1st century
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Overview: History - Epochs - Turnings - Centuries BC - Centuries AD
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- Notable Events: Pax Romana enforced a peace within the Mediterranean basin
- Notable Empires: Rome, Persia, India, China
- Notable People: Jesus, Paul
In the first century, the Pax Romana had established an enforced peace within the Mediterranean basin. Notable empires of the day included Rome, Persia, India and China. During the period of peace, a significant amount of commerce, philosophy and religious thinking traveled over the Silk Road between the empires. The first decades of this period opened with the life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, followed by the outward explosion of the Church. Initially, Christianity began as a religion of the poor and slaves, centered primarily on the urban cities. Freed from its Jewish roots, it began quickly moving amongst the much larger Gentile population. The first century is notable primarily for Rome's occasional intense persecutions of the church and for its bravery during its birth pains.
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- 29-33 - Israel. Crucifixion of Jesus Christ.
- 31 - Pentecost and birth of the Christian church
- 34 - Church scattered by persecution; In Gaza, Philip baptizes a convert, an Ethiopian who was already a Jewish proselyte.
- 39 - Peter preaches to a Gentile audience
- 42 - Mark goes to Egypt
- 48 - Paul (formerly known as Saul of Tarsus) begins his first missionary journey to modern-day Turkey.
- 49 - Jerusalem Council on admitting Gentiles into the Church, a major step that allows Christianity to become truly cross-cultural
- 51 - Paul begins his second missionary journey, a trip that will take him through modern-day Turkey and on into Greece.
- 52 - Thomas arrives in India and founds church that subsequently becomes Indian Orthodox Church (and its various descendants).
- 54 - Paul begins his third missionary journey
- 60 - Paul journeys to Rome.
- 62 - One tradition has Bartholomew being martyred on the west coast of India near modern-day Mumbai
- 66 - Thaddeus establishes the Christian church of Armenia
- 69 - Andrew is crucified in Patras on the Peloponnese peninsula of Greece
- 70 - Israel. Destruction of the Temple.
- 72 - Traditional date of Thomas' martyrdom in Mylapore, India
- 90 - Philip was crucified upside down (like Peter) in Hierapolis in Modern day Turkey
- Thailand - Conversion of King Khun Luang Mao to Buddhism, and beginning of Buddhism as state religion.
