Church History timeline

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The early church 30–312

  1. c. 30Pentecost: the church in Jerusalem
  2. 64Nero's persecution
  3. 70The fall of Jerusalem
  4. c. 110The letters of Ignatius of Antioch
  5. 144Marcion breaks with the church at Rome
  6. c. 150–155Justin describes Sunday worship
  7. c. 155The martyrdom of Polycarp
  8. c. 180Irenaeus, Against Heresies
  9. 203Perpetua and Felicity at Carthage
  10. 250The persecution under Decius
  11. 303Diocletian's Great Persecution

The church of the empire 313–590

  1. 313The agreement at Milan
  2. 325The Council of Nicaea
  3. c. 330King Ezana of Aksum
  4. c. 356The death of Antony
  5. 380The edict of Thessalonica
  6. c. 405Mesrop's Armenian alphabet
  7. 410Alaric sacks Rome
  8. 430The death of Augustine
  9. c. 432Patrick goes to Ireland
  10. c. 529Benedict at Monte Cassino

The early Middle Ages 590–1054

  1. 590Gregory the Great
  2. 597Augustine arrives in Kent
  3. 635Alopen reaches Chang'an
  4. c. 638Jerusalem surrenders to the Arab armies
  5. 716Boniface's mission
  6. 787The Second Council of Nicaea
  7. 800Charlemagne crowned
  8. 863Cyril and Methodius to Moravia
  9. 910The abbey of Cluny
  10. 988Vladimir of Kyiv is baptised

The Middle Ages 1054–1500

  1. 1054East and West excommunicate each other
  2. 1077Canossa
  3. 1095The call to crusade at Clermont
  4. 1099The crusaders take Jerusalem
  5. 1184The decree of Verona
  6. 1204The sack of Constantinople
  7. 1209Francis's rule approved
  8. 1209The Albigensian Crusade
  9. 1216The Dominicans approved
  10. 1233Gregory IX's inquisitors
  11. 1348The Black Death
  12. 1378The Great Schism
  13. 1415Jan Hus burned
  14. 1453The fall of Constantinople

The Reformation 1500–1650

  1. 1517The Ninety-five Theses
  2. 1521The Diet of Worms
  3. 1523The Zurich disputation
  4. 1525The first believers' baptisms in Zurich
  5. 1540The Jesuits approved
  6. 1541Calvin returns to Geneva
  7. 1545The Council of Trent opens
  8. 1549Xavier reaches Japan
  9. 1560The Scots Confession
  10. 1572The St Bartholomew's Day massacre
  11. 1598The Edict of Nantes
  12. 1601Matteo Ricci enters Beijing
  13. 1618–1648The Thirty Years' War

The modern era 1650–1900

  1. 1662The Great Ejection
  2. 1675Spener, Pia Desideria
  3. 1738Wesley at Aldersgate Street
  4. c. 1740The Great Awakening
  5. 1784Yi Seung-hun baptised in Beijing
  6. 1791The Sinhae persecution
  7. 1792Carey's Enquiry
  8. 1801The Sinyu persecution
  9. 1807Morrison goes to China
  10. 1807Britain abolishes the slave trade
  11. 1833Slavery abolished in the British colonies
  12. 1839The Gihae persecution
  13. 1865The China Inland Mission
  14. 1865The Thirteenth Amendment
  15. 1866The Byeongin persecution
  16. 1884Allen arrives in Korea
  17. 1885Underwood and Appenzeller
  18. 1887The Saemunan and Chungdong churches

The twentieth century and today 1900–

  1. 1907The Pyongyang revival
  2. 1910The Edinburgh missionary conference
  3. 1914The First World War
  4. 1919The March First movement
  5. 1934The Barmen Declaration
  6. 1938The Presbyterian assembly's shrine decision
  7. 1945The Stuttgart Declaration of Guilt
  8. 1948The World Council of Churches founded
  9. 1950–1953The Korean War
  10. 1974The Lausanne Congress
  11. 2010The Cape Town Commitment