Church History Timeline

  • Period: 1 CE to 100

    The Age of Jesus and the Apostles

    0-5- Birth of Jesus
    25-50 - Death of Jesus, Death of Stephen
    50-75 - Nero, Death of Paul, Destruction of Jerusalem
    75- 100
  • Period: 100 to 300

    The Age of Catholic Christianity

    100-200
    Trajan
    Ignatius
    Gnosticism Crisis
    Polycarp
    Justin
    Marcion
    Montanus
    Irenaeus
    Murtatorian
    Tertullian
    Clement of Alexandria
    200- 300
    Origen
    Cyprian
    Decius
    Diocletian
    Constantine
  • Period: 300 to 600

    The Age of the Christian Roman Empire

    300-400
    Anthony
    Constantine's Conversion
    Council of Nicaea
    Athanasius
    Basil
    Ambrose
    Theodosius
    Jerome
    400-500
    Sack of Rome
    Augustine
    Leo
    Council of Chalcedon
    Fall of Rome
    Baptism of Clovis
    500-600
    Benedict
    Justinian
    Gregory the Great
  • Period: 300 to 800

    Early Middle Ages

    300-400
    Ulfilas Conquerors of Rome 370-550
    Goths
    Huns
    Lombards Europe in Christianity 400-800
    St. Patrick
    Baptism of Cloves
    Augustine to England
    Boniface 600-800
    Gregory the Great
    Battle of the Tours
    Iconoclastic Controversy
    Charlemagne
  • Period: 1000 to 1300

    The Age of Crusades

    1000-1100
    East-West Schism
    Gregory VII
    Seljuk Turks Capture Palestine
    (Hildebrand) Urban II
    1st Crusade
    Jerusalem Taken 1100-1200
    2nd Crusade
    3rd Crusade / Saladin Captures Jerusalem
    Treaty of Richard I and Saladin 1200- 1300
    4th Crusade
    The Kingdom of Jerusalem/Children's Crusade
    5th Crusade
    Acre Falls
  • Period: 1200 to 1450

    The Decline of the Middle Ages

    1200-1250
    Innocent III/ 4th Lateran Council 1300-1400
    Boniface VIII
    Babylonian Captivity
    Wycliff 1400-1450
    Avignon
    Hus
    The Great Schism of Rome
    Martin V Elected by Council of Constance
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Age of the Reformation

    1500-1550
    Luther's Thesis
    Cortes take Mexico
    Diet of Augsburg
    Pizarro take Peru
    Calvin's Institutes
    Society of Jesus 1550-1600
    Council of Trent
    Peace of Augsburg
    Presbyterianism in Scotland
    Edict of Nantes 1600-1650
    Ricci in Peking
    30 Years War Peace of Westphalia
  • Period: 1500 to

    The Reformation of England

    1500-1550
    Henry VIII
    Tyndale's Bible
    Act of Supremacy
    Edward 1550-1600
    Mary
    Persecutions/New Act of Supremacy
    Elizabeth
    Puritans/Congregationalists
    1600-1650
    James I
    Baptists
    Charles I
    War
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    The Age of Reason and Revival

    1650-1700
    Pascal
    Phillip Spencer
    Isaac Newton
    English Act of Toleration
    John Locke 1700-1750
    Morivians
    Joseph Butler
    George Whitefield
    John Wesley 1750-1800
    Voltaire
    Isaac Backus
    French Revolution
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    The Age of Progress

    1800-1850
    French Revolution
    First Camp Meeting
    F. Schleiermacher
    William Wilberforce
    J.H. Newman 1850-1900
    Karl Marx
    Pope Pius IX/ A. Ritschl/ Charles Darwin
    Papal Infallibility/Fall of Papal States
    D. L. Moody
    W. Booth
    Social Gospel
    World War I
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    The Age of Global Expansion and Relocation

    1900-1925
    Nietzsche dies
    World War I
    Azusa Revival 1925-1950
    East African Revival begins
    William Nagenda converted
    World War II
    Communists expel missionaries to China 1950-1975
    Billy Graham
    Ignatius Cardinal Kung, Kung Pin-Mei convicted of treason
    C.S. Lewis Dies
    David Yonggi Cho employs cell group strategy
    Karl Barth Dies
    China's Cultural Revolution 1975-2000
    Berlin Wall Falls
    Lausanne Congress
    World Trade Center Towers destroyed 2013
    1/3 World population claims Christianity
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    The Age of Ideologies

    1925-1950
    World War I
    Russian Revolution
    Fundamentalism
    Scopes Trial
    Adolf Hitler
    World War II
    World Council of Churches 1950-1996
    Billy Graham
    Berlin Wall
    Vatican II
    Lausanne Congress
    Berlin Wall Falls