1054 -
Church split East - West
1077 - Emperor submits to Pope
Gregorius VII over investiture
1093 - Anselm becomes Archbishop
of Cantebury
1094 - First Crusade launched by
Council of Clermont
1115 - Bernard founds monastery at
Claivaux
1173 - Waldensian movement begins
1208 - Francis of Assisi renounces
wealth
1215 - Magna Carta
1215 - Pope Innocentius III
assembles Fourth Lateran Council
1220 - Dominican Order established
1232 - Pope Gregory IX appoints
first "inquisitors"
1272 - Thomas Aquina's Summa
Theologiae
1302 - "Unam Sanctum"
proclaims papal supremacy
1309 - Papacy begins Babylonian
exile in Avignon
1378 - Great Papal Schism begins
1380 - Wyclif supervises English
Bible translation
1414 - Council of Constance begins
1415 - Hus burned at stake
1431 - Joan of Arc burned at stake
1453 - Constantinople falls; end
of Eastern Roman Empire
1456 - Gutenberg produces first
printed Bible
1488 - First complete Hebrew Old
Testament
1506 - Work begins on new
St.Peter's in Rome
1516 - Erasmus publishes Greek new
Testament
AGE OF REFORMATION
1517 - Martin Luther posts his
Ninety-Five Theeses
1518 - Ulrich Zwingli comes to
Zurich
1525 - Tyndale's New Testament
published
1525 - Anabaptist movement begins
1526 - Schleitheim Confession of
Faith
1530 - Augsburg Confession
1534 - Act of Supremacy; Henry
VIII heads English Church
1535 - Menno Simons baptized as
Anabaptist
1536 - Calvin publishes first
edition of Institutes
1540 - Loyola gains approval for
Society of Jesus
1545 - Council of Trent begins
1549 - Book of Common Prayer
released
1549 - Xavier begins mission to
Japan
1555 - Peace of Augsburg
1555 - Latimer and Ridley burned
at stake
1559 - John Knox final return to
Scotland
1563 - First text of Thirty-Nine
Articles issued
1582 - Ricci and Ruggieri begins
mission in China
1589 - Moscow becomes independent
patriarchate
1609 - Smyth baptizes self and
first Baptists
1610 - Kings James Version of
Bible published
1646 - Westminister Confession
drafted
1647 - George Fox begins to preach
THE AGE OF REVIVAL
1678 - Bunyan writes The Pilgrim
Progress
1729 - Jonathan Edwards ministry
begins
1732 - First Moravian missionaries
1735 - George Whitefield converted
1738 - John & Charles Wesley's
conversion
1771 - Francis Asbury sent to
America
1780 - Robert Raikes begins his
Sunday School
THE AGE OF PROGRESS
1739 - William Carey sails for
India
1804 - British and Foreign Bible
Society formed
1816 - Adoniram Judson begins
mission trip
1827 - J.N.Darby founds the
Plymouth Brethren
1833 - Launching of Oxford
Movement
1840 - David Livingston sails for
Africa
1854 - Immaculate Conception made
dogma
1855 - D.L.Moody converted
1865 - Hudson Taylor founds China
Inland Mission
1870 - First Vatical Council
declares papal infalliability
1878 - William & Catherine
Booth founds Salvation Army
1886 - Student Volunteer Movement
begins
1896 - Billy Sunday begins leading
revivals
1901 - Speaking in tongues at
Parham's Bible School
1906 - Azusa Street revival
1907 - Federal Council of Churches
forms
1910 - International Mission
Conference begins
1911 - Social Creed of the
Churches adopted
1919 - Karl Barth writes
Commentary on Romans
1924 - First Christian radio
broadcasts
1930 - C.S.Lewis comes to faith in
Christ
1934 - Barmen Declaration
1934 - Wycliffe Bible Translators
founded
1940 - First Christian TV
broadcasts
1941 - Bultmann calls for
demythologization
1947 - Dead Sea Scrolls discovered
1948 - World Council of Churches
organized
1949 - Los Angeles Crusade
catapults Billy Graham
1950 - Assumption of mary made
dogma
1962 - Vatican Council II opens
1968 - Medellin Conference
advances liberation theology
1974 - Lausanne Congress on World
Evangelization
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