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313
Edict of Milan grants official toleration of Christianity in the Roman Empire
325
Council of Nicea
338
Shapur II persecutes Christians in Persia
367
Athanasius lists all 27 books of the New Testament
28 Feb 380
Nicene Christianity is made the official religion of the Empire
386
Conversion of Augustine
394
Confessions by St. Augustine of Hippo
400
Jerome's Vulgate translates the Greek Bible into common Latin
411
Council of Carthage condemns Donatists
417
Pope Innocent I condemns Pelagianism
431
Council of Ephesus approves "Mother of God" title for Mary
451
Council of Chalcedon
597
St. Augustine of Canterbury baptizes King Ethelbert of Kent
602
St. Augustine dedicates cathedral at Canterbury
609
The Pantheon is the first pagan temple in Rome to be Christianized
731
The Venerable Bede completes his Ecclesiastical History of the English People
787
Second Council of Nicea
25 Dec 800
Charlemagne is crowned Roman Emperor at St. Peter's Basilica
950
Olga of Russia converts to Christianity
1054
Great Schism between Eastern and Western Christianity
28 Dec 1065
Consecration of Westminster Abbey church
1095
Pope Urban II proclaims the First Crusade at the Council of Claremont
1099
Crusaders take Jerusalem from Turks
15 Jul 1099
Christian soldiers capture Jerusalem during the First Crusade. The city had been held by Islamic rulers since 655.
1144
Fall of Edessa
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