TIME TRAVEL GENESIS 1:1 TO THE YEAR 2001

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303 – 311 = Emperor Diocletian conducts the worst persecution that believers have ever seen to date

312 = Constantine is converted on the eve of the battle in which he defeats he rival; he becomes the first Christian Roman emperor

325 = Emperor Constantine convenes the church council of Nicea to unite the church against the Arian heresy

367 = In his Passover letter, bishop Athanasius of Alexandria defines the 27 books of the New Testament

385 = Bishop Ambrose defies empress Justina’s demand that heretics he granted control of a cathedral

386 = Augustine is converted

405 = Jerome completes the Vulgate, his Latin translation of the Bible

432 = Patrick goes to Ireland where he converts most of the people to Christianity

451 = The council of Chalcedon defines the Christian doctrine of the divine and human natures of the Moshiach

529 = Benedict establishes a monastery at Monte Cassino, Italy and writes the “Benedictine Rule”

590 = Prefect of Rome becomes pope Gregory I and permanently increases the power and authority of the papacy

716 = Boniface evangelizes Germany, creating a foundation for the coming “holy” Roman empire

732 = Charles Martel, ruler of the Franks, defeats a Muslim army at Tours, France

800 = Pope Leo III crowns Charlemagne as the first emperor of the “holy” Roman empire, bringing unity to Europe

863 = Greek missionaries Cyril and Methodius evangelise the Slavs, using indigenous language in worship

988 = Prince Vladimir of Russia adopts Christianity and establishes the Russian Orthodox Church

1054 = The church officially splits into the Roman Catholic church in the west and the Eastern Orthodox church in the East

1095 = Pope Urban II launches the first crusade, creating a legacy of enmity between Christians and Muslims

1150 = Universities of Paris and Oxford are founded as the first institutions of higher learning outside the church

1173 = Peter Waldo takes vow of poverty and founds the Waldensians

1380 = John Wycliff translates the Bible into English despites the church’s disapproval

1415 = Martyrdom of popular Czech preacher John Hus spawn nationalism and church reform in Bohemia

1456 = Gutenberg invents his printing press and makes Bibles available to common people

1478 = King Ferdinand and queen Isabella establish the Spanish inquisition to preserve the purity of Catholicism

1498 = Fiery monk Savanorola is executed in Florence, Italy for his attempt to reform the church

1517 = Luther post ninety-five thesis on the door of the Wittenberg Chapel and launches the reformation

1519 = Zwingli assumes pastorate in Zurich and leads reformation in German-speaking Switzerland

1525 = Anabaptist movement begins in Zurich, opposing both Catholics and Reformers, continuing today in the Mennonite and Brethren churches

1534 = Act of supremacy declares king Henry the VIII the supreme head of the church of England, bringing the Reformation to the English nation

1536 = John Calvin, the great theologian of the Reformation publishes the first edition of the “Institutes of the Christian religion”

1545 = In an attempt to counter the Reformation, the council of Trent institutes changes within the Catholic church

1559 = John Knox leads the Scottish Reformation and establishes the Presbyterian church

1572 = King Charles IX of France and his mother Catherine de Medici, order the St. Bartholomew’s day massacre of French Protestants

1608 = John Smyth and his congregation flee from England to Amsterdam where he begins the Baptist movement

1611 = The King James Bible is published to replace the Geneva Bible, which James I of England thought was too Calvinistic

1620 = Pilgrims came to Plymouth and sign the Mayflower Compact, stating that they will govern themselves for the glory of YHVH Elohiym

1646 = Westminster Confession is adopted; it becomes the authoritative statement of Calvinism

1648 = George Fox founds the Society of Friends otherwise known as the “Quakers”

1675 = Jacob Spenser, a German Lutheran, publishes Pio-Desiderio (Pious Desires) and initiates the Pictist movement

1678 = John Bunyan writes the “Pilgrim’s Progress” – the best-selling devotional book of that time

1685 = John Sebastian Bach and George Fredric Handel are born in Germany within 100 miles of each other although they never met

1707 = Isaac Watts publishes hymns and spiritual songs and earns the title “Father of English Hymnody”

1727 = Persecuted Moravians experience a spiritual awakening which leads them to initiate the first systematic foreign mission outreach

1738 = John and Charles Wesley are converted, lead the Wesleyan revival in England, and found what became the Methodist church

1740 = The decade long American awakening begins, establishing revivalist tradition in Protestantism

1793 = William Carey goes to India as missionary

1807 = William Wilberforce persuades parliament to abolish the British slave trades

1812 = Adoniram and Ann Judson go to India and later became pioneer missionaries to Burma

1816 = The African Methodist Episcopal church (AME) is founded by Richard Allen

1830 = Charles Finney begins holding well-organised revivals in American cities, greatly influencing modern revivalism

1854 = Hudson Taylor arrives in China and later found the China Inland Mission

1854 = Charles Spurgeon begins his London pastorate at the age of 19

1855 = Shoe salesman Dwight L Moody is converted

1886 = The student volunteer movement begins at D L Moody’s summer Bible conference in Massachusetts, providing manpower for many missionaries’ organisations

1906 = The Pentecostal movement grows from the Azusa Street revival in Los Angeles and spreads throughout the world

1910 – 1915 = The fundamentalist movement begins with the publishing and distribution of a twelve-booklet series called the “the Fundamentals”

1921 = The first Christian radio broadcast is aired on KDKA in Pittsburgh Pennsylvania

1931 = Oxford professor C S Lewis becomes a Christian

1934 = Cameron Townsend of Wycliff Bible translators set to train translators of the Bible

1940 = The first Christian telecast is an easter service from New York city

1949 = Billy Graham receives national attention through his crusade in Los Angeles

1960 = A Charismatic revival begins in California when an Episcopal rector speaks in tongues

1962 = The second Vatican council brings sweeping changes to the Roman Catholic church

1966 – 1976 = The Chinese church goes underground because of persecution, yet it grows even faster

1978 = Karol Wojtyla of Poland is named pope John Paul II, the first non-Italian pope in modern times

1984 = The Nobel peace prize goes to bishop Desmond Tutu of South Africa for his work of the relatively peaceful demise of apartheid

1987 – 1988 = Stunning millions of Christian viewers, TV preachers Jim Bakker and Jimmy Swaggart confess sins of sexual immorality; Bakker is later convicted of fraud

2001 = On September 11, terrorists hijacked two jets and flew into the World Trade Towers, killing many people, causing masses of Americans consider their eternal destiny and dedicate their lives to the Moshiach