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Period: 27 BCE to 180
Pax Romana
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33
the conversion of St. Paul
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33
the ressurection of Jesus
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33
pentacost
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33
the apostles spread the gospel
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33
St. Stephen martyred
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42
St. John the apostle travels to Ephesus with the blessed 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 missions journeys Galatia, Greece, Syria and other places
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49
council of Jerusalem
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64
Percussions of Christians begins under the roman emperor Nero
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70
Romans burn the Jewish temple is perusal
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80
Didache written
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99
all the writings that will become part of the new testament have been written by this date
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250
percussion under roman emperor Decius
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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
persecution under roman empire Diocletian
Diocletian ordered the destruction of all churches imprisonment of bishops and priests and execution of all who refused to participate in the public worship of pagan gods -
313
emperor Constantine issues the Edict of milan
the edict granted religions toleration to Christians and unleashed the spread of Christianity -
325
council of nicaea
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330
construction of the first St. Peter's basilica in Rome
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330
emperor Constantine divides empire into east and west
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397
the council of hippo and carthage will decide which books will become part of the new testament
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410
Visigoth destroys the city of Rome
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431
council of Ephesus
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451
council of Chalcedon
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476
western roman fire
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496
Clovis the kind of the franks converts to Catholicism
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507
clovis's army drives the Visigoths out of France
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527
Justin I becomes the 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 the hagia Sophia 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 Mohammad
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637
Muslims attack Constantinople
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638
Muslims capture Jerusalem
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698
Muslims take carthage
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711
Muslims invade and occupy Spain
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716
St. Boniface leaves England to evangelize Germania
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732
France halts the Muslim invasion
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754
With St. Boniface’s help, the pope allies with the kings of the Franks
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793
Vikings attack England
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800
Charlemagne is crowned holy roman king by pope Leo III
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800
gunpowder invented
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885
Vikings attack in Paris
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997
Muslims occupy the Santiago de compost Elea in Spain burial place of 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 excommunicates the Holy Roman Emperor 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 Muslim 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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Period: 1147 to 1192
Second and Third Crusades
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1204
Crusaders from the Fourth Crusade sack Constantinople
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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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Period: 1265 to 1274
St. Thomas Aquinas write the Summa Theologica
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1300
The Renaissance begins
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1347
Bubonic plague arrives in Europe.
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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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1492
Christopher Columbus sails for North America
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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 ireland
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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 (input to Timetoast Timeline as “Timespan”)
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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 (input to Timetoast Timeline as “Timespan”)
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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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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
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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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The first Catholic bishops in China are ordained
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Servant of God Dorothy Day converts to Catholicism
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Bl. Miguel Pro is killed by the Mexican government
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Hitler beomes chancellor of Germany; first Nazi concentration camp is opened
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Day founds the Catholic Worker newspaper
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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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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 ot 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)