Church History Timeline

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  • 4 BCE

    Jesus' Birth

  • 30

    Death of Jesus

  • 34

    Death of Stephen

  • 60

    Nero

  • 64

    Death of Paul

  • 70

    Destruction of Jerusalem

  • 103

    Trajan

  • 110

    Ignatius

  • Period: 115 to 300

    Gnosticism Crisis

  • 135

    Justin

  • 140

    Marcion

  • 170

    Montanus

  • 172

    Irenaeus

  • 190

    Muratorian Canon

  • 190

    Tertullian

  • 197

    Clement of Alexandria

  • 230

    Origen

  • 250

    Cyprian

  • 253

    Decius

  • 299

    Diocletian

  • 305

    Anthony

  • 310

    Ulfilas

  • 315

    Constantine's Conversion

  • 325

    Council of Nicaea

  • 355

    Athanasius

  • 370

    Basil

  • 390

    Ambrose

  • 390

    Goths

  • Period: 390 to 540

    Conquerors of Rome

  • 391

    Theodosius

  • 400

    Jerome

  • Period: 405 to 850

    Europe is Christianized

  • 410

    Sack of Rome

  • 420

    Augustine

  • 424

    Huns

  • 444

    Leo

  • 451

    Council of Chalcedon

  • 476

    Fall of Rome

  • 500

    Baptism of Clovis

  • 500

    St. Patrick

  • 510

    Benedict

  • 538

    Lombards

  • 550

    Justinian

  • 588

    Gregory the Great

  • 600

    Augustine to England

  • 609

    Gregory the Great

  • 705

    Battle of Tours

  • 740

    Iconoclastic Controversy

  • 749

    Boniface

  • 790

    Charlemagne

  • 910

    Cluny Founded

  • 960

    Gerbert

  • Period: 1005 to 1400

    Scholasticism

  • Period: 1020 to 1400

    Gothic Cathedrals

  • 1039

    Otto the Great

  • 1039

    East-West Schism

  • 1079

    Seljuk Turks Capture Palestine

  • 1080

    Gregory VII

  • 1084

    Urban II

  • 1090

    1st Crusade

  • 1098

    Abelard

  • 1105

    Jerusalem Taken

  • 1109

    Bernard

  • 1145

    Peter Waldo

  • 1148

    2nd Crusade

  • 1150

    Gratian

  • 1184

    Saladin Captures Jerusalem

  • 1185

    Treaty of Richard I and Saladin

  • 1189

    3rd Crusade

  • 1195

    Innocent III

  • 1204

    4th Crusade

  • 1214

    4th Lateran Council

  • 1227

    Franciscans and Dominicans

  • 1239

    Thomas Aquinas

  • 1239

    Children's Crusade

  • 1240

    The Kingdom of Jerusalem

  • 1260

    5th Crusade

  • 1294

    Boniface VIII

  • 1304

    Acre Falls

  • Period: 1325 to 1375

    Babylonian Captivity

  • 1358

    Wyclif

  • Period: 1380 to 1420

    The Great Schism

  • Period: 1380 to 1420

    Avignon

  • 1420

    Hus

  • Period: 1497 to 1570

    Council of Trent

  • 1504

    Henry VIII

  • 1517

    Luther's Theses

  • 1520

    Tyndale's Bible

  • 1521

    Cortes takes Mexico

  • 1524

    Diet of Augsburg

  • 1530

    Pizzaro takes Peru

  • 1530

    Act of Supremecy

  • 1540

    Calvin's Institutes

  • 1545

    Edward

  • 1546

    Society of Jesus

  • 1551

    Mary

  • 1553

    New Act of Supremecy

  • 1553

    Persecutions

  • 1554

    Peace of Augsburg

  • 1555

    Elizabeth

  • 1565

    Presbyterianism in Scotland

  • 1575

    Puritans

  • 1580

    Congregationalists

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Ricci in Peking

  • James I

  • Baptists

  • Period: to

    30 Years War

  • Pascal

  • Philip Spener

  • Isaac Newton

  • English Act of Toleration

  • John Locke

  • Moravians

  • Joseph Butler

  • George Whitefield

  • John Wesley

  • Voltaire

  • Isaac Backus

  • French Revolution

  • First Camp Meeting

  • F. Schleiermacher

  • William Wilberforce

  • Period: to

    Pope Pius IX

  • J.H. Newman

  • Karl Marx

  • A. Ritschl

  • Charles Darwin

  • Papal Infallibility

  • Fall of Papal States

  • D.L. Moody

  • W. Booth

  • Nietzsche dies

  • Social Gospel

  • Azusa Revival

  • World War I

  • Russian Revolution

  • Period: to

    Fundamentalism

  • Scopes Trial

  • East African Revival begins

  • William Nagenda converted

  • Adolf Hitler

  • World War II

  • World Council of Churches

  • Communist expel missionaries to China

  • Billy Graham

  • C.S. Lewis dies

  • Ignatius Cardinal Kung, Kung Pin-Mei convicted of treason

  • David Yonggi Cho employs cell group strategy

  • Berlin Wall

  • Karl Barth dies

  • Period: to

    Vatican II

  • Period: to

    China's cultural Revolution

  • Lausanne Congress

  • Berlin Wall Falls

  • World Trade Center Towers Destroyed

  • 1/3rd World Population Claims Christianity