Timeline of Christianity

  • 1054

    East-West Schism splits Roman Catholic and Greek Orthodox Churches

  • 1095

    First Crusade begins

  • 1189

    Third Crusade

  • 1204

    Constantinople sacked in Fourth Crusade

  • 1205

    Saint Francis of Assisi founds Franciscans

  • 1274

    Thomas Aquinas writes Summa Theologiae

  • 1291

    Last Crusader city (Acre) falls

  • 1321

    Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy completed

  • 1378

    Western Schism

  • 1431

    Joan of Arc burned at the stake

  • 1453

    Turks conquer Constantinople

  • 1455

    Gutenberg bible printed

  • 1478

    Spanish Inquisition founded

  • 1517

    Martin Luther posts 95 Theses

  • 1536

    Calvin publishes Institutes

  • 1545

    Council of Trent - Counter-reformation

  • 1566

    Roman Catholic Catechism published