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Period: 60 to 68
Nero
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64
Great Fire of Rome
Nero launches persecution of Christians -
Period: 69 to 79
Vespsian
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70
Destruction of Jerusalem
By titus -
81
Persecution under Domitian
81-96 -
Period: 81 to 96
Domitian
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98
St. Clement I is pope
restored the sacrament of confirmation according to the rite of St. Peter; Martyred in 97 -
Period: 98 to 117
Trajan
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110
St. Ignatius of Antioch Martyred
-
112
Trajan’s Rescript in response to Pliny
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115
St. Sixtus is Pope
died in 125 -
Period: 117 to 138
Hadrian
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123
Hadrian’s Rescript
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125
St. Telephorus is Pope
Martyred in 136 He composed the Gloria in Excelsis Deo -
Period: 138 to 161
Antoninus Pius
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150
St. Justin Martyr
Dedicates his first Apology -
155
St. Polycarp Martyred
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161
St. Justin Marytyr
Dedicates his Second Apology -
Period: 161 to 180
Marcus Aurelius
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180
St. Irenaeus
Writes Against Heresies -
Period: 193 to 211
Sept. Severus
-
196
Tertullian begins writing
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203
Sets. Perpetua and Felicity are martyred
Area at carthage -
214
Origen begins writing
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Period: 249 to 251
Decius
-
Period: 400 to 420
Honorius-Western Emp.
-
410
Visigoths
Sack Rome under king Alaric -
418
Franks take Gaul
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430
St. Augustine dies
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431
Council of Ephesus
Third Ecumenical- Defined Mary to be the mother of God -
Period: 440 to 461
St. Leo I
-
445
Emp. Valentinian III
Acknowledge papal supremacy -
451
Council of Chalcedon
Fourth Ecumenical- Defined the human and divine natures of Christ in one person -
452
St. Leo I
meets Attila the Hun -
Period: 474 to 491
Zeno - Eastern Emp.
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476
End of Roman Empire
last western emperor is Romulus Augustulus -
493
Theodoric threw Ostrogoth
becomes king of Italy -
529
St. Benedict
founds monastery at Monte Cassino -
Period: 529 to 565
Justinian - East Emp.
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553
Second Council of Constantinople
fifth Ecumenical- called by Emperor Justinian