Timeline After Jesus - Through 325 Years After

Timeline After Jesus - Through 325 Years After
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Notable Aspects

Jesus' followers lived in relative obscurity for several decades after Jesus
Paul was primarily responsible for expanding the message of Jesus outside of the Jewish community
Followers of Jesus were persecuted and martyred from immediately after Jesus
"Christianity" did not become a legally recognized religion until a quarter millennium after Jesus' birth
300 years after the Romans executed Jesus, the Roman Emperor Constantine became a follower of Jesus

Date (AD)	Event / Stage
30	Jesus Executed on the Cross
30	Jesus' followers imprisoned and ordered not to speak regarding Jesus' death and Jesus' resurrection from the dead.
46	Paul begins missionary journeys
49	Jews expelled from Rome
62	Paul executed in Rome
64	Emperor Nero starts persecuting followers of Jesus
66	Jews begin revolt against Rome
70	Roman commander Titus captures Jerusalem and destroys Jewish Temple
132	Jews revolt against Rome again
135	Rome squashes revolt and makes Jerusalem a Roman city
161-260	Persecution of Jesus' followers intensified and continued by Roman Emperors Marcus Aurelius, Decious, Gallus, Valerian
261	Emperor Gallienus's edict makes Christianity a legal religion
325	Emperor Constantine embraces and supports Christianity - making the church an institution of wealth and power