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<event start="1 AD"
	title="Anno Domini"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_AD" title="1 AD"&gt;1 AD&lt;/a&gt; 
    First year in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anno_Domini" title="Anno Domini"&gt;Christian calendar&lt;/a&gt;, 
    which is presently used in unison with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar"&gt;Gregorian calendar&lt;/a&gt; 
    almost everywhere in the world.
	</event>
<event start="6"
	title="Herod Archelaus deposed by Augustus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Archelaus" title="Herod Archelaus"&gt;Herod Archelaus&lt;/a&gt; 
    deposed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustus" title="Augustus"&gt;Augustus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="6"
	title="Samaria, Judea, Idumea under Roman admin"
	>
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria"&gt;Samaria&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judea" title="Judea"&gt;Judea&lt;/a&gt; and 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Idumea" title="Idumea"&gt;Idumea&lt;/a&gt; annexed as 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iudaea_Province" title="Iudaea Province"&gt;Iudaea Province&lt;/a&gt; 
    under direct Roman administration, capital at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Palaestina" title="Caesarea Palaestina"&gt;Caesarea&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quirinius" title="Quirinius"&gt;Quirinius&lt;/a&gt; became 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Legatus" title="Legatus"&gt;Legate&lt;/a&gt; (Governor) of 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_%28Roman_province%29#Syria_in_antiquity" title="Syria (Roman province)"&gt;Syria&lt;/a&gt;, 
    conducted first Roman tax census of Iudaea, opposed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealots" title="Zealots"&gt;Zealots&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=5:37&amp;src=NIV" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=5:37&amp;src=NIV"&gt;Acts 5:37&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="7" end="26" isDuration="true"
	title="Peace in Iudaea, Galilee"
	>
	Brief period of peace, relatively free of revolt and bloodshed in Iudaea &amp; 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Galilee" title="Galilee"&gt;Galilee&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="9"
	title="Hillel the Elder dies, Shammai rises"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pharisee" title="Pharisee"&gt;Pharisee&lt;/a&gt; leader 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hillel_the_Elder" title="Hillel the Elder"&gt;Hillel the Elder&lt;/a&gt; dies, 
    rise of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shammai" title="Shammai"&gt;Shammai&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="14" end="37" isDuration="true"
	title="Tiberius, Roman Emperor"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tiberius" title="Tiberius"&gt;Tiberius&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Emperor" title="Roman Emperor"&gt;Roman Emperor&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="18" end="36" isDuration="true"
	title="Caiaphas, High Priest of Herod's Temple"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caiaphas" title="Caiaphas"&gt;Caiaphas&lt;/a&gt;, appointed 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_High_Priests_of_Israel" title="List of High Priests of Israel"&gt;High Priest&lt;/a&gt; of 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod%27s_Temple" title="Herod's Temple"&gt;Herod's Temple&lt;/a&gt; by Prefect Valerius Gratus, 
    deposed by Syrian Legate &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vitellius" title="Vitellius"&gt;Vitellius&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="19"
	title="Jews, Jewish Proselytes, Astrologers expelled from Rome"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews"&gt;Jews&lt;/a&gt;, Jewish 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proselytes" title="Proselytes"&gt;Proselytes&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Astrologers" title="Astrologers"&gt;Astrologers&lt;/a&gt;, expelled from Rome 
    (Suetonius,&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Twelve_Caesars" title="Lives of the Twelve Caesars"&gt;Lives of the Twelve Caesars&lt;/a&gt;, 
    Tiberius 36, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loeb_Classics" title="Loeb Classics"&gt;Loeb Classics&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="26" end="36" isDuration="true"
	title="Pontius Pilate, Prefect of Iudaea"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontius_Pilate" title="Pontius Pilate"&gt;Pontius Pilate&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prefect" title="Prefect"&gt;Prefect&lt;/a&gt; of Iudaea
	</event>
<event start="28" end="29" isDuration="true"
	title="John the Baptist"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_the_Baptist" title="John the Baptist"&gt;John the Baptist&lt;/a&gt;, 
    relative of Jesus (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=1:36&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=1:36&amp;src=31"&gt;Luke 1:36&lt;/a&gt;), a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazirite" title="Nazirite"&gt;Nazirite&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%201:15;&amp;version=31;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Luke%201:15;&amp;version=31;"&gt;Luke 1:15&lt;/a&gt;), began ministry in "15th year of Tiberius" (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=3:1-2&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=3:1-2&amp;src=31"&gt;Luke 3:1-2&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_of_Jesus" title="Baptism of Jesus"&gt;baptized Jesus&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=1:4-11&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=1:4-11&amp;src=31"&gt;Mark 1:4-11&lt;/a&gt;), arrested and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decapitation" title="Decapitation"&gt;beheaded&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Antipas" title="Herod Antipas"&gt;Herod Antipas&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=3:19-20&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=3:19-20&amp;src=31"&gt;Luke 3:19-20&lt;/a&gt;,&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews" title="Antiquities of the Jews"&gt;JA&lt;/a&gt;18.5.2)
	</event>
<event start="28" end="36" isDuration="true"
	title="Jesus of Nazareth"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus" title="Jesus"&gt;Jesus&lt;/a&gt;' 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Religious_ministry_%28Christian%29" title="Religious ministry (Christian)"&gt;ministry&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sermon_on_the_Mount" title="Sermon on the Mount"&gt;Sermon on the Mount&lt;/a&gt;, 
    appointed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Apostles" title="Twelve Apostles"&gt;Twelve Apostles&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_and_the_Money_Changers" title="Jesus and the Money Changers"&gt;disturbance at Herod's Temple&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=11:15-19&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=11:15-19&amp;src=31"&gt;Mark 11:15-19&lt;/a&gt;,
    &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=John%20&amp;verse=2:13-17&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=John%20&amp;verse=2:13-17&amp;src=31"&gt;John 2:13-17&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucified" title="Crucified"&gt;crucified&lt;/a&gt; on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Good_Friday" title="Good Friday"&gt;Friday&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=15:42&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=15:42&amp;src=31"&gt;Mark 15:42&lt;/a&gt;,
    &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=John%20&amp;verse=19:42&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=John%20&amp;verse=19:42&amp;src=31"&gt;John 19:42&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartodeciman" title="Quartodeciman"&gt;Nisan 14th&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20John&amp;verse=19:14&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20John&amp;verse=19:14&amp;src=31"&gt;John 19:14&lt;/a&gt;,
    &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=14:2&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=14:2&amp;src=31"&gt;Mark 14:2&lt;/a&gt;,
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Peter" title="Gospel of Peter"&gt;Gospel of Peter&lt;/a&gt;) or Nisan 15th 
    (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synoptic_Gospels" title="Synoptic Gospels"&gt;Synoptic Gospels&lt;/a&gt;), 
    (7Apr30, 3Apr33, 30Mar36, possible Fri-14-Nisan dates, -Meier), entombed by Pharisees 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_of_Arimathea" title="Joseph of Arimathea"&gt;Joseph of Arimathea&lt;/a&gt; and 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicodemus" title="Nicodemus"&gt;Nicodemus&lt;/a&gt; of the 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sanhedrin" title="Sanhedrin"&gt;Sanhedrin&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection_of_Jesus" title="Resurrection of Jesus"&gt;
    resurrected by God&lt;/a&gt;, appeared to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Tarsus" title="Paul of Tarsus"&gt;Paul of Tarsus&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=1Cor%20&amp;verse=15:3-9&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=1Cor%20&amp;verse=15:3-9&amp;src=31"&gt;1Cor 15:3-9&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peter" title="Simon Peter"&gt;Simon Peter&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=24:34&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Luke%20&amp;verse=24:34&amp;src=31"&gt;Luke 24:34&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Magdalene" title="Mary Magdalene"&gt;Mary Magdalene&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=16:9&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Mark%20&amp;verse=16:9&amp;src=31"&gt;Mark 16:9&lt;/a&gt;,
    &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=John%20&amp;verse=20:10-18&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=John%20&amp;verse=20:10-18&amp;src=31"&gt;John 20:10-18&lt;/a&gt;), 
    and others, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Commission" title="Great Commission"&gt;Great Commission&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ascension" title="Ascension"&gt;Ascension&lt;/a&gt;, prophecy of 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming#Christianity" title="Second Coming"&gt;Second Coming&lt;/a&gt;, see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chronology_of_Jesus" title="Chronology of Jesus"&gt;Chronology of Jesus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="36"
	title="Jerusalem church founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem#Bishops_of_Jerusalem_.2862_.E2.80.93_451.29" title="Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem"&gt;Jerusalem church&lt;/a&gt; 
    founded, first Christian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church" title="Church"&gt;church&lt;/a&gt;, about 120 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jews" title="Jews"&gt;Jews&lt;/a&gt; and Jewish 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Proselytes" title="Proselytes"&gt;Proselytes&lt;/a&gt;, 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=1:15&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=1:15&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 1:15&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentacost" title="Pentacost"&gt;Pentacost&lt;/a&gt;, 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ananias_and_Sapphira" title="Ananias and Sapphira"&gt;Ananias and Sapphira&lt;/a&gt; 
    incident, Pharisee &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gamaliel" title="Gamaliel"&gt;Gamaliel&lt;/a&gt; 
    spoke in defense of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Twelve_Apostles" title="Twelve Apostles"&gt;Apostles&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=5:34&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=5:34&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 5:34&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Stephen" title="Saint Stephen"&gt;Saint Stephen&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoning" title="Stoning"&gt;stoned&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians" title="Persecution of Christians"&gt;Persecution of Christians&lt;/a&gt;) 
    and the church dispersed (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=7:54-8:8&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=7:54-8:8&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 7:54-8:8&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Magus" title="Simon Magus"&gt;Simon Magus&lt;/a&gt; baptized in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Samaria" title="Samaria"&gt;Samaria&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=8:9-24&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=8:9-24&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 8:9-24&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philip_the_Evangelist" title="Philip the Evangelist"&gt;Philip the Evangelist&lt;/a&gt; baptized an 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian" title="Ethiopian"&gt;Ethiopian&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eunuch" title="Eunuch"&gt;eunuch&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=8:26-40&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=8:26-40&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 8:26-40&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="37"
	title="Paul's Road to Damascus conversion"
	>
	Paul's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Road_to_Damascus" title="Road to Damascus"&gt;Road to Damascus&lt;/a&gt; conversion 
    (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts" title="Acts"&gt;Acts&lt;/a&gt; 
    &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=9:3-19a&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=9:3-19a&amp;src=31"&gt;9:3-19a&lt;/a&gt;; 
    &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=22:6-21&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=22:6-21&amp;src=31"&gt;22:6-21&lt;/a&gt;; 
    &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=26:12-23&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20Acts&amp;verse=26:12-23&amp;src=31"&gt;26:12-23&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="40"
	title="First Gentile converts to Christianity"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simon_Peter" title="Simon Peter"&gt;Simon Peter&lt;/a&gt; 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptize" title="Baptize"&gt;baptized&lt;/a&gt; Roman 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Centurion_Cornelius" title="Centurion Cornelius"&gt;Centurion Cornelius&lt;/a&gt;, 
    considered first &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gentile" title="Gentile"&gt;Gentile&lt;/a&gt; convert to Christianity 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=10&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=10&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 10&lt;/a&gt;), 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Patriarchs_of_Antioch" title="List of Patriarchs of Antioch"&gt;Antioch church&lt;/a&gt; 
    founded, it was there that the term &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian" title="Christian"&gt;Christian&lt;/a&gt; 
    was first used (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=11:26&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=11:26&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 11:26&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="44"
	title="St. James the Great executed by Herod Agrippa"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_James_the_Great" title="Saint James the Great"&gt;Saint James the Great&lt;/a&gt;, 
    brother of John, executed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod_Agrippa_I" title="Herod Agrippa I"&gt;Herod Agrippa I&lt;/a&gt; 
    (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=12:1-3&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=12:1-3&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 12:1-3&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="45" end="49" isDuration="true"
	title="Paul's 1st mission"
	>
	Paul's 1st mission, (&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2013:1-14:27;&amp;version=31;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2013:1-14:27;&amp;version=31;"&gt;Acts 13:1-14:27&lt;/a&gt;), with 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Barnabas" title="Barnabas"&gt;Barnabas&lt;/a&gt;, to Cyprus, Pisidian Antioch, Iconium, Lystra and Derbe (there they were called "gods ... in human form"), then return to Syrian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antioch" title="Antioch"&gt;Antioch&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="49"
	title="Claudius expels Jews from Rome"
	>
	"Since the Jews constantly made disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus &lt;span class="reference"&gt;&lt;sup id="ref_RomeCrestus" class="plainlinksneverexpand"&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Christianity#endnote_RomeCrestus" class="external autonumber" title="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Timeline_of_Christianity#endnote_RomeCrestus"&gt;[1]&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/sup&gt;&lt;/span&gt;, 
    he &lt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Claudius" title="Claudius"&gt;Claudius&lt;/a&gt;&gt; expelled them from Rome." 
    (Suetonius,&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lives_of_the_Twelve_Caesars" title="Lives of the Twelve Caesars"&gt;Lives of the Twelve Caesars&lt;/a&gt;,Claudius XXV.4,&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Loeb_Classics" title="Loeb Classics"&gt;Loeb Classics&lt;/a&gt;) 
    (referenced in &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=18:2&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=18:2&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 18:2&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="50"
	title="Passover riot in Jerusalem"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Passover" title="Passover"&gt;Passover&lt;/a&gt; riot in 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem"&gt;Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt;, 
    20-30,000 killed (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antiquities_of_the_Jews" title="Antiquities of the Jews"&gt;JA&lt;/a&gt;20.5.3,&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Wars_of_the_Jews" title="The Wars of the Jews"&gt;JW&lt;/a&gt;2.12.1)
	</event>
<event start="50"
	title="Council of Jerusalem"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Jerusalem" title="Council of Jerusalem"&gt;Council of Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt;, 
    "Apostolic Decree" (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=15:1-35&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=15:1-35&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 15:1-35&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="50" end="53" isDuration="true"
	title="Paul's 2nd mission"
	>
	Paul's 2nd mission, (&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2015:36-18:22;&amp;version=31;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2015:36-18:22;&amp;version=31;"&gt;Acts 15:36-18:22&lt;/a&gt;), 
    split with Barnabas, to Phrygia, Galatia, Macedonia, Philippi, Thessalonica, Berea, Athens, Corinth, "he had his hair cut off at Cenchrea because of a vow he had taken", then return to Antioch; 
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Thessalonians" title="First Epistle to the Thessalonians"&gt;1 Thessalonians&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Galatians" title="Epistle to Galatians"&gt;Galatians&lt;/a&gt; written?
	</event>
<event start="52"
	title="St. Thomas Christians of India"
	>
	52? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Thomas_Christians" title="Saint Thomas Christians"&gt;Saint Thomas Christians&lt;/a&gt; of India
	</event>
<event start="53" end="57" isDuration="true"
	title="Paul's 3rd mission"
	>
	Paul's 3rd mission, (&lt;a href="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2018:23-21:26;&amp;version=31;" class="external text" title="http://www.biblegateway.com/passage/?search=Acts%2018:23-21:26;&amp;version=31;"&gt;Acts 18:23-21:26&lt;/a&gt;), to Galatia, Phrygia, Corinth, Ephesus, Macedonia, Greece, Jerusalem, there &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_the_Just" title="James the Just"&gt;James the Just&lt;/a&gt; challenged him about rumor of teaching &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antinomianism" title="Antinomianism"&gt;antinomianism&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=21:21&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=21:21&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 21:21&lt;/a&gt;), he addressed a crowd in their language (most likely &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_of_Jesus" title="Aramaic of Jesus"&gt;Aramaic&lt;/a&gt;) (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=22&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=22&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 22&lt;/a&gt;), &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Romans" title="Epistle to the Romans"&gt;Romans&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians" title="First Epistle to the Corinthians"&gt;1 Corinthians&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Epistle_to_the_Corinthians" title="Second Epistle to the Corinthians"&gt;2 Corinthians&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Philippians" title="Epistle to the Philippians"&gt;Philippians&lt;/a&gt; written?
	</event>
<event start="55"
	title="Exodus reenactment massacred by Procurator"
	>
	"Egyptian Prophet" and 30,000 unarmed Jews doing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exodus" title="The Exodus"&gt;The Exodus&lt;/a&gt; reenactment massacred by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Procurator" title="Procurator"&gt;Procurator&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antonius_Felix" title="Antonius Felix"&gt;Antonius Felix&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=21:38&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=21:38&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 21:38&lt;/a&gt;, JW2.261, JA20.169)
	</event>
<event start="58"
	title="Paul arrested"
	>
	Paul arrested, accused of being a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Zealot" title="Zealot"&gt;revolutionary&lt;/a&gt;, "ringleader of the sect of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nazarenes" title="Nazarenes"&gt;Nazarenes&lt;/a&gt;", teaching &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Resurrection" title="Resurrection"&gt;resurrection&lt;/a&gt; of the dead, imprisoned in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarea_Palaestina" title="Caesarea Palaestina"&gt;Caesarea&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=23-26&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=23-26&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 23-26&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="59"
	title="Paul shipwrecked on Malta"
	>
	Paul shipwrecked on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malta" title="Malta"&gt;Malta&lt;/a&gt;, there he was called a god (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=28:6&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=28:6&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 28:6&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="60"
	title="Paul in Rome"
	>
	Paul in Rome: greeted by many "brothers", three days later called together the Jewish leaders, who hadn't received any word from Judea about him, but were curious about "this sect", which everywhere is spoken against; he tried to convince them from the "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torah" title="Torah"&gt;Law&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neviim" title="Neviim"&gt;Prophets&lt;/a&gt;", with partial success, said the Gentiles would listen and spent two years proclaiming the "Lord Jesus Christ" (&lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=28:15-31&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=Acts%20&amp;verse=28:15-31&amp;src=31"&gt;Acts 28:15-31&lt;/a&gt;); &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Philemon" title="Epistle to Philemon"&gt;Epistle to Philemon&lt;/a&gt; written?
	</event>
<event start="62"
	title="James the Just stoned to death"
	>
	James the Just stoned to death for law transgression by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_High_Priests_of_Israel" title="List of High Priests of Israel"&gt;High Priest&lt;/a&gt; Ananus ben Artanus, popular opinion against act results in Ananus being deposed by new procurator &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clodius_Albinus" title="Clodius Albinus"&gt;Clodius Albinus&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Antiquities" title="Jewish Antiquities"&gt;JA&lt;/a&gt;20.9.1)
	</event>
<event start="63" end="107" isDuration="true"
	title="Simeon of Jerusalem"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simeon_of_Jerusalem" title="Simeon of Jerusalem"&gt;Simeon&lt;/a&gt;, 2nd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Patriarch_of_Jerusalem#Bishops_of_Jerusalem_.2862_.E2.80.93_451.29" title="Orthodox Patriarch of Jerusalem"&gt;Bishop of Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt;, crucified under &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trajan" title="Trajan"&gt;Trajan&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="63"
	title="Glastonbury Abbey founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Glastonbury_Abbey" title="Glastonbury Abbey"&gt;Glastonbury Abbey&lt;/a&gt; founded according to tradition, but date disputed
	</event>
<event start="64" end="68" isDuration="true"
	title="Great Fire of Rome, Nero blamed, persecuted"
	>
	64-68 after July 18 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Fire_of_Rome" title="Great Fire of Rome"&gt;Great Fire of Rome&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nero" title="Nero"&gt;Nero&lt;/a&gt; blamed and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persecution_of_Christians" title="Persecution of Christians"&gt;persecuted&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;i&gt;Christians&lt;/i&gt;, earliest mention of &lt;i&gt;Christians&lt;/i&gt;, by that name, in Rome, see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tacitus_on_Jesus" title="Tacitus on Jesus"&gt;Tacitus on Jesus&lt;/a&gt;, Paul beheaded? (Col1:24, Eph3:13, 2Tm4:6-8, 1Clem5:5-7), Peter crucified upside down? (Jn21:18,1Pt5:13,Origen), "...a vast multitude, were convicted, not so much of the crime of incendiarism as of hatred of the human race. And in their deaths they were made the subjects of sport; for they were wrapped in the hides of wild beasts and torn to pieces by dogs, or nailed to crosses, or set on fire, and when day declined, were burned to serve for nocturnal lights." (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Annals_%28Tacitus%29" title="Annals (Tacitus)"&gt;Annals (Tacitus)&lt;/a&gt; XV.44)
	</event>
<event start="65"
	title="Q document"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Q_document" title="Q document"&gt;Q document&lt;/a&gt;, a hypothetical Greek text thought by many critical scholars to have been used in writing of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew"&gt;Matthew&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke"&gt;Luke&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="66" end="73" isDuration="true"
	title="Great Jewish Revolt"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Jewish_Revolt" title="Great Jewish Revolt"&gt;Great Jewish Revolt&lt;/a&gt;: destruction of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herod%27s_Temple" title="Herod's Temple"&gt;Herod's Temple&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Qumran" title="Qumran"&gt;Qumran&lt;/a&gt; community destroyed, site of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_Scrolls" title="Dead Sea Scrolls"&gt;Dead Sea Scrolls&lt;/a&gt; found in 1947
	</event>
<event start="68" end="107?" isDuration="true"
	title="Ignatius of Antioch fed to lions in Rome"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Antioch" title="Ignatius of Antioch"&gt;Ignatius&lt;/a&gt;, third &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Antioch" title="Bishop of Antioch"&gt;Bishop of Antioch&lt;/a&gt;, fed to the lions in Rome, advocated the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop" title="Bishop"&gt;Bishop&lt;/a&gt;, rejected &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath" title="Sabbath"&gt;Sabbath&lt;/a&gt;?, his letters were subjected to heavy Christian forgery especially 4th century (Apostolic Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="60" end="80"
	title="Gospel of Mark"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mark" title="Gospel of Mark"&gt;Gospel of Mark&lt;/a&gt;, written in Rome?, by Peter's interpreter? (1 Peter 5:13), original ending apparently lost, endings added c.400, see &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_16" title="Mark 16"&gt;Mark 16&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="70"
	title="Signs Gospel"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Signs_Gospel" title="Signs Gospel"&gt;Signs Gospel&lt;/a&gt; written, hypothetical Greek text used in Gospel of John to prove Jesus is the Messiah
	</event>
<event start="70" end="100" isDuration="true"
	title="Pauline Epistles"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pauline_Epistles" title="Pauline Epistles"&gt;Pauline Epistles&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="70" end="200" isDuration="true"
	title="Other Gospels"
	>
	70-200? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Didache" title="Didache"&gt;Didache&lt;/a&gt;; Other Gospels: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unknown_Berlin_Gospel" title="Unknown Berlin Gospel"&gt;Unknown Berlin Gospel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Peter" title="Gospel of Peter"&gt;Gospel of Peter&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Thomas" title="Gospel of Thomas"&gt;Gospel of Thomas&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxyrhynchus_Gospels" title="Oxyrhynchus Gospels"&gt;Oxyrhynchus Gospels&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Egerton_Gospel" title="Egerton Gospel"&gt;Egerton Gospel&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fayyum_Fragment" title="Fayyum Fragment"&gt;Fayyum Fragment&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dialogue_of_the_Saviour" title="Dialogue of the Saviour"&gt;Dialogue of the Saviour&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Christian" title="Jewish Christian"&gt;Jewish Christian&lt;/a&gt; Gospels: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Ebionites" title="Gospel of the Ebionites"&gt;Gospel of the Ebionites&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Hebrews" title="Gospel of the Hebrews"&gt;Gospel of the Hebrews&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Nazarenes" title="Gospel of the Nazarenes"&gt;Gospel of the Nazarenes&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="60" end="100"
	title="Gospel of Matthew"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Matthew" title="Gospel of Matthew"&gt;Gospel of Matthew&lt;/a&gt;, based on Mark and Q, most popular in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Early_Christianity" title="Early Christianity"&gt;Early Christianity&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="60" end="100"
	title="Gospel of Luke"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Luke" title="Gospel of Luke"&gt;Gospel of Luke&lt;/a&gt;, based on Mark and Q, also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles" title="Acts of the Apostles"&gt;Acts of the Apostles&lt;/a&gt; by same author
	</event>
<event start="88" end="101" isDuration="true"
	title="Letter to the Corinthians"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_I" title="Pope Clement I"&gt;Clement I, Bishop of Rome&lt;/a&gt;, wrote &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistles_of_Clement" title="Epistles of Clement"&gt;Letter of the Romans to the Corinthians&lt;/a&gt; (Apostolic Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="90"
	title="Council of Jamnia"
	>
	90? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Jamnia" title="Council of Jamnia"&gt;Council of Jamnia&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Judaism" title="Judaism"&gt;Judaism&lt;/a&gt; (disputed)
	</event>
<event start="80" end="100"
	title="1 Peter"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1_Peter" title="1 Peter"&gt;1 Peter&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="94"
	title="Testimonium Flavianum"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Testimonium_Flavianum" title="Testimonium Flavianum"&gt;Testimonium Flavianum&lt;/a&gt;, disputed section of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jewish_Antiquities" title="Jewish Antiquities"&gt;Jewish Antiquities&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Josephus" title="Josephus"&gt;Josephus&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic_language" title="Aramaic language"&gt;Aramaic&lt;/a&gt;, translated to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek"&gt;Koine Greek&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="65" end="125"
	title="Gospel of John"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_John" title="Gospel of John"&gt;Gospel of John&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistles_of_John" title="Epistles of John"&gt;Epistles of John&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="85" end="105"
	title="Book of Revelation"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Revelation" title="Book of Revelation"&gt;Book of Revelation&lt;/a&gt; written, by John (son of Zebedee) and/or a disciple of his
	</event>
<event start="70" end="130"
	title="Epistle of Barnabas"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_of_Barnabas" title="Epistle of Barnabas"&gt;Epistle of Barnabas&lt;/a&gt; (Apostolic Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="75" end="125"
	title="Epistle of James"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_of_James" title="Epistle of James"&gt;Epistle of James&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="90" end="110"
	title="Epistle of Jude"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_of_Jude" title="Epistle of Jude"&gt;Epistle of Jude&lt;/a&gt; written, probably by doubting relative of Jesus (Mark 6,3), rejected by some early Christians due to its reference to apocryphal &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Enoch" title="Book of Enoch"&gt;Book of Enoch&lt;/a&gt; (v14), &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Hebrews" title="Epistle to the Hebrews"&gt;Epistle to the Hebrews&lt;/a&gt; written
	</event>
<event start="100" end="150" isDuration="true"
	title="Apocryphon of James"
	>
	100-150? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocryphon_of_James" title="Apocryphon of James"&gt;Apocryphon of James&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Mary_Magdalene" title="Gospel of Mary Magdalene"&gt;Gospel of Mary Magdalene&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_James" title="Gospel of James"&gt;Gospel of James&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Infancy_Gospel_of_Thomas" title="Infancy Gospel of Thomas"&gt;Infancy Gospel of Thomas&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark" title="Secret Gospel of Mark"&gt;Secret Gospel of Mark&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Complete Gospels&lt;/i&gt;, published by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar" title="Jesus Seminar"&gt;Jesus Seminar&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="110" end="130" isDuration="true"
	title="Expositions of Sayings of the Lord"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papias" title="Papias"&gt;Papias&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pamukkale" title="Pamukkale"&gt;Hierapolis&lt;/a&gt;, wrote: "Expositions of the Sayings of the Lord", lost, widely quoted (Apostolic Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="110" end="160" isDuration="true"
	title="Letter to the Philippians"
	>
	110-160? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp" title="Polycarp"&gt;Polycarp&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Izmir" title="Izmir"&gt;Smyrna&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycarp%27s_letter_to_the_Philippians" title="Polycarp's letter to the Philippians"&gt;Letter to the Philippians&lt;/a&gt;, (Apostolic Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="120" end="130"
	title="2 Peter"
	>
	125(+/-5)? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/2_Peter" title="2 Peter"&gt;2 Peter&lt;/a&gt; written, not accepted into canon until early 400s, drew upon Epistle of Jude, "catholic" epistle, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pastoral_Epistles" title="Pastoral Epistles"&gt;Pastoral Epistles&lt;/a&gt; written
	</event>
<event start="125"
	title="Rylands Library Papyrus P52"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rylands_Library_Papyrus_P52" title="Rylands Library Papyrus P52"&gt;Rylands Library Papyrus P52&lt;/a&gt;, oldest extant NT fragment, p.1935, parts of Jn18:31-33,37-38
	</event>
<event start="130" end="250" isDuration="true"
	title="Christian Apologists"
	>
	"Christian Apologists" writings against &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_religion" title="Roman religion"&gt;Roman religion&lt;/a&gt;: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justin_Martyr" title="Justin Martyr"&gt;Justin Martyr&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athenagoras_of_Athens" title="Athenagoras of Athens"&gt;Athenagoras&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apology_of_Aristides" title="Apology of Aristides"&gt;Apology of Aristides&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theophilus_of_Antioch" title="Theophilus of Antioch"&gt;Theophilus of Antioch&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatian" title="Tatian"&gt;Tatian&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quadratus_%28apostle%29" title="Quadratus (apostle)"&gt;Quadratus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Melito_of_Sardis" title="Melito of Sardis"&gt;Melito of Sardis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollinaris_Claudius" title="Apollinaris Claudius"&gt;Apollinaris Claudius&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Felix_Marcus_Minucius" title="Felix Marcus Minucius"&gt;Felix Marcus Minucius&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arnobius" title="Arnobius"&gt;Arnobius&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_Diognetus" title="Epistle to Diognetus"&gt;Epistle to Diognetus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="132" end="135" isDuration="true"
	title="Bar Kokhba's revolt"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bar_Kokhba%27s_revolt" title="Bar Kokhba's revolt"&gt;Bar Kokhba's revolt&lt;/a&gt;: final Jewish revolt, Judea and Jerusalem erased from maps, all of southern &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria" title="Syria"&gt;Syria&lt;/a&gt; renamed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syria_Pal%C3%A6stina" title="Syria Palæstina"&gt;Palestine&lt;/a&gt; (coined by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herodotus" title="Herodotus"&gt;Herodotus&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="142" end="144" isDuration="true"
	title="Marcionism"
	>
	142-144? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcion_of_Sinope" title="Marcion of Sinope"&gt;Marcion of Sinope&lt;/a&gt;, bishop according to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia"&gt;Catholic Encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;, went to Rome, possibly to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simony" title="Simony"&gt;buy the bishropic of Rome&lt;/a&gt;, upon rejection formed his own church in Rome, later called &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marcionism" title="Marcionism"&gt;Marcionism&lt;/a&gt;, rejected &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament"&gt;Old Testament&lt;/a&gt;, decreed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon"&gt;canon&lt;/a&gt; of one &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Marcion" title="Gospel of Marcion"&gt;Gospel&lt;/a&gt;, one &lt;i&gt;Apostolicon&lt;/i&gt; (10 Letters of Paul) and one &lt;i&gt;Antithesis&lt;/i&gt;&lt;a href="http://www.gnosis.org/library/marcion/antithes.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.gnosis.org/library/marcion/antithes.htm"&gt;[2]&lt;/a&gt; which contrasted the Old Testament with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament"&gt;New Testament&lt;/a&gt;, cited &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_text-type" title="Western text-type"&gt;Western text-type&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="150"
	title="Acts of the Apostles revised"
	>
	"Western Revisor" adds/subtracts from original Acts to produce &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acts_of_the_Apostles#Text" title="Acts of the Apostles"&gt;Western&lt;/a&gt; version which is 10% larger and found in Papyrus P29,38,48 and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Bezae" title="Codex Bezae"&gt;Codex Bezae&lt;/a&gt; (D)
	</event>
<event start="150"
	title="Valentinius lost election for Bishop of Rome"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valentinius" title="Valentinius"&gt;Valentinius&lt;/a&gt;, most famous Christian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gnostic" title="Gnostic"&gt;Gnostic&lt;/a&gt;, according to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian" title="Tertullian"&gt;Tertullian&lt;/a&gt; narrowly lost election for Bishop of Rome
	</event>
<event start="140" end="160"
	title="Shepherd of Hermas"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shepherd_of_Hermas" title="Shepherd of Hermas"&gt;Shepherd of Hermas&lt;/a&gt;, written in Rome (Apostolic Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="155"
	title="Montanus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montanus" title="Montanus"&gt;Montanus&lt;/a&gt;, claimed to be the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paraclete" title="Paraclete"&gt;Paraclete&lt;/a&gt; ("Counselor") of &lt;a href="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/%7Ejnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20John&amp;verse=14:16&amp;src=31" class="external text" title="http://php.ug.cs.usyd.edu.au/~jnot4610/bibref.php?book=%20John&amp;verse=14:16&amp;src=31"&gt;John 14:16&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="160"
	title="Martyrdom of Polycarp"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martyrdom_of_Polycarp" title="Martyrdom of Polycarp"&gt;Martyrdom of Polycarp&lt;/a&gt; (Apostolic Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="170"
	title="Bishop of Corinth fakes letters"
	>
	Dionysius&lt;a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05010a.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/05010a.htm"&gt;[3]&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Corinth, claimed Christians were changing and faking his own letters just as [he knew] they had changed the Gospels (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius"&gt;EH&lt;/a&gt;4.23.12;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers" title="Ante-Nicene Fathers"&gt;Ante-Nicene Fathers&lt;/a&gt;,v.8)
	</event>
<event start="170"
	title="Diatessaron"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tatian" title="Tatian"&gt;Tatian&lt;/a&gt; produces "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatessaron" title="Diatessaron"&gt;Diatessaron&lt;/a&gt;" (Harmony) by blending 4 "Western" text-type Gospels into 1
	</event>
<event start="170"
	title="Symmachus the Ebionite"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Symmachus_the_Ebionite" title="Symmachus the Ebionite"&gt;Symmachus the Ebionite&lt;/a&gt;, new Greek translation of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hebrew_Bible" title="Hebrew Bible"&gt;Hebrew Bible&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="180"
	title="Hegesippus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hegesippus" title="Hegesippus"&gt;Hegesippus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="180" end="202" isDuration="true"
	title="Bishop of Lyon combats heresies"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Irenaeus" title="Irenaeus"&gt;Irenaeus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Lyon" title="Bishop of Lyon"&gt;Bishop of Lyon&lt;/a&gt;, combated heresies, cited "Western" Gospel text-type (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="185" end="350" isDuration="true"
	title="Muratorian fragment"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Muratorian_fragment" title="Muratorian fragment"&gt;Muratorian fragment&lt;/a&gt;, 1st extant canon for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament"&gt;New Testament&lt;/a&gt; after Marcion?, written in Rome by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolytus_%28writer%29" title="Hippolytus (writer)"&gt;Hippolytus&lt;/a&gt;?, excludes Hebrews, James, 1-2 Peter, 3 John; includes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wisdom_of_Solomon" title="Wisdom of Solomon"&gt;Wisdom of Solomon&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocalypse_of_Peter" title="Apocalypse of Peter"&gt;Apocalypse of Peter&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="186"
	title="'Catholic' used"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Apollonius" title="Saint Apollonius"&gt;Saint Apollonius&lt;/a&gt;, used the term &lt;i&gt;catholic&lt;/i&gt; in reference to 1 John
	</event>
<event start="188" end="231" isDuration="true"
	title="Saint Demetrius condemned"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Demetrius" title="Saint Demetrius"&gt;Saint Demetrius&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Alexandria, condemned &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen" title="Origen"&gt;Origen&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="189" end="198" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope Victor excommunicates Extern churches"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Victor_I" title="Pope Victor I"&gt;Pope Victor I&lt;/a&gt;, 1st &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin"&gt;Latin&lt;/a&gt; Pope, excommunicated Eastern churches that continued to observe &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Easter" title="Easter"&gt;Easter&lt;/a&gt; on Nisan 14 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quartodeciman" title="Quartodeciman"&gt;Quartodeciman&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="196"
	title="Polycrates of Ephesus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Polycrates_of_Ephesus" title="Polycrates of Ephesus"&gt;Polycrates&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Ephesus (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="199" end="217" isDuration="true"
	title="Dialogue against Proclus"
	>
	Caius&lt;a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144a.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03144a.htm"&gt;[4]&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyter" title="Presbyter"&gt;presbyter&lt;/a&gt; of Rome, wrote "Dialogue against Proclus" in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ante-Nicene_Fathers" title="Ante-Nicene Fathers"&gt;Ante-Nicene Fathers&lt;/a&gt;, rejected &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation" title="Revelation"&gt;Revelation&lt;/a&gt;, said to be by Gnostic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cerinthus" title="Cerinthus"&gt;Cerinthus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="200"
	title="Papyrus 46"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papyrus_46" title="Papyrus 46"&gt;Papyrus 46&lt;/a&gt;: 2nd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chester_Beatty" title="Chester Beatty"&gt;Chester Beatty&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrian_text-type" title="Alexandrian text-type"&gt;Alexandrian text-type&lt;/a&gt;; Papyrus 66: 2nd Bodmer, John, 1956, "Alexandrian/Western" text-types; Papyrus 75: Bodmer 14-15, Luke &amp; John, earliest extant Luke, ~Vaticanus; 200? Papyrus 32: J. Rylands Library: Titus 1:11-15;2:3-8; Papyrus 64 (+67): Mt3:9,15; 5:20-22,25-28; 26:7-8,10,14-15,22-23,31-33
	</event>
<event start="200"
	title="Sextus Julius Africanus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sextus_Julius_Africanus" title="Sextus Julius Africanus"&gt;Sextus Julius Africanus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="200"
	title="Antipope Natalius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope" title="Antipope"&gt;Antipope&lt;/a&gt; Natalius&lt;a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10448a.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/10448a.htm"&gt;[5]&lt;/a&gt;, rival bishop of Rome, according to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius"&gt;Eusebius&lt;/a&gt;'s EH5.28.8-12, quoting the &lt;i&gt;Little Labyrinth&lt;/i&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hippolytus_%28writer%29" title="Hippolytus (writer)"&gt;Hippolytus&lt;/a&gt;, after being "&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scourge" title="Scourge"&gt;scourged&lt;/a&gt; all night by the holy angels", covered in ash, dressed in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sackcloth" title="Sackcloth"&gt;sackcloth&lt;/a&gt;, and "after some difficulty", tearfully submitted to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Zephyrinus" title="Pope Zephyrinus"&gt;Pope Zephyrinus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="217" end="236" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Hippolytus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Hippolytus" title="Antipope Hippolytus"&gt;Antipope Hippolytus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;i&gt;Logos&lt;/i&gt; sect?
	</event>
<event start="218" end="258" isDuration="true"
	title="Bishop of Carthage claims Christians forge his letters"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyprian" title="Cyprian"&gt;Cyprian&lt;/a&gt;, Bishop of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage" title="Carthage"&gt;Carthage&lt;/a&gt;, cited "Western" NT text-type, claimed Christians were freely forging his letters to discredit him (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="220"
	title="Secret Gospel of Mark"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clement_of_Alexandria" title="Clement of Alexandria"&gt;Clement of Alexandria&lt;/a&gt;, cited "Alexandrian" NT text-type &amp; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Secret_Gospel_of_Mark" title="Secret Gospel of Mark"&gt;Secret Gospel of Mark&lt;/a&gt; &amp; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_the_Egyptians" title="Gospel of the Egyptians"&gt;Gospel of the Egyptians&lt;/a&gt;; wrote: "Exhortations to the Greeks"; "Rich Man's Salutation"; "To the Newly Baptized"; (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="220" end="340" isDuration="true"
	title="Gospel of Judas"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Tchacos" title="Codex Tchacos"&gt;Codex Tchacos&lt;/a&gt;, manuscript containing a copy of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas" title="Gospel of Judas"&gt;Gospel of Judas&lt;/a&gt; has been written.
	</event>
<event start="223"
	title="Tertullian"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tertullian" title="Tertullian"&gt;Tertullian&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes called "father of the Latin Church" because he coined &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Trinity" title="Trinity"&gt;trinitas&lt;/a&gt;, tres &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persona" title="Persona"&gt;Personae&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consubstantial" title="Consubstantial"&gt;una Substantia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament"&gt;Vetus Testamentum&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament"&gt;Novum Testamentum&lt;/a&gt;, convert to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Montanism" title="Montanism"&gt;Montanism&lt;/a&gt;, cited "Western" Gospel text-type (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="225"
	title="Papyrus 45"
	>
	Papyrus 45: 1st Chester Beatty, Gospels (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_text-type" title="Caesarean text-type"&gt;Caesarean text-type&lt;/a&gt;), Acts (Alexandrian test-type)
	</event>
<event start="235" end="238" isDuration="true"
	title="Rome deports Pope Pontian"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maximinus_Thrax" title="Maximinus Thrax"&gt;Maximinus Thrax&lt;/a&gt;, emperor of Rome, ends Christian schism in Rome by deporting &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pontian" title="Pope Pontian"&gt;Pope Pontian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Hippolytus" title="Antipope Hippolytus"&gt;Antipope Hippolytus&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sardinia" title="Sardinia"&gt;Sardinia&lt;/a&gt; where they soon die
	</event>
<event start="248" end="264" isDuration="true"
	title="Dionysius of Alexandria"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_of_Alexandria" title="Dionysius of Alexandria"&gt;Dionysius&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Alexandria" title="Patriarch of Alexandria"&gt;Patriarch of Alexandria&lt;/a&gt; see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Patriarchs_of_Alexandria" title="List of Patriarchs of Alexandria"&gt;List of Patriarchs of Alexandria&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="250"
	title="Apostolic Constitutions"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Constitutions" title="Apostolic Constitutions"&gt;Apostolic Constitutions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liturgy_of_St_James" title="Liturgy of St James"&gt;Liturgy of St James&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostles%27_Creed" title="Apostles' Creed"&gt;Apostles' Creed&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clementine_literature" title="Clementine literature"&gt;Clementine literature&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="250"
	title="Methodius of Olympus"
	>
	Letters of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodius_of_Olympus" title="Methodius of Olympus"&gt;Methodius&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pistis_Sophia" title="Pistis Sophia"&gt;Pistis Sophia&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porphyry_%28philosopher%29" title="Porphyry (philosopher)"&gt;Porphyry Tyrius&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Commodianus" title="Commodianus"&gt;Commodianus&lt;/a&gt; (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="250"
	title="Papyrus 72"
	>
	Papyrus 72: Bodmer 5-11+, pub. 1959, "Alexandrian" text-type: Nativity of Mary; 3Cor; Odes of Solomon 11; Jude 1-25; Melito's Homily on Passover; Hymn fragment; Apology of Phileas; Ps33,34; 1Pt1:1-5:14; 2Pt1:1-3:18
	</event>
<event start="250"
	title="Origen"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen" title="Origen"&gt;Origen&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousios" title="Ousios"&gt;Jesus and God one substance&lt;/a&gt;, adopted at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea" title="First Council of Nicaea"&gt;First Council of Nicaea&lt;/a&gt; in 325, compiled &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hexapla" title="Hexapla"&gt;Hexapla&lt;/a&gt;; cites Alexandrian, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_text-type" title="Caesarean text-type"&gt;Caesarean text-type&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius" title="Eusebius"&gt;Eusebius&lt;/a&gt; claimed Origen castrated himself for Christ due to Mt19:12 (EH6.8.1-3)
	</event>
<event start="251" end="424" isDuration="true"
	title="Synods of Carthage"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synods_of_Carthage" title="Synods of Carthage"&gt;Synods of Carthage&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="251" end="258" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Novatian"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Novatian" title="Antipope Novatian"&gt;Antipope Novatian&lt;/a&gt;, decreed no forgiveness for sins after &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism" title="Baptism"&gt;baptism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="254" end="257" isDuration="true"
	title="Schism over rebaptizing heretics and apostates"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Stephen_I" title="Pope Stephen I"&gt;Pope Stephen I&lt;/a&gt;; major &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Schism" title="Schism"&gt;schism&lt;/a&gt; over rebaptizing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heretics" title="Heretics"&gt;heretics&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostates" title="Apostates"&gt;apostates&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="258"
	title="Roman emperor executes Christian Bishops, Elders, Deacons"
	>
	"&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Valerian_%28emperor%29" title="Valerian (emperor)"&gt;Valerian&lt;/a&gt;'s Massacre", Roman emperor executes all Christian Bishops, Elders, and Deacons
	</event>
<event start="264" end="269" isDuration="true"
	title="Founder of Adoptionism condemned"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synods_of_Antioch" title="Synods of Antioch"&gt;Synods of Antioch&lt;/a&gt;, condemned &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paul_of_Samosata" title="Paul of Samosata"&gt;Paul of Samosata&lt;/a&gt;, Bishop of Antioch, founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Adoptionism" title="Adoptionism"&gt;Adoptionism&lt;/a&gt; (Jesus was human until Holy Spirit descended at his baptism), also condemned term &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ousios" title="Ousios"&gt;homoousios&lt;/a&gt; adopted at Nicaea
	</event>
<event start="265"
	title="Gregory Thaumaturgus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Thaumaturgus" title="Gregory Thaumaturgus"&gt;Gregory Thaumaturgus&lt;/a&gt; (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="270"
	title="Anthony the Great begins monastic movement"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anthony_the_Great" title="Anthony the Great"&gt;Anthony&lt;/a&gt; begins monastic movement
	</event>
<event start="275"
	title="Papyrus 47"
	>
	Papyrus 47: 3rd Chester Beatty, ~Sinaiticus, Rev9:10-11:3,5-16:15,17-17:2
	</event>
<event start="276"
	title="Mani prophet crucified"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mani_%28prophet%29" title="Mani (prophet)"&gt;Mani (prophet)&lt;/a&gt;, crucified, founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Manichaean" title="Manichaean"&gt;Manichaean&lt;/a&gt; Christian sect in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Persia" title="Persia"&gt;Persia&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="282" end="300" isDuration="true"
	title="Theonas of Alexandria"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theonas_of_Alexandria" title="Theonas of Alexandria"&gt;Theonas&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Alexandria (Ante-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="290" end="345" isDuration="true"
	title="Founder of Christian monasticism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Pachomius" title="St Pachomius"&gt;St Pachomius&lt;/a&gt;, founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_monasticism" title="Christian monasticism"&gt;Christian monasticism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="296" end="304" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope Marcellinus offers pagan sacrifices"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Marcellinus" title="Pope Marcellinus"&gt;Pope Marcellinus&lt;/a&gt;, offered pagan sacrifices for Diocletian
	</event>
<event start="301"
	title="Christianity state religion of Armenia"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/History_of_Armenia#Christianisation" title="History of Armenia"&gt;Armenia&lt;/a&gt;, first to adopt Christianity as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion"&gt;state religion&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="303" end="312" isDuration="true"
	title="Diocletian's Massacre of Christians"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diocletian#Persecution_of_Christians" title="Diocletian"&gt;Diocletian's Massacre&lt;/a&gt; of Christians
	</event>
<event start="303"
	title="Saint George"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_George" title="Saint George"&gt;Saint George&lt;/a&gt;, patron saint of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/England" title="England"&gt;England&lt;/a&gt;, and other states
	</event>
<event start="304"
	title="Victorinus of Pettau"
	>
	304? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Victorinus_of_Pettau" title="Victorinus of Pettau"&gt;Victorinus&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ptuj" title="Ptuj"&gt;Pettau&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="306"
	title=""
	>
	306 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Elvira" title="Synod of Elvira"&gt;Synod of Elvira&lt;/a&gt;, prohibited relations between Christians and Jews
	</event>
<event start="310"
	title="Maxentius deports Pope Eusebius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Maxentius" title="Maxentius"&gt;Maxentius&lt;/a&gt; deports &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Eusebius" title="Pope Eusebius"&gt;Pope Eusebius&lt;/a&gt; and Antipope Heraclius&lt;a href="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09001b.htm" class="external autonumber" title="http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/09001b.htm"&gt;[6]&lt;/a&gt; to Sicily
	</event>
<event start="312"
	title="School of Antioch founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lucian_of_Antioch" title="Lucian of Antioch"&gt;Lucian of Antioch&lt;/a&gt;, founded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Antioch" title="School of Antioch"&gt;School of Antioch&lt;/a&gt;, martyred
	</event>
<event start="312"
	title="Vision of Constantine"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantine_I_and_Christianity#Constantine.27s_Vision" title="Constantine I and Christianity"&gt;Vision of Constantine&lt;/a&gt;, while gazing into the sun he saw a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cross" title="Cross"&gt;cross&lt;/a&gt; with the words &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_hoc_signo_vinces" title="In hoc signo vinces"&gt;by this sign conquer&lt;/a&gt;, see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Labarum" title="Labarum"&gt;Labarum&lt;/a&gt;, Constantine was later called the &lt;i&gt;13th Apostle&lt;/i&gt;
	</event>
<event start="313"
	title="Christianity state religion of Kingdom of Aksum"
	>
	The Kingdom of Aksum(Modern Ethiopia) declares Christianity as the official state Religion
	</event>
<event start="313"
	title="Edict of Milan"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Milan" title="Edict of Milan"&gt;Edict of Milan&lt;/a&gt;, Constantine and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Licinius" title="Licinius"&gt;Licinius&lt;/a&gt; end persecution, establish toleration of Christianity
	</event>
<event start="313"
	title="Pope Miltiades excommunicates Donatus Magnus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Miltiades" title="Pope Miltiades"&gt;Pope Miltiades&lt;/a&gt;, given &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Palace" title="Lateran Palace"&gt;Lateran Palace&lt;/a&gt; as residence by Constantine, excommunicated &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatus_Magnus" title="Donatus Magnus"&gt;Donatus Magnus&lt;/a&gt; for requiring rebaptism of apostates
	</event>
<event start="314"
	title="Council of Arles against Donatist schism"
	>
	Council of Arles, called by Constantine against &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donatist" title="Donatist"&gt;Donatist&lt;/a&gt; schism
	</event>
<event start="314" end="340" isDuration="true"
	title="Ecclesiastical History written"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius_of_Caesarea" title="Eusebius of Caesarea"&gt;Eusebius&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Caesarea, church historian, cited &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caesarean_text-type" title="Caesarean text-type"&gt;Caesarean text-type&lt;/a&gt;, wrote &lt;i&gt;Ecclesiastical History&lt;/i&gt; in 325
	</event>
<event start="317"
	title="Christianity state religion of Iberia"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mirian_III_of_Iberia" title="Mirian III of Iberia"&gt;Mirian III of Georgia&lt;/a&gt; adopts Christianity as &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion"&gt;state religion&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="317"
	title="Lactantius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lactantius" title="Lactantius"&gt;Lactantius&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="321"
	title="Sunday state day of rest"
	>
	Constantine decreed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday" title="Sunday"&gt;Sunday&lt;/a&gt; as state "day of rest" (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Corpus_Iuris_Civilis#Codex_Justinianus" title="Corpus Iuris Civilis"&gt;CJ&lt;/a&gt;3.12.2), see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sol_Invictus" title="Sol Invictus"&gt;Sol Invictus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="325"
	title="First Council of Nicaea to unify Christology"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Nicaea" title="First Council of Nicaea"&gt;First Council of Nicaea&lt;/a&gt;, called by Constantine to unify &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christology" title="Christology"&gt;Christology&lt;/a&gt;, called 1st great Christian council by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome"&gt;Jerome&lt;/a&gt;, 1st &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical" title="Ecumenical"&gt;ecumenical&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_original_Nicene_Creed_of_325" title="Nicene Creed"&gt;Original Nicene Creed&lt;/a&gt;, rejected by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nontrinitarianism" title="Nontrinitarianism"&gt;Nontrinitarianism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arius" title="Arius"&gt;Arius&lt;/a&gt;, Theonas, Secundus, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eusebius_of_Nicomedia" title="Eusebius of Nicomedia"&gt;Eusebius of Nicomedia&lt;/a&gt;, Theognis &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Excommunicated" title="Excommunicated"&gt;excommunicated&lt;/a&gt;, addressed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Computus" title="Computus"&gt;Easter controversies&lt;/a&gt;, passed 20 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law_%28Catholic_Church%29" title="Canon law (Catholic Church)"&gt;Canon laws&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="325"
	title="Church of the Nativity"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Nativity" title="Church of the Nativity"&gt;Church of the Nativity&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bethlehem" title="Bethlehem"&gt;Bethlehem&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="328" end="373" isDuration="true"
	title="New Testament first cited"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Athanasius" title="Athanasius"&gt;Athanasius&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Alexandria, first cite of modern 27 book &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Testament" title="New Testament"&gt;New Testament&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon"&gt;canon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="330"
	title="Church of the Holy Apostles"
	>
	Old &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Apostles" title="Church of the Holy Apostles"&gt;Church of the Holy Apostles&lt;/a&gt;, dedicated by Constantine
	</event>
<event start="330"
	title="Saint Peter's Basilica"
	>
	Old &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Peter%27s_Basilica" title="Saint Peter's Basilica"&gt;Saint Peter's Basilica&lt;/a&gt; dedicated by Constantine, located over the traditional burial site of Saint Peter the Apostle in Rome on Vatican Hill
	</event>
<event start="331"
	title="Constantinople capital of Roman Empire"
	>
	Capital of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Roman_Empire" title="Eastern Roman Empire"&gt;Roman Empire&lt;/a&gt; moved from Rome to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantinople" title="Constantinople"&gt;Constantinople&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Rome" title="New Rome"&gt;New Rome&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="335"
	title="Jerusalem consecrated"
	>
	Council in Jerusalem, reversed Nicaea's condemnation of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arius" title="Arius"&gt;Arius&lt;/a&gt;, consecrated Jerusalem &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_the_Holy_Sepulchre" title="Church of the Holy Sepulchre"&gt;Church of the Holy Sepulchre&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="343"
	title="Council of Sardica"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Sardica" title="Council of Sardica"&gt;Council of Sardica&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="350"
	title="Julius Firmicus Maternus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Julius_Firmicus_Maternus" title="Julius Firmicus Maternus"&gt;Julius Firmicus Maternus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="350"
	title="Codex Sinaiticus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Sinaiticus" title="Codex Sinaiticus"&gt;Codex Sinaiticus&lt;/a&gt;(S), &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Vaticanus" title="Codex Vaticanus"&gt;Codex Vaticanus&lt;/a&gt;(B): earliest Christian Bibles, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrian_text-type" title="Alexandrian text-type"&gt;Alexandrian text-type&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="350"
	title="Greek NT translated to Gothic"
	>
	350? &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ulfilas" title="Ulfilas"&gt;Ulfilas&lt;/a&gt;, Arian, apostle to the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goths" title="Goths"&gt;Goths&lt;/a&gt;, translated Greek NT to Gothic
	</event>
<event start="350"
	title="Comma Johanneum"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_Johanneum" title="Comma Johanneum"&gt;Comma Johanneum&lt;/a&gt; 1Jn5:7b-8a(&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/KJV" title="KJV"&gt;KJV&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="350"
	title="Syntagmation"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A%C3%ABtius_%28theologian%29" title="Aëtius (theologian)"&gt;Aëtius&lt;/a&gt;, Arian, "Syntagmation": "God is agennetos (unbegotten)", (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anomoean" title="Anomoean"&gt;Anomoean&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="350"
	title="School of Nisibis"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/School_of_Nisibis" title="School of Nisibis"&gt;School of Nisibis&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="351"
	title="2nd Council of Sirmium condemned Council of Nicaea"
	>
	2nd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Sirmium" title="Council of Sirmium"&gt;Council of Sirmium&lt;/a&gt;, Anomoean, condemned Council of Nicaea
	</event>
<event start="353" end="367" isDuration="true"
	title="Hilary of Poitiers"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hilary_of_Poitiers" title="Hilary of Poitiers"&gt;Hilary&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poitiers" title="Poitiers"&gt;Poitiers&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="355" end="365" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Felix II"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Felix_II" title="Antipope Felix II"&gt;Antipope Felix II&lt;/a&gt;, Arian, supported by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Constantius_II" title="Constantius II"&gt;Constantius II&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="359"
	title="Council of Rimini"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Rimini" title="Council of Rimini"&gt;Council of Rimini&lt;/a&gt;, Dated Creed (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacians" title="Acacians"&gt;Acacians&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="363" end="364" isDuration="true"
	title="Council of Laodicea"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Laodicea" title="Council of Laodicea"&gt;Council of Laodicea&lt;/a&gt;, canon 29 decreed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anathema" title="Anathema"&gt;anathema&lt;/a&gt; for Christians who rest on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sabbath" title="Sabbath"&gt;Sabbath&lt;/a&gt;, disputed canon 60 named 26 NT books (excluded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revelation" title="Revelation"&gt;Revelation&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="366" end="367" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Ursicinus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Ursicinus" title="Antipope Ursicinus"&gt;Antipope Ursicinus&lt;/a&gt;, rival to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Damasus_I" title="Pope Damasus I"&gt;Pope Damasus I&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="367" end="403" isDuration="true"
	title="Panarion against heresies"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epiphanius_of_Salamis" title="Epiphanius of Salamis"&gt;Epiphanius&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Salamis, wrote &lt;i&gt;Panarion&lt;/i&gt; against heresies
	</event>
<event start="370" end="379" isDuration="true"
	title="Basil of Caesarea"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Basil_of_Caesarea" title="Basil of Caesarea"&gt;Basil the Great&lt;/a&gt;, Bishop of Caesarea
	</event>
<event start="370"
	title="Doctrine of Addai"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Doctrine_of_Addai" title="Doctrine of Addai"&gt;Doctrine of Addai&lt;/a&gt; at Edessa proclaims 17 book NT canon using Diatessaron (instead of the 4 Gospels) + Acts + 15 Pauline Epistles (inc. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/3_Corinthians" title="3 Corinthians"&gt;3 Corinthians&lt;/a&gt;) &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church"&gt;Syriac Orthodox Church&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="372" end="394" isDuration="true"
	title="Gregory of Nyssa"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_of_Nyssa" title="Gregory of Nyssa"&gt;Gregory&lt;/a&gt;, Bishop Of Nyssa
	</event>
<event start="373"
	title="Ephrem the Syrian"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ephrem_the_Syrian" title="Ephrem the Syrian"&gt;Ephrem the Syrian&lt;/a&gt;, cited "Western" Acts text-type
	</event>
<event start="374" end="397" isDuration="true"
	title="Ambrose, bishop, governor of Milan"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ambrose" title="Ambrose"&gt;Ambrose&lt;/a&gt;, bishop &amp; governor of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Milan" title="Milan"&gt;Milan&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="375" end="395" isDuration="true"
	title="Ausonius, governor of Gaul"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ausonius" title="Ausonius"&gt;Ausonius&lt;/a&gt;, Christian governor of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gaul" title="Gaul"&gt;Gaul&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="379" end="381" isDuration="true"
	title="Gregory Nazianzus, bishop of Constantinople"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregory_Nazianzus" title="Gregory Nazianzus"&gt;Gregory Nazianzus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishop_of_Constantinople" title="Bishop of Constantinople"&gt;Bishop of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="381"
	title="2nd Ecumenical"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Council_of_Constantinople" title="First Council of Constantinople"&gt;First Council of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, 2nd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical" title="Ecumenical"&gt;ecumenical&lt;/a&gt;, Jesus had true human soul, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_Nicene_Creed_of_381" title="Nicene Creed"&gt;Nicene Creed of 381&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="382"
	title="Council of Rome disputed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Rome" title="Council of Rome"&gt;Council of Rome&lt;/a&gt;, held by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Damasus_I" title="Pope Damasus I"&gt;Pope Damasus I&lt;/a&gt;, disputed
	</event>
<event start="383"
	title="Frumentius, Apostle of Ethiopia"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frumentius" title="Frumentius"&gt;Frumentius&lt;/a&gt;, Apostle of Ethiopia
	</event>
<event start="385"
	title="First heretic executed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priscillian" title="Priscillian"&gt;Priscillian&lt;/a&gt;, first heretic to be executed?
	</event>
<event start="390"
	title="Nicene Christianity declared state religion by Theodosius the Great"
	>
	Feb 27, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Christianity" title="Nicene Christianity"&gt;Nicene Christianity&lt;/a&gt; declared &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/State_religion" title="State religion"&gt;state religion&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodosius_the_Great" title="Theodosius the Great"&gt;Theodosius the Great&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="390"
	title="Apollinaris of Laodicea"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apollinaris_of_Laodicea" title="Apollinaris of Laodicea"&gt;Apollinaris&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Laodicea, believed Jesus had human body but divine spirit
	</event>
<event start="396" end="430" isDuration="true"
	title="Augustine of Hippo"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo" title="Augustine of Hippo"&gt;Augustine&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Hippo, considered the founder of formalized Christian theology (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_and_Post-Nicene_Fathers" title="Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers"&gt;Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="397"
	title="Saint Ninian"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Ninian" title="Saint Ninian"&gt;Saint Ninian&lt;/a&gt; evangelizes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts" title="Picts"&gt;Picts&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland"&gt;Scotland&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="398" end="404" isDuration="true"
	title="John Chrysostom"
	>
	398-404 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Chrysostom" title="John Chrysostom"&gt;John Chrysostom&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Constantinople" title="Patriarch of Constantinople"&gt;Patriarch of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Patriarchs_of_Constantinople" title="List of Patriarchs of Constantinople"&gt;List of Patriarchs of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="400"
	title="Ethiopic Bible"
	>
	Ethiopic Bible: in Ge'ez, 81 books, standard &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ethiopian_Orthodox" title="Ethiopian Orthodox"&gt;Ethiopian Orthodox&lt;/a&gt; Bible
	</event>
<event start="400"
	title="Bible in Syriac"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peshitta" title="Peshitta"&gt;Peshitta&lt;/a&gt; Bible in Syriac (Aramaic), Syr(p), OT + 22 NT, excludes: 2Pt, 2-3Jn, Jude, Rev; standard &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Syriac_Orthodox_Church" title="Syriac Orthodox Church"&gt;Syriac Orthodox Church&lt;/a&gt; Bible
	</event>
<event start="406"
	title="Armenian bible"
	>
	Armenian Bible, translated by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Mesrob" title="Saint Mesrob"&gt;Saint Mesrob&lt;/a&gt;, standard &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Orthodox" title="Armenian Orthodox"&gt;Armenian Orthodox&lt;/a&gt; Bible
	</event>
<event start="412" end="444" isDuration="true"
	title="Cyril of Alexandria expels Jews"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyril_of_Alexandria" title="Cyril of Alexandria"&gt;Cyril&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Alexandria, expelled Jews, killed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypatia" title="Hypatia"&gt;Hypatia&lt;/a&gt; with oyster shells, coined &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_union" title="Hypostatic union"&gt;Hypostatic union&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="418" end="419" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Eulalius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Eulalius" title="Antipope Eulalius"&gt;Antipope Eulalius&lt;/a&gt; rival to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_I" title="Pope Boniface I"&gt;Pope Boniface I&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="420"
	title="St. Jerome"
	>
	St. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerome" title="Jerome"&gt;Jerome&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate#Different_versions" title="Vulgate"&gt;Vulgate&lt;/a&gt; translations, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin" title="Latin"&gt;Latin&lt;/a&gt; scholar, cited &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mark_16#The_.27Freer_Logion.27_and_.27Expanded.27_Endings" title="Mark 16"&gt;expanded ending in Mark&lt;/a&gt; after Mark 16:8, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pericope_Adulter%C3%A6" title="Pericope Adulteræ"&gt;Pericope of the Adultress&lt;/a&gt; addition to John (John 7:53-8:11) (Nicene and Post-Nicene Fathers)
	</event>
<event start="423" end="457" isDuration="true"
	title="Theodoret"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodoret" title="Theodoret"&gt;Theodoret&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cyrrhus" title="Cyrrhus"&gt;Cyrrhus&lt;/a&gt;, noted Tatian's &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diatesseron" title="Diatesseron"&gt;Diatesseron&lt;/a&gt; in heavy use
	</event>
<event start="431"
	title="Council of Ephesus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Ephesus" title="Council of Ephesus"&gt;Council of Ephesus&lt;/a&gt;, 3rd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical" title="Ecumenical"&gt;ecumenical&lt;/a&gt;, repudiated &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorianism" title="Nestorianism"&gt;Nestorianism&lt;/a&gt;, decreed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos" title="Theotokos"&gt;Mary the Mother of God&lt;/a&gt;, forbid any changes to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_Nicene_Creed_of_381" title="Nicene Creed"&gt;Nicene Creed of 381&lt;/a&gt;, rejected by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assyrian_Church_of_the_East" title="Assyrian Church of the East"&gt;Assyrian Church of the East&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="432"
	title="St. Patrick begins mission in Ireland"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Patrick" title="St Patrick"&gt;St Patrick&lt;/a&gt; begins mission in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ireland" title="Ireland"&gt;Ireland&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="440" end="461" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope Leo I first pope, stopped Attila the Hun"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_I" title="Pope Leo I"&gt;Pope Leo the Great&lt;/a&gt;, sometimes considered the first pope, stopped &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Attila_the_Hun" title="Attila the Hun"&gt;Attila the Hun&lt;/a&gt; at Rome, issued &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_I#The_Tome" title="Pope Leo I"&gt;Tome&lt;/a&gt; in support of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_Union" title="Hypostatic Union"&gt;Hypostatic Union&lt;/a&gt;, approved &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon"&gt;Council of Chalcedon&lt;/a&gt; but rejected canons in 453
	</event>
<event start="447"
	title="Councils of Toledo"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Councils_of_Toledo" title="Councils of Toledo"&gt;Council of Toledo&lt;/a&gt; added &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque_clause" title="Filioque clause"&gt;Filioque clause&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicene_Creed#The_Nicene_Creed_of_381" title="Nicene Creed"&gt;Nicene Creed of 381&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="449"
	title="Robber Council of Ephesus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robber_Council_of_Ephesus" title="Robber Council of Ephesus"&gt;Robber Council of Ephesus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophysite" title="Monophysite"&gt;Monophysite&lt;/a&gt;: Jesus was divine but not human
	</event>
<event start="450"
	title="Codex Alexandrinus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Alexandrinus" title="Codex Alexandrinus"&gt;Codex Alexandrinus&lt;/a&gt;(A): &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandrian_text-type" title="Alexandrian text-type"&gt;Alexandrian text-type&lt;/a&gt;; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Bezae" title="Codex Bezae"&gt;Codex Bezae&lt;/a&gt;(D): Greek/Latin Gospels + Acts; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Codex_Washingtonianus" title="Codex Washingtonianus"&gt;Codex Washingtonianus&lt;/a&gt;(W): Greek Gospels; both of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_text-type" title="Western text-type"&gt;Western text-type&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="450"
	title="Old Testament in Aramaic"
	>
	Aramaic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Targums" title="Targums"&gt;Targums&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Testament" title="Old Testament"&gt;Old Testament&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aramaic" title="Aramaic"&gt;Aramaic&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="450"
	title="Socrates Scholasticus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socrates_Scholasticus" title="Socrates Scholasticus"&gt;Socrates Scholasticus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sozomen" title="Sozomen"&gt;Sozomen&lt;/a&gt;, early Church historians
	</event>
<event start="451"
	title="Council of Chalcedon"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon"&gt;Council of Chalcedon&lt;/a&gt;, 4th &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical" title="Ecumenical"&gt;ecumenical&lt;/a&gt;, declared Jesus is a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_Union" title="Hypostatic Union"&gt;Hypostatic Union&lt;/a&gt;: both human and divine in one, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedonian_Creed" title="Chalcedonian Creed"&gt;Chalcedonian Creed&lt;/a&gt;, rejected by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oriental_Orthodoxy" title="Oriental Orthodoxy"&gt;Oriental Orthodoxy&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="456"
	title="Eutyches of Constantinople"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eutyches" title="Eutyches"&gt;Eutyches&lt;/a&gt; of Constantinople, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monophysite" title="Monophysite"&gt;Monophysite&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="465"
	title="Prosper of Aquitaine"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Prosper_of_Aquitaine" title="Prosper of Aquitaine"&gt;Prosper of Aquitaine&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="476"
	title="Fall of Rome"
	>
	September 4th, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Rome" title="Fall of Rome"&gt;Fall of Rome&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="484" end="519" isDuration="true"
	title="Acacian Schism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acacian_Schism" title="Acacian Schism"&gt;Acacian Schism&lt;/a&gt;, over &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henoticon" title="Henoticon"&gt;Henoticon&lt;/a&gt; divides Eastern (Greek) and Western (Latin) churches
	</event>
<event start="491"
	title="Armenian Orthodox"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Orthodox" title="Armenian Orthodox"&gt;Armenian Orthodox&lt;/a&gt; split from East (Greek) and West (Latin) churches
	</event>
<event start="495"
	title="Vicar of Christ"
	>
	May 13 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vicar_of_Christ" title="Vicar of Christ"&gt;Vicar of Christ&lt;/a&gt; decreed a title of Bishop of Rome by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gelasius_I" title="Pope Gelasius I"&gt;Pope Gelasius I&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="496"
	title="Clovis I baptized"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clovis_I" title="Clovis I"&gt;Clovis I&lt;/a&gt;, King of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks" title="Franks"&gt;Franks&lt;/a&gt;, baptized
	</event>
<event start="498" end="499" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Laurentius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Laurentius" title="Antipope Laurentius"&gt;Antipope Laurentius&lt;/a&gt;, rival of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Symmachus" title="Pope Symmachus"&gt;Pope Symmachus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="501" end="506" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Laurentius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Laurentius" title="Antipope Laurentius"&gt;Antipope Laurentius&lt;/a&gt;, rival of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Symmachus" title="Pope Symmachus"&gt;Pope Symmachus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="500"
	title="Incense in Christian churce service"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Incense" title="Incense"&gt;Incense&lt;/a&gt; introduced in Christian church service, first plans of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City"&gt;Vatican&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="524"
	title="Consolation of Philosophy"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anicius_Manlius_Severinus_Boethius" title="Anicius Manlius Severinus Boethius"&gt;Boethius&lt;/a&gt;, Roman Christian philosopher, wrote: "Theological Tractates", &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Consolation_of_Philosophy" title="Consolation of Philosophy"&gt;Consolation of Philosophy&lt;/a&gt;; (Loeb Classics) (Latin)
	</event>
<event start="525"
	title="Christian calendar set"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dionysius_Exiguus" title="Dionysius Exiguus"&gt;Dionysius Exiguus&lt;/a&gt; sets Christian calendar (a.d.) &amp; Jesus' birth @ 23 Dec 1AD
	</event>
<event start="527"
	title="Fabius Planciades Fulgentius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fabius_Planciades_Fulgentius" title="Fabius Planciades Fulgentius"&gt;Fabius Planciades Fulgentius&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="530"
	title="Antipope Dioscorus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Dioscorus" title="Antipope Dioscorus"&gt;Antipope Dioscorus&lt;/a&gt;, possibly a legitimate Pope
	</event>
<event start="530"
	title="Rule of St. Benedict"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rule_of_St_Benedict" title="Rule of St Benedict"&gt;Rule of St Benedict&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Benedict" title="St. Benedict"&gt;St. Benedict&lt;/a&gt; founds the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictines" title="Benedictines"&gt;Benedictines&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="535" end="536" isDuration="true"
	title="Unusual climate changes"
	>
	Unusual &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Climate_changes_of_535-536" title="Climate changes of 535-536"&gt;climate changes&lt;/a&gt; recorded
	</event>
<event start="537" end="555" isDuration="true"
	title="Popal conspiracy"
	>
	537-555 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Vigilius" title="Pope Vigilius"&gt;Pope Vigilius&lt;/a&gt;, involved in death of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Silverius" title="Pope Silverius"&gt;Pope Silverius&lt;/a&gt;, conspired with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_I" title="Justinian I"&gt;Justinian&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodora_%286th_century%29" title="Theodora (6th century)"&gt;Theodora&lt;/a&gt;, on April 11, 548 issued &lt;i&gt;Judicatum&lt;/i&gt; supporting Justinian's anti-&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_Union" title="Hypostatic Union"&gt;Hypostatic Union&lt;/a&gt;, excommunicated by bishops of Carthage in 550
	</event>
<event start="541" end="542" isDuration="true"
	title="Plague of Justinian"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plague_of_Justinian" title="Plague of Justinian"&gt;Plague of Justinian&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="543"
	title="Justinian condemns Origen"
	>
	Justinian condemns &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Origen" title="Origen"&gt;Origen&lt;/a&gt;, disastrous earthquakes hit the world
	</event>
<event start="544"
	title="???"
	>
	Justinian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Three-Chapter_Controversy" title="Three-Chapter Controversy"&gt;condemns the Three Chapters&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_of_Mopsuestia" title="Theodore of Mopsuestia"&gt;Theodore of Mopsuestia&lt;/a&gt; (d.428) and other writings of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hypostatic_Union" title="Hypostatic Union"&gt;Hypostatic Union&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christology" title="Christology"&gt;Christology&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Chalcedon" title="Council of Chalcedon"&gt;Council of Chalcedon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="550"
	title="St. David converts Wales"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._David" title="St. David"&gt;St. David&lt;/a&gt; converts &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales" title="Wales"&gt;Wales&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="550"
	title="Crucifix introduced"
	>
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crucifix" title="Crucifix"&gt;crucifix&lt;/a&gt; introduced
	</event>
<event start="553"
	title="Second Council of Constantinople"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Constantinople" title="Second Council of Constantinople"&gt;Second Council of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, 5th &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical" title="Ecumenical"&gt;ecumenical&lt;/a&gt;, called by Justinian
	</event>
<event start="556" end="561" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope Pelagius I"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pelagius_I" title="Pope Pelagius I"&gt;Pope Pelagius I&lt;/a&gt;, selected by Justinian, endorsed &lt;i&gt;Judicatum&lt;/i&gt;
	</event>
<event start="563"
	title="Columba evangelizes in Scotland"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Columba" title="Columba"&gt;Columba&lt;/a&gt; goes to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland"&gt;Scotland&lt;/a&gt; to evangelize &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Picts" title="Picts"&gt;Picts&lt;/a&gt;, establishes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monastery" title="Monastery"&gt;monastery&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iona" title="Iona"&gt;Iona&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="567"
	title="Cassiodorus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cassiodorus" title="Cassiodorus"&gt;Cassiodorus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="589"
	title="Third Council of Toledo"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Council_of_Toledo" title="Third Council of Toledo"&gt;Third Council of Toledo&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reccared" title="Reccared"&gt;Reccared&lt;/a&gt; and the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Visigoths" title="Visigoths"&gt;Visigoths&lt;/a&gt; convert from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arianism" title="Arianism"&gt;Arianism&lt;/a&gt; to Catholicism
	</event>
<event start="590" end="604" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope Gregory I reforms church"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_I" title="Pope Gregory I"&gt;Pope Gregory the Great&lt;/a&gt;, whom many consider the greatest pope ever, reforms church structure and administration and establishes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_Chant" title="Gregorian Chant"&gt;Gregorian Chant&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Seven_deadly_sins" title="Seven deadly sins"&gt;Seven deadly sins&lt;/a&gt; ...
	</event>
<event start="591" end="628" isDuration="true"
	title="Theodelinda converts to Catholicism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodelinda" title="Theodelinda"&gt;Theodelinda&lt;/a&gt;, Queen of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lombards" title="Lombards"&gt;Lombards&lt;/a&gt;, began gradual conversion from Arianism to Catholicism
	</event>
<event start="596"
	title="St. Augustine of Canterbury evangelises the Jutes"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Augustine_of_Canterbury" title="St. Augustine of Canterbury"&gt;St. Augustine of Canterbury&lt;/a&gt; sent by Pope Gregory to evangelise the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jutes" title="Jutes"&gt;Jutes&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="600"
	title="Evagrius Scholasticus, church historian"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evagrius_Scholasticus" title="Evagrius Scholasticus"&gt;Evagrius Scholasticus&lt;/a&gt; Church historian
	</event>
<event start="604"
	title="St. Paul Cathedral"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Paul%27s_Cathedral" title="St Paul's Cathedral"&gt;St Paul's Cathedral&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/London" title="London"&gt;London&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="607"
	title="First Bishop of Rome called 'Pope'"
	>
	607 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Boniface_III" title="Pope Boniface III"&gt;Pope Boniface III&lt;/a&gt;, first Bishop of Rome to be called "Pope" and "Universal Bishop" by decree of Emperor &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Phocas" title="Phocas"&gt;Phocas&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="609"
	title="Pantheon"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pantheon%2C_Rome" title="Pantheon, Rome"&gt;Pantheon, Rome&lt;/a&gt; renamed Church of Santa Maria Rotonda
	</event>
<event start="612"
	title="Bobbio monastery in northern Italy"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bobbio" title="Bobbio"&gt;Bobbio&lt;/a&gt; monastery in northern &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Italy" title="Italy"&gt;Italy&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="613"
	title="Abbey of St. Gall in Switzerland"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_St._Gall" title="Abbey of St. Gall"&gt;Abbey of St. Gall&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Switzerland" title="Switzerland"&gt;Switzerland&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="614"
	title="Khosrau II of Persia took Holy Cross of Christ"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Khosrau_II_of_Persia" title="Khosrau II of Persia"&gt;Khosrau II of Persia&lt;/a&gt; conquered &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Damascus" title="Damascus"&gt;Damascus&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jerusalem" title="Jerusalem"&gt;Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt;, took &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Cross#Finding_the_True_Cross" title="True Cross"&gt;Holy Cross of Christ&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="624"
	title="Beginning of Islamic Empire"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Badr" title="Battle of Badr"&gt;Battle of Badr&lt;/a&gt;, considered beginning of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_Empire" title="Islamic Empire"&gt;Islamic Empire&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="625"
	title="Paulinus of York converts Northumbria"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Paulinus_of_York" title="Paulinus of York"&gt;Paulinus of York&lt;/a&gt; comes to convert &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Northumbria" title="Northumbria"&gt;Northumbria&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="628"
	title="Babai the Great dies"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Babai_the_Great" title="Babai the Great"&gt;Babai the Great&lt;/a&gt;, pillar of Assyrian Church of the East, died
	</event>
<event start="628" end="629" isDuration="true"
	title="Cross of Christ and Jerusalem recovered from Islam"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Mut%27ah" title="Battle of Mut'ah"&gt;Battle of Mut'ah&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heraclius" title="Heraclius"&gt;Heraclius&lt;/a&gt; recovered Cross of Christ and Jerusalem from Islam till 638
	</event>
<event start="632"
	title="Eorpwald of East Anglia baptized"
	>
	Eorpwald of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East_Anglia" title="East Anglia"&gt;East Anglia&lt;/a&gt; baptized under influence of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edwin_of_Northumbria" title="Edwin of Northumbria"&gt;Edwin of Northumbria&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="634" end="644" isDuration="true"
	title="Umar conquers Syria, Egypt, Armenia, Persia"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Umar" title="Umar"&gt;Umar&lt;/a&gt;, 2nd &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunni_Islam" title="Sunni Islam"&gt;Sunni Islam&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Caliph" title="Caliph"&gt;Caliph&lt;/a&gt;, capital at Damascus, conquered Syria in 635, defeated Heraclius at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Yarmuk" title="Battle of Yarmuk"&gt;Battle of Yarmuk&lt;/a&gt; in 636, conquered Egypt and Armenia in 639, Persia in 642
	</event>
<event start="635"
	title="Cynegils of Wessex baptized"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cynegils_of_Wessex" title="Cynegils of Wessex"&gt;Cynegils of Wessex&lt;/a&gt; baptized by Bishop &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Birinus" title="Birinus"&gt;Birinus&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="640"
	title="Library of Alexandria destroyed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Library_of_Alexandria" title="Library of Alexandria"&gt;Library of Alexandria&lt;/a&gt;, "The Center of Western Culture," with 300,000 ancient papyrus scrolls, is completely destroyed.
	</event>
<event start="664"
	title="Celtic Christianity, Roman Catholicism united"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Whitby" title="Synod of Whitby"&gt;Synod of Whitby&lt;/a&gt; unites &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Celtic_Christianity" title="Celtic Christianity"&gt;Celtic Christianity&lt;/a&gt; of British Isles with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism" title="Roman Catholicism"&gt;Roman Catholicism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="680" end="681" isDuration="true"
	title="Third Council of Constantinople"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Council_of_Constantinople" title="Third Council of Constantinople"&gt;Third Council of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, 6th &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical" title="Ecumenical"&gt;ecumenical&lt;/a&gt;, against &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monothelites" title="Monothelites"&gt;Monothelites&lt;/a&gt;, condemned &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Honorius_I" title="Pope Honorius I"&gt;Pope Honorius I&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Sergius_I_of_Constantinople" title="Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople"&gt;Patriarch Sergius I of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, Heraclius' &lt;i&gt;Ecthesis&lt;/i&gt;
	</event>
<event start="681" end="686" isDuration="true"
	title="Wilfrid converts Sussex"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilfrid" title="Wilfrid"&gt;Wilfrid&lt;/a&gt; converts &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sussex" title="Sussex"&gt;Sussex&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="687" end="691" isDuration="true"
	title="Dome of the Rock built"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dome_of_the_Rock" title="Dome of the Rock"&gt;Dome of the Rock&lt;/a&gt; built
	</event>
<event start="690"
	title="Old English Bible translations"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_English_Bible_translations" title="Old English Bible translations"&gt;Old English Bible translations&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="692"
	title="Canons of the Apostles approved"
	>
	Orthodox &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quinisext_Council" title="Quinisext Council"&gt;Quinisext Council&lt;/a&gt;, convoked by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Justinian_II" title="Justinian II"&gt;Justinian II&lt;/a&gt;, approved &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canons_of_the_Apostles" title="Canons of the Apostles"&gt;Canons of the Apostles&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apostolic_Constitutions" title="Apostolic Constitutions"&gt;Apostolic Constitutions&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy" title="Clerical celibacy"&gt;Clerical celibacy&lt;/a&gt;, rejected by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Constantine" title="Pope Constantine"&gt;Pope Constantine&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="698"
	title="Fall of Carthage"
	>
	Fall of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carthage#Roman_Carthage" title="Carthage"&gt;Carthage&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="711" end="718" isDuration="true"
	title="Islamic conquest of Iberia"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_conquest_of_Iberia" title="Islamic conquest of Iberia"&gt;Islamic conquest of Iberia&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="717" end="718" isDuration="true"
	title="Second Arab siege of Constantinople"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Arab_siege_of_Constantinople" title="Second Arab siege of Constantinople"&gt;Second Arab siege of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="718" end="1492" isDuration="true"
	title="Iberian Peninsula retaken by Christendom"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reconquista" title="Reconquista"&gt;Reconquista&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iberian_Peninsula" title="Iberian Peninsula"&gt;Iberian Peninsula&lt;/a&gt; retaken by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom" title="Christendom"&gt;Christendom&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="718"
	title="St. Boniface evangelises Germans"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Boniface" title="Saint Boniface"&gt;Saint Boniface&lt;/a&gt;, an Englishman, given commission by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_II" title="Pope Gregory II"&gt;Pope Gregory II&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Evangelize" title="Evangelize"&gt;evangelize&lt;/a&gt; the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Germany" title="Germany"&gt;Germans&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="720"
	title="Disentis Abbey of Switzerland"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Disentis_Abbey" title="Disentis Abbey"&gt;Disentis Abbey&lt;/a&gt; of Switzerland
	</event>
<event start="730" end="787" isDuration="true"
	title="First Iconoclasm"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iconoclasm#The_first_iconoclastic_period:_730-787" title="Iconoclasm"&gt;First Iconoclasm&lt;/a&gt;, Byzantine Emperor &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_III_the_Isaurian" title="Leo III the Isaurian"&gt;Leo III&lt;/a&gt; bans Christian &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Icon" title="Icon"&gt;icons&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_II" title="Pope Gregory II"&gt;Pope Gregory II&lt;/a&gt; excommunicates him
	</event>
<event start="731"
	title="English Church History written"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_ecclesiastica_gentis_Anglorum" title="Historia ecclesiastica gentis Anglorum"&gt;English Church History&lt;/a&gt; written by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bede" title="Bede"&gt;Bede&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="750"
	title="Tower added to St. Peter's Basilica"
	>
	Tower added to St Peter's Basilica at the front of the atrium
	</event>
<event start="752"
	title="Donation of Constantine"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_of_Constantine" title="Donation of Constantine"&gt;Donation of Constantine&lt;/a&gt;, granted &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Roman_Empire" title="Western Roman Empire"&gt;Western Roman Empire&lt;/a&gt; to the Pope, later proved a forgery
	</event>
<event start="756"
	title="Donation of Pepin"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Donation_of_Pepin" title="Donation of Pepin"&gt;Donation of Pepin&lt;/a&gt; recognizes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States" title="Papal States"&gt;Papal States&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="781"
	title="Nestorian Stele"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nestorian_Stele" title="Nestorian Stele"&gt;Nestorian Stele&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="781"
	title="Daqin Pagoda"
	>
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daqin_Pagoda" title="Daqin Pagoda"&gt;Daqin Pagoda&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="781"
	title="Jesus Sutras"
	>
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Sutras" title="Jesus Sutras"&gt;Jesus Sutras&lt;/a&gt; 
	</event>
<event start="781"
	title="Christianity in China"
	>
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_China" title="Christianity in China"&gt;Christianity in China&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="787"
	title="Second Council of Nicaea"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Council_of_Nicaea" title="Second Council of Nicaea"&gt;Second Council of Nicaea&lt;/a&gt;, 7th &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ecumenical" title="Ecumenical"&gt;ecumenical&lt;/a&gt;, ends first Iconoclasm
	</event>
<event start="793"
	title="Beginning of Viking raids on Christendom"
	>
	Sacking of the monastery of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lindisfarne" title="Lindisfarne"&gt;Lindisfarne&lt;/a&gt; marks the beginning of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Viking" title="Viking"&gt;Viking&lt;/a&gt; raids on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom" title="Christendom"&gt;Christendom&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="800"
	title="Charlemagne crowned first Holy Roman Emperor"
	>
	King &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charlemagne" title="Charlemagne"&gt;Charlemagne&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franks" title="Franks"&gt;Franks&lt;/a&gt; is crowned first &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Empire" title="Holy Roman Empire"&gt;Holy Roman Emperor&lt;/a&gt; of the West by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Leo_III" title="Pope Leo III"&gt;Pope Leo III&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="849" end="865" isDuration="true"
	title="Ansgar evangelises North Germany, Denmark, Sweden"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ansgar" title="Ansgar"&gt;Ansgar&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishopric_of_Bremen" title="Archbishopric of Bremen"&gt;Archbishop of Bremen&lt;/a&gt;, "Apostle of the North", began evangelisation of North Germany, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Denmark" title="Denmark"&gt;Denmark&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sweden" title="Sweden"&gt;Sweden&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="855"
	title="Antipope Anastasius"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Anastasius" title="Antipope Anastasius"&gt;Antipope Anastasius&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Louis_II%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor"&gt;Louis II, Holy Roman Emperor&lt;/a&gt; appointed him over &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_III" title="Pope Benedict III"&gt;Pope Benedict III&lt;/a&gt; but popular pressure caused withdrawal
	</event>
<event start="863"
	title="St. Cyril and St. Methodius evangelise Slavic peoples"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Cyril" title="Saint Cyril"&gt;Saint Cyril&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Methodius" title="Saint Methodius"&gt;Saint Methodius&lt;/a&gt; sent by the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Constantinople" title="Patriarch of Constantinople"&gt;Patriarch of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt; to evangelise the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Slavic_peoples" title="Slavic peoples"&gt;Slavic peoples&lt;/a&gt;. They translate the Bible into &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Church_Slavonic" title="Old Church Slavonic"&gt;Slavonic&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="869" end="870" isDuration="true"
	title="Catholic 4th Council of Constantinople condemned Patriarch Photius"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Council_of_Constantinople" title="Fourth Council of Constantinople"&gt;Fourth Council of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, condemned Patriarch &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Photius" title="Photius"&gt;Photius&lt;/a&gt;, rejected by Orthodox
	</event>
<event start="879" end="880" isDuration="true"
	title="Orthodox 4th Council of Constantinople restored Photius"
	>
	Orthodox &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Council_of_Constantinople" title="Fourth Council of Constantinople"&gt;Fourth Council of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, restored Photius, condemned &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_I" title="Pope Nicholas I"&gt;Pope Nicholas I&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Filioque_clause" title="Filioque clause"&gt;Filioque&lt;/a&gt;, rejected by Catholics
	</event>
<event start="Jan 01 0897" end="Feb 01 0897"
	title="Trial against dead Pope Formosus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cadaver_Synod" title="Cadaver Synod"&gt;Cadaver Synod&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Stephen_VI" title="Pope Stephen VI"&gt;Pope Stephen VI&lt;/a&gt; conducts trial against dead &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Formosus" title="Pope Formosus"&gt;Pope Formosus&lt;/a&gt;, public uprising against Stephen led to his imprisonment and strangulation
	</event>
<event start="909"
	title="Abbey of Cluny"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbey_of_Cluny" title="Abbey of Cluny"&gt;Abbey of Cluny&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Benedictine" title="Benedictine"&gt;Benedictine&lt;/a&gt; monastery in France
	</event>
<event start="948"
	title="Einsiedeln Abbey"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Einsiedeln_Abbey" title="Einsiedeln Abbey"&gt;Einsiedeln Abbey&lt;/a&gt; of Switzerland
	</event>
<event start="966"
	title="Poland becomes Christian country"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mieszko_I" title="Mieszko I"&gt;Mieszko I&lt;/a&gt; duke of Poland baptised, Poland becomes a Christian country.
	</event>
<event start="984"
	title="Pope John XIV murdered"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Boniface_VII" title="Antipope Boniface VII"&gt;Antipope Boniface VII&lt;/a&gt;, murdered &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XIV" title="Pope John XIV"&gt;Pope John XIV&lt;/a&gt;, alleged to have murdered &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_VI" title="Pope Benedict VI"&gt;Pope Benedict VI&lt;/a&gt; in 974
	</event>
<event start="988"
	title="Baptism of Kievan Rus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptism_of_Kievan_Rus%27" title="Baptism of Kievan Rus'"&gt;Baptism of Kievan Rus'&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="997" end="998" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope John XVI deposed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_John_XVI" title="Antipope John XVI"&gt;Antipope John XVI&lt;/a&gt;, deposed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_V" title="Pope Gregory V"&gt;Pope Gregory V&lt;/a&gt; and his cousin &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Holy Roman Emperor"&gt;Holy Roman Emperor&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Otto_III" title="Otto III"&gt;Otto III&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="999"
	title="Approach of the millennium"
	>
	Much speculation and fear regarding the approach of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millenarianism" title="Millenarianism"&gt;millennium&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1012"
	title="Antipope Gregory VI"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Gregory_VI" title="Antipope Gregory VI"&gt;Antipope Gregory VI&lt;/a&gt;, removed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_II%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor"&gt;Henry II, Holy Roman Emperor&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1030"
	title="Battle of Stiklestand"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Battle_of_Stiklestad" title="Battle of Stiklestad"&gt;Battle of Stiklestad&lt;/a&gt;, considered victory of Christianity over Norwegian Paganism
	</event>
<event start="1045"
	title="Sigfrid of Sweden"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sigfrid_of_Sweden" title="Sigfrid of Sweden"&gt;Sigfrid of Sweden&lt;/a&gt;, Benedictine evangelist
	</event>
<event start="1046"
	title="Council of Sutri"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Sutri" title="Council of Sutri"&gt;Council of Sutri&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Silvester_III" title="Pope Silvester III"&gt;Pope Silvester III&lt;/a&gt; exiled, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_VI" title="Pope Gregory VI"&gt;Pope Gregory VI&lt;/a&gt; admitted to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simony" title="Simony"&gt;buying the papacy&lt;/a&gt; and resigned, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_IX" title="Pope Benedict IX"&gt;Pope Benedict IX&lt;/a&gt; resigned, council appointed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_II" title="Pope Clement II"&gt;Pope Clement II&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1054"
	title="East-West Schism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/East-West_Schism" title="East-West Schism"&gt;East-West Schism&lt;/a&gt; split between Eastern (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Orthodox_Christianity" title="Orthodox Christianity"&gt;Orthodox Christianity&lt;/a&gt;) and Western (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic" title="Roman Catholic"&gt;Roman Catholic&lt;/a&gt;) churches formalized
	</event>
<event start="1058" end="1059" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Benedict X defeated"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Benedict_X" title="Antipope Benedict X"&gt;Antipope Benedict X&lt;/a&gt;, defeated in war with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Nicholas_II" title="Pope Nicholas II"&gt;Pope Nicholas II&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Normans" title="Normans"&gt;Normans&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1061" end="1064" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Honorius II"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Honorius_II" title="Antipope Honorius II"&gt;Antipope Honorius II&lt;/a&gt; rival of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_II" title="Pope Alexander II"&gt;Pope Alexander II&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1065"
	title="Westminster Abbey consecrated"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Abbey" title="Westminster Abbey"&gt;Westminster Abbey&lt;/a&gt; consecrated
	</event>
<event start="1073" end="1085" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope Gregory VII"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_VII" title="Pope Gregory VII"&gt;Pope Gregory VII&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Investiture_Controversy" title="Investiture Controversy"&gt;Investiture Controversy&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_IV%2C_Holy_Roman_Emperor" title="Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor"&gt;Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor&lt;/a&gt;, proponent of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy" title="Clerical celibacy"&gt;Clerical celibacy&lt;/a&gt;, opponent of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Simony" title="Simony"&gt;simony&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Concubinage" title="Concubinage"&gt;concubinage&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Clement_III" title="Antipope Clement III"&gt;Antipope Clement III&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1079"
	title="Stanislaus of Szczepanów"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stanislaus_of_Szczepan%C3%B3w" title="Stanislaus of Szczepanów"&gt;Stanislaus of Szczepanów&lt;/a&gt;, patron saint of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Poland" title="Poland"&gt;Poland&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1082"
	title="Engelberg Abbey"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Engelberg_Abbey" title="Engelberg Abbey"&gt;Engelberg Abbey&lt;/a&gt; of Switzerland
	</event>
<event start="1093" end="1109" isDuration="true"
	title="Anselm of Canterbury"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anselm_of_Canterbury" title="Anselm of Canterbury"&gt;Anselm&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Archbishop_of_Canterbury" title="Archbishop of Canterbury"&gt;Archbishop of Canterbury&lt;/a&gt;, wrote &lt;i&gt;Cur Deus Homo&lt;/i&gt; (&lt;i&gt;Why God Became Man&lt;/i&gt;), a landmark exploration of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Atonement" title="Atonement"&gt;Atonement&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1095" end="1291" isDuration="true"
	title="Crusades"
	>
	10 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Crusades" title="Crusades"&gt;Crusades&lt;/a&gt;, first called by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Urban_II" title="Pope Urban II"&gt;Pope Urban II&lt;/a&gt; at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Clermont" title="Council of Clermont"&gt;Council of Clermont&lt;/a&gt; against &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Islamic_empire" title="Islamic empire"&gt;Islamic empire&lt;/a&gt; to reconquer the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Land" title="Holy Land"&gt;Holy Land&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christendom" title="Christendom"&gt;Christendom&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1098"
	title="Cistercian order"
	>
	Foundation of the reforming monastery of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Citeaux" title="Citeaux"&gt;Citeaux&lt;/a&gt;, leads to the growth of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cistercians" title="Cistercians"&gt;Cistercian&lt;/a&gt; order.
	</event>
<event start="1101"
	title="Antipope Theodoric"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Theodoric" title="Antipope Theodoric"&gt;Antipope Theodoric&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Adalbert" title="Antipope Adalbert"&gt;Antipope Adalbert&lt;/a&gt; deposed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paschal_II" title="Pope Paschal II"&gt;Pope Paschal II&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1118"
	title="Knights Templar"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar" title="Knights Templar"&gt;Knights Templar&lt;/a&gt; founded, to defend Holy Land
	</event>
<event start="1123"
	title="Catholic 1st Lateran Council"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Lateran_Council" title="First Lateran Council"&gt;First Lateran Council&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1128"
	title="Holyrood Abbey"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holyrood_Abbey" title="Holyrood Abbey"&gt;Holyrood Abbey&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scotland" title="Scotland"&gt;Scotland&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1130"
	title="Peter of Bruys burned at the stake"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_of_Bruys" title="Peter of Bruys"&gt;Peter of Bruys&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1131"
	title="Tintern Abbey"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tintern_Abbey" title="Tintern Abbey"&gt;Tintern Abbey&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wales" title="Wales"&gt;Wales&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1131" end="1138" isDuration="true"
	title="Antipope Anacletus II"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_Anacletus_II" title="Antipope Anacletus II"&gt;Antipope Anacletus II&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1139"
	title="Catholic 2nd Lateran Council"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Lateran_Council" title="Second Lateran Council"&gt;Second Lateran Council&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1140"
	title="Catholic Canon law"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Decretum_Gratiani" title="Decretum Gratiani"&gt;Decretum Gratiani&lt;/a&gt;, Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Canon_law_%28Catholic_Church%29" title="Canon law (Catholic Church)"&gt;Canon law&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1142"
	title="Peter Abélard"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_Ab%C3%A9lard" title="Peter Abélard"&gt;Peter Abélard&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Historia_Calamitatum" title="Historia Calamitatum"&gt;Letters of Abelard and Heloise&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1144"
	title="First building in Gothic style"
	>
	The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Denis_Basilica" title="Saint Denis Basilica"&gt;Saint Denis Basilica&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abbot_Suger" title="Abbot Suger"&gt;Abbot Suger&lt;/a&gt; is the first major building in the style of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gothic_architecture" title="Gothic architecture"&gt;Gothic architecture&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="1154" end="1159" isDuration="true"
	title="First and only English pope"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Adrian_IV" title="Pope Adrian IV"&gt;Pope Adrian IV&lt;/a&gt;, first (and to date only) English pope
	</event>
<event start="1155"
	title="Theotokos of Vladimir arrives to Bogolyubovo"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theotokos_of_Vladimir" title="Theotokos of Vladimir"&gt;Theotokos of Vladimir&lt;/a&gt; arrives to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bogolyubovo" title="Bogolyubovo"&gt;Bogolyubovo&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1155"
	title="Carmelites founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carmelites" title="Carmelites"&gt;Carmelites&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1163"
	title="Notre Dame de Paris construction begins"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre_Dame_de_Paris" title="Notre Dame de Paris"&gt;Notre Dame de Paris&lt;/a&gt;, construction begun
	</event>
<event start="1173"
	title="Waldensians founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Waldensians" title="Waldensians"&gt;Waldensians&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1179"
	title="Catholic 3rd Lateran Council"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Third_Lateran_Council" title="Third Lateran Council"&gt;Third Lateran Council&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1191"
	title="Teutonic Knights founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Teutonic_Knights" title="Teutonic Knights"&gt;Teutonic Knights&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1204" end="1261" isDuration="true"
	title="Latin Empire of Constantinople"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Latin_Empire" title="Latin Empire"&gt;Latin Empire&lt;/a&gt; of Constantinople
	</event>
<event start="1205"
	title="Franciscan order"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Saint_Francis_of_Assisi" title="Saint Francis of Assisi"&gt;Saint Francis of Assisi&lt;/a&gt; becomes a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hermit" title="Hermit"&gt;hermit&lt;/a&gt;, founding the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Franciscan" title="Franciscan"&gt;Franciscan&lt;/a&gt; order of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friar" title="Friar"&gt;friars&lt;/a&gt;, renounces wealth and begins his ministry; the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosary" title="Rosary"&gt;Rosary&lt;/a&gt; is reportedly given to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Dominic" title="St. Dominic"&gt;St. Dominic&lt;/a&gt; (who founded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dominican" title="Dominican"&gt;Dominican&lt;/a&gt; order) by an apparition of Mary
	</event>
<event start="1215"
	title="Catholic 4th Lateran Council"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fourth_Lateran_Council" title="Fourth Lateran Council"&gt;Fourth Lateran Council&lt;/a&gt;, decreed special dress for Jews and Muslims
	</event>
<event start="1220" end="1263" isDuration="true"
	title="Alexander Nevsky"
	>
	St &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexander_Nevsky" title="Alexander Nevsky"&gt;Alexander Nevsky&lt;/a&gt;, holy patron of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"&gt;Russia&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1231"
	title="Charter of University of Paris granted by pope"
	>
	Charter of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/University_of_Paris" title="University of Paris"&gt;University of Paris&lt;/a&gt; granted by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_IX" title="Pope Gregory IX"&gt;Pope Gregory IX&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="1245"
	title="Catholic 1st Council of Lyon"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="/w/index.php?title=First_Council_of_Lyon&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="First Council of Lyon"&gt;First Council of Lyon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="May 15 1252"
	title="Tortures authorized in Inquisitions"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ad_exstirpanda" title="Ad exstirpanda"&gt;Ad exstirpanda&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_IV" title="Pope Innocent IV"&gt;Pope Innocent IV&lt;/a&gt; authorized use of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Torture" title="Torture"&gt;torture&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Inquisitions" title="Inquisitions"&gt;Inquisitions&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1260"
	title="Shroud of Turin"
	>
	Date which a 1988 Vatican sponsored scientific study places the origin of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shroud_of_Turin" title="Shroud of Turin"&gt;Shroud of Turin&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1274"
	title="Summa Theologiae"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summa_Theologiae" title="Summa Theologiae"&gt;Summa Theologiae&lt;/a&gt;, written by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Aquinas" title="Thomas Aquinas"&gt;Thomas Aquinas&lt;/a&gt;, theologian and philosopher, landmark systematic theology which later became official Catholic doctrine
	</event>
<event start="1274"
	title="Catholic 2nd Council of Lyon"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="/w/index.php?title=Second_Council_of_Lyon&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="Second Council of Lyon"&gt;Second Council of Lyon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1305" end="1378" isDuration="true"
	title="Avignon Papacy"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Papacy" title="Avignon Papacy"&gt;Avignon Papacy&lt;/a&gt;, Popes reside in Avignon, France
	</event>
<event start="1311"
	title="Divine Comedy"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Divine_Comedy" title="Divine Comedy"&gt;Divine Comedy&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dante_Alighieri" title="Dante Alighieri"&gt;Dante Alighieri&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1311" end="1312" isDuration="true"
	title="Catholic Council of Vienne"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Vienne" title="Council of Vienne"&gt;Council of Vienne&lt;/a&gt;, disbanded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Knights_Templar" title="Knights Templar"&gt;Knights Templar&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1314"
	title="Last Grandmaster of Knights Templar burned at stake"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacques_de_Molay" title="Jacques de Molay"&gt;Jacques de Molay&lt;/a&gt;, last Grandmaster of Knights Templar, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1326"
	title="Metropolitan Peter moves to Moscow"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Peter" title="Metropolitan Peter"&gt;Metropolitan Peter&lt;/a&gt; moves his see from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kiev" title="Kiev"&gt;Kiev&lt;/a&gt; to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow"&gt;Moscow&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1341" end="1351" isDuration="true"
	title="Orthodox 1st Council of Constantinople"
	>
	Orthodox &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Council_of_Constantinople" title="Fifth Council of Constantinople"&gt;Fifth Council of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1342"
	title="Marsilius of Padua"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Marsilius_of_Padua" title="Marsilius of Padua"&gt;Marsilius of Padua&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1345"
	title="Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sergii_Radonezhskii" title="Sergii Radonezhskii"&gt;Sergii Radonezhskii&lt;/a&gt; founds a hermitage in the woods, which would grow into the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Troitse-Sergiyeva_Lavra" title="Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra"&gt;Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1347" end="1350" isDuration="true"
	title="Black Death"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Black_Death" title="Black Death"&gt;Black Death&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1378" end="1418" isDuration="true"
	title="Western Schism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Western_Schism" title="Western Schism"&gt;Western Schism&lt;/a&gt; in Roman Catholicism
	</event>
<event start="1380" end="1382" isDuration="true"
	title="Wyclif's Bible"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wyclif%27s_Bible" title="Wyclif's Bible"&gt;Wyclif's Bible&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wycliffe" title="John Wycliffe"&gt;John Wycliffe&lt;/a&gt;, eminent theologian at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford" title="Oxford"&gt;Oxford&lt;/a&gt;, NT in 1380, OT (with help of Nicholas of Hereford) in 1382, translations into &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Middle_English" title="Middle English"&gt;Middle English&lt;/a&gt;, 1st complete translation to English, included &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Deuterocanonical" title="Deuterocanonical"&gt;deuterocanonical&lt;/a&gt; books, preached against abuses, expressed anti-catholic views of the sacraments (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Penance" title="Penance"&gt;Penance&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eucharist" title="Eucharist"&gt;Eucharist&lt;/a&gt;), the use of relics, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clerical_celibacy" title="Clerical celibacy"&gt;Clerical celibacy&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1408"
	title="Translations of Scriptures into vernacular forbidden"
	>
	Council of Oxford forbids translations of the Scriptures into the vernacular unless and until they were fully approved by Church authority
	</event>
<event start="1409"
	title="Gregory XII, Benedict XIII deposed, Alexander V elected"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Pisa" title="Council of Pisa"&gt;Council of Pisa&lt;/a&gt;, declared Roman &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Gregory_XII" title="Pope Gregory XII"&gt;Pope Gregory XII&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avignon_Pope_Benedict_XIII" title="Avignon Pope Benedict XIII"&gt;Avignon Pope Benedict XIII&lt;/a&gt; deposed, elected &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Alexander_V" title="Pope Alexander V"&gt;Pope Alexander V&lt;/a&gt; (called the Pisan Pope)
	</event>
<event start="1414" end="1418" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope Martin V elected"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Constance" title="Council of Constance"&gt;Council of Constance&lt;/a&gt;, asked Gregory XII, Benedict XIII, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antipope_John_XXIII" title="Antipope John XXIII"&gt;Pisan Pope John XXIII&lt;/a&gt; to resign their papal claims, then elected &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Martin_V" title="Pope Martin V"&gt;Pope Martin V&lt;/a&gt;; condemned John Wycliffe and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jan_Hus" title="Jan Hus"&gt;Jan Hus&lt;/a&gt; who was &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1423" end="1424" isDuration="true"
	title="Council of Siena"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Siena" title="Council of Siena"&gt;Council of Siena&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1425"
	title="Catholic University of Leuven"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_University_of_Leuven" title="Catholic University of Leuven"&gt;Catholic University of Leuven&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1430"
	title="Andrei Rublev, greatest medieval icon-painters"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Andrei_Rublev" title="Andrei Rublev"&gt;Andrei Rublev&lt;/a&gt;, the greatest of medieval icon-painters
	</event>
<event start="1431"
	title="Joan of Arc burned at stake"
	>
	St. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joan_of_Arc" title="Joan of Arc"&gt;Joan of Arc&lt;/a&gt;, French national heroine, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1431" end="1445" isDuration="true"
	title="Catholic Council of Basel"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Basel" title="Council of Basel"&gt;Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1439"
	title="Notre-Dame de Strasbourg"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Notre-Dame_de_Strasbourg" title="Notre-Dame de Strasbourg"&gt;Notre-Dame de Strasbourg&lt;/a&gt;, highest building in the world till 1874
	</event>
<event start="1453"
	title="Constantinople overrun by Ottoman Empire"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fall_of_Constantinople" title="Fall of Constantinople"&gt;Fall of Constantinople&lt;/a&gt;, overrun by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ottoman_Empire" title="Ottoman Empire"&gt;Ottoman Empire&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1455"
	title="Gutenberg Bible"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gutenberg_Bible" title="Gutenberg Bible"&gt;Gutenberg Bible&lt;/a&gt;, first printed Bible, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Johann_Gutenberg" title="Johann Gutenberg"&gt;Johann Gutenberg&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1473" end="1481" isDuration="true"
	title="Sistine Chapel"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sistine_Chapel" title="Sistine Chapel"&gt;Sistine Chapel&lt;/a&gt; built
	</event>
<event start="1478"
	title="Spanish Inquisition"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Spanish_Inquisition" title="Spanish Inquisition"&gt;Spanish Inquisition&lt;/a&gt; established by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Sixtus_IV" title="Pope Sixtus IV"&gt;Pope Sixtus IV&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1484"
	title="Summis desiderantes against witchcraft"
	>
	December 5, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Summis_desiderantes" title="Summis desiderantes"&gt;Summis desiderantes&lt;/a&gt; against &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Witchcraft" title="Witchcraft"&gt;Witchcraft&lt;/a&gt; issued by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Innocent_VIII" title="Pope Innocent VIII"&gt;Pope Innocent VIII&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1498"
	title="Girolamo Savonarola"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Girolamo_Savonarola" title="Girolamo Savonarola"&gt;Girolamo Savonarola&lt;/a&gt;, Dominican priest, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bonfire_of_the_Vanities" title="Bonfire of the Vanities"&gt;Bonfire of the Vanities&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1506"
	title="Old St. Peter's Basilica torn down"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Julius_II" title="Pope Julius II"&gt;Pope Julius II&lt;/a&gt; orders the Old &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St._Peter%27s_Basilica" title="St. Peter's Basilica"&gt;St. Peter's Basilica&lt;/a&gt; torn down and authorizes Donato Bramante to plan a new structure, demolition completed in 1606
	</event>
<event start="1506"
	title="Vatican Swiss Guard founded"
	>
    &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swiss_Guard#Vatican_Swiss_Guard" title="Swiss Guard"&gt;Vatican Swiss Guard&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1508" end="1512" isDuration="true"
	title="Michelangelo frescoes Sistine Chapel's ceiling"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo" title="Michelangelo"&gt;Michelangelo&lt;/a&gt; frescoes the Sistine Chapel's vaulted ceiling
	</event>
<event start="1512" end="1517" isDuration="true"
	title="Conciliarism condemned"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fifth_Council_of_the_Lateran" title="Fifth Council of the Lateran"&gt;Fifth Council of the Lateran&lt;/a&gt;, condemned &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Conciliarism" title="Conciliarism"&gt;Conciliarism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1517"
	title="German Protestant Reformation begins"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/95_Theses" title="95 Theses"&gt;95 Theses&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther" title="Martin Luther"&gt;Martin Luther&lt;/a&gt; begins German &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Protestant_Reformation" title="Protestant Reformation"&gt;Protestant Reformation&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1521"
	title="Diet of Worms condemns Luther"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Diet_of_Worms" title="Diet of Worms"&gt;Diet of Worms&lt;/a&gt; condemns Luther
	</event>
<event start="1521"
	title="Magellan claims Philippines for Spain"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ferdinand_Magellan" title="Ferdinand Magellan"&gt;Ferdinand Magellan&lt;/a&gt; claims the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines"&gt;Philippines&lt;/a&gt; for Spain, first mass and subsequent conversion to Catholicism, first in Asia
	</event>
<event start="1522"
	title="Luther's New Testament in German"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther#Luther.27s_German_Bible" title="Martin Luther"&gt;Luther's NT&lt;/a&gt;, German NT translation
	</event>
<event start="1525"
	title="Anabaptist movement begins"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anabaptist" title="Anabaptist"&gt;Anabaptist&lt;/a&gt; movement begins
	</event>
<event start="1526"
	title="Tyndale's New Testament"
	>
	1526 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Tyndale#Works" title="William Tyndale"&gt;Tyndale's NT&lt;/a&gt;, English NT translation from 1516 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textus_Receptus" title="Textus Receptus"&gt;Greek text of Erasmus&lt;/a&gt;, first printed edition, used as a vehicle by Tyndale for bitter attacks on Catholicism, reflects influence of Luther's NT in rejecting &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priest" title="Priest"&gt;priest&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Elder" title="Elder"&gt;elder&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church" title="Church"&gt;church&lt;/a&gt; for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Congregation_%28worship%29" title="Congregation (worship)"&gt;congregation&lt;/a&gt;, banned in 1546 by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" title="Henry VIII of England"&gt;Henry VIII&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1530"
	title="Lutheran Church founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augsburg_Confession" title="Augsburg Confession"&gt;Augsburg Confession&lt;/a&gt;, Luther founds the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_Church" title="Lutheran Church"&gt;Lutheran Church&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1531"
	title="Huldrych Zwingli"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Huldrych_Zwingli" title="Huldrych Zwingli"&gt;Huldrych Zwingli&lt;/a&gt;, Protestant &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformation_in_Switzerland" title="Reformation in Switzerland"&gt;Reformation in Switzerland&lt;/a&gt;, independent of Luther
	</event>
<event start="1531"
	title="Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Guadalupe" title="Our Lady of Guadalupe"&gt;Our Lady of Guadalupe&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mexico" title="Mexico"&gt;Mexico&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1534"
	title="Church of England established"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" title="Henry VIII of England"&gt;Henry VIII&lt;/a&gt; established independent &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England"&gt;Church of England&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1534"
	title="Society of Jesus order founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Society_of_Jesus" title="Society of Jesus"&gt;Jesuit&lt;/a&gt; order founded by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ignatius_of_Loyola" title="Ignatius of Loyola"&gt;Ignatius of Loyola&lt;/a&gt;, helped reconvert large areas of Poland, Hungary, and S. Germany and sent missionaries to the New World, India, and China
	</event>
<event start="1535" end="1537" isDuration="true"
	title="Myles Coverdale's Bible"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Myles_Coverdale" title="Myles Coverdale"&gt;Myles Coverdale&lt;/a&gt;'s Bible, used Tyndale's NT along with Latin and German versions, included &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha" title="Apocrypha"&gt;Apocrypha&lt;/a&gt; at the end of the OT (like Luther's Bible of 1534) as was done in later English versions, 1537 edition received royal license, but banned in 1546 by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" title="Henry VIII of England"&gt;Henry VIII&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1535"
	title="Thomas More executed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_More" title="Thomas More"&gt;Thomas More&lt;/a&gt; refused to accept &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Henry_VIII_of_England" title="Henry VIII of England"&gt;King Henry VIII's&lt;/a&gt; claim to be the supreme head of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England"&gt;Church in England&lt;/a&gt;, and was executed.
	</event>
<event start="1536"
	title="Desiderius Erasmus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Desiderius_Erasmus" title="Desiderius Erasmus"&gt;Desiderius Erasmus&lt;/a&gt;, Dutch scholar, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Textus_Receptus" title="Textus Receptus"&gt;Greek NT&lt;/a&gt; used in many 16th century translations
	</event>
<event start="1536"
	title="Tyndale put to death"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tyndale" title="Tyndale"&gt;Tyndale&lt;/a&gt; put to death, left his OT translation in manuscript, English ecclesiastical authorities ordered his Bible burned because it was thought to be part of Lutheran reform
	</event>
<event start="1536"
	title="Institutes of Christian Religion written"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Institutes_of_the_Christian_Religion" title="Institutes of the Christian Religion"&gt;Institutes of the Christian Religion&lt;/a&gt; written by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin"&gt;John Calvin&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Calvinism" title="Calvinism"&gt;Calvinism&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="1536"
	title="John of Leiden, fanatic Dutch Anabaptist"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_of_Leiden" title="John of Leiden"&gt;John of Leiden&lt;/a&gt;, fanatic Dutch Anabaptist
	</event>
<event start="1536"
	title="Jacob Hutter, founder of Hutterites"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Hutter" title="Jacob Hutter"&gt;Jacob Hutter&lt;/a&gt; founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hutterites" title="Hutterites"&gt;Hutterites&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1536"
	title="Helvetic Confessions"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helvetic_Confessions" title="Helvetic Confessions"&gt;Helvetic Confessions&lt;/a&gt; of the Reformed Churches of Switzerland
	</event>
<event start="1536" end="1540" isDuration="true"
	title="Dissolution of Monasteries"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dissolution_of_the_Monasteries" title="Dissolution of the Monasteries"&gt;Dissolution of the Monasteries&lt;/a&gt; in England, Wales and Ireland
	</event>
<event start="1537"
	title="Lutheranism state religion of Norway, Denmark"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_III_of_Denmark" title="Christian III of Denmark"&gt;Christian III of Denmark&lt;/a&gt; decreed Lutheranism state religion of Norway and Denmark
	</event>
<event start="1537" end="1551" isDuration="true"
	title="Matthew Bible receives royal license"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Matthew_Bible" title="Matthew Bible"&gt;Matthew Bible&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rogers_%28religious%29" title="John Rogers (religious)"&gt;John Rogers&lt;/a&gt;, based on Tyndale and Coverdale received royal license but not authorized for use in public worship, numerous editions, 1551 edition contained offensive notes (based on Tyndale)
	</event>
<event start="1536" end="1541" isDuration="true"
	title="Michelangelo paints Last Judgement"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michelangelo" title="Michelangelo"&gt;Michelangelo&lt;/a&gt; paints the Last Judgement
	</event>
<event start="1539" end="1569" isDuration="true"
	title="Great Bible by Thomas Cromwell"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Bible" title="Great Bible"&gt;Great Bible&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cromwell" title="Thomas Cromwell"&gt;Thomas Cromwell&lt;/a&gt;, 1st English Bible to be authorized for public use in English churches, defective in many places, based on last Tyndale's NT of 1534-1535, corrected by a Latin version of the Hebrew OT, Latin Bible of Erasmus, and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Complutensian_Polyglot" title="Complutensian Polyglot"&gt;Complutensian Polyglot&lt;/a&gt;, last edition 1569, never denounced by England
	</event>
<event start="1541"
	title="John Calvin to establish Theocracy"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Calvin" title="John Calvin"&gt;John Calvin&lt;/a&gt; returns to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva" title="Geneva"&gt;Geneva&lt;/a&gt; to establish a &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theocracy" title="Theocracy"&gt;theocracy&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1542"
	title="Roman Inquisition"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Inquisition" title="Roman Inquisition"&gt;Roman Inquisition&lt;/a&gt; established by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_III" title="Pope Paul III"&gt;Pope Paul III&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1543"
	title="Tyndale's translation banned"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/List_of_Parliaments_of_England#Parliaments_of_Henry_VIII" title="List of Parliaments of England"&gt;Parliament of England&lt;/a&gt; bans Tyndale's translation as a "crafty, false and untrue translation"
	</event>
<event start="1545" end="1563" isDuration="true"
	title="Catholic Council of Trent defines biblical canon"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Council_of_Trent" title="Council of Trent"&gt;Council of Trent&lt;/a&gt;, counter-reformation against Protestantism, clearly defined an official theology and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon"&gt;biblical canon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1549"
	title="Book of Common Prayer"
	>
	Original &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Common_Prayer" title="Book of Common Prayer"&gt;Book of Common Prayer&lt;/a&gt; of the Church of England by Thomas Cranmer
	</event>
<event start="1551"
	title="Stoglav Church Council in Moscow"
	>
	The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Stoglav_Church_Council" title="Stoglav Church Council"&gt;Stoglav Church Council&lt;/a&gt; (One Hundred Chapters) &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow" title="Moscow"&gt;Moscow&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russia" title="Russia"&gt;Russia&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1552"
	title="Francis Xavier"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Xavier" title="Francis Xavier"&gt;Francis Xavier&lt;/a&gt;, Jesuit missionary, "Apostle of the Indies"
	</event>
<event start="1553"
	title="Pontifical Gregorian University founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pontifical_Gregorian_University" title="Pontifical Gregorian University"&gt;Pontifical Gregorian University&lt;/a&gt; founded at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vatican_City" title="Vatican City"&gt;Vatican City&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1553"
	title="Unitarianism founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Michael_Servetus" title="Michael Servetus"&gt;Michael Servetus&lt;/a&gt; founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unitarianism" title="Unitarianism"&gt;Unitarianism&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt; in Geneva under Calvin
	</event>
<event start="1553" end="1558" isDuration="true"
	title="Bloody Mary persecutes reformers"
	>
	Queen &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_I_of_England" title="Mary I of England"&gt;Mary I of England&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bloody_Mary_%28person%29" title="Bloody Mary (person)"&gt;Bloody Mary&lt;/a&gt;, persecuted reformers: &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Rogers_%28religious%29" title="John Rogers (religious)"&gt;John Rogers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hugh_Latimer" title="Hugh Latimer"&gt;Hugh Latimer&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_Ridley" title="Nicholas Ridley"&gt;Nicholas Ridley&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Cranmer" title="Thomas Cranmer"&gt;Thomas Cranmer&lt;/a&gt;; of 238 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1559"
	title="Order of the Golden Spur"
	>
	Military &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Order_of_the_Golden_Spur" title="Order of the Golden Spur"&gt;Order of the Golden Spur&lt;/a&gt; founded by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Paul_IV" title="Pope Paul IV"&gt;Pope Paul IV&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1560"
	title="Geneva Bible"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Geneva_Bible" title="Geneva Bible"&gt;Geneva Bible&lt;/a&gt;, NT a revision of Matthew's version of Tyndale with use of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theodore_Beza" title="Theodore Beza"&gt;Theodore Beza&lt;/a&gt;'s NT (1556), OT a thorough revision of Great Bible, appointed to be read in Scotland (but not England), at least 140 editions, first Bible with chapter and verse numbers
	</event>
<event start="1560"
	title="Scottish Reformation"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scots_Confession" title="Scots Confession"&gt;Scots Confession&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Scotland" title="Church of Scotland"&gt;Church of Scotland&lt;/a&gt;, Scottish Reformation
	</event>
<event start="1560" end="1598" isDuration="true"
	title="French Wars of Religion"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/French_Wars_of_Religion" title="French Wars of Religion"&gt;French Wars of Religion&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1560" end="1812" isDuration="true"
	title="Goa Inquisition"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Goa_Inquisition" title="Goa Inquisition"&gt;Goa Inquisition&lt;/a&gt;, persecution of Hindus and Jews in India, see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christianity_in_India" title="Christianity in India"&gt;Christianity in India&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1561"
	title="Mennonites"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Menno_Simons" title="Menno Simons"&gt;Menno Simons&lt;/a&gt; founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mennonites" title="Mennonites"&gt;Mennonites&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1563"
	title="Thirty-Nine Articles of Church of England"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty-Nine_Articles" title="Thirty-Nine Articles"&gt;Thirty-Nine Articles&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England"&gt;Church of England&lt;/a&gt;, also decreed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon"&gt;Biblical canon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1563"
	title="Heidelberg Catechism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heidelberg_Catechism" title="Heidelberg Catechism"&gt;Heidelberg Catechism&lt;/a&gt; of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Reformed_churches" title="Reformed churches"&gt;Reformed churches&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1566"
	title="Roman Catechism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catechism" title="Roman Catechism"&gt;Roman Catechism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1569"
	title="Metropolitcan Philip of Moscow strangled"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Metropolitan_Philip" title="Metropolitan Philip"&gt;Metropolitan Philip&lt;/a&gt; of Moscow strangled by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Malyuta_Skuratov" title="Malyuta Skuratov"&gt;Malyuta Skuratov&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1572"
	title="Scotch Presbyterian Church"
	>
	1572 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Knox" title="John Knox"&gt;John Knox&lt;/a&gt;, founded Scotch &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Presbyterian" title="Presbyterian"&gt;Presbyterian&lt;/a&gt; Church, due to disagreement with Lutherans over sacraments and church government
	</event>
<event start="1572" end="1606" isDuration="true"
	title="Bishops' Bible"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bishops%27_Bible" title="Bishops' Bible"&gt;Bishops' Bible&lt;/a&gt;, a revision of the Great Bible checked against the Hebrew text, 1st to be published in England by episcopal authority
	</event>
<event start="1579"
	title="Our Lady of Kazan in Russia"
	>
	Discovery of the holiest Russian icon, &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Our_Lady_of_Kazan" title="Our Lady of Kazan"&gt;Our Lady of Kazan&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1580"
	title="Book of Concord of Lutheranism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Book_of_Concord" title="Book of Concord"&gt;Book of Concord&lt;/a&gt; of Lutheranism
	</event>
<event start="1582"
	title="St. Terese of Avila"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/St_Terese_of_Avila" title="St Terese of Avila"&gt;St Terese of Avila&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1582"
	title="Gregorian calendar adopted"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gregorian_calendar" title="Gregorian calendar"&gt;Gregorian calendar&lt;/a&gt; adopted at different times in different regions of the world
	</event>
<event start="1587"
	title="Jesuits expelled from Kyushu"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Toyotomi_Hideyoshi" title="Toyotomi Hideyoshi"&gt;Toyotomi Hideyoshi&lt;/a&gt; expelled Jesuits from &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kyushu" title="Kyushu"&gt;Kyushu&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1589"
	title="Jove elected first Patriarch of Moscow"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_Jove" title="Patriarch Jove"&gt;Metropolitan Jove&lt;/a&gt; is elected the first &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Patriarch_of_Moscow" title="Patriarch of Moscow"&gt;Patriarch of Moscow&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1590"
	title="Standard Latin Catholic Bible"
	>
	Sistine Vulgate, replaced by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Clement_VIII" title="Pope Clement VIII"&gt;Pope Clement VIII&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vulgate#The_Clementine_Vulgate" title="Vulgate"&gt;Clementine Vulgate&lt;/a&gt; in 1592, standard Latin Catholic Bible till 1960's
	</event>
<event start="1590"
	title="Michelangelo completes dome"
	>
	Michelangelo's dome in St Peter's Basilica completed
	</event>
<event start="1596"
	title="Ukrainian Catholic Church formed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ukrainian_Catholic_Church" title="Ukrainian Catholic Church"&gt;Ukrainian Catholic Church&lt;/a&gt; forms when Ukrainian subjects of the king of Poland are reunited with Rome, largest Byzantine Catholic Church
	</event>
<event start="1600"
	title="Dominican priest burned at stake"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Giordano_Bruno" title="Giordano Bruno"&gt;Giordano Bruno&lt;/a&gt;, Dominican priest, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1604"
	title="Fausto Paolo Sozzini Socinianism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fausto_Paolo_Sozzini" title="Fausto Paolo Sozzini"&gt;Fausto Paolo Sozzini&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Socinianism" title="Socinianism"&gt;Socinianism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1606"
	title="St Peter's Basilica redesigned into Latin cross"
	>
	Carlo Maderno redesigns St Peter's Basilica into a Latin cross
	</event>
<event start="1607"
	title="Jamestown, Virginia founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jamestown%2C_Virginia" title="Jamestown, Virginia"&gt;Jamestown, Virginia&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1609"
	title="Baptist church founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baptist" title="Baptist"&gt;Baptist&lt;/a&gt; Church founded by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Smyth" title="John Smyth"&gt;John Smyth&lt;/a&gt;, due to objections to infant baptism and demands for church-state separation
	</event>
<event start="1609" end="1610" isDuration="true"
	title="Rheims-Douay Bible, first Catholic English translation"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Douai_Bible" title="Douai Bible"&gt;Rheims-Douay Bible&lt;/a&gt;, 1st Catholic English translation, OT published in two volumes, based on an unofficial Louvain text corrected by Sistine Vulgate, NT is Rheims text of 1582
	</event>
<event start="1611" end="1800" isDuration="true"
	title="King James Version"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/King_James_Version" title="King James Version"&gt;King James Version&lt;/a&gt; (Authorised Version) is released, based primarily on Wycliffe's work &amp; Bishop's Bible of 1572, translators are accused of being "damnable corrupters of God's word", original included &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha" title="Apocrypha"&gt;Apocrypha&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1614"
	title="Fama Fraternitatis"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fama_Fraternitatis" title="Fama Fraternitatis"&gt;Fama Fraternitatis&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rosicrucian" title="Rosicrucian"&gt;Rosicrucian&lt;/a&gt; manifesto
	</event>
<event start="1618" end="1648" isDuration="true"
	title="Thirty Years' War"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thirty_Years%27_War" title="Thirty Years' War"&gt;Thirty Years' War&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1620"
	title="Plymouth Colony founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Colony" title="Plymouth Colony"&gt;Plymouth Colony&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1621"
	title="Robert Bellarmine"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Bellarmine" title="Robert Bellarmine"&gt;Robert Bellarmine&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1622" end="1642" isDuration="true"
	title="Cardinal Richelieu"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armand_Jean_du_Plessis%2C_Cardinal_Richelieu" title="Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu"&gt;Armand Jean du Plessis, Cardinal Richelieu&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1630"
	title="City upon a Hill"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/City_upon_a_Hill" title="City upon a Hill"&gt;City upon a Hill&lt;/a&gt;, sermon by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Winthrop" title="John Winthrop"&gt;John Winthrop&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1636" end="1638" isDuration="true"
	title="Cornelius Jansen"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cornelius_Jansen" title="Cornelius Jansen"&gt;Cornelius Jansen&lt;/a&gt;, bishop of Ypres, founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jansenism" title="Jansenism"&gt;Jansenism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1637" end="1638" isDuration="true"
	title="Shimabara Rebellion"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shimabara_Rebellion" title="Shimabara Rebellion"&gt;Shimabara Rebellion&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1638"
	title="Anne Hutchinson banished as heretic"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anne_Hutchinson" title="Anne Hutchinson"&gt;Anne Hutchinson&lt;/a&gt; banished as a heretic from Massachusetts
	</event>
<event start="1641"
	title="Mass. Bay Colony's social constitution established"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Cotton" title="John Cotton"&gt;John Cotton&lt;/a&gt;, advocate of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Theonomy" title="Theonomy"&gt;theonomy&lt;/a&gt;, helps to establish the social constitution of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Massachusetts_Bay_Colony" title="Massachusetts Bay Colony"&gt;Massachusetts Bay Colony&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="1643"
	title="Acta Sanctorum"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Acta_Sanctorum" title="Acta Sanctorum"&gt;Acta Sanctorum&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1644"
	title="Apocrypha removed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Long_Parliament" title="Long Parliament"&gt;Long Parliament&lt;/a&gt; directed that only Hebrew canon be read in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_England" title="Church of England"&gt;Church of England&lt;/a&gt; (effectively removed the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha" title="Apocrypha"&gt;Apocrypha&lt;/a&gt;)
	</event>
<event start="1646"
	title="Westminster Standards"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Westminster_Standards" title="Westminster Standards"&gt;Westminster Standards&lt;/a&gt; produced by the Assembly, one of the first and undoubtedly the most important and lasting religious document drafted after the reconvention of the Parliament, also decreed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon"&gt;Biblical canon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1648"
	title="Quaker movement founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/George_Fox" title="George Fox"&gt;George Fox&lt;/a&gt; founds the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quaker" title="Quaker"&gt;Quaker&lt;/a&gt; movement
	</event>
<event start="1650"
	title="Date of creation calculated at 4004BC"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_Ussher" title="James Ussher"&gt;James Ussher&lt;/a&gt;, calculates &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ussher-Lightfoot_Calendar" title="Ussher-Lightfoot Calendar"&gt;date of creation&lt;/a&gt; as October 23, 4004 B.C.
	</event>
<event start="1653" end="1656" isDuration="true"
	title="Russian Orthodox Church"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raskol" title="Raskol"&gt;Raskol&lt;/a&gt; of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church"&gt;Russian Orthodox Church&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1660" end="1685" isDuration="true"
	title="Apocrypha reinstated"
	>
	King &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_II_of_England" title="Charles II of England"&gt;Charles II of England&lt;/a&gt;, restoration of monarchy, continuing through &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/James_II_of_England" title="James II of England"&gt;James II&lt;/a&gt;, reversed decision of Long Parliament of 1644, reinstating the Apocrypha, reversal not heeded by non-conformists
	</event>
<event start="1672"
	title="Greek Orthodox Synod of Jerusalem"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Eastern_Orthodox_Church" title="Eastern Orthodox Church"&gt;Greek Orthodox&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Synod_of_Jerusalem" title="Synod of Jerusalem"&gt;Synod of Jerusalem&lt;/a&gt;, decreed &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblical_canon" title="Biblical canon"&gt;Biblical canon&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1675"
	title="Pietism manifesto published"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philipp_Jakob_Spener" title="Philipp Jakob Spener"&gt;Philipp Jakob Spener&lt;/a&gt; publishes &lt;i&gt;Pia Desideria&lt;/i&gt;, which becomes a manifesto for &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pietism" title="Pietism"&gt;Pietism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1678"
	title="Pilgrim's Progress published"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Bunyan" title="John Bunyan"&gt;John Bunyan&lt;/a&gt; publishes &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pilgrim%27s_Progress" title="Pilgrim's Progress"&gt;Pilgrim's Progress&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1682"
	title="Leader of Old Believers burned at stake"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Avvakum" title="Avvakum"&gt;Avvakum&lt;/a&gt;, leader of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Believers" title="Old Believers"&gt;Old Believers&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Burned_at_the_stake" title="Burned at the stake"&gt;burned at the stake&lt;/a&gt; in the Far North of Russia
	</event>
<event start="1684"
	title="Roger Williams"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roger_Williams_%28theologian%29" title="Roger Williams (theologian)"&gt;Roger Williams (theologian)&lt;/a&gt;, advocate of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Separation_of_church_and_state" title="Separation of church and state"&gt;Separation of church and state&lt;/a&gt;, founder of Providence, Rhode Island
	</event>
<event start="1685"
	title="Protestantism outlawed in France"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edict_of_Fontainebleau" title="Edict of Fontainebleau"&gt;Edict of Fontainebleau&lt;/a&gt; outlaws Protestantism in France
	</event>
<event start="1685"
	title="Orthodoxy introduced to Beijing"
	>
	Orthodoxy introduced to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing"&gt;Beijing&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Russian_Orthodox_Church" title="Russian Orthodox Church"&gt;Russian Orthodox Church&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1692"
	title="Salem witch trials"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salem_witch_trials" title="Salem witch trials"&gt;Salem witch trials&lt;/a&gt; in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Colonial_America" title="Colonial America"&gt;Colonial America&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1692" end="1721" isDuration="true"
	title="Chinese Rites controversy"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chinese_Rites_controversy" title="Chinese Rites controversy"&gt;Chinese Rites controversy&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1693"
	title="Jacob Amman"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jacob_Amman" title="Jacob Amman"&gt;Jacob Amman&lt;/a&gt; founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Amish" title="Amish"&gt;Amish&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1701"
	title="Old Catholic Church of Netherlands splits with Roman Catholicism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Old_Catholic_Church_of_the_Netherlands" title="Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands"&gt;Old Catholic Church of the Netherlands&lt;/a&gt; splits with Roman Catholicism
	</event>
<event start="1721"
	title="Moscow Patriarchate substituted with Holy Synod"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_I_of_Russia" title="Peter I of Russia"&gt;Peter the Great&lt;/a&gt; substituted Moscow Patriarchate with the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Holy_Synod" title="Holy Synod"&gt;Holy Synod&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1728"
	title="Vicar of Bray"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Vicar_of_Bray_%28song%29" title="The Vicar of Bray (song)"&gt;The Vicar of Bray (song)&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1730" end="1749" isDuration="true"
	title="First Great Awakening"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Great_Awakening" title="First Great Awakening"&gt;First Great Awakening&lt;/a&gt; in U.S.
	</event>
<event start="1735"
	title="Welsh Methodist revival"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Methodist_revival" title="Welsh Methodist revival"&gt;Welsh Methodist revival&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1738"
	title="Methodist movement begins"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism"&gt;Methodist movement&lt;/a&gt;, led by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Wesley" title="John Wesley"&gt;John Wesley&lt;/a&gt; and his hymn-writing brother &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Wesley" title="Charles Wesley"&gt;Charles&lt;/a&gt;, begins
	</event>
<event start="1741"
	title="Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sinners_in_the_Hands_of_an_Angry_God" title="Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God"&gt;Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God&lt;/a&gt;, famous &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fire_and_brimstone" title="Fire and brimstone"&gt;Fire and brimstone&lt;/a&gt; sermon
	</event>
<event start="1754"
	title="An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/An_Historical_Account_of_Two_Notable_Corruptions_of_Scripture" title="An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture"&gt;An Historical Account of Two Notable Corruptions of Scripture&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Isaac_Newton" title="Isaac Newton"&gt;Isaac Newton&lt;/a&gt;, published
	</event>
<event start="1767" end="1815" isDuration="true"
	title="Suppression of the Jesuits"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_the_Jesuits" title="Suppression of the Jesuits"&gt;Suppression of the Jesuits&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1768"
	title="Greek Orthodox colony founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="/w/index.php?title=New_Smyrna%2C_Florida&amp;action=edit" class="new" title="New Smyrna, Florida"&gt;New Smyrna, Florida&lt;/a&gt;, Greek Orthodox colony founded
	</event>
<event start="1769"
	title="First California mission"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Diego_de_Alcala" title="Mission San Diego de Alcala"&gt;Mission San Diego de Alcala&lt;/a&gt;, first California mission
	</event>
<event start="1772"
	title="Swedenborgianism founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Emanuel_Swedenborg" title="Emanuel Swedenborg"&gt;Emanuel Swedenborg&lt;/a&gt;, founded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Swedenborgianism" title="Swedenborgianism"&gt;Swedenborgianism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1774"
	title="Ann Lee, leader of American Shakers"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ann_Lee" title="Ann Lee"&gt;Ann Lee&lt;/a&gt; leader of American &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shakers" title="Shakers"&gt;Shakers&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1776" end="1788" isDuration="true"
	title="The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edward_Gibbon" title="Edward Gibbon"&gt;Gibbon's&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_History_of_the_Decline_and_Fall_of_the_Roman_Empire" title="The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire"&gt;The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire&lt;/a&gt;, critical of Christianity
	</event>
<event start="1776"
	title="Mission San Francisco de Asis"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_San_Francisco_de_Asis" title="Mission San Francisco de Asis"&gt;Mission Delores&lt;/a&gt;, San Francisco
	</event>
<event start="1779"
	title="Virginia Statute of Religious Freedom"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Virginia_Statute_for_Religious_Freedom" title="Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom"&gt;Virginia Statute for Religious Freedom&lt;/a&gt;, "Jesus never coerced anyone to follow him, and the imposition of a religion by government officials is impious"
	</event>
<event start="1780"
	title="Sunday school begins"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Robert_Raikes" title="Robert Raikes"&gt;Robert Raikes&lt;/a&gt; begins &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunday_school" title="Sunday school"&gt;Sunday schools&lt;/a&gt; to reach poor and uneducated children in England
	</event>
<event start="1784"
	title="Methodist Episcopal Church formed"
	>
	American Methodists form &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodist_Episcopal_Church" title="Methodist Episcopal Church"&gt;Methodist Episcopal Church&lt;/a&gt; at so-called "Christmas Conference", led by bishops &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Coke_%28Methodist%29" title="Thomas Coke (Methodist)"&gt;Thomas Coke&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Francis_Asbury" title="Francis Asbury"&gt;Francis Asbury&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1789" end="1815" isDuration="true"
	title="First Roman Catholic US bishop"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_Carroll_%28priest%29" title="John Carroll (priest)"&gt;John Carroll&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_Archdiocese_of_Baltimore" title="Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore"&gt;Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Baltimore&lt;/a&gt;, first Roman Catholic US bishop
	</event>
<event start="1789" end="1801" isDuration="true"
	title="Dechristianisation of France"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dechristianisation_of_France_during_the_French_Revolution" title="Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution"&gt;Dechristianisation of France during the French Revolution&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1791"
	title="First Amendment to US Constitution"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Amendment_to_the_United_States_Constitution" title="First Amendment to the United States Constitution"&gt;First Amendment to the United States Constitution&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1793"
	title="Orthodoxy to Alaska"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herman_of_Alaska" title="Herman of Alaska"&gt;Herman of Alaska&lt;/a&gt; brings Orthodoxy to Alaska
	</event>
<event start="1795"
	title="The Age of Reason written"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Age_of_Reason" title="The Age of Reason"&gt;The Age of Reason&lt;/a&gt; written by Thomas Paine, advocated Deism
	</event>
<event start="1796"
	title="Treaty with Tripoli"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Treaty_with_Tripoli_%281796%29" title="Treaty with Tripoli (1796)"&gt;Treaty with Tripoli (1796)&lt;/a&gt;, article 11: "the Government of the United States of America is not, in any sense, founded on the Christian religion"
	</event>
<event start="1800"
	title="Liberal Christianity movement begins"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Friedrich_Schleiermacher" title="Friedrich Schleiermacher"&gt;Friedrich Schleiermacher&lt;/a&gt; publishes his first book, beginning &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity" title="Liberal Christianity"&gt;Liberal Christianity&lt;/a&gt; movement
	</event>
<event start="1801"
	title="Cane Ridge, Kentucky"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cane_Ridge%2C_Kentucky" title="Cane Ridge, Kentucky"&gt;Cane Ridge, Kentucky&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1811"
	title="Restoration Movement begins"
	>
	The Campbells begin &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Restoration_Movement" title="Restoration Movement"&gt;Restoration Movement&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1815"
	title="Orthodox Christian martyred in San Francisco"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Peter_the_Aleut" title="Peter the Aleut"&gt;Peter the Aleut&lt;/a&gt;, orthodox Christian tortured and martyred in Catholic San Francisco, California
	</event>
<event start="1816"
	title="Methodist Episcopal Church founded"
	>
	Bishop &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Richard_Allen_%28reverend%29" title="Richard Allen (reverend)"&gt;Richard Allen&lt;/a&gt;, a former slave, founds the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism"&gt;African Methodist Episcopal Church&lt;/a&gt;, the first African-American denomination
	</event>
<event start="1819"
	title="Jefferson Bible produced"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Thomas_Jefferson" title="Thomas Jefferson"&gt;Thomas Jefferson&lt;/a&gt; produced the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jefferson_Bible" title="Jefferson Bible"&gt;Jefferson Bible&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1824"
	title="English translation of Wilhelm Gesenius"
	>
	English translation of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Wilhelm_Gesenius" title="Wilhelm Gesenius"&gt;Wilhelm Gesenius&lt;/a&gt;' &lt;i&gt;...Handwörterbuch...&lt;/i&gt;: Hebrew-English Lexicon, Hendrickson Publishers
	</event>
<event start="1828"
	title="Dispensationalism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Plymouth_Brethren" title="Plymouth Brethren"&gt;Plymouth Brethren&lt;/a&gt; founded, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dispensationalism" title="Dispensationalism"&gt;Dispensationalism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1830"
	title="Second Great Awakening, Revivalism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Finney" title="Charles Finney"&gt;Charles Finney&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revivalism" title="Revivalism"&gt;revivals&lt;/a&gt; lead to &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Great_Awakening" title="Second Great Awakening"&gt;Second Great Awakening&lt;/a&gt; in America
	</event>
<event start="1830"
	title="Mormonism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/April_6" title="April 6"&gt;April 6&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ_%28Mormonism%29" title="Church of Christ (Mormonism)"&gt;Church of Christ&lt;/a&gt; (&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormonism" title="Mormonism"&gt;Mormonism&lt;/a&gt;) founded by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Joseph_Smith%2C_Jr." title="Joseph Smith, Jr."&gt;Joseph Smith, Jr.&lt;/a&gt; as a result of reported visitations and commandment by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/God_the_Father" title="God the Father"&gt;God the Father&lt;/a&gt;, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Christ" title="Jesus Christ"&gt;Jesus Christ&lt;/a&gt;, and later the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angel_Moroni" title="Angel Moroni"&gt;Angel Moroni&lt;/a&gt;.
	</event>
<event start="1832"
	title="Church of Christ (Disciples)"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ_%28Disciples%29" title="Church of Christ (Disciples)"&gt;Church of Christ (Disciples)&lt;/a&gt; organized, made up of Presbyterians in distress over Protestant factionalism and decline of fervor
	</event>
<event start="1833"
	title="Oxford Movement"
	>
	John Keble's sermon "National Apostasy" initiates the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Movement" title="Oxford Movement"&gt;Oxford Movement&lt;/a&gt; in England
	</event>
<event start="1838" end="1839" isDuration="true"
	title="Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod"
	>
	Saxon Lutherans objecting to the Prussian Union emigrate from Germany to the United States; settle in Perry County, Missouri. Leads to formation of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lutheran_Church_-_Missouri_Synod" title="Lutheran Church - Missouri Synod"&gt;LC-MS&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1844"
	title="Great Disappointment"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/October_22" title="October 22"&gt;October 22&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Great_Disappointment" title="Great Disappointment"&gt;Great Disappointment&lt;/a&gt;, false prediction of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Coming#Christianity" title="Second Coming"&gt;Second Coming of Christ&lt;/a&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Millerites" title="Millerites"&gt;Millerites&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1845"
	title="Southern Baptist Convention"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Southern_Baptist_Convention" title="Southern Baptist Convention"&gt;Southern Baptist Convention&lt;/a&gt; formed in Augusta, Georgia
	</event>
<event start="1848"
	title="Epistle to the Easterns"
	>
	1848 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Epistle_to_the_Easterns" title="Epistle to the Easterns"&gt;Epistle to the Easterns&lt;/a&gt; and &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Encyclical_of_the_Eastern_Patriarchs" title="Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs"&gt;Encyclical of the Eastern Patriarchs&lt;/a&gt; response
	</event>
<event start="1848"
	title="Perfectionist movement"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Perfectionist_movement" title="Perfectionist movement"&gt;Perfectionist movement&lt;/a&gt; in western &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_York_state" title="New York state"&gt;New York state&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1854"
	title="Missionary Hudson Taylor arrives in China"
	>
	Missionary &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Hudson_Taylor" title="Hudson Taylor"&gt;Hudson Taylor&lt;/a&gt; arrives in China
	</event>
<event start="1854"
	title="Immaculate Conception defined as Catholic dogma"
	>
	1854 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Immaculate_Conception" title="Immaculate Conception"&gt;Immaculate Conception&lt;/a&gt;, defined as Catholic dogma
	</event>
<event start="1855"
	title="Christian existentialism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/S%C3%B8ren_Kierkegaard" title="Søren Kierkegaard"&gt;Søren Kierkegaard&lt;/a&gt;, founder of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_existentialism" title="Christian existentialism"&gt;Christian existentialism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1857"
	title="Mormons massacre Christians in Utah"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/September_11" title="September 11"&gt;September 11&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mormons" title="Mormons"&gt;Mormons&lt;/a&gt;, led by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/John_D._Lee" title="John D. Lee"&gt;John D. Lee&lt;/a&gt;, massacre 120 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian" title="Christian"&gt;Christian&lt;/a&gt; settlers at &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mountain_Meadows" title="Mountain Meadows"&gt;Mountain Meadows&lt;/a&gt;, Utah
	</event>
<event start="1865"
	title="Salvation Army founded"
	>
	Methodist preacher &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/William_Booth" title="William Booth"&gt;William Booth&lt;/a&gt; founds the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Salvation_Army" title="Salvation Army"&gt;Salvation Army&lt;/a&gt;, vowing to bring the gospel into the streets to the most desperate and needy
	</event>
<event start="1869" end="1870" isDuration="true"
	title="Papal Infallibility"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/First_Vatican_Council" title="First Vatican Council"&gt;First Vatican Council&lt;/a&gt;, asserted doctrine of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_Infallibility" title="Papal Infallibility"&gt;Papal Infallibility&lt;/a&gt;, rejected by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Catholic_Church_of_Switzerland" title="Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland"&gt;Christian Catholic Church of Switzerland&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1870"
	title="Italy declares war on Papal States"
	>
	Italy declared war on the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Papal_States" title="Papal States"&gt;Papal States&lt;/a&gt;. The Italian Army enters Rome. Papal States ceased to exist.
	</event>
<event start="1871" end="1878" isDuration="true"
	title="German Kulturkampf against Roman Catholicism"
	>
	German &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Kulturkampf" title="Kulturkampf"&gt;Kulturkampf&lt;/a&gt; against Roman Catholicism
	</event>
<event start="1879"
	title="Church of Christ, Scientist"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Church_of_Christ%2C_Scientist" title="Church of Christ, Scientist"&gt;Church of Christ, Scientist&lt;/a&gt; founded in Boston by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mary_Baker_Eddy" title="Mary Baker Eddy"&gt;Mary Baker Eddy&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1881" end="1894" isDuration="true"
	title="Revised Version"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Version" title="Revised Version"&gt;Revised Version&lt;/a&gt;, called for by Church of England, used Greek based on &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint"&gt;Septuagint&lt;/a&gt; (B) and (S), Hebrew &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Masoretic_Text" title="Masoretic Text"&gt;Masoretic Text&lt;/a&gt; used in OT, follows Greek order of words, greater accuracy than &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/AV" title="AV"&gt;AV&lt;/a&gt;, includes &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Apocrypha" title="Apocrypha"&gt;Apocrypha&lt;/a&gt;, scholarship never disputed
	</event>
<event start="1884"
	title="Bible Student movement"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Taze_Russell" title="Charles Taze Russell"&gt;Charles Taze Russell&lt;/a&gt; founded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bible_Student_movement" title="Bible Student movement"&gt;Bible Student movement&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1885"
	title="Baltimore Catechism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Baltimore_Catechism" title="Baltimore Catechism"&gt;Baltimore Catechism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1886"
	title="Moody Bible Institute"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moody_Bible_Institute" title="Moody Bible Institute"&gt;Moody Bible Institute&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1894"
	title="Christian anarchism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Kingdom_of_God_is_Within_You" title="The Kingdom of God is Within You"&gt;The Kingdom of God is Within You&lt;/a&gt;, by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Leo_Tolstoy" title="Leo Tolstoy"&gt;Leo Tolstoy&lt;/a&gt;, start of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_anarchism" title="Christian anarchism"&gt;Christian anarchism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1897"
	title="Christian flag"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_flag" title="Christian flag"&gt;Christian flag&lt;/a&gt;, conceived in Brooklyn, New York
	</event>
<event start="1899"
	title="Gideons International"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gideons_International" title="Gideons International"&gt;Gideons International&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1905"
	title="French law on separation of Church and State"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/1905_French_law_on_the_separation_of_Church_and_State" title="1905 French law on the separation of Church and State"&gt;1905 French law on the separation of Church and State&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1906"
	title="The Quest of the Historical Jesus"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Albert_Schweitzer" title="Albert Schweitzer"&gt;Albert Schweitzer&lt;/a&gt; publishes &lt;i&gt;The Quest of the Historical Jesus&lt;/i&gt; (English translation 1910)
	</event>
<event start="1906"
	title="Biblia Hebraica"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Biblia_Hebraica" title="Biblia Hebraica"&gt;Biblia Hebraica&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1906" end="1909" isDuration="true"
	title="Pentecostal movement"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Azusa_Street_Revival" title="Azusa Street Revival"&gt;Azusa Street Revival&lt;/a&gt; in Los Angeles, CA begins modern &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pentecostalism" title="Pentecostalism"&gt;Pentecostal movement&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1907" end="1912" isDuration="true"
	title="Japanese Orthodox Church"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikolai_of_Japan" title="Nikolai of Japan"&gt;Nikolai of Japan&lt;/a&gt;, Archbishop of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Japanese_Orthodox_Church" title="Japanese Orthodox Church"&gt;Japanese Orthodox Church&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1909"
	title="Scofield Reference Bible"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scofield_Reference_Bible" title="Scofield Reference Bible"&gt;Scofield Reference Bible&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1910"
	title="Edinburgh Missionary Conference"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Edinburgh_Missionary_Conference" title="Edinburgh Missionary Conference"&gt;Edinburgh Missionary Conference&lt;/a&gt; launches modern &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mission_%28Christian%29" title="Mission (Christian)"&gt;missions movement&lt;/a&gt; and modern &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_ecumenism" title="Christian ecumenism"&gt;ecumenical movement&lt;/a&gt;; 5-point statement of the Presbyterian General Assembly, also used by Fundamentalists
	</event>
<event start="1910" end="1915" isDuration="true"
	title="Fundamentalism"
	>
	The &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentals" title="Fundamentals"&gt;Fundamentals&lt;/a&gt;, a 12-volume collection of essays by 64 British and American scholars and preachers, a foundation of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fundamentalism" title="Fundamentalism"&gt;Fundamentalism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1913"
	title="Catholic Encyclopedia"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Encyclopedia" title="Catholic Encyclopedia"&gt;Catholic Encyclopedia&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1914"
	title="Welsh Church Act 1914"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Welsh_Church_Act_1914" title="Welsh Church Act 1914"&gt;Welsh Church Act 1914&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1914"
	title="Iglesia ni Cristo"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Iglesia_ni_Cristo" title="Iglesia ni Cristo"&gt;Iglesia ni Cristo&lt;/a&gt; incorporated in the Philippines
	</event>
<event start="1915" end="1917" isDuration="true"
	title="Armenian Genocide"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Armenian_Genocide" title="Armenian Genocide"&gt;Armenian Genocide&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1916"
	title="International Peace Mission movement"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Father_Divine" title="Father Divine"&gt;Father Divine&lt;/a&gt; founded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/International_Peace_Mission_movement" title="International Peace Mission movement"&gt;International Peace Mission movement&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1916"
	title="And did those feet in ancient time"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/And_did_those_feet_in_ancient_time" title="And did those feet in ancient time"&gt;And did those feet in ancient time&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1917"
	title="Moscow Patriarchy restored"
	>
	Restitution of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moscow_Patriarchy" title="Moscow Patriarchy"&gt;Moscow Patriarchy&lt;/a&gt; with &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tikhon_of_Moscow" title="Tikhon of Moscow"&gt;Tikhon&lt;/a&gt; as patriarch
	</event>
<event start="1917"
	title="True Jesus Church founded in Beijing"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/True_Jesus_Church" title="True Jesus Church"&gt;True Jesus Church&lt;/a&gt; founded in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Beijing" title="Beijing"&gt;Beijing&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1918"
	title="Execution of Holy Martyrs of Russia"
	>
	Execution of Holy Martyrs of Russia, including the last tsar, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nicholas_II" title="Nicholas II"&gt;Nicholas II&lt;/a&gt;, and his wife, &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Alexandra_Fyodorovna_of_Hesse" title="Alexandra Fyodorovna of Hesse"&gt;Alexandra Feodorovna&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1919"
	title="Commentary on Romans"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Karl_Barth" title="Karl Barth"&gt;Karl Barth&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;Commentary on Romans&lt;/i&gt; is published, critiquing &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Liberal_Christianity" title="Liberal Christianity"&gt;Liberal Christianity&lt;/a&gt; and beginning the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Neo-orthodoxy" title="Neo-orthodoxy"&gt;neo-orthodox movement&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1921"
	title="Oxford Group founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oxford_Group" title="Oxford Group"&gt;Oxford Group&lt;/a&gt; founded at Oxford
	</event>
<event start="1923"
	title="Angelus Temple built"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aimee_Semple_McPherson" title="Aimee Semple McPherson"&gt;Aimee Semple McPherson&lt;/a&gt; built &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Angelus_Temple" title="Angelus Temple"&gt;Angelus Temple&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1925"
	title="Scopes Trial divides Fundamentalists"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Scopes_Trial" title="Scopes Trial"&gt;Scopes Trial&lt;/a&gt;, caused division among Fundamentalists
	</event>
<event start="1925"
	title="United Church of Canada"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Canada" title="United Church of Canada"&gt;United Church of Canada&lt;/a&gt; formed
	</event>
<event start="1926"
	title="Father Coughlin's first radio broadcast"
	>
	Father &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Charles_Coughlin" title="Charles Coughlin"&gt;Charles Coughlin&lt;/a&gt;'s first radio broadcast
	</event>
<event start="1927"
	title="Comma Johanneum open to dispute"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XI" title="Pope Pius XI"&gt;Pope Pius XI&lt;/a&gt; decrees &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Comma_Johanneum" title="Comma Johanneum"&gt;Comma Johanneum&lt;/a&gt; open to dispute
	</event>
<event start="1929"
	title="Lateran Treaty between Italy and Papacy"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Lateran_Treaty" title="Lateran Treaty"&gt;Lateran Treaty&lt;/a&gt; signed containing three agreements between kingdom of Italy and the papacy.
	</event>
<event start="1930"
	title="Rastafari movement"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rastafari_movement" title="Rastafari movement"&gt;Rastafari movement&lt;/a&gt; founded on visit of Haile Selassie to Jamaica
	</event>
<event start="1931"
	title="Jehovah's Witnesses"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jehovah%27s_Witnesses" title="Jehovah's Witnesses"&gt;Jehovah's Witnesses&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1931"
	title="Christ the Redeemer statue"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christ_the_Redeemer_%28statue%29" title="Christ the Redeemer (statue)"&gt;Christ the Redeemer (statue)&lt;/a&gt; in Rio de Janeiro, Brazil
	</event>
<event start="1933"
	title="Catholic Worker Movement founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic_Worker_Movement" title="Catholic Worker Movement"&gt;Catholic Worker Movement&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1934"
	title="Radio Church of God founded"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Herbert_W._Armstrong" title="Herbert W. Armstrong"&gt;Herbert W. Armstrong&lt;/a&gt; founded &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Radio_Church_of_God" title="Radio Church of God"&gt;Radio Church of God&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1935"
	title="Apostle to the Illiterates"
	>
	Dr. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Frank_C._Laubach" title="Frank C. Laubach"&gt;Frank C. Laubach&lt;/a&gt;, known as "The Apostle to the Illiterates." working in the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Philippines" title="Philippines"&gt;Philippines&lt;/a&gt;, developed a literacy program that continues to teach millions of people to read.
	</event>
<event start="1935"
	title="Critical edition of Koine Greek Septuagint"
	>
	Rahlf's critical edition of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Koine_Greek" title="Koine Greek"&gt;Koine Greek&lt;/a&gt; &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Septuagint" title="Septuagint"&gt;Septuagint&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1935"
	title="Billy Sunday, US radio evangelist"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Sunday" title="Billy Sunday"&gt;Billy Sunday&lt;/a&gt;, early U.S. radio evangelist
	</event>
<event start="1939"
	title="The Methodist Church"
	>
	Southern and Northern US branches of the Methodist Episcopal Church, along with the Methodist Protestant Church reunite to form &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Methodist_Church" title="The Methodist Church"&gt;The Methodist Church&lt;/a&gt;. Slavery had divided the church in the 1800s.
	</event>
<event start="1940"
	title="World's largest cross"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Monumento_Nacional_de_Santa_Cruz_del_Valle_de_los_Caidos" title="Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos"&gt;Monumento Nacional de Santa Cruz del Valle de los Caidos&lt;/a&gt;, world's largest cross, 152.4 meters high
	</event>
<event start="1945"
	title="Roman Catholic sex abuse cases"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholic_sex_abuse_cases" title="Roman Catholic sex abuse cases"&gt;Roman Catholic sex abuse cases&lt;/a&gt; begins
	</event>
<event start="1945"
	title="Dietrich Bonhoeffer executed by Nazis"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dietrich_Bonhoeffer" title="Dietrich Bonhoeffer"&gt;Dietrich Bonhoeffer&lt;/a&gt; is executed by the Nazis
	</event>
<event start="1945"
	title="Ludwig Müller"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ludwig_M%C3%BCller" title="Ludwig Müller"&gt;Ludwig Müller&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1946" end="1952" isDuration="true"
	title="Revised Standard Version"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Revised_Standard_Version" title="Revised Standard Version"&gt;Revised Standard Version&lt;/a&gt;, revision of AV "based on consonantal Hebrew text" for OT and best available texts for NT, done in response to changes in English usage
	</event>
<event start="1947"
	title="Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism"
	>
	&lt;i&gt;Uneasy Conscience of Modern Fundamentalism&lt;/i&gt; by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Carl_F._H._Henry" title="Carl F. H. Henry"&gt;Carl F. H. Henry&lt;/a&gt;, a landmark of Evangelicalism versus Fundamentalism in US
	</event>
<event start="1947"
	title="Evangelistic Association"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Oral_Roberts" title="Oral Roberts"&gt;Oral Roberts&lt;/a&gt; founded Evangelistic Association
	</event>
<event start="1947"
	title="Dead Sea scrolls"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dead_Sea_scrolls" title="Dead Sea scrolls"&gt;Dead Sea scrolls&lt;/a&gt; discovered
	</event>
<event start="1948"
	title="World Council of Churches"
	>
	1948 &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/World_Council_of_Churches" title="World Council of Churches"&gt;World Council of Churches&lt;/a&gt; is founded
	</event>
<event start="1948"
	title="Establishment of State of Israel"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Declaration_of_the_Establishment_of_the_State_of_Israel" title="Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel"&gt;Declaration of the Establishment of the State of Israel&lt;/a&gt;, see also &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Zionism" title="Christian Zionism"&gt;Christian Zionism&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1949"
	title="Billy Graham preaches his first crusade"
	>
	Evangelist &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Billy_Graham" title="Billy Graham"&gt;Billy Graham&lt;/a&gt; preaches his first Los Angeles crusade
	</event>
<event start="1950"
	title="Assumption of Mary decreed"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Assumption_of_Mary" title="Assumption of Mary"&gt;Assumption of Mary&lt;/a&gt; decreed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Pius_XII" title="Pope Pius XII"&gt;Pope Pius XII&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1951"
	title="The Last Temptation published"
	>
	&lt;i&gt;The Last Temptation&lt;/i&gt; a fictional account of the life of Jesus writen by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Nikos_Kazantzakis" title="Nikos Kazantzakis"&gt;Nikos Kazantzakis&lt;/a&gt;, wherin Christ's divinity is juxtaposed with his humanity, is published, and promptly banned in many countries.
	</event>
<event start="1952"
	title="Novum Testamentum Graece"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Novum_Testamentum_Graece" title="Novum Testamentum Graece"&gt;Novum Testamentum Graece&lt;/a&gt;, critical edition of Greek NT, basis of modern translations
	</event>
<event start="1954"
	title="Unification Church"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Unification_Church" title="Unification Church"&gt;Unification Church&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1954"
	title="US Pledge of Allegiance"
	>
	U.S. &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pledge_of_Allegiance" title="Pledge of Allegiance"&gt;Pledge of Allegiance&lt;/a&gt; modified by act of Congress from "one nation, indivisible" to "one nation, under God, indivisible"
	</event>
<event start="1956"
	title="In God We Trust national motto"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/In_God_We_Trust" title="In God We Trust"&gt;In God We Trust&lt;/a&gt; designated U.S. national motto
	</event>
<event start="1956"
	title="Anchor Bible Series"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anchor_Bible_Series" title="Anchor Bible Series"&gt;Anchor Bible Series&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1956"
	title="The Ten Commandments film"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Ten_Commandments_%281956_film%29" title="The Ten Commandments (1956 film)"&gt;The Ten Commandments (1956 film)&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1957"
	title="United Church of Christ"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Church_of_Christ" title="United Church of Christ"&gt;United Church of Christ&lt;/a&gt; founded by ecumenical union of Congregationalists and Evangelical &amp; Reformed, representing Calvinists and Lutherans
	</event>
<event start="1957"
	title="English translation of Wörterbuch"
	>
	English translation of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Walter_Bauer" title="Walter Bauer"&gt;Walter Bauer&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;Wörterbuch ...&lt;/i&gt;: A Greek-English Lexicon of the New Testament and Other Early Christian Literature, University of Chicago Press
	</event>
<event start="1959"
	title="Family Radio"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Family_Radio" title="Family Radio"&gt;Family Radio&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1962" end="1965" isDuration="true"
	title="Catholic Second Vatican Council"
	>
	Catholic &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Second_Vatican_Council" title="Second Vatican Council"&gt;Second Vatican Council&lt;/a&gt;, announced by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_XXIII" title="Pope John XXIII"&gt;Pope John XXIII&lt;/a&gt; in 1959, produced 16 documents which became official Roman Catholic teaching after approval by the Pope, purpose to renew "ourselves and the flocks committed to us"
	</event>
<event start="1963"
	title="Martin Luther King"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Luther_King" title="Martin Luther King"&gt;Martin Luther King&lt;/a&gt; leads a civil rights march in &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Washington%2C_D.C." title="Washington, D.C."&gt;Washington, D.C.&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1963"
	title="C. S. Lewis dies"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/C._S._Lewis" title="C. S. Lewis"&gt;C. S. Lewis&lt;/a&gt; dies November 22.
	</event>
<event start="1963"
	title="Bible reading prohibited in US public schools"
	>
	Campaign by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Madalyn_Murray_O%27Hair" title="Madalyn Murray O'Hair"&gt;Madalyn Murray O'Hair&lt;/a&gt; results in U.S. Supreme Court ruling prohibiting reading of Bible in public schools
	</event>
<event start="1965"
	title="Chalcedon Foundation"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Rousas_John_Rushdoony" title="Rousas John Rushdoony"&gt;Rousas John Rushdoony&lt;/a&gt; founds &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chalcedon_Foundation" title="Chalcedon Foundation"&gt;Chalcedon Foundation&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1968"
	title="United Methodist Church"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/United_Methodist_Church" title="United Methodist Church"&gt;United Methodist Church&lt;/a&gt; formed with union of Methodist Church &amp; Evangelical United Brethren Church, becoming the largest &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Methodism" title="Methodism"&gt;Methodist/Wesleyan&lt;/a&gt; church in the world
	</event>
<event start="1970"
	title="Mass of Paul Vi"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mass_of_Paul_VI" title="Mass of Paul VI"&gt;Mass of Paul VI&lt;/a&gt; replaces &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tridentine_Mass" title="Tridentine Mass"&gt;Tridentine Mass&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1970"
	title="The Late, Great Planet Earth"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Late%2C_Great_Planet_Earth" title="The Late, Great Planet Earth"&gt;The Late, Great Planet Earth&lt;/a&gt; futurist book by Hal Lindsey
	</event>
<event start="1970"
	title="Chick Publications"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Chick_Publications" title="Chick Publications"&gt;Chick Publications&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1971"
	title="New American Standard Bible"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_American_Standard_Bible" title="New American Standard Bible"&gt;New American Standard Bible&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1971"
	title="The Exorcist published"
	>
	&lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Exorcist" title="The Exorcist"&gt;The Exorcist&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, a novel of &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Demonic_possession" title="Demonic possession"&gt;demonic possession&lt;/a&gt; and the mysteries of the &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catholic" title="Catholic"&gt;Catholic&lt;/a&gt; faith, is published.
	</event>
<event start="1974"
	title="PTL television ministry"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jim_Bakker" title="Jim Bakker"&gt;Jim Bakker&lt;/a&gt; founds PTL television ministry
	</event>
<event start="1975"
	title="Metzger's commentary on Greek New Testament"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bruce_Metzger" title="Bruce Metzger"&gt;Bruce Metzger&lt;/a&gt;'s &lt;i&gt;Textual Commentary on the Greek New Testament&lt;/i&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1976"
	title="Anneliese Michel undergoes exorcism"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anneliese_Michel" title="Anneliese Michel"&gt;Anneliese Michel&lt;/a&gt;, Bavarian woman, underwent &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Exorcism" title="Exorcism"&gt;exorcism&lt;/a&gt; against demon possession
	</event>
<event start="1977"
	title="New Perspective on Paul"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Perspective_on_Paul" title="New Perspective on Paul"&gt;New Perspective on Paul&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1978"
	title="New International Version"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_International_Version" title="New International Version"&gt;New International Version&lt;/a&gt; of the Bible is first published (revised in 1984), using a variety of Greek texts, Masoretic Hebrew texts, and current English style
	</event>
<event start="1978" end="2005" isDuration="true"
	title="Pope John Paul II"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II"&gt;Pope John Paul II&lt;/a&gt;, reaffirmed conservative moral traditions (&lt;i&gt;The Splendor of Truth&lt;/i&gt;) and the forbidding of women in the priesthood
	</event>
<event start="1979"
	title="Moral Majority"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Moral_Majority" title="Moral Majority"&gt;Moral Majority&lt;/a&gt; founded by Jerry Falwell
	</event>
<event start="1979" end="1982" isDuration="true"
	title="New King James Version"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_King_James_Version" title="New King James Version"&gt;New King James Version&lt;/a&gt;, complete revision of 1611 AV, updates archaisms while retaining style
	</event>
<event start="1985"
	title="Jesus Seminar"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jesus_Seminar" title="Jesus Seminar"&gt;Jesus Seminar&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="1985"
	title="Jesus and Judaism published"
	>
	&lt;i&gt;Jesus and Judaism&lt;/i&gt; published by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/E._P._Sanders" title="E. P. Sanders"&gt;E. P. Sanders&lt;/a&gt;, won Grawemeyer Prize for best religious book of the 80's
	</event>
<event start="1988"
	title="Christian Coalition"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christian_Coalition" title="Christian Coalition"&gt;Christian Coalition&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1988"
	title="The Last Tempation of Christ movie"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Last_Temptation_of_Christ" title="The Last Temptation of Christ"&gt;The Last Temptation of Christ&lt;/a&gt;, directed by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Martin_Scorsese" title="Martin Scorsese"&gt;Martin Scorsese&lt;/a&gt;, is released by &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Universal_Pictures" title="Universal Pictures"&gt;Universal Pictures&lt;/a&gt;, and promptly attacked as heretical by organized Christian and Catholic groups. Boycotts are launched, violence ensues at some showings of the film in France.
	</event>
<event start="1989"
	title="New Revised Standard Version"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/New_Revised_Standard_Version" title="New Revised Standard Version"&gt;New Revised Standard Version&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1992"
	title="Catechism of Catholic Church"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Catechism_of_the_Catholic_Church" title="Catechism of the Catholic Church"&gt;Catechism of the Catholic Church&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1994"
	title="Cooperation between Evangelicals and Catholics"
	>
	Declaration of cooperation between Evangelicals and Catholics
	</event>
<event start="1994"
	title="Porvoo Communion"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Porvoo_Communion" title="Porvoo Communion"&gt;Porvoo Communion&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="1994"
	title="Answers in Genesis"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Answers_In_Genesis" title="Answers In Genesis"&gt;Answers In Genesis&lt;/a&gt; founded by Ken Ham.
	</event>
<event start="1997"
	title="Mother Teresa dies"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mother_Teresa" title="Mother Teresa"&gt;Mother Teresa&lt;/a&gt; died
	</event>
<event start="1998"
	title="Raymond E. Brown dies"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Raymond_E._Brown" title="Raymond E. Brown"&gt;Raymond E. Brown&lt;/a&gt;, Catholic scholar, died
	</event>
<event start="2001"
	title="The Way of the Master"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Way_of_the_Master" title="The Way of the Master"&gt;The Way of the Master&lt;/a&gt; founded
	</event>
<event start="2003"
	title="Da Vinci Code published"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dan_Brown" title="Dan Brown"&gt;Dan Brown&lt;/a&gt; writes &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Da_Vinci_Code" title="The Da Vinci Code"&gt;The Da Vinci Code&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt;, criticized because of historical inaccuracy of the life of Jesus.
	</event>
<event start="2004"
	title="Passion of Christ movie"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Mel_Gibson" title="Mel Gibson"&gt;Mel Gibson&lt;/a&gt;'s film &lt;i&gt;&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/The_Passion_of_the_Christ" title="The Passion of the Christ"&gt;The Passion of the Christ&lt;/a&gt;&lt;/i&gt; is released
	</event>
<event start="2005"
	title="Pope Benedict XVI"
	>
	Death of Pope &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_John_Paul_II" title="Pope John Paul II"&gt;John Paul II&lt;/a&gt;, election of Pope &lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Pope_Benedict_XVI" title="Pope Benedict XVI"&gt;Benedict XVI&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="2006"
	title="Abdul Rahman converts"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Abdul_Rahman_%28convert%29" title="Abdul Rahman (convert)"&gt;Abdul Rahman (convert)&lt;/a&gt;
	</event>
<event start="2006"
	title="Gospel of Judas discovered"
	>
	&lt;a href="http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Gospel_of_Judas" title="Gospel of Judas"&gt;Gospel of Judas&lt;/a&gt; discovered
	</event>
</data>