Timeline Of History, In Brief
Bodie Hodge, M.Sc., B.Sc., PEI
Biblical Authority Ministries, August 8, 2022
This timeline is abased on the work of Archbishop James Ussher as well as other historical sources.
4004
B.C. Creation
- Day 1 Heavens, Earth, Water,
Light
- Day 3 Dry Land and Plants
- Day 4 Sun, Moon and Stars
- Day 5 Flying (Winged) and Sea
Creatures
- Day 6 Land Animals and Man
- Day 7 God rests and sanctifies
that day [as a model for us (Exodus 20:11)]
4004
Adam and Eve in the Garden
~Day 10
The Fall with the Serpent and Adam and Eve eating (Per Ussher)
~Day 10 Death and suffering enter the
creation, clothing the need for a Savior, the first sacrifice (Per Ussher)
Cain
kills Abel because he mimicked the first sacrifice (fat portions) and Cain only
brought first fruits. Cain banished to the land of wandering (Nod) and takes
his wife (his sister)
3874
Seth is born and other sons and daughters
Musical
instruments invented (Genesis 4:21)
Bronze
and iron working begins (Genesis 4:22)
3017 Enoch is taken to heaven without death.
2948
Noah was born
Over
2000 years of history: Lineage from Adam to Noah:
Adam-Seth-Enosh-Cainan-Mahalalel-Jared-Enoch-Methuselah-Lamech-Noah FLOOD –
Shem to Jacob (Israel)
2448
Japheth is born – Noah’s first son when he is 500 years old which is 100 years
before the Flood
2446
Shem is born to Noah
Ham is born
2349
Flood Animals on – Noah and his family 8 in all get on the Ark
2348
End of the Flood, Animals came off and begin filling the earth
Noah’s
family living in tents
2242
Tower of Babel incident where languages were
confused because people refused to heed God’s command to fill the earth
2234
Nimrod founds the first post-Babel, Babylonian Empire (Per Ussher)
2188
Mizraim founds of Egypt
2089
Javan founds of Greece
- Germany, Scytha, China, India,
and other civilizations began forming as well – people migrating around
the world
Ice Age had been triggered
by the Flood and peaking about 500 years after the Flood then going back down
1998 Noah dies
1996
Abraham is born to Terah
1922
Call of Abraham
The
first recorded war [Genesis 14:1-2 And it came to pass in the days of Amraphel
king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal
king of nations that
they made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of
Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (that is, Zoar).] Abraham
was forced to get involved to save Lot who was
captured. Abraham won the war (Genesis 14:14-17). Although Nimrod’s exploits
pre-dated this but not specifically denoted
1896
Isaac is born to Abraham
1846 Shem, Noah son dies
1836
Jacob (renamed Israel) was
born to Isaac and his twin Esau (Edom)
12 sons
of Jacob (Israel)
1. Reuben (Leah)
2. Simeon (Leah)
3. Levi (Leah)
4. Judah (Leah)
5. Issachar (Leah)
6. Zebulun (Leah)
7. Joseph
(Rachel)
8. Benjamin
(Rachel)
9. Dan (Rachel’s
Maidservant Bilhah)
10. Naphtali (Rachel’s
Maidservant Bilhah)
11. Gad (Leah’s
Maidservant Zilpah)
12. Asher (Leah’s
Maidservant Zilpah)
1707
Joseph in Egypt sold as a slave and then rises to power and Jacob and Joseph’s
brothers come to seek help from Egypt, where the Israelites were in Egypt for 7 years of famine
1635
Joseph dies book of Genesis comes to an end
Between 1635 and 1571 Ussher places Job; I (Bodie Hodge) leaves this open but also leaves open the time of the Judges based on internal clues in the book of Job itself (see Bodie Hodge Tower of Babel, Master Books, Green Forest AK appendix pp. 253-263.)
1571
Moses Born
1491
The 10 Plagues of Egypt with Moses and Aaron leading the cause of God to free
the enslaved Israelites – the first Passover
1491
Parting of the Red Sea and The 10 Commandments at Mt Sinai
40 years of wandering in the desert
1452
Israelites, led by Joshua, enter the Promised Land
Inheritance in the Promised Land as follows:
1. Reuben
(Leah)
2. Simeon
(Leah)
3. Levi (Leah) Spiritual Inheritance
4. Judah
(Leah)
5. Issachar
(Leah)
6. Zebulun
(Leah)
7. Joseph (Rachel) Split into two inheritances
8. Benjamin
(Rachel)
9. Dan
(Rachel’s Maidservant Bilhah)
10. Naphtali
(Rachel’s Maidservant Bilhah)
11. Gad
(Leah’s Maidservant Zilpah)
12. Asher
(Leah’s Maidservant Zilpah)
Because of the Levites receiving a spiritual
inheritance as priests one of Joseph’s sons received an inheritance in place of
Levi while the other son retained the place of Joseph:
13.
Ephraim (son of Joseph)
14. Manasseh
(son of Joseph)
1451
Jericho falls
~1413
(death of Joshua) to ~1100, the Judges were:
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1
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The
Lord God is the Ultimate Judge
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2
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Moses
(Note: Moses and Joshua were really the
first judges)
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3
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Joshua
[as Moses successor] (Note: Moses and
Joshua were really the first judges)
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4
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Othniel
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5
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Ehud
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6
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Shamgar
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7
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Deborah
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8
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Barak
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9
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Gideon
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10
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Abimelech
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11
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Tola
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12
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Jair
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13
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Jephthah
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14
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Ibzan
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15
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Elon
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16
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Abdon
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17
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Samson
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18
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Eli
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19
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Samuel
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20
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Joel
and Abijah, These sons of Samuel did evil and so the Israelites rejected them and subsequently God as their king
and asked for a human king and God granted them Saul
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1095
Saul becomes King
David kills goliath
1048
David becomes King, many psalms were written
1015
Solomon becomes King and builds the Temple
of God
975
Israel is divided into two
nations, North and South: Israel
and Judah
Kings
of Israel
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1
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Jeroboam
I
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2
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Nadab
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3
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Baasha
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4
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Elah
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5
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Zimri
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6
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Omri
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7
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Ahab
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8
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Ahaziah
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9
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Jehoram
(Variant: Joram)
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10
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Jehu
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11
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Jehoahaz
(Variant: Joahaz)
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12
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Jehoash
(Variant: Joash)
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13
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Jeroboam Il
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14
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Zechariah
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15
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Shallum
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16
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Menahem
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17
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Pekahiah
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18
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Pekah
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19
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Hoshea
(Variant: Hosea), Sargon II’s Assyrian Empire conquers them
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Kings
of Judah
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1
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Rehoboam,
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2
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Abijah
(Variants: Abia and Abijam)
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3
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Asa
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4
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Jehoshaphat
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5
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Jehoram
(Variant: Joram)
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6
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Ahaziah
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7
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Athaliah
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8
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Joash
(Variant: Jehoash)
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9
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Amaziah
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10
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Uzziah
(or Azariah)
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11
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Jotham
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12
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Ahaz
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13
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Hezekiah
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14
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Manasseh
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15
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Amon
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16
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Josiah
(Variant: Josias)
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17
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Jehoahaz
(Variant: Joahaz)
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18
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Jehoiakim
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19
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Jehoiachin
(Variants: Jeconiah and Jechoniah)
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20
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Zedekiah,
Nebuchadnezzar’s Babylonian Empire conquers them
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~889
Elijah and the fiery chariot and dealing with the false prophets of Baal
808
Jonah was swallowed by a great fish because he refused to go to Nineveh
776
The first Olympics were held
~759
– ~698 Isaiah, prophecies about a virgin
birth
748
Rome is founded by Romulus
721
Captivity for the Northern Kingdom Israel
to Assyria
~629
– ~588 Jeremiah, thrown into a well
607
Captivity for the Southern Kingdom to Babylon
~607
– ~534 Daniel and also Shadrach, Meshach, and Abednego in the fiery furnace
538
God writes on the wall and Belshazzar, king of Babylon dies, ending the Babylonian
Empire. Darius, the Mede takes over and
appoints Daniel to second in command. Daniel is thrown into the lion’s den as
well.
510
Esther saves the Israelites
467–
~442 Nehemiah and Ezra – Permission to resettle and rebuild the Jewish religion
and State, Nehemiah is permitted to rebuilt the wall at Jerusalem
447
The Parthenon is built in Greece
397
Last Prophet until Christ: Malachi
400
years of silence from God, e.g., no prophets, thus no Scripture
Solon taught Socrates who taught Plato who taught
Aristotle who taught Alexander the Great
356
Alexander the Great is born
348
Plato died
341
Epicurus is born and founds the first major evolutionary philosophy. Paul later
argues against this when debating with the Epicureans (Acts 17:18)
331
Greece
through Alexander the Great conquers most of the known world, Greek is a common
language – the New Testament is written in Greek as a result
323
Alexander the Great died in Babylon
263
Rome and Carthage
begin fighting, the First Punic War
218
the Second Punic War between Rome and Carthage
166-161
the Israelites fight against the Greeks, who had conquered them and finally
make a truce with Rome against Greece
149-146
Third Punic War, Carthage
was demolished
146
Roman Empire conquers the whole of Greece
88
Anna, the prophetess’s husband died and she remained at the Temple in prayer and fasting waiting for 84
years until she saw Christ presented at the Temple
55
Julius Caesar invades England
– Latin begins to become a dominant language in Europe
48
Julius Caesar keeps the power given to him from the Senate of Roman as becomes
the first unofficial emperor of Rome (hence the name Caesar, Tsar, Kaisar, and
so on given as a title for many kings to follow from Rome to Russia)
44 Julius Caesar was murdered on the Ides of
March (March 15), Augustus Caesar takes power over Rome
40
Herod the Great is set up as king under Caesar over the Israelites
19
Herod begins expanding the Temple in Jerusalem
5
B.C. John the Baptist is born
4
B.C. Mary is visited by Gabriel, Jesus is born; Magi visit, Mary Joseph and
Jesus flee to Egypt to
escape Herod’s wrath against little boys in and around Bethlehem
4-3 B.C. Herod the Great gets sick and dies and his son Herod Antipas takes over
and rules Galilee throughout the duration of Jesus’ earthly life, under the
Roman authorities of course until 39 A.D.
----------BC (Before
Christ) to AD (Anno Domini, meaning: in the day of our Lord in Latin) ---
9
A.D. Jesus as a young boy in the Temple
~26
A.D. John baptizes Jesus
~27
Satan tempts Jesus 3 times and Jesus countered with the Word of God 3 times
~30
Jesus turns water into wine at a wedding reception at Cana
Jesus
begins his ministry; heals and raises people from the dead
33
Jesus raised Lazarus from the dead
33
Last Supper
33
Betrayed in Jerusalem
by Judas
33
Crucifixion of Christ
33
Resurrection of Christ
33
Apostles begin preaching Christ
Apostles
1.
Simon Peter
2. Andrew (Peter’s brother)
3. James the son of Zebedee
4. John son of Zebedee and brother of
James
5. Philip
6. Bartholomew
7. Thomas
8. Matthew the tax collector
9. James the son of Alphaeus
10. Lebbaeus Thaddaeus
11. Simon the Canaanite
12. Judas Iscariot, who forfeited his
right as an Apostle
13.
Matthias (Acts 1:20-26) Replaced Judas
14.
Paul (2 Corinthians 11:5, 2 Corinthians 12:11, etc.)
15.
Barnabas (Acts 14:14)
16.
James the brother of Jesus (Galatians 1:19)
17.
Jesus is THE Apostle (Hebrews 3:1)
33
The martyrdom of Stephen
35
Call of Paul on the Damascus Road
- Paul’s missionary journeys begin—Paul’s
very first missionary journey
often goes neglected to Arabia (Galatians 1:17 and much of the book of Galatians
outlines the distinctions between the descendants of Sarah and Hagar).
Many Arabs are the descendants of Ishmael, the son of Abraham with Hagar. Then Paul goes to Jerusalem and then to Syria and Cilicia (Galatians 1:18-21)
60
St. Andrew was crucified on and X shaped cross, hence the Saltire cross of Andrew
66-70
Jewish revolt against Rome
67
Peter and Paul executed, Paul beheaded and Peter crucified upside down, hence the
Petrine cross)
- New Testament is completed in the
First Century, to cap the authoritative 66 Books of the Bible (i.e., the canon).
They were written or affirmed by the authority of the Apostles as imposed
on the church
70
Destruction of the Temple and Jerusalem
Church
fathers Clement (who learned from Paul), Ignatius and Polycarp (who learned
from John) and other continue to preach and spread the good news of Jesus
Christ
~108
Ignatius, disciple of John, was killed by beasts in Rome at the Coliseum. He was Bishop of Antioch
155
Polycarp died. He was also a disciple of John and was a bishop of Smyrna and was stabbed
and burnt at the stake
155
Justin Martyr famous church leader
70-300
Roman oppression against Christians, but Christianity continues to spread
306
Constantine become the first Christian Emperor
and moves the capital from Rome to Constantinople
(Byzantium); Harsh Christian persecution ends in
the Roman Empire
325
Council of Nicaea
and affirms the biblical view of the trinity, the Nicene Creed came out of this
council
350
Angles (from South Denmark), Jutes (from Jutland or northern Denmark) and Saxons (from Germany just below Denmark)
together known as Anglo-Saxons began their conquest into Britain but are
fought back by the Romans at first
354
Augustine – famous church leader and Bishop (minister/pastor) of Hippo was born
395
The Roman Empire splits into two East and
West. The Eastern Empire remains as the Byzantine Empire
until 1453. The Western Empire or the remnant
of the Romans Empire falls in 476 to Germanic peoples (Visigoths)
Next few hundred years, German peoples continued to settle in the Western
portions of Europe
404
Jerome translates the Bible into Latin
410
Romans leave British Isles
~450-550
Anglo-Saxons settle much of Britain
451 Oriental Church Split
570
Muhammad is born and founds Islam and later begins to conquer larges stretches
of the Middle East and bring them under Islam by force, destroys Bibles
613-614
Damascus, Antioch,
and Jerusalem
conquered by Islamic forces
711
Moorish Islamic forces invade Spain
and Portugal
and conquer them
732
Charles Martel defeats Islamic forces as they try to invade the whole of Europe
793
Vikings begin their raid throughout Europe
(for the next few centuries)
843
(846 and 849) Islamic forces invade Italy
but fail to take to Rome
874 Iceland first Settled by Ingolfur Arnarson
902
Muslims conquer Sicily
916
Greek and German forces stop the spread of Islamic forces in Italy
920
Islamic Forces cross the Pyrenees mountains to invade France
939
For the next couple hundred years Islamic forces and Christian forces go back
and forth in various places throughout southern Europe from France and Span to Italy
and Sicily and the Middle
East
~1021 Viking settle in North America
1054
For centuries, there has been a growing split in the churches in the East and
West over the filoque clause. In 1054, they officially part ways Orthodox in the East and Roman in the
West…with many others in between!
1066
William the Conqueror (of Normandy (Northern
France) defeats England.
The English language begins mixing from a German-based language to a French
(and therefore a Latin-based language)
1071
Islamic Forces begin conquering the Byzantine Empire
1097
The First Crusade was to remove Islamic forces from Europe and free the Holy Land. Fighting between Islam and Christianity for
the Holy Land and other areas at their borders
goes back and forth until 1396
1206
Genghis Khan conquers a huge portion of Asia and Europe
for the Mongolian Empire the empire lasts until 1370, but peaked in size around
1279
1255
Thomas Aquinas famous Christian philosopher
1337
– 1453 The Hundred Years War over the French throne between competing houses
from England
and France, who both claimed the royal title. The French house of Valois finally wins
1348
– 1351 Bubonic (Black) plague wipes out 1/3 of Europe’s
population
1382
John Wycliffe translates the Bible from Latin into English
1440
Johannes Gutenburg invents the printing press, the Bible is the first book
printed en mass
1451
Christopher Columbus is born
1457
Bartolomeu Dias, a Portuguese sailor was born and later in life was the first
European to map a course sailing south around Africa
1492
The last of Islamic forces are removed from Spain;
Columbus rediscovers America and popularizes the “new
world” to Europeans
Age
of Discovery begins with Spain,
Portugal,
England, Netherlands, France and others colonizing and mapping out the coastlines of various
parts of the world
1509
John Calvin, a French theologian was born. He is best-known for his
commentaries on the Bible and the development of a system of theology known as
Calvinism. Though, he was instrumental
in the reformation
1516
Erasmus publishes The New Testament in Greek from various incomplete copies he put
together
1517
Martin Luther triggers the Reformation a multitude of protestant denominations ultimately
result
1519-1522
Portuguese sailor Ferdinand Magellan tried to sail around the world, he died on
the trip but his 22 of his men completed the journey – so Magellan gets the
credit
1525
William Tyndale translates the New Testament into English and is burnt at the
stake for it
1526
Francisco Pizarro and Diego de Almagro
make the first contact with the Incas
1528
Incan Civil war begins between two brothers (Atahualpa and Huascar) for control
By
1533 Pizarro and precious few Spanish were able to conquer the Incan Empire but
there was still aftermath fighting until 1572
1558
Queen Elizabeth I is born, she ascends to the
throne of England and Ireland in 1558
1560
Geneva Bible
Published
1560
Jacobus Arminius was a professor of theology and his views of theology were at
odds with at least three point of Calvinism. This spawns the Articles of
Remonstrance, which outline the views of Arminians. Calvinists then responded
with a written response detailing the 5 Points of Calvinism or TULIP. To this
day, denominations are split over these two systems
1564
William Shakespeare is born and died in 1616
1564
Creationist Galileo Galilei was born. He later argued that the earth revolved
around the sun, dispelling the Greek myth that the sun went around the earth.
Sadly, he had to argue against some in the Catholic Church who bought into the
Greek idea
1571
Henry Ainsworth became a scholar well-versed in Hebrew and commented on a
number of books of the Bible, particularly the books of Moses. His commentary on Genesis is still a valued
resource to modern readers
1571
Johannes Kepler, a creationist, is born. He goes on to formulates the laws of
planetary motion
1581
Archbishop James Ussher was born and later published the book The Annals of the
World, which gives the history of the world from creation to 70 A.D., in
immense detail and calculation (many of his dates are in this timeline). His life’s work was published the same year he
died, 1656
1588
The Spanish Armada (22 warships and 108 converted merchant vessels) came
against England and was
decisively defeated, only 50 vessels made it back to Spain
1611
King James Version Published
1607
The first permanent English colony established in the Jamestown, Virginia
1627
Creationist Robert Boyle was born in Ireland and was a well-known
scientist in chemistry, physics and theology. He is most-known for Boyle’s Law
1628
Bedford, England resident, John Bunyan, was
born and was famous for writing the second most sold book in history: The
Pilgrim’s Progress (second to the Bible that is)
1642
Galileo, a Christian, argued that the earth moved around the sun
1643
Creationist Isaac Newton is born, arguably the greatest scientist who ever
lived. His mark can be heavily felt in many fields of science from gravitation
to laws of motion to mathematics such as calculus. He affirmed Archbishop James
Ussher’s chronology of earth history
1644
Though a Christian, René Descartes, a philosopher, declares that man determines
truth, apart from God when he said: “I think therefore, I am.” It opposes God’s
statement “I AM that I AM.”
1646
The Westminster
Confession of Faith was drawn up by reformers
1656
Archbishop Ussher’s book the Annals of
the World have a detail account of historical dates to arrive at 4004 BC as
the creation of the World
1662
Presbyterian minister Matthew Henry was born and is well known for his
commentary on the Bible Exposition of the Old and New Testaments (from 1708–1710)
1664
Rene Descartes states in his book Principles of Philosophy “I think therefore I am” which subtly
excludes God as being the “I AM” (Exodus 3:14)
1697 John Gill was born. He was a leading Baptist theologian and scholar of Greek
and Hebrew and produced a long standing
and well-respected commentary of the Bible (Exposition of the Old and
New Testaments from 1746-1763) still used today
1703
John Wesley was born Founders of the Methodist movement and known for his open
air-preaching
1714
Anglican minister George Whitfield was born and was later famous for preaching
that spurred on the Great Awakening to Christianity
1727
Arguably the greatest scientist who ever lived, creationist Isaac Newton, died.
He co-developed calculus, described gravity, laws of motion, invented a
reflecting telescope, and many other things
1728
Captain James Cook, and English sailor in the Royal Navy, was the first to map Newfoundland and the first to sail around New Zealand. He
also was the first European contact with Australia’s
east coast and explored the Great Barrier Reef and he even sailed to the Hawaiian Islands
1730-1760
The Great Awakening Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield that swept across
the American colonies to become very Christian
1732
George Washington was born
1769
Napoleon Bonaparte was born. He was a military and political leader of France that led the Empire of France into a
number of wars, conquering most of Europe, finally being pushed back by Russia and removed from power and banished to
the island of Elba
but later returning to power, he was again defeated at Waterloo. And again he was banished, but to
the island of Saint Helena where he later died
1776
United States of America
become independent
1779
Comte de Buffon estimates the age of the earth at 78 thousand years
1788
Australia
is colonized by the British
1789
George Washington is elected as the first
president of the United
States under the Constitution
1789
French Revolution which marked the end of the monarchy and Napoleon took power
1791
Creationist Michael Faraday is born and is best-known for his work on
electromagnetism – though his influence is science is great all-round
1795
Geological evolution introduced by James Hutton in his book The Theory of the Earth where he argues
that only natural process that we observe
today can be used to evaluate earth’s past (in other words, leave the Bible
out of it)
1796
Pierre-Simon Laplace declares the universe to be ancient with countless ages,
he too was leaving the Bible out of it
1796-1809
Erasmus Darwin and Jean-Baptiste Lamarck write books resurrecting biological
evolution (first proposed by Epicurus), but they do it by “acquired
characteristics”
1804
Thomas Chalmers, a Scottish theologian who was trying to deal with longs ages
from a naturalistic worldview, popularized “gap theory” where he put vast ages
between Genesis 1:1 and 1:2 to mix a secular worldview with the Bible
1819
Queen Victoria is born; she ascends to the
throne of the United Kingdom of Great Britain and Ireland in 1837-1901
1822
Mexico
gained their independence
1822
Creationist Louis Pasteur is born in France. He was a leader in
microbiology and “pasteurization” still reflects his name. He opposed evolution
which Charles Darwin later popularized
1830-1833
Charles Lyell (Lawyer turned geologist) rejects the global Flood in favor of
the rock layers being evidence of slow gradual change over millions of years
(in his book Principles of geology). The idea of millions of years then spread
throughout the Western World
1836
Texas gains it independence from Mexico, Battle of
the Alamo
1842,
After the Opium wars between China and Britain, Hong Kong became part of
British territory – the Japanese took control of the city during WWII from
1941-1945
1845
Texas joined the United States as the 28th
state
1854
Christian Hugh Miller, also trying to deal with naturalistic long ages,
proposes day-age views where the days in Genesis 1 are stretched out to be
millions of years
1859
On the Origin of Species by Means of
Natural Selection for the Preservation of Favoured Races is released by Charles
Darwin, building on Lyell’s and Hutton’s long ages, now introduces a mechanism
for biological evolution of animals
1860
Republican Abraham Lincoln wins the presidency of the United States
1861-1865 US Civil War; slavery finally abolished in the United States with the
13th Amendment
1866
Gregor Mendel, a creationist, develops the field of genetics during his
research on pea plants
1870-1880
Many Universities that were once Christian such as Harvard, Yale, and so on
switched to secular universities due to influence of naturalism, especially
millions of years, throughout the 1870s
1870-1871
Franco-Prussian War (or Franco-German War)
1871
Charles Darwin published the Descent of Man where he argues for human evolution
specifically
1877
Thomas Edison invents the phonograph to record messages on a foil cylinder and
could play it back. This became essential for communications
1879
Thomas Edison developed a practical incandescent light bulb
1879
Albert Einstein was born in Germany and was later known for a number of
concepts in physics but is best known for general and special relativity as
well as the famous equation E=mc2
1882
President Franklin Delano Roosevelt was born. Trying to keep the US neutral, he finally led the US into WWII after the bombing of Pearl Harbor. He died just prior to the end of the War.
He was longest reigning President being elected to 4 (four-year) terms. After
this, a law was passed that a president could only serve 2 terms
1892
Charles Spurgeon, British Baptist preacher, known as the “Prince of Preachers”
died. His published sermons still reach thousands today
1894
– 1895 The First Sino-Japanese War between China
and Japan over Korea
1895 Cornelius Van Til born, a brilliant Christian philosopher
1901
Australia
becomes an independent Commonwealth
1902 Air conditioning invented (greatest invention ever!) by Willis Carrier
1903
The Wright brothers (Orville and Wilbur) are the first to fly a powered airplane
1904-1905
Russo-Japanese war between Russian and Japan
over Manchuria and Korea
1914 Expansion of Pan-Germanism born out of Darwinism finally ignited World War I with the "shot heard around the world", it was primarily the Central Powers (Germany,
Hungary, Ottoman Empire (Turkey), and Bulgaria)
against the Allied Powers (United Kingdom,
France, and Russia).
Russia bowed out during
their civil war in 1818 and made peace with Germany. The US entered the War on the side of the Allies in
1917 and host of other nations also sided with the Allies such as Italy and Japan
1918
Russian revolution with Communism taking over under Lenin
1918 Billy Graham born
1919
Treaty of Versailles – the end of WWI
1919-1921 The British Empire (United Kingdom) reached its peak size with over 1/4 of the world's area
1925
John T. Scopes trial takes place in Dayton, Tennessee over the teaching of
human evolution in state schools and publicly mocks Christianity and begins a
trend to remove God, the Bible, and Christianity from public life in America,
even though the Christians won the case. Christianity was replaced by secular
humanism, the reigning state religion even up to today
1937
The Great Depression; Stock market crashed and people were struggling to get
any food and money
1937
Japan’s aggression in China basically
began WWII in the East, often dubbed the Second Sino-Japanese War
1939
World War II due to Hitler’s and the Nazi’s rise to power in Germany and his
aggressions to conquer Europe; Holocaust begins then ends in 1945
1939
The first manufactured jet, Heinkel He 178, took flight by Erich Warsitz in Germany
1941
Pearl Harbor in Hawaii was attacked by the
Japanese forces to pull the US
into WWII
1945
Allied forces which were largely dominated by the UK,
US, and Russia defeated Nazi
Germany, Italy,
and Japan; Germany is split into Communist East Germany and Democratic West
Germany
1945
The first Atomic Bomb was detonated at Hiroshima,
Japan and
helped trigger the end of WWII
1947
President Harry Truman declared the US was a Christian Nation
1948
Israel becomes a nation; Greg Bahnsen, pastor and philosopher was born and later earned the title "the man most feared by atheists" after the Great Debate with Gordon Stein
1948
The discovery of the Dead Sea Scrolls
1949
Communist revolution in China
ends with Communism and the PRC (Peoples
Republic of China)
1950
The Korean War begins and lasts until 1953 with an armistice between the
communist North Korea and democratic South Korea. The North being helped by China and the Soviet Union
and the South being helped by the United Nations the nation remains split into
two up until today
1951 Ken Ham was born in Australia
1959-1975
The Vietnamese conflict, an unofficial war that has roots back to WWII with the
Vietnamese, Japanese, French, Chinese, Soviets, and the US over French control,
communist control, or democratic control. It is arguably one of the most
unusual and complex conflicts post-WWII
1961
First man in space Yuri Gagarin
1962
Prayer was removed from state schools in the US
1962
First American in space John Glenn
1962
Henry Morris and John Whitcomb publish The Genesis Flood to get Christians back
to the authority of the Bible by challenging to now popular idea of million of
years
1963
The Bible was removed from state schools in the US
1963
President John F. Kennedy is assassinated in Dallas, Texas
1968
Baptist minister Martin Luther King Jr., civil right leader, was assassinated
1969 First moon landing by Apollo astronauts with Neil Armstrong and Edwin Eugene “Buzz”
Aldrin, Jr.
1974 Bodie Hodge was born
1977
The Apple II was the first successful personal computer readily available to
the public. It was produced by Apple
Computer, (now Apple, Inc.)
1977
Elvis Presley, American musician and actor died
1978
The first solar powered calculator, the Chicago Statement of Inerrancy was
drawn up and signed by a number of evangelicals and its sister statement on Hermeneutics
(interpretation) was also written but sadly, it did not take a stand on Genesis,
particularly a global Flood, and many refused to sign it because it allows compromise
between the Bible and the religion of Secular Humanism
1980
Mt St. Helens erupts in Washington
State, it did again in
1982
1982
Canada gains full
independence from the United
Kingdom
1983
Microsoft Windows was first released
1986
Australia became fully
separated from the United
Kingdom gaining full independence
1986
Space Shuttle Challenger explodes
after take-off killing all 7 on board
1987
Creation was removed from state schools in the US
1989-1991
The Iron Curtain of communism comes down – the Soviet Union dissolves into
multiple countries, Russia
being at the forefront
1990
Germany
is reunited
1990
Hubble Telescope was launched into space
1992
European Union forms
1997
Hong Kong returns to China
from Britain
1998
The International Space Station begin construction
1999
Columbine High School is the site of one of the
first major school schoolings
2000
Teachers are forced to teach evolution and not question it or they can be
fired, Rodney LeVake was fired for questioning evolution in the classroom, the
Supreme Court refused to hear the appeal
2001
“9-11” or the September 11 terrorist attacks on the World
Trade Center
in New York
2003
Space Shuttle Columbia
disintegrates over Texas
on reentry, killing all 7 aboard
2003
The Human genome was successfully mapped
2004
Tsunami levels coasts and kills around 230,000 people. It was triggered by an
earthquake in the Indian Ocean
2005
The Ten Commandments are to be
removed from public buildings in the US
2005
Hurricane Katrina, a Category 3, devastates the Gulf Coast
2007
Creation Museum opens
2010
President Barrack Obama declares the US is no longer a Christian Nation
2016
The Ark Encounter Opens
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