1000 To 1499
Main article: Christianity in the 11th century See also: Medieval history of Christianity#East-West Schism See also: Timeline of Christianity#Middle Ages- 1000 - Christianity accepted by common consent in Iceland by parliament (Alþingi). Leif the Lucky introduces the Gospel to Greenland, possibly Vinland (Newfoundland)
- 1003 - The Hungarian king sends evangelists to Transylvania
- 1008 - Sigfrid (or Sigurd), English missionary, baptizes King Olof of Sweden
- 1009 - Bruno of Querfurt is beheaded in Prussia where he had gone as a missionary
- 1015 - Russia is said to have been "comprehensively" converted to the Orthodox faith; Olaf II Haroldsson becomes the first king of the whole of Norway. Over the next 15 years he would organize Norway's final conversion and its integration into Christian Europe.
- 1017 - Günther tries to convert the inhabitants of Vorpommern; the mission is not successful.
- 1122 - Bernhard, later bishop of Lebus launches an unsuccessful mission in the Duchy of Pomerania
- 1124/28 - Otto von Bamberg succeeds in the Conversion of Pomerania Bishopric of Cammin established in Pomerania in 1140.
- 1168 - Absalon subdues and converts the Principality of Rügen
- 1200 - The Bible is now available in 22 different languages
- 1210 - Franciscan Order established
- 1216 - Dominican Order established
- 1219 - Francis of Assisi presents the Gospel to the Sultan of Egypt
- 1227 - Prince Bort converted and baptized in the Ukraine
- 1244 - Christians are reported in Lithuania with King Mindaugas being baptized in 1251
- 1253 - Franciscan William of Rubruck begins his journey to the Mongols
- 1266 - Mongol leader Khan sends Marco Polo's father and uncle, Niccolo and Matteo Polo, back to Europe with a request to the Pope to send 100 Christian missionaries (only two responded and one died before reaching Mongol territory)
- 1276 - Ramon Llull opens training center to send missionaries to North Africa
- 1291 - Appointment of first indigenous bishop in Finland
- 1294 - Franciscan Giovanni di Monte Corvino arrives in China
- 1303 - Arnold of Cologne arrives in China to assist Giovanni di Monte Corvino
- 1321 - Jordanus, a Dominican monk, arrives in India as the first resident Roman Catholic missionary
- 1322 - Odoric of Pordenone, a Franciscan monk from Italy, arrives in China
- 1323 - Franciscans make contacts on Sumatra, Java, and Borneo
- 1326 - Chaghatayid Khan Ilchigedai grants permission for a church to be built in Samarkand, Uzbekistan
- 1329 - Nicaea falls to Muslim Ottoman Turks
- 1334 - Chaghatayid Khan Buzun allows Christians to rebuild churches and permits Franciscans to establish a missionary episcopate in Almaliq, Azerbaijan
- 1368 - Collapse of the Franciscan mission in China as Ming Dynasty abolishes Christianity
- 1379 - Stephen of Perm travels north toward the White Sea and settles as a missionary among the Uralic-speaking Komi peoples living between Pechora and Vychegda Rivers at Ust-Vim
- 1382 - Bible translated into English from Latin by John Wycliff
- 1386 - Jogaila (baptized - Wladyslaw II), king of the Lithuanians, is baptized
- 1389 - Large numbers of Christians march through the streets of Cairo, denouncing Islam and lamenting that they had abandoned the religion of their fathers from fear of pesecution. They were beheaded, both men and women, and a fresh persecution of Christians followed
- 1400 - Scriptures translated into Icelandic
- 1408 - Spanish Dominican Vincent Ferrer begins a ministry in Italy in which it is said that thousands of Jews and Muslims were won to faith in Christ
- 1410 - Bible is translated into Hungarian
- 1420 - Franciscan missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to Madeira
- 1431 - Franciscan missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to the Azores
- 1435 - Forced conversion of Jews in Palma de Mallorca, Spain
- 1445 - First Christians reported in Guinea Bissau
- 1448 - First Christians reported in Mauritania
- 1450 - Franscian missionaries accompany Portuguese expedition to the Cape Verde Islands
- 1453 - Constantinople falls to the Muslim Ottoman Turks who make it their capital. An Islamic service of thanksgiving is held in the church of Saint Sophia
- 1455 - With the bull Romanus Pontifex the patronage of missions in new countries behind Cape Bojador is given to the Portuguese (see "Padroado").
- 1462 - Johannes Gutenberg begins printing the Bible with his movable-type printing process; Pope Pius II assigns the evangelization of the Portuguese Guinea Coast of Africa to the Franciscans led by Alfonso de Bolano
- 1485 - After having come into contact with the Portuguese, the King of Benin requests that a church be planted in his kingdom
- 1486 - Dominicans become active in West Africa, notably among the Wolof people in Senegambia.
- 1489 - Baptism of Wolof king Behemoi in Senegal
- 1491 - The Congo sees its first group of missionaries arrive. Under the ministry of these Franciscan and Dominican priests, the king would soon be baptized and a church built at the royal capital.
- 1492 - Birth of the church in Angola
- 1493 - Pope Alexander VI commands Spain to colonize the New World with Catholic missions; Christopher Columbus takes Christian priests with him on his second journey to the New World
- 1494 - First missionaries arrive in Dominican Republic
- 1495 - The head of a convent in Seville, Spain, Mercedarian Jorge, makes a trip to the West Indies.
- 1496 - First Christian baptisms in the New World take place when Guaticaba along with other members of his household are baptized on the island of Hispaniola
- 1497 - Forced conversion of Jews in Portugal
- 1498 - First Christians are reported in Kenya
- 1499 - Portuguese Augustinian missionaries arrive at Zanzibar. Their mission will end in 1698 due to the Oman-Arab conquest.
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