Religions Timeline (Revised 2/14)
Years Hinduism Judaism Jainism & Shinto Taoism & Buddhism Christianity Islam Sikhism Confucian- ism Pre- Harappa history- culture in 2000 Indus valley 2000- Aryan into Abraham, 1st 1800 India patriarch 1800- 1600 1600- Creation of 1400 Vedas 1400- 1250 Moses 1200 exodus Egypt 1200- 1000 1000- Established 850-800 800 in Israelite by Parshva 800- Creation of King David; 660 Emperor 563-483 600 Upanishads; Temple of Jimmu Siddhartha Axis age Solomon; Gautama 721 N. (Buddha) Kingdom destroyed by Assyria 600- Destruction 599-527 Prehistory to 600-500 400 of 1st Mahavira 350 worship Lozi; 551- Temple; of sun & 479 Exile in fertility Confucius; Babylonia; 470-391
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Second Mozi Temple1st; public reading of Torah; 400- 200 350 Split of 371-289 273-232 200 Completion Digambara Mencius; Ashoka, of scriptures & 369-286 India King Shvetambara Zhuangzi; 300 Tao Te Ching; 298- 238 Xunzi 200- Creation of 4 BC-29 AD 0 Bhagavad Jesus; 4 BC-64 Gita AD Paul 0-200 Destruction 50 Buddhism of 2nd into China; Temple; 100 Lotus Canon of Sutra Scriptures; creation Completion of Mishnah 200- Completion Unification of 300 Spread 313 Toleration 400 of clans & Kami to SE Asia; made legal; Palestinian 400 to Korea 354-430 Talmud Augustine; 476 Collapse of Rome Empire West 400- Completion Buddhism to 550 480-547 570-632 600 of Japan Bodhidharma Benedict Muhammad Babylonian School to Talmud China; 552
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Japan 600- 788-820 Life 712 Kojiki; 630 All 630 Tibet 683 Muslim 610 1st 800 of 720 Nihongi Providences conquest of Revelation; 622 Philosopher of China Jerusalem Flight from Shankara honor Mecca to Confucius Medina; 630 Control of Mecca; 680 Death of Husayn; 732 Muslim into France halted 800- 820 Tendai 922 Execution 1000 & Shingon, of mystic al- Japan; 845 Hallaj Persecution in China 1000- 1135-1204 1130-1200 1000 Revival 1054 Split 1058-1111 1200 Moses Zhu Xi in Sir Lanka East-West; scholae al- Maimonides & SW Asia; 1099Conquest Ghazali; 1099 1100-1500 Jersalem, 1st Conquest of Decline in Crucade; Jerusalam by India; 1133- Crusaders 1200- Muslim enter 1280 1212 Honen 1347-1351 1207-1273 poet 1400 N. India Creation of in Japan; Black Death Jalal-ud-Din Zohar 1158-1210 Rumi; 1291 Chinel in Expulsion of Korea; 1200 Crusaders from Zin in Japan; Isreal 1400- 1489 1492 1469-1539 1445 Taoist 1222-1282 1453 Conquest 1453 Capture 1600 Portuguese Explusion Kanak; canon; Nichiren in of of into India from Spain 1563-1606 1473-1529 Japan; 1357- Constantinople Conatantinople; Arjan Wang 1492 Tsong by 1492 Expulsion
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Yangming Khi-pa in Muslim;1483- from Spain; Tabet 1546 Martin 1592-1666 Luther; 1492 Shah Jahan Expulsion of (Taj Mahal) Jews & Muslims from Spain; 1509 - 1564 John Kalvin;1517 Protestant Reformation; 1534 Church of England 1600- 1750-1947 1700-1760 1666-1708 1650- 1800 British Baal Rhem Singh 1850Scholarly domination Tov revival 1800- India; 1869- Reform 1798-1887 1949 1952 World 1960-1965 1947 Pakistan 2000 1948 Movement in Nakayama Communist fellowship Modernization Muslim Nation; Mahatma W. Miki; 1836- takeover of of 1966 War Gandhi; 1947 Europe;1937- 1918 Deguchi China, Catholicism, between Arabs India 1945 Nao; 1868 repression 2nd Vatican & Israelis Independence Holocaust; Emperor of religion Council 1948 Israel Meiji;1882 independent State Shinto; state 1945 end of State Shinto;1946 Hirohito rejects divinity 2000- 2200
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