Apostolic Age

• The choosing of the Seven, the martyrdom of Stephen, and the dispersion of the "Hellenists" (the 30s AD)
• Pentecost – the birth of the church in Jerusalem and the structure of the apostolic community (c. 30 AD (the day of Pentecost))
• Josephus's testimony about Jesus (the Testimonium Flavianum) (c. 33 AD)
• The execution of John the Baptist by Herod Antipas (c. 36 AD)
• The acceptance of Gentiles into the church: Cornelius, Antioch, and the Council of Jerusalem (the 40s AD – c. 49 AD)
• The missionary journeys and epistles of the apostle Paul (the mid-1st century)
• Claudius's order against the Christians and the expulsion of the Jews from Rome (49–51 AD)
• Simon Magus and the origins of Gnostic teaching (the 1st century)
• The execution of James, the Lord's brother, and the relocation of the Jerusalem Christians to Pella (62 AD)
• The fire of Rome and Nero's persecution; the martyrdom of Peter and Paul (64–68 AD)
• The Jewish War and the destruction of the Jerusalem Temple (66–73 AD)
• The Didache (the Teaching of the Twelve Apostles) (the late 1st – early 2nd century)
• The persecution under Domitian and the writing of Revelation (91–96 AD)
• The First Epistle of Clement of Rome to the Corinthians (the end of the 1st century (c. 96–97 AD))
• The Shepherd of Hermas (the late 1st to first half of the 2nd century)
• The death of the apostle John (the reign of Trajan (98–117 AD))