| 660-583 BC |
Zarathustra (Zoroaster), Possible dating |
| 581-497 BC |
Pythagoras |
| c. 90 AD |
Vitruvius writes De Architectura |
| c. 100 BC to c. AD 10 |
Probable origins of Gnosticism |
| First-fourth century |
Works of 'Hermes Trismegistus' written |
| First-sixth century |
Neo-Platonist Schools flourish |
| Second-fifth century |
Mithraism flourishes |
| 216-76 |
Mani, founder of Manichasism |
| 325 |
Council of Nicea |
| 367 |
Content of New Testament officially finalized |
| Fourth-fifth century |
Pelagius, propounder of Pelagianism |
| Seventh century |
Probable origin of Sufism |
| c. 721-815 |
Jabir ibn Hayyan (Geber), influential Arab alchemist |
| Ninth century |
John Scotus Erigena |
| Tenth century |
Possible founding of the Bogomils |
| 1090 |
Founding of the Assassins |
| 1095 |
Beginning of the First Crusade. Jerusalem is won
in 1099, lost in 1187, recaptured in 1229 and
lost again in 1244 |
| 1119 |
Founding of the Knights Templar |
| c. 1143 |
Emergence of the Cathars |
| c. 1150 |
The idea of courtly love, written and sung about
by the Provencal troubadours, migrates to northern France
(possibly with returning
Crusaders) in the middle of the twelfth century |
| 1155-90 |
Medieval mythologizing of the Arthur story, with
French emphasis on chivalry and courtly love,
and introduction of the Grail |
| c. 1175 |
The Cabalist Sefer ha-Bahir is written in
Provence. Medieval Cabalism develops in
Provence in the twelfth century and remains
strong there; it spreads from Provence to
Spain |
| 1184 |
Pope Lucius III founds the Inquisition |
| 1193-1280 |
Albertus Magnus |
| c. 1200 |
Origin of the Beguines |
| 1200-50 |
Languedocian or Provencal culture is largely wiped out |
| 1209 |
Albigensian Crusade begins against the Cathars |
| 1214-92 |
Roger Bacon |
| 1215 |
Founding of the Dominicans |
| 1229 |
The Northern French annex the Languedoc |
| 1232-1315 |
RamonLull |
| 1233 |
Dominicans put in charge of the Inquisition |
| 1244 |
Cathars' last stronghold, Montsegur, falls |
| c. 1250 |
End of the influence of the Assassins |
| 1272 |
End of the last Crusade |
| c. 1285 |
The Cabalist Sefer ha-Zohar is published in northern Spain |
| 1307-14 |
Dissolution of the Knights Templar; Jacques de Molay burned in 1314 |
| 1337-1453 |
Hundred Years War |
| 1340-74 |
Petrarch's Triumphs written |
| 1347-50 |
Black Death kills a third of Europe's population |
| 1367 |
First known mention of playing cards |
| 1378 |
Supposed birth of Christian Rosenkreuz |
| c. 1445 |
Earliest known Tarot pack |
| 1453 |
Constantinople sacked by the Turks |
| 1471 |
Corpus Hermeticum translated into Latin |
| 1484 |
Supposed death of Christian Rosenkreuz |
| c. 1486 |
Publication of Malleus Maleficarum |
| 1492 |
Jews expelled from Spain and Portugal |
| 1492 |
Columbus sails to America |
| Fifteenth-seventeenth century |
The Hermetic Philosophers |
| 1614-16 |
Publication of Fama Fratemitatis, Confessio Fratemitatis and
The Chymical Wedding of Christian Rosenkreuz |
| 1646 |
Elias Ashmole initiated into Masonic Lodge |
| 1659 |
Three people executed in Massachusetts for being Quakers |
| c. 1700 |
Marseille Tarot pack becomes popular |
| 1701 |
Act of Settlement ensures Protestant monarchy in England |
| 1707 |
Act of Union between England and Scotland |
| 1710 |
Laws of the Brotherhood of the Golden and Rosy Cross published |
| 1717 |
Formation of first Grand Lodge of Freemasons |
| 1736 |
Chevalier Michael Ramsay's Oration sparks chivalric interest in Freemasonry |
| c. 1754 |
Baron von Hund founds the Rite of the Strict Observance |
| 1776 |
American Declaration of Independence |
| 1776 |
Founding of the Illuminati |
| 1777 |
Reformation of the Brotherhood of the Golden and Rosy Cross |
| 1781 |
Antoine Court de Gebelin publishes Le Monde Primitif |
| 1781 |
Last person burned at the stake for heresy, in Seville |
| 1789 |
French Revolution begins |
| 1801 |
Francis Barrett's The Magus published |
| c. 1834 |
Freemasons concoct the word Jahbulon |
| 1850 |
Mary Anne Atwood's A Suggestive Enquiry into
the Hermetic Mystery published |
| 1855-56 |
Eliphas Levi's Dogme et Rituel de la Haute Magie published |
| 1858 |
Founding of Fratemitas Rosae Crucis (Beverly Hall Corporation) |
| c. 1865 |
Founding of the Ku Klux Klan |
| 1866 |
Founding of Societas Rosicruciana in Anglia |
| 1875 |
Founding of the Theosophical Society |
| 1888 |
Founding of the Kabbalistic Order of the Rosy Cross |
| 1888 |
Founding of the Hermetic Order of the Golden Dawn |
| 1890 |
Founding of the Order of the Catholic Rosy Cross, the Temple and the Grail |
| 1891-95 |
Leo Taxil's fabrications against Freemasonry |
| 1896 |
Papus publishes The Tarot of the Bohemians |
| c. 1900 |
HOGD splits into several factions, including Stella Matutina |
| 1906 |
Founding of the Ordo Templi Orientis |
| 1907 |
Founding of Crowley's Argentium Astrum |
| 1907 |
Founding of the Rosicrucian Fellowship |
| 1907 |
Founding of the Ordo Novi Templi |
| 1909 |
Founding of the Societas Rosicruciana in America |
| 1910 |
Rider-Waite Tarot published |
| 1913 |
Rudolf Steiner founds the Anthroposophical Society |
| 1915 |
Founding of the Ancient and Mystical Order Rosae Crucis (AMORC) |
| 1920 |
Aleister Crowley founds the Abbey of Thelema |
| 1920s |
Paul Foster Case founds the Builders of the Adytum |
| 1924 |
Founding of Lectorium Rosicrucianum |
| 1928 |
Dion Fortune founds the Fraternity (later Society) of the Inner Light |
| 1937-40 |
Teachings and rituals of HOGD revealed by Israel Regardie |
| 1960s, mid- |
Founding of P2 |
| 1972 |
W.E. Butler founds the Servants of the Light |
| 1989 |
Freemasons drop the word 'Jahbulon' |
| 1994-95, 1997 |
Suicide/murder of members of the Order of the solar Temple |
| 2000 |
End of the Age of Pisces and beginning of the Age of Aquarius. Time to Join RAN |
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