Jesus AD 500

Pax Romana

Period: 27 BCE to 80

The Resurrection of Jesus Christ

33

Pentecost

33

pentecost is he birth of the church. on this day jesus sent the holy spirt to mary and the apostles inspiring them to preach the good new

the apostles spread the word

33

the apostles james and john were amoung the leaders of these groups, as were paul, barnabas, titus, and timothy. they traveled extensively, gathering followers of jesus into small communities which were the beginnings of local churches

st. stephen martyrd

33

the conversion of St. Paul

34

st john the apostles travels to ephesus with the blessed virgin mary

42

john 19:25-27 tells how from the cross jesus charged st john with the care of his mother

st james the apostle is martyrd; his body is secretly buried in spain

44

christians stole his body and brought it in a boat to spain, to a place that would become known as st james field of the stars

st paul begins missionary journeys to galatia greece, syria, and other places

46

council of jerusalem

49

this council affirms that the new covenant in christ means that christians are not boung by modaic law and that jesus sends the holy spirt to jew and gentile alike

persecution of christians begins under roman emperor nero

64

Persection of Christians begins under Roman emperor Nero

64

Ad 100-500

Period: 100 to 500

Persecution under Roman emperor Decius

250

Decius required all to worship the gods of the state, or to be tourtuered and killed.

Council of Carthage

251

This council allowed those who lapsed in faith during the persecution to be brought back into the church after a period of penance.

Persecution under Roman emperor Diocletian

303

Diocletian ordered the destruction for all Christian Churches, imprisonment of bishops and priest, and an order to kill of all who refused to worship the pagan gods

Emperor Constantine issues the Edict of Milan

313

the edict granted religious toleration to Christians and spread of Christianity

Council of Nicea

325

this council called by emperor Constantine set forth the Nicene creed and confirmed that Jesus and the father are the same

construction of the first st. peter basilica rome

330

emperor constantine divides the roman empire into east and west

330

the west was centered rome, and east was centered in Constantinople

birth of saint agustine

354

book beings to scrolls

360

pope Damascus ask saint Jerome to translate the goesples to latin

382

the council of hippo and carthage decide which books will become part of the new testament

397

st. jerome complete his translation of the old testament

405

the visigoths destroy rome

410

st. agustine beings writing the city of God

410

council of ephesus

431

this council condemned a heresy that said that Jesus was two persons in one body, and the council declared that the virgin Mary is truly the mother of God.

St. Patrick sent out to spread gospel in Ireland

432

Birth of St. benedict

480

AD500-1000

Period: 500 to 1000

clovis army drives out visigoths out of france

507

justinian 1 becomes emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire

527

St. Benedict founds the first monastary

529

st benedict found his first monastery

529

construciton of haga spohia begins in constantinople

537

st gregory the great becomes pope

590

pope st gregory the great sends st agustine of canterbury to england to evangelize the anglo-saxons

596

st agustine baptizes the king of kent

597

Death of mohammad

632

mohammad whom muslims call the prophet mohammad, is the founder of islam. by the time of his death, all of airiba is muslim

st boniface leaves england to evenaglize germania

716

with st boniface help, the pope allies with the kings of the franks

754

muslims control two third of the ancient Christian world

1000

the great schism

1054

st gregory VII elected pope

1073

pope st gregory VII excommunicates the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV

1073

first universities founded

1088

the byzantine emperor in constantinople asks the West for aid against Muslim armies

1094

pope urban II calls for a crusade, and christians temporarily capture jerusalem

1095

first gothic cathedral completed

1144

second and third crusades

1147

crusaders from the fourth crusade sack constantinople

1204

franciscan order is founded by st francis of assisi

1209

dominiican order founded by st dominic

1216

the inquisition is founded

1229

st thomas aquinas write the summa theologica

1265

the renaissance begins

1300

bubonic plague arrives in europe

1347

st catherine of siena convinces the pope to return the papacy to rome

1377

st catherine of siena cares for the sick and buries the dead the plague strikes siena

1386

Printing press invented

1440

muslims conquer constantinople and tun hagia sophia into a mosque

1492

christopher columbus reaches the americas

1492

christopher columbus sails for north america

1492

ponce de leon of spian founds st agustine, florida st agustine named for st agustine of hippo was the first european settlement in what is now the us

1513

martin luther presents the 95 thess

1517

in this document lurther presented what he saw as abusive practices

luther denies the authroity of the pope to interpret scripture

1520

luther is excommunicated

1521

luther translates the bile into german

1522

luther removed seven old testament books, he also tried to change the new tesetaent by moving the letter of james the letter to the hebrews the letters of joh and the book of revelation into an appendix

Franciscan missionaries arrive in what is now Florida

1526

St. Ignatius of Loyola founds the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

1534

King Henry VIII of England breaks England from the Catholic Church after the pope refuses to allow him a divorce

1534

St. Thomas More is executed by Henry VIII

1535

Henry VIII dissolves all monasteries and convents in England and ireland

1536

First Franciscan explorations in what is now California

1541

the council of trent

Period: 1545 to 1563

Jesuit missionaries arrive in the Far East

1549

St. Teresa of Avila founds Discalced Carmelite convents throughout Spain (input to Timetoast Timeline as “Timespan”)

Period: 1562 to 1582

St. Peter Claver arrives in Colombia

1611

king james bible becomes the bible of the church of england

1611

the mayflower sets sail from england to north america

1622

separatists wishing to further purify the church of england of catholic influence leave for north america on the mayflower. they hoped their colony would be a city on a hill an example to the church of englad of the need for further reform . in the new world many would be persecuted for their faith. most of the first british colines in north america legally exclude catholics quakers and others from participation in public life.

the colony of maryland is established

1634

maryland will be the first colony to allow religious freedom for catholics. jesuit priests there will offer the holy mass in the british colonies

england overthrows its catholic king and bans any future catholic monarchs

1689

maryland outlaws the oublic practice of catholicism in the colony

1704

the elightenment

Period: 1715 to 1789

british colonies in north america declare their independence

1776

the us constitution prevents religious tests for national office

1789

the french revolution begins

1789

one of the goals of the revolution was to turn france into a completely secular nation and rid it of christianity. church property was seized and many priests and religious were persecuted imprisoned and killed

the first admendment protects free religious exercise in the us and prevents national government from establishing a religion

1791

states were free to keep their establised churches and many did into the early 1800s

karl marx writes the communist manifesto

1848

eccumencial council of the vatican

Period: 1868 to 1870

bolshevik part formed in russia

1903

world war I begins

1914

three children at fatima, portugal, are granted visions of the virgin mary

1917

Mexico outlaws Catholicism

1917

soviet union if formed

1922

lenin was it first leader: Stalin took power two years after Lenins death

the first catholic bishops in china are ordained

1926

Servant of God Dorothy Day converts to Catholicism

1926

Bl. Miguel Pro is killed by the Mexican government

1927

Day founds the Catholic Worker newspaper

1933

hitler becomes chancellor of germany: first Nazi concentration camp is opened

1933

world war II begins

1939

communist governments begin persecutions and mass murders across eruope and asia

1940

St. Maximilian Kolbe is killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz

1941

Pope St. John XXIII calls the Church council that will become known as Vatican II

1959

ecumenical council of the vatican

1962

now known as vatican II

the us supreme court rules the cositution protects the right of an abortion

1973

Pope St. John Paul II survives an assassination attempt ordered by the KGB (the Soviet intelligence agency)

1981

the soviet union begins to fall

1989

the end of the cold war, the fall of the berlin wall, and the end of communism in europe would come in 1991