timelime

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  • Period: 284 BCE to 305 BCE

    Diocletian

    Diocletian creates
    the Tetrarchy
    "Great Persecution"
    begins under Diocletian
    Constantine adopts Christian
    symbol before battle
    Edict of Milan
  • Period: 193 BCE to 260 BCE

    sept. Servous

    Tertullian begins writing
    Sts. Perpetua and Felicity are martyred in the arena at Carthage
    Origen (ca. 185-254)
    begins writing
    Edict of Decius (emp. 249-251)
    orders empire-wide persecution
    of Christians
    Valerian
    (emp. 253-260)
    Rescripts in 257 and 258
  • Period: 137 BCE to 180 BCE

    Antoninus

    St. Justin Martyr dedicates his First Apology
    Polycarp martyred
    St. Justin Martyr dedicates
    his Second Apology
    St. Irenæus writes
    Against Heresies
  • Period: 120 BCE to 148 BCE

    Hadrian

    Hadrian's Rescript
    St. Telesphorus is Pope; martyred in 136;
    He composed the Gloria in Excelsis Deo
  • Period: 96 BCE to 117 BCE

    Trajan

    St. Ignatius of Antioch martyred
    Trajan's Rescript in response to Pliny
    St. Sixtus I is Pope; died in 125
  • Period: 81 BCE to 88 BCE

    Domination

    Persecution mumder Domitian
  • Period: 70 BCE to 80 BCE

    Verspasian

    Destruction od Jerusalem by Titus
  • Period: 60 BCE to 70 BCE

    Nero

    Persecution under
    Domitian 81-96
    St. Clement I is Pope; restored the Sacrament of Confirmation according to the rite of St. Peter; martyred in 97