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| c. 1000 BC |
| | The Jews write down the Torah, the earliest part of the text subsequently known to Christians as the Old Testament | |
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| c. 6 BC |
| | According to the Gospel account, Jesus Christ is born in Bethlehem two years before the death of Herod the Great - making the date 6 BC | |
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| 4 BC |
| | Herod, according to the Gospel account, orders all newly born infants in Bethlehem to be killed | |
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| 1 |
| | Christians decide (though not until AD 525) that this is the year of Christ's birth, making it AD 1 in the Christian chronology | |
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| c. 20 |
| | Saul of Tarsus, later known as St Paul, has a Greek-speaking Jewish father who is a Roman citizen | |
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| c. 29 |
| | Jesus begins his ministry in Galilee, gathering disciples, preaching and healing | |
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| c. 31 |
| | Jesus rides into Jerusalem with a crowd of followers, then attacks the traders in the courtyard of the Temple | |
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| c. 31 |
| | Jesus, at the Last Supper, associates the bread and wine with his own body and blood, establishing the sacrament of the Eucharist | |
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| c. 31 |
| | Jesus is brought before Pontius Pilate who reluctantly sentences him to death for blasphemy | |
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| c. 31 |
| | Jesus Christ is crucified, according to the accounts of his followers, outside the city wall of Jerusalem | |
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