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The accepted date is the year 0-1 BCE
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Jesus is baptised in the river Jordan
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Roman emperor who completely legalized Christianity, leading to its status as state religion.
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The start of the Renaissance period around the late 14th century showed churches art and expensive stained glass windows
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Around the 1450s, The Gutenberg Bible was the first major book printed.
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LaPerouse enters Botany Bay with the first catholics to land in Australia, and they celebratesthe first Mass within Australian territory.
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Fr James Harold & Fr James Dixon arrive as convicts.
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Fr Philip Conolly and Fr John Therry arrive as official chaplains.
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Catholic Emancipation Act passed for NSW.
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Christian Brothers arrive in Sydney (leave in 1847)
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Mary Mackillop and Fr. Tenison Woods fund The Sisters of St. Joseph
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The First Vatican Council was held in 1870. It was here that the pope was formally declared infallible.
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The first International Eucharistic congress is held in France
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Negative image of the Shroud of Turin first observed
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Federation of Australia
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Benedict XVI elected as the Pope
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World youth day held in Sydney with Pope Benedict XVI
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Mary MacKillop is the first Australian to be canonised.
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The Saint John's Bible is the first completely handwritten and illuminated Bible to have been commissioned by a Benedictine Abbey since the invention of the printing press.
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Charlemagne was coronated as Holy Roman Emperor by the Roman Patriarch Leo III
