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WardHChruchHistory

  • Period: 33 to 300

    Early Church Era

  • Peter and Paul are excuted
    65

    Peter and Paul are excuted

    Two of the greatest apostle forces church leadership into a new era.
  • Titus destroys Jerusalem
    70

    Titus destroys Jerusalem

    Christianity and Judaism official broke since Christians fled from Jerusalem.
  • Period: 330 to 500

    Christian Empire

  • Athanasius defines the New Testament
    367

    Athanasius defines the New Testament

    Easter's letter list the current 27 books of the Canon
  • Augustine converts to Christinanty
    386

    Augustine converts to Christinanty

    greatest early church farther; fights Pelagianism; emphasizes scripture.
  • Period: 500 to 1500

    Middle Ages

  • Gregory the great becomes pope
    590

    Gregory the great becomes pope

    The "first of the medieval popes" takes on civil power and lays the foundations for the papal states.
  • Battle of Tours
    732

    Battle of Tours

    Frankish general Charles Martel halts the seemingly unstoppable muslim invasion.
  • Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Empire
    800

    Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Empire

    With the help of his adviser, Alcum, the seven foot tall king Europe political unity
  • Pope Urban ii launches the first crusades
    1095

    Pope Urban ii launches the first crusades

    deeply damaged Western Christians relations with others.
  • Innocent III calls the fourth Lateran Council
    1215

    Innocent III calls the fourth Lateran Council

    which climaxes the rule of the medieval church's most influential pope and defines transubstantiation.
  • Constantinople falls to the Turks
    1453

    Constantinople falls to the Turks

    ending a millennium of Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire.