Date Description
33 Jesus is crucified for our sins. He rises in 3 days as He said He would.
34 Saint Stephen is martyred.
35 Saint Paul is called by our Lord.
50 Council of Jerusalem. Acts 15
67 Saint Peter and Saint Paul martyred in Rome. Later Saint Peter's Basilica is built on Peter's tomb.
70 The Temple in Jerusalem is destroyed by the Romans.
81 Domitian persecution begins.
248 Saint Cyprian becomes Bishop of Carthage
248 Saint Cyprian of Carthage becomes bishop. In Sept 14, 258 he was martyred.
249 Decius begins empire wide persecutions.
257 Valerian persecution begins
275 Saint Anthony of the Desert starts the desert father type monasticism.
293 Saint Athanasius is born. He is considered a champion of orthodoxy.
313 Constantine signs edict of Milan allowing the unpersecuted practice of Christianity.
315 Arian controversy begins.
325 Council of Nicaea is called to combat Arianism. Nicene creed is drafted.
339 Saint Ambrose is born. He later becomes Bishop of Milan
350 Saint Nicholas of Myra dies. He is known for his great generosity and great miracles.
353 Saint Basil the Great starts a system for monasticism in the east.
366 Saint Damasus becomes Pope
370 Saint Ephrem of Syria meets with Saint Basil in Cappadocia. He is a Doctor of the Church.
379 SaintGregory Nazianzen become Patriarch of Constantinople.
381 Council of Constantinople I.
382 Council of Rome under Pope Damasus puts together first canon of scriptures.
386 Saint Cyril of Jerusalem dies after being a pillar of orthodoxy. He is a Doctor of the Church.
387 The conversion of Saint Augustine.
397 Saint Ambrose, the great Latin Father of the Church dies.
398 Saint John Chrysostom becomes Patriarch of Constantinople.
398 Saint John Chrysostom is made bishop of Constantinople. He is known for his Golden Mouth of preaching.
405 Saint Jerome completes translation of the Latin Vulgate.
405 Pope Saint Innocent I reaffirms Council of Rome and Pope Damsus.
410 Alaric and the Visgoths sack Rome.
412 Saint Cyril of Alexandria becomes Patriarch of Alexandria. He is a great champion of the Council of Ephesus.
432 Saint Patrick comes to Ireland as Bishop.
440 Saint Leo the Great becomes Pope
449 Council of Ephesus. Declared Nestorianism and Pelagianism heresies.
451 Council of Chalcedon. Declared two natures of Christ
493 Theodoric begins a 36 year rule of what is now known as Italy.
525 Saint Brigid of Kildare dies. She starts the first community of nuns in Ireland.
527 Justinian becomes emperor of the Eastern Roman Empire and later 537 constructs the Hagia Sophia.
529 Saint Benedict starts a monastery at Monte Cassino.
543 Saint Columban the Irish monk is born.
570 Muhammad the heretic is born who would later start the violent religion of Islam.
590 Gregory the Great becomes Pope.
642 Egypt falls to Muslims.
649 Saint Maximus the Confessor fights the Monothelite heresy at the Lateran Synod in Carthage.
664 Synod of Whitby, disputes between the Celtic Church and English Church are settled.
675 Saint Boniface is born. He is known as bringing Christianity to Germany.
699 Muslims begin 5 year siege against Constantinople but are finally defeated.
711 Muslim invaders land near Gibralter.
726 Eastern Emperor Leo condemns the use of Icons ignorantly. The Church would later condemn his actions.
732 Charles Martel stops invasion of Europe by the Muslims.
756 Pepin gives Pope Stephen the Papal states.
787 Council of Nicea II defend the use of Holy Icons.
793 Vikings attack Lindsfarne monastery marking the beginning of Viking invasions.
800 Pope Leo III crown Charlemagen King.
909 Reform at Cluny takes place with a revival of monasticism.
992 Poland becomes Christian.
1054 Schism between Eastern Church and Western Church heats up.
1057 Pope Nicholas institutes the conclave for the election of later Popes.
1071 The Muslims attack and conquer the Christian Holy Lands including Jerusalem.
1093 Saint Anselm becomes Archbishop of Canterbury. He is a Doctor of the Church.
1096 First Crusade begins and takes back the Holy Land from the Muslim invaders.
1123 First Lateran Council is called.
1133 The Muslims invade the latin kingdom of Edessa.
1170 Saint Thomas Becket is martyred.
1170 Saint Dominic is born. He later starts his Dominican order. Order of preachers.
1182 Saint Francis is born. He later starts his order of the Franciscans.
1187 The Muslim Saladin recaptures Jerusalem.
1190 Third Crusade lead by Richard the Lionhearted takes the city of Jaffa and arranges safe passage for Christians.
1200 The general timeframe known as the rise of the University. Many Cathedrals would start to build schools.
1224 Saint Francis receives the stigmata. He dies in 1226.
1225 Saint Thomas Aquinas the great Angelic Doctor is born.
1231 Saint Anthony of Padua dies. Is is known as the Hammer of Heretics and is a Doctor of the Church.
1273 Saint Bonaventure becomes cardinal-bishop by Pope Gregory X.
1309 Papacy moves to Avignon France
1324 The heretic John Wyclif is born. He would be one of the first to defy Papal authority with any success.
1342 Julian of Norwich is born. She becomes a great mystic in the Church.
1347 Black Death begins.
1347 Saint Catherine of Sienna is born. She has an influence on moving the Papacy back to Rome.
1369 John Huss is the heretic who would also defy the Church and her authority.
1377 Papacy moves back to Rome.
1412 Saint Joan of Arc is born in Domremy France. She would defeat the British and see the dauphin Charles crowned
1431 Saint Joan of Arc is burned at the stake. In 1456 her trial was annulled because of its invalidity.
1452 Leonardo da Vinci is born.
1453 Constantinople falls to the evil invading Muslim armies. After over 700 years of trying they finally succeed.
1455 Wars of the Roses begins.
1456 Guttenburg Bible is printed on first printing press.
1475 Michelangelo is born.
1478 The inquisition in Spain began by Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand.
1484 Heretic Ulrich Zwingli is born. He advocates the heresy Sola Scriptura and the denial of the Real Presence.
1485 Wars of the Roses ends.
1492 Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand end Muslim rule in the south of Spain and unite the country.
1492 Columbus lands in America.
1509 Henry the VIII becomes king of England.
1513 Ponce de Leon lands on the east coast of Florida looking for the "fountain of youth".
1515 Saint Philip Neri is born.
1517 Martin Luther the heretic issues his 95 Theses.
1519 Conquistadores invade North American mainland.
1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated by Pope Leo X.
1521 Saint Peter Canisius is born. He almost single handedly evangelizes central Europe.He was a Jesuit.
1531 Our Lady appears to Saint Jaun Diego in Mexico. Our Lady of Guadalupe.
1533 King Henry VIII starts his own Church of England.
1535 Saint Thomas More is beheaded by the arch-heretic Henry VIII.
1540 Saint Ignatius of Loyola starts The Jesuit order.
1541 Heretic John Calvin starts Presbyterian theocracy in Geneva. He incorrectly defines doctrine of predestination.
1542 Saint John of the Cross is born and continues with Saint Teresa of Avila to spread Carmelite spirituality.
1542 Saint Francis Xavier a Jesuit arrives in India.
1545 Council of Trent begins. It continues with meetings until it is closed in 1563.
1560 Saint Charles Borromeo becomes a cardinal. He was instrumental at the Council of Trent.
1562 Saint Teresa of Avila establishes Carmelite order.
1565 The Spanish settle Saint Augustine Florida.
1567 Saint Francis de Sales is born.
1570 Queen Elizabeth is formally excommunicated and she begins a terrible persecution of Catholics in England.
1574 Saint Margaret Clitherow becomes Catholic in England and hides priests. She is caught and pressed to death!
1581 Saint Vincent de Paul is born.
1581 Saint Edmund Campion is tortured and killed in London.
1582 Beginning of Gregorian calendar.
1586 Saint Rose of Lima was born. She is the patron saint of South America.
1599 Saint Robert Bellarmine becomes Cardinal.
1608 Telescope is invented by Hans Lippershey Netherlands
1618 Thirty Years War begins. It starts a system of established Nation States in Europe.
1620 Pilgrims land in Massachusetts.
1641 Saint Claude de la Columbiere is born. He becomes a great Jesuit saint.
1646 Death of Saint Isaac Jogues. He was killed by an Iroqois warrior in Canada.
1651 Saint John Baptist de la Salle is born. He starts schools for children.
1688 King James II is forced out of England. All hope of Catholicism in England is lost.
1715 Jacobite rising
1732 Saint Alphonsus Liguori founds the Redemptorist order.
1750 Blessed Junipero Serra goes to Mexico City. He later sets up 21 missions in California.
1776 Declaration of Independence of America.
1780 Benjamin Franklin invents bifocal lenses.
1787 US Constitution is drafted.
1788 John Carroll is the first Bishop of the United States.
1789 French Revolution begins.
1789 George Washington becomes first president of the US.
1793 Reign of Terror in France holds up the Godess of Reason. Saints days and Christmas are removed from calender.
1801 John Henry Newman was born. He would be an Anglican convert to Catholicism. He becomes a great scholar.
1804 Reign of Napoleon begins.
1804 Pope Pius VII is taken prisoner by Napoleon when he goes to visit him in France.
1809 Saint Elizabeth Ann Seton establishes Catholic School in US.
1815 Saint John Vianney is ordained a priest. He is known as the Cure of Ars.
1815 Napoleon defeated at Waterloo.
1833 Oxford movement in England begins.
1834 Refrigeration is invented.
1839 Pope Gregory XVI condemns the African slave trade.
1848 Trappist monks start monastery in Kentucky. Abbey of Gethsemane.
1848 Marx writes communist manifesto.
1858 Saint Bernadette has vision of Our Lady at Lourdes France.
1858 Saint Katherine Drexel is born in Philadelphia. She forms Sisters of the Blessed Sacrament.
1858 First telegraph across the Atlantic is completed.
1863 Saint John Bosco starts the Salesian order.
1869 Vatican Council I
1870 Italy becomes a nation.
1873 Saint Damien goes to Molokai to help the leper colony. He dies in 1889 on the island.
1873 Saint Therese of Liseux is born. She dies in 1897 at 24.
1876 First speech tranmitted by telephone.
1877 James Cardinal Gibbons is made Archbishop of Baltimore.
1877 Phonograph is invented by Thomas A. Edison U.S.
1878 Pope Leo XIII becomes Pope. He formulates a Catholic on the working classes. Encyclical Rerum Novarum
1879 Albert Einstein is born.
1879 Light bulb is invented by Thomas A. Edison. US
1885 The bicycle invented by James Starley in England
1895 First motion picture shown in Paris.
1896 Pope Leo declares Anglican orders no longer valid.
1903 First flight of the Wright Bros.
1905 The French government suppresses Catholicism and closes over 13000 schools!
1907 Pope Pius X writes encyclical Pascendi Dominici Gregis. Condemning modernism.
1913 The radio receiver is invented by Reginald A. Fessenden in the US.
1914 World War I begins
1917 Fatima Portugal Our Lady appears.
1917 Lenin takes the reigns of the Russin revolution.
1918 World War I ends.
1922 Mussolini becomes dictator of Italy.
1927 Saint Miguel Pro was martyred by firing squad as he held out his arms in the form of a cross in Mexico.
1929 Black Tuesday stock market crash that leads to the Great Depression.
1937 Pope Pius XI writes an encyclical condemning Hitler and his violation of a concordat to the Vatican.
1939 World War II begins in Europe.
1941 Saint Maximilian Kolbe gives his life for another prisoner in Auschwitz.
1945 World War II ends.
1948 Thomas Merton writes his book the Seven Story Mountain,
1948 Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta starts the Missionaries of Charity.
1948 State of Israel proclaimed.
1949 Pope Pius XII declares that any Catholic that joins the Communist party will be excommunicated.
1953 Pope Pius XII allows evening Masses. During WWII he helps smuggle Jews away form the Germans.
1962 Pope John XXIII calls the council of Vatican II.
1962 Cuban missile crisis.
1963 Pope John XXIII dies.
1963 Pope Paul VI is elected Pope. He continues Vatican II.
1963 John F Kennedy assassinated
1964 Pope Paul VI removes the excommunication of the Eastern Church.
1978 Pope John I becomes Pope. He dies only 13 days later.
1978 Pope John Paul II becomes Pope.
1979 Blessed Mother Teresa of Calcutta receives Nobel Peace Prize.
1981 Pope John Paul II is shot at St. Peters.
2001 September 11th. Muslims attack the US and destroy World Trade Center. This begins the War on Terror.
2005 Pope Benedict XVI becomes Pope.