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Titus destroys Jerusalem; Christianity and Judaism official broke since Christians fled Jerusalem.
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The earliest public churches are built, signaling a sift in Christians' life and practice.
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Emperor Theodosis I made Nicene Christianity the state church of the Roman Empire with the Edict of Thessalonica
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Augustine Converts to Christianity; greatest early church father; figts Pelagianism; emphasizes authority of Scripture; his thought foundation of the Reformers; wrote the city of God.
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Patrick's mission to Ireland breaks heathenism and fosters Christianity, leading to a flourishing Celtic church.
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Gregory the Great becomes Pope; The 'first of the medieval popes' takes on civil power and lays the foundations for the papal state. He also commissions, in 597, Augustine's mission to England, which converts the pagan Angles
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Dominic establishes Order of Preachers, who travel barefoot, teach, and convert heretics
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Dante's Divine Comedy gives masterful poetic expression to medieval concepts of heaven, hell, and purgatory, and shapes later thought.
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Catherine of Siena's Letters, a treasure of Western mysticism, are begun.
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John Wyclif supervises Bible translation, leaving the first complete English Bible.
