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4BC-34BC Time of Christ64-68 Nero persecuted the Christians 81-96 Domitian Persecution 95-100 The Birkat Haminim is added to the Jewish standing prayer (Amidah), which intimidated Christians100s-200s? Earliest traces of Jewish mysticism (kabbalism) and rise of gnosticism98-138 Trajan and Hadrian Persecutions115-140 Epistle of Barnabas written in Alexandria; first anti-Sabbath literature; Christians in Alexandria begin to replace Sabbath with Sunday to disassociate themselves from the Jews130 Rome and Alexandria keep SundayBarnabas of Alexandria advocates Sunday133-190 Athenagoras of Athens believes we have immortal souls135 Hadrian outlaws circumcision and Sabbath keeping 140 Marcionite and Modalism Heresy144 Marcion promotes an anti-Jewish Sabbath fast 150 Adoptionism Heresy 150 Justin Martyr in Rome advocates Sunday keepingNote: However, he believed in soul sleep rather than immortal souls160-220 Tertullian promotes the idea of immortal souls 161-180 Marcus Aurelius Antoninus Persecution166 Sunday celebration of Pascha introduced by Pope Soter185-245 Origen modifies the bible to suite his own beliefs190 Pope Victor I makes Easter Sunday official 202-210 Septimus Severus Persecution235-238 Maximus and Thracian Persecution 249-251 Decius Persecution 252 Manicheans celebrate Sunday in honor of the sun257-260 Valerian Persecution 270-275 Aurelian Persecution 274 the cult of Deus Sol is popular in Rome. Dies Natali Invicti was celebrated on December 25 (Sun's birthday)285 Roman empire divided by Diocletian 300 Arianism Heresy 303-324 Diocletian and Galerius severe Persecution 310-390 Apollinarianism Heresy 312 Constantine, the first "Christian" Pontifex Maximus.Christianity becomes legal312 Paganism seemingly abandoned, yet their doctrines were adopted314-335 Pope Sylvester 's expresses Anti-Jewish sentiments of the Sabbath321 Constantine's Sunday Law325 First Council of Nicaea326 Aphrodite worship becomes Mary Worship331 Constantine ordered that an ‘ecumenical Bible’ be written 331 Constantinople is the new capital350 Julius declares dec 25 as Christ's birthday, Saturnalia becomes Christmas354-430 Augustine of Hippo promotes the idea of eternal torment in hell364 Vigilantius preaching in Cottian Alps 364 Council of Laodicea condemns Sabbath-resting as "Judaizing"Solemnity of the Sabbath supposedly transfered to Sunday 375 Use of images. Veneration of angels & the dead375-454 Eutycheanism Heresy 380 Emperor Theodosus makes Nicene Christianity official religionThe other sects lost the right to meet, ordain priests, or spread their beliefs.382 Emperor Gratian urged by St. Ambrose to confer the ancient, pagan title of Pontifex Maximus upon Damasus I, Bishop of Rome. 385 Priscillian, first executed heretic400s Saturday and Sunday observed 410 Council of Seleucia431 Council of Ephesus sanctioned devotion to the Virgin as Theotokos440 Pope Leo I began using the title Pontifex Maximus to emphasize the civil authority of the Pope and the continuity of imperial power 451 Nestorianism Heresy476 Fall of the (western) Roman Empire492 Pope Gelasius I refereed to as Vicar 508 Clovis the king of France converts to Catholicism 500-700 Franks become most powerful 527 War with Persia 532-577 Asiacus leads crusade against Asia Minor 533 Belisarius captrures North Africa 533 Justinian declares Pope John as head of all churches534-870 Malta becomes Roman Catholic province 536 Reoccupation of Rome by Belisarius 537–538 First Siege of Rome 538 Vigilius, first Byzantine pope538 Emperor Justinian the Great, via deportations and force, manages to get all five patriarchates offcially into communion 538 The Third Synod of Orleans. Though it deplored Jewish Sabbath as a superstition, field labor was forbidden 539-562 Second war with Persia 553 Monophysitism Heresy553 the Ostrogoths in Italy are decisively defeated, and Byzantine rule overthe peninsula is established585 The Second Synod of Macon, Sunday observance 589 The Council of Narbonne, strict Sunday observance603 future Pope Boniface III is appointed papal legate to Constantinople. 607 Pope Boniface III obtained a decree from Phocas which restated that "the See of Blessed Peter the Apostle should be the head of all the Churches". This ensured that the title of "Universal Bishop" belonged exclusively to the Bishop of Rome.610 Boniface IV converts Pantheon, Rome into a church 610 The rise of Islam638 Monothelitism Heresy 715-731 Pope Gregory II decrees Sunday observance 750 Pope speaking for God756 Pepin the Short defeats the Lombards of northern Italy, who have threatened Pope Stephen II. The Donation of Pepin is a cession of lands including Ravenna that will become the basis of the Papal States. 768-814 Charlemagne, German Holy Roman Empire 788 Charlemagne: labor on "Lord's Day" forbidden788 Worship of idols 772 leo iii forces conversion 800 Doctrine of Indulgences800 Waldensian forebears in the Valleys of Piedmont (?)800 Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor by Pope Leo III817- 839 Claude Bishop of Turin; opponent of images etc.Taught Justification by Faith alone; Basis for a Waldensian Church.945 Atto, Bishop of Vercelli near Turin, describes "Vaudois" as sorcerers.1050 observance of Mass1054 The east-west schism1095-1272 Crucades1096 Half the Jews in Worms, Germany slaughtered1098 almost all of the inhabitants of the city of Antioch slaughtered1099 70,000 Muslims and Jews massacred1100-25 Pierre de Bruis evangelising southern France and Dauphiny1119 Knights Templar1120 The Waldensians identify the antichrist1126 de Bruis burnt at St Giles. -his followers, Petrobrussians, persecuted1147 Waldensian persecution1155 Arnold of Brescia, leader of the Publicani, burnt at the stake1173 Peter Waldo converted .; establishes the "Poor Men of Lyon"1183 Lucius III Excommunicates Poor Men of Lyons, aka "Vaudois" 1190 Selling Indulgences1190 Waldensian community at Darenth (Dartford), Kent.1200 Many sects in Northern Italy, Southern France (Dauphiny) inc.Cathari, Paterini, Umiliati, Publicani. - loosely called Cathari..Post 1183 Petrobrussians, `Cathari ` and some `Vaudois` form the Albigenses in French Valleys.1207 Crusade against the Albigenses for next thirty years; some escape to join the Waldensians ;"The Poor Men of Lombardy" formed.1208 – 1226 The Albigensian Crusades in southern France.Arnaud Amalric says "kill them all, God will sort them out"1212 Strassburg Germany. At least 80 heretics burned1215 confession to priests1217 Waldo dies in Bohemia1236 Jews slaughtered in the Anjou and Poitou1243 Jews burned alive in Berlitz, Germany 1227 Pope Gregory IX establishes inquisition courts 1229 Bible forbidden to be interpreted ("heresy" fears) 1231 Papal Inquisition 1251 Pope Innocent IV authorizes the use of torture1297 First Waldensian Martyr, a woman, burnt at Pinerolo 1311 Sprinkle baptism1312 Under pressure from King Philip, Pope Clement V disbanded the Knights Templar1315 Waldensian settlement in Calabria, southern Italy, established and prospers 1370 Brussels Jews are burned 1384 Wycliffe translates bible 1401 England authorized the burning of Lollards1402 John Seygno tried in English court for, among other things, observing seventh-day Sabbath1407 Rosicrucian order 1415 Huss, the Czech reformer, is burned at the stake1425 wyclife dug up and burned 1433 hussite persecution 1439 Purgatory 1450 first bible printed 1476 Pope Sixtus IV, indulgences to souls in purgatory 1480-1524 14,344 burned at the stake 1480 spanish inquisition1481 the Vatican Manuscript found1492 Columbus discovers America 1498 10,200 burned. 97,000 perpetual imprisonment.1504 Ivan Kuritsin and other Sabbath-keeping reformers are burned to death in Moscow1517 Martin Luther posts his 95 theses on the church door of Wittenberg1517 The Council of Lateran, belief in an immortal soul becomes official1522 The Lutheran Church founded by Martin Luther1523 August. Jean Vallière. Protestant martyr 1524 John Clark beaten, tortured, burned1525 Felix Manz, Conrad Grebel, George Blaurock and others form the Swiss Brethren Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, Switzerland1529 Andreas Fischer, Sabbath-keeping Anabaptist preacher, survives hanging at Tschitschva Castle1534 Calvinism1534 The Anglican Church of England founded by King Henry VIII1535 Death by fire for Anabaptists 1534 Bible translated by Tyndale using textus receptusNote: Tyndale believed in soul sleep 1536 William Tyndale strangled and burned1540 Andreas Fischer is murdered in Slovakia1540 the Jesuit Order was founded to counter the reformation1542 Paul III authorizes the Roman Inquisition1542 Calvin refutes the belief in soul sleep 1545 Tradition as infallible 1546 Anne Askew, denied transsubstantiation1546 Oswald Glaidt, a sabbath-keeper, executed by drowning at Vienna1549 Portuguese Hombre Cards end up in Japan1555-1558 Fires of Smithfield1555 Roman Inquisition. Paul IV1558 Puritanism movement 1560 Goa Inquisition1560 Constantino Ponce de la Fuenta, Spanish priest who taught observance of seventh-day Sabbath, dies in Inquisition prison1562 Huguenot persecution and Massacre at Vassy 1572 St Bartholomew's Day Massacre1580 The Presbyterian Church founded by John Knox in Scotland1582 The Congregational Church founded by Robert Brown in Holland1588 defeat of the Spanish Armada1600s Arminianism vs Calvinism1606 The Baptist Church founded by John Smyth in Amsterdam1610 New England Sunday law with death penalty1617 John Traske, early English "Seventh-day Man," arrested in London 1620 The Pilgrims arrive at New England1628 Theophilus Brabourne publishes first English-language book promoting seventh-day Sabbath1636 Rhode Island was founded by Roger Williams1647 Religious Society of Friends ("Quakers") founded by George Fox in England1671 First Seventh Day Baptist church established in America by Mumfords and friends (Newport, Rhode Island)1675 Philipp Jakob Spener, Father of Pietism 1685 French Roman Catholic soldiers slaughter approximately 500,000 Huguenots on the orders of Roman Catholic King Louis XIV1682 Peter Chamberlen, prominent English physician and "Seventh-day Man," blames pope for changing the Sabbath from Saturday to Sunday1684 Francis Bamfield, one of the "Seventh-day Men," dies in London prison after his arrest for preaching to Sabbath-keeping congregation 1686 Duke of Savoy forced to persecute the Waldenses 1693 Swiss Brethren remain Mennonites, Jakob Ammann starts Amish movement1715 Persecution of protestants in Rineland1717 The Masonics Grand Lodge of England was founded.1720 Conrad Beisel, Sabbath-keeping founder of Ephrata Cloister, arrives in Pennsylvania1724-1764 Huguenot persecution continues 1730 Polish Jews persecuted1740s Emanuel Swedenborg practices mysticism1755 Lisbon Earthquake1774 Methodism founded by John & Charles Wesley in England1770s Mesmer develops animal magnetism (mesmerism) 1776 The illuminati is founded by Adam Weishaupt1780 unexpected dark day1793 Bible is banned in France1797 Bible banning is removed1798 Pope Pius VI imprisoned1800s Jean-Baptiste Lamarck proposes a theory of evolution 1803 Napoleon abolishes Holy Roman Empire1809 Napoleon I of France orders the annexation of the Papal States to the French Empire. When he announces that the Pope's secular power has ended, the Pope excommunicates him.1830s Transcendentalism1832 Skull and Bones (Chapter 322) 1834 Spanish Inquisition eradicated1840s Spiritualism1842 James Braid to develops hypnosis based on Mesmer's ideas1844 Adventist Movement1844 The Sinaitic manuscript found, agrees with Vatican manuscript1859 Evolution: Charles Darwin began publishes On the Origin of Species.1870 End of Papal States1872 Bohemian Club1875 Helena Blavatsky founds the Theosophical Society1880s Marxism(see how this relates to freemasonry)1881 The Westcott and Hort Greek text was introduced1889 Fusajiro Yamauchi founded Nintendo Koppai1898 The first commercial motion picture is produced1902 The Pilgrim Society1906 The Food and Drug Administration1910s Hollywood's film industry is born1912 The Titanic sunk by its Jesuit captain1913 The Federal Reserve1914-1918 WWI1920s The Television is invented1920 The Royal Institute of International Affairs(see the round table)1921 Council on Foreign Relations1923 Walt Disney Company founded1929 Wall Street crashes1929 Mussolini signs Lateran Treaty, making Vatican City a sovereign stateCirca 1938 – 1945Catholic dictators such as Adolf Hitler and Monsignor Tiso slaughter approximately six million Jews in Europe prior to and during World War 2.1941 – 1945The Roman Catholic Ustashi in the fascist state of Croatia butcher up to one million Serbian Orthodox Christians. Roman Catholic killer squads are often led by Franciscan priests, monks, and friars. This genocide is choreographed by two Jesuit prelates: Aloysius Stepinac and Ivan Saric.1945 United Nations1948 World Council of Churches is founded1954 Bilderberg Group1955 Jesuit Pierre Teilhard de Chardin has his evolutionary views published1961 Atlantic Council1968 Club of Rome1971 First personal computer1973 Trilateral Commission1991 World Wide Web