Timeline of Apostolic Christianity By mdelgreco14 27 Christ's baptism 30 Founding of the Christian Church 30 Christ's crucifixion 37 Paul converted to Christianity 44 Peter's visit to Jerusalem with alms from Antioch's church 50 The Apostolic Council founded in Jerusalem 50 Acts 13 and 14 50 Paul's first missionary journey with Barnabas and Mark, Cyprus, Pisidia, Lystra, Derbe 52 Paul writes First and Second Epistles to the Thessalonians 56 Acts in Chapter 20 60 Paul is released from his captivity in Caesarea 60 Paul is released from his first captivity in Rome 60 Approximate writing of Synoptical Gospels, the Acts, Pastoral Epistles, Hebrews, Jude, James, and Epistles of Peter 61 Paul writes to the Philippians, Ephesians, Colossians, Philemon 62 James is martyred 63 Paul is released from Roman prison 64 Paul and Peter are martyred 64 First imperial persecution of Christians in Rome 68 Writing of the books of John 68 Approximately the time of John's Revelation 70 Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus 80 John writes his Gospels 95 John writes the Revelation 98 Death of John