Historical Timeline
3 historical sources spanning key events in Christian history
AD 30–33
Jesus' Crucifixion
Jesus is crucified under Pontius Pilate during the reign of Tiberius
AD 64
Great Fire of Rome
Nero persecutes Christians, blaming them for the fire
c. AD 93–94
Flavius Josephus
Antiquities of the Jews 18.3.3
Now there was about this time Jesus, a wise man, if it be lawful to call him a man; for he was a doer of wonderful works, a teacher of such men as receive the truth with pleasure. He drew over to him both many of the Jews and many of the Gentiles. He was [the] Christ. And when Pilate, at the suggestion of the principal men amongst us, had condemned him to the cross, those that loved him at the first did not forsake him; for he appeared to them alive again the third day; as the divine prophets had foretold these and ten thousand other wonderful things concerning him. And the tribe of Christians, so named from him, are not extinct at this day.
c. AD 116
Publius Cornelius Tacitus
Annals 15.44
Christus, the founder of the name, had undergone the death penalty in the reign of Tiberius, by sentence of the procurator Pontius Pilatus…
c. AD 120
Gaius Suetonius Tranquillus
Lives of the Caesars Claudius 25.4
He expelled the Jews from Rome, since they were continually causing disturbances at the instigation of Chrestus.