The Early Church

Scripture

AD 38Saul proclaims Jesus
AD 38Peter heals Aeneas and Dorcas
AD 38Peter meets Cornelius
AD 38Peter preaches to gentiles in Caesarea
AD 38Peter defends Gentile salvation
AD 40Disciples first called Christians
AD 40Herod kills James
AD 40Herod imprisons Peter
AD 40An angel rescues Peter from prison
AD 45Herod dies
AD 45First Missionary Journey
AD 46Jerusalem Council
AD 46Second Missionary Journey
AD 47Paul and Barnabas part ways
AD 47Lydia's Conversion
AD 47Paul casts demon out of soothsayer
AD 47Paul and Silas imprisoned
AD 47Philippian jailer converted
AD 47Paul and Silas released
AD 50Third Missionary Journey
AD 54Paul visits elders in Jerusalem
AD 54Paul arrested in the Temple
AD 54Paul gives his testimony
AD 54Paul goes before the Council
AD 54The conspiracy to kill Paul
AD 56Paul sent to Felix
AD 56Paul appeals to Caesar
AD 56Agrippa and Bernice meet Festus
AD 56Paul goes before Agrippa
AD 56Journey to Rome begins
AD 56Paul's Journey to Rome
AD 57Paul is shipwrecked by a storm
AD 57Paul stays at Malta
AD 57Paul arrives at Rome
AD 57Paul's First Roman imprisonment

The wider world

AD 60Boudica leads a British revolt against Rome
AD 64Great Fire of Rome under Nero
AD 79Vesuvius erupts and buries Pompeii
AD 80The Colosseum opens in Rome
c. AD 100Teotihuacan grows into a great city in Mexico
c. AD 105Kushan Empire links India, Persia and China
c. AD 105Cai Lun refines papermaking in China
AD 117Roman Empire reaches its greatest extent under Trajan
c. AD 126Hadrian rebuilds the Pantheon in Rome
c. AD 150Ptolemy maps the heavens in the Almagest
AD 161Marcus Aurelius, philosopher-emperor of Rome