Church History Timeline

  • 1 BCE

    Birth of Jesus

  • Period: 25 to 50

    Death of Jesus

  • Period: 25 to 50

    Death of Stephen

  • Period: 50 to 75

    Nero

  • Period: 50 to 75

    Death of Paul

  • Period: 50 to 75

    Destruction of Jerusalem

  • Period: 100 to 150

    Ignatius

  • Period: 100 to 150

    Justin

  • Period: 100 to 150

    Marcion

  • Period: 100 to 300

    Gnosticism Crisis

  • Period: 100 to 150

    Trajan

  • Period: 100 to 150

    Polycarp

  • 150

    Cyprian

  • Period: 150 to 200

    Muratorian Canon

  • Period: 150 to 200

    Montanus

  • Period: 150 to 200

    Irenaeus

  • Period: 150 to 200

    Tertullian

  • 195

    Clement of Alexandria

  • Period: 200 to 250

    Origen

  • Period: 250 to 300

    Decius

  • 300

    Dicletian

  • Period: 300 to 350

    Anthony

  • Period: 300 to 350

    Council of Nicaea

  • Period: 300 to 350

    Constantine

  • Period: 300 to 350

    Ulfilas

  • Period: 350 to 400

    Athanasius

  • Period: 375 to 400

    Ambrose

  • Period: 375 to 425

    Goths

  • Period: 375 to 400

    Basil

  • Period: 375 to 400

    Theodosius

  • Period: 375 to 550

    Conquerors of Rome

  • 400

    Jerome

  • Period: 400 to 850

    Europe is Christianized

  • Period: 400 to 450

    Sack of Rome

  • Period: 400 to 450

    Augustine

  • Period: 400 to 450

    Huns

  • 450

    Leo

  • Period: 450 to 500

    Council of Chalcedon

  • Period: 475 to 500

    Fall of Rome

  • 500

    Baptism of Clovis

  • Period: 500 to 600

    Lombards

  • Period: 500 to 550

    Benedict

  • 501

    Baptism of Clovis

  • 550

    Justinian

  • Period: 550 to 600

    Gregory the Great

  • 600

    Augustine to England

  • Period: 600 to 700

    Gregory the Great

  • Period: 600 to 700

    Battle of Tours

  • Period: 700 to 800

    Charlemagne

  • Period: 700 to 800

    Iconoclastic Controversy

  • 750

    Boniface

  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    East-West schism

  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    Gregory VII (Hildebrand)

  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    Urban ll

  • Period: 1000 to 1100

    1st Crusade

  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    3rd Crusade

  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    Saladin Captures Jerusalem

  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    2nd Crusade

  • Period: 1100 to 1200

    Treaty of Richard l and Saladin

  • 1200

    Innocent lll

  • Period: 1200 to 1300

    The Kingdom of Jerusalem

  • Period: 1200 to 1300

    5th Crusade

  • Period: 1200 to 1250

    4th Lateran Council

  • Period: 1200 to 1300

    Children's Crusade

  • 1201

    4th Crusade

  • Period: 1290 to 1310

    Boniface Vlll

  • 1300

    Acre Falls

  • Period: 1320 to 1360

    Babylonian Captivity

  • Period: 1350 to 1400

    Wyclif

  • Period: 1370 to 1420

    Avignon

  • Period: 1370 to 1420

    The Great Schism

  • 1425

    Hus

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Luther's Theses

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Cortes Takes Mexico

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Society of Jesus

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Diet of Augsburg

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Calvin's Institutes

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Pizarro takes Peru

  • Period: 1500 to

    Peace of Augsburg

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Henry Vlll

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Act of Supremacy

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Tyndale's Bible

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Edward

  • Period: 1500 to 1550

    Edward

  • Period: 1549 to 1560

    Council of Trent

  • 1550

    Mary

  • Period: 1550 to

    Presbyterianism in Scotland

  • Period: 1550 to

    Elizabeth

  • Period: 1550 to

    New Act of Supremacy

  • Period: 1550 to

    Puritans

  • 1551

    Persecutions

  • Period: 1560 to

    Congregationalists

  • Edict of Nantes

  • Ricci in Peking

  • James l

  • Period: to

    Baptists

  • Period: to

    Charles l

  • Period: to

    New England Puritans

  • Period: to

    Thirty years War

  • Period: to

    Isaac Newton

  • Period: to

    Pascal

  • Period: to

    Philip Spener

  • Period: to

    English Act of Toleration

  • Period: to

    John Locke

  • Period: to

    Moravians

  • Period: to

    Joseph Butler

  • Period: to

    John Whitefield

  • Period: to

    John Wesley

  • Period: to

    Voltaire

  • Period: to

    Isaac Backus

  • Period: to

    French Revolution

  • Period: to

    F. Schleiermacher

  • Period: to

    William Wilberforce

  • Period: to

    J. H. Newman

  • First Camp meeting

  • Period: to

    Pope Pius IX

  • Karl Marx

  • Period: to

    Charles Darwin

  • Period: to

    D. L. Moody

  • Period: to

    W. Booth

  • Fall of Papal States

  • Nietzche Dies

  • Period: to

    Social Gospel

  • Period: to

    World War I

  • Period: to

    Azusa Revival Begins

  • Period: to

    Russian Revolution

  • Period: to

    Fundamentalism

  • Period: to

    Adolf Hitler

  • Period: to

    World War II

  • Period: to

    East African Revival Begins

  • Period: to

    Communist Expel Missionaries to China

  • Period: to

    William Nagenda Converted

  • Period: to

    World Council of Churches

  • Scopes Trial

  • Billy Graham

  • Period: to

    Berlin Wall

  • Period: to

    C.S Lewis Dies

  • Period: to

    Ignatius Cardinal Kung

  • Period: to

    David Yonggi Cho Employs cell group strategy

  • Period: to

    Vatican II

  • Period: to

    Lausanne congress

  • Karl Barth Dies

  • Period: to

    China's Cultural Revolution

  • Berlin Wall Falls

  • World Trade Center Towers Destroyed

  • Jerusalem Taken

  • 1/3 World population Claims Christianity