Church history chart

1. CHRISTIAN PERSECUTIONS 100 200 300 400 500 ROMAN EMPIRE EASTERN (BYZANTINE) EMPIRE BARBARIAN INVASIONS Aegeria’s Trip Council of Ephesus Council of Chalcedon EARLY CHURCH EVENTS IN THE CHURCH EVENTS IN SOCIETY Pentecost Peter Martyrdom of Stephen Paul Edict of Religious Tolerance Council of Nicaea Beginning of Basilica Worship Ambrose Augustine Constantine Division of Empire East and West Fall of Rome

2. 500 600 700 800 900 1000 1100 1200 1300 1400 FEUDALISM RENAISSANCE HUNDRED YEARS’ WAR EASTERN (BYZANTINE) EMPIRE CRUSADES GOTHIC ARCHITECTURE MIDDLE AGES Black Death EVENTS IN SOCIETY Charlemagne Einhard EVENTS IN THE CHURCH Benedict’s Monastic Rule Alcuin & Carolingian Renaissance Abbey of Cluny Peace of God Truce of God Abbey of Citeaux Bernard of Clairvaux Pope Eugenius III U. Of Paris Founded EASTERN SCHISM INQUISITION Francis of Assisi Dominic Thomas Aquinas Joan of Arc Catherine of Siena Synod of Toulouse Avignon Papacy Great Schism HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE

3. 1400 1500 1600 1700 1800 VOYAGES OF DISCOVERY RENAISSANCE INQUISITION HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE REFORMATION E. EMPIRE EVENTS IN THE CHURCH EVENTS IN SOCIETY REFORMATION Printing Press Michelangelo Pope Julius II Martin Luther Erasmus John Calvin Ignatius Loyola Council of Trent Plymouth Settlement Jamestown Settlement Counter-Reformation Bishop John Carroll Charles Carroll Declaration of Independence

4. 1800 1900 2000 COMPUTER AGE ECUMENISM LITURGICAL RENEWAL SPACE AGE THIRD WORLD EMERGENCE EVENTS IN SOCIETY MODERN CHURCH EVENTS IN THE CHURCH Rise in Liberalism Pius IX Vatican I Franco-Prussian War Modernist Crisis Dorothy Day World War I World War II Pius XII’s Divino Alfiante Spiritu Thomas Merton Pope John XXIII Vatican II John Paul II Church of the 3 rd Advent Pope Benedict XVI Vietnam War Adapted From The Story of Church by Fr. Alfred McBride, O. Praem .