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Period: 33 to 330
Early Church Era
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65
Peter and Paul are executed
martyrdom of the church's two greatest apostles forces church leadership into a new era -
70
Titus destroys Jerusalem
Christianity and Judaism official broke since Christians fled from Jerusalem -
313
The Edict of Milan
made by Constantine I the Roman Emperor, Christianity no longer persecuted -
Period: 330 to 500
Christian Empire
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386
Augustine Converts to Christianity
greatest early church father; fights Pelagianism emphasizes authority of Scripture; his thought foundation of the reformers ; wrote City of God -
461
The Council of Chalcedon
concluded that Jesus was completely and fully God. The council confessed that is total man and this total God was one completely normal person. In the others, Jesus combined two natures, human and divine, in one person. -
Period: 500 to 1500
Middle Ages
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1093
Anselm named archbishop of Canterbury
a post from which he writes lasting works on the Atonement and proofs of God's existence -
1321
Dante's Divine Comedy
gives masterful poetic expression to medieval concepts of heaven, hell, and purgatory, and shapes later thought -
1380
John Wyclif suprivises Bible translation
leavin the first complete English Bible -
1453
Constantinople falls to the Turks
ending a millennium of Christianity in the Eastern Roman Empire -
1456
Gutenberg Produces the First Printed Bible
parked a revolution in society and the church. Books could now be produced in quantities and at prices that made them available to many people, not merely to scholars and monks. The resulting of knowledge continues to accelerate in our day. Paved the way for the reformation
