MAJOR HISTORICAL RELIGIOUS DATES - (SPECIFIC TO THE RELIGION OF ZARATHUSHTRA AND MEANINGFUL FOR OUR ZOROASTRIAN CHILDREN) ARE CAPITALIZED.
BCE.
1400 ? (1200) BIRTH OF PROPHET ZARATHUSHTRA, at age 35-40 Zarathushtra received revelation - composition of the Gathas, Yasna Haptanghaiti and other Old Avestan literature
13 century Moses, the Hebrew Law Giver & Prophet
1100-500 The RigVeda compiled
563-483 Buddha, the founder of Buddhism
551-479 Confucius, the founder of Confucianism
549-330 THE FIRST ZOROASTRIAN ACHEMENID EMPIRE
540-468 Mahavira, the founder of Jainism
220BCE-227CE THE SECOND (partial) ZOROASTRIAN ARSACID EMPIRE
200 The Bhagavad Gita (Hindu Text) is written
6 to 4BCE to 30 CE Jesus Christ, the founder prophet of Christianity
CE.
33 Crucifixion and death of Jesus Christ
64 Peter, the first Bishop of Rome & disciple of Jesus, dies
70-100 First four books of the New Testaments are written
220-651 THE THIRD ZOROASTRIAN SASANIAN EMPIRE. THE HOLY ANCIENT ZOROASTRIAN TEXTS FINALLY COMPILED & WRITTEN DOWN.
400 Two Buddhist Sects -- Zen and Amidism established
570-632 Muhammad -- the Prophet of Islam His teachings are recorded in the Quran
622 Prophet Muhammad flees to Yatrib (Medina) the date is known as Hejira, the start of the Muslim era
650 THE DEFEAT OF THE SASANIAN EMPIRE BY THE ARAB MUSLIMS AND COLLAPSE OF ZOROASTRIANISM, AS THE STATE RELIGION -- BEGINNING OF THE SLOW PERSECUTION OF THE ZOROASTRIANS -- PROGRESSIVELY BECOMING MORE & MORE OPPRESSIVE.
910-950 THE TRADITIONAL DATE OF THE ARRIVAL OF THE IRANIAN ZOROASTRIANS -- (PARSIS=PERSIANS) IN INDIA TO ESCAPE THE CRUSHING RELIGIOUS PERSECUTION.
921 THE GREAT ATASH VEHRAN (BAHRAM) -- "IRAN SHAH" -- IS ENTHRONED (now at Udvada).
1054 Pope Leo IX finalizes the split of the Eastern Orthodox Church and Roman catholic Church
1224-1274 Thomas Aquinas, Roman Catholic saint and Theologian
1309-1377 The Roman Catholic Papacy moves to Avigon, France
1483-1556 Martin Luther, leader of Protestant reformation -- Germany
1491-1546 Ignatius Loyola establishes the Jesuit Order of Roman Catholic Priests
1765 ATASH BAHRAM AT NAVSARI INSTALLED
1783 DADISETH ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY)
1823 MODI ATASH BAHRAM AT SURAT INSTALLED
1823 VAKIL ATASH BAHRAM AT SURAT INSTALLED
1830 WADIAJI ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY)
1845 BANAJI ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY)
1859 Charles Darwin publishes Origin of Species -- theory of organic evolution -- (animosity with the Christian Church doctrine of "creation")
1897 ANJUMAN ATASH BAHRAM INSTALLED (BOMBAY).
1869-1948 Mohandas K.Gandhi, Indian spiritual and political leader gets independence for India (1947) from British without any armed conflict, (- like American War of Independence).
1970 SLOW MIGRATION (unlike the first one of 950 CE from Iran) OF THE PARSIS TO THE WESTERN COUNTRIES.
1978-79 Fall of the Shah of Iran and migration of several Iranian Muslims to the west to escape the Islamic Fundamental Regime
1970-96 ESTABLISHMENT OF THE HALLS OF WORSHIP AND ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATIONS IN SEVERAL US, CANADIAN, AUSTRALIAN/NEW ZEALAND CITIES. FORMATION OF THE FEDERATION OF ZOROASTRIAN ASSOCIATION OF N. AMERICA -- 'FEZANA'.
REAL THREAT OF THE WORLDWIDE EXTINCTION OF MICROSCOPIC ZOROASTRIAN COMMUNITY.
(Many other dates though important like the attack on Zoroastrianism by the Christian Priest, Wilson resulting in its renaissance through the efforts of Khurshedji R. Cama and his scholarly team of Priestly disciples, establishment of K.R. Cama Oriental Institute with its world-renown library for Zoroastrian Scholarship. Introduction of the Study of Old Iranian/Avesta/Pahlavi Languages at the University level -- Bombay etc. will be dealt later.)
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History Timeline of World Religions, cults and occcult and its Founders
The true religion (way to God was given to Adam and Eve after they fell into sin). It was passed onto to his sons Ge,4. It was then passed on until mankind rebelled and no longer practiced it. By the time of Noah only he and his family kept it. After the flood Noah and his sons passed it on to individuals. Gods then chose Abram, a man from a pagan land to begin to have a nation given the true way.
2,085 BC. Judaism-Abraham gave him and his people a covenant
1,500 Moses God covenants with a people making a nation under his leadership, the only theocracy
1,500 BC. Hinduism- no specific founder (some say it was earlier)
1000 BC Zoroastrianism - Zoroastrianism founded by Zarathushtra (Zoroaster) in Persia
560 BC. Buddhism- Gautama Buddha
550 BC. Taoism - Lao Tzu
599 BC. Jainism, Mahavira
30 AD. Christianity –Jesus Christ new covenant made
50-100 AD. Gnosticism-
150-250 AD. -Modalism (Monarchianism)–Sabellius, Praxeus, Noetus, Paul of Samosata
325 AD. -After being persecuted for almost 200 years Constantine made the Church becomes a legal religion, compromise begins to enter.
590 AD.-Roman Catholicism- Developed after Constantine; Pope Gregory?
610 AD.- Islam- Mohammed
1400 AD.- Rosicrucians-Christian Rosenkreuz (1694 US) Rosicrucians- Master Kelpius, Johann Andrea
1515 AD.- Protestantism- (Reformers) Martin Luther, Ulrich Zwingli, John Calvin
1650 AD.- Tibetan Buddhism-Dalai Lama
1700 AD.- Freemasony- Albert Mackey, Albert Pike
1760 AD.-Swedenborgism- Emmanuel Swedenborg
1784 AD.- Shakers - Mother Ann Lee
1830 AD.- Mormonism – Joseph Smith
1830 AD.-Cambellites-Alexander & Thomas Cambell, Barton Stone
1838 AD.-Tenrikyo- Miki Maegawa Nakayama
1844 AD.-Christadelphians- John Thomas
1840-45 AD.-Millerites 2nd day Adventists –William Miller then became 7th Day Adventists
1844 AD.-Bahai- Baha'u'llah (Abul Baha)
1845-1870AD.- 7th Day Adventists-E.G. White
1848 AD.-Spiritualism - Kate and Margaret Fox
1870 Shakers Mother Ann Lee
1870 AD.-Jehovah's Witnesses- Charles Taze Russell
1875 AD.-Theosophical Society- H.P. Blavatsky, Henry Olcott
1879 AD.-Christian Science-Mary Baker Eddy
1889-1924 AD.-Unity School of Christianity- Myrtle Fillmore (Ecclectic, inclusivism)
1894 Vedanta Society Swami Vivekananda (Hinduism)
1900 AD.-Rosicrucian Fellowship-Max Heindel
1902 AD.- Anthroposophical Society –Rudolf Steiner
1903 Unity Church Charels Filmore (inclusivism)
1906 AD. -The Pentecostal Assemblies of the World
1909 Rosicrucian Fellowship Carl Louis von Grasshof (inclusive)
1914 AD.- Iglesia ni Cristo- Felix Manalo (Christian sect)
1914 AD.- Oneness Pentecostalism- Frank Ewart, G.T.Haywood, Glenn Cook
1917 AD.-True Jesus Church. Founders Paul Wei, Lingsheng Chang and Barnabas Chang
1923 Lucis Truth Alice Bailey (Occult/ New Age)
1927 AD.- Mind Science- Ernest Holmes (Inclusive)
1928 Opus dei Josemaría Escrivá de Balaguer (Roman Catholicism)
1930 AD. -Black Muslims (Nation of Islam) –Wallace D. Fard
1930 Soka Gakkai Tsunesaburo Makiguchi (Nicherin Buddhism)
1933 Subud Muhammed Subuh (Sufi)
1934 AD.-World Wide Church of God- Herbert W. Armstrong (Christian sect)
1934 Urantia Foundation William S. Sadler (UFO spiritualism)
1935 AD.-Self Realization Fellowship- Paramahansa Yogananda (Hinduism)
1945 AD.-United Pentecostal International- Howard Goss, W.T. Witherspoon (can be traced back to 1914)
1944 AD.- Silva Mind Control –Jose Silva (Occult/New Age)
1945 AD.- United Pentecostal International- Frist separted from Assembly of God in 1914. Howard Goss, W.T. Witherspoon
1945 AD. -The Way -Victor P.Wierwille (Christian sect)
1945 + Shinreikyo Kanichi Otsuka (Shinto)
1948 Religious Science Ernest Holmes (Christian/ inclusive)
1948 AD.- Latter Rain –Franklin Hall, George Warnock.
1950 AD.-Urantia Book- Dr. Bill Sadler
1950 AD.-Lafayette Ronald Hubbard published his book Dianetics-SCIENTOLOGY
1954 AD.-Atherius Society (UFO’s)- Dr. George King (UFO)
1954 AD.- Unification Church- Rev.Sung Myung Moon
1955 AD.- Scientology- L. Ron Hubbard
1958 AD.- Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research- Henry Kinley
1958-1970 AD.- Church Universal and Triumphant –Mark and E.C. Prophet (Inclusive, ecclectic)
1958 AD. -Henry Kinley begins (IDMR) the Institute of Divine Metaphysical Research
1959 AD.-Unitariarian Universalist
1959 Mahikari Kotama Okada (Shinto)
1960 AD.-Transcendental meditation- Maharishi Mahesh Yogi
1961 AD.- Unitarian Universalism was officially formed.
1964 AD.- Eckankar The Ancient Science of Soul Travel (Eck). Founded by Paul Twitchell
1965 AD.-Assembly of Yahweh-Jacob Meyer
1966 AD.- Church of Satan –Anton LaVey
1968 AD.- Hare Krishna (US)- Swami Prabhupada
1968 AD.- Children of God- David (Moses) Berg
1970 AD.-Findhorn Community –Peter and Eileen Caddy –David Spangler
1970 AD.- Divine light Mission- Guru Maharaj Ji
1973 AD.- CARP was established in the United States. [The Collegiate Association for the Research of Principles] to introduce the teachings of un Myung Moon.
1974 Raëlians Claude Vorilhon Rael (UFO)
1974 AD.-Assemblies of Yahweh-Sam Suratt
1975 A Course in Miracles Helen Schucman (new revelation)
1979 AD.-Church of Christ International - Kip McKean
1980 -1982 AD.- Tara Center-Benjamen Crème
1980 AD.- House of Yahweh (Abilene) Jacob Hawkins
1985 Adventures in Enlightenment, A Foundation Terry Cole-Whittaker
1992 Falon Gong Li Hongzhi
2007 Global Peace Foundation Hyun Jin Moon ( continuation of Moons Unification church)