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Period:-27 BCEto180
Pax Romana
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33
The Resurrection of Jesus
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33
Pentecost
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33
The Apostles spread the Gospel
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33
St. Stephen Martyred
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34
The Conversion of Saint Paul
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42
St. John the apostle travels emphasis with the blessed virgin Mary
Tells of how, from the cross, Jesus Charged St. John with the care of his mother. -
44
St. James the Apostles is martyred; his body is secretly buried in Spain.
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46
St. Paul begins missionary journeys to Galatia, Greece, Syria, and other places.
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49
Council Of Jerusalem
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64
Persecution of Christians begins under Roman emperor Nero
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70
Romans burn the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem.
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80
Didache written
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99
All the writings that will become part of the New Testament have been written by this date.
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250
Persecution under Roman emperor Decius
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251
Council of Carthage
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303
Persecution under Roman emperor Diocletian
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313
Emperor Constantine issues the Edict of Milan
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325
Council of Nicaea
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330
Emperor Constantine divides the Roman Empire into East and West
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354
Birth of St. Augustine
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360
Books begin to replace scrolls
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382
Pope Damasus asks St. Jerome to translate the Gospels into Latin.
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397
The Council of Hippo and Carthage determine which book will become part of the New Testament
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405
St. Jerome complete his translation of the Old Testament
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410
The Visigoths destroy the city of Rome
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410
St. Augustine begins writing The City Of God.
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431
Council of Ephesus
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432
St. Patrick sets out to spread the Gospel Of God.
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451
Council of Chalcedon
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476
The Western Roman Empire Collapses
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480
Birth of St. Benedict
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496
Clovis, The King of the Franks, Converts to Catholicism
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Period:500to1000
AD 500-1,000
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507
Clovis' army drives Visigoths out of France
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527
Justinian I became emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire.
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529
St. Benedict founds the first monastery.
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529
St. Benedict founds his first monastery
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537
Construction of Hagia Sophia begins in Constantinople.
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590
St. Gregory the Great becomes pope.
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596
Pope St. Gregory the Great sends St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons
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597
St. Augustine baptizes the king of Kent.
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632
Death Of Mohammed
Mohammed, whom Muslims call the Prophet Mohammed, is the founder of Islam. By the time of his Death, all of Arabia is Muslims. -
637
Muslims attack Constantinople.
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638
Muslims capture Jerusalem.
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698
Muslims take Carthage.
End of Eastern Roman rule in North Africa -
711
Muslims invade and occupy Spain.
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716
St. Boniface leaves England to evangelize Germania
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732
France halts Muslim invasion.
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754
With St. Boniface's help, the pope allies with the kings of the Franks
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793
Vikings attack England.
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800
Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III.
Eastern Christians in Constantinople did not approve of Charlemagne's coronation, and the new title bestowed by the pope caused further division between East and West. -
885
Gunpowder invented.
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997
Muslims occupy Santiago de Compostela in Spain, burial place of St. James the Apostles
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1000
Muslims control two thirds of the ancient Christian world
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1054
The Great Schism
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1073
St. Gregory VII elected pope
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1073
Pope St. Gregory VII excommunicates the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV
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1088
First universities founded
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1094
The Byzantine emperor in Constantinople asks the West for aid against Muslim armies
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1095
Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade, and Christians temporarily capture Jerusalem
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1144
First Gothic cathedral completed
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Period:1147to1192
Second and Third Crusades
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1204
Crusaders from the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople
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1209
Franciscan Order is founded by St. Francis of Assisi
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1216
Dominican Order founded by St. Dominic
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1229
The Inquisition is founded
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Period:1265to1274
St. Thomas Aquinas write the Summa Theologica
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1300
The Renaissance begins
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1347
Bubonic plague arrives in Europe.
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1377
St. Catherine of Siena convinces the pope to return the papacy to Rome
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1386
St. Catherine of Siena cares for the sick and buries the dead when the plague strikes Siena.
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1453
Muslims conquer Constantinople and tun Hagia Sophia into a mosque
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1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas