History of Major Religious Events

Events

origin of Judaism

2085 B.C

origin of Hinduism

1500 B.C

destruction of the first temple (Judaism)

586 B.C

origin of Buddhism

560 B.C

Life of Confucius (Buddhism)

551 B.C - 479 B.C

Construction of Second Temple (Judaism)

550 B.C.

origin of Jainism

527 B.C

life of Jesus

4 AD - 30 AD

Origin of Christianity

30 AD

Destruction of Second Temple (Judaism)

70 C.E.

Origin of Catholicism

380

Fall of Rome

476

Life of Muhammad (Islam)

570 - 632

Muhammad receives first vision in a cave near Mecca (Islam)

610

Origin of Islam

610

Caliph Uthman has the Qur'an written down (Islam)

650

Reign of the Catholic Church

1000 - 1550

Crusades to Take Back Jerusalem from Seljuik Turks (Christianity)

1095 - 1300

Christian Crusaders take Jerusalem (Christianity)

1300

birth of Guru Nanak

1469

Origin of Sikhism

1499

Origins of Mormonism

1830

Origins of Jehovah's witnesses

1870

Martin Luther King Jr

1929 - 1968

Starting of the Holocaust (Judaism)

1938 - 1945

Assassination of Gandhi (Hinduism)

1948

Origins of Scientology

1955

Jones Town Massacre

1978

Death of Mother Teresa of Calcutta - founder of the 'Missionaries of Charity'. (Christianity)

1997

Origins of ISIS

1999

life of Brenden***

2001 - 2017

9/11

September 11, 2001