History of Christianity Timeline

History of Christianity

800 BCE - 165 BCE

The Old Testament is written.

70 CE

The Second Temple is destoyed by the Romans.

50 CE - 120 CE

The New Testament is Written.

250 CE

The Decian Persecutions against Christians in the Roman Empire.

303 CE - 313 CE

The Diocletian Persection, the last and bloodier of the persecutions against Christians in the Roman Empire.

325 CE

First Council of Nicaea.

1054 CE

The Great Schism split the Church into the Roman Catholic and the Eastern Orthodox.

800 CE

Coronation of Charlemagne, the first Emperor to be blessed by the Pope.

1075 CE - 1124 CE

Investiture Controversy: the Pope and the Emperor argue over the right to choose and install bishops.

1095 CE

The First Crusade at Clermont.

1073 CE - 1085 CE

The Gregorian Reforms by Pope Gregory VII: clerical celibacy, centralization of ecclesial power in Rome, the Pope as representative of Christ to all Christians everywhere.

1099 CE

The Crusades reach Jerusalem.

1537 CE

First officially-authorized English Bible

1529 CE - 1531 CE

King Henry VIII decides to break with the Pope and declares that the King has no superior other than God.

January - March 1492 CE

Spain defeats and expulses Muslims and Jews from the region, consolidating a Christian kingdom.

1524 CE

The first Catholic priests arrive in the newly conquered Tenochtitlán.

1712 CE

The Virgin movement of Cancuc.

1816 CE

The African Methodist Episcopal Church becomes the first independent black demonitation in the US.

1830 CE

Publication of the Book of Mormon.

1545 CE - 1563 CE

Council of Trent to discuss the Catholic response to the Reformation: condemnation of the doctrine of justification, Bible only has authority in the context of tradition.

1962 CE - 1965 CE

The Second Vatican Council.

1968 CE

Publication of The Church and the Second Sex by Mary Daly.

1971 CE

Publication of A Theology of Liberation by Gustavo Gutiérrez.

1910 CE - 1915 CE

Publication of The Fundamentals pamphlets.

301 CE

King Trdat III is baptized in the Christian faith and turns Armenia into the first Christian country.

451 CE

Council of Chalcedon.

381 CE

First Council of Constantinople, which affirmed the Nicene Creed.

1695 CE

John Locke publishes The Reasonableness of Christianity, following a trend that seeks to prove the existence of God.