Jesus to AD 500

St. Thomas Aquinas write the Summa Theologica

1274 BCE

pax romana

Period: 27 BCE to 180

the resurrection of Jesus Christ

33

pentacost

33

he apostles spread the Gospel

33

St. Stephen is martyred

33

St. John the Apostle travels to Ephesus with the blessed Mary

33

John 19:25-27 tells how, from the cross, Jesus charged st John with the carreer of his mother

the conversion of St. Paul

42

St. James the apostle is martyred; his body is buried in Spain

44

Christians stole his body and brought it on a boat to Spain, to a place that would be known as Santiago(St. James) de Compostela(field of stars)

St. Paul begins missionary journeys to Galatia, Greece, Syria, and other places

46

council of Jerusalem

49

the council confirms the new covenant in christ means that Christians are not bound by Mosaic Law and that Jesus send the Holy spirit to Jew and gentile alike

persecution of Christ begins under the roman emperor, Nero

64

persecution of Christians begins under the roman emperor, Nero

64

the romans burh Jewish temple in Jerusalem

70

Didache written

80

all writing that will become part of the new testament have been written by this date

99

ad 100-500

Period: 100 to 500

persecution under the roman Emperor Decius

250

Decius required all to worship the gods of the state, to be tortured killed

council of carthage

251

this council allowed people who lapsed in their faith during the persecution to be brought back into the church after a period of penance

persecution under the roman Emperor Dioceltian

303

Diocletian ordered the destruction of all Christian churches, imprisonment of bishops and priests, and the execution of all who refused to practice in the religion of pagan gods

construction of the first St. peters basilica in Rome

313

Emperor Constantine issues the edict of Milan

313

this edict granted religious toleration of Christians and unleashed the spread of Christianity

emperor of Constantine divides the roman empire into east and west

330

the west was centered in Rome, and the east was centered in Constantinople ( present-day turkey)

council of nicaea

330

the council, called by the Emporer of constantine, set forth the Nicene creed and confirmed that Jesus and the father are consubatational - of the same substance

birth of st Augustine

354

books begin to replace scrolls

360

pop demasks asks st Jerome to translate the gospels to latten

382

the council of Hippo and Carthage determine which books will become apart of the new testament

397

St Jerome complete is translation of the old testament

405

the Visigoths destroy the city of Rome

410

st Augustine begins the writings of the city of God

410

council of Ephesus

431

this council condemned a heresy that said that Jesus was two persons in one body, and the council declared that the virgin mary is truly the Mother of God

St Patrick spreads out to spread the Gospel in Ireland

432

council of chalcedon

451

this council affirmed that Christ is truly human and fully divine

the western rome empire collapses

476

birth of St benedict

480

Clovis, the kind of franks, converts to Catholicism

496

AD 500-1000

Period: 500 to 1000

Clovis army drives Visigoths out of France

507

Justinian 1 becomes the emperor of the eastern roman empire

527

St. benedict found the first monastery

529

St. benedict found the first monastery

529

construction of hagia Sofia ( current structure) begins in Constantinople

537

st. Gregory becomes the pope

590

pope St. Gregory the great sends st Augustine of canterburry to England to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons

596

st Augustine baptizes the king of Kent

597

death of Mohammed

632

Mohammed, whom the Muslims call the prophet Mohammad, is the founder of Islam. By the time of his death, all of Arabia Muslim

Muslims attach Constantinople

637

Muslims capture Jerusalem

638

Muslims take carthage

698

end of the eastern roman rule in North africa

muslims invade and occupy spain

711

st boniface leaves England to evangelize Germania

716

france halts muslim invasion

732

with st Boniface'se help, the pope allies with the king of franks

754

Vikings attack England

793

gunpowder is invented

800

Charlemagne is crowned holy roman emperor by pope Leo III

800

eastern Christians did not approve of charges coronation, and the new title bestowed by the pope caused further division between eastern and western

Vikings attack paris

885

muslims occupy Santiago de compostela in spain, burial place of st. james the apostle

997

Muslims control 2/3 of the ancient Christian world

1000

the great schism

1054

st gregory v11 elected pope

1073

Pope St. Gregory VII excommunicates the Holy Roman Emperor Henry IV

1073

First universities founded

1088

The Byzantine emperor in Constantinople asks the West for aid against Muslim armies

1094

Pope Urban II calls for a Crusade, and Christians temporarily capture Jerusalem

1095

First Gothic cathedral completed

1144

Second and Third Crusades

1147

Second and Third Crusades

1192

Crusaders from the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople

1204

Franciscan Order is founded by St. Francis of Assisi

1209

Dominican Order founded by St. Dominic

1216

The Inquisition is founded

1229

St. Thomas Aquinas write the Summa Theologica

1265

The Renaissance begins

1300

The bubonic plague arrives in Europe.

1347

St. Catherine of Siena cares for the sick and buries the dead when the plague strikes Siena.

1386

Printing Press invented

1440

Christopher Columbus sails for North America

1492

Ponce de Leon of Spain founds St. Augustine, Florida St. Augustine, named for St. Augustine of Hippo, was the first European settlement in what is now the United States.

1513

Martin Luther presents the 95 Theses In this document, Luther presented what he saw as abusive practices in the Catholic Church.

1517

Luther denies the authority of the pope to interpret Scripture

1520

Luther is excommunicated

1521

Luther translates the Bible into German

1522

Franciscan missionaries arrive in what is now Florida

1526

St. Ignatius of Loyola founds the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)

1534

King Henry VIII of England breaks England from the Catholic Church after the pope refuses to allow him a divorce

1534

St. Thomas More is executed by Henry VIII

1535

Henry VIII dissolves all monasteries and convents in England and ireland

1536

First Franciscan explorations in what is now California

1541

The Council of Trent

Period: 1545 to 1563

Jesuit missionaries arrive in the Far East

1549

St. Teresa of Avila founds Discalced Carmelite convents throughout Spain

Period: 1562 to 1582

St. Peter Claver arrives in Colombia

1611

The King James Bible becomes the Bible of the Church of England

1611

he Mayflower sets sail from England to North America

1622

he Mayflower sets sail from England to North America

1634

England overthrows its Catholic king and bans any future Catholic monarchs

1689

Maryland outlaws the public practice of Catholicism in the colony

1704

The Enlightenment

Period: 1715 to 1789

British colonies in North America declare their independence

1776

The French Revolution begins

1789

The US Constitution prevents religious tests for national office

1789

he First Amendment protects free religious exercise in the US and prevents national government from establishing a religion.

1791

Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto

1848

Ecumencial Council of the Vatican (known as Vatican I)

Period: 1868 to 1870

Bolshevik party formed in Russia

1903

World War I begins

1914

Mexico outlaws Catholicism

1917

Three children at Fatima, Portugal, are granted visions of the Virgin Mary (Our Lady asked the children to pray the Rosary every day to stop the spread of Russia’s errors and for world peace. She asked that Russia be consecrated to her Immaculate Heart.

1917

Soviet Union is formed (Lenin was its first leader; Stalin took power two years after Lenin’s death)

1922

Servant of God Dorothy Day converts to Catholicism

1926

The first Catholic bishops in China are ordained

1926

Bl. Miguel Pro is killed by the Mexican government

1927

Hitler beomes chancellor of Germany; first Nazi concentration camp is opened

1933

Day founds the Catholic Worker newspaper

1933

Word War II begins

1939

Communist governments begin persecutions and mass murder across Europe and Asia

1940

St. Maximilian Kolbe is killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz

1941

Pope St. John XXIII calls the Church council that will become known as Vatican II

1959

Communist governments begin persecutions and mass murder across Europe and Asia

Period: 1962 to 1965

The US Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects the right ot an abortion

1973

Pope St. John Paul II survives an assassination attempt ordered by the KGB (the Soviet intelligence agency)

1981

The Soviet Union begins to fall (The end of the Cold War, the fall of the Berlin Wall, and the end of communism in Europe would come in 1991)

1989