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| c. 35 |
| | | Stephen is stoned outside the city wall of Jerusalem - the first Christian martyr | |
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| c. 35 |
| | | On the road to Damascus, where he intends to persecute the Christians, Saul sees a blinding light | |
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| 41 |
| | | Herod Agrippa, a grandson of Herod the Great, restores a brief calm to Palestine | |
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| c. 48 |
| | | St Paul, taking ship to Cyprus, begins the first of his great missionary journeys | |
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| c. 48 |
| | | St Paul, on his travels within the Roman empire, begins converting non-Jews (or Gentiles) to the new Christian faith | |
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| c. 50 |
| | | A western adaptation of the Persian cult of Mithras, evolving probably in Anatolia, is spread through the empire by the Roman army | |
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| c. 50 |
| | | The leaders of the Christian church gather in Jerusalem to decide an urgent question - must Gentile converts undergo circumcision? | |
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| 66 |
| | | The Zealots play a prominent part in the uprising which expels the Romans from Jerusalem | |
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| 66 |
| | | Josephus is in Jerusalem at the start of the rebellion against the Romans, and will later describe its suppression in his Jewish War | |
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| c. 68 |
| | | The Essenes hide their sacred scrolls in caves near the Dead Sea, to save them from the Romans | |
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