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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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| 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 |
| | | The Thessalonians receive the first of Paul's epistles - the earliest text in the New Testament, written in Greek | |
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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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| c. 60 |
| | | St Peter, believed to have come to Rome as leader of the Christian community, is subsequently considered the first pope | |
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| c. 60 |
| | | St Paul arrives in Rome a prisoner, but then spends two years freely preaching Christianity | |
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| c. 64 |
| | | Early Christian tradition states that both Peter and Paul meet death in Rome as martyrs, possibly as a result of the fire of AD 64 | |
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| c. 75 |
| | | The Acts of the Apostles are written, probably by Luke – the evangelist and companion of Paul on his final journey to Rome | |
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| c. 80 |
| | | The earliest of the Christian gospels, that of St Mark, is written down - possibly in Asia Minor or Syria | |
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