History Timeline AD: Second Millennium
To fully appreciate what history
has to offer, sometimes we need to take a couple of
steps back to view its' bigger picture. Perhaps, if
we looked across the broad spectrum, we would realize
that nothing happens in isolation. No one gets ups
one morning and says, "... hmm, think I'll invent
pottery or maybe even a religion today". History
is an evolutionary development that happens over time.
Anno Domini (AD)
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The Common Era (CE)
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1000 |
1350 |
High Middle Ages
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1000 |
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- Iceland officially converts to Christianity,
although heathen practice is still permitted
in private.
- Olafr Tryggvasson dies.
- Date of the Beowulf manuscript
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1000 |
1005 |
- Leifr Eiriksson makes his voyage to Vinland
(America) attempts to settle there and fails
because of the opposition from the Skraelings
(Native Americans)
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1016 |
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- Ard-Righ Brian Boru defeats Norse in Ireland
at the battle of Clontarf, both Brian and
Jarl Sigurdhr of Orkney are slain.
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1016 |
1042 |
- Three Danish kings reign in England: Cnut,
followed by his sons Harold Harefoot and Harthacnut.
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1030 |
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- King Olaf the Saint is killed at Stiklestad.
- Haraldr Hardrada, King of Norway, is killed
during an attempted invasion of England fighting
against Harold Godwinsson, the English King.
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1042 |
1066 |
- The old Wessex line of kings is restored
with Edward the Confessor.
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1051 |
1052 |
- Edward the Confessor may have met William
of Normandy over the succession in England,
according to one source and William may have
received assurances from Edward that he would
succeed to the throne, given that Edward himself
had no heir.
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1064 |
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- Harold of England appears in the Bayeaux
Tapestry to have traveled to Normandy at the
bidding of Edward and there made an oath to
William and received arms from him (thus suggesting
that Harold at first recognized William's
right to succession and then reneged, thereby
provoking the Norman Invasion)
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1066 |
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- January 6: After considerable conflict over
the succession Harold Godwinsson is crowned
and reigns as Harold of England. The Bayeaux
Tapestry depicts Halley's Comet making an
appearance, which many took as a sign of marvelous
events to come.
- September 25: Harold defeats a large force
at Stamford Bridge led by Harold Hardrada
(along with Harold of England's brother Tostig)
- September 27: William of Normandy sails
for England
- October 1: Harold probably begins his 250
mile march south to meet William
- October 14: Harold Godwinsson is killed
at Hastings by forces of Duke Williams (the
Bastard) of Normandy.
- The Norman Conquest of England takes place
- The practice of "going Viking"
ends.
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1066 |
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Post Heathen Period
for Western Europe. |
1075 |
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- Adam of Bremen writes Gesta Hammaburgensis
ecclesiae pontificum
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1117 |
1118 |
- Grágás the Icelandic law code
first written down.
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1122 |
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- Ari Thorgilsson writes Islendingabok
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1175 |
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- The first written version of the Nibelungenlied
is created in Germany
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1180 |
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- Theodoricus Monachus writes Historia de
antiquitate regum Norwagiensium
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1185 |
1223 |
- Saxo Grammaticus writes Gesta Danorum.
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1200 |
1450 |
- The Icelandic sagas are written.
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1200 |
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- Ibn-Dihya writes his account of Al-Ghazal's
embassy to the king of the Vikings in Ireland.
- Orkneyinga saga written by unknow Icelandic
author
- Zen Buddhism (Ch'an) introduced - Japan
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1220 |
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- Snorri Sturluson writes the Prose Edda
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1225 |
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- Snorri Sturluson writes Heimskringla.
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1226 |
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- Tristams saga produced by translating the
Tristan of Thomas Brittany per request of
King Hakon Hakonarsson
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1230 |
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- Egils saga Skallagrimssonar written probably
by Snorri Sturluson. Egill died some 240 year
before this written work.
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1233 |
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- First Papal ordinance directly dealing with
witchcraft - Bull by Pope Gregory IX (Ugolino,
Count of Segni),to Conrad of Marburg, bidding
him to proceed against the Luciferians. July
30th of that year, Conrad of Marburg
murdered will attending to his duties.
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1245 |
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- Laxdaela Saga written by unknown author
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1250 |
1300 |
- Most of the poems of the Poetic Edda which
had previously been circulating orally since
the Migration Age or before, are collected
and written down in the Codex Regius, the
oldest surviving manuscripts containing the
Eddic poems.
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1258 |
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- Bull by Pope Alexander IV (Rinaldo Conti)
to Franciscan Inquisitors, bidding them refrain
from judging any cases of witchcraft unless
there was some very strong reason to suppose
that heretical practice could also be amply
proved.
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1280 |
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- Brenu-Njals Saga written by unknown author:
this is written 269 years after the death
of Njal.
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1300 |
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- Sturlunga saga a collection of historical
sagas written by various Icelanders during
the 1200's is compiled.
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1350 |
1500 |
Late Middle Ages |
1350 |
1500 |
|
1400 |
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- Rosicrucianism (Master Kelpius, Johann Andrea)
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1400 |
1650 |
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1431 |
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- Joan of Arc burned at the stake for being
a heretic at Rouen
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1435 |
1698 |
- Witch Burnings and Hangings
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1453 |
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- Constantinople is captured by the Ottoman
Turks; Byzantine Empire Ends.
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1459 |
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- The horrors of Vlad the Impaler.
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1484 |
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- December 9 The Bull of Innocent VIII, decreeing
Inquisitors Sprenger and Kramer, authors of
the Malleus Maleficarum, rights "to be
empowered to proceed to the just correction,
imprisonment, and punishment of any persons,
without let or hindrance, in every way as
if the provinces, townships, dioceses, districts,
territories, yea even the persons and their
crimes in this kind were named and particularly
designated in Our letters''
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1485 |
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1486 |
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- Maximilian I, Emperor of Germany and King
of the Romans signs papers in Brussels giving
permission to Sprenger and Kramer to carry
out their duties, and commanding cooperation
with them.
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1493 |
1541 |
- Paracclsus. Physician who claimed that everything
he learned came froman old witch.
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1497 |
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- John Cabot lands in North America.
|
1500 |
1800 |
- The Age of Chinese Dominion
|
1500 |
1900 |
- Unification of the Hemispheres
|
1500 |
1700 |
- The First Period of European Imperialism
|
1500 |
1555 |
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1500 |
1565 |
- The Catholic Reformation
- Protestanism (Martin Luther,Calvin) circa
1515
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1515 |
1588 |
- Johan Weyer, born in Brabant (Belgium).
A German physician who believed that most
witches were melancholy mentally disturbed
old women, incapable of harm. Believed that
the belief in witchcraft was caused by the
devil. In 1563 he wrote De Praestigiis Daemonum.
Was forced out of Netherlands by the Catholic
Governor, Duke of Alba. His book was denounced
by Jean Bodin.
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1519 |
1598 |
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1520 |
1560 |
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1520 |
1550 |
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1521 |
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- Ignatius Loyola writes his "Spiritual
Exercises " publishes in 1548.
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1530 |
1560 |
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1530 |
1590 |
- Jean Bodin, a French judge. In 1580 writes
De la Demonomanie des Sorciers. Claims that
those who denied the existance of witches
were themselves witches.
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1530 |
1616 |
- Nicholas Remy a French lawyer fighting against
witches. In 1595 writes Demonaltry and sites
128 cases.
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1534 |
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- Ignatius Loyola founds the Jesuit Order.
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1536 |
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- John Calvin publishes the first edition
of the "Institutes of the Christian Religion."
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1541 |
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- John Calvin returns to Geneva.
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1541 |
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- John Knox begins Calvinist reform movement
in Scotland.
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1543 |
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- Pope Paul III issues the index of prohibited
books.
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1543 |
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- First Protestants are burned at the stake
by the Spanish Inquisition.
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1545 |
1564 |
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1554 |
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- The Catholic Church is res-red in England.
Mary I Queen of England.
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1558 |
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- John Knox publishes his "The First
Blast of the Trumpet Against the Montrous
Regiment of Women" attacking
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1560 |
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- Church of Scotland is founded.
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1566 |
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1566 |
1625 |
- King James VI of Scotland aka James I of
England reigns
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1584 |
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- publication of The Discoverie of Witchcraft
by Reginal Scot, suggesting that maybe witches
don't really exist.
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1590 |
1591 |
- The North Berwick Witches.
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1604 |
1611 |
- The blood secret of Countess Elizabeth Bathori
of Transylvania
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1607 |
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- British establish a colony at Jamestown.
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1608 |
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- Publication of Compendium Maleficarum
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1611 |
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- The Basque Trials - an inquisitor named
Antonio Salazar de Frias said that the men
and women charged of the crime were under
a form of mass hysteria and declared witches
not harmful merely delusional
|
1650 |
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- Tibetan Buddhism - Dalai Lama
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1663 |
1728 |
- Cotton Mather defends the trials and execution
in New England and in 1689 writes Memorable
Providence Relating to Witchcraft and Possessions
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1692 |
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- The Salem Witchcraft Trials : 5 were hung
on July 19 ; 5 more hung on September 22 and
another 8 were executed plus one dog.
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1700 |
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- Freemansony (Albert Mackey and Albert Pike)
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1712 |
1830 |
- The First Industrial Revolution
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1760 |
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- Swedenborgism (Emmanuel Swedenborg)
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1763 |
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- Proclamation of 1763 restricts settlement
west of the Appalachians.
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1770 |
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1776 |
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- The Declaration of Independence .
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1781 |
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- Cornwalis surrenders at Yorktown.
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1782 |
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- Supposedly the last witch burned in Western
Europe.
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1784 |
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1789 |
1815 |
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1791 |
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- The Bill of Rights is ratified.
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1798 |
1815 |
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1803 |
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Victorian Age |
1803 |
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1808 |
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- The African slave trade is ended.
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1815 |
1848 |
- Revolutions of Liberal Nationalism
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1823 |
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- The Monroe Doctrine is proclaimed.
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1830 |
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- Mormons founder Joseph Smith
- Cambellites (Barton Stone, Thomas and Alexander
Cambell)
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1831 |
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- Indians of the Southern states begin the
Trail of Tears.
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1838 |
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1840 |
1845 |
- Millerites Second Day Adventist (William
Miller)
|
1844 |
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- Bahai founder Baha'u'llah also known as
Abul Baha
- Christadelphianism founded by John Thomas
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1845 |
1870 |
- Seventh Day Adventist (E.G. White)
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1846 |
1848 |
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1848 |
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- Gold is discovered at Sutter's Mill in California.
- Women's Rights Convention is held in Seneca
Falls NY
- Spiritualism (Kate and Margaret Fox)
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1850 |
1920 |
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1861 |
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1870 |
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- Jehovah's Witnesses (Charles T. Russel)
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1875 |
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- Theosophical Society (H.P. Blavatsky and
Henry Olcott)
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1879 |
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- Thomas Edison invents the electric light.
- Christian Science (Mary Baker Eddy)
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1886 |
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- The American Federation of Labor is founded.
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1889 |
1924 |
- Unity School of Christianity (Myrtle Fillmore)
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1890 |
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- The Sherman Antitrust Act is passed.
- Anthroposophical Society (H.P. Blavatsky)
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1900 |
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- Rosicrucian Fellowship (Rudolf Steiner)
- Anthroposophical Society (Rudolf Stiener)
different from Blavatsky's
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1901 |
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- Queen Victoria dies at the age of 81
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1906 |
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- Pentecostal Assembly of the World
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1914 |
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- Iglesia ni Cristo (Felix Manalo)
- Oneness Pentecostalism founders are Frank
Ewart, G. Haywood, and Glenn Cook.
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1917 |
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- The United States enters World War One
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1920 |
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- Nineteenth Amendment grants women suffrage.
- Joan of Arc declared a saint
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1927 |
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- Mind Scienc (Ernest Holmes)
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1929 |
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- The Great Depression begins.
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1930 |
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- Black Muslims - Nation of Islam (Wallace
D. Fard)
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1934 |
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- World Wide Church of God (Herbert W. Armstrong)
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1935 |
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- Self Realization Fellowship (Paramahansa
Yogananda)
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1941 |
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- The Japanese navy attacks Pearl Harbor.
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1944 |
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- Silva Mind control (Jose Silva)
|
1945 |
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- United Pentecostal International based on
the original 1914 church. (Howard Goss and
W.T. Witherspoon)
- The Way (Victor P. Wierwille)
|
1948 |
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- Latter Rain (Franklin Hall and George Warnock)
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1950 |
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1954 |
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- Last of the anti-witch laws repealed in
Britain Gerald Gardner publicly announces
he is a witch and starts the new-Wiccan movement
- Atherius Society - a society about UFO's
founded by Dr. George King.
- Unification Church (Sun Myung Moon)
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1955 |
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- Urantia Book (Dr. Bill Sadler)
- Scientology by L. Ron Hubbard
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1956 |
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1958 |
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- United Arab Republic is formed
- From 1958-1970 the Church Universal and
Triumphant
- Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research
(Henry Kinley)
|
1959 |
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- Unitariarian Universalist
|
1960 |
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- Enkankar founded by Paul Twitchell
- Transcendental Meditation founded by Maharishi
mahesh Yogi
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1964 |
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- The Palestine Liberation Organization is
formed.
|
1964 |
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1965 |
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- President Johnson begins escalation of US
role in Vietnamese Civil War.
- Medicare Act.
- Clean Air Act.
- Assembly of Yahweh founded by Jacob Meyer
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1965 |
1967 |
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1966 |
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- National Organization for Women (NOW) is
founded.
- Church of Satan founded by Anton La Vey
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1968 |
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- Martin Luther King Jr. is assassinated.
- Hare Krishna U.S. Division (Swami Prabhupada)
- Children of God (David Berg)
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1969 |
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1970 |
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- The Internet was formed although at the
time it was a military network called ARPA
net
- Findhorn founded by Mr.& Mrs. Caddy
and David Spangler
- Divine Light Mission founded by Guru Maharaj
Ji
|
1971 |
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- First Microprocessor the 4004
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1972 |
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- US withdraws from Vietnam.
|
1972 |
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- Covenant of the Goddess is formed
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1973 |
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- The Roe vs. Wade Case in the U.S.
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1974 |
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- Assemblies of Yahweh founded by Sam Suratt
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1976 |
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- Voyager space craft lands on Mars
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1979 |
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- Church of Christ International founded by
K. McKean
|
1980 |
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- The House of Yahweh religion founded by
Jacob Hawkins
- The Tara Center founded by Benjamin Creme
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1982 |
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- The TCP/IP Protocol established and the
"Internet" is formed as a connected
set of networks using TCP/IP.
|
1984 |
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- DNS (Domain Name Server) introduced to the
Internet which then consisted of about 1000
hosts.
|
1985 |
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- Wicca recognized as a legal religion by
the United States and the military. Dettmer
v.Landon 617 F. Supposition 592
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1989 |
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1989 |
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- The Fall of the Berlin Wall; and the Cold
War ends
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1993 |
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- Commercial providers are allowed to sell
internet connections to individuals.
- Pagan web-sites skyrocket
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2000 |
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- Goddess 2000 project; January 1 2000
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