TIMELINE<\/p>\n
IMPORTANT EVENTS IN CHURCH HISTORY<\/p>\n
THE AGE OF JESUS AND THE APOSTLES<\/p>\n
30 – Crucifixion of Jesus; Pentecost<\/p>\n
35 – Stephen martyred; Paul converted<\/p>\n
46 – Paul begins missionary journeys<\/p>\n
48 – Council of Jerusalem<\/p>\n
57 – Paul’s letter to the Romans<\/p>\n
64 – Fire of Rome; Nero launches persecutions<\/p>\n
65 – Peter and Paul executed<\/p>\n
THE AGE OF EARLY CHRISTIANITY<\/p>\n
70 – Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus<\/p>\n
110 – Ignatius of Antioch martyred<\/p>\n
150 – Justin Martyr dedicates First Apology<\/p>\n
155 – Polycarp martyred<\/p>\n
172 – Montanist movement begins<\/p>\n
180 – Irenaeus writes Against Heresies<\/p>\n
196 – Tertullian begins writing<\/p>\n
215 – Origen begins writing<\/p>\n
230 – Earliest known public churches built<\/p>\n
248 – Cyprian elected bishop of Carthage<\/p>\n
250 – Decius orders empire-wide persecution<\/p>\n
270 – Antony takes up life of solitude<\/p>\n
303 – “Great Persecution” begins under Diocletian<\/p>\n
THE AGE OF THE CHRISTIAN EMPIRE<\/p>\n
312 – Conversion of Constantine<\/p>\n
312 – Donatist Schism begins<\/p>\n
313 – “Edict of Milan”<\/p>\n
323 – Eusebius completes Ecclesiastical History<\/p>\n
325 – First Council of Nicea<\/p>\n
341 – Ulphilas, translator of Gothic Bible, becomes bishop<\/p>\n
358 – Basil the Great founds monastic community<\/p>\n
367 – Athanasius’s letter defines New Testament canon<\/p>\n
381 – Christianity made state religion of Roman Empire<\/p>\n
386 – Augustine coverts to Christianity<\/p>\n
390 – Ambrose defies emperor<\/p>\n
398 – Chrysostom consecrated bishop of Constantinople<\/p>\n
405 – Jerome competes the Vulgate<\/p>\n
410 – Rome sacked by Visigoths<\/p>\n
431 – Council of Ephesus<\/p>\n
432 – Patrick begins mission to Ireland<\/p>\n
440 – Leo the great consecrated bishop of Rome<\/p>\n
445 – Valentinian’s Edict strengthens primacy of Rome<\/p>\n
451 – Council of Chalcedon<\/p>\n
500 – Dionysius the Pseudo-Areopagite writes<\/p>\n
524 – Boethius completes Consolation of Philosophy<\/p>\n
529 – Justinian publishes his legal Code<\/p>\n
540 – Benedict writes his monastic Rule<\/p>\n
563 – Columba establishes mission community on Iona<\/p>\n
THE CHRISTIAN MIDDLE AGES<\/p>\n
590 – Gregory the Great elected Pope<\/p>\n
597 – Ethelbert of Kent converted<\/p>\n
622 – Muhammad’s hegira: birth of Islam<\/p>\n
663 – Synod of Whitby<\/p>\n
716 – Boniface begins mission to the Germans<\/p>\n
726 – Controversy over icons begins in Eastern church<\/p>\n
731 – Bede’s Ecclesiastical History published<\/p>\n
732 – Battle of Tours<\/p>\n
750 – Donation of Constantine written about this time<\/p>\n
754 – Pepin III’s donation helps found papal states<\/p>\n
781 – Alcuin becomes royal advisor to Charles<\/p>\n
787 – Second Council of Nicea settles icon controversy<\/p>\n
800 – Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor<\/p>\n
843 – Treaty of Verdun divides Carolingian Empire<\/p>\n
861 – East-West conflict over Photius begins<\/p>\n
862 – Cyril and Methodius begin mission to Slavs<\/p>\n
909 – Monastery at Cluny founded<\/p>\n
988 – Christianization of “Russia”<\/p>\n
1054 – East-West Split<\/p>\n
1077 – Emperor submits to pope over investiture<\/p>\n
1093 – Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury<\/p>\n
1095 – First Crusade launched by Council of Clermont<\/p>\n
1115 – Bernard founds monastery at Clairvaux<\/p>\n
1122 – Concordat of Worms ends investiture controversy<\/p>\n
1141 – Hildegaard of Bingen begins writing<\/p>\n
1150 – Universities of Paris and Oxford founded<\/p>\n
1173 – Waldensian movement begins<\/p>\n
1208 – Francis of Assisi renounces wealth<\/p>\n
1215 – Magna Carta<\/p>\n
1215 – Innocent III assembles Fouth Lateran Council<\/p>\n
1220 – Dominican Order established<\/p>\n
1232 – Gregory IX appoints first “inquisitors”<\/p>\n
1272 – Thomas Aquina’s Summa Theologica<\/p>\n
1302 – Unam Sanctum proclaims papal supremacy<\/p>\n
1309 – Papacy begins “Babylonian” exile in Avignon<\/p>\n
1321 – Dante completes Divine Comedy<\/p>\n
1370 – Catherine of Siena begins her Letters<\/p>\n
1373 – Julian of Norwich receives her revelations<\/p>\n
1378 – Great Papal Schism begins<\/p>\n
1380 – Wycliffe supervises English Bible translation<\/p>\n
1414 – Council of Constance begins<\/p>\n
1415 – Jan Hus burned at stake<\/p>\n
1418 – Thomas a Kempis writes The Imitation of Christ<\/p>\n
1431 – Joan of Arc burned at stake<\/p>\n
1453 – Constantinople falls; end of Eastern Roman Empire<\/p>\n
1456 – Gutenberg produces first printed Bible<\/p>\n
1479 – Establishment of Spanish Inquisition<\/p>\n
1488 – First complete Hebrew Old Testament<\/p>\n
1497 – Savonarola excommunicated<\/p>\n
1506 – Work begins on new St. Peter’s in Rome<\/p>\n
1512 – Michelangelo completes the Sistine Chapel frescoes<\/p>\n
1516 – Erasmus publishes Greek New Testament<\/p>\n
THE AGE OF REFORMATION<\/p>\n
1517 – Martin Luther posts his Ninety-Five Theses<\/p>\n
1518 – Ulrich Zwingli comes to Zurich<\/p>\n
1521 – Diet of Worms<\/p>\n
1524 – The Peasants’ Revolt erupts<\/p>\n
1525 – William Tyndale’s New Testament published<\/p>\n
1525 – Anabaptist movement begins<\/p>\n
1527 – Schleitheim Confession of Faith<\/p>\n
1529 – Colloquy of Marburg<\/p>\n
1530 – Augsburg Confession<\/p>\n
1534 – Act of Supremacy; Henry VIII heads English church<\/p>\n
1536 – John Calvin publishes first edition of Institutes<\/p>\n
1536 – Menno Simons baptized as Anabaptist<\/p>\n
1540 – Ignatius Loyola gains approval for Society of Jesus<\/p>\n
1545 – Council of Trent begins<\/p>\n
1549 – Book of Common Prayer released<\/p>\n
1549 – Xavier begins mission to Japan<\/p>\n
1555 – Peace of Augsburg<\/p>\n
1555 – Latimer and Ridley burned at the stake<\/p>\n
1559 – John Knox makes final return to Scotland<\/p>\n
1563 – First text of Thirty-Nine Articles issued<\/p>\n
1563 – John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs published<\/p>\n
1565 – Teresa of Avila writes The Way of Perfection<\/p>\n
1572 – St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre<\/p>\n
1577 – Formula of Concord<\/p>\n
1582 – Mateo Ricci and colleague begin mission to China<\/p>\n
1589 – Moscow becomes independent patriarchate<\/p>\n
1598 – Edict of Nantes (revoked 1685)<\/p>\n
1609 – John Smyth baptizes self and first Baptists<\/p>\n
1611 – King James Version of Bible published<\/p>\n
1618 – Synod of Dort begins<\/p>\n
1618 – Thirty Years’ War begins<\/p>\n
1620 – Mayflower Compact drafted<\/p>\n
1633 – Galileo forced to recant his theories<\/p>\n
1636 – Harvard College founded<\/p>\n
1636 – Roger Williams founds Providence, R.I.<\/p>\n
1647 – George Fox begins to preach<\/p>\n
1646 – Westminster Confession drafted<\/p>\n
1648 – Peace of Westphalia ends Thirty Years’ War<\/p>\n
THE AGE OF REASON AND REVIVAL<\/p>\n
1649 – Cambridge Platform<\/p>\n
1653 – Cromwell named Lord Protector<\/p>\n
1654 – Blaise Pascal has definitive conversion experience<\/p>\n
1667 – John Milton’s Paradise Lost<\/p>\n
1668 – Rembrandt paints Return of the Prodigal Son<\/p>\n
1675 – Spener’s Pia Desideria advances Pietism<\/p>\n
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1682 – William Penn founds Pennsylvania<\/p>\n
1687 – Newton publishes Principia Mathmatica<\/p>\n
1689 – Toleration Act in London<\/p>\n
1707 – J.S. Bach produces first work<\/p>\n
1707 – Isaac Watts publishes Hymns and Spiritual Songs<\/p>\n
1729 – Jonathan Edwards becomes pastor at Northhampton<\/p>\n
1732 – First Moravian missionaries<\/p>\n
1735 – George Whitefield converted<\/p>\n
1738 – John and Charles Wesley’s evangelical conversions<\/p>\n
1740 – Great Awakening peaks<\/p>\n
1742 – First production of Handel’s Messiah<\/p>\n
1759 – Voltaire’s Candide<\/p>\n
1771 – Francis Ashbury sent to America<\/p>\n
1773 – Jesuits suppressed (until 1814)<\/p>\n
1779 – John Newton and William Cowper publish Olney Hymns<\/p>\n
1780 – Robert Raikes begins his Sunday school<\/p>\n
1781 – Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason<\/p>\n
THE AGE OF PROGRESS<\/p>\n
1789 – French Revolution begins<\/p>\n
1789 – Bill of Rights<\/p>\n
1793 – William Carey sails for India<\/p>\n
1793 – Festival of Reason (de-Christianization of France)<\/p>\n
1799 – Scheiermacher publishes Lectures on Religion<\/p>\n
1801 – Concordat between Napoleon and Pius VII<\/p>\n
1804 – British and Foreign Bible Society formed<\/p>\n
1806 – Samuel Mills leads Haystack Prayer Meeting<\/p>\n
1807 – William Wilberforce succeeds abolishing slave trade<\/p>\n
1810 – American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions<\/p>\n
1811 – Alexander Campbell begins Restoration Movement<\/p>\n
1816 – Richard Allen elected bishop of new AME church<\/p>\n
1816 – Adoniram Judson begins mission trip<\/p>\n
1817 – Elizabeth Fry organizes relief in Newgate Prision<\/p>\n
1819 – Channing issues Unitarian Christianity<\/p>\n
1827 – J.N. Darby founds the Plymouth Brethren<\/p>\n
1833 – John Keble’s sermon launches Oxford Movement<\/p>\n
1834 – George Mueller opens Scriptural Knowledge Institute<\/p>\n
1835 – Charles Finney’s Lectures on Revivals<\/p>\n
1840 – David Livingstone sails for Africa<\/p>\n
1844 – First Adventist churches formed<\/p>\n
1844 – Soren Kierkegaard writes Philosophical Fragments<\/p>\n
1845 – John Henry Newman becomes Roman Catholic<\/p>\n
1845 – Phoebe Palmer writes The Way of Holiness<\/p>\n
1848 – Marx publishes Communist Manifesto<\/p>\n
1851 – Harriet Beecher Stowe releases Uncle Tom’s Cabin<\/p>\n
1854 – Immaculate Conception made dogma<\/p>\n
1854 – Charles Spurgeon becomes pastor of New Park St. Church<\/p>\n
1855 – D.L. Moody converted<\/p>\n
1857 – Prayer Meeting Revival begins in New York<\/p>\n
1859 – Darwin publishes Origin of Species<\/p>\n
1859 – Japan opens to foreign missionaries<\/p>\n
1860 – U.S. Civil War begins<\/p>\n
1864 – Syllabus of Errors issued by Pope Pius IX<\/p>\n
1865 – J. Hudson Taylor founds China Inland Mission<\/p>\n
1870 – First Vatican Council declares papal infallibility<\/p>\n
1878 – William & Catherine Booth found Salvation Army<\/p>\n
1879 – Frances Willard becomes president of WCTU<\/p>\n
1880 – Abraham Kuyper starts Free University<\/p>\n
1885 – Berlin Congress spurs African Independent Churches<\/p>\n
1885 – Wellhausen’s documentary hypothesis<\/p>\n
1886 – Student Volunteer Movement begins<\/p>\n
1895 – Freud publishes first work on psychoanalysis<\/p>\n
1886 – Billy Sunday begins leading revivals<\/p>\n
1901 – Speaking in tongues at Parham’s Bible school<\/p>\n
1906 – Azusa Street revival<\/p>\n
1906 – Schweitzer’s The Quest of the Historical Jesus<\/p>\n
1908 – Federal Council of Churches forms<\/p>\n
1910 – Edinburgh International Missionary Conference begins<\/p>\n
1910 – The Fundamentals begin to be published<\/p>\n
1912 – Social Creed of the Churches adapted<\/p>\n
THE AGE OF IDEOLOGIES<\/p>\n
1914 – World War I begins<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
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