TABLE OF DATES.
PART II.
| 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 |