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4 BCE
Jesus was born
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30
Death of Jesus Christ
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33
Birthday of the Church
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70
Jewish rebellion against the Roman empire ended
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70
The rise of Christianity contributes to the decline of the city of Ephesos
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301
Armenia becomes the world's first country to make Christianity its state religion
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311
Galerius issued an official order permitting Christians to worship as they please
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313
Christianity becomes a legal religion within the Roman Empire
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Period: 315 to 325
The Constitutum was written giving the pope spiritual power over the whole world and political power in Europe
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382
Beginning of translating the Bible into latin
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Period: 400 to 500
Worship of Apis banned as Christianity becomes major religion in Egypt
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563
Columbia establishes a monastery at Iona
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800
Charlemagne is crowned emperor of the holy Roman Empire by Pope Leo the Third
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1054
Eastern Orthodox and Western Catholic church Separate
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1054
Great Schism
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1182
Massacre of inhabitants of Constantinople
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1189
Third Crusade
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1204
Sack of constantinople in the fourth crusade