Significant Events

Question 1

4 or 5 BC

Answer 1

The year Jesus was born

Question 2

AD 64

Answer 2

Burning of the city of Rome, intense persecution under Ceaser Nero; the first of the Ten Great Persecutions

Question 3

AD 70

Answer 3

The fall of the city of Jerusalem, conquered by the Roman army under Emporer Vespasian, and led by his son Titus, and the destruction of the temple.

Question 4

c. AD 150-225

Answer 4

Tertullian

1. Trinatas - Invented the Latin term Trinitas (Trinity)
2. New Testament - One of the first to use the term the New Testament.
3. Infant baptism - He was against infant baptism

Question 5

AD 313

Answer 5

Edict of Milan by Constantine
He and Licinius gave religious tolerance anad freedom to all, including Christians. This started the union of the church and the state/world (Pergamos). Donatists were followers of Donatus, and their opposing party, appealed to Constantine to decide who the rightful Bishop of Carthage was. The decision was against Donatus, and hence, Donatists became separatists.

Question 6

AD 397

Answer 6

Council of Carthage

All 27 books of the New Testament were accepted as canonical

Question 7

AD 476

Answer 7

Western Roman Empire ended
The beginning of the Middle Ages (Medieval Church) or the Dark Ages. Odovacar was elected king of the Germanic tribes in Italy, and promptly deposed Romulus Augustulus, the last Emporer of the West.

Question 8

AD 590

Answer 8

Gregory I (the Great) became Pope
The Papal system of the Roman Catholic Church (Thyatira) was established.

Question 9

AD 622

Answer 9

The birth of Islam - Dated from Mohammad’s flight to Medina.

Question 10

AD 1054

Answer 10

The Great Schism

Question 11

AD 1095

Answer 11

The first Crusade

Question 12

AD 1229

Answer 12

Council of Toulouse

The Bible was forbidden to laity, except for the singing of the Latin Psalter.

Question 13

AD 1453

Answer 13

The fall of Constantinople - captured by Muslim Turks, and hence the end of the Eastern Roman Empire (Byzantine Empire) - The end of the Middle Ages, and continuation of the Renaissance which had begun in the 14th century.

Question 14

AD 1456

Answer 14

Johann Gutenberg of Germany, printed the Latin Vulgate, the first Bible printed from moveable type, making it cheaper and more accessable.

Question 15

AD 1492

Answer 15

Christopher Columbus discovered the New World

Question 16

AD 1494-1536

Answer 16

William Tyndale
Translated the New Testament from Greek to English. He only translated part of the Old Testament as he was burned at the stake before he was able to complete the translation.

Question 17

AD 1517

Answer 17

Martin Luther (1483-1546), he nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg on 31st October. This was the beginning of the Reformation (Sardis). Luther recovered the truth regarding salvation by faith alone and the open Bible.

Question 18

AD 1522

Answer 18

The Anabaptists began in Switzerland.

Question 19

AD 1529

Answer 19

Diet of Spires - The Reformation party presented their protest. Hence, the term Protestant

Question 20

AD 1531

Answer 20

Anglicanism - Henry VIII took steps to break with the Roman Catholic Church, resulting in a definite break in 1534 - the beginning of Anglicanism

Question 21

AD 1611

Answer 21

King James I of England (James VI of Scotland), by his order, an Authorised Version also known as the King James Version was published

Question 22

1348-1351

Answer 22

The Black Death (Bubonic Plague) killed 40 million people, about 1/3 of the population of Europe

Question 23

1642-1727

Answer 23

Sir Isaac Newton

Question 24

1648-1717

Answer 24

Madame Guyon - French Mystic. Mysticism could be traced generally from the 17th century.

Question 25

1700-1760

Answer 25

Nicholas Zinzendorf - Founder of the Moravians (Moravian Brothers).

Question 26

1789-1793

Answer 26

The French Revolution

Question 27

1792

Answer 27

Evangelicals - The Baptist Missionary Society (initially called the Particular Baptist Society for the Propagation of the Gospel) was formed, the beginning of the modern mission, hence the beginning of the Evangelicals. William Carey became the first of the new Society's missionaries. He took his wife Dorothy and four children, and sailed on a Danish vessel in June 1793 for India.

Question 28

1826

Answer 28

Bretheren Movement - The beginning of the Bretheren Movement (Philadelphia) in Dublin, Ireland

Question 29

1830

Answer 29

Mormons | Founded in Upstate New York

Question 30

1848

Answer 30

Brethren Division - Open/Exclusive The division among the Brethren Movement into, the Open Brethren (led by George Muller) and Exclusive Brethren (led by J.N. Darby)

Question 31

1859

Answer 31

Darwin published Origin of the Species, and attach from the enemy of God

Question 32

1872

Answer 32

Jehovah’s Witness founded Charles T Russel United States

Question 33

1922

Answer 33

The beginning of the Present Recovery of the Lord (Philadelphia), through Watchman Nee in China

Question 34

1949

Answer 34

The Communists took over mainland China, and Witness Lee was sent by Watchman Nee to Taiwan for the preservation and advance of the Lord's recovery.

Question 35

1962

Answer 35

Witness Lee moved to America thus bringing the recovery to the English-speaking world.

Question 36

1866-1930

Answer 36

M.E. Barber, an Inner Life Christian, she rendered great help and perfection to Watchman Nee.

Question 37

1888-1971

Answer 37

T. Austin Sparks, the last of the Inner Life teachers. He saw the principle of resurrection, and the New Jerusalem as a symbol not as a physical city.

Question 38

1900/1901

Answer 38

Pentecostal Movement - Could be traced back to Charles F. Parham (1873-1929) in Topeka, Kansas, USA. Parham has been called the father of the Pentecostal movement

Question 39

1903-1972

Answer 39

Watchman Nee: A Seer of the Divine Revelation in the Present Age

Question 40

1905-1997

Answer 40

Witness Lee: A Minister of Christ to carry out hte Divine Revelation in the Present Age