Western religion timeline

By colerankin
  • 1812 BCE

    Judaism Year Founded

    Judaism is one of the oldest monotheistic religions and was founded over 3500 years ago in the Middle East.
  • 1312 BCE

    Torah is written

    The Torah is written in Hebrew, the oldest of Jewish languages. It is also known as Torat Moshe, the Law of Moses.
  • 950 BCE

    King Solomon builds First Temple in Jerusalem

  • 1 CE

    Christianity is founded

    Most Jews rejected the notion of Jesus as their messiah. In the years that followed Jesus' death, the Romans treated the early Christians as a small, Jewish sect. This all changed with Paul of Tarsus. Paul began to spread Christianity ideas more to non-Jews.
  • 1 CE

    Jesus's Birth

    But nobody really knows exactly when Jesus was born. Some scholars think that he was born between 6 B.C. and 4 B.C.
  • 70

    Fall of temple in Jerusalem

    The Romans Destroy the Temple at Jerusalem, 70 AD. In the year 66 AD the Jews of Judea rebelled against their Roman masters
  • 380

    christianity became the official religion of the roman empire

  • 570

    Muhammad is born

    Muslims believe he was the last of the Islamic prophets, which included Noah, Abraham, Moses and Jesus.
  • 610

    Islam is founded

    According to tradition, the Islamic prophet Muhammad was born in Mecca around the year 570. His family belonged to the Quraysh.
  • 610

    Muhammad receives first vision in a cave near Mecca.

  • 624

    Muslims successfully attack Meccan caravans at Badr.

  • 632

    Sunni and Shia

  • 1095

    Pope Urban II authorizes the Crusades to recover the Holy Land from Muslims.

  • 1382

    John Wycliffe creates the first complete English Translation of the Bible