- Asia
Paul and Barnabas convert the proconsul
On their journey across Cyprus the apostles Paul and Barnabas reached the Roman proconsul Sergius Paulus at Paphos, an early instance of a senior Roman official embracing Christianity.
Era: Roman and Byzantine Cyprus: An Early Christian Island
Sources: Cyprus: History · Encyclopaedia Britannica
- Europe
The shipwreck of the Apostle Paul
Christian tradition, drawing on the Acts of the Apostles, holds that Paul was shipwrecked on Malta around 60 CE, welcomed by the islanders and the leading man Publius, and stayed three months, beginning the islands' conversion.
Era: Phoenicians, Carthage, Rome and the Coming of Christianity
Sources: Feast of St. Paul's Shipwreck (Malta) · EBSCO Research Starters
- Europe
Martyrdom of Saint Peter
According to tradition the apostle Peter was martyred in Rome during the persecution under Nero and buried on the Vatican Hill beside the circus, around 64 CE.
Era: The Tomb of Peter and the First Basilica
Sources: The Tomb of Saint Peter · Fabbrica di San Pietro / basilicasanpietro.va, Papacy · Encyclopaedia Britannica
Religion in the 1st century
Every event in the Terralore archive tagged religion — faiths, institutions and religious change, narrowed to the 1st century — 3 of them, drawn from 3 nations, running from 45 to 64. Each entry keeps the sources it was verified against and links back to the chronicle it came from.
- Events
- 3
- Nations
- 3
- Earliest
- 45
- Latest
- 64
- Europe
- 2
- Asia
- 1
Every entry below is the same record, with the same sources, as the one on its nation’s chronicle.