Biblical Timeline

Biblical Timeline


Last updated on April 30, 2023

This post provides a chronological overview of events that are significant in the history of the Bible. The timeline begins around 4000 BC and extends to 2020 AD, covering a period of approximately 6000 years. It includes key events from the Old and New Testaments, as well as historical events that have a bearing on the interpretation and understanding of the Bible including the history of technology, religion and world empires. This timeline is intended to provide context and background information for those studying or interested in biblical history in the context of contemporary world events.
  1. 4004 BC: Anno Mundi as determined by James Ussher. {א}
  2. 3761 BC: The epoch of the modern Hebrew calendar.
  3. c. 3500 BC: Invention of writing in Sumer in southern Mesopotamia.
  4. c. 3114 BC: First date in the Mayan calendar.
  5. c. 3000 BC: Noah's Deluge. {א}
  6. c. 3000-1200 BC: The Bronze Age.
  7. c. 3000 BC: Construction of the Stonehenge.
  8. c. 3000 BC: First Dynasty of Egypt.
  9. c. 2800 BC: Second Dynasty of Egypt
  10. c. 2770 BC: First Dynasty of Egypt in Rohl's New Chronology
  11. c. 2500 BC: Meslim is lugal (king) of the Sumerian city-state of Kish.
  12. c. 2500 BC: Ur-Nina founds a dynasty in Lagash in Sumeria.
  13. c. 2500 BC: Sumerian king Eannatum establishes one of the earliest known empires.
  14. c. 2500 BC: Indus Valley Civilization.
  15. c. 2500 BC: Fourth Dynasty and Old Kingdom of Egypt ("Age of the Pyramids").
  16. c. 2500 BC: Founding of Assur the the capital of the Old Assyrian city-state.
  17. c. 2500 BC: Great Pyramid of Giza commissioned by Khufu (Cheops).
  18. c. 2400 BC: Legal code of Urukagina the king of Lagash and Girsu. 
  19. c. 2350 BC: Lugal-zage-si of Umma briefly unites Sumer as a single kingdom.
  20. c. 2300 BC: The Ebla Tablets.
  21. c. 2300 BC: Conquest of Sumer by Sargon of Akkad the first ruler of the Akkadian Empire.
  22. c. 2100 BC: First Intermediate Period considered a "dark period" in Egyptian history. 
  23. c. 2100 BC: Epic of Gilgamesh.
  24. c. 2000 BC: Publication of the Sumerian King List.
  25. c. 2000 BC: Beginning of the Middle Kingdom of Egypt.
  26. c. 2000 BC: Fu Hsi is credited with creating system of writing Chinese characters.
  27. c. 2000 BC: Composition of the Sumerian King List.
  28. c. 2000 BC: Construction of the Ziggurat of Ur by Ur-Nammu.
  29. c. 2000 BC: Lament for Ur; Fall of Ur to the Elamites.
  30. c. 2000 BC: Birth of Abraham in Ur of the Chaldees (Ur Kasdim).
  31. c. 2000 BC: Call of Abraham. {א}
  32. c. 2000 BC: Offering of Isaac on Mt. Moriah. {א}
  33. c. 2000-1800 BC: Period of the Twelfth Dynasty of Egypt.
  34. c. 1930 BC: Laws of Eshnunna, a city-state in central Mesopotamia.
  35. c. 1900 BC: Minoan civilization on Crete reaches its apogee.
  36. c. 1900 BC: Jacob and his sons.
  37. c. 1900 BC: Sumu-abum is first king of the First Dynasty of Babylon.
  38. c. 1800 BC: Earliest recorded alphabetic writing (Proto-Canaanite) in Canaanites.
  39. c. 1800 BC: Pharaoh Sesostris (Senusret) III 
  40. c. 1800 BC: Pharaoh Amenemhat III
  41. c. 1800 BC: Death of Joseph (Gen. 50:26).
  42. c. 1750 BC: Code of Hammurabi the greatest king of the first Babylonian Dynasty.
  43. c. 1700-1550 BC: Second Intermediate Period in Egypt.
  44. c. 1700 BC: Hyskos in Egypt.
  45. c. 1700 BC: End of the Indus Valley Civilization.
  46. c. 1650 BC: Fifteenth Dynasty of Egypt founded by Salitis, a Hyksos.
  47. c. 1600 BC: Rise of the Shang dynasty in China.
  48. c. 1600 BC: Fourteenth Dynasty in Egypt according to Rohl's New Chronology.
  49. c. 1550-1077 BC: The New Kingdom of Egypt marks the peak of Egyptian power.
  50. c. 1550 BC: Ahmose I founds the 18th Dynasty of Egypt and first of the New Kingdom.
  51. c. 1550 BC: Ahmose I drives out the Hyskos and restores Theban rule in Egypt.
  52. c. 1526 BC: Reign of Amenhotep I, second Pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty.
  53. c. 1525 BC: Reign of Thutmose I, the third pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.
  54. c. 1500 BC: The birth of Moses (Ex. 2) {א}
  55. c. 1500 BC: Moses raised by the daughter of Pharaoh, possibly Makare Hatshepsut.
  56. c. 1500 BC-1100 BC: Composition of the Rig Veda.
  57. c. 1450 BC: Reign of Thutmose II, considered by Edersheim to be the Pharaoh of Exodus.
  58. c. 1450 BC: Ten Plagues on Egypt (Ex. 7-12).
  59. c. 1450 BC: The Exodus from Egypt (Ex. 13-18). {א}
  60. c. 1450 BC: Reign of Makare Hatshepsut, daughter of Thutmose I & wife of Thutmose II.
  61. c. 1450 BC: Reign of Thutmose III, the sixth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
  62. c. 1450 BC: Battle of Megiddo between Thutmose III and king of Kadesh.
  63. c.  1427–1401: Reign of Amenhotep II, son of Thutmose III.
  64. c. 1400 BC: Death of Moses and commissioning of Joshua (Deu. 34; Josh. 1)
  65. c. 1400 BC: Conquest of Jericho (Josh. 6-8) {א}
  66. c. 1400 BC: The Dream Stele (Sphinx Stele) is erected by Thutmose IV.
  67. c. 1400-1100 BC: Period of the Judges (Book of Judges) in Israel.
  68. c. 1390-1350 BC: Reign of Amenhotep III, the ninth pharaoh of the Eighteenth Dynasty.
  69. c. 1350 BC: Reign of Akhenaten (Amenhotep IV) who introduces Atenism.
  70. c. 1341 BC: Reign of Tutankhamun in Egypt.
  71. c. 1300 BC: Reign of Horemheb the last pharaoh of the 18th Dynasty of Egypt.
  72. c. 1300 BC: Adad-nirari I is king of the Middle Assyrian Empire.
  73. c. 1290 BC: Ramesses I founds the Nineteenth Dynasty in Egypt.
  74. c. 1279-1213 BC: Reign of Ramesses II (Ramesses the Great) of the Nineteenth Dynasty.
  75. c. 1274 BC: Battle of Kadesh between Egypt under Ramesses II and the Hittites.
  76. c. 1265 BC: Shalmaneser I, son of Adad-nirari I is king of the Middle Assyrian Empire.
  77. c. 1259 BC: Egyptian–Hittite peace treaty.
  78. c. 1240 BC: Assyrian king Tukulti-Ninurta I, son of Shalmaneser I, captures Babylon.
  79. c. 1210 BC: Merneptah, son of Ramesses II is pharaoh in Egypt.
  80. c. 1208 BC: Creation of the Merneptah Stele.
  81. c. 1200 BC-550 BC: The Iron Age.
  82. c. 1200 BC: Deborah and Barak (Judg. 4)
  83. c. 1100 BC: Birth of Samuel; Hannah's Song (1 Sam. 1-2)
  84. c. 1100 BC: City of Utica founded by the Phoenicians in North Africa.
  85. c. 1077-664 BC: Third Intermediate Period of Egypt.
  86. c. 1070 BC: Establishment of the Kingdom of Kush in Nubia.
  87. c. 1050 BC: Saul becomes King of Israel (1 Sam. 8-10).
  88. c.1010 BC: Saul killed in the battle of Mount of Gilboa (1 Sam. 31:3-6).
  89. c. 1010-970 BC: Reign of King David. {א}
  90. c. 1000s BC: Development of the Paleo-Hebrew alphabet.
  91. c. 1000 BC: The Ark comes to Jerusalem (2 Sam. 6).
  92. c. 967 BC: Solomon lays the foundation of the Temple on Mount Moriah.
  93. c. 931 BC: Division of the Kingdom of Israel (1 Ki. 12-13).
  94. c. 931-913 BC: Rechav'am ben Shlomo (Rehoboam) reigns in Judah (2 Chr. 11).
  95. c. 931–910 BC: Reign of Yarob'am ben Nevat (Jeroboam I) in Israel. 
  96. c. 913–911 BC: Reign of 'Aviyam ben Rechav'am (Abijah) in Judah.
  97. c. 911-870 BC: Reign of 'Asa ben 'Aviyam (Asa) in Judah.
  98. c. 911 BC: Accession of Adad-nirari II marks the beginning of the Neo-Assyrian Empire.
  99. c. 910-909 BC: Reign of Nadav ben Yarob'am (Nadab) in Israel.
  100. c. 909-886 BC: Reign of Ba'sha ben Achiyah (Baasha) in Israel.
  101. c. 900-612 BC: Neo-Assyrian period.
  102. c. 886-885 BC: Reign of 'Ela ben Ba'sha (Elah) in Israel.
  103. c. 885 BC: Reign of Zimri in Israel.
  104. c. 885-880 BC: Reign of Tibni as a rival to Omri in Israel.
  105. c. 885 BC: Reign of Omri in Israel
  106. c. 883-859 BC: Under Ashurnasirpal II, Assyria dominates the Near East.
  107. c. 879 BC: The Kurkh Monolith stele of Ashurnasirpal II.
  108. c. 879 BC: Omri moves capital of Israel from Tirzah to Samaria.
  109. c. 874-853 BC: Reign of Ach'av ben 'Omri (Ahab) in Kingdom of Israel (1 Ki. 16:29).
  110. c. 870 BC: Jehoshapat succeeds Asa as King of Judah (1 Chr. 17).
  111. c. 870-848 BC: Reign of Yehoshafat ben 'Asa (Jehoshaphat) in Israel.
  112. c. 863 BC: Elijah's offering on Mt. Carmel (1 Ki. 18). {א}
  113. c. 859-824 BC: Reign of Shalmaneser III in Assyria.
  114. c. 853 BC: Ahab participates in the Battle of Qarqar.
  115. c. 853–852 BC: Reign of 'Achazyahu ben 'Ach'av (Ahaziah) in Israel.
  116. c. 852 BC: The Kurkh Monolith stele of Shalmaneser III.
  117. c. 852-841 BC: Reign of Yehoram ben 'Ach'av (Joram) in Israel.
  118. c. 850 BC: Elisha succeds Elijah as prophet (2 Ki. 2:12).
  119. c. 850 BC: Ben-Hadad II (Hadadezer) attacks Samaria (1 Kin. 20).
  120. c. 848-841 BC: Reign of Yehoram ben Yehoshafat (Jehoram) in Judah.
  121. c. 842–796 BC: Reign of Hazael as king of Aram-Damascus (1 Kin. 19:15).
  122. c. 841 BC: Reign of 'Achazyahu ben Yehoram (Ahaziah) in Israel. 
  123. c. 841 BC: Jehu kills Jehoram, Jezebeel, and Ahaziah of Israel.
  124. c. 841-814 BC: Reign of Yehu ben Yehoshafat (Jehu) in Israel.
  125. c. 841-835 BC: Reign of  'Atalya bat 'Omri (Athaliah) as queen in Israel.
  126. c. 841 BC: Jehu pays tribute to Shalmaneser III.
  127. c. 840 BC: Dating of the Tel Dan stele with inscriptions possibly of Hazael.
  128. c. 840 BC: Dating of the Mesha stele.
  129. c. 835-796 BC: Reign of Yeho'ash ben 'Achazyahu (Joash) in Judah (2 Chr. 24).
  130. c. 835 BC: Prophecies of Joel (Joel 1-3).
  131. c. 825 BC: Dating of the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III.
  132. c. 814 BC: Founding of Carthage.
  133. c. 814-798 BC: Reign of Yeho'achaz ben Yehu (Jehoahaz) in Israel.
  134. c. 800 BC: Homer composes the Illiad and the Odyssey.
  135. c. 798-782 BC: Reign of Yo'ash ben Yeho'achaz (Jehoash) in Israel.
  136. c. 796 BC: Jehoash of Israel pays tribute to Adad-nirari III.
  137. c. 796-767 BC: Reign of 'Amatzyah ben Yehoash (Amaziah) in Judah.
  138. c. 791 BC: Uzziah becoming coregent with his father Amaziah (Dating by Thiele).
  139. c. 782-753 BC: Reign of Yarob'am ben Yo'ash (Jeroboam II) in Israel.
  140. c. 776 BC: The first Olympic Games in Greece.
  141. c. 767-750 BC: Reign of 'Uzziyahu ben 'Amatzyah (Uzziah)  as sole ruler in Israel.
  142. c. 763 BC: The Assyrian Eclipse.
  143. c. 760 BC: Jonah prophecies in Nineveh (Jon. 1-4).
  144. c. 753 BC: Reign of Zekharya ben Yarob'am (Zachariah) in Israel.
  145. c. 752 BC: Reign of Shallum ben Yavesh (Shallum) in Israel.
  146. c. 752-742 BC: Reign of Menachem ben Gadi (Menahem) in Israel.
  147. c. 750 BC: Uzziah struck with tzaraath (translated as leprosy).
  148. c. 750 BC:  Jotham takes over the government from Uzziah in Judah.
  149. c. 750-725 BC: Ministy of prophets Amos, Hosea, Isaiah.
  150. c. 745-727 BC: Reign of Tiglath-Pileser III in Assyria.
  151. c. 742 BC: Reign of Ahaz in Judah (2 Chr. 28)
  152. c. 742-740 BC: Reign of Peqachya ben Menachem (Pekahiah) in Israel.
  153. c. 740-732 BC: Reign of Peqach ben Remalyahu (Pekah) in Israel.
  154. c. 740 BC: Death of Uzziah.
  155. c. 740 BC: Reign of Yotam ben 'Uzziyahu (Jotham) as sole ruler in Judah.
  156. c. 739 BC: Isaiah commissioned as prophet (Isa. 6)
  157. c. 732-722 BC: Reign of Hoshea' ben 'Ela (Hoshea) the last king of Israel.
  158. c. 732-716 BC: Reign of 'Achaz ben Yotam (Ahaz) in Israel.
  159. c. 732 BC: Ahaz pays tribute to Tiglath-Pileser III.
  160. c. 730 BC: Isaiah Prophesies a Child Is Born. {א}
  161. c. 727-675 BC: Reign of Deioces, the first king of the Median Empire. 
  162. c. 725 BC: Reign of Hoshea the last King of Israel (2 Ki. 17).
  163. c. 724 BC: Seige of Samaria by Shamaneser V (2 Ki. 17:3–6; 18:9–11).
  164. c. 722 BC: Israel led into captivity by Shalmaneser V of Assyria (2 Ki. 17:6).
  165. c. 722 BC: Marduk-apla-iddina II (Merodach-Baladan) siezes the Babylonian throne.
  166. c. 720 BC: Reign of Sargon II, possibly son of Tiglath-Pileser III.
  167. c. 716-687 BC: Reign of Chizeqiyahu ben 'Achaz (Hezekiah) in Judah (2 Chr. 29).
  168. c. 712 BC: Attack of Sargon II on Ashdod (Isa. 20:1).
  169. c. 705 BC: Death of Assyrian king Sargon II.
  170. c. 705-681 BC: Reign of Sennacherib, son of Sargon II.
  171. c. 701 BC: Construction of Siloam tunnel (2 Ki. 20:20).
  172. c. 701 BC: Sennacherib Threatens Jerusalem (2 Ki. 18).
  173. c. 701 BC: Hezekiah’s Prayer.
  174. c. 697 BC: Prophecies of Nahum (Nah. 1-3).
  175. c. 689 BC: Destruction of the city of Babylon by Sennacherib.
  176. c. 687-642 BC: Reign of Manasseh (2 Ki. 21).
  177. c. 681 BC: Reign of Esarhaddon, son of Sennacherib in Assyria.
  178. c. 675-653 BC: Reign of Phraortes, son of Deioces of the Median Empire.
  179. c. 671 BC: Esarhaddon, ruler of Assyria conquers Egypt.
  180. c. 669-631 BC: Reign of Ashurbanipal, son of Esarhaddon in Assyria.
  181. c. 664 BC: Ashurbanipal captured Thebes, the ancient capital of Egypt.
  182. c. 653 BC: Rise of the Persian Empire.
  183. c. 653-585 BC: Reign of Cyaxares, the third king of the Medes.
  184. c. 643-641 BC: Reign of 'Amon ben Menashe (Amon) in Judah.
  185. c. 641 BC: Reign of Josiah (2 Ki. 22)
  186. c. 627 BC: Call of Jeremiah (Jer. 1).
  187. c. 626-605 BC: Reign of Nabopolassar, the first king of the Neo-Babylonian Empire.
  188. c. 621 BC: Josiah celebrates the passover (2 Ki. 23).
  189. c. 625 BC: Founding of Rome in the areas of ancient Italy known as Etruria and Latium.
  190. c. 624-545 BC: Thales of Miletus, referred to as the “Father of Science.”
  191. c. 612 BC: Fall of Nineveh.
  192. c. 612-538 BC: Neo-Babylonian (“Chaldean”) period.
  193. c. 610–595 BC: Reign of Necho II of the 26th Dynasty as Pharaoh in Egypt.
  194. c. 610 BC-546 BC: Anaximander, successor of Thales of Miletus.
  195. c. 609 BC: Battle of Megiddo.
  196. c. 609 BC: Pharaoh Neco clashed with Josiah at Megiddo (Armageddon).
  197. c. 609 BC: King Josiah dies in Jerusalem (2 Chr. 35:20–27).
  198. c. 609 BC: Reign of Jehoiakim (2 Chr. 36).
  199. c. 609 BC: Jehoahaz carried off to Egypt by Neco II.
  200. c. 609-598 BC: Reign of Yehoyaqim ben Yo'shiyahu (Jehoiakim) in Judah.
  201. c. 605 BC: Battle of Carchemish in the fourth year of Jehoiakim's reign (Jer. 46:2).
  202. c. 605 BC: Nebuchadnezzar succeeds his father Nabopolassar as king.
  203. c. 605 BC: Daniel, Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah are taken to Babylon (Dan. 1).
  204. c. 604 BC: Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the great statue (Dan. 2).
  205. c. 600 BC: Cyrus the Great born in Anshan, Persis.
  206. c. 600 BC: Dating of the Ketef Hinnom scrolls.
  207. c. 598 BC: Reign of Yehoyakhin ben Yehoyaqim (Jehoiachin/Jeconiah) in Judah.
  208. c. 597-586 BC: Reign of Tzideqiyahu ben Yo'shiyahu (Zedekiah) in Judah (2 Ki. 24:18)
  209. c. 597 BC: First deportation to Babylon.
  210. c. 593 BC: Ezekiel's prophecy at Chebar (Ezek. 1).
  211. c. 592 BC: Ezekiel's first Temple vision (Ezek. 8-19).
  212. c. 588 BC: Zedekiah allies with Pharaoh Hoprah and revolts against  Nebuchadnezzar.
  213. c. 588 BC: Siege of Jerusalem (2 Ki. 25; Ezek. 24)
  214. c. 587 BC: Destruction of Solomon’s Temple by the Babylonians.
  215. c. 586 BC: Fall of Jerusalem (2 Ki. 25; Jer. 52)
  216. c. 586 BC: Lamentations of Jeremiah (Lam. 1-5).
  217. c. 585 BC: Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego (Dan. 3).
  218. 585 BC: Eclipse of Thales.
  219. c. 585 BC: Astyages succeeded his father Cyaxares following the Battle of Halys.
  220. c. 582 BC: Daniel interprets Nebuchadnezzar's dream of the great tree (Dan. 4).
  221. c. 575 BC: Construction of Ishtar Gate by Nebuchadnezzar.
  222. c. 573 BC: Ezekiel's second Temple vision (Ezek. 40-48).
  223. c. 562 BC: Amel-Marduk (Evil Merodach) came to the throne.
  224. c. 560 BC: Ephesus conquered by the Lydians under king Croesus.
  225. c. 560 BC: Neriglissar overthrows Amel-Marduk to become king of Babylon.
  226. c. 556 BC: Labashi-Marduk succeeds his father Neriglissar.
  227. c. 556 BC: Nabonidus proclaimed king in a plot likely led by son Belshazzar.
  228. c. 556-539 BC: Reign of Nabonidus, father of Belshazzar.
  229. c. 550 AD: Cyrus overthrows his grandfather Astyages, the last king of the Medes.
  230. 539 BC: Fall of Babylon.
  231. c. 539 BC: Daniel's visions of coming empires (Dan. 7-8).
  232. c. 539 BC: Daniel's Seventy Weeks prophecy (Dan. 9:24-27). {א}
  233. c. 539 BC: The Proclamation of Cyrus (Ezra 1).
  234. 530 BC: Death of Cyrus the Great.
  235. 530-522 BC: Reign of Cambyses II of the Achaemenid Empire.
  236. c. 522 BC: Reign of Bardiya/Smerdis or Gaumata/Pseudo-Smerdis as Persian king.
  237. c. 522-486 BC: Reign of Darius the Great of the Achaemenid Empire.
  238. c. 520 BC: Prophecies of Haggai (Hag. 1-2).
  239. c. 520 BC: Prophecies of Zechariah (Zech. 1-14).
  240. c. 520 BC: Zerubbabel leads the first group of Jews from captivity back to Jerusalem.
  241. c. 516 BC: Darius embarks on a campaign to Central Asia and marches to Taxila.
  242. c. 500 BC: The Behistun Inscription authored by Darius the Great.
  243. 498 BC: Ionian Revolt against Persian rule in the Battle of Ephesus.
  244. 490 BC: Battle of Marathon marks the end of the first Persian invasion of Greece.
  245. c. 486-465 BC: Reign of Xerxes I, son of Darius and Atossa, the daughter of Cyrus.
  246. c. 483 BC: Death of Buddha in India.
  247. 480 BC: Second Persian invasion of Greece by Xerxes I.
  248. 480 BC: Battle of Salamis between Greek-city states and the Persian Empire.
  249. c. 470 BC: Book of Esther.
  250. c. 470-399 BC: Life of Greek philosopher Socrates.
  251. 465-424 BC: Reign of Artaxerxes I Longimanus.
  252. c. 458 BC: Ezra goes to Jerusalem (Ezr. 7)
  253. c. 445: 20th year of Artaxerxes I (Neh. 1-2). {א}
  254. c. 444: Book of Nehemiah.
  255. 431-404 BC: Peloponnesian War between Athens and Sparta.
  256. c. 430 BC: Nehemiah restores the laws (Neh. 13)
  257. c. 430 BC: Prophecies of Malachi (Mal. 1-4).
  258. c. 428-348 BC: Life of Greek philosopher Plato.
  259. 356 BC: Birth of Alexander, son of Philp II of Macedon.
  260. 338 BC: King Philip II of Macedon defeats Athens and Thebes at Battle of Chaeronea.
  261. 336-330 BC: Reign of Darius III, the last of the Kings of the Achaemenid Empire
  262. 336 BC: Alexander III of Macedon (Alexander the Great) succeeds his father Philip II.
  263. 334 BC: Alexander’s victories over the Persians.
  264. c. 334-262 BC: Life of Zeno of Citium, the founder of the Stoic school of philosophy.
  265. 334 BC: Battle of the Granicus.
  266. 332 BC: Alexander the Great conquers Phoenicia and Gaza.
  267. 332 BC: Legend of Jaddus showing Alexander the prophecies in Book of Daniel.
  268. 332 BC: Alexander conquers Egypt.
  269. 332 BC: Alexandria is founded by Alexander the Great.
  270. 331 BC: Battle of Gaugamela between the forces of Alexander and Darius III.
  271. 331 BC: Alexander conquers the Persia ends the Achaemenid Empire.
  272. 331 BC: Alexander the Great enters in Babylon.
  273. 330 BC: Sparta joins the League of Corinth (Hellenic League).
  274. 329 BC: Alexander conquers Samarkand, Uzbekistan.
  275. c. 325 BC: Birth of Euclid, author of the Elements.
  276. 326 BC: Battle of the Hydaspes between Alexander and Porus in Punjab.
  277. 323 BC: Death of Alexander in Babylon (Dan. 8:8) {א}
  278. 322-320 BC: First War of the Diadochi.
  279. 320-311 BC: Second War of the Diadochi.
  280. 312-63 BC: The Seleucid Empire.
  281. 312 BC: The Seleucid Empire was founded by the Macedonian general Seleucus I Nicator.
  282. 310 BC: Zeno of Citium founds the Stoic school.
  283. 305-30 BC: The Ptolemaic Kingdom.
  284. 305-282: Reign of Ptolemy I Soter as ruler of Egypt beginning the Ptolemaic Dynasty.
  285. 305-303 BC: The Seleucid-Mauryan war.
  286. 301 BC: Seleucus and Lysimachus defeat Antigonus I at the Battle of Ipsus.
  287. 301 BC: Seleucus controls eastern Anatolia and northern Syria.
  288. 300 BC: Antioch founded by Seleucus I Nicator.
  289. c. 300 BC: Manetho's Aegyptiaca (History of Egypt) with list of Egyptian kings.
  290. c. 300 BC: Euclid publishes Elements.
  291. 283-246 BC: Reign of Ptolemy II Philadelphus.
  292. 280-275 BC: Pyrrhic War.
  293. 274–271 BC:  Ptolemy II faces Antiochus I in the First Syrian War.
  294. 268-232 BC: Reign of Emperor Ashoka of the Maurya Empire in India.
  295. c. 265 BC: Life of Archimedes.
  296. 261-246 BC: Reign of Antiochus II Theos as Basileus of the Seleucid Empire.
  297. 260–253 BC: Second Syrian war between Antiochus II and Ptolemy II.
  298. c. 259-210 BC: Qin Shi Huang is the first emperor of a unified China.
  299. 253 BC: Marriage of Antiochus II to Ptolemy II's daughter, Berenice Syra (Daniel 11:6).
  300. 247 BC: Completion of Lighthouse of Alexandria in Ptolemaic Egypt.
  301. 246-225 BC: Reign of Seleucus II Callinicus as the Basileus of the Seleucid Empire.
  302. 246-222 BC: Reign of Ptolemy III Euergetes in Egypt.
  303. 246-241 BC: Third Syrian War between Ptolemy III and Seleucus II.
  304. 225-223 BC: Reign of Seleucus III Ceraunus as the Basileus of the Seleucid Empire.
  305. 222-187 BC: Reign of Antiochus III the Great, son of Seleucus II.
  306. 219–217 BC: Fourth Syrian War between  Ptolemy IV Philopator and Antiochus III.
  307. 218 BC: Hannibal invades Italy.
  308. 217 BC: Asian and African elephants were used against each other the Battle of Raphia.
  309. 202-195 BC: Fifth Syrian War between Antiochus III and the Ptolemid Empire.
  310. c. 200 BC: Artapanus of Alexandria's Concerning The Jews.
  311. c. 200 BC: Invention of paper in China.
  312. c. 200 BC: Battle of Panium sees Egypt loses control of Palestine to the Selucids.
  313. 192-189 BC: The Antiochene war between the Roman Republic and Antiochus III.
  314. 188 BC: Treaty of Apamea between the Roman Republic and Antiochus III.
  315. 187-175 BC: Reign of Seleucus IV Philopator as Baselius of the Seleucid Empire.
  316. 175-164 BC: Reign of Antiochus IV Ephiphanes, son of Antiochus III as Baselius.
  317. 170-168 BC: Sixth Syrian War between the Selucids and Ptolemids.
  318. c. 170 BC: Construction of the Pergamon Altar by Greek King Eumenes II.
  319. c. 170 BC-20 AD: Zugot period of Jewish scholarship.
  320. 166-164 BC: The Maccabean Revolt led by Judas Maccabeus.
  321. 164 BC: Antiochus dies of disease in 164 BC.
  322. 146-146 BC: Battle of Corinth marks the end of the Achaean War.
  323. c. 140-37 BC: Simon Thassi establishes the Hasmonean dynasty
  324. 104–103 BC: Judah Aristobulus I, the first Hasmonean king and high priest.
  325. 103-76 BC: Alexander Jannaeus (Jonathan Yannai) is king and high priest in Judaea.
  326. 100-44 BC: Life of Gaius Julius Caesar, founder of the Roman Empire.
  327. 76-67 BC: Salome Alexandra (Shelomzion) is queen of Judaea.
  328. 73 BC: Uprising of slaves led by Spartacus.
  329. 72 BC: Successes of Spartacus.
  330. 70 BC: First consulship of Pompey and Marcus Licinius Crassus.
  331. 71 BC: Crassus defeats Spartacus.
  332. 66 BC-63 BC: Aristobulus II Jewish High Priest and King of Judaea.
  333. 64 BC: Pompey annexes Syria.
  334. 63 BC: Pompey besieges Jerusalem. {א}
  335. 63-40 BC: Hyrcanus II (Jonathan Hurqanos) is ruler of Judaea.
  336. 63 BC: Birth of Octavian (later Augustus Caesar).
  337. 63 BC: Cicero consul and Caesar elected pontifex maximus.
  338. 60 BC: Pompey joins the first triumvirate, with Caesar and Crassus.
  339. 59 BC: Caesar becomes consul. Pompey marries Caesar’s daughter Julia.
  340. 58-51 BC: Caesar’s campaigns in Gaul.
  341. 49-45 BC: Civil War with Julius Caesar fighting the Pompeians.
  342. 49 BC: Caesar crosses the Rubicon.
  343. 48 BC: Caesar defeats Pompey at Pharsalus.
  344. 48 BC: Alexandrine War. Caesar makes Cleopatra VII queen of Egypt.
  345. 47 BC: Julius Caesar appointed Antipater to be procurator of Judea.
  346. 46 BC: Caesar reforms calendar.
  347. 44 BC: Julius Caesar is murdered on the Ides of March by Marcus Brutus.
  348. 43-36 BC: Second Triumvirate of Antony, Octavian, and Lepidus.
  349. 43 BC: Antipater the Idumean, father of Herod the Great is murdered
  350. 43 BC: Cicero is murdered.
  351. 41 BC: Mark Antony names Herod and brother Phasael as tetrarchs to support Hyrcanus II.
  352. c. 40 BC: Andronicus of Rhodes publishes Aristotle's Organon.
  353. 40–37 BC: Antigonus II Mattathias, last of the Hasmonean kings, installed by the Parthians.
  354. 37 BC: Herod the Great hands Antigonus to the Romans
  355. 35 BC: Aristobulus III is drowned at a party on Herod’s orders.
  356. 31 BC: Octavian defeats Mark Antony, so Herod switches allegiance to Octavian.
  357. 30 BC: Death of Cleopatra VII ends the Ptolemaic Kingdom.
  358. c. 30 BC: Craftsman in the Levant invent glassblowing.
  359. 27 BC: Augustus becomes first Roman Emperor.
  360. 25 BC: Herod began construction on Caesarea Maritima.
  361. c. 4 BC: Birth of Jesus Christ, the Messiah in Bethlehem. {א}
  362. 4 BC: Death of Herod the Great.
  363. 4 BC: Herod the Great’s kingdom divided among his three sons as a tetrarchy.
  364. 4 BC: Herod Antipas, son of Herod and Malthace, made ruler of the Galilee and Perea.
  365. 4 BC to 6 AD: Herod Archelaus is made ethnarch of Samaria, Judea, and Idumea.
  366. 1-100 AD: Period of Apostolic Christianity (Schaff).
  367. 6 AD: Herod Archelaus deposed by Augustus.
  368. 6 AD: Samaria, Judea and Idumea annexed as Iudaea Province with its capital at Caesarea.
  369. 6 AD: Quirinius became Legate (Governor) of Syria and conducts Census of Quirinius.
  370. 9 AD: Death of Hillel the Elder the founder of the House of Hillel school of Tannaim.
  371. 14 AD: Death of Caesar Augustus.
  372. 14-37 AD: Tiberius is Roman Emperor.
  373. 18 AD: Caiaphas is appointed High Priest by Prefect Valerius Gratus. 
  374. 20-220 AD: Period of the Tannaim who contribute to the Mishnah (Oral Torah).
  375. 26-36 AD: Pontius Pilate is Prefect (governor) of Iudaea.
  376. c. 28 AD: John the Baptist begins ministering in the “15th year of Tiberius” (Luke 3:1-2). {א}
  377. c. 28 AD: The baptism of Jesus and the beginning of his public ministry. {א}
  378. c. 28 AD: The Wedding at Cana.
  379. c. 33 AD: The crucifixion of Jesus in Golgotha. {א}
  380. c. 33 AD: Resurrection of Jesus. {א}
  381. c. 33 AD: Ascension of Jesus at the Mount of Olives. {א}
  382. c. 33 AD: Pentecost and the outpouring of the Paraclete. {א}
  383. c. 35 AD: Martyrdom of Stephen.
  384. c. 35 AD: Conversion of Saul of Tarsus (Apostle Paul). {א}
  385. 36 AD: Caiaphas deposed as High Priest by Syrian Legate Lucius Vitellius.
  386. 37 AD: Tiberius dies. Caligula becomes Emperor.
  387. 37-100 AD: Life of Jewish historian Flavius Josephus.
  388. 39 AD: Herod Antipas exiled to Spain by emperor Caligula in 39 CE.
  389. 40 AD: Philo forms part of Jewish Delegation to Caligula.
  390. c. 40 AD: Gamaliel I.
  391. 41 AD: Caligula assassinated by the centurion Cassius Chaerea.
  392. 41-44 AD: Herod Agrippa I, king of Judea from AD 41 to 44.
  393. 44 AD: Death of Herod Agrippa I (Acts 12: 20-23).
  394. c. 48 AD: Paul’s first Missionary Journey.
  395. c. 48 AD: Herod Agrippa II appointed King of the Jews by Claudius.
  396. c. 48/49 AD: Council of Jerusalem. {א}
  397. c. 49 AD: Paul’s Second Missionary Journey.
  398. c. 51 AD: Apostle Paul delivers the Areopagus sermon in Athens (Acts 17:16–34).
  399. c. 51 AD: Paul in Corinth.
  400. c. 52 AD: Traditional date for Apostle Thomas’ landing in India.
  401. 52 AD: Delphi Inscription by Claudius refers to proconsul Gallio (Acts 18:12-17).
  402. c. 54 AD: Paul in Ephesus. {א}
  403. 54 AD: Nero succeeds Caligula as Emperor.
  404. c. 57 AD: Paul’s letter to the Romans
  405. c. 59 AD: Paul returns to Jerusalem.
  406. c. 60 AD: Paul imprisoned in Caesarea.
  407. 62 AD: Paul appears before Herod Agrippa II at Caesarea Maritima. {א}
  408. c. 62 AD: Epistle to the Hebrews.
  409. c.62-67 AD: Paul's Fourth Missionary Journey.
  410. 64 AD: Fire destroys the Circus Maximus in Rome.
  411. 64-67 AD: Persecution of Christians under Nero. {א}
  412. c. 64 AD: Martyrdom of Apostles Peter and Paul.
  413. 66-70 AD: First Jewish Revolt against Rome.
  414. 69 AD: The Year of the Four Emperors: Galba, Otho, Vitellius, and Vespasian.
  415. 70 AD: Siege of Jerusalem by the Roman army led by the future emperor Titus. {א}
  416. c. 72 AD: Death of Apostle Thomas in present day India.
  417. 73 AD: Vespasian begins construction of the Colosseum in Rome.
  418. 74 AD: Siege of Masada ending in mass suicide of the 960 Sicarii rebels.
  419. 75 AD: Romans rename Judea, Galilea and Samaria as Palestinia.
  420. 77 AD: Flavius Josephus publishes The War of the Jews.
  421. 77 AD: Publication of the first 10 books of Naturalis historia by Pliny the Elder.
  422. 79 AD: Eruption of Mt. Vesuvius.
  423. 81 AD: Persecution under Domitian, brother of Titus.
  424. c. 81 AD: Domitian constructs the Arch of Titus.
  425. c. 90 AD: Purpoted date of Council of Jamnia.
  426. 85 AD: Birkath haMinim (“Curse against Heretics”).
  427. c. 90 AD: Gamaliel II excludes Christians from the synagogues.
  428. c. 90 AD: John's Epistles.
  429. 94 AD: Flavius Josephus publishes The Antiquities of the Jews.
  430. c. 95 AD: John's Revelation on Patmos.
  431. 96-192 AD: Nerva–Antonine dynasty.
  432. 96-98 AD: Reign of the Nerva.
  433. 98-117 AD: Reign of Trajan.
  434. 100-325 AD: Ante-Nicene Christianity.
  435. 100-165 AD: Life of Justin Martyr.
  436. c. 108 AD: Martyrdom of Ignatius, bishop of Antioch.
  437. c. 110 AD: Commissioning of the Library of Celsus at Ephesus.
  438. c. 112 AD: Pliny the Younger writes to Trajan asking for counsel on dealing with Christians.
  439. c. 115-117 AD: Kitos War.
  440. c. 117 AD: Simeon of Jerusalem, second Bishop of Jerusalem, was crucified under Trajan.
  441. 117-138 AD: Reign of Hadrian.
  442. c. 120-135 AD: Rabbi Akiva influential in consolidating Rabbinic Judaism.
  443. c. 125 AD: Dating of Rylands Library Papyrus P52, oldest extant NT fragment.
  444. c. 130 AD: Hadrian rebuilds Jerusalem a city dedicated to Jupiter called Aelia Capitolina.
  445. c. 132-136 AD: Bar Kochba Rebellion (Third Jewish–Roman War).
  446. c. 135-177 AD: Spread of Montanism (“New Prophecy”), founded by Montanus.
  447. c. 136 AD: Rabbi Akiva executed by the Romans.
  448. c. 136 AD: A temple to Jupiter is built on the Temple Mount in Jerusalem.
  449. c. 140 AD: Valentinus begins teaching Gnostic views in Rome.
  450. 144 AD: Marcion is excommunicated for Gnostic-like views
  451. 150-215 AD: Life of Clement of Alexandria.
  452. 150-222 AD: Life of apologist Tertullian, who later converts to Montanism.
  453. c. 155 AD: Apologia prima (First Apology) of Justin Martyr to Emperor Antoninus Pius.
  454. c. 157 AD: Apologia secunda by Justin Martyr.
  455. c. 160/155 AD: Martyrdom of Polycarp, bishop of Smyrna.
  456. c. 160-240 AD: Life of Christian historian Sextus Julius Africanus.
  457. c. 160 AD: Pantaenus the Greek theologian visits India where he finds Christians.
  458. c. 170 AD: Tatian produces the “Diatessaron”.
  459. c. 175 AD: Basilides espouses Gnostic teachings in Alexandria.
  460. 178 AD: Celsus writes True Reason.
  461. c. 180: Against Heresies published by Irenaeus, bishop of Lyon
  462. 185-254 AD: Life of Origen.
  463. 190 AD: Pataenus of Alexandria goes to India.
  464. c. 190s AD: Spread of Monarchianism.
  465. 192 AD: Murder of Emperor Commodus.
  466. c. 200 AD: Publication of the early apologetic work Epistle to Diognetus.
  467. c. 200 AD: Mishnah compiled under Judah ha-Nasi.
  468. c. 200 AD: Noetus condemned at Rome for Patripassianism.
  469. c. 200 AD: Dating of the Muratorian fragment.
  470. c. 200-500 AD: Period of the Amoraim, Jewish scholars after the Tannaim period.
  471. 202 AD: Roman Emperor Severus issues an edict forbidding conversion to Christianity.
  472. c. 203 AD: Martyrdom of Perpetua and Felicity in Carthage.
  473. 208-235 AD: Rule of Severus Alexander, who is tolerant of Jews and Christians.
  474. 206 AD: Abgar V of Edessa embraces Christianity, one of the first kings in history to do so.
  475. c. 216: Birth of Mani the founder of Manichaeism born in Ctesiphon.
  476. 224-651 AD: Sasanian Empire founded by Ardashir I succeeds the Parthian Empire in Iran.
  477. 235 AD: Crisis of the Third Century, following the death of Severus Alexander.
  478. 241 AD: Mani, founder of Manichaeism begins to preach in Seleucia-Ctesiphon.
  479. 249-251 AD: Persecution of Christians under Decius.
  480. 250 AD: Origen publishes Contra Celsum as a response to Celsus’ True Reason.
  481. 253-260 AD: Reign of Valerian.
  482. 257-260 AD: Persecution under Valerian.
  483. c. 259 AD: The Jewish city of Nehardea in Babylonia is sacked by the Palmyrenes.
  484. 260 AD: Valerian captured by Shapur I in the Battle of Edessa.
  485. 260 AD: Jerusalem comes under the rule of Odaenathus the King of the Palmyrene Empire.
  486. 260 AD: Persecution of Christians decline when Gallienus becomes emperor.
  487. 260-340 AD: Life of Eusebius of Caesarea, “Father of Church History.”
  488. 268 AD: Council of Antioch deposes Paul of Samosata and condemns Sabellianism.
  489. 272 AD: Jerusalem becomes part of the Roman Empire after the Battle of Emesa.
  490. c. 275-300 AD: Porphyry of Tyre publishes Against the Christians.
  491. c. 300 AD: David of Basra visits India as a missionary.
  492. 301 AD: Armenia is the first kingdom in history to adopt Christianity as state religion.
  493. 303 AD: Persecution under Diocletian.
  494. c. 306 AD: Synod of Elvira forbids intermarriage of Christians with Jews and pagans.
  495. 311 AD: Edict of Toleration by Galerius ends the Diocletianic Persecution.
  496. 311 AD: Donatists refuse to accept new bishop of Carthage and consecrate a rival bishop.
  497. 312 AD: Battle of Milvian Bridge.
  498. 312 AD: Donatist Schism begins
  499. c. 312 AD: Constantine's vision. 
  500. 313 AD: Edict of Milan. {ב}
  501. c. 313 AD: Eusebius's apologetic work Praeparatio evangelica.
  502. 314 AD: Council of Arles condemns Donatism.
  503. c. 318 AD: Arius’s views, that Jesus is not divine, gains popularity.
  504. c. 318 AD: Athanasius writes On the Incarnation.
  505. 321 AD: Constantine decrees Sunday as state “day of rest”.
  506. 323 AD: Eusebius completes Ecclesiastical History.
  507. 324 AD: Constantine moves the eastern capital of the Roman Empire to Byzantine.
  508. 325 AD: Council of Nicea. {א}
  509. 325 AD: Church of the Nativity in Bethlehem commissioned by Constantine.
  510. 325 AD: The Kingdom of Aksum declares Christianity as the official state religion.
  511. 328–361 AD: Temporary triumph of Arianism; Nicene bishops, like Athanasius, are banished.
  512. 337 AD: Death of Constantine.
  513. 337 AD: 337 New Eastern emperor, Constantius, openly embraces Arianism.
  514. c. 340 AD: First conversions of Goths by Arian Ulfilas.
  515. 341–379 AD: Shapur II’s persecution of Persian Christians.
  516. 351-352 AD: Jewish revolt against Constantius Gallus. 
  517. 354-430 AD: Life of Augustine of Hippo.
  518. 360 AD: Julian the Apostate becomes the last non-Christian Roman Emperor.
  519. 361-363 AD: Julian, allows the Jews to return to Jerusalem.
  520. 361 AD: Valentian, an orthodox, becomes Western emperor.
  521. 363 AD: Galilee earthquake.
  522. 367 AD: The Thirty-Ninth Festal Letter of Athanasius lists all the canonical books.
  523. 368 AD: Compilation of the Jerusalem Talmud.
  524. 371 AD: Spread of Apollinarius’s views, an early form of Monophysitism.
  525. 380 AD: Theodosius I declares Nicene Christianity to be sole religion of the Empire. {ב}
  526. 381 AD: First Council of Constantinople affirms Nicene orthodoxy.
  527. c. 381 AD: Cappadocian Fathers put final touches on Trinitarian doctrine.
  528. 382 AD: Council of Rome under Damascus I provides a Biblical Canon.
  529. 386 AD: Conversion of Augustine of Hippo.
  530. c. 390 AD: Commentary on the Mishna (Jerusalem Talmud) completed.
  531. 390 AD: Nestorian missionary Abdyeshu builds a monastery in Bahrain.
  532. c. 390 AD: Pelagius moves to Rome and is disturbed by moral laxity.
  533. 393 AD: The Synod of Hippo approves a Christian canon of the Bible.
  534. 397 AD: Third Synod at Carthage ratifies the 27 books of the New Testament.
  535. 398 AD: John Chrysostom becomes bishop of Constantinople.
  536. 400 AD: Jerome’s Vulgate is published.
  537. c. 400 AD: Ethiopic Bible in Ge’ez.
  538. c. 400 AD: Peshitta Bible in Syriac.
  539. c. Destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus.
  540. c. 406 AD: Armenian Bible.
  541. 408 AD: Alaric I the Visigoth besieges Rome.
  542. 410 AD: Sacking of Rome by the Visigoths.
  543. c. 410 AD: Pelagius teaches salvation by good works; some of his followers deny original sin.
  544. c. 411 AD: Augustine begins writing against Pelagius.
  545. 418 AD: Council of Carthage affirms Augustine’s teachings.
  546. 428 AD: Nestorius objects to calling Mary Theotokos (“God-bearer”).
  547. 431 AD: Council of Ephesus decrees Mary Mother of God, leading to the Nestorian Schism.
  548. 431 AD: Council of Ephesus condemns Pelagianism.
  549. 436 AD: Nestorius banished to Upper Egypt.
  550. 440s AD: Eutyches begins teaching Christ has only one (divine) nature after the Incarnation.
  551. 440–461 AD: Leo the Great, bishop of Rome.
  552. 445 AD: Valentinian III issues a decree declaring the primacy of the bishop of Rome.
  553. 449 AD: A council at Ephesus (the “Robber Council”) declares Eutyches orthodox.
  554. 450 AD: Redaction of the Jerusalem Talmud.
  555. 451 AD: Council of Chalcedon convoked by Emperor Marcian on hypostatic union. {א}
  556. 451 AD: Council of Chalcedon condemns Nestorians.
  557. 453 AD: Death of Attila the Hun.
  558. 455 AD: Vandals sack Rome.
  559. 476 AD: Odoacer the Goth defeats the last Roman Emperor Romulus Augustus.
  560. 495 AD: Vicar of Christ used as a title for Gelasius I.
  561. 503 AD: Clovis, the first king of the Franks converts to Christianity.
  562. 523 AD: The Consolation of Philosophy by Roman statesman Boethius.
  563. 527-565 AD: Reign of Justinian the Great as Eastern Roman emperor.
  564. 530 AD: Benedictine Rule by Benedict of Nursia.
  565. 537 AD: Completion of the Hagia Sophia.
  566. 541–542 AD: Plague of Justinian.
  567. 550-700 AD: Period of the Savoraim, Jewish scholars who complete the Talmud.
  568. 563 AD: Columba founds abbey on the Island of Iona.
  569. c. 570 AD: Birth of Muhammad.
  570. 589 AD: Insertion of the Filioque to the original Niceno-Constantinopolitan Creed
  571. 590 AD: Gregory the Great elected Pope.
  572. 597 AD: Augustine of Canterbury becomes first archbishop of Canterbury.
  573. 632-661 AD: Rashidun Caliphate.
  574. 635 AD: Alopen, the Assyrian Christian missionary arrives in Tang capital of Chang'an.
  575. 622 AD: Migration (Hijrah) of Muhammad from Mecca to Medina.
  576. 624 AD: Battle of Badr, considered beginning of Islamic Empire.
  577. 636-637 AD: Siege of Jerusalem by the Rashidun Caliphate. 
  578. 639-646 AD: Islamic conquest of Egypt, led by the army of 'Amr ibn al-'As.
  579. 661-750 AD: Umayyad Caliphate.
  580. 663 AD: Synod of Whitby brings Northumbria under Roman influence.
  581. 674-678 AD: The first Arab siege of Constantinople.
  582. 675 AD: Birth of Boniface, known as the “Apostle to the Germans”.
  583. 691 AD: Dome of the Rock built by Caliph Abd el-Malik.
  584. 698 AD: Carthage destroyed by Umayyad forces after the Battle of Carthage.
  585. 711–718 AD: Battle of Guadalete and Umayyad conquest of Hispania.
  586. 712 AD: Jews assist Umayyads led by Tariq ibn Ziyad capture Spain.
  587. 717-718 AD: Second Arab siege of Constantinople and victory for Byzantine-Bulgars.
  588. 717-741 AD: Reign of Leo III the Isaurian as Byzantine Emperor.
  589. 722 AD: Leo III enforces the baptism of all Jews and Montanists in the empire.
  590. 726 AD: Controversy over icons begins in Eastern church.
  591. 726 AD: Civil reforms of Leo III encoded in the code called Ecloga (Selection).
  592. 730–787 AD: Byzantine Emperor Leo III bans Christian icons (Iconoclasm). {ב}
  593. 731 AD: Publication of Bede’s Ecclesiastical History.
  594. 732 AD: Battle of Tours with victory for Charles Martel over the Umayyad Caliphate.
  595. 740-1259: Jewish Kingdom of Khazars.
  596. 741 AD: Constantine V succeeds his father Leo III as emperor of the Byzantine Empire.
  597. 750 AD: The Abbasids replace Umayyads as the heads of the Islamic world.
  598. 750-1258 AD: Abbasid Caliphate.
  599. c. 752: Forged Donation of Constantine grants Western Roman Empire to the Pope.
  600. 756 AD: Donation of Pepin recognizes Papal States. {ב}
  601. 756-1870 AD: The Papal States.
  602. c. 767 AD: Anan Ben David, organizer of the Karaites.
  603. 768 AD: Charlemagne becomes king of the Franks.
  604. 781 AD: Xi'an Stele ("Nestorian Stele") erected near Xi'an in China.
  605. 787 AD: Irene of Athens calls the Second Council of Nicaea which condems iconoclasm.
  606. 800 AD: Charlemagne is crowned first Holy Roman Emperor of the West by Pope Leo III.
  607. 800-888 AD: Carolingian Empire.
  608. c. 800 AD: Rule of Caliph Harun al-Rashid.
  609. c. 836 AD: Cyril and Methodius of Constantinople go to Moravia as evangelists.
  610. 843 AD: Treaty of Verdun divides Carolingian Empire.
  611. 864 AD: Conversion of Prince Boris of Bulgaria to Christiantiy.
  612. c. 867 AD: Dating of Mt. Sinai Arabic Codex 151 which forms part of the oldest Arabic Bible.
  613. c. 870 AD: Collection of Bukhari and Muslim hadiths.
  614. 870 AD: Johannes Scotus' De Divisione Naturae.
  615. c. 900s AD: The Byzantine Empire reaches the height of its military and economic strength.
  616. 927 AD: Kingdom of England becomes a unified state.
  617. 965 AD: Harald Bluetooth, King of Denmark converts to Christianity
  618. c. 988 AD: Vladimir I, Prince of Kievan Rus’, baptised a Christian.
  619. c. 988 AD: Russian accepts Orthodox Christianity.
  620. c. 990-1175 AD: The translation of Wessex Gospels in Old English.
  621. c. 1000 AD: Old English Hexateuch under the presumed editorship of Ælfric of Eynsham.
  622. c. 1000 AD: Leif Erikson becomes the first European to settle in North America.
  623. 1040 AD: Birth of Rashi (Shlomo Yitzchaki).
  624. 1054 AD: The Great Schism. {א}
  625. 1059 AD: Cardinals given right to elect the pope.
  626. 1090 AD: The Seljuk Turks conquer the city of Ephesus.
  627. 1093 AD: Anselm of Aosta becomes archbishop of Canterbury.
  628. 1090-1153 AD: Life of Bernard of Clairvaux.
  629. c. 1095: Emergence of Christian scholasticism using the Aristotelian 10 Categories.
  630. 1095 AD: First Crusade launched by Council of Clermon by Pope Urban II.
  631. 1096-1099 AD: First Crusade.
  632. 1099 AD: Crusader state established in the Southern Levant by Godfrey of Bouillon.
  633. 1099-1291 AD:  The Frankish Kingdom of Jerusalem.
  634. 1144 AD: Completion of Basilica of Saint-Denis with elements of Gothic architecture.
  635. 1150 AD: University of Oxford founded.
  636. 1163 AD: Construction of Notre-Dame de Paris begins under Maurice de Sully.
  637. c. 1170 AD: Maimonides (Moses ben Maimon) authors Mishneh Torah.
  638. 1173 AD: Beginning of the Waldensian movement led by Peter Waldo.
  639. 1187 AD: Saladin's Ayyubid army, defeats the Crusaders at the Battle of Hattin.
  640. 1189 AD: The Third Crusade led by Richard I of England.
  641. c. 1200s AD: Publication of Summarium Biblicum a mnemonic device.
  642. 1202 AD: Leonard of Pisa (Fibonacci) publishes A Treatise on the Abacus.
  643. 1206 AD: Ismail al-Jazari's The Book of Knowledge of Ingenious Mechanical Devices.
  644. 1210-1216 AD: Franciscans and Dominicans.
  645. 1215 AD: Signing of the Magna Carta by King John of England.
  646. 1215 AD: Fourth Council of the Lateran affirms the Catholic doctrine of transubstantiation.
  647. 1244 AD: The Khwarazmian army capture Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
  648. 1272 AD: Thomas Aquinas’s Summa Theologiae.
  649. 1291 AD: Acre, the last possession of the Kingdom of Jerusalem destroyed by the Mamluks.
  650. 1299 AD: Ottoman Empire established by Osman I.
  651. 1309-1377 AD: Avignon Papacy with popes residing in Avignon, rather than Rome. 
  652. 1321 AD: Completion of Dante Alighieri's Divine Comedy.
  653. 1323 AD: William Ockham's Summa Totius Logicae.
  654. 1333-1370 AD: Reign of Casimir III the Great as King of Poland.
  655. 1348 AD: Black Death reaches Europe.
  656. 1354 AD: First mention of the Shroud of Turin.
  657. 1355 AD: History of the Samaritans called Kitab al-Ta'rikh compiled by Abu'l-Fath.
  658. 1370 AD: Timur founds the Timurid Empire.
  659. 1376 AD: John Wycliffe writes De Civili Dominio (On Civil Dominion).
  660. 1378-1417 AD: The Western Schism of the papacy.
  661. 1382 AD: John Wycliffe’s Bible, the first English translation of the Latin Vulgate.
  662. 1409 AD: Council of Pisa attempts to end the Western Schism.
  663. 1415 AD: Jan Hus, the Czech theologian is burned at stake.
  664. 1418 AD: Thomas á Kempis writes The Imitation of Christ.
  665. 1420s AD: Completion of the Forbidden City in China.
  666. 1431 AD: Jeanne d’Arc burned at stake at Rouen.
  667. 1441 AD: Explorers take 12 slaves from West Africa to Portugal.
  668. 1453 AD: Fall of the Byzantine Empire after the Turks take control of Constantinople.
  669. 1455 AD: Gutenberg Bible, first printed Bible, by Johann Gutenberg. {א}
  670. 1457 AD: Establishment of Unitas Fratrum (Moravian Church).
  671. 1466-1536 AD: Life of Desiderius Erasmus.
  672. 1480 AD: Spanish Inquisition.
  673. 1483 AD: Martin Luther is born in Eisleben, Saxony.
  674. 1492 AD: Isabella I & Ferdinand II conquer Granada, the last Muslim stronghold of Spain.
  675. 1492 AD: Italian explorer Christopher Columbus made landfall in what is now the Bahamas.
  676. 1492 AD: Christian expulsion of Jews from Spain.
  677. 1498 AD: Martyrdom of Girolamo Savonarola.
  678. 1500-1800 AD: The Mughal Muslim dynasty in India.
  679. 1506-1552 AD: Francis Xavier, Catholic missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus.
  680. 1516 AD: Erasmus Greek New Testament.
  681. 1517 AD: Martin Luther nails his 95 theses to a church door in Wittenberg. {א}
  682. 1518 AD: Ulrich Zwingli comes to Zurich.
  683. 1520-1566 AD: Reign of Sulayman I, the Magnificent of the Ottoman Empire.
  684. 1521 AD: Philip Melanchthon's Loci Communes.
  685. 1521 AD: Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther.
  686. 1521 AD: Martin Luther summoned to the Diet of Worms.
  687. 1522 AD: Anabaptist movement began in Germany.
  688. 1524-1525 AD: German Peasants’ War.
  689. 1524 AD: First Lutheran hymnal, the Achtliederbuch ("book of eight songs").
  690. 1525 AD: William Tyndale completes an English translation of the Bible.
  691. 1525 AD: Conrad Grebel defends the Anabaptist position on baptism.
  692. 1527 AD: Execution of the Anabaptist leader Michael Sattler.
  693. 1530 AD: Augsburg Confession.
  694. 1533-1603 AD: Life of Elizabeth I, the last monarch of the House of Tudors in England.
  695. c. 1534 AD: Ignatius of Loyola & Francis Xavier founds the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).
  696. 1534 AD: Henry VIII recognized as the “Supreme Head of the Church of England”.
  697. 1535 AD: Printing of the Coverdale Bible by Myles Coverdale.
  698. 1536 AD: John Calvin writes The Institutes of the Christian Religion.
  699. c. 1536 AD: Menno Simons begins the Mennonite movement.
  700. 1537 AD: Matthew’s Bible by John Rogers.
  701. 1540 AD: Pope Paul III approves Ignatius' model of the Society of Jesus.
  702. 1543 AD: Publication of Martin Luther's anti-Jewish tract.
  703. 1545-1563 AD: The Council of Trent.
  704. 1546 AD: Martin Luther dies in his hometown Eisleben.
  705. 1549 AD: Thomas Cranmer publishes the Book of Common Prayer.
  706. 1553 AD: Michael Servetus burned alive at Champel outside Geneva.
  707. 1554 AD: Publication of Calvin's Defensio orthodoxae fidei de sacra Trinitate.
  708. 1554 AD: Publication of Sebastian Castellio's De haereticis, an sint persequendi.
  709. 1555 AD: Peace of Augsburg.
  710. 1555 AD: Hugh Latimer burned at the stake during the reign of Queen Mary I.
  711. 1555-1621 AD: Life of Johann Arndt.
  712. 1569 AD: Isaac Luria and contemporary Kabbalah.
  713. 1560 AD: Publication of the Geneva Bible.
  714. 1560 AD: Scottish Confession of Faith by John Knox.
  715. 1563 AD: Publication of John Foxe’s Book of Martyrs.
  716. 1563 AD: Shulchan Aruch by Joseph Karo.
  717. 1564 AD: Publication of the code of Jewish law (Shulhan Arukh).
  718. 1564-1616 AD: Life of William Shakespeare.
  719. 1569 AD: Dutch Anabaptist Dirk Willems is burned at the stake.
  720. 1571 AD: Thirty-nine Articles of Religion of the Church of England.
  721. 1572 AD: St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre of the Huguenots.
  722. 1578 AD: Rediscovery of the Catacombs of Rome.
  723. 1579–1593 AD: Translation of the Kralice Bible in the Czech language.
  724. 1580 AD: Book of Concord compiled by Jakob Andreae and Martin Chemnitz.
  725. 1581-1656 AD: Life of James Bishop Ussher.
  726. 1581 AD: Publication of the Bünting Clover Leaf Map.
  727. 1582 AD: Douay-Rheims Bible.
  728. 1582 AD: Giordano Bruno's On the Shadows of Ideas.
  729. 1588 AD: English defeat Spanish Armada.
  730. 1592 AD: Birth of Jan Comenius, Czech theologian and pioneer of modern education.
  731. 1598 AD: Edict of Nantes by Henry IV of France grants rights to the Hugenots.
  732. 1600-1760 AD: The Baroque Period of Western Classical Music.
  733. 1603 AD: Jacobus Arminius appointed professor at Leyden.
  734. 1606 AD: First performance of Shakespeare’s Macbeth.
  735. 1611 AD: Publication of the King James Bible.
  736. 1618 AD: Synod of Dort held in Dordrecht.
  737. 1618-1648 AD: Thirty Years’ War, one of the most destructive in European History.
  738. 1620 AD: Signing of The Mayflower Compact.
  739. 1620-1691 AD: The Plymouth Colony, the first permanent English colony in New England.
  740. 1621 AD: Sir Henry Finch's treatise The World's Great Restoration or Calling of the Jews.
  741. 1625 AD: Siloam tunnel first described in modern times by Franciscus Quaresmius.
  742. 1633 AD: Galileo Galilei is accused of heresy.
  743. 1635-1705 AD: Life of Philipp Spener, the “Father of Pietism”.
  744. 1636 AD: Founding of Harvard College, named for Puritan clergyman John Harvard.
  745. 1636-1912 AD: The Qing dynasty, the last imperial dynasty of China.
  746. 1637 AD: René Descartes’ Discourse on the Method.
  747. 1642 AD: English Civil War.
  748. 1643-1715 AD: Reign of Louis XIV in France emblematic of the Age of Absolutism.
  749. 1646 AD: Westminster Confession drafted.
  750. 1646 AD: Harvard’s “Rules and Precepts” adopted.
  751. 1648 AD: George Fox founds the Quaker movement.
  752. 1648 AD: Peace of Westphalia.
  753. 1650 AD: James Ussher publishes Annals of the Old Testament.
  754. 1651 AD: Thomas Hobbes' Leviathan.
  755. 1653 AD: Oliver Cromwell named Lord Protector of the Commonwealth.
  756. 1654 AD: Conversion experience of Blaise Pascal.
  757. 1655 AD: Jews readmitted to England by Oliver Cromwell.
  758. 1674 AD: Isaac Watts born in Southampton, Hampshire, England.
  759. 1675 AD: Philipp Jakob Spener publishes Pia Desideria (“Pious Desires”).
  760. 1677 AD: Henry Scougal publishes The Life Of God In The Soul Of Man.
  761. 1678 AD: John Bunyan publishes Pilgrim’s Progress.
  762. 1685-1750: Life of Johann Sebastian Bach.
  763. 1685 AD: Edict of Fontainebleau by Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes.
  764. 1687 AD: Isaac Newton published Philosophiae Naturalis Principia Mathematica.
  765. 1688-1689 AD: The Glorious Revolution and deposition of James II of England.
  766. 1689 AD: Toleration Act of the Parliament of England.
  767. 1692-1693 AD: The Salem witch trials in colonial Massachusetts.
  768. 1693 AD: Jacob Amman founds the Amish community.
  769. 1694-1778 AD: Life of Voltaire (François-Marie Arouet).
  770. 1695 AD: Jeanne Guyon imprisoned after publishing a book on prayer.
  771. 1696 AD: A New Theory of the Earth published by William Whiston.
  772. 1700-1760 AD: Life of Count Zinzendorf.
  773. 1700 AD: (May 26) Nicolaus Zinzendorf born in Dresden.
  774. 1700-1760 AD: Life of Israel Baal Shem Tov, the founder of Jewish Hasidism.
  775. 1703-1758 AD: Life of Jonathan Edwards.
  776. 1706 AD: Establishment of the Tranquebar Mission.
  777. 1707-1783 AD: Life of Leonhard Euler, the mathematician.
  778. 1707 AD: Isaac Watts publishes Hymns and Spiritual Songs.
  779. 1710 AD: Publication of Bishop Berkeley's Treatise.
  780. 1710 AD: Completion of St Paul's Cathedral designed by Sir Christopher Wren.
  781. 1718-1747 AD: Life of David Brainerd.
  782. 1721 AD: The Kangxi Emperor outlaws Christian missions.
  783. 1722 AD: Zinzendorf offered asylum to the Moravians.
  784. 1724-1804 AD: Life of German Philosopher Immanuel Kant.
  785. 1724 AD: Death of Austrian Jewish financier Samson Wertheimer.
  786. 1726-1797 AD: James Hutton promotes uniformitarianism.
  787. 1727 AD: Revival at Moravian Church in Herrnhut. {א}
  788. 1727 AD: Founding of the Emirate of Diriyah (First Saudi State).
  789. 1728 AD: Issac Newton publishes The Chronology of Ancient Kingdoms Amended.
  790. 1728 AD: The Moravians begin publishing Losungen, the "Daily Watchwords."
  791. 1730-1755 AD: The First Great Awakening.
  792. 1732 AD: First Moravian evangelists go to the Caribbean island of St Thomas.
  793. 1732 AD: Alciphron (or The Minute Philosopher) by George Berkeley.
  794. 1733 AD: George Whitefield joins the Holy Club.
  795. 1733 AD: Ebenezer Erskine's Synod sermon.
  796. 1733 AD: Isaac Newton publishes Observations on Daniel and The Apocalypse of St. John.
  797. 1734 AD: Revival at Northampton, Mass under Jonathan Edwards.
  798. 1738 AD: Conversion of John Wesley under the influence of the Moravians.
  799. 1738 AD: Charles Wesley is converted and writes And Can It Be That I Should Gain?
  800. 1740 AD: Boston Revival with Gilbert Tennent.
  801. c. 1740 AD: Discovery of the Muratorian fragment by Ludovico Antonio Muratori.
  802. 1741 AD: Count Zinzendorf visited Pennsylvania.
  803. 1741 AD: George Frideric Handel composes Messiah.
  804. 1741 AD: Jonathan Edwards preaches the sermon Sinners in the Hands of an Angry God.
  805. 1742 AD: Count Zinzendorf visits Shekomeko, New York.
  806. 1746 AD: Publication of Jonathan Edwards' Religious Affections.
  807. 1749 AD: Comte de Buffon publishes his Histoire Naturelle
  808. 1750 AD: Rise of the Wahhabi movement founded by Muhammad ibn Abd al-Wahhab.
  809. 1753 AD: Establishment of the British Museum based on the collections of Hans Sloane.
  810. 1759 AD: Voltaire’s Candide.
  811. 1760 AD: Moravians Adam Voelker and Christian Butler arrive in Tranquebar, India.
  812. 1764 AD: John Newton pens Amazing Grace.
  813. 1766 AD: John Wesley publishes A Plain Account of Christian Perfection.
  814. 1769-1821 AD: Life of Napoleon Bonaparte.
  815. 1771 AD: Francis Asbury volunteers to travel to British North America.
  816. 1771 AD: Emanuel Swedenborg publishes Universal Theology of the True Christian Religion.
  817. 1773 AD: Disbanding of the Jesuits.
  818. 1774 AD: Abraham Werner publishes Von den äußerlichen Kennzeichen der Foßilien.
  819. 1747 AD: Founding of the Shakers in the United States by Ann Lee.
  820. 1764 AD: Thomas Bayes' Essay Towards Solving A Problem In The Doctrine Of Chances.
  821. 1776 AD: United States Declaration of Independence.
  822. 1776 AD: Roger Williams founds Rhode Island, allowing total freedom of religion.
  823. 1776 AD: Augustus Toplady authors Rock of Ages.
  824. 1776 AD: Adam Smith's The Wealth of Nations.
  825. 1776-1788 AD: Gibbon's The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire.
  826. 1779 AD: Publication of the Olney Hymns.
  827. 1779 AD: Publication of David Hume's Dialogues Concerning Natural Religion.
  828. 1780 AD: Robert Raikes begins his Sunday school.
  829. 1781 AD: Immanuel Kant publishes Critique of Pure Reason.
  830. 1781-1812 AD: Life of Henry Martyn.
  831. 1782 AD: George Lisle, an empancipated slave, goes to Jamaica as missionary.
  832. 1783-1844 AD: Life of Asahel Nettleton.
  833. 1783-1826 AD: Life of Reginald Heber, the hymwriter and Bishop of Calcutta.
  834. 1785 AD: William Wilberforce becomes an Evangelical Christian.
  835. 1786-1842 AD: Life of Hebraist Wilhelm Gesenius.
  836. 1788-1850 AD: Life of Adoniram Judson.
  837. 1789-1799 AD: French Revolution.
  838. c. 1790–1840 AD: The Second Great Awakening in the United States.
  839. 1791 AD: First Amendment to the US Constitution
  840. 1793 AD: William Carey sets out for Bengal, India.
  841. 1793 AD: Invention of the cotton gin by Eli Whitney.
  842. 1794 AD: Fall of Robespierre one of the influential figures of the French Revolution.
  843. 1795 AD: London Missionary Society founded under the influence of Edward Williams.
  844. 1795 AD: Publication of Thomas Paine's Age of Reason.
  845. 1796-1873 AD: Henry Venn expounds the basic principles of indigenous Christian mission.
  846. 1796 AD: The Awakened revivalistic movement in Finland.
  847. 1796 AD: The Treaty of Tripoli states that US is "not founded on the Christian religion".
  848. 1798 AD: UNC Chapel Hill, the first public university in the US graduates its first class.
  849. 1798 AD: Napoleon's battle of the Pyramids against Mamluk rulers in Egypt.
  850. 1798 AD: John Theodosius Van Der Kemp goes to work among the Xhosa.
  851. 1799 AD: Formation of the Church Mission Society.
  852. 1799 AD: Friedrich Schleiermacher publishes Über die Religion.
  853. 1799 AD: Discovery of the Rosetta Stone during the Napoleonic campaign in Egypt.
  854. 1799 AD: Napoleon is made first consul, or leader of France.
  855. 1800 AD: Alessandro Volta reports his invention of the voltaic pile.
  856. 1801 AD: Cane Ridge Revival which influenced the Restoration Movement.
  857. 1801 AD: Concordat of 1801 between Napoleon Bonaparte and Pope Pius VII.
  858. 1801 AD: Formation of the United Kingdom through the merger of Britain and Ireland.
  859. 1802-1805 AD: Muslim Wahhabis sack Karbala in Iraq and capture Mecca & Medina.
  860. 1802 AD: Publication of William Paley's Natural Theology.
  861. 1803 AD: Napoleon sells the Louisiana Territory to the United States.
  862. 1804 AD: Introduction of the Napoleonic Code by Napoleon.
  863. 1804 AD: Napolean crowns himself as emperor under the name Napoleon I. 
  864. 1804 AD: Formation of the British and Foreign Bible Society.
  865. 1804 AD: World population reaches 1 billion.
  866. 1804 AD: Lewis and Clark Expedition.
  867. 1804 AD: First steam locomotive begins operation.
  868. 1804-1813 AD: Russo-Persian War.
  869. 1804 AD: Death of Immanuel Kant marks the end of the Age of Enlightenment.
  870. 1805 AD: The British fleet under Nelson defeats the French at the Battle of Trafalgar.
  871. 1805-1809 AD: The Napoleonic Wars.
  872. 1805-1898 AD: Life of George Müller.
  873. 1805 AD: George Müller is born in Kroppenstaedt, Prussia.
  874. 1805-1880 AD: Life of Johan Christoph Blumhardt.
  875. 1805-1848 AD: Muhammad Ali Pasha is de facto ruler in Egypt.
  876. 1806 AD: Holy Roman Empire dissolved as a consequence of the Treaty of Pressburg.
  877. 1806 AD: Early translation of the Bible into the Indian Language Malayalam.
  878. 1806 AD: The Haystack Prayer Meeting, held in Williamstown, Massachusetts.
  879. 1807 AD: Potassium and Sodium are individually isolated by Humphry Davy.
  880. 1807 AD: Evangelist Robert Morrison begins work in Guangzhou.
  881. 1807 AD: Britain declares the Slave Trade illegal.
  882. 1810 AD: Founding of the University of Berlin.
  883. 1810 AD: William E. Boardman born in Smithboro, New York.
  884. 1811 AD: Claudius Buchanan publishes Christian Researches in Asia.
  885. 1812 AD: Napoleon's ill-fated invasion of Russia.
  886. 1813 AD: Battle of Leipzig.
  887. 1813-1843 AD: Life of Robert Murray M’Cheyne.
  888. 1813-1890 AD: Life of Franz Delitzsch.
  889. 1814 AD: Baptism of Cai Gao in China.
  890. 1814 AD: Restoration of the Jesuits.
  891. 1814 AD: Napoleon is forced to abdicate and is forced into exile on the island of Elba.
  892. 1815 AD: Founding of the Basel Mission.
  893. 1815 AD: Napoleon arrives in Paris after escaping from exile.
  894. 1815 AD: Napolean defeated at Battle of Waterloo and exiled to Saint Helena.
  895. 1816 AD: Year Without a Summer influenced by the 1815 explosion of Mount Tambora.
  896. 1817 AD: Robert Moffat begins his work in South Africa.
  897. 1817 AD: German theologian Claus Harms publishes his 95 theses against rationalism.
  898. 1818 AD: William Carey founds Serampore College; Publication of Bible in Sanskrit.
  899. 1819 AD: Thomas Jefferson produces the Jefferson Bible.
  900. 1819 AD: The modern city of Singapore is established by the British East India Company.
  901. 1820 AD: The Missouri Compromise.
  902. 1820-1915 AD: Life of poet, and composer Fanny Crosby.
  903. 1820 AD: Hans Christian Ørsted identifies the relationship between electricity and magnetism.
  904. 1820 AD: Publication of William Buckland’s Vindiciæ Geologiæ.
  905. 1820 AD: Turin's King List discovered by Italian traveler Bernardino Drovetti at Luxor.
  906. 1821 AD: Death of Napolean Bonaparte in Saint Helena.
  907. 1821 AD: Michael Faraday invents the first electric motor.
  908. c. 1822 AD: Charles Babbage begins work on the Difference engine.
  909. 1823 AD: Monroe Doctrine declared by US President James Monroe.
  910. 1824 AD: Premiere of Beethoven’s Ninth Symphony.
  911. 1824 AD: Quaker John Cadbury founds the eponymous chocolate company.
  912. 1825 AD: George Müller enrolls at Halle University to study theology.
  913. 1825 AD: Anthony Norris Groves publishes Christian Devotedness.
  914. 1825 AD: The discovery of aluminium announced by Danish physicist Hans Christian Ørsted.
  915. c. 1826 AD: First photograph by Nicéphore Niépce.
  916. 1827 AD: American evangelist George Boardman founds a mission in Burma.
  917. 1828 AD: Birth of pastor and writer Andrew Murray.
  918. 1828 AD: Discovery of the Bubastite portal in Karnak, Egypt.
  919. 1830 AD: Revivals of Charles Finney lead to Second Great Awakening in America.
  920. 1830 AD: Church of Christ (Latter Day Saints) founded by Joseph Smith.
  921. 1831 AD:  Cyrus McCormick invents the mechanical reaper.
  922. 1830 AD: The West of Scotland Revival.
  923. 1830 AD: Church of Scotland evangelist Alexander Duff arrives in Kolkata, India.
  924. 1831 AD: William Miller begins the Advent Movement.
  925. 1832 AD: J. N. Darby and Anthony Norris Groves begin the Plymouth Brethren.
  926. 1832 AD: George Müller and Henry Craik began a church in Bristol.
  927. 1832 AD: Establishment Holy Catholic Apostolic Church influenced by Edward Irving.
  928. 1832 AD: The Evidences of the Christian Religion by Archibald Alexander.
  929. 1833 AD: Birth of Charles Cullis in Cambridge, Massachusetts.
  930. 1835 AD: Henry Rawlinson begins translation of the Behistun inscription.
  931. 1835-1913 AD: Life of E. M. Bounds, author of several books on prayer.
  932. 1835-1910 AD: Life of Henry Grattan Guiness, evangelist of the Third Evangelical awakening.
  933. 1837-1901 AD: Reign of Queen Victoria in England, known as the Victorian Era.
  934. 1837 AD: William Whewell's History of the Inductive Sciences.
  935. 1837 AD: Christian Evidences by Richard Whately
  936. 1838 AD:  Siloam tunnel re-discovered by Edward Robinson.
  937. 1841 AD: David Livingstone (1813-1873) leaves as a missionary to Africa.
  938. 1843 AD: Andrew Murray and his brother John went to Pastor Johann Blumhardt in Germany.
  939. 1843 AD: Evangelicals leave the Church of Scotland to form the Free Church of Scotland.
  940. 1843 AD: Sechor Dabar founded in Utrecht. Andrew Murray later become part of this group.
  941. 1843 AD: F. F. Bruce publishes Are the New Testament Documents Reliable?
  942. 1845 AD: Phoebe Palmer publishes The Way of Holiness.
  943. 1844 AD: YMCA founded in London by Sir George Williams.
  944. 1844 AD: Beginning of Laestadianism, a pietistic Lutheran revival movement.
  945. 1844 AD: First edition of Horae Apocalypticae published by Edward Bishop Elliott.
  946. 1844 AD: The Great Disappointment.
  947. 1844 AD: Morse sends the first telegraph message, "What has God wrought" (Num. 23:23).
  948. 1845-1852 AD: The Irish Potato Famine.
  949. 1846 AD: John Geddie sent as a missionary to New Hebrides (Vanuatu).
  950. 1846 AD: Soren Kierkegaard's Concluding Unscientific Postscript.
  951. 1846 AD:  Sir Austen Henry Layard discovers the Black Obelisk of Shalmaneser III.
  952. 1847 AD: Founding of the Lutheran Church–Missouri Synod.
  953. 1848 AD: Karl Marx and Frederik Engels publishe Communist Manifesto.
  954. 1848-1915 AD: Life of Mary Mitchell Slessor.
  955. 1850-1864 AD: Taiping Rebellion.
  956. 1850 AD: Publication of Rawlinson's On the Inscriptions of Assyria and Babylonia.
  957. 1851-1939 AD: Life of archaeologist Sir William Mitchell Ramsay.
  958. 1851 AD: Harriet Beecher Stowe publishes Uncle Tom’s Cabin.
  959. 1851 AD: Birth of B. B. Warfield (November 5, 1851 – February 16, 1921).
  960. 1852 AD: Johan Christoph Blumhardt and his wife moved to Bad Boll.
  961. 1853 AD: Crimean War begins between Russia and the Ottoman Empire.
  962. 1853 AD: Publication of Alexander Hislop's The Two Babylons.
  963. 1854 AD: Hudson Taylor arrives in China.
  964. 1854 AD: Immaculate Conception defined as Catholic dogma.
  965. 1854 AD: J.G. Taylor finds four of the Cylinders of Nabonidus.
  966. 1855 AD: Death of Søren Kierkegaard, the first existentialist philosopher.
  967. 1855 AD: Conversion of D. L. Moody, influenced by Edward Kimball.
  968. 1855 AD: Jizya tax was abolished by Sa'id Pasha in Egypt.
  969. 1855-1946 AD: Life of Christian writer and social reformer Katharine Bushnell.
  970. 1856-1930 AD: Life of Old Testament scholar and linguist Robert Dick Wilson.
  971. 1856-1928 AD: Life of evangelist and educator R. A. Torrey.
  972. 1858 AD: William Boardman’s book The Higher Christian Life.
  973. 1858-1890 AD: Publication of Philip Schaff’s History of the Christian Church.
  974. 1858-1922 AD: Life of Eliezer Ben-Yehuda, the "reviver" of the Hebrew language.
  975. 1859 AD: Ulster revival produces 100,000 converts and spreads to the rest of the UK.
  976. 1859 AD: Publication of Charles Darwin’s On the Origin of Species.
  977. 1859-1947 AD: Life of the British evangelist Smith Wigglesworth.
  978. 1860 AD: D. L. Moody began his ministry in Chicago.
  979. 1860 AD: Publication of John Ruskin's essay Unto This Last.
  980. 1860 AD: Charles Dickens' Great Expectations.
  981. 1860s AD: Pentecostal revival in in Madras Province led by J. C. Aroolappen.
  982. 1861 AD: Keil and Delitzsch's commentary on the Old Testament.
  983. 1861 AD: Discovery of Kurkh Monoliths by John George Taylor.
  984. 1861-1865 AD: The American Civil War.
  985. 1862-1935 AD: Life of Billy Sunday.
  986. 1862 AD: Young’s Literal Translation by Robert Young.
  987. 1862 AD: Baron Kelvin calculates the age of Earth at between 20 and 400 million years.
  988. 1863 AD: Seventh-day Adventist Church officially formed.
  989. 1863 AD: Founding of the Red Cross by Henry Dunant.
  990. 1864 AD: John Henry Newman’s Apologia Pro Vita Sua in response to Charles Kingsley.
  991. 1864 AD: Syllabus of Errors issued by Pope Pius IX.
  992. 1865 AD: William Booth founds the Salvation Army.
  993. 1865 AD: Assassination of Abraham Lincoln.
  994. 1865-1912 AD: Life of John Hyde also known as Praying Hyde.
  995. 1865 AD: Hudson Taylor publishes China’s Spiritual Need and Claims.
  996. 1865 AD: Swedish poet Lina Sandell writes the hymn Blott en dag (Day by Day).
  997. 1867 AD: Charles Warren discovers Hezekiah’s Tunnel.
  998. 1868 AD: Discovery of the Mesha Stele in Dhiban, Jordan.
  999. 1868 AD: Ernst Haeckel’s embryological drawings.
  1000. 1868 AD: Meiji Restoration and establishment of State Shinto in Japan.
  1001. 1868 AD: Frederick Augustus Klein discovers the Mesha Stele (Moabite Stone).
  1002. 1869 AD: Elizabeth Prentiss authors the novel Stepping Heavenward.
  1003. 1869-1870 AD: The First Vatican Council asserts doctrine of Papal Infallibility.
  1004. 1869 AD: Opening of the Suez Canal.
  1005. 1870 AD: Italian Army led by General Cadorna enters Rome; Papal States cease to exist.
  1006. 1870 AD: Healing of Lucy Drake at Charles Cullis’ Home for Consumptives.
  1007. 1870s AD: Jehovah's Witnesses emerges from the work of Charles Taze Russell.
  1008. 1870 AD: The Shebna or Royal Steward inscription discovered in Silwan outside Jerusalem.
  1009. 1871 AD: The Great Chicago Fire destroys D. L. Moody's church building.
  1010. 1871 AD: Discovery of the Temple Warning (Soreg) inscription by Clermont-Ganneau.
  1011. 1872 AD: George Smith announces the discovery of the Epic of Gilgamesh.
  1012. 1873 AD: D.L. Moody and Ira Sankey publish Sacred Songs and Solos.
  1013. 1873 AD: James Clerk Maxwell publishes A Treatise on Electricity and Magnetism.
  1014. 1873 AD: Discovery a manuscript in Constantinople containing the Didache.
  1015. 1874 AD: A. B. Simpson influenced by William Boardman’s Higher Christian Life.
  1016. 1874 AD: Frances Ridley Havergal publishes the hymn Take My Life and Let It Be.
  1017. 1875 AD: Founding of the Keswick Convention.
  1018. 1875 AD: Founding of the Arya Samaj by Dayanand Saraswati.
  1019. 1876 AD: Alexander Graham Bell makes the first telephone call.
  1020. 1876 AD: Nikolaus Otto invents the internal combustion (IC) engine.
  1021. 1877 AD: Franz Delitzsch' Berit Khadasha
  1022. 1878 AD: Publication of Julius Wellhausen's Geschichte Israels.
  1023. 1878 AD: The Nazareth Inscription aquired by Wilhelm Fröhner. 
  1024. 1878 AD: William E. Blackstone authors Jesus is Coming.
  1025. 1879 AD: Church of Christ, Scientist founded in Boston by Mary Baker Eddy.
  1026. 1879 AD: Birth of Rees Howells, founder of The Bible College of Wales.
  1027. 1879 AD: Andrew Murray loses his voice for two years.
  1028. 1879-1955 AD: Life of Albert Einstein.
  1029. 1879 AD: Discovery of the Cylinder of Cyrus in Babylon.
  1030. 1879 AD: Acquisition of the Nabonidus Chronicle in Sippar.
  1031. 1880 AD: Publication of Ben-Hur: A Tale of the Christ by Lew Wallace.
  1032. 1880 AD:  The Siloam inscription found in the Siloam tunnel.
  1033. 1881 AD: Pogroms begins in the Russian Empire.
  1034. 1882-1903 AD: First Aliya to Israel mainly from Russia.
  1035. 1883 AD: Alfred Edersheim published The Life and Times of Jesus the Messiah.
  1036. 1883-1945 AD: Life of Sadhu Kochkunju Upadeshi.
  1037. 1881-1885 AD: Revised Version, the only authorized revision of the King James Version.
  1038. 1881 AD: Andrew Murray goes to London to Bethshan and is healed.
  1039. 1885 AD: Declaration of Principles of the Holiness Movement.
  1040. 1885 AD: Lucy Osborn starts the Union Missionary Training School.
  1041. 1885 AD: The International Conference on Divine Healing and True Holiness.
  1042. 1885 AD: Karl Benz invents the automobile.
  1043. 1885 AD: The Cambridge Seven decided to become evangelists to China.
  1044. 1886 AD: Founding of the Moody Bible Institute.
  1045. 1886-1938 AD: Life of James Outram Fraser, evangelist to the Lisu people of China.
  1046. 1886 AD: Founding of the Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee).
  1047. 1887 AD: A.B. Simpson founds the Christian Alliance and the Evangelical Missionary Alliance.
  1048. 1888 AD: Canadian Presbyterian evangelist Jonathan Goforth goes to China,
  1049. 1889 AD: A. J Gordon founds the Gordon Bible Institute.
  1050. 1889 AD: Completion of the Eiffel Tower.
  1051. 1889 AD: Patenting of Asprin.
  1052. 1890 AD: British evangelist and evangelist Lilias Trotter's Parables of the Cross.
  1053. 1891 AD: The Blackstone Memorial petition presented to US President Benjamin Harrison.
  1054. 1891-1971 AD: Life of of American archaeologist William Foxwell Albright.
  1055. 1893 AD: The Pocket Testament League founded by Helen Cadbury.
  1056. 1894 AD: Publication of The Kingdom of God is Within You, by Leo Tolstoy.
  1057. 1894 AD: A. J. Gordon publishes The Ministry of Healing.
  1058. 1894 AD: Alfred Dreyfus is sentenced to life on Devil's Island in the Dreyfus Affair.
  1059. 1895 AD: Amy Carmichael goes to India.
  1060. 1895 AD: Sigmund Freud publishes first work on psychoanalysis.
  1061. 1895 AD: Publication of Theodor Herzl's Der Judenstaat (The State of the Jews).
  1062. 1895 AD: Peter Cameron Scott founds Africa Inland Mission.
  1063. 1896 AD: Acquisition of the Nebuchadnezzar Chronicle.
  1064. 1896 AD: Shearer Schoolhouse Revival in North Carolina.
  1065. 1896 AD: Discovery of the Merneptah Stele in Thebes, Egypt.
  1066. 1896 AD: Samuel Logan Brengle authors Helps to Holiness.
  1067. 1897 AD: Adoption of the Christian flag.
  1068. 1897 AD: Charles Sheldon’s In His Steps.
  1069. 1898 AD: George Müller dies in Bristol.
  1070. 1899 AD: Founding of Gideons International.
  1071. 1899-1901 AD: Boxer Rebellion in China.
  1072. 1900 AD: Andrew Murray writes his book on Divine Healing.
  1073. 1900 AD: Adolf Harnack’s What is Christianity.
  1074. 1900-1901 AD: American Standard Version.
  1075.  1900 AD: Andrew Murray writes The Key to the Missionary Problem
  1076. 1901 AD: Guglielmo Marconi invents the radio.
  1077. 1901 AD: One Mission Society (OMS) founded in Tokyo, Japan.
  1078. 1901 AD: Experiences of glossolalia in Bethel Bible College, Topeka, Kansas.
  1079. 1901 AD: James Chalmers killed by cannibals in New Guinea.
  1080. 1901 AD: Lines of Defence of the Biblical Revelation by David Samuel Margoliouth.
  1081. 1901 AD: Jean-Vincent Scheil discovers Hammurabi's Law Code at Susa.
  1082. 1902-1945 AD: Life of Eric Liddell, Scottish sprinter and missionary.
  1083. 1903 AD: First airplane flight by the Wright brothers in Kitty Hawk, North Carolina.
  1084. 1903-1972 AD: Life of Watchman Nee (Ni Tuosheng).
  1085. 1904-1905 AD: Welsh Revival under the leadership of Evan Roberts.
  1086. 1905 AD: Publication of the anti-Jewish hoax, The Protocols of the Elders of Zion.
  1087. 1905 AD: The Great Revival at Mukti Mission founded by Pandita Ramabai.
  1088. 1905 AD: Max Weber's The Protestant Ethic and the Spirit of Capitalism.
  1089. 1905 AD: Albert Einstein’s On the Electrodynamics of Moving Bodies on Special Relativity.
  1090. 1906-1915 AD: Azusa Street Revival under the leadership of William Seymour.
  1091. 1906 AD: T. B. Barratt bring the Pentecostal movement to Norway and Europe.
  1092. 1906 AD: Schweitzer publishes Quest of the Historical Jesus.
  1093. 1906 AD: Biblia Hebraica edited by Rudolf Kittel.
  1094. 1906 AD: Friedrich Delitzsch's critical work Babel and Bible.
  1095. 1907-1968 AD: Life of Old Testament scholar Edward J. Young.
  1096. 1908 AD: Jessie Penn-Lewis speaks at the Keswick Convention influencing Frank Buchman.
  1097. 1908 AD: The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee) embraces Pentecostalism.
  1098. 1908 AD: Discovery of the Gezer calendar by R. A. Stewart Macalister.
  1099. 1908 AD: Church of the Nazarene founded under the leadership of Phineas F. Bresee.
  1100. 1909 AD: Publication of the Scofield Reference Bible.
  1101. 1909 AD: Founding of Tel-Aviv in Israel.
  1102. 1909-2001 AD: Life of Richard Wurmbrand.
  1103. 1909 AD:  Fritz Haber's Haber Process.
  1104. 1911 AD: Xinhai Revolution results in the establishment of the Republic of China.
  1105. 1912 AD: Sinking of the Titanic.
  1106. 1912-1987 AD: Life of J. Edwin Orr.
  1107. 1912 AD: Jessie Penn-Lewis and Evan Roberts publish War on the Saints (1912).
  1108. 1912-1914 AD: Leonard Woolley and T.E. Lawrence excavate the Hittite city of Carchemish.
  1109. 1913 AD: Arthur Holmes publishes The Age of the Earth.
  1110. 1913 AD: Teachings of R.E. McAlister lead to emergence of Oneness Pentecostalism.
  1111. 1913 AD: C.T. Studd founds WEC International.
  1112. 1914 AD: The Assemblies of God founded in Hot Springs, Arkansas
  1113. 1914-1918 AD: World War I.
  1114. 1915 AD: Frank Laubach developes the "Each One Teach One" literacy program.
  1115. 1915-1923 AD: The Armenian genocide.
  1116. 1916 AD: The Oneness Movement splits the Assemblies of God.
  1117. 1916 AD: Hubert Parry composes music for Jerusalem based on William Blake's poem. 
  1118. 1917 AD: Bolshevik Revolution.
  1119. 1917 AD: General Edmund Allenby enters Jerusalem.
  1120. 1918 AD: Billy Graham born in Charlotte, North Carolina.
  1121. 1918 AD: Helen Lemmel writes the hymn Turn Your Eyes Upon Jesus.
  1122. 1918 AD: Treaty of Versailles formally ends Word War I.
  1123. 1918 AD: Abdication of Germany's Kaiser Wilhelm.
  1124. 1919 AD: Publication of Karl Barth's "The Epistle to the Romans."
  1125. 1919 AD: Solar Eclipse that supports Albert Einstein’s General Theory of Relativity.
  1126. 1919-1992 AD: Life of Paris Reidhead.
  1127. 1919 AD: Founding of the Kuomintang by Sun Yat-sen.
  1128. 1919 AD: Jessie Penn-Lewis publishes The Magna Carta of Christian Women.
  1129. 1919-1923 AD: Third Aliyah, mainly from Russia.
  1130. 1919 AD: Establishment of the League of Nations.
  1131. 1919 AD: James H. Breasted founds the Oriental Institute at the University of Chicago.
  1132. 1920 AD: Watchman Nee becomes a Christian in China.
  1133. 1921 AD: Oxford Group founded at Oxford by Lutheran minister Frank Buchman.
  1134. 1921-2011 AD: Life of English theologian John Stott.
  1135. 1922 AD: Pandita Ramabai completes translation of Bible into Marathi before her death.
  1136. 1922 AD: Fundamentalist-Modernist controversy within the Presbyterian Church in USA.
  1137. 1923 AD: J. Gresham Machen publishes Christianity and Liberalism.
  1138. 1925 AD: The Scopes Monkey Trial in Dayton, Tennessee.
  1139. 1925 AD: Lettie Cowman publishes Streams in the Desert.
  1140. 1925 AD:  E. Stanley Jones writes The Christ of the Indian Road.
  1141. 1925 AD: Opening of the Hebrew University of Jerusalem on Mt. Scopus.
  1142. 1926 AD: A Scientific Investigation of the Old Testament by Robert Dick Wilson.
  1143. 1927 AD: Aimee Semple McPherson founds the Foursquare Church.
  1144. 1928 AD: Ugaritic texts first discovered in Ugarit (Ras Shamra).
  1145. 1929 AD: Great Depression begins in the U.S.
  1146. 1929 AD: The Erastus Inscription found in Corinth.
  1147. 1929 AD: Alexander Fleming discovers Penicillin.
  1148. 1929 AD: Lateran Pact between Italy and the Vatican.
  1149. 1930-2020 AD: Life of Bible teacher David Pawson.
  1150. 1933 AD: Dawson Trotman founds the Navigators.
  1151. 1933 AD: Gladys Aylward arrives in China.
  1152. 1933 AD: Reichskonkordat between the Vatican and Nazi Germany.
  1153. 1934 AD: Conversion of Billy Graham.
  1154. 1934 AD: SIL (Summer Institute of Linguistics) founded by William Cameron Townsend.
  1155. 1934 AD: The Barmen Declaration by Christians opposing German Christian movement.
  1156. 1938 AD: Kristallnacht — Burning down of German Jewish (Nov. 9, 1938).
  1157. 1939 AD: David Martyn Lloyd-Jones pastors with G. Campbell Morgan at Westminster Chapel.
  1158. 1939-1945 AD: World War II.
  1159. 1939-1945 AD: The Nazi German Holocaust ("Shoah") against the Jews.
  1160. 1941-2002 AD: Life of Stephen Jay Gould.
  1161. 1941 AD: Kyodan union of Protestant churches forced by the Japanese government.
  1162. 1942 AD: C&MA pastor Timothy Dzao establishes the Bread of Life Church in Shanghai.
  1163. 1942 AD: William Cameron Townsend founds Wycliffe Bible Translators.
  1164. 1943 AD: Rienhold Niebuhr’s The Nature and Destiny of Man.
  1165. 1945 AD: Discovery of the Library of Nag Hammadi.
  1166. 1945 AD: Formation of the United Pentecostal Church (Missouri).
  1167. 1945 AD: Dietrich Bonhoeffer is hanged at Flossenburg.
  1168. 1945-1963 AD: Excavation of Shaduppum (Tell Harmal) by Taha Baqir.
  1169. 1946 AD: Martin Niemöller's poem "First they came ..."
  1170. 1947 AD: Discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls. {א}
  1171. 1947 AD: Invention of the transistor by Bardeen, Brattain, and Shockley at Bell Labs.
  1172. 1947 AD: First Pentecostal World Conference held in Zürich, Switzerland.
  1173. 1947 AD: Partition of India and Pakistan.
  1174. 1948 AD: A.W. Tozer publishes The Pursuit of God.
  1175. 1948 AD: Creation of the modern state of Israel.
  1176. 1948 AD: Formation of the World Council of Churches.
  1177. 1950s AD: Nicholas Bhengu founds the Africa Back to God Crusade.
  1178. 1950 AD: Patricia St. John publishes Treasures of the Snow.
  1179. 1950 AD: Pope Pius XII’s Munificentissimus Deus; Doctrine of assumption of Mary.
  1180. 1951 AD: Richard Niebuhr publishes Christ and Culture.
  1181. 1951 AD: Edwin R. Thiele's book The Mysterious Numbers of the Hebrew Kings.
  1182. 1952 AD: Revised Standard Version comissioned by the National Council of Churches.
  1183. 1952 AD: C. S. Lewis publishes Mere Christianity.
  1184. 1952 AD: Immanuel Velikovsky's Ages in Chaos.
  1185. 1955 AD: Francis Schaeffer founds L’Abri.
  1186. 1955-1956 AD: Operation Auca.
  1187. 1956 AD: Clair Cameron Patterson calculates an age for the Earth of 4.55 billion years.
  1188. 1957 AD: Launch of Sputnik 1; Beginning of the space race between US and USSR.
  1189. 1960-1971 AD: New American Standard Bible.
  1190. 1961 AD: The Pilate Stone (c. 36 AD) discovered at Caesarea Maritima.
  1191. 1962 AD: The Cross and the Switchblade by David Wilkerson.
  1192. 1962 AD: Execution of Adolf Eichmann.
  1193. 1962-1965 AD: Second Vatican Council.
  1194. 1964 AD: Jürgen Moltmann's Theologie der Hoffnung.
  1195. 1965 AD: Establishment of the Israel Museum in Jerusalem.
  1196. 1965 AD: Chuck Smith begins the Calvary Chapel movement in Costa Mesa.
  1197. 1966 AD: Chinese Cultural Revolution
  1198. 1967 AD: Six-Day (Third Arab-Israeli) War.
  1199. 1967 AD: Israel Captures Jerusalem's Old City and Eastern Half.
  1200. 1967 AD: The Catholic Charismatic Renewal.
  1201. 1968 AD: Liberation Theology comes to prominence.
  1202. 1968 AD: The crew of Apollo 8 read from the Book of Genesis as they orbited the Moon.
  1203. 1968 AD: The God Who is There by Francis Schaeffer.
  1204. 1969 AD: Apollo 13 Moon Landing.
  1205. 1973 AD: Roe v. Wade Supreme Court case.
  1206. 1973 AD: Yom Kippur War.
  1207. 1973 to 1978 AD: New International Version.
  1208. 1974 AD: Lausanne Congress on World Evangelization
  1209. 1974-1975 AD: Discovery of the Ebla tablets by Paolo Matthiae.
  1210. 1976 AD: Harold Lindsell's The Battle for the Bible.
  1211. 1976 AD: Richard Dawkins publishes The Selfish Gene.
  1212. 1978 AD: The Chicago Statement on Biblical Inerrancy.
  1213. 1979 AD: Release of Jesus (1979), considered to be most watched movie of all time.
  1214. 1979-1982 AD: The New King James Version.
  1215. 1980 AD: Publication of Jackie Pullinger's Chasing the Dragon.
  1216. 1981 AD: Arthur Wallis authors The Radical Christian.
  1217. 1982 AD: Encyclopedia of Bible Difficulties (1982) by Gleason Archer Jr.
  1218. 1985 AD: John J. David's Moses and the Gods of Egypt.
  1219. 1985 AD: Mikhail Gorbachev becomes General Secretary of Soviet Communist Party.
  1220. 1987 AD: The Historical Reliability of the Gospels by Craig Blomberg.
  1221. 1989 AD: Fall of the Berlin Wall.
  1222. 1990-1991 AD: The Persian Gulf War.
  1223. 1990 AD: Discovery Institute founded as an offshoot of Hudson Institute.
  1224. 1990 AD: Lü Xiaomin begins writing the Canaan Hymns.
  1225. 1993 AD: Discovery of the Tel Dan Stele by Gila Cook .
  1226. 1993 AD: Publication of Pain: The Gift Nobody Wants, co-authored by Paul Brand.
  1227. 1994 AD: Signing of “Evangelicals & Catholics Together”
  1228. 1994 AD: Toronto Blessing phenomena at at the Toronto Airport Vineyard church.
  1229. 1994 AD: Answers In Genesis founded by Ken Ham.
  1230. 1995 AD: David Rohl's A Test of Time on Rohl's New Chronology.
  1231. 1997 AD: Publication of What's So Amazing About Grace? by Philip Yancey.
  1232. 1999 AD: International House of Prayer in Kansas City begins non-stop 24/7 continual prayer.
  1233. 1999-2004 AD: Holman Christian Standard Bible.
  1234. 1999 AD: How Now Shall We Live by Charles Colson.
  1235. 2001 AD: English Standard Version.
  1236. 2001 AD: Publication of John Shelby Spong's A New Christianity for a New World.
  1237. 2002 AD: Paul Washer’s “Shocking Youth Message” sermon in Montgomery, Alabama.
  1238. 2003 AD: Publication of Dan Brown's novel The Da Vinci Code.
  1239. 2005 AD: New English Translation (netbible.org).
  1240. 2006 AD: Richard Bauckham's Jesus and the Eyewitnesses.
  1241. 2007 AD: Creation Museum opens in Kentucky, United States.
  1242. 2008 AD: Publication of Bart D. Ehrman's God's Problem.
  1243. 2016 AD: The Historical Reliability of the New Testament by Craig Blomberg
  1244. 2017 AD: The Great American Solar Eclipse.
  1245. 2017 AD: Christian Standard Bible.
  1246. 2017 AD: Evangelical Protestant leaders sign Nashville Statement.
  1247. 2018 AD: Billy Graham dies in Montreat, North Carolina.
  1248. 2019-2022 AD: The Covid-19 Pandemic.
  1249. 2021 AD: C&MA World Fellowship posthumously revokes ordination of Ravi Zacharias.
  1250. 2022 AD: Russian Invasion of Ukraine.
  1251. 2022 AD: Developments in Generative AI including the release of ChatGPT.
  1252. 2023 AD: The Asbury Revival.
  1253. 2023 AD: India overtakes China to become the most populous country.
  1254. 2024 AD: The Great North American Eclipse (April 8).

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