55 BCE: England - Julius Caesar invades Britain.
30 BCE: Italy - (- 14 CE) Augustus is the Roman Emperor.
14 CE: Italy - (-37) Tiberius is the Roman Emperor.
37 CE: Italy - (-41) Caligula is the Roman Emperor. Nero is born.
41 CE: Italy - (-54) Claudius is the Roman Emperor.
43 CE: England - Romans defeat the British under Togodumnus & Caratacus.
44 CE: Palestine - (c) Beheading of James, son of Zebedee
47 CE: England - Ostorius Scapula becomes Roman commander.
49 CE: England - Founding of Camuloanum (Colchester).
50 CE: Italy - Emperor Claudius adopts Nero.
54 CE: Italy - Agrippina has Claudius murdered. Nero becomes Emperor.
55 CE: Italy - Brittanicus is put to death.
59 CE: Italy - Nero murders Agrippina.
60 CE: England - Rebellion of Queen Boudiica
61 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Pliny the Younger is born.
61 CE: Greece - (c) Martyrdom of Barnabas
62 CE: Palestine - (c) Martyrdom of James of Jerusalem
64 CE: Italy - A fire destroys half of Rome.
65 CE: Palestine - (-80) The Didache is written.
67 CE: Italy - (c) Peter and Paul are martyred.
68 CE: Italy - Nero commits suicide (June 9th).
69 CE: England - Defeat of Queen Cartimandua of the Brigantes
69 CE: Italy - (-79) Vespian is Roman Emperor.
74 CE: England - Roman occupation of Wales begins
74 CE: Greece - Death of St. Luke
78 CE: England - Romans move into Scotland
84 CE: Asia Minor - Marcion is born in Pontus.
90 CE: England - (c) Romans begin to withdraw troops from Britain
97 CE: Asia Minor - (-109) Pliny the Younger writes nine literary books of letters. (c) Death of Timothy
100 CE: Asia Minor - Pliny the Younger writes the Panegyric on the Emperor of Trajan.
100 CE: Palestine - (c -110) Justin is born in Flavia Neopolis.
111 CE: Asia Minor - (-113) Pliny the Younger serves as governor of Bithynia.
112 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Pliny the Younger writes his tenth book of letters containing correspondence with Emperor Trajan.
113 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Pliny the Younger dies.
117 CE: Italy - (-138) Hadrian is Emperor of Rome.
121 CE: England - Hadrian visits England Beginning of construction of Hadrian's Wall
122 CE: Palestine - (-135) The Bar Kokhba Rebellion.
125 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Polycrates of Ephesus is born.
130 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Marcion leaves Pontus.
130 CE: Egypt - (-140) The Epistle of Barnabas is written.
136 CE: Italy - (c -140) Valentinus arrives in Rome. (-140) Cerdo is teaching in Rome.
138 CE: Italy - (-161) Antoninus Pius succeeds Hadrian as Emperor of Rome.
139 CE: Italy - (c) Marcus Aurelius becomes the adopted son of Antoninus Pius, thereby becoming next in line for Emperor.
140 CE: Asia Minor - (c - 160) Irenaeus of Lyons is born, probably in Smyrna.
140 CE: Italy - (c -155) Hermas writes The Shepherd. Marcion arrives in Rome. (c) Marcion meets Cerdo and becomes one of his students.
142 CE: Italy - (-155) Pius is bishop of Rome.
144 CE: Italy - Marcion is excommunicataed (July). (c) Marcion writes the Antitheses.
146 CE: Africa - (c) Septimius Severus is born at Lepcis Magna.
150 CE: Greece - (c) Clement of Alexandria is born in Athens.
155 CE: Africa - (c) Tertullian is born in Carthage.
155 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Polycarp of Smyrna is martyred.
155 CE: Italy - (c) Justin writes the Dialogue with Trypho, the Jew.
156 CE: Asia Minor - (c) The Martyrdom of Polycarp is written.
160 CE: Palestine - (c) Birth of Julius Sextus Africanus
161 CE: Italy - (-180) Marcus Aurelius succeeds Antoninus Pius as Emperor of Rome. (-166) The Parthian War.
164 CE: Italy - (-180) The Great Plague in the Roman Empire.
165 CE: Italy - (c) Justin is martyred.
166 CE: Italy - Barbarians invade Italy.
167 CE: Italy - Marcus Aurelius writes The Meditiations.
170 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Melito, bishop of Sardes, writes an Apology for Christians, addressed to Marcus Aurelius.
177 CE: Greece - (c) Athenagoras of Athens writes the Supplication for the Christians, addressed to Marcus Aurelius and his son, Commodus.
177 CE: Italy - Marcus Aurelius orders the persecution of Christians in Lyons and Vienne.
178 CE: Greece - (c) Athenagoras of Athens writes The Resurrection of the Dead.
180 CE: Egypt - (c) Pantaenus, the teacher of Clement and head of the school of Alexandria, arrives in Alexandria.
180 CE: France - (-199) Irenaeus writes Adversus haereses.
180 CE: Greece - (c) Athenagoras of Athens dies.
180 CE: Italy - (-192) Marcus Aurelius dies while away on a military expedition. His son, Commodus, becomes Emperor of Rome.
181 CE: Palestine - (c) Theophilus of Antioch writes To Autolycus.
185 CE: Egypt - (c) Origen is born in Alexandria.
188 CE: Palestine - (c) Theophilus of Antioch dies.
189 CE: Italy - (-199) Victor is bishop of Rome.
190 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Polycrates of Ephesus writes the Letter to Victor of Rome.
190 CE: Italy - (-230) The controversy over ![[A]](../gifs/ecolea.gif){kind=small}
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193 CE: Africa - (c) Tertullian is converted to Christianity.
193 CE: Italy - (-211) Septimius Severus is Emperor of Rome.
195 CE: France - (c) Irenaeus writes the Proof of the Apostolic Preaching.
195 CE: Italy - Septimius Severus proclaims himself the son of Marcus Aurelius.
197 CE: Africa - (-206) The "Catholic Period" of Tertullian's writing.
199 CE: Egypt - Pantaenus dies; Clement takes over as head of the catechetical school at Alexandria.
199 CE: Italy - (-217) Zephyrinus is bishop of Rome.
200 CE: Russia - (c) End of Sarmatian rule in South Russia. Beginning of Gothic rule.
202 CE: Egypt - Origen's father, Leonidas, is martyred during the persecution of Septimius Severus. (c) Clement flees from Alexandria to Cappadocia to escape the persecution. (c) Origen castrates himself.
202 CE: France - (c) Irenaeus dies.
203 CE: Italy - Septimius Severus celebrates his tenth year in office by constructing a triumphal arch in Rome.
205 CE: Africa - (c) Cyprian of Carthage is born.
206 CE: Africa - (-212) The "Semi-Montanist Period" of Tertullian's writing.
207 CE: Africa - (-212) Tertullian writes Against Marcion, his longest work.
208 CE: England - (-211) Septimius Severus campaigns in Britain.
209 CE: England - Martyrdom of St. Alban
211 CE: England - Septimius Severus dies at York.
211 CE: Italy - (-271) Caracalla succeeds his father, Septimius Severus, as Roman Emperor.
212 CE: Egypt - (c) Origen visits Rome.
212 CE: Italy - Roman citizenship is granted to all free subjects in the Roman Empire. (c) Origen visits Rome.
213 CE: Africa - (-220) The "Montanist Period" of Tertullian's writing.
213 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Gregory the Miracle Worker is born in Neocaesarea
214 CE: Asia Minor - Clement of Alexandria dies in Cappadocia
215 CE: Italy - (c) Hippolytus writes The Apostolic Tradition.
216 CE: Egypt - Origen visits Palestine.
216 CE: Palestine - Origen visits Palestine.
217 CE: Italy - (-222) Callistus is bishop of Rome.
218 CE: Italy - (-222) Heliogabalus succeeds Caracalla as Roman Emperor.
220 CE: Asia Minor - Asia Minor is invaded by the Goths
220 CE: Egypt - (-230) Origen writes On First Principles.
221 CE: Palestine - (c) Julius Africanus completes his chronology of the world from Creation to 221.
222 CE: Italy - (-230) Urbanus succeeds Calistus as bishop of Rome. (-235) Alexander Severus succeeds Heliogabalus as Roman Emperor.
222 CE: Palestine - Death of Bardesanes
225 CE: Africa - Aggripinus assembles a council at Carthage to consider the validity of baptism by heretics.
230 CE: Italy - Pontianus succeeds Urbanus as bishop of Rome.
231 CE: Egypt - Demetrius deposes Origen from the priesthood. (-248) Heraclas heads the catechetical school at Alexandria. (c) Plotinus begins his studies with Ammonius Saccas.
231 CE: Italy - Pontianus approves the deposition of Origen.
232 CE: Egypt - Origen flees to Caesarea. Demetrius dies. Heraclas is consecrated bishop of Alexandria.
232 CE: Palestine - Origen flees from Egypt to Caesarea.
233 CE: Palestine - (-238) Gregory the Miracle Worker studies with Origen in Caesarea.
235 CE: Italy - (-238) Maximinus succeeds Alexander Severus as Roman Emperor. Hippolytus is martyred. (c) Novation writes The Trinity. (-236) Anterus succeeds Pontianus as bishop of Rome.
236 CE: Italy - (-250) Fabian succeeds Anterus as bishop of Rome.
238 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Gregory Thaumaturgus becomes bishop of the Pontus
242 CE: Egypt - (c) Plotinus joins the Persian expedition of Emperor Gordianus III before migrating to Rome.
243 CE: Italy - (c) Plotinus opens a school of philosophy in Rome.
244 CE: Italy - (-249) Philip the Arabian is Roman Emperor.
248 CE: Africa - (c) Cyprian is consecrated bishop of Carthage.
248 CE: Egypt - (-265) Dionysius, bishop of Alexandria, heads the catechetical school at Alexandria.
248 CE: Palestine - Origen writes Against Celsus.
249 CE: Italy - (-251) Decius succeeds Philip as Roman Emperor.
250 CE: Italy - (-251) The Persecution of Decius.
251 CE: Africa - (-256) Cyprian of Carthage writes The Unity of the Catholic Church. Cyprian of Carthage convokes the Council of Carthage to discuss the lapsed after the Decian persecution. The final decision is reconciliation after penance. Novatian opposes the decision.
251 CE: Egypt - Antony of the Desert is born in middle Egypt.
251 CE: Italy - Decius is defeated by the Boradi and the Goths. (-253) Gallus succeeds Decius as Emperor of Rome. (-258) Novation is Anti-pope. (-253) Cornelius is bishop of Rome.
252 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage again discusses the lapsed and considers the validity of baptism by heretics.
253 CE: Italy - (-260) Valerian succeeds Gallus as Roman Emperor. (-254) Lucius succeeds Cornelius as bishop of Rome. (-270) Plotinus writes The Enneads.
253 CE: Palestine - Origen dies in Tyre.
254 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage again discusses the lapsed and considers the validity of baptism by heretics.
254 CE: Italy - Stephen succeeds Lucius as bishop of Rome.
255 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Firmilian of Caesarea writes his Letter to Cyprian.
256 CE: Africa - The Seventh Council of Carthage. Council of Carthage convened to consider the lapsed ends.
257 CE: Italy - (-258) Sixtus II succeeds Stephen as bishop of Rome.
258 CE: Africa - Cyprian of Carthage is martyred.
259 CE: Italy - (-268) Dionysius is bishop of Rome.
260 CE: Italy - (-268) Gallienus succeeds his father, Valerian, as Emperor of Rome.
262 CE: Egypt - Dionysius of Alexandria writes his Refutation and Defense.
263 CE: Italy - (c) Plotinus accepts Porphyry as his pupil.
263 CE: Palestine - Eusebius of Caesarea is born in Caesarea.
264 CE: Asia Minor - First Council of Antioch in Pisidia
264 CE: Egypt - Dionysius of Alexandria dies.
265 CE: Egypt - (c -c282) Theognostus heads the catechetical school at Alexandria.
268 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Firmilian of Caesarea dies
268 CE: Italy - (-270) Claudius II succeeds Gallienus as Emperor of Rome.
268 CE: Palestine - Firmilian, bishop of Caesarea, dies.
269 CE: Italy - (-274) Felix is bishop of Rome.
270 CE: Italy - (-275) Aurelian succeeds Claudius II as Emperor of Rome. (c) Plotinus dies in the Campagna.
272 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Gregory the Miracle Worker dies in Neocaesarea
274 CE: Italy - (-283) Eutychian succeeds Felix as bishop of Rome.
276 CE: Italy - (-282) Marcus Aurelius Probus is Emperor of Rome.
282 CE: Egypt - (c) Pierus heads the catechetical school of Alexandria.
282 CE: Italy - (-283) Marcus Aurelius Carus succeeds Marcus Aurelius Probus as Emperor of Rome.
283 CE: Italy - (-296) Caius succeeds Eutychian as bishop of Rome.
284 CE: Italy - (-305) Diocletian is the Emperor of Rome.
285 CE: Greece - (c) Constantine is born at Naissus.
285 CE: Italy - The Roman Empire is partitioned into eastern and western empires. (c) Sixtus II declares that mass should be celebrated on an Altar.
286 CE: England - (c) Rebellion of Carausius against Romans
288 CE: Italy - (c) Martyrdom of St. Sebastian
296 CE: England - Constantius I invaded Britain
296 CE: Italy - (-304) Marcellinus succeeds Caius as bishop of Rome.
296 CE: Spain - (c) Hosius of Córdoba, who was an important figure in the Council of Nicaea and the Arian controversy, is consecrated bishop.
298 CE: Egypt - (c) Athanasius is born.
300 CE: Egypt - (c) Peter becomes bishop of Alexandria.
300 CE: Egypt - (c) Birth of Macarius the Great
300 CE: Palestine - (-325) Eusebius of Caesarea writes his History of the Church.
300 CE: Spain - (c) The Council of Elvira.
303 CE: Italy - (-311) Diocletian persecutes Christians. This is the last persecution of Christians in the Roman Empire.
304 CE: Egypt - (c) Martyrdom of Catherine of Alexandria
304 CE: Spain - Martyrdom of St. Vincent of Saragossa
305 CE: Africa - (c) Arnobius of Sicca writes Against the Pagans.
305 CE: Egypt- (c) Peter deposes Meletius, bishop of Lycopolis, thereby beginning the Meletian Schism.
306 CE: England - Constantine is made emperor of the Roman Empire while on a military mission in York, succeeding his father.
306 CE: Italy - (-337) Constantine is the Emperor of Rome.
306 CE: Persia - (c) Ephraim is born in Nisibis.
307 CE: Greece - Constantine marries Fausta, daughter of Maximian, former emperor (March 31).
307 CE: Palestine - Pamphilus of Caesarea is imprisoned during the persecution of Maximinus Daia.
308 CE: Italy - (-309) Marcellus I is bishop of Rome.
309 CE: Egypt - (c) Peter is martyred during the persecution of Diocletian.
309 CE: Italy - (-310) Eusebius succeeds Marcellus as bishop of Rome.
309 CE: Palestine - (c) Pamphilus of Caesarea is executed.
310 CE: Greece - Constantine proclaims Mars to be Constantinople's divine protector.
311 CE: Egypt - Arius is ordained a priest by Bishop Achillas.
311 CE: Greece - (c) Methodius of Philippi is martyred at Chalcis in Euboea.
311 CE: Italy - (-314) Miltiades is bishop of Rome. Galerius proclaims an edict of religious tolerance for all Christians on April 30.
312 CE: Egypt - (-328) Alexander succeeds Achillas as bishop of Alexandria.
312 CE: Italy - Constantine defeasts Maxentius at the Milvian Bridge in Rome. Constantine converts to Christianity.
313 CE: Egypt - (c) Didymus the Blind is born.
313 CE: Italy - Constantine signs the Edict of Milan; establishes tolerance of Christianity.
313 CE: Palestine - Eusebius of Caesarea is consecrated bishop of Caesarea.
314 CE: France - The First Council of Arles.
314 CE: Italy - (-335) Sylvester succeeds Miltiades as bishop of Rome.
314 CE: Palestine - (-320) Eusebius of Caesarea writes his Preparation for the Gospel.
315 CE: France - Hilary of Poitiers is born.
315 CE: Palestine - (c) Cyril is born, probably in Jerusalem. (c) Epiphanius of Salamis is born in southern Palestine.
316 CE: Palestine - (-322) Eusebius of Caesarea writes Proof of the Gospel.
318 CE: Asia Minor - Eusebius of Nicomedia becomes bishop of Nicomedia. (c) The Council of Neocaesarea.
318 CE: Egypt - (c) Athanasius writes his treatises Against the Pagans and On the Incarnation of the Word. (c) Arius writes his Letter to Eusebius of Nicomedia.
320 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Arius writes The Banquet in Nicomedia.
320 CE: Egypt - (c) Arius writes his Letter to Alexander of Alexandria.
323 CE: Egypt - Arius' teachings are causing problems in Alexandria.
324 CE: Greece - Constantine defeats Licinius on the Bosphorus. (-330) Constantine builds Constantinople and designates it as the new capital.
325 CE: Asia Minor - The First Ecumenical Council (The First Council of Nicaea) is convened by Constantine to resolve the differences between orthodoxy and Arianism. The Nicene Creed is written.
325 CE: Italy - Birth of Marcella of Rome
327 CE: Africa - Arnobius of Sicca dies.
327 CE: Asia Minor - Birth of Macrina
328 CE: Egypt - Alexander of Alexandria dies. (-373) Athanasius succeeds him as bishop of Alexandria.
330 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Basil the Great is born in Cappadocia. (c) Gregory of Nazianzus is born in Arianz.
331 CE: Greece - Constantine moves the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople.
331 CE: Italy - Constantine moves the capital of the Empire from Rome to Constantinople.
335 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Gregory of Nyssa is born.
335 CE: France - (-337) Athanasius is exiled to France for refusing to admit Arius into communion with the church.
335 CE: Greece - Basil the Great meets Julian the apostate Emperor and Gregory of Nazianzus.
335 CE: Italy - (-336) Marcus is bishop of Rome.
335 CE: Palestine - The Council of Tyre.
336 CE: Greece - Arius dies in Constantinople.
337 CE: Greece - Constantine is baptized by Eusebius of Nicomedia.
337 CE: Italy - (-352) Julius I is bishop of Rome.
337 CE: Palestine - (-338) Eusebius of Caesarea writes his Ecclesiastical
338 CE: Greece - (-c 341) Eusebius of Nicomedia becomes patriarch of Constantinople.
339 CE: Egypt - (c) Serapion becomes bishop of Thmuis.
339 CE: France - Ambrose is born in Treves.
339 CE: Italy - (-345) Athanasius is exiled to Rome.
340 CE: Egypt - (c) Ordination of Macarius the Great
340 CE: Greece - The Roman Empire is once again divided after the death of Constantine.
340 CE: Russia - (c) Death of Nino of Georgia
341 CE: Greece - (c) Eusebius of Nicomedia dies.
342 CE: Italy - (c) Birth of Melania the Elder
343 CE: Bulgaria - (c) Council of Sardica
343 CE: Greece - (c) The Council of Sardica.
345 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage meets under Gratus to consider disciplinary action for clergy and bishops.
345 CE: Asia Minor - Evagrius in born in Ibora.
345 CE: Italy - (c) Rufinus is born in northern Italy. Birth of Tyrannius Rufus
346 CE: Egypt - Pachomius dies. (-361) Athanasius is exiled to live with other Egyptian monks.
347 CE: Egypt - Athanasius writes his Apology Against the Arians.
347 CE: Greece - (c) Jerome is born at Stridon in Dalmatia.
347 CE: Italy - Birth of Paula of Bethlehem
348 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage convoked by Gratus ends.
348 CE: Egypt - (c) Death of Ammonas
350 CE: Egypt - (c) Death of Paphnutius the Great
350 CE: France - (c) Hilary is consecrated bishop of Poitiers. (c) Birth of Honoratus of Arles
350 CE: Italy - (c) Constantia establishes a basilica at the site of the tomb of St. Agnes
352 CE: Italy - (-336) Liberius succeeds Julius as bishop of Rome.
353 CE: France - The Council of Arles.
354 CE: Africa - Augustine is born at Tagaste (November 13th).
354 CE: Asia Minor - (c) John Chrysostom is born.
354 CE: England - Pelagius is born in Brittain.
355 CE: Asia Minor - Basil the Great returns to Caesarea.
355 CE: Italy - The Council of Milan.
356 CE: Asia Minor - (-359) Hilary of Poitiers is exiled to Phrygia where he writes The Trinity. Constantine translates the relics of Timothy from Ephesus to Constantinople.
356 CE: Egypt - Antony of the Desert dies.
356 CE: France - Council of Béziers condemns Athanasius of Alexandria Constantius exiles Hilary of Poitiers to Phrygia.
357 CE: Spain - Death of Hosius of Córdoba
358 CE: Asia Minor - Basil and Gregory Nazianzus prepare an anthology of Origen's works.
358 CE: Egypt - (-362) Athanasius writes his Discourses Against the Arians.
359 CE: Egypt - (c) Arians depose Bishop Serapion of Thmuis.
360 CE: Asia Minor - Hilary of Poitiers returns from exile in Phrygia to France.
360 CE: France - (c) John Cassian is born in southern France.
361 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Birth of Olympias
361 CE: Italy - (-363) Valerius Maximus, husband of Melania the Elder is prefect of Rome
362 CE: Egypt - The Council of Alexandria. (-363) Athanasius is exiled for the fourth time.
363 CE: Asia Minor - (365) Basil the Great writes Against Eunomius.
364 CE: Asia Minor - Basil the Great is ordained presbyter by Eusebius.
364 CE: Italy - Debates between Hilary of Poitiers and Auxentius of Milan about Arianism.
365 CE: Egypt - (c) Athanasius writes On the Incarnation of the Word of God and Against the Arians. Athanasius is exiled for the fifth time and then permanently reinstated as Bishop.
365 CE: France - (c) Hilary of Poitiers writes Commentaries on the Psalms.
365 CE: Italy - (c) Death of Valerius Maximus, husband of Melania the Elder
366 CE: Italy - (-384) Damasus I is bishop of Rome.
367 CE: England - Picts and Scots attack Romans in Britain
367 CE: France - (c) Hilary of Poitiers dies.
368 CE: Asia Minor - Basil the Great gives his inheritance to the starving.
370 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Gregory of Nyssa writes Virginity. (-378) Basil the Great is consecrated bishop of Caesarea.
370 CE: Italy - Ambrose becomes the provincial governor of Milan.
370 CE: Russia - Huns conquer Goths in Russia.
370 CE: Spain - (-380) During this decade, Priscillian attracts support for his movement within Christianity which encourages reading of apocryphal texts and the rejection of worldly activities; the movement is closely associated to Manicheanism by its opponents.
371 CE: Africa - Augustine goes to Carthage to study at the age of seventeen.
371 CE: Asia Minor - Gregory of Nyssa is consecrated bishop of Nyssa. Valens orders that the province of Cappadocia be split into two provinces.
372 CE: Africa - Adeodatus, Augustine's son, is born in Carthage.
372 CE: Italy - (c) Melania the Elder leaves Rome for a pilgrimage to Egypt and the Holy Land
373 CE: Asia Minor - Basil the Great consecrates Amphilochius bishop of Iconiam.
373 CE: Egypt - Athanasius dies.
373 CE: Persia - Ephraim dies.
374 CE: Africa - Augustine joins a Manichean sect.
374 CE: Egypt - (c) Lucius, Arian bishop of Alexandria, exiles Macarius the Great to an island in the Nile
374 CE: Italy - Ambrose is consecrated bishop of Milan (December 7th).
375 CE: Asia Minor - Basil the Great writes The Holy Spirit
377 CE: Armenia - (c) Birth of Euthymius the Great
377 CE: Italy - (c) Theodosius, Roman Emperor, establishes Catholicism as the religion of the empire.
378 CE: Italy - (c 380) Ambrose writes The Faith.
378 CE: Palestine - (c) Melania the Elder, possibly with Rufinus, establishes a monastery on the Mount of Olives
379 CE: Asia Minor - Gregory of Nyssa writes The Making of Man. Basil the Great dies. Jerome is ordained to the priesthood. Macrina dies
379 CE: Greece - Gregory of Nazianzus writes most of his Orations. (c) The Stoic, Maximus of Alexandria, arrives in Constantinople.
380 CE: Africa - (c) Donatist council at Carthage condemns Tyconnius in the same year that he completes Liber regularum
380 CE: Greece - (c) Socrates Scholastikos is born in Constantinople.
380 CE: Italy - (c - 384) Palagius comes to Rome. (c) Peter Chrysologus is born in Imola.
380 CE: Spain - The Council of Saragossa condemns Priscillianism
381 CE: Egypt - (-392) Didymus the Blind writes The Trinity.
381 CE: Greece - (c) The Second Ecumenical Council (The First Council of Constantinople). Gregory of Nazianzus is consecrated bishop of Constantinople.
381 CE: Italy - Ambrose writes The Holy Spirit.
382 CE: Italy - The Council of Rome.
383 CE: Africa - Augustine moves from Carthage to Milan.
384 CE: Asia Minor - Marriage of Olympias and Nebridius
384 CE: France - Synod of Bordeaux condemns Priscillianism
384 CE: Italy - (-399) Siricius is bishop of Rome.
385 CE: Egypt - (-412) Theophilus is patriarch of Alexandria. (c) John Cassian moves from Egypt to Gaul.
385 CE: England - (c) Birth of St. Patrick
385 CE: France - John Cassian moves from France to Egypt.
385 CE: Italy - Jerome leaves Rome for the Holy Land.
385 CE: Spain - (c) Priscillian and four of his followers are executed
386 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Death of Nebridius
387 CE: Africa - Augustine moves from Milan to Tagaste.
387 CE: Italy - Augustine is baptized by Ambrose. Augstine moves from Milan to Tagaste. Death of Monica
389 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Gregory of Nazianzus dies at Arianz.
390 CE: Africa - (c) Augustine writes The True Religion. Council of Carthage under Genethlius
390 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Gregory of Nyssa writes The Life of Moses.
390 CE: Egypt - (c) Death of Macarius the Great
390 CE: Italy - (c) Councils at Rome and Milan condemn Jovinian for teaching that Mary was no longer virgin after the birth of Jesus
391 CE: Africa - Augustine is ordained to the priesthood.
392 CE: Asia Minor - Theodore is consecrates bishop of Mopsuestia.
393 CE: Africa - Council of Hippo under Aurelius, bishop of Carthage
394 CE: Asia Minor - Gregory of Nyssa disappears from history.
396 CE: Africa - Augustine is consecrated bishop of Hippo.
396 CE: Greece - Aleric invades Greece.
397 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage discusses the canon of the Scriptures and Donatism.
397 CE: Italy - Ambrose dies at Milan (April 4th).
398 CE: Egypt - The catechetical school of Alexandria closes. (c) Didymus the Blind, last head of the catechetical school, dies.
398 CE: Egypt - Rufinus leaves Egypt for Aquilea.
398 CE: Greece - John Chrysostom is consecrated bishop of Constantinople.
399 CE: Italy - (-401) Anastasius succeeds Siricius as bishop of Rome.
400 CE: Africa - Augustine writes The Confessions and (-413) The Trinity. (c) Death of Tyconnius
400 CE: France - (c) Honoratus of of Arles (c) Honoratus of Arles founds Lérins
400 CE: Spain - The Council of Toledo condemns Priscillianism, which is still present Spain even after the death of its founder and leader
401 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage
401 CE: Italy - (-404) Rufinus writes Explanation of the Apostle's Creed. (-417) Innocent I succeeds Anastasius as bishop of Rome. The Visigoths invade Italy.
402 CE: Africa - Council of Milevis condemns Pelagius and appeals to Pope Innocent I to disavow him.
403 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage
403 CE: Asia Minor - John Chrysostom is deposed after the Synod of the Oak. Death of Ephiphanius of Salamis
404 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage
404 CE: Greece - John Chrysostom is exiled to Cucusus in Armenia.
404 CE: Palestine - Death of Paula of Bethlehem
405 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage
405 CE: Italy - John Cassian shows up in Rome; but will soon return to Gaul.
406 CE: Armenia - Euthymius travels to Palestine
407 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage
407 CE: Asia Minor - John Chrysostom dies en route to Pontus (September 14).
408 CE: Africa - Councils of Carthage in June and October
408 CE: Asia Minor - (c) Death of Olympias
408 CE: Egypt - Nomadic tribesmen raid Sketis.
408 CE: France - Faustus of Reiz is born.
409 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage
409 CE: Spain - Groups of barbarians, consisting of the Alans, the Sueves, and the Vandals, invade Spain, conquering four of the five Roman provinces
410 CE: Africa - Pelagius flees from Rome to Carthage. Council of Carthage Council of Carthage
410 CE: Italy - Aleric invades Rome. Pelagius flees to Carthage. Rufinus dies (in Rome?). Death of Rufinus Death of Marcella of Rome
410 CE: Palestine - (c) Death of Melania the Elder
411 CE: Africa - Pelagius is excommunicated after a Council of Carthage. Council of Carthage meets to discuss Donatism. Aurelius excommunicates Coelestius, collaborator with Pelagius.
412 CE: Egypt - Cyril succeeds Theophilus as patriarch of Alexandria.
413 CE: Africa - (-426) Augustine writes The City of God.
415 CE: Egypt - Death of Hypatia
415 CE: Palestine - Orosius accuses Pelagius of heresy.
416 CE: Italy - The Visigoths accept the commission from Rome to subdue the barbarian tribes which had entered Spain in 409
416 CE: Spain - (-418) The Visigoths, under the rule of Wallia (415-418), rout the Vandals and the Alans in Spain; the Visigoths settle in southwestern Gaul and operate as federates of Rome, owing the empire military service
417 CE: Italy - (-418) Zosimus succeeds Innocent as bishop of Rome.
418 CE: Africa - (c) Pelagius and Celestius are excommunicated. Council of Carthage condemns nine specific errors of Pelagius, including his beliefs about original sin, grace, and human sinfullness.
418 CE: Italy - (-422) Boniface succeeds Zosimus as bishop of Rome.
418 CE: Spain - Upon the death of Wallia, Theodoric I replaces him and rules the Visigoths until he dies in 451 while fighting Attila the Hun
419 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage assembles to discuss the claim of Rome to have jurisdiction over North Africa.
419 CE: Palestine - Death of Eustochium
420 CE: Africa - (c) Paulinus of Milan writes the Life of Saint Ambrose.
420 CE: France - (-428) John Cassian writes the Conferences. (c) Birth of Geneviève of Paris at Nanterre.
421 CE: Africa - Augustine writes The Enchiridion of Faith, Hope and Love.
422 CE: Italy - (-432) Celestine I succeeds Boniface as bishop of Rome.
423 CE: Egypt - (-425) Cyril of Alexandria writes the Treasury of the Holy and Consubstantial Trinity.
425 CE: England - (c) Vortigern becomes ruler of Britain
426 CE: France - Honoratus of Arles becomes bishop of Arles
428 CE: Asia Minor - Theodore of Mopsuestia dies.
428 CE: England - (c) Birth of Benedict Biscop
428 CE: Greece - Nestorius is consecrated bishop of Constantinople (April 10th).
429 CE: Egypt - Death of Sisoes the Great, one of the Desert Fathers.
429 CE: England - St. Germanus of Auxerre visits Britain
429 CE: France - (c) John Cassian writes The Incarnation of Christ. Death of Honoratus of Arles; Hilarius becomes bishop of Arles
429 CE: Greece - (c) Caelestius, follower of Pelagius, dies in Constantinople.
430 CE: Africa - Augustine dies (at Hippo?).
430 CE: Egypt - Cyril of Alexandria writes Against the Blasphemies of Nestorius, "The Twelve Anathemas," and a denunciation of Nestorius to Pope Celestine.
430 CE: Italy - Celestine, bishop of Rome, condemns Nestorius.
431 CE: Asia Minor - The Third Ecumenical Council (The Council of Ephesus); Nestorianism and Pelagianism are condemned.
431 CE: Italy - Pope Celestine sends Pallidius to evangelize Ireland
432 CE: France - (c) Eucherius becomes bishop of Lyons.
432 CE: Ireland - Patrick begins his missionary work in Ireland.
432 CE: Italy - (-440) Sixtus III succeeds Celestine as bishop of Rome. (-440) Peter Chrysologus is consecrated bishop of Ravenna.
433 CE: France - (-434) Prosper of Aquitaine writes The Grace of God and Free Choice.
434 CE: France - (c) Vincent of Lerins writes The Notebooks.
434 CE: Greece - Proclus becomes bishop of Constantinople.
435 CE: Asia Minor - (-457) Ibas is bishop of Edessa.
435 CE: France - (c) John Cassian dies.
435 CE: Greece - Theodosius orders the writings of Nestorius to be burnt.
436 CE: Greece - Nestorius is exiled to Petra in Arabia and then to Egypt.
437 CE: France - (c) Birth of Remigius of Rheims
439 CE: Greece - (c) Socrates Scholastikos writes the History of the Church.
440 CE: Italy - (-461) Leo I (the Great) succeeds Sixtus III as bishop of Rome.
442 CE: England - Saxon rebellion
444 CE: Egypt - Cyril of Alexandria dies.
444 CE: Ireland - Founding of Armagh
446 CE: England - British appeal to Roman general Ĉtius for aid against the Saxons
446 CE: Greece - Proclus of Constantinople dies.
449 CE: Asia Minor - The Robber Synod of Ephesus; Ibas of Edessa is deposed as a Nestorian sympathizer.
449 CE: France - Death of Hilarius of Arles
450 CE: Egypt - Death of Poemen, one of the Desert Fathers.
450 CE: Ireland - (c) Birth of St. Bridget of Ireland
450 CE: Italy - (c) Peter Chrysologus dies, possibly at Imola. (c) Prosper of Aquitaine writes The Call of All Nations.
451 CE: Asia Minor - The Fourth Ecumenical Council (The Council of Chalcedon) is convened to reconcile Christological differences between Antiochene and Alexandrian theology.
451 CE: Spain - Thorismund, son of Theodoric I, becomes king of the Visigoths and rules until replaced by his brother Theodoric II in 453
453 CE: Egypt - (c) Nestorius dies (perhaps in Libya).
455 CE: Italy - The Vandals invade Rome.
456 CE: Spain - the Visigoths, under the rule of Theodoric II, defeat the Sueves, the remaining barbarian tribe (besides the Visigoths themselves) in Spain
457 CE: Greece - (-474) Leo I is Emperor of the Eastern Empire.
458 CE: Greece - (-471) Gennadius is the patriarch of Constantinople.
461 CE: Ireland - (c) Death of St. Patrick
461 CE: Italy - (-468) Hilarius succeeds Leo the Great as bishop of Rome.
466 CE: Spain - Euric becomes king of the Visigoths after murdering his brother, Theodoric II; he would end any and all Roman imperial rule in Spain in the mid-470s and would provide the first written legislation for the Visigoths
467 CE: Africa - Fulgence of Ruspe is born.
468 CE: Italy - (483) Simplicius succeeds Hilarius as bishop of Rome.
470 CE: France - (c) Caesar of Arles is born.
470 CE: Ireland - Founding of Kildaire
473 CE: Palestine - Death of Euthymius the Great
474 CE: Greece - (-491) Zeno is the Byzantine Emperor.
476 CE: Greece - The Neoplatonist, Proclus, becomes head of Plato's Academy in Athens.
476 CE: Italy - Odovacar and the Ostrogoths depose the last emperor in Rome; Euric proclaims the Visigothic monarchy an independent state, with its capital at Toulouse; the Arian kings and population would be relatively tolerant of Catholic Christians, and no major clashes between Arians and Catholics have been reported; the kingdom would be under the joint administration and control of the Visigothic and Roman nobility; the Visigothic nobility governs the Visigothic population and the Roman nobility governs the Roman population, while the Visigothic king decides policy for them all; the two peoples are separate but live on equal terms; each nationality has its own priests and churches, its own courts, judges, and civil services, and intermarriage between the two populations is banned (though not effectively)
478 CE: Palestine - Establishment of the Great Lavra (Mar Saba)
480 CE: Italy - Boethius is born. (c) Benedict is born in Nursia.
480 CE: Spain - (c) virtually all of Spain is now under control of the Arian Visigoths: the Vandals had moved to Africa in 429, the Alans had been conquered, while the Sueves had been contained to Galicia in the nortwestern corner of Spain; the Visigoths probably do not
483 CE: Italy - (-492) Felix III succeeds Simplicius as bishop of Rome.
484 CE: Africa - Council of Carthage, now controlled by Arians, exiles and excommunicates the orthodox bishops of Africa.
484 CE: Spain - Euric dies, and is succeeded by his son, Alaric II
485 CE: Italy - (c) Cassiodorus is born.
486 CE: Ireland - (c) Birth of Brendan the Navigator
486 CE: Persia - The Synod of Seleucia; The Syrian Church of Persia officially adopts Nestorianism.
488 CE: Africa - (-489) Victor of Vita writes the History of the Persecution in the Province of Africa.
489 CE: Asia Minor - Emperor Zeno banishes the Nestorians.
489 CE: Ireland - (c) Birth of St. Brendan the Voyager
490 CE: France - Faustus of Reiz dies.
492 CE: Italy - (-496) Gelasius succeeds Felix III as bishop of Rome.
495 CE: Palestine - Death of Simeon Stylites Death of Simeon Stylites
496 CE: Italy - (-498) Anastasius II succeeds Gelasius as bishop of Rome.
498 CE: Italy - (-514) Symmachus succeeds Anastasius II as bishop of Rome.
500 CE: England - Defeat of the Saxons at Mons Badonicus (c) Birth of Gildas the Wise
500 CE: France - (c) Death of Geneviève of Paris
500 CE: Russia - (c) Slavs begin to migrate to Russia.
502 CE: Africa - Fulgence is consecrated bishop of Ruspe.
502 CE: France - Caesar is consecrated bishop of Arles.
507 CE: Spain - Clovis and the Franks, along with Burgundian allies, defeat Alaric II and the Visigoths at Vouille; this loss virtually ends Visigothic rule in Gaul and confines them almost exclusively to Spain; Gesalic, the illegitimate son of Alaric II, becomes king up
510 CE: Africa - (-517) Fulgence writes The Trinity.
511 CE: Spain - Gesalic is chased from Spain, and Amalric, son of Alaric II, becomes king (although Theodoric, the Ostrogothic king of Italy, would, until his death in 526, act as Amalric's regent)
514 CE: Italy - (-523) Hormisdas succeeds Symmachus as bishop of Rome.
517 CE: France - Council of Epeaune declared that Altars should be made of stone.
518 CE: France - Birth of Radegund the Deaconess
521 CE: Ireland - (c) Birth of St. Columba
522 CE: Italy - Eutychius and Tertullus send their sons, Maurus and Placidus to live with Benedict.
523 CE: Africa - (-526) Fulgence writes The Rule of Faith.
523 CE: Italy - (-526) John I succeeds Hormisdas as bishop of Rome.
525 CE: Africa - Boniface of Carthage calls for a council.
525 CE: Ireland - (c) Death of St. Bridget of Ireland
526 CE: Italy - (-530) Felix IV succeeds John I as bishop of Rome.
527 CE: Africa - Fulgence of Ruspe dies.
527 CE: Greece - (-565) Justinian I is the Byzantine Emperor.
529 CE: France - (c) The Second Council of Orange; Semi-Pelagianism is condemned.
529 CE: Italy - Benedict founds Monte Cassino.
530 CE: France - (c) Death of Remigius of Rheims
530 CE: Italy - (-532) Boniface II succeeds Felix IV as bishop of Rome.
531 CE: Spain - Amalric marries Clothild, daughter of Clovis; later in the year, the Frank Childebert and his army defeat Amalric at Narbonne and return to France with Clothild, who had been mistreated by her husband because she refused to convert to Arianism (reportedly , he had dung poured on her as she traveled to church); Amalric is murdered while trying to take refuge in a Catholic church in Barcelona; Theudis, a former general of Theodoric the Ostrogoth, becomes king
532 CE: Asia Minor - Nike revolt in Constantinople
532 CE: Palestine - Death of Sabas the Great
533 CE: Italy - (535) John II is bishop of Rome.
534 CE: Africa - Boniface of Carthage convokes a council to discuss reception of Arians who have become orthodox.
535 CE: Italy - (- 536) Agapetus succeeds John II as bishop of Rome. (-540) Benedict writes the Holy Rule. The Byzantine Emperor Justinian takes Italy back from German invaders.
536 CE: France - Marriage of Clotaire and Radegund
536 CE: Italy - (-537) Silverius succeeds Agapetus as bishop of Rome.
537 CE: Italy - (-555) Vigilius succeeds Silverius as bishop of Rome.
538 CE: France - Gregory of Tours is born at Arverna.
540 CE: England - (c) Gildas the Wise composes De excidio et conquestu Britanniae, ac flebi castigatione in reges, principes, et sacradotes
540 CE: Ireland - (c) Birth of St. Columbanus
540 CE: Italy - (c) Gregory I (the Great) is born in Rome.
542 CE: France - Caesar of Arles, dies.
543 CE: Asia Minor - Justinian issues The Three Chapters, an anathema against specific writings said to contain the seeds of Nestorianism.
543 CE: England - (c) Kentigern becomes first bishop of Strathclyde
543 CE: Italy - (c) Benedict dies.
545 CE: Ireland - Founding of the monastery at Clonmacnoise
548 CE: Spain - Theudis is murdered and replaced by Theudigisel.
549 CE: Spain - Theodigisel is murdered; Agila becomes king
550 CE: England - Beginning of Germanic invasions of Britain
550 CE: Spain - (-560) The Sueves and their king, Theodemir, are converted to Catholicism by Martin of Braga
551 CE: Ireland - Founding of the monastery at Derry
551 CE: Spain - (-552) Athanagild, revolting against the Visigothic king Agila, appeals to the Byzantines for military help; they land in Spain and help to defeat Agila's army; the Byzantines would hold parts of southern Spain and would not be completely expelled until t he reign of Sunithila (621-631)
553 CE: England - (c) Pagans exile Kentigern to Wales
553 CE: Greece - The Fifth Ecumenical Council (The Second Council of Constantinople); Theodore of Mopsuestia is condemned.
554 CE: Ireland - Founding of the monastery at Kells
555 CE: France - (c) Dissolution of the marriageof Clotaire and Radegund
555 CE: Spain - Agila is murdered by his own supporters, and the crown is given to Athanagild
556 CE: Ireland - Founding of the monastery at Durrow
556 CE: Italy - (561) Pelagius I is bishop of Rome.
558 CE: Russia - Avar invasion of Russia.
559 CE: Ireland - (c) Founding of Clonfert (c) Founding of the monastery at Clonfert
560 CE: Spain - (c) Isidore is born in Seville.
561 CE: Italy - (574) John III succeeds Pelagius I as bishop of Rome.
562 CE: Ireland - (c) Death of St. Brendann of Birr
563 CE: England - Founding of the monastery at Iona
568 CE: Spain - Liuva I becomes king upon the death of his father, Athanagild; he appoints his brother, Leovigild, to rule part of the kingdom
570 CE: France - (c) Death of Gildas the Wise
572 CE: Spain - Leovigild becomes the sole ruler upon the death of his brother; he is the only Arian king reported to have persecuted the Catholics, although it is directed at a few individuals and not the whole community
573 CE: England - (c) Kentigern returns from exile
575 CE: Ireland - (c) Death of Brendan the Navigator
575 CE: Italy - (-579) Benedict I is bishop of Rome.
579 CE: Italy - (-590) Pelagius II succeeds Benedict I as bishop of Rome.
579 CE: Spain - Hermendgild, son of Leovigild and brother of the future king, Reccared, marries Ingundis, daughter of King Sigibert I of France; Ingundis, only about twelve years old, refuses to convert to Arianism, so the wife of King Leovigild (who happens to also be I ngundis' grandmother) reportedly abuses her, in one instance having her stripped and ducked in a pond; Leovigild gives the province Baeticia to Hermendgild to rule, and in Seville, Ingundis and a monk, Leander, persuade Hermendgild to join the Catholic Ch urch Martin, the Bishop of Braga in Galicia, dies at his monastery at Dumium; he had been a great missionary, writer, monk, and bishop Hermendgild, having refused to revert to Arianism, revolts against his father, allies himself with the Byzantines, and proclaims himself king at Seville
580 CE: France - (c) Birth of Arnulf of Metz
580 CE: Italy - (c) Monte Cassino is demolished by the Lombards.
580 CE: Spain - Leovigild calls an Arian synod which ends the Arian practice of rebaptizing Catholic converts
582 CE: Asia Minor - (c) John the Faster elected Patriarch of Constantinople
582 CE: Spain - Leovigild concedes the equality of the Son is equal with the Father, and by doing so denies one of the fundamental tenets of Arianism, namely, that the Christ is a creature and therefore subordinate to God the Father; he is, perhaps, hoping to gain suppor t in his struggle with his Catholic son, Hermendgild, by offerring a compromise formula for Catholic Goths; Leovigild still denies the divinity of the Holy Spirit, and in doing so sides with the heresy of the Macedonians (also known as Semi-Arianism)
583 CE: Ireland - Death of St. Brendan the Voyager
584 CE: Spain - Leovigild captures Hermendgild and exiles him to Valencia, where he is later murdured; he dies a martyr for the Catholic faith, and is praised in the writings of Pope Gregory the Gre at and Gregory of Tours
585 CE: Italy - Cassiodorus dies. (c) Lombards destroy Monte Cassino
585 CE: Spain - Leovigild defeats the Sueves, taking their territory and reestablishing Arianism as the state religion
586 CE: Spain - Leovigild dies; although there are reports of his secret conversion to Catholicism before his death, Pope Gregory the Great and Gregory of Tours hold that he died an Arian; he is succeeded by his son Recarred
587 CE: France - Death of Radegund the Deaconess
587 CE: Spain - Recarred converts to Catholicism and is instructed by Leander of Seville, the monk who had converted Hermendgild and who had later been named bishop; the bulk of the Gothic population of Spain generally accept the new Catholic order of things; Reccared wo rks to end Arianism in Spain by banning Arians from employment in civil service, suppressing the Arian church, burning Arian books, and even forcing conversion among some Arians; the Arians are never to be heard from again after his reign
589 CE: Spain - The Third Council of Toledo is presided over by Leander; Reccared announces his conversion, condemns Arianism, and recognizes official Catholic doctrine; the council also legislates on secular matters and, for the first time in Spanish history, allows for the forcible conversion of Jews in certain circumstances; Arianism had not changed much during its history in Spain, and it provided unity for the minority Visigothic population, who were settled among a decisive Catholic Roman majority; the Arianism of the Visigoths had differred from Catholicism in practice as well as theology: Gothic was the liturgical language, the services were held before daybreak, some of the clergy were married, and baptism required triple immersion; many Goths had converted to Catholicism during Hermenegild's revolt, so Reccared's establishment of the new state religion continued the trend and, in effect, settled the issue
590 CE: France - (c) Founding of Luxeuil
590 CE: Ireland - Death of St. Enda
590 CE: Italy - (-604) Gregory I (the Great) succeeds Pelagius II as bishop of Rome.
593 CE: England - Death of King Ceawlin of Wessex
593 CE: France - Gregory of Tours dies.
593 CE: Italy - Gregory I writes his Dialogues, which include a biography of Benedict.
595 CE: Asia Minor - Death of John the Faster
595 CE: France - Theodebert II becomes king of Austrasia
596 CE: Spain - Leander, Bishop of Seville, dies; his brother, Isidore, succeeds him as bishop
597 CE: England - St. Augustine arrives in Kent
597 CE: Scotland - Death of St. Columba
599 CE: Spain - (c) Isidore is consecrated bishop of Seville.
599 CE: Spain - Isidore is consecrated Bishop of Seville
600 CE: Russia - Khazars conquer Russia.
601 CE: Spain - Reccared dies, and his illegitimate son, Liuva II, becomes king
603 CE: England - British defeat the Scots at Degsastan (c) Death of Kentigern
603 CE: Spain - Witteric deposes Liuva II and proclaims himself king
604 CE: England - (c) Death of St. Augustine.
605 CE: Ireland - (c) Birth of Colmán of Lindisfarne
607 CE: England - Completion of St. Paul's Cathedral, London
607 CE: Spain - (c) Birth of Ildephonsus of Toledo
608 CE: Egypt - John the Almsgiver elected Patriarch of Alexandria
608 CE: Italy - (-615) Boniface IV is bishop of Rome.
610 CE: Spain - Witteric is murdered; Gundemar becomes king
612 CE: France - Death of Theodebert II of Austrasia
612 CE: Italy - Founding of Bobbio
612 CE: Spain - Gundemar dies and is replaced on the throne by Sisebut; during his reign, Sisebut will enact many anti-Jewish laws, including forcible conversion of Jews in certain circumstances and the prohibition of the conversion of Christians to Judaism
615 CE: Italy - Death of St. Columbanus
616 CE: England - Death of King Aethelfrith of Britain British defeat the Welsh at Chester
619 CE: Greece - Death of John the Almsgiver
621 CE: Spain - Sisebut dies, to be replaced for a few days as king by his son Reccared II; Suinthila replaces Reccared II upon his death
625 CE: England - Death of King Raedwald of Britain
625 CE: Spain - (-626) Isidore publishes The History of the Goths
626 CE: England - Essex returns to pagan worship
626 CE: France - (c) Birth of Gertrude of Nivelles
627 CE: England - Conversion of King Edwin of Northumbria
627 CE: Spain - (-636) Isidore writes Etymologies.
630 CE: England - Conversion of East Anglia
631 CE: Spain - Suinthila, facing rebellion, abdicates the throne, and Sisenand becomes king
632 CE: England - Death of King Edwin of Northumbria
633 CE: Spain - Sisenand opens the Fourth Council of Toledo; the bishops, led by Isidore, work to establish uniformity in ecclesiastical matters throughout the kingdom and decree that every diocese should have a seminary or cathedral school; the council also deals with administration and discipline in the Church, monks and penitents, the Jews, and the freedmen of the Church; the seventy-fifth canon turns to secular affairs, condemning rebellions and plots against the monarch, and stipulating that a king's successor would by appointed by the nobles and the bishops of the kingdom; the bishops condemn Sisebut's forcible conversion of Jews, marking the only time that anti-Jewish legislation imposed by the kings is criticized by Spanish bishops
634 CE: England - (c) Birth of St. Cuthbert
634 CE: Greece - (c) Germain is born in Constantinople.
635 CE: England - Founding of the monastery at Lindesfarne
636 CE: Spain - Sisenand dies, and is succeeded as king by Chintila, who calls the Fifth Council of Toledo. The bishops address almost exclusively the issues of the safety of the monarch and succession to the throne
638 CE: Spain - Chintila calls the Sixth Council of Toledo; the bishops again concern themselves with, among other matters, the safety and stability of the king; also, Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa, writes for the council a response to a letter from Pope Honorius I which had urged the bishops to be stronger in their faith and in their attack on Judaism; the council also supports Chintila's goals of eliminating Judaism and forbidding non-Catholics to live in Spain (the latter is a first in the history of Western Europe) A group of Jews at Seville are forced to accept baptism and sign a profession of faith; in this document, called a placitum, the converted Jews are made to renounce the beliefs, rites, and festivals of Judaism, and promise to stone to death any converted Jew who might deviate from the Catholic faith; this practice of forcible conversion contradicts the ruling of the Fourth Council of Toledo
640 CE: England - (c) Birth of Aldhelm
640 CE: France - Benedict's relics are transferred to St. Benedict's Church in Fleury. (c) Death of Arnulf of Metz
640 CE: Spain - Chintila dies, and is replaced by his son Tulga
641 CE: England - Death of King Oswald of Britain
642 CE: Spain - Chindasuinth proclaims himself king and dethrones Tulga; he has Tulga tonsured, which makes him inelligible to rule, according to the Sixth Council of Toledo
646 CE: Spain - Chindasuinth calls the Seventh Council of Toledo, which confirms his laws against treason
649 CE: Spain - Reccesuinth, Chindasuinth's son, is declared king and rules jointly with his father until the elder's death in 653
651 CE: Spain - Braulio, Bishop of Saragossa, dies; he is remembered as a fine scholar and preacher
653 CE: England - Conversion of Mercia
653 CE: Spain - Reccesuinth calls the Eighth Council of Toledo, which addresses legal reform, treason, and Judaism Reccesuinth's new code of law is published which enacts harsh laws against the Jews (for example, to be a practising Jew becomes a capital offense) and which end any legal distinction between Visigoths and Romans, depriving the Romans of most of their pow er in the Church and state
654 CE: England - St. Botolph founds the monastery at Ikenho
655 CE: France - (c) Death of Foillan
655 CE: Spain - The bishops of Carthaginiensis hold a provincial synod which becomes known as the Ninth Council of Toledo
656 CE: Spain - The Tenth Council of Toledo addresses, among other things, the issue of the many priests and deacons who sell Christian slaves to Jews
657 CE: Spain - Eugenius II dies; he was a monk from Saragossa who had served as Bishop of Toledo; he is succeeded at the see of Toledo by his nephew Ildephonsus
658 CE: England - Cĉdmon enters the monastery at Whitby (c) Birth of Willibrord of Utrecht
659 CE: France - Death of Gertrude of Nivelles
664 CE: England - Synod of Whitby St. Cuthbert enters the monastery at Lindesfarne
664 CE: Ireland - (c) The Book of Durrow
665 CE: Spain - Fructuosus dies; he had established a number of monasteries under the Rule of St. Benedict in Spain and served first as the Bishop of Dumium and then in Braga
667 CE: Spain - Death of Ildephonsus of Toledo
669 CE: England - Arrival of Theodore of Tarsus St. Theodore of Tarsus arrives in Britain
670 CE: England - Ecgfrith becomes king of Northumbria
671 CE: Ireland - Colmán of Lindisfarne establishes Mayo of the Saxons
672 CE: England - (c) Birth of Bede
672 CE: Spain - Wamba becomes king upon the death of Reccesuinth
673 CE: England - Founding of Ely Birth of St. Guthlac
674 CE: England - Founding of St. Peter monastery at Wearmouth Founding of the monastery at Wearmouth
675 CE: England - Beginning of the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral, London (c) Hildelith becomes abbess of Barking
675 CE: Spain - The Eleventh Council of Toledo addresses the problem of the morality of bishops; for example, the Council rules that if a bishop seduces a relative of a noble, he is to be dismissed from office, exiled, and excommunicated; this is also the penalty for bis hops who murder or wound nobility
676 CE: Ireland - Death of Colmán of Lindisfarne
677 CE: England - (c) Willibrord of Utrecht leaves Ripon for Mellifont in Ireland
678 CE: England - Battle of the Trent
678 CE: Italy - (-681) Agatho is bishop of Rome.
679 CE: England - Death of Etheldreda of Ely
680 CE: England - (c) Death of Cĉdmon Death of St. Botolph
680 CE: Greece - (-681) The Sixth Ecumenical Council (The Third Council of Constantinople).
680 CE: Spain - Wamba, believing himself to be mortally ill, undergoes penance and takes the monastic habit; he recovers but, because of the ruling of the Sixth Council of Toledo, is forced to renounce the throne (the Council had ruled that anyone who had undergone penan ce could not rule as king); as a result, Erwig is named king
681 CE: Spain - The Twelfth Council of Toledo confirms the accession to the throne of King Erwig
682 CE: England - Founding of St. Paul monastery at Jarrow Founding of the monastery at Jarrow
682 CE: Italy - (-683) Leo II is bishop of Rome.
683 CE: Spain - The Thirteenth Council of Toledo meets and, among other rulings, adopts Erwig's large body of anti-Jewish legislation, which includes obligatory baptism
684 CE: England - St. Cuthbert becomes bishop of Hexham
684 CE: Spain - The Fourteenth Council of Toledo; the bishops respond to a letter from Pope Leo II that had asked the Spanish bishops to confirm the decisions of the Third Council of Constantinople; the successor of Pope Leo II, Benedict II, is disturbed by the rulings of the Fourteenth Council and writes that some of the Council's phrases are doctrinally incorrect; this m atter leads to a dispute between Julian of Toledo, who defended the Council, and the Pope
685 CE: England - (-687) Cuthbert is Bishop of Lindisfarne. Death of King Ecgfrith of Northumbria Completion of the rebuilding of St. Paul's Cathedral, London
686 CE: England - (c) Death of St. Eata
687 CE: England - Conversion of Sussex Death of St. Cuthbert
687 CE: Spain - Egica becomes king upon Erwig's death and opens the Fifteenth Council of Toledo; the Council adopts the substance of Julian's argument against the Papacy
689 CE: England - Death of Benedict Biscop
690 CE: Ireland - Egbert sends Willibrord of Utrecht and companions to evangelize Frisia
690 CE: Spain - St. Julian, Bishop of Toledo, dies; he had been a great writer and capable theogian
693 CE: Spain - The Sixteenth Council of Toledo confirm Egica's laws that establish severe economic limitations on unconverted Jews; the Council also addresses legal reform
694 CE: England - Kent becomes an independent kingdom
694 CE: Spain - The Seventeenth Council of Toledo; Egica declares knowledge of a conspiracy among Spanish Jews, working with other Jews throughout the world, to revolt against their Christian rulers and eliminate Christianity; this story, invented by Egica, yields decree s from the bishops that all unbaptized Jews should be stripped of their property and sold, along with their famiilies, into slavery, never to be freed and never to be allowed to practice their religion in Spain
695 CE: England - King Wihted bans pagan worship in Britain
695 CE: Italy - Sergius III consecrates Willibrord of Utrecht Archbishop of the Frisians
696 CE: England - The Lindesfarne Gospel
696 CE: France - (c) Rigoberto appointed Archbishop of Rheims
700 CE: England - (c) Beowulf
700 CE: Spain - Egica appoints his son Wittiza as co-ruler of the kingdom
702 CE: Spain - Egica dies; Wittiza is the sole king
705 CE: England - Aldhelm appointed bishop of Sherborne
709 CE: England - Death of Aldhelm (c) Death of Adrian of Canterbury
710 CE: Germany - (c) Death of Rupert of Salzburg
710 CE: Spain - Roderic becomes king upon the death of Wittiza
711 CE: Spain - Musa, the Arab governor of Spain, sends his general Tarik ibn Ziyad to Spain; he lands at Gibraltar, and begins to ravage the cities; Roderic is defeated, losing his country, his throne, and, presumably, his life; Musa crosses into Spain, as civil war is raging in the country, takes Toledo, and executes Oppa, a son of Egica; Theudimer makes peace with Musa's son, Abd el Aziz; Roderic had been succeeded by Achila, but his deeds and fate are unknown
712 CE: England - (c) Death of Hildelith of Barking
714 CE: England - (c) Death of St. Guthlac
714 CE: France - Willibrord of Utrecht baptizes Pepin III the Short
715 CE: France - Willibrord of Utrecht establishes a monastery at Echternach
715 CE: Germany - Duke Radbod exiles Willibrord of Utrecht
715 CE: Greece - Germain I becomes the Patriarch of Constantinople.
716 CE: England - Founding of the monastery at Crowland
719 CE: Germany - Death of Radbod, Duke of the Frisians
721 CE: France - (c) Rigoberto exiled to Gascony
725 CE: England - Death of King Wihtred of Kent
726 CE: England - Abdication of King Ine of Kent
729 CE: England - Ceolwulf becomes king of Northumbria
730 CE: France - (c) Death of Rigoberto of Rheims
731 CE: Italy - (-741) Gregory III is bishop of Rome.
733 CE: Greece - Germain I dies in Platanion.
735 CE: England - (c) Birth of Alcuin of York Death of Bede
737 CE: England - Ceolwulf abdicates to become a monk at Lindisfarne
739 CE: France - Death of Willibrord of Utrecht
741 CE: Italy - (-752) Zachary is bishop of Rome.
749 CE: Palestine - (c) Death of John of Damascus
750 CE: Ireland - (c) The Book of Kells
754 CE: France - Carlomen and Charlemagne become joint rulers of the Franks
757 CE: England - Death of King Aethelbald of Mercia Offa become king of the Angles
764 CE: England - (c) Death of Ceolwulf
768 CE: France - Death of Pepin the Short
770 CE: Germany - (c) Birth of Einhard
771 CE: France - Death of Carlomen
776 CE: England - Battle of Otford
778 CE: France - Charlemagne conquers Bavaria
779 CE: Germany - Einhard begins his education at Fulda.
784 CE: England - Beginning of construction on Offa's Dyke between England & Wales
787 CE: Asia Minor - The Seventh Ecumenical Council (The Second Council of Nicaea).
787 CE: England - Arrival of the first papal legates to Britain
788 CE: England - Establishment of Litchfield as an archbishopric
789 CE: France - Capitulary of Herstal sets forth the ideals of a Christian kingdom
791 CE: Germany - (c) Einhard begins attending the royal school at Aachen.
793 CE: England - Beginning of Viking raids on Britain Danes sack Lindesfarne
794 CE: England - Beheading of King Ethelbert of the East Angles
795 CE: Ireland - Beginning of Viking raids
796 CE: England - First recorded treaty in British history, between King Offa and Charlemagne Completion of Offa's Dyke between England & Wales Death of King Offa
800 CE: Italy - Leo III crowns Charlemagne Holy Roman Emperor
804 CE: France - Rebellion in Brittany Death of Alcuin of York
804 CE: Ireland - (c) Monks of Iona seek refuge from Vikings at the Kells
807 CE: Ireland - (c) The Book of Armagh
810 CE: France - Charlemagne invades Denmark (c) Birth of Anskar
812 CE: France - Death of William of Gellone
815 CE: Greece - (c) Birth of Methodius
817 CE: France - Synod of Aachen approves a uniform rule for all monasteries in the kingdom of the Franks
821 CE: France - Death of Benedict of Aniane
825 CE: England - Death of King Beornwulf of Mercia
826 CE: Germany - Anskar begins missionary work.
826 CE: Greece - (c) Birth of Constantine the Philosopher (Cyril)
827 CE: Scandinavia - Defeat of Harald of Denmark in a dynastic struggle.
829 CE: Scandinavia - (c) Founding of the first Swedish church at Björnkö
830 CE: England - Translation of the relics of Cuthbert and Ceolwulf from Lindisfarne to Norham-on-Tweed
830 CE: Germany - Einhard resigns as royal advisor to Louis I the Pious.
831 CE: Germany - Anskar becomes first bishop of Hamburg.
834 CE: Flanders - Establishment of Turholt Abbey
834 CE: Scandinavia - Horec I becomes king of Denmark
836 CE: Germany - Einhard completes his life of Charlemagne.
838 CE: England - Defeat of Viking invaders of Britain
838 CE: Germany - (c) Einhard founds Seligenstadt on his estate in Mühlheim.
840 CE: France - Death of Louis I the Pius
840 CE: Germany - Death of Einhard
841 CE: Ireland - Establishment of Dublin
845 CE: Germany - Norse sack Hamburg
845 CE: Ireland - Defeat of the Vikings
847 CE: Germany - Anskar becomes archbishop of Bremen
849 CE: England - Birth of King Alfred of England
850 CE: Greece - Methodius becomes a monk on Mount Olympus
851 CE: England - Defeat of Viking invaders at Canterbury
851 CE: Ireland - Beginning of Norwegian Viking raids
852 CE: Scandinavia - Conversion of Haarik II of Sweden
854 CE: Germany - Pagan rebellion in Bremen
854 CE: Scandinavia - Conversion of Erik of Jutland
860 CE: England - Danes destroy Crowland
862 CE: Russia - Rurik establishes himself at Novgorod.
865 CE: England - Danes invade East Anglia
865 CE: Germany - Death of Anskar
866 CE: Russia - Sts. Cyril and Methodius begin preaching Christianity to the Slavs.
867 CE: Ireland - Defeat of the Vikings at Lough Foyle
869 CE: Italy - Death of Cyril
869 CE: Russia - Death of St. Cyril.
870 CE: England - Danes sack Ely
871 CE: England - Defeat of the Danes at Ashdown, Britain
875 CE: England - Danes sack Lindesfarne for a second time
877 CE: England - King Alfred drives the Danes from Wessex
878 CE: Russia - Oleg captures Smolensk and Kiev.
879 CE: Russia - Death of Rurik. Oleg becomes ruler of Novgorod.
882 CE: Russia - Novgorod becomes the capital of Russia.
884 CE: Russia - Death of St. Methodius.
885 CE: Germany - Death of Methodius
886 CE: England - Alfred becomes the first king of England
887 CE: England - King Alfred begins to translate books from Latin into English
890 CE: England - Anglo-Saxon Chronicle
899 CE: England - Death of King Alfred
904 CE: Ireland - Death of King Flann of Munster
907 CE: Bohemia - (c) Birth of Wenceslaus
907 CE: Russia - Commercial treaty between Russia and Constantinople.
908 CE: Ireland - Battle of Ballaghmoon (defeat of the Vikings)
910 CE: England - Defeat of the Danes at Tettenhall
911 CE: Russia - Second commercial treaty between Russia and Constantinople.
912 CE: England - Edward of England begins to reconquer the Danelaw
912 CE: Russia - Death of Oleg, Prince of Novgorod. Igor becomes ruler of Novgorod.
914 CE: Ireland - Vikings invade Ireland again
915 CE: Russia - Beginning of Pecheneg raids in Russia.
918 CE: England - Death of Queen &Aelig;thelflĉd of Mercia