2nd century
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Overview: History - Epochs - Turnings - Centuries BC - Centuries AD
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With the arrival of the second century, persecutions of Christians grew somewhat more intense and as a result more Christians fled outward to the fringes of the Roman Empire. At the edges we find significant church planting occurring in Africa, India and even China. Many of these believers followed trade routes that enclaves of Jewish settlers had followed before them.
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- Christians found not only in all provinces of the Roman Empire but also outside the Empire in Mesopotamia (Latourette).
- 100 - First Christians are reported in Monaco, Algeria, and Sri Lanka
- 110 - Marcion born, will teach heresy of Marcionism.
- 112 - Traditional date of martyrdom of Sharbil, Babai, and Barsamy in Edessa, Mesopotamia
- 117 - Emperor Hadrian executes thousands of soldiers who had converted to Christianity
- 134. Second destruction of the Temple.
- 166 - Bishop Soter writes that the number of Christians has surpassed the Jews
- 167 - At the request of Lucius of Britain, missionaries Fuganus (or Phagan) and Duvianus (or Deruvian) were sent by Pope Eleuterus to convert the Britons to Christianity
- 174 - First Christians reported in Austria
- 180 - Pantaenus preaches in India
- 196 - Bar Daisan writes of Christians among the Parthians, Bactrians (Kushans), and other peoples in the Persian Empire
- 197 - Tertullian writes that Christianity had penetrated all ranks of society in North Africa
- Nestorians in Asia Minor using all four Gospels.
