Church History
From the ascension of Jesus Christ to the present
A timeline of 60 events from AD 30 to 2028, by lmshearer, on Timeline Source.
Events
- Apostolic Age: AD 30 – AD 100
- Ascension of Jesus: AD 33
- Jerusalem Council: AD 50 – AD 52
- Nero's Persecutions: AD 64
- Destruction of Jerusalem: Jan 1, AD 70 – May 12, AD 70
- Patristic Period: AD 100 – AD 451
- Didache: AD 101
- Letter from Pliny to Trajan: AD 110
- Justin Martyr's First Apology: AD 155 – AD 157
- Martyrdom of Polycarp: Feb 23, AD 156
- Decius' Persecution: AD 249 – AD 251
- The Great Persecution (Diocletian): AD 303 – AD 313
- Constantine wins the Battle of the Milvian Bridge: Oct 28, AD 312 – Oct 29, AD 312
- Edict of Milan: AD 313
- Council of Nicaea: Jan AD 325 – Mar AD 325
- Athanasius' On the Incarnation: Jan 1, AD 328 – Jan 1, AD 335
- Ambrose as Bishop of Milan: AD 374 – AD 397
- Augustine's Confessions: AD 397 – AD 400
- Sack of Rome: AD 410
- Augustine's City of God: AD 426 – AD 427
- Council of Chalcedon: AD 451
- Early Middle Ages: AD 451 – 1054
- Pope Leo turns away Attila the Hun at the gates of Rome: AD 452
- Fall of Western Roman Empire: AD 476
- Conversion of Clovis: AD 508
- Conversion of the Anglo-Saxons: AD 597 – AD 601
- Muhammad's Vision: AD 610 – AD 611
- Early Islamic Conquests: AD 622 – AD 750
- Boniface chops down Thor's Oak: AD 722
- Charles Martel repels the Muslim invasion (Battle of Tours): AD 732
- Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor: Dec 25, AD 800
- Alfred becomes King of the Anglo-Saxons: AD 886
- The Great Schism: 1054
- Late Middle Ages: 1056 – 1519
- Anselm's Cur Deus Homo: 1094 – 1098
- First Crusade: 1096 – 1099
- Aquinas' Summa Theologiae: 1269 – 1274
- Avignon Papacy: 1309 – 1376
- Council of Constance: 1414 – 1418
- Reformation: 1415 – 1618
- Martyrdom of Jan Hus: Jul 6, 1415
- Fall of Constantinople: May 29, 1453 – Jun 1, 1453
- Gutenberg Bible printed: 1454 – 1455
- Luther's 95 Theses: Oct 31, 1517 – Jan 1, 1518
- Diet of Worms: Jan 28, 1521 – May 25, 1521
- Luther's Bondage of the Will: 1524 – 1525
- Marburg Colloquy: Oct 1, 1529 – Oct 4, 1529
- Calvin's Institutes: 1536 – 1560
- Martydrom of Willliam Tyndale: Oct 6, 1536
- Council of Trent: 1545 – 1563
- Revival & Missions: 1618 – 1833
- Synod of Dordt: 1618 – 1619
- Westminster Assembly: 1643 – 1653
- First Great Awakening: 1730 – 1755
- Edward's Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God: Jul 8, 1741
- Second Great Awakening: 1790 – 1840
- Joseph Smith's Vision: 1823
- Modern Church: 1835 – 2028
- Warfield's Inspiration & Authority: 1881
- Wurmbrand's Tortured for Christ: 1967