Chronological Outline

Date		Events
		FIRST CENTURY
31		Ascension.
51		Council of the Apostles.
64		First persecution .† SS. Peter and Paul.
70		Destruction of Jerusalem.
95		Second persecution.
		SECOND CENTURY
106		Third persecution † St. Simon—St. Ignatius of Antioch.
161		Fourth persecution † St. Felicitas and her seven sons—"Thundering Legion."
202		Fifth persecution . † St. Perpetua—Martyrs of Lyons.
		THIRD CENTURY
235		Sixth persecution †. chiefly Popes and clergy.
249		Seventh persecution †. Great multitudes.
277		Eighth persecution † SS. Cyprian, Sixtus, Lawrence.
274		Ninth persecution †. St. Dionysius of Paris—Theban Legion—St. Sebastian.
		FOURTH CENTURY
303		Tenth persecution †. St. Agnes—St. Alban.
312		Triumph of Christianity through accession of Constantine.
325		First General Council—Nicaea—Arian heresy.
363		Death of Julian the Apostate.
373		† St. Athanasius,
381		Second General Council—First Constantinople—Macedonian heresy.
397		† St. Ambrose.
		FIFTH CENTURY
407		† St. John Chrysostom.
410		Rome taken by Alaric the Visigoth.
420		† St. Jerome, translator of Bible.
430		† St. Augustine of Hippo.
431		Third General Council—Ephesus—Nestorian heresy.
432		St. Patrick in Ireland.
449		Saxons land in Britain.
451		Fourth General Council—Chalcedon—Eutychian heresy.
451		Attila, the Hun, threatens Rome.
455		Genseric the Vandal plunders Rome.
496		Fall of west Roman Empire under Romulus Augustulus.
496		Baptism of Clovis, King of the Franks.