73 BCE - 4 BCE: Life of Herod the Great, king of Judea.

6 BCE - 30 CE: Life of Jesus Christ.

26 CE - 36 CE: Jesus of Nazareth is crucified during the reign of Pontius Pilate in Judea.

36 CE - 40 CE: Call of Paul, the apostle.

42 CE - 62 CE: Paul the Apostle goes on missionary journeys across Asia Minor, Greece, and Rome.

49 CE: Paul the Apostle visits Philippi in Macedon.

50 CE - 70 CE: The early Christian document the Didache is composed.

50 CE - 60 CE: Establishment of various Christian communities in the Eastern Mediterranean, Greece, Egypt, and at least the city of Rome.

50 CE - 60 CE: Letters of Paul.

60 CE: An early Christian community is established at Gortyn, Crete.

64 CE: Unofficial persecution of Christians in Rome.

64 CE: The great fire in Rome.

65 CE - 100 CE: The tales of the life and work of Jesus (gospels) composed.

66 CE - 73 CE: The Jewish Revolt against Rome.

69 CE - 70 CE: The Gospel of Mark.

70 CE: The city of Jerusalem is besieged and captured by Rome; the Second Temple destroyed.

85 CE: The Gospel of Matthew.

95 CE: The Gospel of Luke and Acts of the Apostles.

202 CE: The earliest record of a Christian church at Edessa.

239 CE - 330 CE: Life of Saint Gregory the Illuminator who is credited with bringing Christianity to Armenia (dates disputed).

249 CE: 10 Christians are famously martyred at Gortyn in a wild animal hunt.

300 CE - 350 CE: Christian Basilica built at Nemea.

300 CE - 400 CE: Christianization of Lutetia.

312 CE: Roman emperor Constantine I tolerates Christianity.

314 CE: Armenia adopts Christianity as the state religion.

330 CE - 379 CE: Life of Basil Great, one of the founding fathers of the Eastern Christian Church and Byzantine Monasteries.

391 CE: Emperor Theodosius I closes pagan temples.

397 CE: Saint Ninian brings Christianity to Scotland, rise of literacy and written history.

418 CE: Completion of Orosius' famous work Seven Books of History Against the Pagans.

451 CE: Fourth Ecumenical Council takes place in Chalcedon, determining that Jesus Christ had two distinct natures and wills, perfectly united.

500 CE: Amphipolis becomes an important Christian centre and has four basilicas.

503 CE: Clovis I converts to Christianity.

506 CE: First Council of Dvin establishes that the Armenian Church did not recognize the Fourth Ecumenical Council.

532 CE - 537 CE: Hagia Sophia is built anew in Constantinople.

608 CE: The Pantheon in Rome is converted into a Christian church.

691 CE - 692 CE: Byzantine emperor Justinian II convenes the Council in Trullo to decide on rules for Christians.

862 CE: Council of Sirakawan between the Armenian and Byzantine Orthodox Churches discuss Christological issues in an effort to reunify, although ultimately unsuccessful.