60: Gospels of Mark and Matthew written

63: first Christian mission to Britain

90: Gospel of John written

167: missionaries said to have been sent by Pope Eleutherius to convert the Britons to Christianity

209: St. Alban, first British martyr, was killed for his faith

250-336: Arius

256: (Pope) Steven becomes the first head of the Roman church to openly declare succession to Peter and to hold supremacy over all church bishops.

293-373: Athanasius

303: Diocletian orders a general persecution of the Christians

311: Persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire ends

312: Roman Constantine 'converts' to Christianity

313: Edict of Toleration proclaimed at Milan, in which Christianity is made legal throughout the Roman empire

353 Emporer Constantius orders the closing of all pagan temples of the Empire.

395 The Roman Empire divides into two portions, the Eastern being Byzantium.

400: Christianity had thoroughly replaced the old Celtic gods by the close of the 4th Century

451 Council of Chalcedon gives the same authority to the Bishop of Constantinopal as to the bishop of Rome; this is the beginning of the eventual schism between the Eastern and Western churches.

75-77: the Roman conquest of Britain is complete

133: Julius Severus, governor of Britain, is sent to Palestine to crush the revolt

410: Britain gains "independence" from Rome.

450: Beginning of Saxon invasion

597: St Augustine by Pope Gregory sent to convert the pagan English

625: Mohammad begins the Koran

663: Synod of Whitby - Roman Church accepted as the official branch of the faith in England

695-96: laws were set down mainly to deal with ecclesiastical matters - unlawful marriages, heathen practices, neglect of holy days

787: Second Council of Nicea approves of statues in churches, and their veneration.

1032: (Pope) Benedict IX, a teenage boy, made Pope through bribery. He becomes perhaps the worst pope in recorded history and is driven out of Rome by an enraged populace.

1054: The Eastern and Roman church separate with both popes excommunicating each other.

1095: The first of eventually seven crusades begin in the Holy Land at the behest of (Pope) Urban II.

1135: Maimonides, father of modern Sephardic Judaism, born.

1208: St. Francis of Assisi renounces wealth to follow Christ. 1232. (Pope) Gregoory IX appoints the first inquisitors.

1263: Rabbi Moshe Ben Nachmon wins a theological debate in Barcelona over Catholic scholars and is driven out of Spain. Jews thereafter, while forced into theological debates, are restricted in the way they may present arguments.

1272: The last crusade ends.

1290: The Jews are expelled from England by Edward "Longshanks" (the evil king in Braveheart)

1382: John Wyclif publishes the first English Bible translated from the Vulgate.

1456: Gutenburg Bible printed.

1509-1564: Jean Chauvin (Calvin)

1517: Luther nails 95 theses to church door in Wittenberg and Protestant Reformation begins

1545-1564: Council of Trent

1558-9: Elizabethan Settlement & Prayerbook ????

1560-1660: Puritanism in England

1562: Pope Gregory introduces calendar, changing the New Year from April 1 to January 1.

1615-1662: John Biddle

1636: Harvard founded as a religious college.

1637: Samuel Gorton driven from MA for not believing in supernatural heaven and hell

1648: denial of Trinity and deity of Christ is punishable by death in England

1648: The Cambridge Platform by Puritans of Massachusetts Bay Colony - first major statement, leading, eventually, to Congregational Church leading to The Unitarian Church

1609: Baptist church founded in opposition to infant baptism.

1608-1674: John Milton

1611: King James version of Bible

1612-1672: Anne Bradstreet

1632-1704: John Locke

1636: Roger Williams banished from MA; proclaims complete religious freedom in RI

1636: Harvard founded as a religious college.

1640: John Eliot's "Bay Psalm Book (oldest surviving book printed in America)

1643-1727: Isaac Newton

1644: Roger Williams writes book on separation of church and state

1646: Westminister Confession of Faith declaring Church of England under Presbyterian Polity

1648: George Fox founds Society of Friends (Quakers) in England

1649: Maryland passes act of toleration, professing belief in Trinity

1620: Plymouth Colony established

1630: Boston founded by John Winthrop who will become first governor of MA

1633: Galileo is forced to renounce his teachings.

1639: First North American printing press at Cambridge MA

1642-1646: English Civil War

1649: Charles I beheaded; England declared a Commonwealth, English replaces Latin in legal documents

1662: John Biddle dies in English prison

1684: Joseph Gatchell's tongue pierced (in MA) for saying all are saved

1657-1662: "Half-Way Covenant" in New England

1663-1628: Cotton Mather

1668: William Penn publishes "Sandy Foundations Shaken," questioning the doctrine of the Trinity

1683: Mennonites to Pennsylvania

1695: John Locke publishes "The Reasonableness of Christianity"

1696-1787: Ebenezer Gay *

1697: Thomas Aikengead hanged in Scotlant for denying the trinity

1703-1793: George de Benneville *

1705-1787: Charles Chauncy *

1720-1766: Jonathan Mayhew *

1722-1778: James Relly

1733-1804: Joseph Priestley *

1741-1815: John Murray *

1741: George de Benneville to America

1703-1791: John Wesley

1703-1758: Jonathan Edwards

1706: first American Presbytery

1710-1796: Thomas Reid

1719: Dunkers/Brethren to America

1727: Amish emigration to America

1730: Wesleys found Methodist sect

1732: Ehprata Community founded

1738: Wesley to Georgia, then Whitfield as Leader of Great Awakening

1739: Moravian Church in America

1741: Jonathan Edwards preaches "Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God" in Enfield, MA

1743: Sauer Bible (German) published in America

1704: first newspaper to survive in America: "Boston Newsletter"

1706-1790: Benjamin Franklin

1709: 14,000 Germans migrate to America

1732-1799: George Washington

1735-1818: Paul Revere

1743-1826: Thomas Jefferson

1745-1813: Bengamin Rush *

1750-1821: Caleb Rich *

1751-1797: Elhanan Winchester

1751-1820: Judith Sargent Stevens Murray (w)

1759-1979: Marry Wollstonecraft (w)

1759-1835: James Freeman *

1767-1845: Henry Ware

1770: John Murray preaches in Tom Potter's meeting house in NJ

1771-1852: Hosea Ballou *

1774: Essex Street Chapel opens in London

1774-1844: Abner Kneeland *

1774-1863: Mary Moody Emerson (w)

1776-1854: Harm Jan Huidekoper *

1778-1840: Joseph Tuckerman *

1779: first Universalist congregation (in Gloucester, MA) calls John Murray

1779-1835: Maria Cook * (w)

1780-1842: William Ellery Channing *

1784-1812: Joseph Stevens Buckminster *

1785: King's Chapel, Boston, ordains James Freeman, removes Prayer Book references to Trinity

1785: New England Convention (of Universalists)

1786: the Universal Baptist Church in Philadelphia

1786-1852: Andrews Norton *

1789-1860: Paul Dean *

1790: Universalist Articles of Faith

1793-1819: John Emery Abbot *

1794: Joseph Priestey helps establish 2 Unitarian churches in Philadelphia

1794-1843: Henry Ware Jr. *

1794-1874: James Walker *

1795-1863: Convers Francis *

1796-1861: Hosea Ballou II *

1798-1866: Sylvanus Cobb *

1784: American Methodism begins

1790: first Roman Catholic bishop consecrates in US

1752: Britain adopts Gregorian calendar

1765: Brit Stamp Act taxes American colonies - 9 colonies make declaration of rights & liberties

1772: Boston Assembly threatens secession

1775-1783: American Revolution

1789: National Judiciary Act prohibits testimony by those who believe in no Supreme Being nor future rewards and punishments

1790: Philadelphia is federal capital

1793: US law: escaped slaves must be returned to owners

1800-1861: Thomas Whittemore *

1801-1871: Ezra Stiles Gannett *

1802-1880: George Ripley *

1802-1896: William Henry Furness *

1803-1880: Lydia Maria Francis Child * (w)

1803: Winchester Profession of Faith with "Liberty clause"

1803-1876: Orestes Augustus Brownson *

1803-1882: Ralph Waldo Emerson *

1803-1890: Adin Ballou *

1804-1894: Elizabeth Palmer Peabody *

1804-1899: Thomas Jefferson Sawyer *

1805: Hosea Ballou publishes "A Treatise on Atonement"

1805: Henry Ware elected as Chair of Divinity at Harvard

1805-1890: Frederic Henry Hedge *

1810-1888: James Freeman Clarke *

1810-1850: Margaret Fuller *

1810-1860: Theodore Parker *

1810-1884: William Henry Channing *

1811-1887: William Greenleaf Eliot *

1811-1890: Francis Bowen *

1812-1886: Thomas B.Thayer *

1813-1900: Cyrus Agustus Bartol *

1814-1880: Edwin Hubbell Chapin *

1814-1882: Henry Whitney Bellows *

1814-1995: Alonzo Ames Miner *

1815-1879: Ebenezer Fisher *

1816: Harvard Divinity School established

1817-1818: Ballou-Turner debate

1818-1879: John Weiss *

1819: William Ellery Channing preaches "Unitarian Christianity" *

1819-1892: Samuel Longfellow *

1819-1910: Julia Ward Howe *

1820: the Dedham decision, Berry Street Conference begins

1820-1905: Mary Ashton Rice Livermore *

1821-1902: Horatio Stebbins *

1822-1841: Restorationist Controversy

1822-1882: Samuel Johnson *

1822-1895: Octavius Brooks Frothingham *

1823-1911: Thomas Wentworth Higginson *

1823-1912: Robert Collyer *

1824-1864: Thomas Starr King *

1824-1874: Lydia Ann Moulton Jenkins *

1824-1903: Caroline Augusta White Soule *

1800: Church of United Brethren in Christ founded in United States

1807: US Evangelical Association founded by Jacob Albright

1813: toleration of Catholics and antitrinitarians in Great Britain

1817: first New Church/Swedenborgian

1824: Sunday School Union

1803: Louisiana Purchase

1808: US prohibits importation of slaves from Africa

1809-1882: Charles Darwin

1825: AUA formed; British and Foreign UA formed on same day

1825-1921: Antoinette Louisa Brown Blackwell *

1828-1906: Richard Eddy *

1829-1893: William James Potter *

1829-1900: Charles Carroll Everett *

1829-1921: Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford *

1832: Charles Follen introduces Christmas tree to New England

1832-1892: Christopher Pearse Cranch *

1833: Universalist General Convention

1834: Abner Kneeland imprisoned for blaspphemy (atheism) in MA

1834-1937: Jasper Lewis Douthit *

1835-1905: Orello Cone

1835-1926: Olympia Brown *

1836: Ralph Waldo Emerson publishes "Nature"

1836: Transcendentalist club begins

1836-1903: Francis Ellingwood Abbot *

1836-1905: Augusta Jane Chapin *

1837: Emerson publishes "The American Scholar"

1838: Emerson preaches the Divinity School Address *

1838-1917: Isaac Morgan Atwood *

1840-1904: John White Chadwick *

1840-1923: William Channing Gannett *

1841: Theodore Parker preaches "The Transient and the Permanent in Christianity" *

1841-1918: Minot Judson Savage *

1841-1936: Thomas Lamb Eliot *

1842-1901: Joseph H. Jordan *(c)

1842-1936: Jabez Thomas Sunderland *

1843-1918: Jenkin Lloyd Jones *

1843-1929: Charlotte Champe Stearns Eliot *

1844: Meadville Theological School established

1844-1931: Charles William Wendte *

1845-1907: Quillen Hamilton Shinn *

1847: Universalist General Reform Association, Christian Universalist Controversy

1847-1936: Francis Greenwood Peabody *

1848-1919: Celia Parker Woolley *

1827: Plymouth Bretheren founded

1830: Mormons founded by Joseph Smith

1831 London Presbyterian pastors start the Pentecostal/Charismatic movement by encouraging Spiritual Gifts

1845: Baptist schism over slavery

1848: Spiritualism popular in the U.S.

1851-1927: Mary Augusta Safford *

1852: Western Unitarian Conference started

1852-1942: Elizabeth Eleanor Gordon *

1847-1927: Samuel McChord Crothers *

1860:Lydia A.M. Jenkins ordained to Universalist ministry (w)

1860-1935: Charlotte Perkins Gilman (w)

1860-1941: Frank Oliver Hall *

1862-1932: William Wallace Fenn *

1862-1950: Samuel Atkins Eliot *

1863-1929: Joseph Jordan Fletcher *(c)

1865: Olympia Brown ordained to Universalist ministry (w)

1865: National Conference of Unitarian Churches established

1866: "Battle of Syracuse"

1866-1956: Earle Morse Wilbur *

1867: Free Religious Association formed

1868: Phebe Ann Coffin Hanaford ordained to Universalist ministry (w)

1869-1951: John Murray Atwood *

1870-1950: Louis Craig Cornish *

1871: Celia Burleigh ordained to Unitarian ministry

1872: "the Bisbee Affair"

1872-1935: William Laurence Sullivan *

1873: James Freeman Clarke publishes "Ten Great Religions"

1873-1962: Charles Edwards Park *

1874: "Yearbook Controversy"

1875-1956: Egbert Ethelred Brown *(c)

1876-1969: Clara Cook Helvie *(w)

1877-1961: Curtis Williford Reese *

1878-1978: Sophia Lyon Fahs *(w)

1878-1957: John Hassler Dietrich *

1879-1964: John Haynes Holmes *

1881-1949: Clarence Russell Skinner *

1882-1909: Edward Everett Hale *

1883-1976: Palfrey Perkins *

1885-1962: Charles Francis Potter *

1886: "The Issue in the West"

1887: William C. Gannett publishes "Things Commonly Believed Among Us"

1887-1985: Clinton Lee Scott

1888-1899: Dr. John Wesley Hanson publishes books on Universalism

1889: Joseph H. Jordan ordained to Universalist Ministry (c)

1889-1958: Frederick May Eliot *

1893: Agusta J. Chapin awarded D.D. by Lombard; chairs Women's Commmission on Religious Congresses of World Parliament of Religions (w)

1894-1916: Lon Ray Call *

1897-1982: Robert Cummins *

1899: UU merger considered

1857: Presbyterian schism over slavery

1866: American Evangelical Alliance formed

1867: Start of the American Holiness movement by the Methodists. Will Grow into concept of Baptism in the Holy Spirit is evidenced by speaking in Tongues.

1870: first Vatican Council proclaims papal infallibility

1871: Jehovahs Witnesses formed

1871: National Council of Congregational Churches formed

1875: Theosophical Society

1884-1975: Henry Nelson Wieman *

1894: Celia Parker Woolley ordained at the Independent Liberal Church in North Chicago (w)

1897-: Charles Hartshorne *

1850: Slave Trade banned in District of Columbia

1859: Charles Darwin publishes "On the Origin of Species"

1861-1865: American Civil War

1863: Emancipation Proclamation

1871: Great Fire in Chicago

1876: World Exhibition in Philadelphia

1893: World Exhibition in Chicago

1900: International council of Unitarian and other Liberal Religious Thinkers and Workers

1901-: James Luther Adams *

1902: Beacon Press founded

1902-1957: Arthur Powell Davies * (c)

1902-1981: Stephen Hole Fritchman *

1904-: Sidney Earl Mead *

1905-1970: William Brooks Rice *

1906-: Joseph Nicholas Barth *

1906-1999: Dorothy Spoerl

1908-: Dana McLean Greeley *

1909-1984: Munroe Husbands *

1911-1995: Kenneth Leo Patton *

1913: Rev. John H. Dietrich and Rev. Curtis W. Reese begin preaching religious humanism

1914-: George Huntston Williams *

1917-: Charles Conrad Wright *

1917-: Philip Randall Giles *

1921: Humanist-theist debate at National Conference

1925: Unitarians, Congregationalists propose affiliation with Universalists

1931-1936: Free Church Fellowship

1935: Washington Avowal of Faith adopted

1944,1946: Universalist Church of America barred from membership by Federal Council of Churches

1923: Flower Communion Started

1929-: Ernest William Kuebler *

1941: Chalice Symbol First Used

1944: UU Christian Fellowship * Beginnings as "Unitarian Christian Committee"

1946-1954: Humiliati: David Cole, Leon Fay, Fredic Harrison, Ray Hopkins, Earle McKinney, Gordon McKeeman, Keith Munson, Charles Vickery, Albert Zeigler

1949-1964: K. L. Patton at Charles Street Meeting House

1901: Agnes Ozman experiences speaking in Tongues. Leads to flourishing of Pentecostal movement under Charles Parham who eventually joins the Ku Klux Klan.

1908: Federal Council of Churches of Christ in America

1913: "Kansas City Platform" of National Council of Congregational Churches

1914: William Durham founds the Assemblies of God.

1923: Lutheran World Congress

1925: United Church of Canada

1927: World Conference on Faith and Order

1929: Presbyterian churches of Scotland become Church of Scotland

1933: boycott of Jews in Germany

1933: Humanist Manifesto

1934: Evangeline Booth is general of the Salvation Army

1939: re-union of Methodist Church

1914-1918: World War I

1933-1939: 60,000 artists leave Germany; Hitler is dictator in Germany

1939-1945: World War II

1946-1961: Advent of "baby boomers"

1948: Israel founded

1950: One-Religious World Symposiumin Christian Leader

1954: Council of Liberal Churches

1956: Joint Merger Commission

1959: joint meetings in Syracuse

1960: joint meetings in Boston

1961: UUA merger from AUA and UCA

1965: UU's to Selma

1971: UUGLC

1977: Women and Religion

1983: Purposes and Principles revised

1950: Assumption dogma proclaimed by Pius XII; National Council of Churches of Christ formed by Protestants, for Eastern Orthodox groups

1952: Revised Standard Version of the Bible published for Protestants

1954: Billy Grahanm "Crusades" in New York, London,Berlin

1954: World Council of Churches convenes

1958: Pope John XXIII Supreme Religious Center for World Jewry dedicated in Jerusalem

1960: Swedish Lutheran Churhc admits women to ministry

1961: new English Bible published on 350th anniverary of Authorized Version (King James)

1975: First woman rabbi ordained.

1950: North Korea invades South Korea, UN pursues 'police action'; McCarthy era begins; US military aid in Viet Nam

1953: Korean Armistice

1954: Brown Decision; Senator McCarthy formally censured by Senate

1955: Montgomery bus boycott; Martin Luther King Jr. emerges ad leader of desegration and Civil Rights movement

1957: U.S. troops to Little Rock to forestall violence during school desegration; USSR launches Sputnik I and II

1958: "Beatnik" movement from CA through America and Europe

1961: "Freedom Riders" beaten in Alabama; Berlin Wall constructed

1967: Israel recaptures Jerusalem.