NB All the early dates and some of the later ones are approximate
and many are disputed
Christianity BCE 400 What is now called the Old Testament, completed 63 Rome captures Jerusalem CE 0 -33 Jesus Christ 33 Conversion of St Paul 70-100 New Testament completed 313 Constantine establishes Christianity 325 Council of Nicaea 334- 430 Augustine 367 NT canon is closed 1096-1291 Crusades 1054 The Great Schism 1225-1274 Thomas Aquinas 1483 -1546 Martin Luther 1509-1564 John Calvin 1517 Protestant Reformation begins 1540 Society of Jesus (Jesuits) founded 1545-1563 Council of Trent 1620 Pilgrim Fathers to America 1703-1791 John Wesley 1869 First Vatican Council 1900s Fundamentalism begins to get organised in US 1906-45 Dietrich Bonhoeffer 19 10 Edinburgh Missionary Conference 1917 Religious freedom curtailed in Soviet Union 1948 World Council of Churches. founded 1968 Medellin conference opts for a theology of liberation 1961-1964 2nd Vatican Council 1984 Desmond Tutu gets Peace Prize 1985.Kairos Document 1989 Fall of Berlin Wall