The brilliant English scholar John Wycliffe is considered one of the leading figures of the early Reformation. It was Wycliffe who was most vocal in his condemnation of the Avignon Papacy’s corruption and greed. In his writings and sermons, John Wycliffe declared the Avignon Papacy as the antichrist. Because of his vocal opposition, Pope Gregory […]
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African Methodist Episcopal Church Founded 1816
The African Methodist Episcopal Church was founded in 1816 in Philadelphia by a group of free blacks led by Reverend Richard Allen. Reverend Allen was a former slave who worked in a Delaware plantation. He converted to Christianity in 1777 and was able to purchase his freedom in the same year. Three years after the […]
Republic of Haiti
The Republic of Haiti was founded in 1804 after a series of bloody revolts against the oppressive rule of the French colonists. The Haitian Revolution (1791) came close on the heels the French Revolution (1789) and was led by mulatto and black leaders. After a long and bloody struggle for freedom, the Haitians finally drove […]
Taiwan as Seat of Government of the Republic of China (ROC)
In 1949, Mao Zedong’s People’s Liberation Army drove Chiang Kai-shek and the Nationalists (Kuomintang or KMT) out of mainland China after nearly five years of civil war. The Kuomintang members fled the mainland and transferred the seat of government in the island of Taiwan. Although repressive at first, Chiang Kai-shek’s government turned Taiwan’s devastation around […]
Mongols Fail to Subdue Japan
Kublai Khan was one of the world’s most ambitious and accomplished leaders. During his reign, the Mongols ruled a vast expanse of Asia, as well as some parts of Eastern Europe. After a struggle with his brother Ariq Boke, Kublai subdued the Southern Song Dynasty of China. The only kingdom that remained out of his […]
Hohokam Culture in Arizona and New Mexico
The Hohokam people were descendants of the Paleoamericans who migrated from Asia to North America via the Bering Land Bridge. Others remained in Alaska or migrated eastward into the forests of present-day Canada. The Hohokam people continued south into Mexico. Thousands of years after their migration south into Mexico, they traveled northward to Arizona into […]
Ottomans Make Wallachia a Tributary
After conquering Thrace and Bulgaria, the Turks turned north and crossed the Danube into Wallachia. It had become independent of neighboring Hungary some years before and was ruled by its own governor Mircea cel Batran. After years of war with the Turks, the Ottomans finally made Wallachia a tributary in 1417. This is recorded on […]
Alexius I Komnenos
Alexius I Komnenos reigned as the Byzantine emperor from 1081 until AD 1118, which is where he is recorded on the Bible Timeline Chart with World History. Throughout his reign, the former general and scion of a powerful Byzantine family had to contend with the formidable Seljuk Empire during the First Crusade. He had to […]
Alexis I, Second Tsar of the Romanov Dynasty 1645
Alexis Mikhailovich (born March 9, 1629) was the eldest son of Tsar Michael I of Russia and Tsarina Eudoxia Streshneva. He inherited the throne at the age of sixteen upon his father’s death on July 13, 1645, and suffered another devastating loss five weeks later when Eudoxia herself died. Young Alexis, however, had little time […]
Dutch Colonized the Cape Peninsula 1652
The Khoi and San peoples were some of Cape Peninsula’s earliest settlers. During the early years of the Age of Discovery, European ships used the Cape as a way-station to replenish their supplies. Europeans (mostly Dutch and English) often docked near the Cape, and traded iron, copper, and other products for cattle owned by the […]