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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
Vespasian
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70
Destruction of Jerusalem
By Titus -
Period: 81 to 96
Domatian
Persecution Under Domitian -
Period: 98 to 117
Trajan
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Period: 117 to 138
Hadrian
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Period: 138 to 161
Antoninus Pius
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Period: 161 to 180
Marcus Aurelius
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Period: 193 to 211
Sept. Serverus
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Period: 249 to 251
Decius
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Period: 253 to 260
Valerian
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Period: 284 to 305
Diocletian
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Period: 395 to 423
Honorius - West Empire
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410
Visigoths sack Rome under King Alaric
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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
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Period: 440 to 461
St. Leo I
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445
Emperor Valentinian III acknowledges papal supremacy
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451
Council of Chalcedon - Fourth Ecumenical - Defined the human and divine natures of Christ in one Person
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452
St. Leo I (the Great) meets Attila the Hun
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Period: 474 to 491
Zeno - Eastern Empire
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476
End of Roman Empire, last western emperor is Romulus Agustulus
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493
Theodoric the Ostrogoth becomes King of Italy
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Period: 535 to 565
Justinian - East Empire
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538
St. Benedict founds monastery at Monte Cassino
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553
Second Council of Constantinople - Fifth Ecumenical - Called by Emperor Justinian
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570
Muhammad born at or near Mecca
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Period: 590 to 604
St. Gregory
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Period: 610 to 642
Heraclius - East Empire
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611
Muhammad has vision of archangel Gabriel
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624
Muhammad dearest’s Meccans at Battle of Badr
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637
Jerusalem captured by Muslim
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640
Library of Alexandria destroyed with 300,000 ancient papyrus scroll
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680
Third Council of Constantinople - Sixth Ecumenical
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684
Dome of the Rock built over the Temple