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Timeline of Christianity
The following timeline of Christianity summarizes some of the most important events in Christianity since its founding about 2,000 years ago. (Events in light grey are non-religious events included for historical context.)
| 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 |
Sources
- Earle E. Cairns, Christianity Through the Centuries (Zondervan, 1996).
- Justo Gonzalez, The Story of Christianity (Prince Press, 1999).
- Kenneth Scott Latourette, A History of Christianity, Vol. I: to A.D. 1500 (4th ed., Prince Press, 2000).
- Encyclopædia Britannica. Encyclopædia Britannica Premium Service, 2004.
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