope Gregory IX authorizes ‘legal
investigations’ into peoples beliefs
1248-50 Seventh Crusade
1250 Development of Canon Law
1252 Pope Innocent IV authorizes torture
1291 Crusades officially ended
1299 Snod forbids people to have scripture
1303 French assault Pope Bonniface
1303 Beginning of the Papal decline, the great
Schism, and the Babylonian Captivity
1307 Phillip IV uproots Templars
1329-1384 John Wycliff
1373-1415 Jan (John) Huss
1380 Wycliff translates NT
1388 Wycliff translates OT
1420 Papacy returns to Rome after Schism
1453 Constantinople falls to the Turks
1454 Guttenberg bible first book printed
1480 Spanish Inquisition
1483-1546 Martyn Luther
1484-1531 Huldrych Zwingli
1491-1547 King Henry VIII
1492 First Lexicon published
1492 Jews expelled from Spain
1494-1536 William Tyndale
1505 Luther’s friend struck by lightening
1505 Luther calls upon St Anne
1509-1564 John Calvin
1509 Henry VIII becomes King
1516 Erasmus compiles Greek N.T
1517-1648 Age of the Reformation
1521 Luther called to Diet of Worms
1522 Luther puts his reforms into practice
1522 Luther produces German N.T
1523 Peasants revolt
1526 Tyndale completes translation N.T
1527 Rome sacked by Charles V soldiers.
1529 Protestants and Catholics war
1535 First complete English Bible (Coverdale’s)
1535 Coverdale separates Apocrypha
1534 Henry VIII becomes head of Church of
England
1536 Tyndale martyred
1536 Calvin publishes Institutes of Christian Religion.
1536 Anne Boleyn executed
1539 The Great Bible
1540 Loyola founds Jesuits
1542 Luther condemns and preaches against
Jews
1545-1563 Council of Trent
1558 Elizabeth I becomes Queen – dies in 1603
1549 Common Book of Prayer adopted
1559 University of Geneva founded
1560 Scottish Parliament adopts Confessions of Faith. Birth of
Presbyterian Church
1562 England enters Slave trade
1563 Elizabeth I restores Protestantism.
1582 Catholics compile Douay Bible
1599-1658 Oliver Cromwell
1603 James VI becomes James I of England
1604 The term Great Britain introduced
1605 Guy Fawkes arrested
1611 KJV completed and published
1612 John Smith forms Arminian Baptist Union
1618-48 30yr war Germany and France
1625 Charles I becomes king
1628 Cromwell elected to House of Commons
1646 Westminster Confession of Faith
1648 Cromwell defeats Charles and the Scots
1648-1789 Age of Reason and Revivals
1649 Charles I executed by Cromwell
1652-1698 English Civil Wars
1653 Cromwell becomes Lord Protector
1660 Charles II takes throne
1687 Isaac Newton publishes his work on gravitation.
1689 Act of Toleration
1694-1778 Voltaire
1700-1760 Zinzendorf
1703-1791 John Wesley
1703-1758 Jonathan Edwards
1707- 1788 Charles Wesley
1714- 1770 George Whitfield –
1740 Muritorian Canon published
1759-1833 William Wilberforce (ending slave trading)
1761-1834 William Carey
1776 Declaration of Independence
1789 French Revolution
1789 French Bill of Rights
1789 Storming of Bastille
1790 Pope looses control over France
1792 Carey forms Baptist Missionary Society
1793 Carey to India
1789-1914 Age of Progress
1799 Clapham’s Church Missionary Society
1800 Gasper River - first camp meeting.
1813-73 Dr David Livingstone
1833 English Emancipation Act, outlawing
slave trading under Wilberforce
1837-99 Dwight Moody
1841 Livingstone in Africa
1845 Anglo-Catholic birthed (John Newman)
1854 Pius IX declares Immaculate Conception of
Mary
1859 Darwin’s Origin of Species
1860-1918 Walter Rauschenbusch.
1869-70 Vatican Council I
End of Papal States
1885 Protestants reject Apocrypha entirely
1908 Formation of Federal Council of Churches
1909 Fundamentals written
1910 World Missionary Conference (Edinburgh)
1914-1987 Age of Ideologies
1921 Formation of International Missionary Council
1925 First Conference of Life and Work
1927 First Conference of Faith and Order
1929 Mussolini creates papal sovereignty of Vatican City
1920-05 Pope John Paul II
1948 First Assembly of World Council of
Churches (WCC)
1950 Pius XII claims bodily assumption of Mary
1961 WCC New Dehli Assembly
1962-65 Vatican Council II
1962-66 Council affirms papal primacy
1968 Pope Paul VI bans artificial contraception
1977 WCC establishes ‘Guidelines for Dialogue’
1982 NKJV produced
1987 PC revolution
1995 John Paul II consecrates the world to Mary
2001 Pope John Paul II seeks forgiveness in Damascus for Past
Sins
2001 Twin towers fall, war against terror.
2005 Globally televised funeral of John Paul II |
