c. 4 BC |
Birth of Jesus |
c. 26 AD |
John the Baptist begins ministry |
c. 27 AD |
Jesus begins ministry |
c. 30 AD |
Crucifixion of Jesus |
c. 35 |
Conversion of Paul |
c. 44 |
Martyrdom of James |
c. 46-48 |
Paul's first missionary journey |
c. 49 |
Council of Jerusalem |
c. 50-52 |
Paul's second missionary journey |
c. 51-52 |
First and Second Thessalonians written |
c. 53-57 |
Paul's third missionary journey |
c. 57 |
Letter to the Romans written |
c. 59-62 |
Paul imprisoned in Rome |
c. 60 |
Andrew martyred by crucifixion in Achaia (Greece). |
c. 66-67 |
Second Timothy written |
c. 68 |
Martyrdom of Paul |
70 |
Fall of Jerusalem |
c. 90-95 |
John exiled on island of Patmos |
c. 95 |
Book of Revelation written |
c. 96 |
Clement of Rome's Letter to the Corinthians written |
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 |
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 |
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 |
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 |
430 |
Death of Augustine |
431 |
Council of Ephesus |
451 |
Council of Chalcedon |
787 |
Second Council of Nicea |
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 |
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 |
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 |
1453 |
Fall of Constantinople to Turks |
1478 |
Spanish Inquisition founded by Ferdinand and Isabella |
1483 |
Birth of Martin Luther |
1492 |
Expulsion of Jews from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella |
1505 |
Luther becomes a monk |
1517 |
Luther posts 95 Theses |
1521 |
Luther excommunicated |
1530 |
Augsburg Confession |
1534 |
Henry VIII's Act of Supremacy |
1536 |
Calvin's Institutes of the Christian Religion |
1541 |
Colloquy of Regensburg |
1555 |
Peace of Augsburg |
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 |
1611 |
King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible produced |
1729 |
Beginnings of Methodism, led by John Wesley |
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 |
1797 |
Second Awakening begins |
1798 |
Pope Pius VI is prisoner of France |
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 |
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 |