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  • Period: 33 to 330

    Early Church Era

  • Execution of Peter and Paul
    65

    Execution of Peter and Paul

    Church's two greatest apostles die causing church leadership into new era.
  • Jerusalem destroyed
    70

    Jerusalem destroyed

    Titus destroys Jerusalem causing Christians to flee also causing Christianity and Judaism to brake.
  • Early Public Churches Built
    230

    Early Public Churches Built

    Earliest known public churches built signaling a shift in Christians' life and practice.
  • The Edict of Milan
    313

    The Edict of Milan

    Made by Constantine 1 the Roman Emperor that Christianians should no longer be persecuted.
  • Period: 330 to 500

    Christian Empire

  • Council of Chalcedon says Jesus is completely and fully God
    461

    Council of Chalcedon says Jesus is completely and fully God

    The council says Jesus is total man and total God and a normal person; Jesus combined two natures.
  • Period: 500 to 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Battle of Tours
    732

    Battle of Tours

    Frankish General Charles Martel stops unstoppable Muslim invasion, keeping Europe under Christian control.
  • First Crusade
    1095

    First Crusade

    Pope Urban 2 launches the First Crusade damaging Western Christians' relations,the crusaders’ brutality worked only to make the Muslims more militant.
  • John Wyclif supervises Bible translation
    1380

    John Wyclif supervises Bible translation

    Doing the first complete English Bible.
  • 1453

    Constantinople falls to the Turks

    Ending a millennium of Christianity in the Eastern Roman ("Byzantine") Empire.
  • Gutenberg Produces the First Printed Bible
    1456

    Gutenberg Produces the First Printed Bible

    Sparked a revolution in society and the church,Books could now be produced in quantities and at prices that made them available to many people, not merely to scholars and monks.