43 events with tag "persecution"
1344 BC
ID: 3653
Aten declared sole god - Akhenaten closes temples of other gods, erases names, priests dispossessed
ID: 3653
213 BC
ID: 4702
Burning of books and burying of scholars - Legalist suppression of Confucian texts
ID: 4702
175 BC
ID: 2962
Antiochus IV Epiphanes becomes Seleucid king - begins aggressive Hellenization of Judea, calls himself 'God Manifest'
ID: 2962
42
ID: 5971
Traditional arrival of St. Mary Magdalene in Provence - flees persecution with Martha and Lazarus, lands at Saintes-Maries-de-la-Mer
ID: 5971
81
ID: 4128
Domitian begins systematic persecution - requires worship of emperor as 'Lord and God', many Christians refuse
ID: 4128
95
ID: 4007
Domitian's second persecution of Christians - executes cousin Flavius Clemens for 'atheism' (Christianity)
ID: 4007
110
ID: 4130
Pliny writes to Trajan about Christians - governor asks how to handle Christians, Trajan says don't seek them out but punish if accused
ID: 4130
112
ID: 4131
Emperor Trajan's rescript on Christians - establishes legal precedent: Christians not to be hunted but punished if denounced and refuse to recant
ID: 4131
177
ID: 4116
Martyrs of Lyon and Vienne - 48 Christians including St. Blandina (slave girl) tortured and killed in amphitheater
ID: 4116
202
ID: 4990
Martyrdom of St. Irenaeus at Lyon - Doctor of the Church, established apostolic succession doctrine
ID: 4990
249
ID: 4050
Decius becomes emperor - requires all citizens sacrifice to gods, first systematic persecution
ID: 4050
250
ID: 3812
Origen tortured under Decius - survives but dies from injuries years later, prolific writer of 2000 works
ID: 3812
253
ID: 4053
Valerian becomes emperor - renews Christian persecution, will be captured by Persians
ID: 4053
274
ID: 4655
Execution of Mani - Zoroastrian priests have him killed as heretic, Kartir persecutes Manichaeans
ID: 4655
280
ID: 4656
Kartir's inscriptions - high priest documents persecution of Christians, Jews, Buddhists, Manichaeans
ID: 4656
296
ID: 3863
St. Marcellinus becomes twenty-ninth pope - controversial for allegedly offering incense to idols under pressure
ID: 3863
297
ID: 5062
Diocletian issues edict against Manichaeans - orders leaders burned alive with their scriptures, followers executed or sent to mines
ID: 5062
303
ID: 4067
Great Persecution begins - Diocletian orders destruction of churches, burning of scriptures
ID: 4067
305
ID: 4069
Galerius becomes senior emperor - continues persecution in East, cancer kills him in 311
ID: 4069
350
ID: 4858
Palestinian Talmud completed - Shorter than Babylonian due to Roman persecution, less authoritative
ID: 4858
404
ID: 3829
St. John Chrysostom exiled - Empress Eudoxia banishes him for criticizing luxury, dies in exile 407
ID: 3829
648
ID: 5025
Type of Emperor Constans II - forbids discussion of one or two wills in Christ, persecution of orthodox
ID: 5025
653
ID: 5027
St. Maximus the Confessor arrested - brought to Constantinople, refuses to accept Monothelitism
ID: 5027
741
ID: 5032
Constantine V Copronymus becomes emperor - even more violent iconoclast than his father Leo III, called 'dung-named'
ID: 5032
767
ID: 5035
Mass persecution of iconodules - Constantine V forces monks to marry in hippodrome, many martyred
ID: 5035
815
ID: 5037
Second Iconoclasm begins - Emperor Leo V revives icon destruction after Nicaea II restoration
ID: 5037
843
ID: 5069
Great Anti-Buddhist Persecution in China - also suppresses Manichaeism, Nestorian Christianity, and Zoroastrianism
ID: 5069
1144
ID: 198
First blood libel accusation in Norwich - Jews falsely accused of ritual murder, pattern spreads across Europe
ID: 198
1229
ID: 5284
Treaty of Paris ends Albigensian Crusade - Languedoc subjugated, Inquisition established, troubadour tradition effectively ended
ID: 5284
1290
ID: 2412
July 18, 1290
Edict of Expulsion - Edward I expels all Jews from England, not allowed to return until 1656
ID: 2412
1307
ID: 57
October 13, 1307
Knights Templar arrested throughout France on Friday 13th
ID: 57
1378
ID: 3587
St. Catherine begins having visions of Church's future trials - 'The Church will be persecuted and apparently destroyed, but will rise more beautiful' - Correctly prophesies coming Great Schism
ID: 3587
1614
ID: 5507
Tokugawa Ieyasu bans Christianity throughout Japan, beginning severe persecution
ID: 5507
1737
ID: 506
June 1737
Inquisition condemns Florence Masonic lodge; Tommaso Crudeli arrested, tortured, dies from treatment
ID: 506
1762
ID: 565
Rousseau's paranoid flight across Europe begins - arrest warrant, develops persecution mania
ID: 565
1789
ID: 637
St. Alphonsus vision: Christ warns 'enemies believe they'll destroy My Church but new flowering will spring'
ID: 637
1792
ID: 646
September Massacres - 300+ priests murdered; Blessed Pierre-Rene Rogue arrested
ID: 646
1801
ID: 5538
Sinyu Persecution - hundreds of Korean Catholics martyred including Chinese priest Zhou Wenmo
ID: 5538
1866
ID: 5540
Great Persecution of 1866 - 8,000 Korean Catholics killed including French missionaries
ID: 5540
1918
ID: 1267
Summer: 47 clergymen shot, drowned, or axed to death in Yekaterinburg diocese alone
ID: 1267
1936
ID: 1452
Spanish Civil War - 13 bishops, 4,000 priests martyred (1936-1939) - Martyrs die crying 'Viva Cristo Rey!'
ID: 1452
1970
ID: 1877
Mid-1970s: Of Moscow's 657 churches in 1917, only 46 still held services
ID: 1877
2022
ID: 3374
Persecution intensifies worldwide - Nicaragua imprisons bishops - China controls Church
ID: 3374