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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

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