A Church timeline for 2010
10AD – Jesus is (probably) aged 14 and finishes his education without passing any SATS or attaining any targets
110AD – the phrase “Catholic Church” is used for the first time (by St. Ignatius of Antioch)
210AD – birth in Iran of the heretic Mani, who divided the world into the realms of the evil material god and the good spiritual God (a heresy which recurs regularly, see 1210AD)
310AD – the Roman commander (later Emperor) Constantine, advancing on Rome, orders his troops to carry Christian insignia
410AD – Roman legionaries all recalled from Britain, opening the door to Anglo-Saxon Christianity
510AD – Saint Benedict writes his Rule and founds the abbey of Monte Cassino
610AD – An Italian monk invents pretiola (“little rewards”), alias pretzels, to give to children who learn their prayers
710AD – the earliest surviving text, in Latin, of the “Apostles’ Creed”
810AD – completion of the illuminated Gospel “Book of Kells”, begun on Iona
910AD – beginning of the great Church reform inspired by the Burgundian abbey of Cluny
1010AD – Arab destruction of the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem is the springboard for the Crusades
1110AD – birth of St. Aelred, the Cistercian abbot of Rievaulx (Yorks.), the great champion of Christian friendship
1210AD – terrible massacre at Béziers in southern France during the war against the Cathars (see 210AD); “Kill them all! God will recognise his own!”
1310AD – beginning of the residency of the Popes at Avignon in France, the so-called “Babylonian Captivity”
1410AD – the order is given to burn all the books of the English reformer John Wyclif
1510AD – the first European church in India is built, by the Portuguese
1610AD – the famous Jesuit missionary Matteo Ricci, promoter of inculturation in the faith, dies in Peking (Beijing)
1710AD – riots in London at the trial of Henry Sacheverell, who opposed Government leniency towards dissenters; his name later invoked in the Gordon Riots against Catholic Emancipation
1810AD – The parish priest of Dolores, Mexico, Father Miguel Hidalgo, leads an uprising of peasants against Spanish rule, so beginning the War of Independence
1910AD – Pope Saint Pius X obliges all clergy to take the Anti-Modernist Oath
2010AD – Deus scit. Maybe it will be your turn to contribute to church history, and appear in this timeline for 2110AD?