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5 BCE
Jesus Birth
Jesus was born in around the year of 5 to Mary and Joseph, who had resorted to a Stable after all the Inn's in Bethlehem there home town, had been full (at the time, the Romans were holding a census and order everyone to go back to there home towns to be counted). So, there is a stable (lent to them by an Inn owner) was where Jesus Christ, the son of God, was born in a Manger (animal trough). -
Period: 46 to 48
Missionary Journeys of Paul
The New Testament tells of Paul taking three missionary journeys that spread the message of Christ to Asia Minor and Europe. The apostle Paul was a well-educated, leading Jew named Saul (referred to as Paul for the language barrier) living in Jerusalem just after Christ’s death and resurrection. He did his best to destroy the Christian church. -
Period: 301 to 305
The Great Persecution
The Roman Emperor came to rule in 284 AD. His name was Diocletian. He believed the only way to get power over the people was to let only limited amounts of freedom. He hated that there were different religions in the community, it was disrespectful. Therefore, he started the persecution of the Christian. -
313
Conversion of Constantine and the Edict of Milan
One of the major points in history was the emperor Constantine conversion to Christianity. It occured at the end of the Christian Persecution when Constantine made the law that all religions were to be respected, this was named 'The Edict of Milan". Other laws were also banned, like the barbaric law that allowed Jews to stone death other Jews who converted to Christianity. -
325
Council of Nicaea
The council of Nicaea was the first ecumenical group to come together an discuss Christianity in Bithynian city of Nicaea in Turkey. The first ecumenical council meeting was to contain consensus, in a church, of which councils of all the ecumenical churchs gathered to discuss. The council of Nicaea also created the ecumenical version of the Apostles Creed, the Nicene Creed.
