TIMELINE OF THE WESTERN CHURCH: 1ST CENTURY TO THE 10TH CENTURY
JESUS IS BORN (possibly as early as 5 BC or late as 6 AD)
JESUS CRUCIFIXION (30 AD ca.)
THE CHURCH IN JERUSALEM FOUND (30 AD)
APOSTOLIC AGE (35 AD)
IGNATIUS OF ANTIOCH BORN (35 AD)
APOSTLE PAUL CONVERSION (33 AD)
APOSTLE PAUL'S FIRST MISSIONARY JOURNEY (46-48AD)
APOSTLE PAUL'S SECOND MISSIONARY JOURNEY (54-52 AD)
APOSTLE PAUL'S THIRD MISSIONARY JOURNEY (53- 57 AD)
APOSTLE PAUL'S MISSIONARY JOURNEY TO ROME (59- 60 AD)
PERIOD OF ANTE-NICENE FATHERS (135 AD)
QUARTODECIMANISM CONTROVERSY (154 AD)
MONTANIST MOVEMENT (172 AD)
IRENAEUS OF LYONS IS BORN (130 AD)
APOSTOLIC SUCCESSION (185 AD)
PASCHAL CONTROVERSY (195 AD)
ORIGEN BECOMES A HEAD OF THE ALEXANDRIA SCHOOL (203 AD)
MONARCHIANISM CONTROVERSY (225 AD)
NOVATISM SCHISM (250 AD)
PAUL OF SAMOSATA VS COUNCIL OF ANTIOCH (264 AD)
DONATIST CONTROVERSY (312 AD)
EDICT OF MILAN (ISSUED WITH CONSTANTINE AND LICINIUS (313 AD)
CONSTANTINE THE GREAT BECOMES A SOLE RULER OF ROMAN EMPIRE (326 AD)
ATHANASIUS VS ARIUS (320 AD)
FIRST ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF NICAEA I (325 AD)
POST NICENE FATHERS (326 AD)
ATHANASIUS OF ALEXANDRIA BECOMES A BISHOP OF ALEXANDRIA (3328 AD)
GREGORY OF NAZIANZUS IS BORN (329 AD)
BASIL THE GREAT IS BORN (330 AD)
GREGORY OF NYSSA IS BORN (330 AD)
MARTIN OF TOURS IS BORN (330 AD)
AMBROSE OF MILAN IS BORN (339 AD)
COUNCIL OF ANTIOCH (341)
COUNCIL OF SARDICA (342 AD)
COUNCIL OF CARTHAGE (348 AD)
SECOND ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE I (381 AD)
JEROME TRANSLATION OF THE LATIN VULGATE (382 AD)
APOSTLES' CREED (390 AD)
AUGUSTINE OF HIPPO CONSECRATED AS A BISHOP (391 AD)
JOHN OF CHRYSOSTOM BECOMES PATRIARCH OF CONSTANTINOPLE (398 AD)
PELAGIANISM VS AUGUSTINIANISM (421 AD)
CELESTINE I BECOMES BISHOP OF ROME (422 AD)
JOHN OF CASSIAN RULE FOR NOVICE MONKS (426 AD)
CYRIL OF ALEXANDRIA VS NESTORIUS OF CONSTANTINOPLE (431 AD)
THIRD ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF EPHESUS (431 AD)
SEMIPELAGIANISM (435 AD)
COMMUNICATIO IDIOMATUM (449 AD)
COUNCIL OF EPHESUS (ROBBERS SYNOD) (449 AD)
MONOPHYSITISM VS DYOPHYSITISM (451 AD)
FOURTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF CHALCEDON (451 AD)
EARLY MEDIEVAL CHURCH (452 AD)
VICAR OF CHRIST USED AS A PAPAL TITLE (492 AD)
APOPHATIC THEOLOGY (500 AD)
COLUMBA BORN (521 AD)
RULE OF BENEDICT (540 AD)
FIFTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE II (553 AD)
FILIOQUE CONTROVERSY (589 AD)
AUGUSTINE OF CANTERBURY FOUND BENEDICTINE MONASTERY (597 AD)
TE DEUM BECOMES ROMAN LITURGY (599 AD)
CELTIC CHRISTIANITY (603 AD)
IMMACULATION CONCEPTION OF BVM (627 AD)
MONOTHELITISM VS DYOTHELITISM (647 AD)
SIXTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF CONSTANTINOPLE III (680-1 AD)
ICONOCLASTIC CONTROVERSY (725 AD)
SEVENTH ECUMENICAL COUNCIL OF NICAEA II (787 AD)
CHARLEMAGNE BECOME THE AUGUSTUS OF HOLY ROMAN EMPIRE (800 AD)
LATIN BECOMES AN OFFICIAL LANGUAGE OF SCHOLARSHIP AND ROMAN CHURCH (800 AD)
DUNS (JOHN) SCOTUS ERIGENA IS BORN (810 AD)
GREAT SCHISM (EAST AND WEST PART THEOLOGICAL COMPANY (1054 AD)
source: Susan Lynn Peterson. Timeline Charts of the Western Church (Zondervan, 1999)