2028 B.C. -- death of Sarah at the age of 127
(Genesis 23:1).
1990 B.C. -- death of Abraham at the age of 175
(Genesis 25:7).
1942 B.C. -- death of Ishmael at the age of 137
(Genesis 25:17).
1885 B.C. -- death of Isaac at the age of 180
(Genesis 35:28).
1525 B.C. -- birth of Moses.
1485 B.C. -- Moses kills an Egyptian and flees to
the land of Midian.
1445 B.C. -- the Israelite Exodus from Egypt, and
the year that Moses receives the commandments for the Old Covenant from God on
Mount Sinai.
1405 B.C. -- death of Moses at the age of 120
(Deuteronomy 34:7), and the year that the children of Israel cross the Jordan
River and enter the land of Canaan.
605 B.C. --
Nebuchadnezzar II
(Nebuchadrezzar II) of Babylonia invades Judah and takes a number of Jews
captive to Babylon, Babylonia (This is known as the first deportation.), thus
signifying the beginning of the Babylonian
Captivity.
535 B.C. -- the first group of Jews return to
Judah from Babylon, thus signifying the end of the Babylonian Captivity.
6 B.C. -- Jesus is born in Bethlehem, Judea,
Israel.
29 -- Jesus, at the age of 33½, is crucified, dies, is buried,
and raised from the dead.
313 --
the
Roman emperor Constantine founds the Roman Catholic Church.
476 -- the Western Roman Empire falls, thus
signifying the beginning of the Dark Ages.
1200 --
the
approximate year that the Bible is divided into
chapters.
1450 -- Johannes Gutenberg invents the
printing press in Mainz, Germany.
1453 --
Constantinople and the Eastern Roman Empire (the Byzantium
Empire) fall, thus signifying the end of the Dark
Ages.
1456 -- the Gutenberg Bible (a.k.a. the
Mazarin Bible or the 42-Line Bible), the first book produced on a printing
press, is printed in Latin.
1517 --
Martin Luther affixes his 95 theses to the castle church
door of the University of Wittenberg, in Wittenberg, Saxony, Germany, on October
31st, thus signifying the beginning of the
Reformation.
1551 -- the New Testament is divided into
verses.
1560 -- the Old Testament is divided into
verses.
1603 -- King James I succeeds to the throne
of England.
1604 -- the Christians (many of which were
Puritans) request of King James I that a new English translation of the Bible be
made.
160? -- translation begins on the Authorized
Version (the King James Version) of the Bible under the order of King James
I.
1611 -- the Authorized Version (the King
James Version) of the Bible is finished being translated from the Masoretic Text
(the Old Testament) and Textus Receptus (the New Testament) and is
published.
1988 -- Batavia Christian Center / Matthew
Norville Ministries is founded in Batavia, Illinois, U.S.A., and holds its first
service on Sunday, June 5th.