19th Century
- Balkan Orthodox churches gaining autocephaly (19th century)
- The Industrial Revolution, laissez-faire and the Christian response to the social crisis (19th century) (19th century)
- Napoleon's Concordat and the captivity of Pius VII (1801–1814)
- The Second Great Awakening and the Restoration Movement in the US (1801 – early 19th c.)
- The expansion of Protestant and Catholic foreign missions in the 19th century (1806–1899)
- The Clapham Sect, Wilberforce and the abolition of slavery in the British Empire (1807–1833) (1807–1833)
- Søren Kierkegaard (1813–1855)
- The Papal States, the Risorgimento and the fall of Rome (1815–1870) (1815–1870)
- Slavery, schisms in American churches, and the rise of Black churches (1816–1861)
- New religious movements in America: Mormons, Adventists, Jehovah's Witnesses, Christian Science (1818–1915)
- The execution of Patriarch Gregory V of Constantinople (1821)
- Albrecht Ritschl and liberal Protestant theology (1822–1889)
- The Oxford Movement and John Henry Newman's conversion to Catholicism (1833–1845)
- Historical criticism and the "quest for the historical Jesus": from Strauss to Schweitzer (1835–1906)
- Karl Marx, the “Communist Manifesto” (1848) and “Capital” (1848–1894)
- Catholics and the labour question: Ketteler, Manning and the Knights of Labor (1848–1891) (1848–1891)
- The Christian Socialists: Maurice, Kingsley and Ludlow (1848–1854) (1848–1854)
- The dogma of the Immaculate Conception (the bull Ineffabilis Deus) (1854)
- Darwin's Origin of Species and theologians' response (1859 and 1871)
- Urban revivalism and the Social Gospel in the United States (1861–1918)
- Pope Pius IX's Syllabus of Errors (1864)
- The First Vatican Council, the dogma of papal infallibility, and the Old Catholic schism (1869–1871)
- The Kulturkampf in Germany (1871–1878)
- The discovery of the Didache in Istanbul (1875)
- Leo XIII's encyclicals (Aeterni Patris, Rerum Novarum, Providentissimus Deus) and the condemnation of Catholic modernism (1878–1899)
- Thomism from Leo XIII to Ressourcement Thomism: Aeterni Patris, Nouvelle théologie, retrieval (from 1879)
- The “New Theology” and the Andover controversy (1880–1892) (1880–1892)
- Christianity in Korea: from the Catholics of 1781 to the revival and megachurches (from 1885 (Catholics from 1781))
- Adolf von Harnack and liberal theology ("What is Christianity?") (1886–1900)
- The Azusa Street revival and the rise of Pentecostalism (c. 1900–1914)
- The Fundamentalist–Modernist controversy in the US; the Niagara Bible Conference (turn of the 20th century (1890s–1930s))