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Church History Timeline AD 0 to 500 Church History Timeline AD 0 to 500 Founding of the Church Growth Amid Persecution Fathers of the Church Roman Church of the West AD 325 Council of Nicea AD 49 Council of Jerusalem AD 330 AD 431 Council of Ephesus AD 125 Capital moved from AD 64 Gnosticism is at Rome to AD 261 AD 395 Nero's Fire its peak Constantinople Edict of Toleration St. Augustine of AD 494 AD 34 AD 452 Hippo dies Pope Gelasius declares that St. Paul Attila the Hun the Pope, not the king, has converts AD 185 AD 303 attacks Rome AD 64 authority in spiritual matters Diocletian begins AD 387 St. Peter St. Polycarp persecuting Christians St. Monica dies martyred martyred AD 318 AD 33 100 200 300 Pachomius founds 400AD 451 500 Pentecost AD 305 communal monasticism Council of Chalcedon AD 496 AD 70 AD 107 St. Anthony of the Clovis baptized Destruction of St. Ignatius of Antioch AD 203 desert dies AD 381 AD 461 Jerusalem martyred Sts. Perpetua and Council of Constantinople Felicitas martyred St. Patrick dies AD 313 AD 420 AD 250 Edict of Milan St. Jerome dies First empire -wide persecution Timeline Legend AD 50-100 Writing of the New Testament Church Councils Saints General Copyright May 2009 Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend Church History Timeline AD 500 to 1000 Roman Church of the West AD 553 AD 800 Council of Charlemagne crowned Holy Constantinople II Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III AD 869 St. Cyril dies AD 529 AD 993 St. Benedict founds AD 755 AD 869-870 Pope John XV begins official Monte Cassino AD 615 St. Boniface martyred AD 680 Council of process of canonization St. Colomban dies Council of Constantinople IV Constantinople III AD 1000 High point of Mayan 600 700 800AD 846 900 1000 AD 550 civilization St. Benedict dies AD 622 Muslims attack Rome AD 910 AD 732 AD 979 Beginning of Islam Cluniac reform Battle of Tours China unified begins AD 570 AD 787 Mohammed born Council of Nicea II AD 885 St. Methodius dies Timeline Legend Church Councils Saints General Copyright May 2009 Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend Church History Timeline AD 1000 to 1500 Roman Church of the West Middle Ages Renaissance and Reform AD 1179 Lateran Council IV AD 1417 AD 1453 AD 1160 Western Constantinople AD 1347 Cathedrals begin to be AD 1274 Schism ends taken by the AD 1221 Black Death prominent in the life of Council of with election of Muslim Turks St. Dominic dies appears in Europe AD 1073 the Church Lyons II Martin V Pope Gregory VII elected AD 1134 AD 1431 and church reaches high AD 1231 First major university, AD 1378 Council of point of Gregorian Reform Papal Inquisition the University of Western Schism Florence begins begins Paris, is founded begins AD 1455 AD 1496 AD 1054 AD 1253 AD 1431 AD 1210 AD 1321 Printing press Michelangelo East and AD 1095 St. Clare dies St. Joan of Arc Franciscan Order Dante dies begins Pieta West Split Crusades begin martyred invented approved AD 1226 AD 1337 1100 1200St. Francis dies 1300Hundred Years 1400 1500 AD 1139 AD 1049 War begins Pope Leo IX elected and starts Lateran AD 1215 AD 1414-1418 reform in the Church Council II Magna Carta signed Council of Constance AD 1492 begins, Hus and Columbus sails Wycliffe censured to America AD 1123 AD 1380 AD 1215 AD 1275 Lateran Catherine of AD 1478 Lateran Council IV Marco Polo Council I Siena dies Spanish Inquisition goes to China begins AD 1153 AD 1309-1377 St. Bernard dies AD 1245 Avignon Papacy Timeline Legend Council of Lyons I Church Councils AD 1311-1312 Council of Vienne Saints General Copyright May 2009 Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend Church History Timeline AD 1500 to 2000 See cut-out timeline labeled AD 1500 to 1750 AD 2008 World Youth Day AD 2006 in Sydney, World Youth Day Australia in Cologne, Germany AD 2008 Pope Benedict AD 2001 visits America World Trade Towers in New York are attacked AD 2005 1600 1700 1800 1900 2000 Pope John Paul II dies and Pope Benedict XVI is elected as his successor AD 2005 United States Catholic Catechism for Adults promulgated Timeline Legend See cut-out timeline labeled AD 1750 to 2000 Church Councils Saints General Copyright May 2009 Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend Church History Timeline AD 1500 to 1750 Renaissance and Reform Age of Exploration Age of Enlightenment AD 1511 First diocese in the "New AD 1552 AD 1611 World" AD 1642 St. Francis Johann Kepler Galileo dies Xavier dies AD 1582 discovers the law of motion of planets AD 1512 St. Theresa of Avila dies AD 1642 Lateran Council V North American AD 1614 Martyrs begin St. Peter's in AD 1519 work Rome Magellan starts sailing AD 1611 completed AD 1712 French priests AD 1649 First Steam AD 1750 AD 1519 begin working Maryland passes Engine Bach dies AD 1618 Zwingli begins his with Miami the Act of Thirty Years War movement Indians Toleration begins AD 1517 1550 1600 1650 1700 1750 Martin Luther AD 1634 posts his 95 AD 1545 AD 1594 English colonists Theses Council of Trent AD 1680 Palestrina arrive in Maryland St. Kateri dies AD 1531 Tekakwitha dies Our Lady of AD 1630 Guadalupe Taj Mahal AD 1536 AD 1617 appears to St. completed King Henry VIII has St. Rose of Juan Diego Parliament declare Lima dies him leader of the AD 1629 AD 1533 church in England Rationalism Timeline Legend St. Thomas More becomes popular martyred AD 1536 Church Councils Calvin begins his AD 1621 movement St. Robert Saints AD 1508 Bellarmine dies Michelangelo begins painting the Sistine Chapel General Copyright May 2009 Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend Church History Timeline AD 1750 to 2000 Age of Enlightenment Modern Era AD 1917 AD 1791 St. Frances Xavier Cabrini dies Mozart dies AD 1859 John Vianney dies AD 1917 AD 1845 Our Lady appears to three children AD 1790 AD 1865 Communist in Fatima, Portugal French Gregor Mendel AD 1968 Manifesto government studies genetics AD 1933 Humanae Vitae written takes control of Vatican AD 1957 promulgated by Paul VI AD 1869-1870 Church property Concordat Russian satellite First Vatican with Hitler "Sputnik" launched Council AD 1845 AD 1790 First Catholic AD 1948 AD 1969 AD 1793 AD 1929 Diocese of Fort school in the Israel is Neil Armstrong is the First priest AD 1876 Lateran Treaty Wayne created diocese is built in made its first man on the moon ordained in the Telephone with Mussolini Fort Wayne own nation United States invented AD 1927 AD 1992 1800 1850AD 1860 1900AD 1926 1950 2000 Bl. Miguel Catechism of the AD 1776 Cathedral of the Television Immaculate Pro Catholic Church Colonists in America AD 1814 invented Conception built martyred AD 1962-1965 promulgated declare independence Napoleon Second Vatican exiled AD1858 Council AD 1789 Mary appears to French Revolution St. Bernadette in AD 1941 AD 1978 begins Lourdes, France St. Maximilian Kolbe Pope John Paul II elected martyred AD 1812 War of 1812 AD 1898 AD 1854 Spanish- AD 1945 Timeline Legend World War II ends AD 1839 Immaculate Conception American First permanent declared dogma War starts Church Councils Catholic Church AD 1950 in America built Assumption AD 1903 Saints First successful flight of declared dogma the Wright brothers General Copyright May 2009 Diocese of Fort Wayne – South Bend .
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