Church History Timeline By mpj125 4 BCE Jesus' Birth 30 Death of Jesus 34 Death of Stephen 60 Nero 64 Death of Paul 70 Destruction of Jerusalem 103 Trajan 110 Ignatius Period: 115 to 300 Gnosticism Crisis 135 Justin 140 Marcion 170 Montanus 172 Irenaeus 190 Muratorian Canon 190 Tertullian 197 Clement of Alexandria 230 Origen 250 Cyprian 253 Decius 299 Diocletian 305 Anthony 310 Ulfilas 315 Constantine's Conversion 325 Council of Nicaea 355 Athanasius 370 Basil 390 Ambrose 390 Goths Period: 390 to 540 Conquerors of Rome 391 Theodosius 400 Jerome Period: 405 to 850 Europe is Christianized 410 Sack of Rome 420 Augustine 424 Huns 444 Leo 451 Council of Chalcedon 476 Fall of Rome 500 Baptism of Clovis 500 St. Patrick 510 Benedict 538 Lombards 550 Justinian 588 Gregory the Great 600 Augustine to England 609 Gregory the Great 705 Battle of Tours 740 Iconoclastic Controversy 749 Boniface 790 Charlemagne 910 Cluny Founded 960 Gerbert Period: 1005 to 1400 Scholasticism Period: 1020 to 1400 Gothic Cathedrals 1039 Otto the Great 1039 East-West Schism 1079 Seljuk Turks Capture Palestine 1080 Gregory VII 1084 Urban II 1090 1st Crusade 1098 Abelard 1105 Jerusalem Taken 1109 Bernard 1145 Peter Waldo 1148 2nd Crusade 1150 Gratian 1184 Saladin Captures Jerusalem 1185 Treaty of Richard I and Saladin 1189 3rd Crusade 1195 Innocent III 1204 4th Crusade 1214 4th Lateran Council 1227 Franciscans and Dominicans 1239 Thomas Aquinas 1239 Children's Crusade 1240 The Kingdom of Jerusalem 1260 5th Crusade 1294 Boniface VIII 1304 Acre Falls Period: 1325 to 1375 Babylonian Captivity 1358 Wyclif Period: 1380 to 1420 The Great Schism Period: 1380 to 1420 Avignon 1420 Hus Period: 1497 to 1570 Council of Trent 1504 Henry VIII 1517 Luther's Theses 1520 Tyndale's Bible 1521 Cortes takes Mexico 1524 Diet of Augsburg 1530 Pizzaro takes Peru 1530 Act of Supremecy 1540 Calvin's Institutes 1545 Edward 1546 Society of Jesus 1551 Mary 1553 New Act of Supremecy 1553 Persecutions 1554 Peace of Augsburg 1555 Elizabeth 1565 Presbyterianism in Scotland 1575 Puritans 1580 Congregationalists 1596 Edict of Nantes 1600 Ricci in Peking 1600 James I 1610 Baptists Period: 1620 to 1650 30 Years War 1653 Pascal 1660 Philip Spener 1670 Isaac Newton 1680 English Act of Toleration 1695 John Locke 1720 Moravians 1727 Joseph Butler 1730 George Whitefield 1745 John Wesley 1752 Voltaire 1760 Isaac Backus 1787 French Revolution 1802 First Camp Meeting 1820 F. Schleiermacher 1827 William Wilberforce Period: 1845 to 1870 Pope Pius IX 1847 J.H. Newman 1850 Karl Marx 1860 A. Ritschl 1860 Charles Darwin 1875 Papal Infallibility 1875 Fall of Papal States 1890 D.L. Moody 1895 W. Booth 1899 Nietzsche dies 1904 Social Gospel 1906 Azusa Revival 1914 World War I 1918 Russian Revolution Period: 1920 to 1930 Fundamentalism 1927 Scopes Trial 1928 East African Revival begins 1930 William Nagenda converted 1933 Adolf Hitler 1939 World War II 1945 World Council of Churches 1949 Communist expel missionaries to China 1950 Billy Graham 1959 C.S. Lewis dies 1960 Ignatius Cardinal Kung, Kung Pin-Mei convicted of treason 1960 David Yonggi Cho employs cell group strategy 1961 Berlin Wall 1965 Karl Barth dies Period: 1965 to 1968 Vatican II Period: 1970 to 1976 China's cultural Revolution 1974 Lausanne Congress 1989 Berlin Wall Falls 2001 World Trade Center Towers Destroyed 2013 1/3rd World Population Claims Christianity