The Catholic Church

  • 2000 BCE

    The year 2000

    The Great Jubilee in 2000 was a major event in the Roman Catholic Church, held from Christmas Eve ( December 24), 1999 to Epiphany (January 6), 2001.
  • 1962 BCE

    The year 1962-65

    This article lists the feast days of the General Roman Calendar as reformed on 23 July 1960 by Pope John XXIII's motu proprio Rubricarum instructum. This 1960 calendar was incorporated into the 1962 edition.
  • 1905 BCE

    The year 1095 (e)

    The First crusade began in 1095 THE TRUTH 460 years after the first Christian city was overrun by Muslim armies.
  • 1544 BCE

    The year 1544-66

    While every theologian will have views on how best to divide two thousand years of Christian history, ... The Catholic church also went through a period of reformation around this time, with the Council of Trent (1544-63).
  • 1534 BCE

    The year 1534 (I)

    In 1534 came the Act of Supremacy, declaring Henry to be “the only supreme head on earth of the Church.
  • 1517 BCE

    The year 1517 (h)

    On this day in 1517, the priest and scholar Martin Luther approaches the door of the Castle Church in ... That same year, Luther again refused to recant his writings before the Holy Roman Emperor Charles V of Germany.
  • 1378 BCE

    The year 1378 (g)

    The Western Schism or Papal Schism was a split within the Catholic Church which lasted from 1378 to 1417.
  • 1378 BCE

    The year 1378

    The Western Schism or Papal Schism was a split within the Catholic Church which lasted from 1378 to 1417. Three men ... Urban was still reigning, they elected Robert of Geneva as a rival pope on September 20.
  • 1209 BCE

    The year 1209 (f)

    The Albigensian Crusade or Cathar Crusade (1209–1229) was a 20-year military campaign initiated by Pope Innocent III to .
  • 1054 BCE

    Year 1054 (d)

    On Saturday, July 16, 1054, as afternoon prayers were about to begin, Cardinal Humbert, legate of Pope Leo IX, strode into the Cathedral of Hagia Sophia, right up to the main altar, and placed on it a parchment that declared the Patriarch of Constantinople, Michael Cerularius, to be excommunicated. He then marched out of the church, shook its dust from his feet, and left the city. A week later the patriarch solemnly condemned the cardinal.
  • 325 BCE

    Year 325 (c)

    The First Council of Nicaea was a council of Christian bishops convened in the Bithynian city of Nicaea by the Roman Emperor Constantine I in AD 325.
  • 313 BCE

    Year 313 (b)

    The death of Christianity the birth of a new Christian religion.
  • 51 BCE

    Year 51 (a)

    Jesus is born in Bethlehem.