27-29? John the Baptist begins ministry (Luke 3,1-2) (15th year of Tiberius)
27-34? Jesus baptized by John the Baptist (Mk1:4-11)
33-36? Jesus' ministry
36? Jesus crucified
36?-65? Period of oral tradition in Christianity between the time of Jesus and the time the first gospel (Mark) is written, original Christians disperse throughout Judea and Samaria Peter leads the new Christian Church, moves the Church headquarters from Jerusalem to Rome
48-49 Council of Jerusalem, 1st Christian Council, doctrine regarding circumcision and dietary law is agreed to by apostles and presbyters, written in a letter addressed to "the brothers of Gentile origin in Antioch, Syria, and Cilicia"
48-57? Paul writes Galatians, 1 Thesalonians, 2 Thesalonians, Philippians, 1 Corinthians, Romans, 2 Corinthians
61-63? Paul? writes Ephesians, Philemon, Colossians, 1 & 2 Timothy
65-125 Period in which 4 Gospels, Acts, Revelations, and remaining epistles written
- Peter martyred before 1st Holy Gospel is written, 7 Popes before last epistle is completed
125-350 Period of Christianity during which the first Bible was assembled - Christians are fiercely persecuted and then finally tolerated by the Roman Empire, Great Plague in Rome
313 Edict of Milan, Constantine establishes toleration of Christianity
317 Letters of Lactantius, early Christian church father
325 Council of Nicaea, called by Constantine against Arianism (336), called 1st great Christian council by Jerome, 1st ecumenical, 318 bishops attend
350-400 Period of time between the 1st Christian Bible and the 1st Western Christian Bible, during which the books contained in Bibles varied
381 Council of Theodosius at Constantinople, 2nd ecumenical, Jesus had true human soul
400-484 Era between 1st Western Christian Bible and the Great Schism - Christian doctrine is formed, Roman empire ends
401-417 Pope Innocent I, 40th Pope, decreed Roman custom the norm for Christianity
431 Council of Ephesus, 3rd ecumenical, decreed Mary the Mother of God
451 Council of Chalcedon, 4th ecumenical, declared Jesus is 2 natures, both human and divine in one, a compromise solution of Jesus god/man schisms
476 Official end of western Roman empire
525 Dionysius Exiguus sets Christian calendar (a.d.) & Jesus' birth @ 23 Dec 1AD
637 Jerusalem captured by Islam
640-1380 Period between destruction of Library of Alexandria and the first complete English translation of the Bible
1054 Split between Eastern and Western churches formalized, Orthodox Church founded
1095-1291 10 Crusades, 1st called by Pope Urban II, to restore Asia Minor to Byzantium and conquer the Holy Land from the Turks
1478 Inquisition established by Pope Sixtus IV
1483-1546 Martin Luther, leader of Protestant reformation, preached that only fait leads to salvation without mediation of clergy or good works, attacked authority of the Pope, rejected priestly celibacy, recommended individual
study of the Bible
1492 Christopher Columbus's first voyage, discovers San Salvador - begins Spanish colonization of the New World
1517-1994 Modern Era of Christianity - Luther, Calvin lay the seeds of modern Protestantism, England breaks away from the Catholic Church
1534 Henry VIII breaks England away from the Catholic church, confiscates monastic property, beginning of Episcopal Church
1609 Baptist Church founded by John Smyth, due to objections to infant baptism and demands for church-state separation
1611-1800 King James (Authorized) Version, based on Bishop's Bible of 1572 with use of Rheims NT of 1582 - included Apocropha, alterations found in many editions
through 1800, revisors accused of being "damnable corrupters of God's word"
1869-1870 First Vatican Council, 20th ecumenical, affirms doctrine of papal infallibility
1957 United Church of Christ founded by ecumenical union of Congregationalists and Evangelical & Reformed, representing Calvinists and Lutherans
1979-1982? New King James Bible, complete revision of 1611 AV, updates archaisms while retaining style
1994 Declaration of cooperation between Evangelicals and Catholics
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