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|Key Figures |Important Events in Patristic Christian History|Political Events |

| | |114-118—Jewish revolt in Egypt and Cyprus |

|c117- Ignatius of Antioch martyred | | |

|c.124-125-Aristides, Apology | |122-Hadrian’s Wall |

| |144-Marcion heresy begins | |

|150- Justin Martyr, First Apology | | |

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| |160-Polycarp martyred |161-180—Emperor Marcus Aurelius |

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| |172- First known Montanists | |

|180- Irenaeus, Against Heresies |177-Matyrs of Lyon | |

|190—Clement of Alexandria becomes head of | | |

|catechetical school | | |

|197- Tertullian, Apology | |197—Severius becomes lone emperor after period |

| | |of civil war |

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|203-Origen of Alexandria revives the | | |

|catechetical school |202-203—Severn persecution in Alexandria | |

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| |230-First known public churches |237-238—Persian invasion turned back by Romans |

| | |in Mesopotamia |

|247—Cyprian of Carthage, On the Vanity of Idols| | |

|248- Cyprian elected bishop of Carthage | | |

|251—Cyprian of Carthage, On the Lapsed | | |

| | |256-Franks first invade Gaul |

|270- Anthony takes up life of monastic solitude|250-Persecution under Decius |259-Jutes first enter Italy |

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| |303-Diocletius and the “Great Persecution” |305-Diocletius abdicates |

| |304-Armenia accepts Christianity | |

| |311-Edict of Toleration |312 The Battle of Milvian Bridge |

|318—Athanasius, On the Incarnation | | |

| |313-The Edict of Milan makes Christianity legal| |

|326—Eusebius, Ecclesiastical History | | |

| |325-First Council of Nicea | |

|c.356-362—Athanasius, Life of Antony | | |

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| | |328 Constantinople founded |

|363—Ephrem of Syria settles in Edessa | | |

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|367- Athanasius, Festal letter |358- Basil the Great founds monastic community | |

|370—Basil the Great, Hexameron | | |

|372-Gregory elected Bishop of Nyssa |362—Julian the Apostate outlaws teaching of | |

| |Christianity | |

|379- Gregory of Nazianzus, Five Orations |364-Jovian reverses Julian’s edicts |363—Julian killed in battle |

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|381-384—Egeria goes on pilgrimage |370—Ulfilas translates Bible in Gothic | |

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|389—Baptism of Paulinus of Nola | | |

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|397-400—Augustine, Confessions | | |

| |381-Theodosius declares Christianity the state |379- 395 Emperor Theodosius I (the Great). |

|402-403—Prudentius begins to write poetry |religion | |

|405-Jerome finishes the Latin Vulgate |381-First Council of Constantinople | |

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|410-Augustine, City of God | |394—Last Olympic Games |

| |398—John Chrysostom made Bishop of |395-Empire divided between East and West among |

| |Constantinople |Theodorius' sons. |

|421-426—John Cassian, Institutes and | | |

|Conferences | |400—Visigoths enter italy |

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| | |406-Vandals enter Gaul |

| |409—Donatist sect declared illegal | |

|432-Patrick in Ireland | |409-Vandals enter Spain |

|434, Vincent of Lérins, Commitorium | |410--Alaric sacks Rome |

|438—Cyril of Alexandria, On the Unity of Christ| | |

|440-461-- Leo I, Bishop of Rome | | |

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|523-524—Boethius, Consolation of Philosophy |c.428-Nestorius opposes theotokos title of Mary| |

| | |427-Boniface revolts in North Africa |

|c.533—Dionysus the Areopagite, Celestial |431 First Council of Ephesus | |

|Hierarchies | | |

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|540-Benedict of Nursia, Rule | |441-Attila the Hun invades Thracia |

| |451 Council of Chalcedon | |

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|563-Columba comes to Iona | | |

| | |476—End of the Western half of Roman Empire |

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|590-604-Gregory I (the Great) bishop of Rome, | |527-565-Emperor Justinian conquers Italy and |

|Pastoral Rule | |North Africa; Justinian Code of Roman law |

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| |553-Second Council of Constantinople | |

|662—death of Maximus the Confessor | | |

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| |596-- Augustine of Canterbury, sent by Gregory | |

| |I, converts Saxon king of Kent |622-- Muhammad’s flight to Medina |

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|706-John of Damascus becomes a monk in Syria |637—Lombards convert to Christianity | |

| | |638-56-- Islam conquers Palestine, Iraq, Syria,|

| | |and Egypt |

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| |664-- Synod of Whitby settles question of | |

| |Easter | |

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|c.726-740-- John of Damascus, On the Holy |680-81-Third Council of Constantinople | |

|Images | | |

|731—Bede, Ecclesiastical History of the English| | |

|People | | |

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|787-Paul the Deacon, History of the Lombards | |711-16-- Islam conquers Spain |

| |719-754-Boniface's mission to Germans |717-718—Byzantium use of Greek fire turns back |

| | |Arab navy |

| |726-84- Iconoclast Controversy | |

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| |737-Second Council of Nicea | |

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| | |732- The Battle of Tours --Charles Martel turns|

| | |back Arabs from France |

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| | |800-Charlemagne crowned Holy Roman Emperor in |

| | |Rome |

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