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Church History II

On Church History

33 Jesus Death, burial, and resurrection.
50 The Jerusalem Council.  (See Acts 15)
67 Peter and Paul executed in Rome.
70 The destruction of the Temple in Jerusalem.
90 Clement of Rome writes to Corinth.
94 Polycarp writes to Philippi
95 John writes the book of Revelation.
105 Ignatius writes his seven epistles
120 The Apostle John dies and is buried in Ephesus.
130 Mathetes writes in defense of Christianity.
140 Polycarp Martyred.
140 Papias writes on the saying of the Lord.
150 Justin Martyr writes in defense of Christianity.
165 Titian leaves the church to found the Gnostic Encratites
177 Athenagorius
178 Irenaeus writes the 5 volumes "Against Heresies"  Anti-Gnostic.
198 Clement of Alexandria
200c Gnostic gospels written (double predestinationism)
325 The Council of Nicea.
325 Eusibius of Cesseria writes the "Ecclesiastical History" of the Church.
390 Jovinians teach celibacy is no better than being married, a person baptized with the Spirit as well as with water cannot sin; all sins are equal; and denied the perpetual virginity Mary
395 Vigilantians condemned the veneration of images and relics, invocation of the Saints, celibacy of the clergy; and monasticism: and held it useless to pray for the dead.
600c Muhammad and the birth of Islam
657 Paulicians teach a plurality of Gods, all matter is evil; rejected the Old Testament; denied the Incarnation; Christ was an angel, saved by faith in Christ alone, transmigration of souls; denied the sacraments; and refused to honor the Cross since they believed that Christ had not been crucified.
800c The Holy Roman Empire was formed.
900c The first wave of Gypsies migrate from Southern India.
1054 The Schism. Separation of the Eastern Orthodox Church from the Roman Catholic.
1119 The creation of the Templars.
1173 Waldensians oppose purgatory, indulgences, prayers for the dead, war, capital punishment and oaths.
1209 The Albigensian Crusade. (Cathari teach Gnosticism and Doseticism, survivors flee to Austria)
1215 II Latern Council, Condemned the Cathari and the Waldenses, formed the Inquisition, and defined transubstantiation.
1220 Dominican order was founded.
1307 The destruction of the Templars. (survivors flee to Scotland)
1380 John Wycliffe translated the bible into English, attacked transubstantiation, Indulgences, Auricular Confession, Extreme Unction and Holy Orders. He taught Sola Scriptura, and that the Church was composed only of the predestined. Prayer and sacraments benefited only the predestined, and sins could not harm them. No temporal or ecclesiastical superior had authority when he was in a state of mortal sin; Wycliffe's followers, called Lollards, formed Cells
1414 Council of Constance, Condemned Hussites (John Huss taught the same as Wycliffe except he affirmed transubstantiation.)
1439 Council of Florence, Temporary reunion of East and West
1478 Spanish Inquisition was founded.
1500c The Tarot appears
1517 Martin Luther (consubstantiation)
1534 Calvin begins teaching the five points (Augustinianism) focusing on the sovereignty of God.
1540 Jesuit order was founded.
1545 The council of Trent
1548 Theodore Beza added the concept of God predestining the fall, and double predestination to Calvinism.
1560 John Knox using Calvinism started the Presbyterian Church in Scotland.
1619 Synod of Dordt rejects Armenianism and affirms Calvinism. (Jacob Armenius was a student of Beza)
1663 Trial of Galileo.
1717 Parliament controls Britain, The Anglican Church is formed. (Birth of the Masonic Lodge)
1738 John Wesley begins preaching Entire Sanctification. (Later Jovinian perfection was added to the doctrine)
1776 USA independence
1806 The Holy Roman Empire was abolished.
1843 Spanish Inquisition ends.
1869  I Vatican - Declares Papal Infallibility
1880c Spiritism and ouija boards, KKK, Mormonism, Christian Science.
1900c Golden Dawn and Alistar Crowley appear.
1906 Pentecostal movement began.
1939-45 Nazi Movement. (Protocols of the Elders of Zion)
1945 The Nag Hammadi Library discovered in Egypt (Gnostic)
1948 Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls and the birth of the state Israel.
1960 Charismatic Movement began.
1965 II Vatican 
1967 Israel takes back the Temple Mount.