Timeline of Christianity

This article is about the timeline of Christianity be-
ginning with Jesus. For the timeline of the Bible, see
Biblical chronology. For the history of Christianity, see
History of Christianity. For the timeline of the Roman
Catholic Church, see Timeline of the Roman Catholic
Church.
The purpose of this timeline is to give a detailed ac-
count of Christianity from the beginning of the current
era (AD) to the present. Question marks on dates indi-
cate approximate dates.
Main article: Chronology of Jesus
The year one is the rst year in the Christian calendar
(there is no year zero), which is the calendar presently
used (in unison with the Gregorian calendar) almost ev-
erywhere in the world. Traditionally, this was held to be
the year Jesus was born; however, most modern scholars
argue for an earlier or later date, the most agreed upon
being between 6 BC and 4 BC.
6 Herod Archelaus deposed by Augustus; Samaria,
Judea and Idumea annexed as Iudaea Province under
direct Roman administration,[1] capital at Caesarea,
Quirinius became Legate (Governor) of Syria, con-
ducted Census of Quirinius, opposed by Zealots
(JA18, Luke 2:13, Acts 5:37)
7-26 Brief period of peace, relatively free of revolt
and bloodshed in Iudaea & Galilee[2]
a Nazirite (Luke 1:15), baptized Jesus (Mark 1:4
11), later arrested and beheaded by Herod An-
tipas (Luke 3:1920), its possible that, according to
Josephus' chronology, John was not killed until 36
(JA18.5.2)[4]
Jesus begins his ministry after his baptism by John
and during the rule of Pilate, preaching: Repent, for
the kingdom of heaven is near (Matthew 4:1217).
While the historicity of the gospel accounts is ques-
tioned to some extent by some critical scholars and
non-Christians, the traditional view states the follow-
ing chronology for his ministry: Temptation, Sermon
on the Mount, Appointment of the Twelve, Miracles,
Temple Money Changers, Last Supper, Arrest, Trial,
Passion, Crucixion on Nisan 14th (John 19:14,Mark
14:2, Gospel of Peter) or Nisan 15th (Synoptic Gospels),
entombment by Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus,
Resurrection by God and Resurrection appearances of Je-
sus to Mary Magdalene and other women (Mark 16:9,
John 20:1018), Simon Peter (Luke 24:34), and others,
(1Cor.15:39), Great Commission, Ascension, Second
Coming Prophecy to fulll the rest of Messianic prophecy
such as the Resurrection of the dead, the Last Judg-
ment, and establishment of the Kingdom of God and the
Messianic Age.
1 Apostolic Age
Main article: Apostolic Age

9 Pharisee leader Hillel the Elder dies, temporary

rise of Shammai Shortly after the death of Jesus (Nisan 14 or 15),
the Jerusalem church is founded as the rst Christian
14-37 Tiberius, Roman Emperor church with about 120 Jews and Jewish Proselytes (Acts
1:15), followed by Pentecost (Sivan 6), the Ananias and
18-36 Caiaphas, appointed High Priest of Herods Sapphira incident, Pharisee Gamaliel's defense of the
Temple by Prefect Valerius Gratus, deposed by Syr- Apostles (5:34-39), the stoning of Saint Stephen (see also
ian Legate Lucius Vitellius Persecution of Christians) and the subsequent dispersion
19 Jews, Jewish Proselytes, Astrologers, expelled of the Apostles (7:54-8:8, also Mark 16:20) which leads
from Rome[3] to the baptism of Simon Magus in Samaria (8:9-24), and
also an Ethiopian eunuch (8:26-40). Pauls "Road to
26-36 Pontius Pilate, Prefect (governor) of Iudaea, Damascus" conversion to Apostle to the Gentiles is rst
recalled to Rome by Syrian Legate Vitellius on com- recorded in 9:13-16, cf. Gal 1:11-24. Peter baptizes the
plaints of excess violence (JA18.4.2) Roman Centurion Cornelius, who is traditionally consid-
ered the rst Gentile convert to Christianity (10). The
28 or 29 John the Baptist begins his ministry in Antioch church is founded, it was there that the term
the 15th year of Tiberius (Luke 3:12), say- Christian was rst used (11:26).
ing: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is near
(Matthew 3:12), a relative of Jesus (Luke 1:36), 37-41 Crisis under Caligula, proposed as the rst

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open break between Rome and the Jews[5]
before 44 Epistle of James if written by James the
Great
44? Saint James the Great: According to ancient
local tradition, on 2 January of the year AD 40, the
Virgin Mary appeared to James on a pillar on the
bank of the Ebro River at Caesaraugusta, while he
was preaching the Gospel in Spain. Following that
vision, St James returned to Judea, where he was
beheaded by King Herod Agrippa I in the year 44
during a Passover (Nisan 15) (Acts 12:1-3).
44 Death of Herod Agrippa I (JA19.8.2, Acts 12:20-
23)
44-46? Theudas beheaded by Procurator Cuspius
Fadus for saying he would part the Jordan river (like
Moses and the Red Sea or Joshua and the Jordan)
(JA20.5.1, Acts 5:36-37 places it before the Census
of Quirinius)
45-49? Mission of Barnabas and Paul, (Acts
13:1-14:28), to Cyprus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium,
Lystra and Derbe (there they were called gods ... in
human form), then return to Syrian Antioch. Map1
47 The Church of the East is created by Saint
Thomas
48-100 Herod Agrippa II appointed King of the
Jews by Claudius, seventh and last of the Herodians
49 Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at
the instigation of Chrestus,[6] he [Claudius] expelled
them from Rome. (referenced in Acts 18:2)[7]
50 Passover riot in Jerusalem, 20-30,000 killed
(JA20.5.3,JW2.12.1)
50? Council of Jerusalem and the Apostolic De-
cree, Acts 15:1-35, same as Galatians 2:1-10?,
which is followed by the Incident at Antioch[8] at
which Paul publicly accuses Peter of "Judaizing"
(2:11-21), see also Circumcision controversy in
early Christianity
50-53? Pauls 2nd mission, (Acts 15:36-18:22),
split with Barnabas, to Phrygia, Galatia, Macedo-
nia, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, Corinth,
he had his hair cut o at Cenchrea because of a vow
he had taken, then return to Antioch; 1 Thessaloni-
ans, Galatians written? Map2. Lydia of Thyatira, a
seller of purple, becomes the rst European Chris-
tian convert[9] (Acts 16:11-15)
51-52 or 52-53 Proconsulship of Gallio according
to an inscription, only xed date in chronology of
Paul[10]
APOSTOLIC AGE
52, November 21 St. Thomas the Apostle lands in
India.[11][12] Establishes churches at Kodungalloor,
Palayoor, Paraur, Kottakkav, Kokkamangalam,
Nilakkal, Niranam and Kollam
53-57? Pauls 3rd mission, (Acts 18:23-22:30),
to Galatia, Phrygia, Corinth, Ephesus, Macedonia,
Greece, and Jerusalem where James the Just chal-
lenges him about rumor of teaching antinomianism
(21:21); he addresses a crowd in their language
(most likely Aramaic), Romans, 1 Corinthians, 2
Corinthians, Philippians written? Map3
55? "Egyptian prophet" (allusion to Moses) and
30,000 unarmed Jews doing The Exodus reen-
actment massacred by Procurator Antonius Felix
(JW2.13.5, JA20.8.6, Acts 21:38)
58? Paul arrested, accused of being a revolutionary,
ringleader of the sect of the Nazarenes", teaching
resurrection of the dead, imprisoned in Caesarea
(Acts 23-26)
59? Paul shipwrecked on Malta, there he is called a
god (Acts 28:6)
60? Paul in Rome: greeted by many brothers,
three days later calls together the Jewish leaders,
who hadn't received any word from Judea about him,
but were curious about this sect, which every-
where is spoken against; he tries to convince them
from the "law and prophets", with partial success
said the Gentiles would listen, and spends two years
proclaiming the Kingdom of God and teaching the
Lord Jesus Christ (Acts 28:15-31); Epistle to Phile-
mon written?
60-64? early date for writing of 1 Peter (Peter as
author)
before 62 Epistle of James if written by James the
Just
62 James the Just stoned to death for law transgres-
sion by High Priest Ananus ben Artanus, popular
opinion against act results in Ananus being deposed
by new procurator Lucceius Albinus (JA20.9.1)
63-107? Simeon, 2nd Bishop of Jerusalem, cruci-
ed under Trajan
64-68 after July 18 Great Fire of Rome,
Nero blames and persecutes the Christians (or
Chrestians[13] ), possibly the earliest mention of
Christians, by that name, in Rome, see also Tacitus
on Jesus, Paul beheaded? (Col 1:24,Eph 3:13,2 Tim
4:6-8,1Clem 5:5-7), Peter crucied upside-down?
(Jn 21:18,1 Pet 5:13,Tertullians Prescription
Against Heretics chapter XXXVI,Eusebius Church
History Book III chapter I), "...a vast multitude,
were convicted, not so much of the crime of
incendiarism as of hatred of the human race. And

in their deaths they were made the subjects of sport;
for they were wrapped in the hides of wild beasts
and torn to pieces by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or
set on re, and when day declined, were burned
to serve for nocturnal lights. (Annals (Tacitus)
XV.44)
64/67(?)76/79(?) Pope Linus succeeds Peter as
Episcopus Romanus (Bishop of Rome)
64 Epistle to the Hebrews written
65? Q document, a hypothetical Greek text thought
by many critical scholars to have been used in writ-
ing of Matthew and Luke
66-73 Great Jewish Revolt: destruction of
Herods Temple and end of Judaism according to
Supersessionism, Qumran community (site of Dead
Sea Scrolls found in 1947)destroyed
70(+/10)? Gospel of Mark, written in Rome, by
Peters interpreter (1 Peter 5:13), original ending ap-
parently lost, endings added c. 400, see Mark 16
70? Signs Gospel written, hypothetical Greek text
used in Gospel of John to prove Jesus is the Messiah
70-100? Additional Pauline Epistles
70-200? Gospel of Thomas, Jewish Christian
Gospels: Gospel of the Ebionites, Gospel of the He-
brews, Gospel of the Nazarenes
72, July 3 Martyrdom of St. Thomas the Apostle at
Chinnamala, Mylapore, Chennai (Tamil Nadu)
76/79(?)88 Pope Anacletus: rst Greek Pope,
who succeeds Linus as Episcopus Romanus (Bishop
of Rome)
80(+/20) Didache written
80(+/20)? Gospel of Matthew, based on Mark
and Q, most popular in Early Christianity
80(+/20)? Gospel of Luke, based on Mark and Q,
also Acts of the Apostles by same author
80(+/20)? Pastoral Epistles written (possible
post-Pauline authorship)
88-101? Clement, fourth Bishop of Rome: wrote
Letter of the Romans to the Corinthians (Apostolic
Fathers)
90? Council of Jamnia of Judaism (disputed),
Domitian applies the Fiscus Judaicus tax even to
those who merely lived like Jews[14]
90(+/10)? late date for writing of 1 Peter (asso-
ciate of Peter as author)
3
94 Testimonium Flavianum, disputed section of
Jewish Antiquities by Josephus in Aramaic, trans-
lated to Koine Greek
95(+/30)? Gospel of John and Epistles of John
95(+/10)? Book of Revelation written, by John
(son of Zebedee) and/or a disciple of his
96 Nerva modies the Fiscus Judaicus, from then on,
practising Jews pay the tax, Christians do not[15]
98-117? Ignatius, third Bishop of Antioch, fed to
the lions in the Roman Colosseum, advocated the
Bishop (Eph 6:1, Mag 2:1,6:1,7:1,13:2, Tr 3:1, Smy
8:1,9:1), rejected Sabbath on Saturday in favor of
The Lords Day (Sunday). (Mag 9.1), rejected
Judaizing (Mag 10.3), rst recorded use of the term
catholic (Smy 8:2).
100(+/30)? Epistle of Barnabas (Apostolic Fa-
thers)
100(+/25)? Epistle of James if written by author
other than James the Just or James the Great
100(+/10)? Epistle of Jude written, probably by
doubting relative of Jesus (Mark 6,3), rejected by
some early Christians due to its reference to apoc-
ryphal Book of Enoch (v14)
2 Ante-Nicene Period
Main article: Ante-Nicene Period
100-150? Apocryphon of James, Gospel of Mary
Magdalene, Gospel of James, Infancy Gospel of
Thomas, Secret Gospel of Mark (Complete Gospels,
published by Jesus Seminar)
110-130? Papias, bishop of Hierapolis, writes Ex-
positions of the Sayings of the Lord, lost, widely
quoted (Apostolic Fathers)
110-160? Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna, Letter to the
Philippians, (Apostolic Fathers)
120? Rabbi Tarfon advocates burning the
Gospels[16]
125(+/5)? 2 Peter written, widely accepted into
canon by the early 4th century
125? Rylands Library Papyrus P52, oldest extant
NT fragment, p. 1935, parts of Jn18:31-33,37-38
130-250? Christian Apologists writings against
Roman religion: Justin Martyr, Athenagoras,
Apology of Aristides, Theophilus of Antioch,
Tatian, Quadratus, Melito of Sardis, Apollinaris
Claudius, Marcus Minucius Felix, Arnobius, Epistle
to Diognetus
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132-135 Bar Kokhbas revolt: nal Jewish revolt,
Judea and Jerusalem erased from maps, region re-
named Syria Palstina (the term Palestine was orig-
inally coined by Herodotus), Jerusalem renamed
Aelia Capitolina
142-144? Marcion of Sinope: bishop according to
Catholic Encyclopedia, goes to Rome, possibly to
buy the bishopric of Rome, upon rejection forms his
own church in Rome, later called Marcionism, re-
jected Old Testament, decreed canon of one Gospel,
one Apostolicon (10 Letters of Paul) and one Antithe-
sis[17] which contrasted the Old Testament with the
New Testament, cited Western text-type, see also
Expounding of the Law#Antithesis of the Law
150? Western Revisor adds/subtracts from origi-
nal Acts to produce Western version which is 10%
larger and found in Papyrus P29,38,48 and Codex
Bezae (D)
150? Valentinius (most famous Christian Gnostic,
according to Tertullian) narrowly loses election for
Bishop of Rome
150(+/10)? Shepherd of Hermas, written in
Rome (Apostolic Fathers)
150-200? Other Gospels: Unknown Berlin Gospel,
Gospel of Peter, Oxyrhynchus Gospels, Dialogue of
the Saviour
155? Montanus claims to be the Paraclete (Coun-
selor) of John 14:16
160? Martyrdom of Polycarp (Apostolic Fathers)
170? Dionysius, bishop of Corinth[18] claimed
Christians were changing and faking his own let-
ters just as [he knew] they had changed the Gospels
(Eusebius EH 4 c.23 v.12;Ante-Nicene Fathers,v.8)
170? Tatian produces "Diatessaron" (Harmony) by
blending 4 Western text-type Gospels into 1
170? Symmachus the Ebionite writes new Greek
translation of Hebrew Bible
177 Persecution in Lyon, martyrdom of Blandina
180? Hegesippus
180-202? Irenaeus, Bishop of Lyon: combated
heresies, cited Western Gospel text-type (Ante-
Nicene Fathers); second Primate of the Gauls
185-350? Muratorian fragment, 1st extant canon for
New Testament after Marcion?, written in Rome by
Hippolytus?, excludes Hebrews, James, 1-2 Peter, 3
John; includes Wisdom of Solomon, Apocalypse of
Peter
186? Saint Apollonius: used the term catholic in
reference to 1 John
ANTE-NICENE PERIOD
188-231 Saint Demetrius: bishop of Alexandria,
condemned Origen
189-198 Pope Victor I: 1st Latin Pope, excommu-
nicated Eastern churches that continued to observe
Easter on Nisan 14 Quartodeciman
196? Polycrates, bishop of Ephesus (Ante-Nicene
Fathers)
199-217? Caius,[19][20] presbyter of Rome, wrote
Dialogue against Proclus in Ante-Nicene Fathers,
rejected Revelation, said to be by Gnostic Cerinthus,
see also Alogi
200? Papyrus 46: 2nd Chester Beatty, Alexandrian
text-type; Papyrus 66: 2nd Bodmer, John, 1956,
Alexandrian/Western text-types; Papyrus 75:
Bodmer 14-15, Luke & John, earliest extant Luke,
~Vaticanus; 200? Papyrus 32: J. Rylands Library:
Titus 1:11-15;2:3-8; Papyrus 64 (+67): Mt3:9,15;
5:20-22,25-28; 26:7-8,10,14-15,22-23,31-33
200? Sextus Julius Africanus
200? Antipope Natalius,[21] rival bishop of Rome,
according to Eusebius's EH5.28.8-12, quoting the
Little Labyrinth of Hippolytus, after being "scourged
all night by the holy angels, covered in ash, dressed
in sackcloth, and after some diculty, tearfully
submitted to Pope Zephyrinus
217-236 Antipope Hippolytus, Logos sect? Later
dispute settled and considered martyr, Roman canon
218-258 Cyprian, Bishop of Carthage, cited West-
ern NT text-type, claimed Christians were freely
forging his letters to discredit him (Ante-Nicene Fa-
thers)
220? Clement of Alexandria, cited Alexandrian
NT text-type & Secret Gospel of Mark & Gospel of
the Egyptians; wrote Exhortations to the Greeks";
Rich Mans Salutation"; To the Newly Baptized";
(Ante-Nicene Fathers)
220?340? Codex Tchacos, manuscript containing
a copy of the Gospel of Judas, is written
223? Tertullian: sometimes called father of
the Latin Church, because he coined trinitas,
tres Personae, una Substantia, Vetus Testamentum,
Novum Testamentum, convert to Montanism, cited
Western Gospel text-type (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
225? Papyrus 45: 1st Chester Beatty Pa-
pyri, Gospels (Caesarean text-type, mixed), Acts
(Alexandrian text-type)
235-238 Maximinus Thrax: emperor of Rome, ends
Christian schism in Rome by deporting Pope Pon-
tian and Antipope Hippolytus to Sardinia, where
they soon die
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248-264 Dionysius, Patriarch of Alexandria see also
List of Patriarchs of Alexandria
250? Apostolic Constitutions, Liturgy of St James,
Old Roman Symbol, Clementine literature
250? Letters of Methodius, Pistis Sophia, Porphyry
Tyrius, Commodianus (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
250? Papyrus 72: Bodmer 5-11+, pub. 1959,
Alexandrian text-type: Nativity of Mary; 3Cor;
Odes of Solomon 11; Jude 1-25; Melitos Homily
on Passover; Hymn fragment; Apology of Phileas;
Ps33,34; 1Pt1:1-5:14; 2Pt1:1-3:18
303-312 Diocletians Massacre of Christians, in-
cludes burning of scriptures (EH 8.2)
303 Saint George, patron saint of Georgia, England
and other states
304? Victorinus, bishop of Pettau
304? Pope Marcellinus, having repented from his
previous defection, suers martyrdom with several
companions
306 Synod of Elvira prohibits relations between
Christians and Jews

250? Origen, Jesus and God one substance, adopted 310 Maxentius deports Pope Eusebius and
at First Council of Nicaea in 325, compiled Hexapla; Heraclius[23][24] to Sicily (relapse controversy)
cites Alexandrian, Caesarean text-type; Eusebius 312 Lucian of Antioch, founder of School of Anti-
claimed Origen castrated himself for Christ due to och, martyred
Mt19:12 (EH6.8.1-3)
312 Vision of Constantine: while gazing into the sun
251-424? Synods of Carthage he sees a cross with the words by this sign conquer,
251-258 Antipope Novatian decreed no forgiveness see also Labarum, he was later called the 13th Apos-
for sins after baptism (An antipope was an individual tle and Equal-to-apostles
whose claim to the papacy was either rejected by the 313 Edict of Milan: Constantine and Licinius end
Church at the time or later recognized as invalid.)[22] persecution, establish toleration of Christianity
254-257 Pope Stephen I: major schism over rebap-
313? Lateran Palace given to Pope Miltiades for res-
tizing heretics and apostates
idence by Constantine
258 "Valerian's Massacre": Roman emperor issues
313? Traditional date for founding of the
edict to execute immediately all Christian Bishops,
Brotherhood of the Holy Sepulchre
Presbyters, and Deacons, including Pope Sixtus II,
Antipope Novatian, Cyprian of Carthage (CE: Va- 314 King Urnayr of Caucasian Albania adopts
lerian, Schas History Vol 2 Chap 2 22) Christianity as ocial religion
264-269 Synods of Antioch: condemned Paul 314 Catholic Council of Arles,[25] called by Con-
of Samosata, Bishop of Antioch, founder of stantine against Donatist schism to conrm the
Adoptionism (Jesus was human until Holy Spirit Council of Rome in 313
descended at his baptism), also condemned term
homoousios adopted at Nicaea 314-340? Eusebius, bishop of Caesarea, church
historian, cited Caesarean text-type, wrote
265 Gregory Thaumaturgus (Ante-Nicene Fathers) Ecclesiastical History in 325[26]
270? Anthony begins monastic movement 317? Lactantius
275? Papyrus 47: 3rd Chester Beatty, ~Sinaiticus, 321 Constantine decrees Sunday as state day of
Rev9:10-11:3,5-16:15,17-17:2 rest (CJ3.12.2), see also Sol Invictus
276 Mani (prophet), crucied, founder of the dual-
istic Manichaean sect in Persia
3 First Seven Ecumenical Councils
282-300? Theonas, bishop of Alexandria (Ante-
Nicene Fathers)
Main article: First seven Ecumenical Councils
290-345? St Pachomius, founder of Christian
monasticism Constantine called the First Council of Nicaea in 325
296-304 Pope Marcellinus, oered pagan sacrices to unify Christology, also called the rst great Chris-
for Diocletian, later repented. Name in Martyrology tian council by Jerome, the rst ecumenical, decreed the
of Bede Original Nicene Creed, but rejected by Nontrinitarians
such as Arius, Theonas, Secundus of Ptolemais, Eusebius
301 - Armenia is the rst kingdom in history to of Nicomedia, and Theognis of Nicaea who were
adopt Christianity as state religion excommunicated, also addressed Easter controversy and
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passed 20 Canon laws such as Canon VII which granted
special recognition to Jerusalem.
325, 20 May- 19 June: The First Council of Nicaea
325 The Kingdom of Aksum (Modern Ethiopia and
Eritrea) declares Christianity as the ocial state re-
ligion, becoming the 2nd country to do so
325 Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem, ordered
built by Constantine
326, November 18 Pope Sylvester I consecrates the
Basilica of St. Peter built by Constantine the Great
over the tomb of the Apostle
328-373 Athanasius, bishop of Alexandria, rst cite
of modern 27 book New Testament canon
330 Old Church of the Holy Apostles, dedicated by
Constantine
330, May 11: Constantinople solemly inaugurated.
Constantine moves the capital of the Roman Empire
to Byzantium, renaming it New Rome
331 Constantine commissions Eusebius to deliver 50
Bibles for the Church of Constantinople[27]
335 Council in Jerusalem reverses Nicaeas con-
demnation of Arius, consecrates Jerusalem Church
of the Holy Sepulchre
337? Mirian III of Iberia (present-day Georgia)
adopts Christianity.[28]
337, May 22: Constantine the Great dies (baptized
shortly prior to his death)
341-379 Shapur II's persecution of Persian Chris-
tians
343? Catholic Council of Sardica, canons con-
rmed by Pope Julius
350? Julius Firmicus Maternus
350? Codex Sinaiticus(), Codex Vaticanus Grae-
cus 1209(B): earliest Christian Bibles, Alexandrian
text-type
350? Ullas, Arian, apostle to the Goths, translates
Greek NT to Gothic
350? Comma Johanneum 1Jn5:7b-8a(KJV)
350? Atius, Arian, Syntagmation": God is agen-
netos (unbegotten)", founder of Anomoeanism
350? School of Nisibis founded
353-367 Hilary, bishop of Poitiers
355-365 Antipope Felix II, Arian, supported by
Constantius II, consecrated by Acacius of Caesarea
357 Council of Sirmium issues so-called Blasphemy
of Sirmium or Seventh Arian Confession,[29] called
high point of Arianism
359 Council of Rimini, Dated Creed (Acacians);
Pope Liberius rejects Arian creed of council
360 Julian the Apostate becomes the last non-
Christian Roman Emperor
363-364 Council of Laodicea: Canon 29 decreed
anathema for Christians who rest on the Sabbath,
disputed Canon 60 named 26 NT books (excluded
Revelation)
366-367 Antipope Ursicinus, rival to Pope Damasus
I
367-403 Epiphanius, Bishop of Salamis, wrote Pa-
narion against heresies
370-379 Basil the Great, Bishop of Caesarea
370? Doctrine of Addai at Edessa proclaims 17
book NT canon using Diatessaron (instead of the
4 Gospels) + Acts + 15 Pauline Epistles (inc. 3
Corinthians) Syriac Orthodox Church
370 (d. ca.) Optatus of Milevis, who in his con-
ict with the sectarian Donatists stressed unity and
catholicity as marks of the Church over and above
holiness, and also that the sacraments derived their
validity from God, not from the priest
372-394 Gregory, Bishop Of Nyssa
373 Ephrem the Syrian, cited Western Acts
374-397 Ambrose, governor of Milan until 374,
then made Bishop of Milan
375-395 Ausonius, Christian governor of Gaul
379-381 Gregory Nazianzus, Bishop of Con-
stantinople
380, February 27: Emperor Theodosius I issues the
Edict of Thessalonica, declaring Nicene Christianity
as the state church of the Roman Empire[30]
380, November 24: Emperor Theodosius I is bap-
tised
381 First Council of Constantinople, 2nd
ecumenical: Jesus had true human soul, Nicene
Creed of 381
382 Catholic Council of Rome under Pope Damasus
I sets the Biblical Canon, listing the inspired books
of the Old Testament and the New Testament (dis-
puted)
383? Frumentius, Apostle of Ethiopia
385 Priscillian, rst heretic to be executed?

386 Cyril of Jerusalem: wrote compellingly of
catholicity of the Church
390? Apollinaris, Bishop of Laodicea, believed Je-
sus had human body but divine spirit
391: The Theodosian decrees outlaw most pagan rit-
uals still practiced in Rome
396-430 Augustine, bishop of Hippo, consid-
ered the founder of formalized Christian theology
(Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers)
397? Saint Ninian evangelizes Picts in Scotland
398-404 John Chrysostom, Patriarch of Con-
stantinople, see also List of Patriarchs of Con-
stantinople, (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers)
400: Jerome's Vulgate (Latin edition and translation
of the Bible) is published
400? Ethiopic Bible: in Ge'ez, 81 books, standard
Ethiopian Orthodox Bible
400? Peshitta Bible in Syriac (Aramaic), Syr(p), OT
+ 22 NT, excludes: 2Pt, 2-3Jn, Jude, Rev; standard
Syriac Orthodox Church Bible
406 Armenian Bible, translated by Saint Mesrop,
standard Armenian Orthodox Bible
410, 24 August: Sack of Rome by Alaric and the
Visigoths
412-444 Cyril, bishop of Alexandria, coined
Hypostatic union
418-419 Antipope Eulalius, rival to Pope Boniface
I 495, May 13 Vicar of Christ decreed a title of
420 St. Jerome, Vulgate translator, Latin scholar,
cited expanded ending in Mark after Mark 16:8,
Pericope of the Adultress addition to John (John
7:53-8:11) (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers)
423-457 Theodoret, bishop of Cyrrhus, noted Ta-
tians Diatesseron in heavy use, wrote a Church His-
tory
431 Council of Ephesus, 3rd ecumenical: repu-
diated Nestorianism, decreed Mary the Mother of
God, forbade any changes to Nicene Creed of
381, rejected by the Persian Church, leading to the
Nestorian Schism
432 St Patrick begins his mission in Ireland. Almost
the entire nation is Christian by the time of his death
in a conversion that is both incredibly successful and
largely bloodless
440-461 Pope Leo the Great: sometimes consid-
ered the rst pope (of inuence) by non-Catholics,
stopped Attila the Hun at Rome, issued Tome in
support of Hypostatic Union, approved Council of
Chalcedon but rejected canons in 453
7
449 Second Council of Ephesus, Monophysite: Je-
sus was divine but not human
450? Codex Alexandrinus(A): Alexandrian text-
type; Codex Bezae(D): Greek/Latin Gospels + Acts;
Codex Washingtonianus(W): Greek Gospels; both
of Western text-type
450? std. Aramaic Targums, Old Testament in
Aramaic
450? Socrates Scholasticus Church History of 305-
438; Sozomen Church History of 323-425
451 Council of Chalcedon, 4th ecumenical, de-
clared Jesus is a Hypostatic Union: both human
and divine in one (Chalcedonian Creed), rejected
by Oriental Orthodoxy
455: Sack of Rome by the Vandals. The spoils of
the Temple of Jerusalem previously taken by Titus
are allegedly among the treasures taken to Carthage
456? Eutyches of Constantinople, Monophysite
465? Prosper of Aquitaine
476, September 4 Emperor Romulus Augustus is
deposed in Rome, marked by many as the fall of
the Western Roman Empire
484-519 Acacian Schism, over Henoticon, divides
Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) churches
491 Armenian Orthodox split from East (Greek) and
West (Latin) churches
Bishop of Rome by Pope Gelasius I
496 Clovis I, King of the Franks, baptized
498-499,501-506 Antipope Laurentius, rival of
Pope Symmachus, Laurentian schism
500? Incense introduced in Christian church ser-
vice, rst plans of Vatican
524 Boethius, Roman Christian philosopher, wrote
Theological Tractates, Consolation of Philosophy;
(Loeb Classics) (Latin)
525 Dionysius Exiguus denes Christian calendar
(AD)
527 Fabius Planciades Fulgentius
529 Benedict of Nursia establishes his rst
monastery in the Abbey of Monte Cassino, Italy,
where he writes the Rule of St Benedict
530 Antipope Dioscorus, possibly a legitimate Pope
535-536 Unusual climate changes recorded
8 3 FIRST SEVEN ECUMENICAL COUNCILS
537-555 Pope Vigilius, involved in death of Pope
Silverius, conspired with Justinian and Theodora,
on April 11, 548 issued Judicatum supporting Jus-
tinians anti-Hypostatic Union, excommunicated by
bishops of Carthage in 550
538 Byzantine general Belisarius defeats last Arian
kingdom; Western Europe completely Catholic
541-542 Plague of Justinian
543 Justinian condemns Origen, disastrous earth-
quakes hit the world
544 Justinian condemns the Three Chapters of
Theodore of Mopsuestia (died 428) and other writ-
ings of Hypostatic Union Christology of Council of
Chalcedon
550 St. David converts Wales, crucix introduced
553 Second Council of Constantinople, 5th
ecumenical, called by Justinian
556-561 Pope Pelagius I, selected by Justinian, en-
dorsed Judicatum
563 Columba goes to Scotland to evangelize Picts,
establishes monastery at Iona
567 Cassiodorus
589 Catholic Third Council of Toledo: Reccared
and the Visigoths convert from Arianism to Catholi-
cism and Filioque clause is added to Nicene Creed
of 381
590-604 Pope Gregory the Great, whom many con-
sider the greatest pope ever, reforms church struc-
ture and administration and establishes Gregorian
Chant, Seven deadly sins
591-628 Theodelinda, Queen of the Lombards, be-
gan gradual conversion from Arianism to Catholi-
cism
596 St. Augustine of Canterbury sent by Pope Gre-
gory to evangelise the Jutes
600? Evagrius Scholasticus, Church History of
AD431-594[31]
604 Saxon cathedral created (by Mellitus) where St
Pauls Cathedral in London now stands
609 Pantheon, Rome renamed Church of Santa
Maria Rotonda
612? Bobbio monastery in northern Italy
613 Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland
614 Khosrau II of Persia conquers Damascus,
Jerusalem, takes Holy Cross of Christ
622 Mohammed founds Islam after eeing to Mecca
624 Battle of Badr, considered beginning of Islamic
Empire
625 Paulinus of York comes to convert Northumbria
628 Babai the Great, pillar of Church of the East,
dies
628-629 Battle of Mut'ah: Heraclius recovers Cross
of Christ and Jerusalem from Islam until 638
632 Eorpwald of East Anglia baptized under inu-
ence of Edwin of Northumbria
634-644 Umar, 2nd Sunni Islam Caliph: capital at
Damascus, conquered Syria in 635, defeated Hera-
clius at Battle of Yarmuk in 636, conquered Egypt
and Armenia in 639, Persia in 642
635 Cynegils of Wessex baptized by Bishop Birinus
664 Synod of Whitby unites Celtic Christianity of
British Isles with Roman Catholicism
680-681 Third Council of Constantinople, 6th
ecumenical, against Monothelites, condemned Pope
Honorius I, Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople,
Heraclius Ecthesis
681-686 Wilfrid converts Sussex
687-691 Dome of the Rock built
690? Old English Bible translations
692 Orthodox Quinisext Council, convoked by
Justinian II, approved Canons of the Apostles of
Apostolic Constitutions, Clerical celibacy, rejected
by Pope Constantine
698 Fall of Carthage
711-718 Umayyad conquest of Hispania
717-718 Second Arab siege of Constantinople
718-1492 Reconquista: Iberian Peninsula retaken
by Roman Catholic Visigoth monarchs
718 Saint Boniface, archbishop of Mainz; an En-
glishman, given commission by Pope Gregory II to
evangelize the Germans
720? Disentis Abbey of Switzerland
730-787 First Iconoclasm: Byzantine Emperor Leo
III bans Christian icons; Pope Gregory II excommu-
nicates him
731 English Church History written by Bede
732 Battle of Tours stops Islam from expanding
westward

750? Tower added to St Peters Basilica at the front
of the atrium
752? Donation of Constantine, granted Western
Roman Empire to the Pope (later proved a forgery)
756 Donation of Pepin recognizes Papal States
781 Nestorian Stele, Daqin Pagoda, Jesus Sutras,
Christianity in China
787 Second Council of Nicaea, 7th ecumenical:
ends rst Iconoclasm
793 Sacking of the monastery of Lindisfarne marks
the beginning of Viking raids on Christendom
4 Middle Ages
Main article: Medieval history of Christianity
800 King Charlemagne of the Franks is crowned
rst Holy Roman Emperor of the West by Pope Leo
III
849-865 Ansgar, Archbishop of Bremen, Apostle
of the North, began evangelisation of North Ger-
many, Denmark, Sweden
855 Antipope Anastasius: Louis II, Holy Roman
Emperor appoints him over Pope Benedict III but
popular pressure causes withdrawal
863 Saint Cyril and Saint Methodius sent by the
Patriarch of Constantinople to evangelise the Slavic
peoples. They translate the Bible into Slavonic
869-870 Catholic Fourth Council of Constantinople
condemns Patriarch Photius (rejected by Orthodox)
879-880 Orthodox Fourth Council of Constantino-
ple restores Photius, condemns Pope Nicholas I and
Filioque (rejected by Catholics)
897, January Cadaver Synod: Pope Stephen VI con-
ducts trial against dead Pope Formosus, public up-
rising against Stephen leads to his imprisonment and
strangulation
909 Abbey of Cluny, Benedictine monastery,
founded in France
966 Duke Mieszko I of Poland baptised; Poland be-
comes a Christian country
984 Antipope Boniface VII, murdered Pope John
XIV, alleged to have murdered Pope Benedict VI in
974
988? Christianization of Kievan Rus
9
991 Archbishop Arnulf of Rheims accuses Pope
John XV of being the Antichrist
997-998 Antipope John XVI, deposed by Pope Gre-
gory V and his cousin Holy Roman Emperor Otto III
1000 or 1001 Saint Stephen of Hungary crowned;
Hungary becomes a Christian country
1001 Byzantine emperor Basil II and Fatimid Caliph
Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah execute a treaty guarantee-
ing the protection of Christian pilgrimage routes in
the Middle East
1009 Caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah destroys the
Church of the Holy Sepulchre, built over the tomb of
Jesus in Jerusalem, and then rebuilds it to its current
state
1012 Antipope Gregory VI, removed by Henry II,
Holy Roman Emperor
1030 Battle of Stiklestad, considered victory of
Christianity over Norwegian paganism
1045 Sigfrid of Sweden, Benedictine evangelist
1046 Council of Sutri: Pope Sylvester III exiled,
Pope Gregory VI admits to buying the papacy and
resigns, Pope Benedict IX resigns, council appoints
Pope Clement II
1054 East-West Schism split between Eastern
(Orthodox Christianity) and Western (Roman
Catholic) churches formalized
1058-1059 Antipope Benedict X, defeated in war
with Pope Nicholas II and Normans
1061-1064 Antipope Honorius II, rival of Pope
Alexander II
1065 Westminster Abbey consecrated
1073-1085 Pope Gregory VII: Investiture Contro-
versy with Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor, pro-
ponent of clerical celibacy, opponent of simony,
concubinage, Antipope Clement III
1079 Stanislaus of Szczepanw, patron saint of
Poland
1080 Hospital of Saint John the Baptist founded in
Jeruselem by merchants from Amal and Salerno -
serves as the foundation for the Knights Hospitaller
1082 Engelberg Abbey of Switzerland built
1093-1109 Anselm, Archbishop of Canterbury,
writes Cur Deus Homo (Why God Became Man), a
landmark exploration of the Atonement
1095-1291 10 Crusades, rst called by Pope Urban
II at Council of Clermont against Islamic Empire, to
reconquer the Holy Land for Christendom
10
1098 Foundation of the reforming monastery of
Cteaux, leads to the growth of the Cistercian order
1101 Antipope Theodoric and Antipope Adalbert
deposed by Pope Paschal II
1113 Knights Hospitaller conrmed by Papal bull
of Pope Paschal II, listing Blessed Gerard (Gerard
Thom) as founder, (a.k.a. Sovereign Order of Saint
John of Jerusalem of Rhodes and of Malta, Knights
of Malta, Knights of Rhodes, and Chevaliers of
Malta)
1118 Knights Templar founded, to defend Holy
Land
1123 Catholic First Lateran Council
1124 Conversion of Pomerania - rst mission of
Otto of Bamberg
1128 Holyrood Abbey in Scotland
1128 Conversion of Pomerania - second mission of
Otto of Bamberg
1130 Peter of Bruys burned at the stake
1131 Tintern Abbey founded in Wales
1131-1138 Antipope Anacletus II
1139 Catholic Second Lateran Council
1140? Decretum Gratiani, Catholic Canon law
1142 Peter Ablard, Letters of Abelard and Heloise
1144 The Saint Denis Basilica of Abbot Suger is the
rst major building in the style of Gothic architec-
ture
1154-1159 Pope Adrian IV, rst (and to date only)
English pope
1155 Theotokos of Vladimir arrives to Bogolyubovo
1155 Carmelites founded
1163 Construction begins on Notre Dame de Paris
1168 Conversion of Pomerania - Principality of Ru-
gia missioned by Absalon
1173 Waldensians founded
1179 Catholic Third Lateran Council
1191 Teutonic Knights founded
1204-1261 Latin Empire of Constantinople
Main article: Medieval history of Christianity Late
1205 Saint Francis of Assisi becomes a hermit, Middle Ages (13001499)
founding the Franciscan order of friars; renounces See also: Renaissance
wealth and begins his ministry
5 RENAISSANCE
1208 Start of the Albigensian Crusade against the
Cathars
1214 Rosary is reportedly given to St. Dominic
(who founded Dominican Order) by an apparition
of Mary
1215 Catholic Fourth Lateran Council decrees spe-
cial dress for Jews and Muslims, and declares
Waldensians, founded by Peter Waldo, as heretics.
One of the goals is the elimination of the heresy of
the Cathars
1219 Francis of Assisi crosses enemy lines during
the Fifth Crusade to speak to Sultan al-Kamil; the
meeting ends with a meal. James of Vitry writes
that Muslim soldiers returned Francis and another
friar, Illuminato, with signs of honor.[32]
1220-1263 St Alexander Nevsky, holy patron of
Russia
1231 Charter of the University of Paris granted by
Pope Gregory IX
1241 Pope Gregory IX denounced as Antichrist by
Eberhard II von Truchsees, Prince-Archbishop of
Salzburg, at the Council of Regensburg
1245 Catholic First Council of Lyon
1252, May 15 Ad exstirpanda: Pope Innocent IV
authorizes use of torture in Inquisitions
1260 Date at which a 1988 Vatican sponsored sci-
entic study places the origin of the Shroud of Turin
1263, July 2024 The Disputation of Barcelona is
held at the royal palace of King James I of Aragon in
the presence of the King, his court, and many promi-
nent ecclesiastical dignitaries and knights, between
a convert from Judaism to Christianity Dominican
Friar Pablo Christiani and Rabbi Nachmanides
1274 Summa Theologiae, written by Thomas
Aquinas, theologian and philosopher, landmark
systematic theology which later becomes ocial
Catholic doctrine
1274 Catholic Second Council of Lyon
1291 Last Crusader city (Acre) falls to the
Mamelukes
5 Renaissance
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1308-1321 Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), by 1425 Catholic University of Leuven

Dante Alighieri; most consensual dates are: Inferno
written between 13071308, Purgatorio from 1307-
1308 to 1313-1314 and last the Paradiso from 1313-
1314 to 1321 (year of Dantes death)
1307 The arrest of many of the Knights Templar,
beginning conscation of their property and extrac-
tion of confessions under torture
1305-1378 Avignon Papacy, Popes reside in Avi-
gnon, France
1311-1312 Catholic Council of Vienne disbands
Knights Templar
1313 Foundation of the legendary Order of the Rose
Cross (Rosicrucian Order), a mystic Christian frater-
nity for the rst time expounded in the major Chris-
tian literary work The Divine Comedy[33][34][35][36]
1430? Andrei Rublev, the greatest of medieval icon-
painters
1431 St. Joan of Arc, French national heroine,
burned at the stake
1431-1445 Catholic Council of Basel-Ferrara-
Florence
1439 Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, highest building in
the world until 1874
1452 Dum Diversas, papal bull issued on 18 June
1452, credited with ushering in the West African
slave trade in Europe and the New World
1453 Fall of Constantinople, overrun by Ottoman
Empire

1314 Jacques de Molay, last Grandmaster of 1455 Gutenberg Bible, rst printed Bible, by Johann
Knights Templar, burned at the stake Gutenberg

1326 Metropolitan Peter moves his see from Kiev to 1473-1481 Sistine Chapel built
Moscow
1478 Spanish Inquisition established by Pope Sixtus
1341-1351 Orthodox Fifth Council of Constantino- IV
ple
1483 Martin Luther born in Eisleben
1342 Marsilius of Padua
1484 December 5, Summis desiderantes against
1345 Sergii Radonezhskii founds a hermitage in Witchcraft issued by Pope Innocent VIII
the woods, which grows into the Troitse-Sergiyeva
Lavra 1487 Persecution and crusade against the
Waldensians instigated by Pope Innocent VIII
1378-1418 Western Schism in Roman Catholicism
1492 Columbus opens new continents to Christian-
1380-1382 Wyclies Bible, by John Wyclie, em-
ity
inent theologian at Oxford, NT in 1380, OT (with
help of Nicholas of Hereford) in 1382, translations 1498 Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest,
into Middle English, 1st complete translation to writes Bonre of the Vanities
English, includes deuterocanonical books, preaches
against abuses, expresses anti-catholic views of the 1506 Pope Julius II orders the Old St. Peters
sacraments (Penance and Eucharist), the use of Basilica torn down and authorizes Donato Bramante
relics, and clerical celibacy to plan a new structure (demolition completed in
1606); Vatican Swiss Guard founded
1388 Twenty-ve Articles of the Lollards published
1508-1512 Michelangelo frescoes the Sistine
1408 Council of Oxford forbids translations of the
Chapel's vaulted ceiling
Scriptures into the vernacular, unless and until they
are fully approved by church authority 1512-1517 Catholic Fifth Council of the Lateran:
condemned Conciliarism
1409 Council of Pisa declares Roman Pope Gre-
gory XII and Avignon Pope Benedict XIII deposed,
electsd Pope Alexander V (called the Pisan Pope)
6 Reformation
1414-1418 Catholic Council of Constance asks Gre-
gory XII, Benedict XIII, Pisan Pope John XXIII to
See also: Protestant Reformation
resign their papal claims, then elects Pope Martin V;
condemns John Wyclie and Jan Hus, who is burned
at the stake
1517 95 Theses of Martin Luther begins German
1423-1424 Council of Siena Protestant Reformation
12
1518 Heidelberg Disputation: Martin Luther puts
forth his Theology of the Cross
1519 Leipzig Debate between Martin Luther and
Johann Eck
1520 Luther publishes three monumental works, To
the Christian Nobility of the German Nation, On the
Babylonian Captivity of the Church, and On the Free-
dom of a Christian
1521 Luther refuses to recant his works at the Diet
of Worms
1521 Papal bull Decet Romanum Ponticem (It
Pleases the Roman Ponti) excommunicates Luther
1521 Ferdinand Magellan claims the Philippines
for Spain, rst mass and subsequent conversion to
Catholicism, rst in East Asia
1522 Luthers NT, German NT translation
1524 The Freedom of the Will published by
Erasmus
1525 On the Bondage of the Will published by
Luther in response to Erasmus
1525 Anabaptist movement begins
1526 Tyndales NT, English NT translation from
1516 Greek text of Erasmus, rst printed edition,
reects inuence of Luthers NT in rejecting priest
for elder, church for congregation, banned in 1546
by Henry VIII of England
1526 Luther publishes his German Mass and The
Sacrament of the Body and Blood of ChristAgainst
the Fanatics, his rst written work against the
Sacramentarians
1528 Reformation in Denmark-Norway and Hol-
stein, Lutheranism is ocially adopted
1528 Luther arms the real presence of Christs
body and blood in his Confession Concerning Christs
Supper
1529 Marburg Colloquy, Luther defends doctrine of
Real Presence in discussion with Zwingli
1530 Augsburg Confession, rst doctrinal statement
of the Lutheran Church
1531 Huldrych Zwingli is killed during the Second
war of Kappel
1531 Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico: According
to tradition, when the roses fell from it the icon of
the Virgin of Guadalupe appeared imprinted on the
cactus cloth. The sudden, extraordinary success of
the evangelizing of ten million Indians in the decade
of 15311541.
6 REFORMATION
1534 Henry VIII establishes new independent entity
Church of England, see also English Reformation
1534 Jesuit order founded by Ignatius of Loyola,
helped reconvert large areas of Poland, Hungary,
and south Germany and sent missionaries to the New
World, India, and China
1535-1537 Myles Coverdale's Bible, used Tyndales
NT along with Latin and German versions, included
Apocrypha at the end of the OT (like Luthers Bible
of 1534) as was done in later English versions, 1537
edition received royal license, but banned in 1546
by Henry VIII
1535 Thomas More refuses to accept King Henry
VIIIs claim to be the supreme head of the Church
in England, and is executed
1535-1679 Forty Martyrs of England and Wales
1536 Desiderius Erasmus, eminent Dutch humanist
and editor of the Textus Receptus, dies
1536 Tyndale put to death, left his OT translation
in manuscript, English ecclesiastical authorities or-
dered his Bible burned because it was thought to be
part of Lutheran reform
1536 Institutes of the Christian Religion written by
John Calvin (Calvinism)
1536 John of Leiden, fanatic Dutch Anabaptist
1536 Jacob Hutter, founder of Hutterites
1536 Helvetic Confessions of the Reformed
Churches of Switzerland
1536-1540 Dissolution of the Monasteries in Eng-
land, Wales and Ireland
1536 Pilgrimage of Grace
1536-1541 Michelangelo paints The Last Judge-
ment
1537 Christian III of Denmark decreed
Lutheranism state religion of Norway and Denmark
1537 Luther writes Smalcald Articles
1537-1551 Matthew Bible, by John Rogers, based
on Tyndale and Coverdale received royal license but
not authorized for use in public worship, numer-
ous editions, 1551 edition contained oensive notes
(based on Tyndale)
1539-1569 Great Bible, by Thomas Cromwell, 1st
English Bible to be authorized for public use in
English churches, defective in many places, based
on last Tyndales NT of 1534-1535, corrected by
a Latin version of the Hebrew OT, Latin Bible of
Erasmus, and Complutensian Polyglot, last edition
1569, never denounced by England

1541 John Calvin returns to Geneva
1542 Roman Inquisition established by Pope Paul III
1542 Robert Bellarmine born - became a Cardinal
Inquisitor under Pope Clement VIII
1543 Parliament of England bans Tyndales transla-
tion as a crafty, false and untrue translation
1545-1563 Catholic Council of Trent: Counter-
Reformation against Protestantism, clearly dened
an ocial theology and biblical canon
1549 Original Book of Common Prayer of the
Church of England written by Thomas Cranmer
1551 The Stoglav Church Council (One Hundred
Chapters) Moscow, Russia
1552 Joachim Westphal starts controversy against
Calvinists, defending Lutheran doctrine of Real
Presence
1552 Francis Xavier, Jesuit missionary, Apostle of
the Indies
1553 Pontical Gregorian University founded at
Vatican City
1553 Michael Servetus founder of Unitarianism,
burned at the stake in Geneva
1553-1558 Queen Mary I of England persecutes re-
formers: John Rogers, Hugh Latimer, Nicholas Ri-
dley, Thomas Cranmer; of 238 burned at the stake
1555 Peace of Augsburg gives religious freedom in
Germany only to Lutheran Protestants
1558 Church of England permanently reestablished
after Mary I of England deposed
1559 Military Order of the Golden Spur founded by
Pope Paul IV
1560 Geneva Bible, NT a revision of Matthews ver-
sion of Tyndale with use of Theodore Beza's NT
(1556), OT a thorough revision of Great Bible, ap-
pointed to be read in Scotland (but not England), at
least 140 editions, rst Bible with chapter and verse
numbers
1560 Scots Confession, Church of Scotland, Scot-
tish Reformation
1560-1598 French Wars of Religion
1560-1812 Goa Inquisition, persecution of Hindus
and Jews in India, see also Christianity in India
1561 Menno Simons, founder of Mennonites
1563 Thirty-Nine Articles of Church of England,
also decreed Biblical canon
13
1563 Heidelberg Catechism of Reformed churches
1565-73 Examination of the Council of Trent by
Martin Chemnitz
1566 Roman Catechism and Index of Prohibited
Books published
1569 Metropolitan Philip of Moscow strangled by
Malyuta Skuratov
1571 Dutch Reformed Church established
1571 Battle of Lepanto saves Christian Europe;
Pope Pius V organizes the Holy League led by Don
Juan de Austria to defend Europe from the larger Is-
lamic Ottoman forces (230 galleys and 56 galliots)
1572 John Knox founds Scottish Presbyterian
Church, due to disagreement with Lutherans over
sacraments and church government
1572-1606 Bishops Bible, a revision of the Great
Bible checked against the Hebrew text, 1st to be
published in England by episcopal authority
1572 St. Bartholomews Day Massacre: Thousands
of Protestants murdered in France
1577 Formula of Concord adopted by German
Lutherans
1579 Discovery of the holiest Russian icon, Our
Lady of Kazan
1580 Book of Concord of Lutheranism
1582 St Teresa of Avila dies
1582 Gregorian calendar of Pope Gregory XIII
adopted at dierent times in dierent regions of the
world
1582 Rheims New Testament published - it later be-
came part of the 1610 DouayRheims Bible
1585 Jesuit scholar Francisco Ribera publishes rst
futurist interpretation, of the Biblical books of
Daniel and Revelation
1587 Toyotomi Hideyoshi expels Jesuits from
Kysh
1587? Mission Nombre De Dios in St. Augustine,
Florida, considered rst Catholic mission to North
America[37]
1588 Spanish Armada defeated in its eorts to re-
conquer England for Catholicism
1589 Metropolitan Jove is elected the rst Patriarch
of Moscow
1590 Michelangelos dome in St Peters Basilica
completed
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1591 St John of the Cross
1592 The Clementine Vulgate of Pope Clement
VIII, replaced the Sistine Vulgate of 1590, the stan-
dard Latin Catholic Bible until the Second Vatican
Council
1596 Ukrainian Catholic Church forms when
Ukrainian subjects of the king of Poland are
reunited with Rome, largest Byzantine Catholic
Church
1598 Edict of Nantes grants toleration to French
Protestants (Huguenots)
1600 Giordano Bruno, Dominican priest, burned at
the stake
7 17th century
See also: Age of Reason
1604 Fausto Paolo Sozzini Socinianism
1606 Carlo Maderno redesigns St Peters Basilica
into a Latin cross
1607 Jamestown, Virginia founded
1608 Quebec City founded by Samuel de Cham-
plain
1609 Baptist Church founded by John Smyth, due
to objections to infant baptism and demands for
church-state separation
1609-1610 Douay-Rheims Bible, 1st Catholic En-
glish translation, OT published in two volumes,
based on an unocial Louvain text corrected by Sis-
tine Vulgate, NT is Rheims text of 1582
1611 King James Version (Authorised Version) is
published, based primarily on Tyndales work and
Bishops Bible of 1572, rst printings included sep-
arate Apocrypha between the testaments
1614 Fama Fraternitatis, the rst Rosicrucian man-
ifesto (may have been in circulation ca. 1610) pre-
senting the The Fraternity of the Rose Cross"
1615 Confessio Fraternitatis, the second Rosicru-
cian manifesto describing the Most Honorable Or-
der as Christian[38]
1616 Chemical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreutz,
the third Rosicrucian manifesto (an hermetic alle-
gory presenting alchemical and Christian elements)
1618-1648 Thirty Years War
1620 Plymouth Colony founded by Puritans
7 17TH CENTURY
1622-1642 Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal
Richelieu
1630 City upon a Hill, sermon by John Winthrop
1634-37 Confessio catholica by Lutheran theologian
Johann Gerhard
1635 Roger Williams banished from Massachusetts
Bay Colony, for advocating separation of church and
state
1636 Founding of what was later known as Harvard
University as a training school for ministers - the rst
of thousands of institutions of Christian higher ed-
ucation founded in the USA
1636-1638 Cornelius Jansen, bishop of Ypres,
founder of Jansenism
1637-1638 Shimabara Rebellion
1638 Anne Hutchinson banished as a heretic from
Massachusetts
1641 John Cotton, advocate of theonomy, helps to
establish the social constitution of the Massachusetts
Bay Colony
1643 Acta Sanctorum
1643 John Campanius arrives in New Sweden
1644 Rhode Island founded by Roger Williams as
rst colony to establish complete religious liberty
1644 Long Parliament directs that only Hebrew
canon be read in the Church of England (eectively
removing the Apocrypha)
1646 Westminster Standards produced by the As-
sembly, one of the rst and undoubtedly the most
important and lasting religious document drafted af-
ter the reconvention of the Parliament, also decrees
Biblical canon
1648 George Fox founds the Quaker movement
1648 Treaty of Westphalia ends Thirty Years War,
extends religious toleration to Calvinists
1650 Bishop James Ussher calculates date of cre-
ation as October 23, 4004 BC
1653-56 Raskol of the Russian Orthodox Church
1655-1677, Abraham Calovius publishes Systema
Iocorum theologicorum, height of Lutheran scholas-
ticism
1660-1685 King Charles II of England, restoration
of monarchy, continuing through James II, reversed
decision of Long Parliament of 1644, reinstating the
Apocrypha, reversal not heeded by non-conformists

1666 Paul Gerhardt, Lutheran pastor and hymn-
writer, is removed from his position as a pastor in
Nikolaikirche in Berlin, when he refuses to accept
syncretistic edict of the Elector Friedrich Wilhelm
I of Brandenburg
1672 Greek Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem: decreed
Biblical canon
1675 Philipp Jakob Spener publishes Pia Desideria,
which becomes a manifesto for Pietism
1678 John Bunyan publishes Pilgrims Progress
1682 Avvakum, leader of the Old Believers, burned
at the stake in the Far North of Russia
1683 Roger Williams, advocate of Separation of
church and state, founder of Providence, Rhode Is-
land, dies
1685 Edict of Fontainebleau outlaws Protestantism
in France
1685 James II of England baptizes his son as a
Catholic
1685 Orthodoxy introduced to Beijing by Russian
Orthodox Church
1688 'Glorious Revolution' overthrows James II of
England over fears of Catholic restoration; William
of Orange takes English throne
1689 English Bill of Rights establishes religious lib-
erty
1692 Salem witch trials held in Colonial America
1692-1721 Chinese Rites controversy
1693 Jacob Amman founds Amish sect
8 18th century
See also: Age of Enlightenment
1701 Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands splits
with Roman Catholicism
1706 Bartholomus Ziegenbalg, missionary, arrives
in Tranquebar
1707 Examen theologicum acroamaticum by David
Hollatz: the last great Lutheran doctrinal work be-
fore the Age of Enlightenment
1718-22 Orthodox Lutheran Valentin Ernst Lscher
publishes The Complete Timotheus Verinus against
Pietism
15
1721 Peter the Great substitutes Moscow Patriar-
chate with the Holy Synod
1722 Hans Egede, missionary, arrives in Greenland
1728 The Vicar of Bray (song)
1730-1749 First Great Awakening in U.S.
1735 Welsh Methodist revival
1738 Methodist movement, led by John Wesley and
his hymn-writing brother Charles, begins
1740 Johann Phillip Fabricius, missionary, arrives
in South India
1741 Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God, famous
Fire and brimstone sermon
1741 George Frederick Handel performs his classic
gospel oratorio Messiah for the rst time
1754 An Historical Account of Two Notable Cor-
ruptions of Scripture, by Isaac Newton, published
1767-1815 Suppression of the Jesuits
1768 New Smyrna, Florida, Greek Orthodox
colony, founded
1768 Reimarus dies without publishing his radi-
cal critic work distinguishing Historical Jesus versus
Christ of Faith
1769 Mission San Diego de Alcala, rst California
mission
1771 Emanuel Swedenborg publishes his Universal
Theology of the True Christian Religion, later used
by others to found Swedenborgianism
1774 Ann Lee, leader of American Shakers, emi-
grates to New York from England
1774 Gotthold Ephraim Lessing starts publishing
Reimarus works on historical Jesus as Anony-
mous Fragments, starting Liberal Theology Era (in
Christology)
1776-1788 Gibbons The History of the Decline and
Fall of the Roman Empire, critical of Christianity
1776 Mission Dolores, San Francisco
1779 Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom: Jesus
never coerced anyone to follow him, and the imposi-
tion of a religion by government ocials is impious
1780 Robert Raikes begins Sunday schools to reach
poor and uneducated children in England
1784 American Methodists form Methodist Episco-
pal Church at so-called Christmas Conference, led
by bishops Thomas Coke and Francis Asbury
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1784 Roman Catholicism is re-introduced in Korea,
and disseminates after almost 200 years since its rst
introduction in 1593
1789-1815 John Carroll, Archdiocese of Baltimore,
rst Roman Catholic US bishop
1789-1801 Dechristianisation of France during the
French Revolution
1791 First Amendment to the United States Consti-
tution: Congress shall make no law respecting an
establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free ex-
ercise thereof
1793 Herman of Alaska brings Orthodoxy to Alaska
1795 The Age of Reason, written by Thomas Paine,
advocates Deism
1796 Treaty with Tripoli (1796), article 11: the
Government of the United States of America is not,
in any sense, founded on the Christian religion
1800 Friedrich Schleiermacher publishes his rst
book, beginning Liberal Christianity movement
9 19th century
See also: Industrial Revolution
1801 Cane Ridge Revival in Cane Ridge, Kentucky
initiates the Christians (Stone Movement) wing of
the Restoration Movement
1809 Disciples of Christ (Campbell Movement)
wing of the Restoration Movement initiated with the
publication of the Declaration and Address of the
Christian Association of Washington
1815 Peter the Aleut, orthodox Christian, tortured
and martyred in Catholic San Francisco, California
1816 Bishop Richard Allen, a former slave, founds
the African Methodist Episcopal Church, the rst
African-American denomination
1817 Claus Harms publishes 95 theses against
rationalism and the Prussian Union of churches
1819 Thomas Jeerson produces the Jeerson Bible
1824 English translation of Wilhelm Gesenius'
...Handwrterbuch...: Hebrew-English Lexicon,
Hendrickson Publishers
1827 Ernst Wilhelm Hengstenberg takes on the edi-
torship of the Evangelische Kirchenzeitung, the chief
literary organ of the Neo-Lutheranism
9 19TH CENTURY
1828 Plymouth Brethren founded; promotes
Dispensationalism
1830 Catherine Laboure receives Miraculous Medal
from the Blessed Mother in Paris, France
1830 Charles Finney's revivals lead to Second Great
Awakening in America
1830, April 6 Church of Christ (Mormonism, Latter
Day Saint Movement) founded by Joseph Smith as
a result of reported visitations and commandment
by God the Father, Jesus Christ, and later the Angel
Moroni. Book of Mormon also published in 1830
1831 William Miller begins the Advent Movement,
by preaching his rst sermon on the Biblical books
of Daniel and Revelation
1832 Christians (Stone Movement) and Disciples
of Christ (Campbell Movement) merge to form the
Stone-Campbell Restoration Movement
1832, February 28- Persecution of Old Lutherans:
by a royal decree all Lutheran worship is declared
illegal in Prussia in favour of the Prussian Union
agenda[39]
1833 John Kebles sermon "National Apostasy" ini-
tiates the Oxford Movement in England
1838-1839 Saxon Lutherans objecting to theological
rationalism emigrate from Germany to the United
States; settle in Perry County, Missouri. Leads to
formation of the Lutheran Church-Missouri Synod
1843 Disruption of: schism within the established
Church of Scotland
1844 Hans Paludan Smith Schreuder, missionary,
arrives in Port Natal, South Africa
1844 Lars Levi Laestadius experiences
awakeningbeginning of Laestadianism
1844, October 22 Great Disappointment: false pre-
diction of Second Coming of Christ by Millerites
1844, December Ellen G. White, co-founder and
prophetess of the Seventh-day Adventist Church,
has her rst vision
1845 Southern Baptist Convention formed in Au-
gusta, Georgia
1846 Bernadette Soubirous receives the rst of 18
apparitions of Our Lady of Lourdes in Lourdes,
France. Six million a year visit Lourdes Shrine
1847 Lutheran ChurchMissouri Synod founded in
Chicago, Illinois
1847 John Christian Frederick Heyer, missionary,
arrives in Andhra Pradesh, India

1848 Epistle to the Easterners and Encyclical of the
Eastern Patriarchs response
1848 Perfectionist movement in western New York
state
1849 Johann Konrad Wilhelm Lhe founds the rst
deaconess house in Neuendettelsau, Bavaria
1850 Wisconsin Evangelical Lutheran Synod
founded in Milwaukee
1853 Synod of the Norwegian Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America founded outside Madison, Wis-
consin
1854 Missionary Hudson Taylor arrives in China
1854 Immaculate Conception dened as Catholic
dogma
1855 Sren Kierkegaard, founder of Christian exis-
tentialism
1855 Samuel Simon Schmucker begins attempt to
replace the Augsburg Confession with the Denite
Platform in the General Synod, leading to schism in
1866
1859 Ashbel Green Simonton, missionary, arrives in
Brazil and founds Igreja Presbiteriana do Brasil, the
oldest Brazilian Protestant denomination
1863 Seventh-day Adventist Church ocially
formed 19 years after the Great Disappointment
1865 Methodist preacher William Booth founds the
Salvation Army, vowing to bring the gospel into the
streets to the most desperate and needy
1866 General Council (Lutheran) formed by ten
Lutheran synods in the United States
1869-1870 Catholic First Vatican Council asserts
doctrine of Papal Infallibility (rejected by Christian Main article: Christianity in the 20th century
Catholic Church of Switzerland)
1870 Italy declares war on the Papal States; Italian
Army enters Rome; Papal States cease to exist
1871 Pontmain, France is saved from advancing
German troops with the appearing of Our Lady of
Hope
1871-1878 German Kulturkampf against Roman
Catholicism
1872 Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of
North America organized
1876 Evangelical Lutheran Free Church (Germany)
founded
1878 First translation of the New Testament into
Batak by Ludwig Ingwer Nommensen
17
1879 Knock, Ireland is location of apparition of Our
Lady, Queen of Ireland
1879 Church of Christ, Scientist founded in Boston
by Mary Baker Eddy
1881-1894 Revised Version, called for by Church
of England, uses Greek based on Septuagint (B)
and (S), Hebrew Masoretic Text used in OT, follows
Greek order of words, greater accuracy than AV, in-
cludes Apocrypha, scholarship never disputed
1884 Charles Taze Russell founds Bible Student
movement
1885-1887 Uganda Martyrs
1885 Baltimore Catechism published
1886 Moody Bible Institute founded
1886 Onesimos Nesib begins translation of the en-
tire Bible into the Oromo language
1886 Johann Flierl, missionary, arrives in New
Guinea
1891 Albert Maclaren and Copland King, Anglican
missionaries, arrive in New Guinea
1893 Heresy trial of Luther Alexander Gotwald
1894 The Kingdom of God is Within You, by Leo
Tolstoy, start of Christian anarchism
1897 Christian ag conceived in Brooklyn, New
York
1899 Gideons International founded
10 20th century
1903 First group baptism at Sattelberg Mission Sta-
tion under Christian Keyser in New Guinea paves
way for mass conversions during the following years
1904 Welsh revival
1904 Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil - Igreja
Evanglica Luterana do Brasil - is founded in Juni
24, in So Pedro do Sul city, State Rio Grande do
Sul
1905 French law on the separation of Church and
State
1906 Albert Schweitzer publishes The Quest of the
Historical Jesus (English translation 1910)
1906 Biblia Hebraica
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1906-1909 Azusa Street Revival in Los Angeles,
CA begins modern Pentecostal movement
1907 The Church of God in Christ is formed as a
Pentecostal body
1907-1912 Nicholas of Japan, Archbishop of
Japanese Orthodox Church
1908 Church of the Nazarene founded in Pilot Point,
Texas
1909 Scoeld Reference Bible published
1909-1911 The Rosicrucian Fellowship, an inter-
national association of Esoteric Christian mystics,
founded at Mount Ecclesia
1910 Christian Congregation in Brazil founded in
Santo Antnio da Platina, Brazil by Italo-American
Louis Francescon. It begins Pentecostalism in Brazil
and South America
1910 Edinburgh Missionary Conference launches
modern missions movement and modern
ecumenical movement; 5-point statement of
the Presbyterian General Assembly also used by
Fundamentalists
1910-1915 The Fundamentals, a 12-volume collec-
tion of essays by 64 British and American scholars
and preachers, forms foundation of Fundamentalism
1913 Catholic Encyclopedia
1914 Welsh Church Act 1914
1914 Iglesia ni Cristo incorporated in the Philip-
pines
1914 Paul Olaf Bodding completes his translation of
the Bible into the Santali language
1915 Ellen G. White, co-founder and prophetess of
the Seventh-day Adventist Church, dies
1915-1923 The Armenian Genocide occurs
1916 Father Divine founds International Peace Mis-
sion movement
1916 And did those feet in ancient time
1917 Heinrich Hansen publishes Lutheran
Evangelical Catholic theses Stimuli et Clavi
1917 Our Lady of Fatima appears Marian appari-
tions to 3 young people, in Fatima, Portugal - Jacinta
Marto, Francisco Marto and Lcia Santos ("Sister
Lucia")
1917 - 13 October Miracle of the Sun is witnessed
by as many as 100,000 people in the Cova da Iria
elds near Ftima, Portugal (How the Sun Danced
at Midday at Ftima)
10 20TH CENTURY
1917 Restitution of the Moscow Patriarchy with
Tikhon as patriarch
1917 True Jesus Church founded in Beijing
1918 Execution of Holy Martyrs of Russia, includ-
ing the last tsar, Nicholas II, and his wife, Alexandra
Feodorovna, by the Communists
1918 United Lutheran Church in America founded
1919 Karl Barth's Commentary on Romans is pub-
lished, critiquing Liberal Christianity and beginning
the neo-orthodox movement
1920 The Ecclesia, an Esoteric Christian Temple, is
erected and dedicated on Christmas Day (December
25)
1921 Oxford Group founded at Oxford
1923 Aimee Semple McPherson builds Angelus
Temple
1924 First religious radio station in the U.S., KFUO
(AM), founded
1925 Scopes Trial causes division among Funda-
mentalists
1925 United Church of Canada formed
1925 St. Therese of Lisieux canonized
1925 The World Conference of Life and Work is held
in Stockholm, Sweden
1926 Father Charles Coughlin's rst radio broadcast
1926-1929 Cristero War in Mexico: The Constitu-
tion of 1917 brings persecution of Christian prac-
tices and anti-clerical laws - approximately 4,000
Catholic priests are expelled, assassinated or exe-
cuted
1927 Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly founds the
Congregation of Sisters of the Destitute
1927 Pope Pius XI decrees Comma Johanneum
open to dispute
1929 Lateran Treaty signed, containing three agree-
ments between kingdom of Italy and the papacy
1929 Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly dies
1929 Voice of Prophecy radio ministry founded by
Seventh-day Adventist pastor H.M.S. Richards Sr.
1930 Rastafari movement founded
1930 Old American Lutheran Church founded
1930 The Lutheran Hour begins with Walter A.
Maier as speaker

1931 Jehovahs Witnesses formally separate from
the Bible Student movement
1931 Christ the Redeemer (statue) built in Rio de
Janeiro, Brazil
1932 Franz Pieper's A Brief Statement of the Doc-
trinal Position of the Missouri Synod adopted by the
LCMS
1932 Marian apparitions to ve school children in
Beauraing, Belgium as Lady Virgin of the Poor[40]
1933 Catholic Worker Movement founded
1934 Herbert W. Armstrong founds Radio Church
of God
1935 Gunnar Rosendal publishes Lutheran High
Church manifesto Kyrklig frnyelse
1935 Dr. Frank C. Laubach, known as The Apostle
to the Illiterates, working in the Philippines, devel-
ops a literacy program that continues to teach mil-
lions of people to read
1935 Rahlfs critical edition of the Koine Greek
Septuagint published
1935 Billy Sunday, early U.S. radio evangelist, dies
1938 First Debbarma Christian, Manindra Deb-
barma, is baptized at Agartala
1938 Tripura Baptist Christian Union established at
Laxmilunga, Tripura
1939 Southern and Northern US branches of
the Methodist Episcopal Church, along with the
Methodist Protestant Church, reunite to form The
Methodist Church (slavery had divided the church
in the 19th century)
1940 Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle
de los Caidos, worlds largest cross, 152.4 meters
high
1942 National Association of Evangelicals founded
1945 On the Feast of the Annunciation, Our Lady
appears to a simple woman, Ida Peerdeman, in Am-
sterdam. This is the rst of 56 appearances as Our
Lady of All Nations,[41] which took place between
1945 and 1959.
1945 Dietrich Bonhoeer is executed by the Nazis
1945 Ludwig Mller
1945 The Nag Hammadi library is discovered
1946-1952 Revised Standard Version, revision of
AV based on consonantal Hebrew text for OT
and best available texts for NT, done in response to
changes in English usage
19
1947 Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamental-
ism by Carl F. H. Henry, a landmark of Evangeli-
calism versus Fundamentalism in US
1947 Oral Roberts founds Evangelistic Association
1947 Dead Sea scrolls discovered
1947 Lutheran World Federation founded
1948 World Council of Churches is founded
1948 Declaration of the Establishment of the State
of Israel, see also Christian Zionism
1949 evangelist Billy Graham preaches his rst Los
Angeles crusade
1949 - October 2 Saint John Evangelical Lutheran
Community - Comunidade Evanglica Luterana
So Joo da Igreja Evanglica Luterana do Brasil -
is founded in Passo Fundo city, State Rio Grande do
Sul
1950 First part of the Common Confession between
the American Lutheran Church and the LCMS is
adopted, resulting in the schism of the Orthodox
Lutheran Conference
1950 New World Translation of the Christian Greek
Scriptures released
1950 Assumption of Mary decreed by Pope Pius XII
1950 Missionaries of Charity founded by Mother
Teresa
1951 Bishop Fulton Sheen (19191979) debuts
his television program Life is Worth Living on the
DuMont Network. His half hour lecture program
on Roman Catholic theology remained the number
one show on U.S. television for its time slot, win-
ning several Emmys until Sheen ended the program
in 1957
1951 The Last Temptation, a ctional account of the
life of Jesus written by Nikos Kazantzakis, wherein
Christs divinity is juxtaposed with his humanity, is
published, and promptly banned in many countries
1951 Campus Crusade for Christ founded at UCLA
1952 Novum Testamentum Graece, critical edition
of Greek NT, basis of modern translations
1952 C. S. Lewis' Mere Christianity published
1952 This Is the Life TV series begins
1954 Unication Church founded by Reverend Sun
Myung Moon, under the name Holy Spirit Asso-
ciation for the Unication of World Christianity
(acronym HSA-UWC)
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1954 U.S. Pledge of Allegiance modied by act of
Congress from one nation, indivisible to one na-
tion under God, indivisible
1956 In God We Trust designated U.S. national
motto
1956 Anchor Bible Series
1956 The Ten Commandments (1956 lm)
1956 It Is Written television ministry founded by
Seventh-day Adventist pastor George Vandeman
1957 United Church of Christ founded by ecumeni-
cal union of Congregationalists and Evangelical &
Reformed, representing Calvinists and Lutherans
1957 English translation of Walter Bauer's Wrter-
buch ...: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Tes-
tament and Other Early Christian Literature, Uni-
versity of Chicago Press
1958 Sedevacantism
1959 Family Radio founded by Harold Camping
1959 Franz Pieper's A Brief Statement of the Doctri-
nal Position of the Missouri Synod rearmed by the
LCMS
1960 Merger creates the new American Lutheran
Church
1960 John F. Kennedy becomes the rst Roman
Catholic to be elected President of the United States
1961 New World Translation of the Holy Scriptures
published
1961 Christian Broadcasting Network founded by
Pat Robertson
1962 Engel v. Vitale, rst U.S. Supreme Court de-
cision against School prayer
1962 Karl Rahner, Joseph Ratzinger, Yves Con-
gar, John Courtney Murray, Hans Kng among oth-
ers appointed periti for upcoming Second Vati-
can Council. Rahner famous for paraphrasing Au-
gustines axiom: Many whom God has the Church
does not have; and many whom the Church has, God
does not have.
1962-1965 Catholic Second Vatican Council, an-
nounced by Pope John XXIII in 1959, produces 16
documents which become ocial Roman Catholic
teaching after approval by the Pope, purpose to re-
new ourselves and the ocks committed to us
1963 Martin Luther King leads a civil rights march
in Washington, D.C.
10 20TH CENTURY
1963 A campaign by atheist Madalyn Murray
O'Hair results in U.S. Supreme Court ruling pro-
hibiting reading of Bible in public schools
1963 Oral Roberts University founded
1963 Evangelical Lutheran Synodical Conference of
North America dissolves in schism
1963 New Testament of Becks American Trans-
lation completed, thousands of copies distributed
through The Lutheran Hour
1965 Reginald H. Fullers The Foundations of New
Testament Christology
1965 Rousas John Rushdoony founds Chalcedon
Foundation
1965 Nostra aetate declaration promulgated at Vat-
ican II that repudiates the charge of deicide against
Jews
1966 Roman Catholic Index of Prohibited Books
abolished
1966 Raymond E. Brown's Commentary on the
Gospel of John
1967 Lutheran Council in the United States of
America organized
1968 Zeitoun, Egypt, a bright image of the Virgin
Mary as Our Lady of Zeitoun was seen over the Cop-
tic Orthodox Church of Saint Demiana for over a 3-
year period. Over six million Egyptians and foreign-
ers saw the image, including Copts, Eastern Ortho-
dox, Roman Catholic, Protestants, Muslims, Jews
and people of no particular faith
1968 United Methodist Church formed with union
of Methodist Church & Evangelical United Brethren
Church, becoming the largest Methodist/Wesleyan
church in the world
1970s The Jesus movement takes hold in the U.S.
One-way.org
1970 Mass of Paul VI replaces Tridentine Mass
1970 The Late, Great Planet Earth, futurist book by
Hal Lindsey, published
1970? Chick Publications
1971 New American Standard Bible
1971 The Exorcist, a novel of demonic possession
and the mysteries of the Catholic faith, is published
1971 Liberty University founded by Jerry Falwell
1972 Most Lutheran free churches in Germany
merge, forming the Independent Evangelical-
Lutheran Church

1973, June 12- Near the city of Akita, Our Lady
appeared to Agnes Katsuko Sasagawa. Three mes-
sages were given to her over a period 5 months Our
Lady of Akita.[42]
1973 The Apostle in the End-Time called[43] Arse-
nio Tan Ferriol (Pentecostal Missionary Church of
Christ in the 4th WATCH) Philippines
1973 Trinity Broadcasting Network founded by Paul
and Jan Crouch
1973 New International Version of the Bible is rst
published (revised in 1978, 1984), using a variety
of Greek texts, Masoretic Hebrew texts, and current
English style
1973 Walkout at Concordia Seminary begins the
Seminex controversy in the LCMS
1974 Jim Bakker founds PTL television ministry
1975 Bruce Metzger's Textual Commentary on the
Greek New Testament
1976 Anneliese Michel, Bavarian woman, under-
goes exorcism against demon possession
1976 Suicide by self-immolation of East German
pastor Oskar Brsewitz, leads to mass protests
against communism
1977 New Perspective on Paul
1977 Focus on the Family founded by James Dobson
1978 Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy
1978-2005 Pope John Paul II: rearmed moral tra-
ditions (The Splendor of Truth)
1979 Moral Majority founded by Jerry Falwell
1979 Jesus (1979 lm), most watched movie of all
time according to New York Times
1979-1982? New King James Version, complete re-
vision of 1611 AV, updates archaisms while retain-
ing style
1980 Glacier View Conference: Seventh-day Ad-
ventist pastor and professor Desmond Ford is de-
frocked for questioning the sanctuary doctrine of the
church, in a 1979 lecture at Pacic Union College
1981 Kibeho, Rwanda reported that Our Lady ap-
peared to several teenagers telling them to pray to
avoid rivers of blood (Marian apparitions)[44]
1981 Mother Angelica launches EWTN; it grows to
become one of the largest television networks in the
world; the operation expands to radio in 1992
1981 Institute on Religion and Democracy is
founded
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1981 Pope John Paul II shot by Mehmet Ali Agca;
survives and later forgives him
1982 Chicago Statement on Biblical Hermeneutics
1985 Jesus Seminar founded
1985 E. P. Sanders' Jesus and Judaism published
1986 Chicago Statement on Biblical Application
1986 Desmond Tutu becomes Anglican Archbishop
of South Africa; joins anti-apartheid movement
1987 Danvers Statement - Council on Biblical Man-
hood and Womanhood
1988 Evangelical Lutheran Church in America
founded
1988 Lutheran Council in the United States of
America dissolved
1988 Christian Coalition founded by Pat Robertson
1988 The Last Temptation of Christ, directed by
Martin Scorsese, is released by Universal Pictures,
and promptly attacked as heretical by organized
Christian and Catholic groups
1988 The celebration of 1,000 years since the
baptism of Kievan Rus throughout the R.O.C.
1988 Assemblies of God pastor Jimmy Swaggart
caught in sex scandal
1989 New Revised Standard Version
1990 American Center for Law and Justice founded
1991 John P. Meiers series A Marginal Jew: Re-
thinking the Historical Jesus, v. 1
1992 New Catechism of the Catholic Church pub-
lished
1993 Confessional Evangelical Lutheran Confer-
ence founded
1993 International Lutheran Council founded
1994 Evangelicals & Catholics Together[45]
1994 Porvoo Communion
1994 Answers In Genesis founded by Ken Ham
1994, July 3- Glorication of St. John of Shanghai
and San Francisco
1996 Cambridge Declaration - Alliance of Confess-
ing Evangelicals[46]
1997, March 510- World Council of Churches:
Towards a Common Date for Easter, see also
Reform of the date of Easter
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1998, April 6 PBS Frontline: From Jesus to Christ
1999 International House of Prayer in Kansas City
begins non-stop 24/7 continual prayer
1999, October 31- signing of the Joint Declara-
tion on the Doctrine of Justication between the
Lutheran World Federation and the Catholic Church
1999 Gospel of Jesus Christ - An Evangelical Cel-
ebration; a consensus Gospel endorsed by vari-
ous evangelical leaders including J.I. Packer, John
Ankerberg, Jerry Falwell, Thomas C. Oden, R.C.
Sproul, Wayne Grudem, Charles Swindoll, et al.
1999 Radical Orthodoxy Christian theological
movement begins, critiquing modern secularism and
emphasizing the return to traditional doctrine; sim-
ilar to the Paleo-orthodoxy Christian theological
movement of the late 20th and early 21st centuries,
which sees the consensual understanding of the faith
among the Church Fathers as the basis of Biblical
interpretation and the foundation of the Church
2000 Lutheran Congregations in Mission for Christ
founded in schism from Evangelical Lutheran
Church in America (ELCA) over fellowship with the
Episcopal Church (TEC)
2000 Visions of the Virgin Mary are reported in
Assiut, Upper Egypt;[47] phenomena associated to
Mary is reported again in 2006, in a church at the
same location during the Mass.[48] Local Coptic
priests and then the Coptic Orthodox Church of As-
siut issue statements in 2000 and 2006 respectively
11 21st century
Main article: Christianity in the 21st century
2001 The Way of the Master founded
2001 Armenia marks 1,700th anniversary of
Christianity as its state religion (First country to
adopt Christianity as its state religion - Kingdom of
Armenia - 301 AD)
2003 the Mission Province is established in Church
of Sweden: new era for confessional Lutheranism in
Scandinavia
2005 Death of Pope John Paul II, election of Pope
Benedict XVI
2006 World Methodist Council votes unanimously
to adopt the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of
Justication (July 18).[49][50]
11 21ST CENTURY
2006 The Jerusalem Declaration on Christian Zion-
ism, signed by several Christian denominations in
the Middle East, criticizes the doctrine as associat-
ing the Gospel with imperialism and militarism
2006 A lm of the Gospel of Judas, a 2nd-century
Gnostic account of Judas discovered in the 1970s, is
shown on TV
2007 The Creation Museum opens in Kentucky,
United States
2007 The American Association of Lutheran
Churches and LCMS declare pulpit and altar fellow-
ship
2007, May 17- The Russian Orthodox Church is re-
unied after 80 years of schism
2008 Conservative Anglicans indicate that they plan
to split from liberal Anglicans in The Jerusalem
Declaration[51]
2009 Damien of Molokai canonized; apostle to lep-
ers
2009, August 21- The Minneapolis Churchwide As-
sembly of the ELCA passes four ministry policy res-
olutions that will permit clergy in committed homo-
sexual partnerships to be rostered leaders within the
ELCA
2009 The Rosicrucian Fellowship, an international
association of Esoteric Christian mystics,[52] cel-
ebrates the centennial anniversary -- The Frater-
nity should remain secret one hundred years;[53] the
celebration ceremonies, on August 8 and Novem-
ber 13[54] at Mount Ecclesia, serve the purpose of
heralding the revival of the Christian mystic path of
the Rose Cross.[55][56]
2009 Mar Varghese Payyappilly Palakkappilly de-
clared Servant of God
2009 Manhattan Declaration: A Call of Christian
Conscience is issued, signed by over 150 American
religious leaders
2009 Dr. Frederick Eikerenkoetter (Reverend Ike),
a pioneering prosperity preacher, dies
2010 Lutheran CORE creates North American
Lutheran Church in schism from the ELCA
2010, October 31- Attack on Baghdad church results
in 52 deaths[57]
2011, January 1- A church in Alexandria, Egypt is
bombed, killing 21 people, mostly Christians
2011 Martyrdom of Shahbaz Bhatti, Pakistani
politician and the only Christian elected member of
the National Assembly, who was an outspoken critic
of Pakistans blasphemy laws

2013, March- Pope Francis, an Argentinean, be-
comes the rst non-European pope in modern times
12 Sources
World Almanac and Book of Facts
Academic American Encyclopedia (on Com-
puserve)
Websters New Collegiate Dictionary
English Versions of the Bible by John Berchmans
Dockery O.F.M.
Catholic Encyclopedia: Biblical Chronology
13 See also
Christ myth theory
Chronology of the Bible
Great Church
History of ancient Israel and Judah
Timeline of Christian Missions
Timeline of the Roman Catholic Church
14 External links
Christian History Project Online Version of the 12-
Volume Popular History Series 'The Christians :
Their First Two Thousand Years, Sponsored by the
Society to Explore and Record Christian History
OrthodoxWiki: Timeline of Church History (from
the Orthodox POV)
St. Ignatius Church: Timeline (from the Orthodox
POV)
Catholic Encyclopedia: Jerusalem (Before A.D. 71)
Missions time line - Important events, locations,
people and movements in World Evangelism
15 Footnotes
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University Press, 1976, ISBN 0-674-39731-2, page 246:
When Archelaus was deposed from the ethnarchy in 6
CE, Judea proper, Samaria and Idumea were converted
into a Roman province under the name Iudaea.
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[2] John P. Meier's A Marginal Jew, v. 1, ch. 11; also H.H.
Ben-Sasson, A History of the Jewish People, Harvard Uni-
versity Press, 1976, ISBN 0-674-39731-2, page 251: But
after the rst agitation (which occurred in the wake of the
rst Roman census) had faded out, we no longer hear of
bloodshed in Judea until the days of Pilate.
[3] Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Tiberius 36;
Jewish Encyclopedia: Rome: Expelled Under
Tiberius: The Jewish deputation which peti-
tioned for the deposition of the royal house of the
Idumeans was joined by 8,000 Jewish residents of
Rome. Several Romans adopted Jewish customs,
and some, as the rhetor Cilicius of Kalakte, a friend
of Dionysius of Halicarnassus, even embraced Ju-
daism (Mller, Fragmenta Historicorum Grco-
rum, iii. 331). The reign of Tiberius (until the
removal of his minister Sejanus) was fraught with
misfortune for the Jews. When the cult of Isis was
driven out of Rome (19 CE.) the Jews also were ex-
pelled, because a Roman lady who inclined toward
Judaism had been deceived by Jewish swindlers.
The synagogues were closed, the vessels burned,
and 4,000 Jewish youths were sent upon military
service to Sardinia. After the death of Sejanus (31)
the emperor allowed the Jews to return.";
Haim Hillel Ben-Sasson (and Abraham Malamat
contributor) A History of the Jewish People, Harvard
University Press, 1976, ISBN 978-0674397316,
page 288 quote: Explicit evidence of a systematic
attempt to propagate the Jewish faith in the city of
Rome is found as early as 139 BCE. With the in-
crease of the Jewish population of Rome, the Jews
intensied their eorts to make converts among the
Romans. Although the activity of Jewish mission-
aries in Roman society caused Tiberius to expel
them from that city in 19 CE, they soon returned,
and Jewish religious propaganda was resumed and
maintained even after the destruction of the Tem-
ple. Tacitus mentions it regretfully (Histories 5.5),
and Juvenal, in his Fourteenth Satire (11. 96.), de-
scribes how Roman families 'degenerated' into Ju-
daism: the fathers permitted themselves to adopt
some of its customs and the sons became Jews in ev-
ery respect. ... [last sentence of next paragraph:] In addition,
the Bible provided the apostles of Judaism with a
literature unparalleled in any other religion.
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[5] H.H. Ben-Sasson, A History of the Jewish People, Har-
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Crisis Under Gaius Caligula, pages 254-256: The reign
of Gaius Caligula (37-41) witnessed the rst open break
between the Jews and the Julio-Claudian empire. Until
then if one accepts Sejanus' heyday and the trouble
caused by the census after Archelaus banishment there
was usually an atmosphere of understanding between the
Jews and the empire ... These relations deteriorated seri-
ously during Caligulas reign, and, though after his death
the peace was outwardly re-established, considerable bit-
terness remained on both sides. ... Caligula ordered that
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a golden statue of himself be set up in the Temple in
Jerusalem. ... Only Caligulas death, at the hands of
Roman conspirators (41), prevented the outbreak of a
Jewish-Roman war that might well have spread to the en-
tire East.
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understood Christos in this way to them it seemed very
much like Chrestos [even in pronunciation ...], a name that
is found in lit.
[7] Suetonius, Lives of the Twelve Caesars, Claudius XXV.4;
Jewish Encyclopedia: Rome: Expelled Under Tiberius:
"... in 49-50, in consequence of dissensions among them
regarding the advent of the Messiah, they were forbidden
to hold religious services. The leaders in the controversy,
and many others of the Jewish citizens, left the city.
[8] Catholic Encyclopedia: Judaizers see section titled: THE
INCIDENT AT ANTIOCH
[9] Cumming, John (1998). Butlers Lives of the Saints. Coll-
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Chrestians, has been changed into an i; cf. Gerd Theien,
Annette Merz, Der historische Jesus: ein Lehrbuch, 2001,
p. 89. The reading Christianos, Christians, is therefore
doubtful.
[14] Jewish Encyclopedia: Fiscus Iudaicus, Suetoniuss Domi-
tian XII: Besides other taxes, that on the Jews [A tax
of two drachmas a head, imposed by Titus in return for
free permission to practice their religion; see Josephus,
Bell. Jud. 7.6.6] was levied with the utmost rigor, and
those were prosecuted who, without publicly acknowledg-
ing that faith, yet lived as Jews, as well as those who con-
cealed their origin and did not pay the tribute levied upon
their people [These may have been Christians, whom the
Romans commonly assumed were Jews]. I recall being
present in my youth when the person of a man ninety
years old was examined before the procurator and a very
crowded court, to see whether he was circumcised.
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feeling being so intense that he had no scruples against de-
stroying the Gospels, although the name of God occurred
frequently in them.
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