Early Christianity
Main article: Ante-Nicene Period See also: Timeline of Christianity#Ante-Nicene Period See also: Early history of Christianity#Post-apostolic period See also: Christianity in the 2nd century- 100 - First Christians are reported in Monaco, Algeria and Sri Lanka; a missionary goes to Arbela, a sacred city of the Assyrians that the Christian church is katholikos ("universal")
- 112 - Pliny the Younger reports rapid growth of Christianity in Bithynia
- 140 - Hermas writes: "The Son of God . . . has been preached to the ends of the earth"
- 150 - Gospel reaches Portugal and Morocco
- 166 - Bishop Soter writes that the number of Christians has surpassed the Jews
- 167 - At the request of Lucius of Britain, missionaries Fuganus (or Phagan) and Duvianus (or Deruvian) were sent by Pope Eleuterus to convert the Britons to Christianity
- 174 - First Christians reported in Austria
- 177 - Churches in Lyon and Vienne (southern France) report being persecuted
- 190 - Pataenus of Alexandria goes to India in response to an appeal for Christian teachers
- 196 - In Assuristan (Parthian ruled Assyria)Bar Daisan writes of Christians among the Assyrians, Parthians, Bactrians (Kushans), and other peoples in the Persian Empire
- 197 - Tertullian writes that Christianity had penetrated all ranks of society in North Africa
- 198 or 199 - The first missionaries, The Kungyueh, arrive in Japan by boat from China.
- 200 - First Christians are reported in Switzerland and Belgium
- 202 - Roman Emperor Severus issues an edict forbidding conversion to Christianity
- 206 - Abgar, the Aramean King of Edessa, embraces the Christian faith
- 208 - Tertullian writes that Christ has followers on the far side of the Roman wall in Britain where Roman legions have not yet penetrated
- 241 - The Mesopotamian prophet Mani begins to preach in Seleucia-Ctesiphon in what is now Iraq
- 250 - Denis (or Denys or Dionysius) is sent from Rome along with six other missionaries to establish the church in Paris
- 270 - Death of Gregory Thaumaturgus, Christian leader in Pontus. It was said that when Gregory became "bishop" there were only 17 Christians in Pontus while at his death thirty years later there were only 17 non-Christians.
- 280 - First rural churches emerge in northern Italy; Christianity is no longer exclusively in urban areas
- 287 - Maurice from Egypt is killed at Agauno, Switzerland for refusing to sacrifice to pagan divinities
- 300 - First Christians reported in Greater Khorasan; an estimated 10% of the world's population is now Christian; parts of the Bible are available in 10 different languages
- 304 - Armenia accepts Christianity as state religion
- 306 - The first bishop of Nisibis is ordained
- 313 - Emperor Constantine issues Edict of Milan, legalizing Christianity in the Roman Empire
- 314 - Tiridates III of Armenia and King Urnayr of Caucasian Albania converted by Gregory the Illuminator
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