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33
The Apostles Spread Gospel
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34
The Conversion Of St. Paul
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42
St. John the Apostle travels to Ephesus with the Virgin Mary
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44
St. James the Apostle is martyred; his body is secretly buried in Spain
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46
St. Paul begins missionary journeys to Galatia, Greece, Syria and other places
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Council of Jerusalem
This council affirms that the New Covenant in Christ means that Christians are not bound by Mosaic Law and that Jesus sends the Holy Spirit to Jew and Gentile alike -
64
Persecution of Christians beings under Roman Emperor Nero
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70
Romans burn the Jewish Temple in Jerusalem
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80
Didache is written
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99
All the writing that will become part of the New Testament have been by this date
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250
Persecution under Roman emperor Decius
Decius required all to worship that gods of state, or will tortured and killed. -
251
Council of Carthage
This council allowed people who lapsed in their faith during the persecution to be brought back into the church after a period of penance. -
303
Persctuion under Roman empepor Diocletian
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313
Emperor Constantine issues the edict of Milan
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325
Council of Nicaea
The council, called by Emperor Constantine, set forth the Nicaea Creed and affirmed that Jesus the father are consubstancial. -
330
Construction of the first St. Peter's Basilica in Rome
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330
Emperor Constantine divides the Roman Empire into West and East
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354
Birth of Augustine
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360
Books begin to replace scrolls
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382
Pope Damascus asks St. Jerome to translate the Gospel in Latin
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397
The councils of Hippo and Carthage determine which books will become part of the New Testament
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410
The Visigoths destroy the city of Rome.
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431
Council of Ephesus
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 -
451
Council of Chalcedon
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476
The Western Roman Empire collapse
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496
Clovis, King of the Franks, coverts to Catholicism
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Period: 500 to 1000
500-1000
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507
Clovis' army drives Visigoths out of France
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527
Justinian I becomes emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire
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529
St. Benedict founds the first monastery
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529
St. Benedict founds his first monastery
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537
Construction of Hagia Sofia (current structure) begins in Constantinople
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590
St. Gregory the Great becomes pope
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596
Pope St. Gregory the Great sends St. Augustine of Canterbury to England to evangelize the Anglo-Saxons
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597
St. Augustine baptizes the King of Kent
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632
Death of Muhammad
Mohammad, whom Muslims call the Prophet Mohammad, is the founder is Islam. By the time of his death, all of Arabia is Muslim. -
637
Muslims attack Constantinople
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638
Muslims capture Jerusalem
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698
Muslims take Carthage
End of Eastern Roman Empire Rule in north Africa. -
711
Muslims invade and occupy Spain
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716
St. Boniface leaves England to evangelize Germina
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732
France halts Muslim invasion
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754
With St. Boniface's help, the pope allies with the king of Franks
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793
Vikings attack England
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800
Charlemagne is crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III
Eastern Christians in Constantinople didn't approve of Charlemagne's coronation, and the new title bestowed by the pope caused further division between East and West. -
800
Gunpowder is invented
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885
Vikings attack paris
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997
Muslims occupy Santiago de Compestela in Spain, burial place St. James the Apostle
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1000
Muslims control two-thirds of the ancient Christian world
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1054
The Great schism
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1073
St. Gregory VII elected pope
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1073
Pope St. Gregory VII excommunitcates the Holy Roman Empire Henry IV
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1088
First universities founded
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1094
The Byzantine emperor in Constantinople asks the West for aid against Muslims armies
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1095
Pope Urban II calls for a crusade, and Christians temporarily capture Jerusalem
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1144
First Gothic cathedral completed
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1192
Second and third Crusades
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1204
Crusaders from the Fourth crusade sack constantiople
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1209
Franciscan Order is founded by St. Francis of Assisi
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1216
Dominican Order founded by St. Dominic
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1229
The Inquisition is founded
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1265
St. Thomas Aquinas write the Summa Theologica
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1300
The Renaissance begins
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1374
Bubonic plague arrives in Europe
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1377
St. Catherine of Siena convinces the pope to return the papacy to Rome
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1386
St. Catherine of Siena cares for the sick and buries the dead when the plague strikes Siena
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1440
Printing press invented
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1453
Muslims conquer Constantinople and tun Hagia Sophia into a mosque
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1492
Christopher Columbus reaches the Americas
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1492
Christopher Columbus sails for North America
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Period: 1500 to
1500-1800
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1513
Ponce de Leon of Spain founds St. Augustine, Florida
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1517
Martin Luther presents the 95 Theses
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1520
Luther denies the authority of the pope to interpret Scripture
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1521
Luther is excommunicated
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1522
Luther translates the Bible into German
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1526
Franciscan missionaries arrive in what is now Florida
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1534
St. Ignatius of Loyola founds the Society of Jesus (Jesuits)
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1534
King Henry VIII of England breaks England from the Catholic Church after the pope refuses to allow him a divorce
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1535
St. Thomas More is executed by Henry VIII
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1536
Henry VIII dissolves all monasteries and convents in England and irelan
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1541
First Franciscan explorations in what is now California
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Period: 1545 to 1563
The Council of Trent
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1549
Jesuit missionaries arrive in the Far East
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Period: 1562 to 1582
St. Teresa of Avila founds Discalced Carmelite convents throughout Spain
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The King James Bible becomes the Bible of the Church of England
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St. Peter Claver arrives in Colombia
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The Mayflower sets sail from England to North America
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The Colony of Maryland is established
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England overthrows its Catholic king and bans any future Catholic monarchs
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Maryland outlaws the public practice of Catholicism in the colony
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Period: to
The Enlightenment
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British colonies in North America declare their independence
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The French Revolution begins
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The US Constitution prevents religious tests for national office
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The First Amendment protects free religious exercise in the US and prevents national government from establishing a religion.
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Karl Marx writes the Communist Manifesto
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Period: to
Ecumencial Council of the Vatican (known as Vatican I)
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Bolshevik party formed in Russia
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World War I begins
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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.)
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Mexico outlaws Catholicism
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Soviet Union is formed (Lenin was its first leader; Stalin took power two years after Lenin’s death)
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Servant of God Dorothy Day converts to Catholicism
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The first Catholic bishops in China are ordained
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Bl. Miguel Pro is killed by the Mexican government
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Day founds the Catholic Worker newspaper
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Hitler beomes chancellor of Germany; first Nazi concentration camp is opened
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Word War II begins
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Communist governments begin persecutions and mass murder across Europe and Asia
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St. Maximilian Kolbe is killed by the Nazis at Auschwitz
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Pope St. John XXIII calls the Church council that will become known as Vatican II
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Period: to
Ecumenical Council of the Vatican (now known as Vatican II)
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The US Supreme Court rules that the Constitution protects the right to an abortion
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Pope St. John Paul II survives an assassination attempt ordered by the KGB (the Soviet intelligence agency)
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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)