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64 Nero burns Rome
70 Destruction of Jerusalem by Titus
150 Justin Martyr first apology dedicated
178 Iranaeus becomes bishop of Lyon
196 Tertullian begins to write
220 Origen begins to write
230 c. Public churches begun to be built
248 Cyprian elected Bishop of Carthage
269 Antony and monasticism
311 Donatist Schism begins
325 Council of Nicea
328 Athanasius becomes bishop of Alexandria
370 Basil the Great becomes bishop of Cesarea
385 Abrose prevails in "sit in" confrontation
387 Augustine's conversion
398 Chrysostom consecrated bishop of Constantinople
406 Jerome completes Vulgate
432 St. Patrick's Mission to Ireland
451 Chalcedon and Leo the Great
540 Benedict's monastic Rule
563 Columba establishes mission community on Iona
590 Gregory the Great elected pope
664 Synod of Whitby
716 Boniface, Apostle to the Germans
731 Bede Ecclesiastical History of England
732 Battle of Tours
781 Alcuin becomes royal advisor
860 Cyril and Mehodius mission to Slavs
1054 East and West split
1088 Christianization of Russia
1093 Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury
1095 Crusades launched by pope's speech
1115 Bernard founds monastery at Clairvaux
1150 c Universities of Paris and Oxford founded
1175 Waldensian movement begins
1208 Francis renounces wealth
1215 Fourth Lateran Council and Innocent the 3rd
1272 Thomas Aquinas completes Summa Theologica
1370 Catherine of Sienna letters
1378 The Great Schism
1413 Huss burned at the stake
1431 Joan of Arc martyred
1497 Savonarola excommunicated
1512 Michelangelo completes Sistene ceiling painting
1517 Luther's 95 theses
1522 Zwingli and City Council at Zurich
1522 Ignatius Loyola writes Spiritual Exercises
1525 Anabaptist movement begun
1529 Colloquy at Marburg
1530 St. Peter's basilica rebuilt
1536 Calvin's Institutes 1st edition
1545 Council of Trent and Counter Reformation
1549 Book of Common Prayer
1549 Xavier begins mission in Japan
1554 Marian Persecution and flight to Geneva
1555 Latimer and Oxford Martyrs
1559 John Knox returns to Scotland
1565 Teresa of Avila writes The Way of Perfection
1572 Huguenot St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
1596 Japanese persecute Christians
1608 Baptists, John Smyth baptizes self in Amsterdam
1611 King James Bible
1618 Synod of Dort
1620 Mayflower Covenant
1636 Roger Williams founds Rhode Island
1638 Harvard College founded
1641 Comenius driven from homeland
1646 Westminster Confession
1660 First Quaker Peace Statement
1678 Pilgrim's Progress first edition
1685 Back and Handel born
1727 Moravian Baptism of Holy Spirit
1728 William Law's Serious Call
1735 Jonathan Edwards and the Great Awakening
1738 Wesley's conversion
1793 William Carey sails for India
1804 British and Foreign Bible Society formed
1807 Wilberforce and anti-slavery movement
1816 Judson sails for India
1817 Elizabeth Fry committee to Newgate Prison
1827 Alexander Campbell founds Disciples/Campbellites
1827 J N Darby's Nature and Unity of the Christian Church
1830 Finney revivals (Rochester)
1843 William Miller and Adventism
1853 Hudson Taylor to China
1854 Kierkegaard's attack on Christendom
1854 Spurgeon Becomes pastor New Park St. Church
1857 Livingston's Missionary Travels published
1860 Moody's conversion
1864 Syllabus of Errors
1904 Azusa St. revival
1910 International Missionary conference Edinburg
1919 Karl Barth on Romans
1929 Fundamentals published
1940 Wycliffe Bible Translators formed
1945 Bonhoeffer's death
1948 World Council of Churches formed
1949 Los Angeles Crusade catapults Graham
1962 Vatican II
1965 China church grows despite Cultural Revolution