BCE
c.6	Jesus born

CE
19	Expulsion of Jews from Rome
26(?)	John the Baptist's ministry
27-30(?)	Jesus' ministry
30(?)	Crucifixion
35(?)	Conversion of Paul
48	Council of Jerusalem
49	Expulsion of Jews from Rome.
49-58	Paul's missionary journeys
50-62	Paul writes letters to the churches
53-56	Paul in Ephesus
60-62	Paul in Rome
75-80	Synoptic Gospels completed in final form
80-90	Letter to the Hebrews written
85-95	Catholic epistles written
c.90	John's Gospel in final form
95(?)	Book of Revelation written
c.100(?)	<I>Didache</I> written (or earlier)
100-120	2 Peter written
c.108	<I>The Letter of Polycarp to the Philippians</I> written
c.120	<I>The Shepherd of Hermas</I>
c.125	Quadratus, earliest Apologist
c.130	Justin Martyr converts
c.130	<I>Barnabas</I> written
130-80	Alexandrian Gnostic school
c.143	Marcion writes <I>The Contradictions</I>
c.150	<I>The Letter to Diogenetus</I>
154-55	Polycarp in Rome; date of Easter
c.155	Justin Martyr writes <I>First Apology</I>
c.160	Justin Martyr writes <I>Second Apology</I>
165	Justin martyred
c.165	Ptolemy writes <I>Letter to Flora</I>
165-66	Lucian writes <I>On the Death of Peregrinus</I>
166(?)	Polycarp martyred
171-80	Marcus Aurelius writes <I>Meditations</I>
172	Montanist movement in Phrygia
177	Pogrom at Lyons; Blandina and companions martyred
177-80	Athenagoras writes <I>Supplication for the Christians</I>
178	Irenaeus, bishop of Lyons
178	Celsus writes <I>True Reason</I> agains Christians