Key Events in the development of Christianity

  • Period: 300 to Aug 28, 1500

    Development of Christianity

  • 312

    Emperor Constantine's coversion to Christianity

  • 313

    Edict of Milan establishes official toleration of Christianity

  • 325

    Council of Nicea

  • 336

    Death of Constantine

  • 354

    Birth of Augustine

  • 367

    Athanasius lists all 27 books of NT

  • 400

    Jerome's Vulgate (translation of the Greek Bible into Latin)

  • 407

    John Chrysostom dies

  • 411

    Council of Carthage condemns Donatists

  • 417

    Pope Innocent I condemns Pelagianism

  • 420

    Death of Jerome

  • 430

    Death of Augustine

  • 431

    Council of Ephesus

  • 451

    Council of Chalcedon

  • Sep 9, 1054

    Great Schism between East and West

  • Sep 9, 1093

    Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury

  • Sep 9, 1095

    1095 Council of Council of Clermont: Pope Urban II proclaims First Crusade

  • Sep 9, 1098

    Crusaders take Antioch from Turks

  • Sep 9, 1099

    Crusaders recapture Jerusalem from Turks

  • Sep 9, 1122

    Concordat of Worms

  • Sep 9, 1141

    Peter Abelard condemned

  • Sep 9, 1144

    Fall of Edessa (crusader state)

  • Sep 9, 1187

    Fall of Jerusalem to Turks

  • Sep 9, 1215

    Fourth Lateran Council

  • Period: Sep 9, 1309 to Sep 9, 1377

    Babylonian Captivity

  • Period: Sep 9, 1337 to Sep 9, 1453

    Hundred Years' War

  • Period: Sep 9, 1378 to Sep 9, 1423

    Great Western Schism

  • Sep 9, 1409

    Council of Pisa

  • Period: Sep 9, 1413 to Sep 9, 1414

    Lollard rebellion

  • Sep 9, 1415

    Council of Constance. Martyrdom of Jan Hus.

  • Sep 9, 1420

    Crusade against Hussites

  • Sep 9, 1431

    Joan of Arc martyred

  • Period: Sep 9, 1431 to Sep 9, 1449

    Council of Basel

  • Period: Sep 9, 1438 to Sep 9, 1455

    Council of Ferrara-Florence

  • Sep 9, 1453

    Fall of Constantinople to Turks

  • Sep 9, 1478

    Spanish Inquisition founded by Ferdinand and Isabella

  • Sep 9, 1483

    Birth of Martin Luther

  • Sep 9, 1492

    Expulsion of Jews from Spain by Ferdinand and Isabella

  • Basil the Great dies

  • Christianity made official religion of Roman Empire

  • Council of Constantinople

  • Augustine converts to Christianity

  • Gregory of Nazianzus dies

  • Gregory of Nyssa dies

  • Olga of Russia converts to Christianity

  • 787 Second Council of Nicea