A Chronology of Christianity
|
(All dates C.E.; some dates approximate) |
|---|
| 4 - Jesus Born |
| 46-62 - Paul's journeys & letters |
| 60 - Mark writes first surviving Gospel |
| 64 - Great Fire of Rome; Nero persecutes Christians |
| 312 - Constantine adopts Christian symbol at Milvian Brige |
| 325 – First Council of Nicaea establishes first uniform Christian doctrine |
|
356 – Anthony of Egypt dies |
|
388-390 – Ambrose of Milan challenges Emperor Theodosius |
|
410 – Visigoths sack Rome |
|
419 – Fourth Council of Carthage establishes Western Biblical Canon |
|
426 – Augustine completes City of God |
|
540 – Benedict establishes his monastic order |
|
664 – Synod of Whitby chooses Roman date for Easter |
|
711 – Muslims invade Iberian Peninsula |
| 716 – Boniface begins missionary journeys |
|
800 – Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor |
|
987 – Prince Vladimir of Kiev baptized |
|
1054 – Eastern Orthodox-Roman Catholic Schism |
|
1095 – First Crusade launched |
|
1099 – Jerusalem falls to Crusaders |
| 1146 – Second Crusade launched |
| 1189 – Third Crusade launched |
|
1204 – Fourth Crusade launched; Crusaders sack Constantinople |
|
1209 – Francis of Assisi establishes his order of friars |
|
1216 – Dominic establishes his order of friars |
|
1217 – Fifth Crusade launched |
|
1228-9 – Frederick II negotiates recovery of Jerusalem |
|
1274 – Thomas Aquinas completes Summa Theologica |
|
1305 – Pope Clement V elected; papacy exiled to France |
|
1348 – The Black Plague arrives in Europe |
|
1375 – John Wycliffe begins his attacks on the papacy |
|
1378 – Urban VI and Clement VII both claim papacy |
|
1415 – John Huss executed |
|
1417 – Pope Martin V consolidates papacy |
|
1478 – Spanish Inquisition established |
|
1492 – Ferdinand and Isabella expel Muslims from Spain |
|
1498 – Savonarola burned in Florence, ending “Bonfires of the Vanities” |
|
1506 – Construction of St. Peter’s begins in Rome |
|
1517 – Martin Luther nails 95 Theses to Wittenberg Cathedral |
|
1521 – Cortes captures Aztec capital |
|
1524-26 – German Peasants’ Revolt begins |
|
1525 – Anabaptist Thomas Müntzer executed |
|
1534 – Act of Supremacy declares Henry VIII head of Church of England |
|
1536 – John Calvin arrives in Geneva |
|
1540 – Jesuit order receives papal approval |
|
1542 – Francis Xavier arrives in India |
|
1545 – Council of Trent convenes |
|
1553 – Mary Tudor assumes throne in England, begins Catholic reaction |
|
1555 – German princes sign Peace of Augsburg |
|
1559 – Elizabeth I crafts Protestant settlement in England |
|
1560 – John Knox establishes reformed Church of Scotland |
|
1566 – Calvinist movement begins in Holland |
|
1598 – Edict of Nantes protects French Protestants |
|
1611 – King James Bible appears |
|
1620 – Mayflower sails for America |
|
1644 – Roger Williams founds Rhode Island |
|
1650s – George Fox forms Quakers (Society of Friends) |
|
1660 – Charles II ascends English throne |
|
1682 – William Penn founds Pennsylvania |
|
1685 – Louis XIV revokes Edict of Nantes |
|
1720-40 – First Great Awakening begins in America |
|
1738 – George Whitefield begins his ministry in Georgia |
|
1738 – John Wesley experiences conversion |
|
1755 – Lisbon earthquake kills 30,000 |
|
1778 – Voltaire dies |
|
1793 – Revolutionaries de-Christianize France |
|
ca. 1795 – Second Great Awakening begins in America |
|
1807 – Britain abolishes slave trade |
|
1841 – David Livingstone arrives in Africa |
|
1848 – Pope Pius IX flees Roman revolution |
|
1854 – Charles Mackenzie first arrives in Africa |
|
1858 – Bernadette experiences vision of Virgin Mary at Lourdes |
|
1859 – Darwin’s On the Origin of Species appears |
|
1865 – Anglican Church appoints first African bishop in Nigeria |
|
1917 – Bolsheviks revolt in Russia |
|
1945 – Soviet Union assumes control of Eastern Europe |
|
1962 – Second Vatican Council convenes |
|
1989 – Communist governments collapse in Eastern Europe |
