Timeline of the spread of the Christian Gospel

• c. 29 - Pentecost and birth of the Christian church
• c. 34 - Saint Stephen stoned, church scattered by persecution; Philip, a deacon baptizes a convert, an Ethiopian pilgrim in Gaza.
• c. 39 - Peter preaches to the Gentiles
• c. 48 - Paul (formerly known as Saul of Tarsus) begins his first missionary journey to modern-day Turkey.
• c. 51 - Paul begins his second missionary journey, a trip that will take him through Turkey and on into modern-day Greece.
• c. 52 - Apostle Thomas arrives in India and founds church that subsequently becomes Indian Orthodox Church (and its various descendants).
• c. 54 - Paul begins his third missionary journey
• c. 60 - Paul journeys to Rome.
• c. 180 - Pantaenus preaches in India
• c. 300 - Ulfilas goes to the Goths in present-day Romania
• 328 - Frumentius takes gospel to Ethiopia
• 386 - Augustine of Hippo converted
• 410 - New Testament appears in Armenian language
• 432 - Patrick goes to Ireland as missionary
• 496 - Conversion of Clovis I, king of Franks in Gaul, along with 3,000 warriors
• c. 528 - Benedict of Nursia destroys pagan temple at Monte Cassino (Italy) and builds a monastery
• c. 563 - Columba sails from Ireland to Scotland.
• 596 - Gregory the Great sends Augustine to (what is now) England
• 631 - Conversion of the East Angles
• 635 - First Christian missionaries (Nestorian monks from Asia Minor and Persia) arrive in China; Aidan launches crusade into heart of Northumbria (England)
• 637 - Lombards become Christian
• 692 - Willibrord and 11 companions cross the North Sea to become missionaries to the Frisians (in modern the Netherlands)
• 697 - Muslims overrun Carthage, capital of North Africa
• 722 - Boniface goes to Germanic tribes
• 823 - Ansgar goes to Sweden
• 830 - Scotch-born Erluph, Bishop of Werden is evangelizing in (what is now) Germany when he is killed by the Vandals.
• 869 - Cyril and Methodius go to the Slavs
• 864 - Conversion of Prince Boris of Bulgaria
• 1000 - Leif the Lucky evangelizes Greenland
• 1219 - Francis of Assisi presents the Gospel to the Sultan of Egypt
• 1266 - The Khan sends Marco Polo.s father and uncle, Niccolo and Maffeo Polo, back to Europe with a request to the Pope to send 100 missionaries (only two responded and they turned back before reaching Mongolia)
• 1276 - Ramon Llull opens training center to send missionaries to North Africa
• 1289 - Franciscan friars begin mission work in China
• 1294 - Franciscan John of Monte Corvino goes to China
• 1329 - Nicea falls to Muslim Ottoman Turks
• 1368 - Collapse of the Franciscan mission in China as Ming Dynasty abolishes Christianity
• 1382 - Bible translated into English from Latin
• 1453 - Constantinople falls to the Muslim Ottoman Turks who make it their capital
• 1500 - Franciscans enter Brazil with Cabral
• 1510 - Dominicans begin work in Haiti
• 1526 - Franciscans enter Florida
• 1537 - Pope Paul III orders that the Indians of the New World be brought to Christ "by the preaching of the divine word, and with the example of the good life."
• 1542 - Francis Xavier, having two years previously launched the missionary work of the Society of Jesus, goes to Portuguese colony of Goa in South India; Franciscans reach what is now New Mexico
• 1555 - John Calvin sends Huguenots to Brazil
• 1564 - Legaspi begins Augustinian work in Philippine Islands
• 1577 - Dominicans enter Mozambique and penetrate inland, burning Muslim mosques as they go
• 1582 - Jesuits begin mission work in China, introduce Western science, mathematics, astronomy
• 1597 - Twenty-six Japanese Christians are crucified for their faith by General Toyotomi Hideyoshi in Nagasaki, Japan. By 1640, thousands of Japanese Christians had been martyred.
• 1601 - Matteo Ricci goes to China
• 1605 - Roberto de Nobili goes to India
• 1612 - Jesuits found a mission for the Abenakis in Maine
• 1614 - Anti-Christian edicts issued in Japan
• 1622 - Pope Gregory VI founds the Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith
• 1628 - College of Propaganda established in Rome to train "native clergy" from all over the world
• 1644 - John Eliot begins ministry to Algonquin Indians in North America
• 1649 - Society for the Propagation of the Gospel In New England formed to reach the Indians of New England
• 1651 - Count Truchsess, prominent Lutheran layman, asked the theological faculty of Wittenberg as to why Lutherans were not sending out missionaries in obedience to the Great Commission
• 1658 - Paris Foreign Missions Society established by Jesuit Alexandre de Rhodes
• 1661 - George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers) sends 3 missionaries to China (although they never reached the field)
• 1664 - Justinian Von Welz goes to Dutch Guinea (now called Surinam)
• 1670 - Jesuits establish missions on the Orinoco River in Venezuela
• 1698 - Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge organized by Anglicans
• 1701 - Society for the Propagation of the Gospel in Foreign Parts
• 1705 - Danish-Halle mission to India begins with Bartholomew Ziegenbalg and Henry Plutschau
• 1719 - Isaac Watts writes missionary hymn "Jesus Shall Reign Where'er the Sun"
• 1722 - Hans Egede goes to Greenland
• 1723 - Robert Millar publishes A History of the Propagation of Christianity and the Overthrow of Paganism
• 1732 - Moravians launch missionary outreach in Caribbean
• 1733 - Moravians go to Greenland
• 1735 - John Wesley goes to Indians in Georgia as missionary with the Society for the Propagation of the Gospel
• 1736 - Anti-Christian edicts in China
• 1743 - David Brainerd starts ministry to North American Indians
• 1746 - From Boston, a call is issued to the Christians of the New World to enter into a seven-year "Concert of Prayer" for missionary work
• 1747 - Jonathan Edwards appeals for prayer for world missions; birth of Thomas Coke, the "Father of Methodist Missions"
• 1750 - Jonathan Edwards, preacher of the First Great Awakening, having been banished from his church at Northampton, Massachusetts goes as a missionary to the nearby Housatonic Indians.
• 1750 - Christian Frederic Schwartz goes to India with Danish-Halle Mission
• 1769 - Father Junípero Serra founds Mission San Diego de Alcalá, first of the 21 Alta California missions.
• 1771 - Francis Asbury arrives in America.
• 1776 - The first baptism of an Eskimo by a Lutheran pastor takes place in Labrador.
• 1782 - Freed slave George Lisle goes to Jamaica as missionary
• 1786 - John Marrant, a free black from New York City, preaches to "a great number of Indians and white people" at Green's Harbor, Newfoundland. Marrant's cross-cultural ministry led him to take the Christian gospel to the Cherokee, Creek, Catawar, and Housaw Indians.
• 1792 - William Carey writes Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen and forms the Baptist Missionary Society to support him in establishing missionary work in India.
• 1795 - The London Missionary Society is formed.
• 1797 - London Missionary Society enters Tahiti
• 1799 - The Church Missionary Society (Church of England) is formed; John Vanderkemp, Dutch physician goes to Cape Colony, Africa; Religious Tract Society organized
• 1804 - British and Foreign Bible Society formed; Church Missionary Society enters Sierra Leone
• 1806 - Haystack prayer meeting at Williams College; Henry Martyn lands in Calcutta
• 1807 - First Protestant missionary to China, Robert Morrison, begins work in Canton
• 1809 - National Bible Society of Scotland organized
• 1810 - The American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions is formed.
• 1811 - English Wesleyans enter Sierra Leone
• 1812 - First American foreign missionary, Adoniram Judson, arrives in Serampore and soon goes to Burma
• 1813 - The Methodists form the Wesleyan Missionary Society.
• 1814 - First recorded baptism of a Chinese convert, Cai Gao; American Baptist Foreign Mission Society formed; Netherlands Bible Society founded
• 1815 - American Board of Commissioners open work on Ceylon; Basel Missionary Society organized
• 1816 - Robert Moffat arrives in Africa; American Bible Society founded
• 1817 - James Thompson begins distributing Bibles throughout Latin America
• 1819 - John Scudder, the missionary physician, joins the Ceylon Mission; Wesleyan Methodists start work in Madras, India; Reginald Heber writes words to missionary classic "From Greenland's Icy Mountains"
• 820 - Hiram Bingham goes to Hawaii (Sandwich Islands)
• 1821 - African-American Lott Carey, a Baptist missionary, sails with 28 colleagues from Norfolk, VA to Sierra Leone.
• 1822 - Paris Evangelical Missionary Society established
• 1823 - Scottish Missionary Society workers arrive in Bombay, India
• 1825 - George Boardman goes to Burma
• 1826 - American Bible Society sends first shipment of Bibles to Mexico
• 1828 - Basel Mission begins work at Christiansborg, Accra (Africa); Karl F. A. Gutzlaff of the Netherlands Missionary Society lands in Bangkok, Thailand; Rhenish Missionary Association formed
• 1830 - Alexander Duff arrives in Calcutta; Baptism of Taufa'ahau Tupou, King of Tonga, by a western missionary
• 1831 - American Congregational missionaries arrive in Thailand, withdrawing in 1849 without a single convert
• 1833 - Baptist work in Thailand begins with John Taylor Jones; American Methodist missionary Melville Box arrives in Liberia
• 1834 - American Presbyterian Mission opens work in India in the Punjab
• 1835 - Rhenish Missionary Society begins work among the Dayaks on Borneo (Indonesia)
• 1836 - Plymouth Brethren begin work in Madras, India; George Müller begins his work with orphans in Bristol, England
• 1839 - Entire Bible in Tahiti published
• 1840 - David Livingstone is in present-day Malawi (Africa) with the London Missionary Society; American Presbyterians enter Thailand and labor for 18 years before seeing their first Thai convert
• 1844 - Swiss Johann Krapf begins work on Zanzibar
• 1852 - Zenana (women) and Medical Missionary Fellowship formed in England to send out single women missionaries
• 1853 - Methodist missionary Hudson Taylor leaves for China to found the China Inland Mission
• 1854 - London Missionary Conference; New York Missionary Conference
• 1856 - Presbyterians start work in Colombia with the arrival of Henry Pratt
• 1857 - Bible translated into Tswana language
• 1858 - John G. Paton begins work in New Hebrides; Elizabeth Freeman martyred in India; Basel Evangelical Missionary Society begins work in western Sumatra (Indonesia)
• 1859 - Protestant missionaries arrive in Japan
• 1860 - United Lutheran Church begins work in Liberia; Liverpool Missionary Conference; Cyrus Hamlin establishes Robert College in Constantinople
• 1861 - Sarah Doremus founds the Women's Union Missionary Society; Episcopal Church opens work in Haiti; Rhenish Mission goes to Indonesia under Ludwig Nommensen
• 1862 - Paris Evangelical Missionary Society opens work in Senegal
• 1864 - Baptists enter Argentina
• 1865 - The China Inland Mission is founded by James Hudson Taylor; James Laidlaw Maxwell plants first viable church in Formosa (Taiwan).
• 1867 - Methodists start work in Argentina; Scripture Union established
• 1868 - Robert Bruce goes to Iran
• 1870 - Clara Swain, the very first female missionary medical doctor, arrives at Bareilly, India.
• 1871 - Henry Stanley finds David Livingstone in central Africa; George Leslie Mackay plants church in northern Formosa.
• 1872 - First All-India Missionary Conference with 136 participants
• 1873 - Regions Beyond Missionary Union founded in London in connection with the East London Training Institute for Home and Foreign Missions
• 1876 - Mary Slessor goes to the Calabar region of Nigeria
• 1877 - James Chalmers goes to New Guinea
• 1881 - Methodist work in Lahore, Pakistan starts in the wake of revivals under Bishop William Taylor; North Africa Mission (now Arab World Ministries) founded on work of Edward Glenny in Algeria
• 1882 - A.B. Simpson founds missionary training school in Nyack, New York
• 1883 - Salvation Army enters West Pakistan
• 1885 - Horace Underwood, Presbyterian missionary, and Henry Appenzellar, Methodist missionary, arrive in Korea; Scottish Ion Keith-Falconer goes to Aden on the Arabian peninsula; "Cambridge Seven" (C. T. Studd, M. Beauchamp, W. W. Cassels, D. E. Hoste, S. P. Smith, A. T. Podhill-Turner, C. H. Polhill-Turner) go to China as missionaries.
• 1886 - Student Volunteer Movement launched as 100 university and seminar students at Moody's conference grounds at Mount Hermon, Massachusetts, sign the Princeton Pledge: "I purpose, God willing, to become a foreign missionary."
• 1887 - A.B. Simpson founds the Christian & Missionary Alliance
• 1888 - Jonathan Goforth sails to China; Student Volunteer Movement for Foreign Missions officially organized with John R. Mott as chairman and Robert Wilder as traveling secretary. The movement's motto, coined by Wilder, was: "The evangelization of the world in this generation"; Scripture Gift Mission founded
• 1889 - Samuel Moffett sails from US for Korea, establishes Presbyterian Mission there.
• 1890 - Central American Mission founded by C. I. Scofield, editor of the Scofield Reference Bible; The Scandinavian Alliance (now The Evangelical Alliance Mission) founded; Methodist Charles Gabriel writes missionary song "Send the Light"
• 1891 - Samuel Zwemer goes to Arabia
• 1892 - Redcliffe Missionary Training College founded in Chiswick (London)
• 1893 - Eleanor Chestnut goes to India as Presbyterian medical missionary; Sudan Interior Mission founded
• 1895 - Africa Inland Mission formed by Peter Cameron Scott
• 1897 - Presbyterian Church, U.S.A. begins work in Venezuela
• 1899 - James Rodgers arrives in Philippines with the Presbyterian Mission; Central American Mission enters Guatemala
• 1900 - American Friends open work in Cuba; Ecumenical Missionary Conference in Carnegie Hall, New York (162 mission boards represented); 189 missionaries and their children killed in Boxer rebellion in China
• 1901 - John Diaz goes to Cape Verde Islands; Maude Cary sails for Morocco; Disciples of Christ open work in northern Luzon (Philippines); Oriental Missionary Society founded by Charles Cowman (his wife is the compiler of popular devotional book Streams in the Desert)
• 1902 - Swiss members of Christian Missions in Many Lands enter Laos; California Yearly Meeting of Friends opens work in Guatemala
• 1903 - Church of the Nazarene enters Mexico
• 1906 - The Azusa Street Revivals
• 1906 - The Evangelical Alliance Mission (TEAM) opens work in Venezuela with T. J. Bach and John Christiansen
• 1907 - Harmon Schmelzenbach sails for Africa; Presbyterians and Methodists open Union Theological Seminary in Manila, Philippines; Bolivian Indian Mission founded by George Allen
• 1908 - Gospel Missionary Union opens work in Colombia with Charles Chapman and John Funk
• 1910 - C.T. Studd establishes Heart of Africa Mission (now called Worldwide Evangelization Crusade); Edinburgh Missionary Conference held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, beginning modern ecumenical cooperation in missions
• 1911 - Christian & Missionary Alliance enters Vietnam
• 1912 - Conference of British Missionary Societies formed
• 1917 - Interdenominational Foreign Mission Association (IFMA) founded
• 1920 - Church of the Nazarene enters Syria
• 1921 - Founding of International Missionary Council (IMC); Norwegian Mission Council formed
• 1924 - Bible Churchman's Missionary Society opens work in Upper Burma; Baptist Mid-Missions begins work in Venezuela
• 1927 - Near East Christian Council established
• 1928 - Cuba Bible Institute (West Indies Mission) opens; Jerusalem Conference of IMC
• 1929 - Christian & Missionary Alliance enters East Borneo (Indonesia)
• 1930 - Christian & Missionary Alliance starts work among Baouli tribe in the Côte d'Ivoire
• 1931 - HCJB radio station started in Quito, Ecuador by Clarence Jones; Baptist Mid-Missions enters Liberia
• 1932 - Assemblies of God open work in Colombia; Laymen's Missionary Inquiry
• 1933 - Gladys Aylward (subject of movie "The Inn of the Sixth Happiness") arrives in China
• 1934 - William Cameron Townsend begins the Summer Institute of Linguistics
• 1935 - Dr. Frank C. Laubach, American missionary to the Philippines perfects the "Each one teach one" literacy program, which was used worldwide to teach 60 million people to read in their own language.
• 1938 - West Indies Mission enters Dominican Republic; Church Missionary Society forced out of Egypt; Madras World Missionary Conference held; Dr. Orpha Speicher oversees construction of Reynolds Memorial Hospital in central India
• 1940 - Marianna Slocum begins translation work in Mexico
• 1941 - Joy Ridderhof founds Gospel Recordings
• 1942 - William Cameron Townsend founds Wycliffe Bible Translators; New Tribes mission founded
• 1943 - World Gospel Mission (National Holiness Missionary Society) enters Honduras; 5 missionaries with New Tribes Mission martyred
• 1945 - Mission Aviation Fellowship formed; Far East Broadcasting Company (FEBC) founded; Evangelical Foreign Missions Association formed by denominational mission boards
• 1946 - First Inter-Varsity missionary convention (now called "Urbana"); United Bible Societies formed;
• 1947 - Conservative Baptist Foreign Mission Society begins work among the Senufo people tribe in the Côte d'Ivoire
• 1948 - Alfredo del Rosso merges his Italian Holiness Mission with the Church of the Nazarene, thus opening Nazarene work on the European continent; Don Owens goes to Korea
• 1949 - Southern Baptist Mission opens work in Venezuela
• 1950 - Paul Orjala arrives in Haiti; radio station 4VEH, owned by Oriental Missionary Society, starts broadcasting from near Cap Haitien, Haiti
• 1951 - World Evangelical Fellowship organized; Bill and Vonette Bright create Campus Crusade for Christ at UCLA
• 1952 - Church of the Nazarene enters New Zealand
• 1954 - Mennonite Board of Missions and Charities opens work in Cuba
• 1955 - Donald McGavran publishes Bridges of God; Dutch missionary "Brother Andrew" makes first of many Bible smuggling trips into Communist Eastern Europe
• 1956 -Edward McCully, Peter Fleming, Jim Elliot, Roger Youderian and Nate Saint die in Ecuador at the hands of Auca Indians on the Curaray River; Assemblies of God open work in Senegal
• 1958 - Rochunga Pudaite completes translation of Bible into Hmar language (India)
• 1959 - Radio Lumiere founded in Haiti by West Indies Mission (now World Team)
• c. 1960 - Kenneth Strachan starts Evangelism-in-Depth in Central America
• 1962 - Don Richardson goes to Sawi tribe in Papua New Guinea
• 1963 - Theological Education by Extension movement launched in Guatemala by Ralph Winter and James Emery
• 1964 - In separate incidents rebels in the Congo kill missionaries Paul Carlson and Irene Ferrel as well as brutalizing missionary doctor Helen Roseveare; Carlson is featured on December 4 TIME magazine cover.
• 1966 - Red Guards destroy churches in China; Berlin Congress on Evangelism; Missionaries expelled from Burma; God's Smuggler published
• 1970 - Frankfurt Declaration on Mission
• 1971 - Gustavo Gutierrez publishes A Theology of Liberation
• 1973 - Church of the Nazarene enters Indonesia and Portugal; first All-Asa Mission Consultation convenes in Seoul, Korea with 25 delegates from 14 countries; founding of American Society of Missiology
• 1974 - Ralph Winter talks about "hidden" or unreached peoples at Lausanne Congress of World Evangelism. Lausanne Covenant is written and ratified.
• 1975 - Nazarene missionaries Armand Doll and Hugh Friberg imprisoned in Mozambique
• 1976 - U.S. Center for World Mission founded; 1600 Chinese assemble in Hong Kong for the Chinese Congress on World Evangelization; Islamic World Congress calls for withdrawal of missionaries; Peace Child appears in Reader's Digest.
• 1977 - Evangelical Fellowship of India sponsors the All-India Congress on Mission and Evangelization
• 1979 - Production of JESUS film commissioned by Bill Bright of Campus Crusade for Christ; Mother Teresa awarded Nobel Peace Prize; PIONEERS is founded, the first missionary agency with a sole focus on the "unreached people groups" paradigm
• 1980 - Philippine Congress on Discipling a Whole Nation; LCWE Conference in Pattaya
• 1981 - Colombian terrorists kidnap and kill Wycliffe Bible Translator Chet Bitterman
• 1982 - Third World Theologians Consultation in Seoul; story on "The New Missionary" makes December 27 cover of TIME magazine; Andes Evangelical Mission (formerly Bolivian Indian Mission) merges into SIM (formerly Sudan Interior Mission)
• 1984 - STEM (Short Term Evangelical Mission teams) ministries founded by Roger Petersen
• 1986 - Entire Bible published in Haitian Creole
• 1987 - Second International Conference on Missionary Kids (MKs) held in Quito, Ecuador
• 1988 - Wycliffe Bible Translators complete their 300 New Testament translation (Cotabato Manobo language of the Philippines)
• 1989 - Lausanne II, a world missions conference; 10/40 Window is publicized.
• 1989 - Adventures In Missions (AIM) founded by Seth Barnes
• 1994 - Church of the Nazarene enters Bulgaria
• 1994 - Saint Liibaan of Somalia (Liibaan Ibraahim Hassan) was martyred by Islamic militants in the Somali capital of Mogadishu
• 1995 - Nazarene missionary Don Cox abducted in Quito, Ecuador
• 1999 - Radical Hindus murder veteran Australian missionary Graham Stewart Stains and his two sons as they are sleeping in a car in eastern India.
• 2000 - Unidentified militants detonated two bombs in a Christian church in Dushanbe, Tajikistan, killing seven persons and injuring 70 others. The church was founded by a Korean-born U.S. citizen, and most of those killed and wounded were Korean.
• 2001 - Six masked gunmen shot up a church in Bahawalpur, Pakistan, killing 15 Pakistani Christians.
• 2002 - Militants threw grenades into the Protestant International Church in Islamabad, Pakistan, during a church service. Five persons were killed and 46 were wounded.
• 2004 - Mel Gibson's controversial film The Passion of the Christ is released and becomes one of the biggest hits of the year

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North Africa is a region generally considered to include: Algeria Egypt Libya Mauritania Morocco Sudan Tunisia Western Sahara The Canary Islands, Ethiopia, Eritrea, Azores and Madeira are sometimes considered to be a part of North Africa, though they do not share a common culture with North Africa. ... Events 3 January - Kinich Ahkal Mo Naab III takes throne of Maya state of Palenque Battle of Covadonga: First victory of a Christian army over a Muslim army in Spain (probable date) War between Wessex and Sussex Births Deaths Empress Gemmei of Japan Categories: 722 ... For the Roman general of this name, see Bonifacius. ... The term Germanic tribes applies to the ancient Germanic peoples of Europe. ... Events Crete is conquered from the Byzantines by the Saracens. ... Ansgar, etching by Hugo Hamilton (1830) Ansgar, Anskar or Oscar, (September 8?, 801 - February 3, 865) was an Archbishop of Hamburg-Bremen. ... Events Christian missionary Ansgar visits Birka, trade city of the Swedes. ... The Vandals were an East Germanic tribe that entered the late Roman Empire, and created a state in North Africa, centered on the city of Carthage. ... Events Western Emperor Louis II allies with eastern Emperor Basil I against the Saracens. ... See Saint Cyril (disambiguation) for other persons with this name. ... Saint Methodius was a bishop of Great Moravia (Moravia) (born Thessaloniki, Greece, 826; he died in the (unknown) capital of Great Moravia, April 6, 885). ... Events Khan Boris I of Bulgaria is baptized an Orthodox Christian. ... Boris I Michail or Boris I Michael (Bulgarian Борис I Михаил)(d. ... For other uses, see number 1000. ... A statue of Leif Ericson in front of the Hallgrímskirkja in Reykjavik Leif Ericson (old Icelandic: Leifr Eiríksson) was an explorer, the son of Eric the Red (Eiríkr rauði), a Norwegian outlaw, who was the son of another Norwegian outlaw, Þorvaldr Ásvaldsson. ... Events Saint Francis of Assisi introduces Catholicism into Egypt, during the Fifth Crusade Ongoing events Fifth Crusade (1217-1221) Births Frederick II the Quarrelsome, last Babenberg Duke of Austria Deaths Jayavarman VII, ruler of the Khmer Empire Minamoto no Sanetomo, third shogun of the Kamakura Shogunate of Japan Monarchs/Presidents... Saint Francis of Assisi (born in Assisi, Italy, 1181; died there on October 4, 1226) founded the Franciscan Order or Friars Minor. He is the patron saint of animals, merchants, Catholic action and the environment. ... Events February 26 - French defeat Germans and Sicilians at Battle of Benevento. ... Kublai Khan or Khubilai Khan (1215 – 1294), Mongol military leader, was Khan (1260-1294) of the Mongol Empire and founder and first Emperor (1279-1294) of the Chinese Yuan Dynasty. ... Marco Polo, after a painting in Badia, Rome Marco Polo (b. ... A satellite composite image of Europe Europe is geologically and geographically a peninsula, forming the westernmost part of Eurasia. ... The Pope is the Catholic Bishop and patriarch of Rome, and head of the Roman Catholic Church and the Eastern Catholic Churches. ... Events January 21 - Innocent V elected Gregory Xs successor as Pope March 9 - Augsburg becomes an Imperial Free City June - Rudolph I of Germany declares war on Ottokar II, king of Bohemia July 11, Adrian V elected Innocent Vs successor as Pope John XXI succeeds Adrian V as... Ramon Llull. ... Events In this year English law set 1189 as the beginning of time immemorial. ... The Order of Friars Minor and other Franciscan movements are disciples of Saint Francis of Assisi. ... Events Catholicos of Armenia returns to Sis Pope Boniface VIII becomes Pope Births Charles IV of France Deaths John I of Brabant Roger Bacon – English philosopher and scientist Kublai Khan Categories: 1294 ... Events Antipope Nicholas V is excommunicated by Pope John XXII. Aimone of Savoy becomes Count of Savoy. ... The Ottoman Turks were the ethnic subdivision of the Turkic people who dominated the ruling class of the Ottoman Empire. ... Events Timur ascends throne of Samarkand. ... This article needs to be cleaned up to conform to a higher standard of quality. ... Events End of the reign of Emperor Go-Enyu of Japan, fifth and last of the Northern Ashikaga Pretenders Emperor Go-Komatsu ascends to the throne of Japan John Wyclifs teachings are condemned by the Synod of London. ... The holy jewish scripture: The Torah. ... The English language is a West Germanic language that originates in England. ... Latin is the language originally spoken in the region around Rome called Latium. ... �== de los acontecimientos del == * [ [ de mayo el 29 ] ] - [ [ ca�da de Constantinople|Ca�da ] ] de [ [ Constantinople ] ] a [ [ imperio del otomano|Otomano ] ] Sultan [ [ Mehmed II] ] el Conqueror, marcando el final del [ [ imperio ] de Byzantine ] (imperio romano del este). ... Map of Constantinople. ... // Events Europes population was ~60 million. ... Pedro Álvares Cabral Pedro Álvares Cabral (c. ... Events Conquest of Pskov by Grand Prince Vasili III of Muscovy. ... Events January 14 - Treaty of Madrid. ... State nickname: Sunshine State Other U.S. States Capital Tallahassee Largest city Jacksonville Governor Jeb Bush Official languages English Area 170,451 km² (22nd)  - Land 137,374 km²  - Water 30,486 km² (17. ... Events January 6 - Alessandro de Medici assassinated August 25 - The Honourable Artillery Company, the oldest surviving regiment in the British Army, and the second most senior, was formed. ... Pope Paul III, (1543) portrait by Titian (Tiziano Vecelli), Museo Nazionale di Capodimonte, Naples Paul III, né Alessandro Farnese (February 29, 1468 - November 10, 1549) was pope from 1534 to 1549. ... Carte dAmérique, Guillaume Delisle, c. ... Christ, is the english representation of the Greek word Χριστός (transliterated as Khristós), which means anointed. ... Events War resumes between Francis I of France and Emperor Charles V. This time Henry VIII of England is allied to the Emperor, while James V of Scotland and Sultan Suleiman I are allied to the French. ... Saint Francis Xavier (Chinese: 沙勿略) (April 7, 1506 - December 2, 1552) was a pioneering Christian missionary and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (Jesuit Order). ... Goa (गोवा in Devanagari) is Indias smallest state in terms of area and the fourth smallest in terms of population after Sikkim, Mizoram and Arunachal Pradesh. ... State nickname: Land of Enchantment Other U.S. States Capital Santa Fe Largest city Albuquerque Governor Bill Richardson Official languages English and Spanish Area 315,194 km² (5th)  - Land 314,590 km²  - Water 607 km² (0. ... Events Russia breaks 60 year old truce with Sweden by attacking Finland May 23 - Paul IV becomes Pope. ... John Calvin John Calvin (July 10, 1509 – May 27, 1564) was a prominent Christian theologian during the Protestant Reformation and is the namesake of the system of Christian theology called Calvinism. ... Huguenot - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Events March 8 - Naples bans kissing in public under the penalty of death June 22 - Fort Caroline, the first French attempt at colonizing the New World September 10 - The Battle of Kawanakajima Ottoman Turks invade Malta Modern pencil becomes common in England Conquistadors crossed the Pacific Spanish found a colony... Miguel López de Legaspi (b. ... The Augustinians, named after Saint Augustine of Hippo (died AD 430), are several Roman Catholic monastic orders and congregations of both men and women living according to a guide to religious life known as the Rule of Saint Augustine. ... Events March 17 - formation of the Cathay Company to send Martin Frobisher back to the New World for more gold May 29 - Publication of the Bergen Book which is better known as the Solid Declaration of the Formula of Concord, one of the Lutheran confessional writings, later condensed into an... A mosque is a place of worship for followers of the Islamic faith. ... Events January 15 - Russia cedes Livonia and Estonia to Poland February 24 - Pope Gregory XIII implements the Gregorian Calendar. ... The Society of Jesus (Latin: Societas Iesu), commonly known as the Jesuits, is a Roman Catholic religious order. ... // What is science? There are different theories of what science is. ... Mathematics is the study of quantity, structure, space and change. ... Astronomy is one of the few sciences where amateurs can still play an active role, especially in the discovery and monitoring of transient phenomena. ... Events January 24 - Battle of Turnhout. ... Hideyoshi in old age. ... Megane-bashi, the Eyeglasses Bridge Nagasaki (長崎市; -shi) is the capital and the largest city of Nagasaki Prefecture located at the south-western coast of Kyushu, Japan. ... Events December 1 - Portugal regains its independence from Spain and João IV of Portugal becomes king. ... Historically, a martyr is a person who dies for his or her religious faith. ... Events January 1 - Windows Win32 FILETIME epoch at 00:00:00 UTC. February 8 - Robert Devereux, 2nd Earl of Essex, rebels against Elizabeth I of England - revolt is quickly crushed February 25 - Robert Devereux beheaded Jesuit Matteo Ricci arrives in China Bad harvest in Russia due to rainy summer Dutch... Matteo Ricci (October 6, 1552 - May 11, 1610) (Chinese: 利瑪竇; pinyin: Lì Mǎdòu) was an Italian Jesuit priest whose missionary activity in China during the Ming Dynasty marked the beginning of modern Chinese Christianity. ... Events April 13 - Tsar Boris Godunow dies - Feodor II accedes to the throne May 16 - Paul V becomes Pope June 1 - Russian troops in Moscow imprison Feodor II and his mother. ... Roberto de Nobili (1577-1656) was a Tuscan Jesuit missionary to India. ... Events January 20 - Mathias becomes Holy Roman Emperor. ... Abenaki wigwam with birch bark covering The Abenaki (also Wabanaki), meaning people of the dawn, are a tribe of Native Americans/First Nations belonging to the Algonquian peoples of the Northeast portion of North America. ... State nickname: The Pine Tree State Other U.S. States Capital Augusta Largest city Portland Governor John Baldacci Official languages None Area 86,542 km² (39th)  - Land 80,005 km²  - Water 11,724 km² (13. ... Events April 5 - In Virginia, Native American Pocahontas marries English colonist John Rolfe. ... An edict is an announcement of a law, often associated with monarchism. ... Events January 1 - In the Gregorian calendar, January 1 is declared as the first day of the year, instead of March 25. ... Gregory VI, né Johannes Gratianus, pope from 1044 to 1046, had earned a high reputation for learning and probity. ... Events March 1 - writs were issued in February 1628 by Charles I of England that every county in England (not just seaport towns) pay ship tax by this date. ... City motto: Senatus Populusque Romanus – SPQR (The Senate and the People of Rome) Founded 21 April 753 BC mythical, 1st millennium BC Region Latium Mayor Walter Veltroni (Democratici di Sinistra) Area  - City Proper  1290 km² Population  - City (2004)  - Metropolitan  - Density (city proper) 2,546,807 almost 4,000,000 1... Events February to August - Explorer Abel Tasmans second expedition for the Dutch East India Company maps the north coast of Australia. ... John Eliot (1604 - 21 May 1690) was a Puritan missionary born in Widford, Hertfordshire, England. ... The Algonquins or Algonkins are an aboriginal North American people speaking Algonquin, an Algonquian language. ... // Events January 30 - King Charles I of England, Scotland and Ireland is beheaded. ... Modern New England, the six northeastern-most states of the United States, indicated by red The New England region of the United States is located in the northeastern corner of the country. ... Events January 1 - Charles II crowned King of Scotland in Scone. ... Lutheranism - Wikipedia /**/ @import /skins-1. ... Statue of Martin Luther at the main square Wittenberg, officially Lutherstadt Wittenberg, is a town in Germany, in the Bundesland Saxony-Anhalt, at 12°59 east, 51°51 north, in the Elbe river. ... The Great Commission is to evangelical Christians the basis for their worldview and activities arising from it. ... Events January 13 - Edward Sexby, who has plotted against Oliver Cromwell, dies in Tower of London February 6 - Swedish troops of Charles X Gustav of Sweden cross from Sweden to Denmark over frozen sea May 1 - Publication of Hydriotaphia, Urn Burial and The Garden of Cyrus by Thomas Browne September... Alexandre de Rhodes (March 15, 1591 - November 5, 1660) was a French Jesuit missionary. ... // Events January 6 - The fifth monarchy men unsuccessfully attempt to seize control of London. ... 19th-century engraving of George Fox, based on a painting of unknown date. ... The Religious Society of Friends, commonly known as Quakers, or Friends, is a religious community founded in England in the 17th century. ... Events March 12 - New Jersey becomes a colony of England. ... 1670 was a common year beginning on a Saturday in countries using the Julian calendar and a Wednesday in countries using the Gregorian calendar. ... This page is about the Orinoco River, for the Aphra Behn novel see Oroonoko With a length of 2140 km, the Orinoco is one of the largest rivers of South America. ... Events January 4 - Palace of Whitehall in London is destroyed by fire. ... The Society for Promoting Christian Knowledge (SPCK) is the oldest Anglican mission organisation. ... The term Anglican (from the Angles or English) describes those people and churches following the religious traditions developed by the established Church of England. ... Events January 18 - Frederick I becomes King of Prussia. ... Events Construction begins on Blenheim Palace, in Oxfordshire, England. ... // Events January 23 - The Principality of Liechtenstein is created within the Holy Roman Empire April 25 - Daniel Defoe publishes Robinson Crusoe June 10 - Battle of Glen Shiel Prussia conducts Europes first systematic census Ongoing events Great Northern War (1700-1721) Births November 30 - Augusta of Saxe-Gotha, Princess of... Isaac Watts. ... A hymn is a song specifically written as a song of praise, adoration or prayer, typically addressed to a god. ... Events Abraham De Moivre states De Moivres theorem connecting trigonometric functions and complex numbers Publication of the first book of Bachs Well-Tempered Clavier Fall of Persias Safavid dynasty during a bloody revolt of the Afghani people. ... Categories: Stub | 1686 births | 1758 deaths ... Events February 16 - Louis XV of France attains his majority Births February 24 - John Burgoyne, British general (d. ... Robert Millar (born 13 September 1958) was a Scottish professional cyclist who won the “King of the Mountains” competition and finished fourth in the 1984 Tour de France – the highest ever finishing position in the Tour for a British cyclist. ... Events February 23 - First performance of Handels Orlando, in London June 9 - James Oglethorpe is granted a royal charter for the colony of Georgia. ... A Moravian is a Protestant belonging to a religious movement that originated in Moravia, Czech Republic. ... Look up Caribbean in Wiktionary, the free dictionary African diaspora British Afro-Caribbean community Caribbean English Caribbean medical education CONCACAF Council on Hemispheric Affairs History of the Caribbean Indo-Caribbean List of islands in the Caribbean Music of the Caribbean Politics of the Caribbean Tourism in Caribbean West Indies Federation... Events February 12 - British colonist James Oglethorpe founds Savannah, Georgia. ... Events 16 April - The London premiere of Alcina by George Frideric Handel, his first the first Italian opera for the Royal Opera House at Covent Garden. ... John Wesley was an 18th century theologian, preacher and the founder of the Methodist denomination of Protestant Christianity. ... Events January 26 - Stanislaus I of Poland abdicates his throne. ... Events February 14 - Henry Pelham becomes British Prime Minister February 21 - - The premiere in London of George Frideric Handels oratorio, Samson. ... David Brainerd (April 20, 1718 - 1747), American missionary among the Native Americans, was born at Haddam, Connecticut. ... Events January 8 - Bonnie Prince Charlie occupies Stirling April 16 - Battle of Culloden brings an end to the Jacobite Risings October 22 - The College of New Jersey is founded (it becomes Princeton University in 1896) October 28 - An earthquake demolishes Lima and Callao, in Peru Catharine de Ricci (born 1522... Events January 31 - The first venereal diseases clinic opens at London Dock Hospital April 9 - The Scottish Jacobite Lord Lovat was beheaded by axe on Tower Hill, London, for high treason; he was the last man to be executed in this way in Britain May 14 - First battle of Cape... Jonathan Edwards (October 5, 1703- March 22, 1758) was a colonial American Congregational preacher and theologian. ... Thomas Coke (1747-1814) was born in the Welsh town of Brecon, the son of a wealthy apothecary. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex to... Great Awakenings are commonly said to be periods of religious revival in Anglo-American religious history. ... Northampton, Massachusetts Main Street Northampton is a city located in Hampshire County, Massachusetts. ... Housatonic is a census-designated place and village located in the town of Great Barrington in Berkshire County, Massachusetts. ... Events March 2 - Small earthquake in London April 4 - Small earthquake in Warrington, England August 23 - Small earthquake in Spalding, England September 30 - Small earthquake in Northampton, England November 16 – Westminster Bridge officially opened Jonas Hanway is the first Englishman to use an umbrella James Gray reveals her sex to... 1769 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Blessed Junípero Serra (November 24, 1713–August 28, 1784) was a Catalan Franciscan who founded the mission chain in Alta California. ... Mission San Diego de Alcalá as it stood circa 1900. ... The Spanish Missions of California (more simply referred to as the California Missions) comprise a series of religious outposts established by Spanish Catholic Dominicans, Jesuits, and Franciscans, to spread the Christian doctrine among the local Native Americans, but with the added benefit of giving Spain a toehold in the frontier... Francis Asbury (1745-1816) was born at Handsworth, near Birmingham, England of Methodist parents. ... Eskimo is a term used for a group of people who inhabit the circumpolar region (excluding circumpolar Scandinavia and all but the easternmost portions of Russia). ... This article is about the region in Canada. ... 1782 was a common year starting on Tuesday (see link for calendar). ... The word slaves has several meanings and usages: People who are owned by others, and live to serve them without pay. ... 1786 was a common year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... Midtown Manhattan, looking north from the Empire State Building, 2005 New York City (officially named the City of New York) is the most populous city in the state of New York and the entire United States. ... Alternate meanings: Cherokee (disambiguation) The Cherokee are a people native to North America who first inhabited what is now the eastern and southeastern United States before most were forcefully moved to the Ozark Plateau. ... The Creeks are a Native American people originally from the southeastern United States, also known by their original name Muscogee or Muskogee (in traditional spelling Mvskoke), the name they use to identify themselves today. ... 1792 was a leap year starting on Sunday (see link for calendar). ... William Carey (August 17, 1761 – June 9, 1834) was an English missionary and Baptist minister, known as the father of modern missions. ...