Christianity

Christianity's Family Tree

27,28--	John the Baptist peaches in the Holy Land: Jesus is Baptized.
29,33--	Jesus preaches develops a following and is crucified.
60,80--	Mark's Gospel, the Church's first life of Jesus is written.
64--	Rome burns, emperor Nero blames the Christians and persecution ensues.
312--	Roman emperor Constantine converts to Christianity, ending the persecution.
476--	The Roman empire falls, the eastern portion survives as the Byzantine Empire, a gulf widens between the Roman church headed by the Pope and Eastern Christianity headed by the Patriarch of Constantinople.
610--	Muhammad starts a new religion, Islam, in Arabia.
638--	Jerusalem is overtaken by Islamic forces.
1054--	A formal schism between the Eastern Orthodox and the Roman Church ensues over papal authority.
1096--	The Crusades begin in an attempt to secure parts of the Holy Land held by Islam.
1232--	The first Inquisition by Gregory IX, heretics are burned at the stake.
1483--	During the Torquemada Inquisition in Spain 2,000 heretics are executed.
1517--	Martin Luther stressing biblical over papal authority spurs the Reformation dividing Western Christianity into Roman Catholic and Protestantism.
1533,34--	King Henry VIII denies the pope's authority over England, so he can marry Anne Boleyn: he is declared head of the new independent church, Anglicanism is born.
1613--	Galileo tries to show that the Earth revolves around the Sun, rather than being the center of the universe. He is called to Rome and the Inquisition finds him guilty of disobeying Church orders, and he is sentenced to life imprisonment.
1729--	John Wesley who considers an intimate relationship with God more important than a particular form of worship leads a new movement to Methodism
1962,65--	Pope John XXIII and his successor Paul VI, seek to promote ecumenism.
2000--	Christianity the world's largest religion with more than two billion congregants.

Graph from Life magazine

Hebrew Calendar 5760
Chinese Calendar 4698
Buddhist Calendar 2543
Standard Calendar 2000
Muslim Calendar 1420