563 – Columba’s mission to Iona; Gregory sends Augustine (of Canterbury) to Kent 596

625 – Paulinus, Bishop of York

664 – Synod of Whitby; Theodore of Tarsus 690, Bede 735

800 – Charlemagne revives Roman Empire in the West; Muslims defeated at Tours 732

1054 – Final East-West split. Anselm 1109, Aquinas 1274

1384 – John Wyclif translates the Bible and advocates reforms; John Hus of Bohemia 1415

1517 – Martin Luther’s 95 Theses; Zwingli in Zurich 1519; Anabaptists 1524; Calvin in Geneva 1536

1534 – Act of Supremacy; English Church independent of Rome under Henry VIII, some reforms

1549 – First English Prayer Book and major reforms under Edward VI, Cranmer

1553 – Queen Mary returns Church to Rome; persecutions; Cranmer and others burned 1556

1558 – Elizabeth reinstates reforms; excommunicated by Pope 1570; Puritan controversies

1607 – American colonies: Jamestown (Church of England); 1620 Plymouth Pilgrims (Separatist); 1630 Puritans in Massachusetts Bay

1611 – Authorized (King James) version of Bible

1649 – England under the Commonwealth. Restoration 1660

1662 – Act of Uniformity, Book of Common Prayer

1699 – Founding of SPCK, Society for the Propagation of Christian Knowledge

1701 – Founding of SPG, first Anglican missionary society

1739 – Wesleyan Societies started in England. 1784 Methodist Church organized in America

1784 – Seabury consecrated in Scotland for American Episcopal Church; organized 1789

1867 – Founding of Church Missionary Society

1948 – First Lambeth Conference