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4 BCE
The estimated time Jesus Christ was born
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1 CE
The beginning of the Christian common era
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6
The kingdom of Judea is annexed to Rome
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14
Augustus dies and Tiberius becomes emperor of Rome
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26
Pontius Pilatus was issued prefect of Judea
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27
John the Baptist preached in Judea
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29
John the Baptist is beheaded by Herod antipas
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30
Jesus is crucified by the romans
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33
Paul,a Jew from the city of tarsus in Asia Minor who persecuted Christians converted to Christianity
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40
Paul the apostle declares Christianity a universal religion and oreads the gospel throughout the Mediterranean region
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49
Emperor Claudius expels Christians from Rome
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49
Paul the apostle preaches Christianity in Greece
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60
The earliest gospels began to be composed
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62
Paul the apostle is executed in Rome
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64
Emperor Nero blamed Christians for a fire that broke out in Rome. Many were brutally tortured and killed during this time.
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66
Thaddeus establishes the Christian church of Armenia
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70
The New Testament was written after Jesus’s death. The first four books—Matthew, Mark, Luke and John—are known as the “Gospels,” which means “good news.”
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93
emperor Domitian orders the persecution of Christians
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246
Paul of Thebes retreats to the Egyptian desert and becomes the first Christian hermit
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250
emperor Decius orders the first empire-wide persecution of Christians
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261
Gallienus relaxes the laws against Christianity
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300
the population of the Roman Empire is 60 million (about 15 million Christians)
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303
emperor Diocletian orders a general persecution of the Christians
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313
Constantine ends the persecution of the Christians
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380
Emperor Theodosius I declared Catholicism the state religion of the Roman Empire.
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476
When the Roman Empire collapsed differences emerged among Eastern and Western Christians.
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532
Exiguus calculates the year in which Jesus was born as 533 years before his year and inaugurates the Christian calendar
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1200
the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Orthodox church split into two groups causing many holy wars to take place between crusades that ended with Muslims and Christians fighting for the holy land of Jerusalem
