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313 BCE
Great persecution
Emperor ducis organized this event to kill all the Christians
This was in act for about 18 months
After about 6,000 were killed churches started to form and that created more hate and violence -
313 BCE
Edict of milan
Agreement to treat Christians benevolently within the Roman Empire
Constantine met and agreed to change the policies towards the Christians
But still didn't make it the official religion they made a fine line between that -
312 BCE
Battle of the milvain bridge
Was a battle between Constantine and maxentiusand it was over and important route named the milvain bridge
Constantine won the battle
This was to mark Christianity as the official religion of the roman empire -
203 BCE
Perpetua
Was one of the earliest christian texts to be written down
Was written by saint perpetua
It contained all the christian words -
64 BCE
Great fire of Rome
The fire burned for 6 days
Rumor had it that Nero started the fire
Then they blamed it on the Christians
They started to kill off the Christians -
50 BCE
Paul of Tarsus
His common name was saul of tarsus
He was the first preacher
He taught the gospel of Christ
He was arrested many times
He then went on to teach Christianity -
35 BCE
Jesus of Nazareth
He was the leader of the Christians and was there public figure
He was arrested many times for preaching Christianity -
27 BCE
Roman rule of Israel
The Jews and the Christians used to be separated then they migrated to Israel and then join together to be Christians
the Jews wanted to become more significant -
307
Constantine The great
Was a roman Emperor
He was the first roman emperor to convert to Christianity
He was pagan but then converted and supported Christianity
He battled against the people who didn't believe -
379
Emperor Theodosius
He was the ruler over the eastern and western halves of the roman empire
He also issued decrees that officially made nicene Christianity the official state church of the roman empire
He stopped the discrimination of Christians
