| AD |
|
| 589-615 |
Missionary labours of St Columban |
| 612 |
Mahomet begins to publish his religion |
| 627 |
Jerusalem taken by the Mussulmans |
| 632 |
Death of Mahomet. |
| 635 |
Settlement of Scottish missionaries in Holy Island |
| 664 |
Council of Whitby |
| 724 |
Beginning of controversy as to images |
| --- |
Victory of Charles Martel over the Saracens |
| 734 |
Death of the Venerable Bede |
| 715-755 |
Missionary Labours of St Boniface |
| 752 |
Pipin becomes king of the Franks |
| 787 |
Second Council of Nicaea |
| 794 |
Council of Frankfort |
| 800 |
Charles the Great crowned as emperor |
| --- |
Forgery of Constantine's donation |
814
(approx.) |
Death of Charles the Great |
| 826-865 |
Missionary labours of Anskar |
| 846 |
Forgery of the False Decretals |
| 860-870 |
Conversion of Bulgarians, Moravians, Bohemians, &c |
| 912 |
Foundation of the Order of Cluny |
| 962 |
Otho I, emperor |
| 988 |
Conversion of Basil, great prince of Russia |
| 999 |
Sylvester II, pope |
| 994-1030 |
Conversion of Norwegians |
| 1046 |
Council of Sutri |
| 1048 |
Pope Leo IX.-- Beginning of Hildebrand's influence over the papacy |
| 1073 |
Hildebrand elected pope (Gregory VII ) |
| 1074 |
Foundation of the Carthusian Order |
| 1085 |
Death of Gregory VII |
| 1098 |
Foundation of the Cistercian Order |
| 1099 |
Jerusalem taken in the First Crusade |
| 1113 |
Order of St John (or Hospitallers) founded |
| 1116 |
Order of the Temple founded |
| 1123 |
Agreement between pope and emperor at Worms |
| 1147-1149 |
The Second Crusade |
| 1153 |
Death of St. Bernard |
| 1154 |
Nicolas Breakspeare, an Englishman, chosen pope (Adrian IV) |
| 1170 |
Murder of Archbishop Thomas Becket |
| 1189 |
The Third Crusade |
| 1198 |
Innocent III elected pope |
| 1203 |
Constantinople taken by Crusaders |
| 1208 |
England put under an interdict |
| 1208-1229 |
War against the Albigenses |
| 1215 |
Fourth Council of the Lateran--Innocent sanctions the Dominican and Franciscan
Orders of Mendicant Friars |
| 1240 |
First Crusade of St. Lewis |
| 1270 |
Second Crusade and death of St. Lewis |
| 1274 |
Second Council of Lyons |
| 1294 |
Election of Pope Celestine V |
| ---- |
Election of Pope Boniface VIII |
| 1300 |
Boniface celebrates the first jubilee |
| 1303 |
Death of Boniface |
| 1310 |
The popes settle at Avignon |
| 1312 |
Council of Vienne--The Templars dissolved |
| 1377 |
Gregory XI moves the papacy from Avignon to Rome |
| 1378 |
Beginning of the Great Schism of the West |
| 1384 |
Death of John Wyclif |
| 1414-1418 |
Council of Constance |
| 1415 |
Pope John XXIII deposed |
| ---- |
John Huss burnt by order of the Council |
| 1417 |
Election of Pope Martin V and end of the Schism |
| 1418 |
Religious war of Bohemia breaks out |
| 1431 |
Council of Basel opened |
| 1438 |
Council of Ferrara and Florence |
| 1453 |
Constantinople taken by the Turks |
| 1455 |
Invention of Printing |
| 1464 |
Pope Pius II vainly attempts a crusade |
| 1498 |
Death of Savonarola |
| 1503 |
Death of Pope Alexander VI |
| 1517 |
Appearance of Martin Luther as a reformer |
