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| John Wyclif supervises Bible translation, leaving the first complete English Bible |
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| Constantinople falls to the Turks, ending a millennium of Christianity in the Byzantine Empire |
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| Gutenberg Produces the First Printed Bible |
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| The Spanish Inquisition, under Ferdinand and Isabella, begins against Jews and Moors |
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| Luther Posts the Ninety-five Theses |
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| Ulrich Zwingli is called as priest to Zurich, begins break with Catholic practices |
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| The Anabaptist Movement Begins |
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| Colloquy of Marburg, separation of Lutheran & Reformed churches |
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| Calvin Publishes Institutes of the Christian Religion |
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| Ignatius Loyola receives approval for the Society of Jesus |
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| The Council of Trent Begins |
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| Book of Common Prayer drafted by Thomas Cranmer |
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| Edict of Nantes, officially ends persecution of French Protestants |
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| Separatist John Smyth baptizes himself and other adults, starting modern Baptist denominations |
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| Publication of the King James Bible |
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| Papal Rome forces Galileo to recant his belief in the Copernican theory |
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| George Fox founds Society of Friends (Quakers) |
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| Jakob Philipp Spener’s Pia Desideria launches Pietist movement |
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| Jailed Baptist preacher John Bunyan writes Pilgrim’s Progress |
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| Isaac Watt’s Hymns & Spiritual Songs transforms worship singing |
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| First Moravian missionaries launch modern missionary movement |
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| John and Charles Wesley Experience Conversions |
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| U. S. Declaration of Independence leads to separation of church & state |
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| The French Revolution leads to de-Christianization of France |
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| William Wilberforce’s efforts lead to abolition of British slave trade |
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| Richard Allen becomes bishop of the African Methodist Episcopal church |
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| John Keble’s sermon launches the Oxford Movement |
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| Charles Finney’s Lectures on Revivals is published |
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| Soren Kierkegaard’s Philosophical Fragments |
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| Phoebe Palmer writes The Way of Holiness |
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| Marx & Engels publish the Communist Manifesto |
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| Charles Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species by Means of Natural Selection |
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| The First Vatican Council declares papal infallibility |
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| Friedrich Nietzsche writes Genealogy of Morals |
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| Sigmund Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams |
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| The Azusa Street Revival begins, spreading Pentecostalism |
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| The Edinburgh Missionary Conference births the modern ecumenical movement |
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| The Fundamentals signals the rise of fundamentalism |
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| Karl Barth’s Commentary on Romans breaks with liberalism for a “neo-orthodoxy” |
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| Rudolf Bultmann calls for demythologization of the New Testament |
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| Dietrich Bonhoeffer’s Letters & Papers from Prison call for costly discipleship in religionless world |
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| The World Council of Churches is constituted |
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| United Methodists grant full ordination to women |
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| The Second Vatican Council |
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| Martin Luther King, Jr., Leads the March on Washington |
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