Key Dates

KEY DATES

600-536 BC	GOLD - BABYLONIAN EMPIRE
536-331 BC	SILVER - MEDO*PERSIAN EMPIRE
331-168 BC	BRONZE - (MESOPOTAMIAN) GREEK EMPIRE
168-476 AD	IRON - ROMAN EMPIRE
31	Estimated Death of Jesus Christ
34	Stoning of Stephen end of 490 years for Jews (Dan 9:24).
67	Death of Peter and Paul
105	Roman Church introduces Holy Water.
284	Partition of Roman Empire into east and west.
311	Edict of Milan (after Constantine's victory of the Milvian Bridge) Christian Worship henceforth tolerated throughout the empire.
321	Constantine's Sunday law on the venerable "day of the sun" stop work except farmers.
331	Constantine moves capital from Rome to Byzantium, changed to Constantinople.
337	Constantine baptized and claims to be the 13th disciple.
350	Council of Laodicea= people forbidden to rest on Saturday.
381	Christianity becomes the Official religion of the Roman Empire under the reign of Theodosius I and other religions declared illegal.
535	Edict of Atalaric = pope recognized as head of bishops of entire world.
538	Third Council of Orleans, France = 1^st religious law to stop labor on Sunday, trying to make it a holy-day.
493-538	3 horns eliminated = Henili, Vandals, Ostrogoths
538	7 horns left: Alamanni = North Switzerland and Germany; Burgundians = Southern Switzerland and Southern France; Franks = France; Lombards = Italy; Visogoths = Spain; Anglo-Saxons = England (Book of Daniel)
538	Implementation of Justinian's Law on papal supremacy in Rome
774	Forged "donation of Constantine" document "found" giving city of Rome to church. Eventually the church owns 1/3 of all Italy.
787	7^th General Council at Nicaea establishes the worship of images
1054	Great Schism between west (Roman) church and east (Orthodox) church. Rome excommunicates all of east church
1096	Various crusades to recover the Holy Land from Moslem control taken at the request of various popes, last till 1270.
1215	Inquisition instituted
1453	Invention of printing press
1492	Christopher Columbus discovers America.
1506	Rebuilding St Peters to 1597 paid for by indulgences.
1517	Luther, German reformer puts up 95 thesis.
1529-1530	Lutheran princes protest, called "protestants" at Speyer, Germany.
1534	Split between Rome and church of England
1534	Jesuits formed by Ignatius Loyola.
1543	Council of Trent: decision made that tradition and scripture are equal on argument of the Sabbath.
1548	Council of Trent: decision to include non-canonical books in the Bible to support beliefs of purgatory and the non-immorality of the soul.
1611	King James Bible translation.
1620	Pilgrims on Mayflower land at Plymouth, Mass.
1764	The British parliament pass the Currency Act. Making it illegal for the colonies to print their own money.
1775	War of independence US-Britain
1776	July 4th: Declaration of Independence approved by Continental Congress
1780	Dark day in America, moon as blood.
1781-1785	Congress authorizes Robert Morris to open The Bank of North America, designed after the Bank of England (backed by Alexander Hamilton)
1781	March 1st thirteen states ratify the Articles of the Confederation (our counties 1st Constitution)
1783	Treaty of Paris (ending the revolutionary war)
1788	The Constitution becomes the law of the U.S.
1789	George Washington becomes the 1st President of the U.S.
1789	French Revolution to 1799
1791	The Bill of Rights is ratified
1791	The 1st privately-owned U.S. Central Bank's is charted "Bank of the United States or (BUS).
1792	Jay Treaty of 1792 gave away much of what was gained in the 1783 Peace Treaty.
1793-1797	French reign of terror 1793 to 1797.
1798	Napoleon takes pope Pius VI captive, by General Berthier
1803	Napoleon sales Louisiana Purchase to the 3rd President of the United States, Thomas Jefferson for 3 million dollars.
1805 - 1814	Napoleon made king of Italy & Eugene de Beauharnais as Viceroy
1810	13th Amendment proposed, it would have removed the possibility of lawyers/esquires obtaining office in the U.S. government.
1811	1st privately-owned U.S. Central Bank's charter expires
1812	U.S. & Britain go to war
1812	War took place, Washington documents burned and the debt of the U.S. increased, so the Bank would have to be re-chartered.
1816	2nd privately-owned U.S. Central Bank is started
1826	British and Foreign Bible Society stops printing the Apocrypha in the Bible
1833	Falling of stars.
1835	Assassination attempt on President Andrew Jackson fails by Richard Lawrence
1835	U.S. debt paid off (1st and only time) by President Andrew Jackson
1836	Andrew Jackson vetoed the charter renewal of the 2nd privately-owned U.S. Central Bank
1840	Ottoman empire falls
1845	The Act of 1845 is passed, allowing admiralty law to come on land, granting Congress and the President more power.
1846	The U.S. Treasury created.
1848	Italy declared a Republic.
1852	Pope Pius IX sends marble block to Washington for part of Washington monument but it is thrown into the Potomac river.
1858	The Great Controversy Vision of Ellen White. (7th Day Adventist)
1861	Civil War begins
1862	Congress passed a law establishing the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
1863	National Bank Act
1865	Lincoln assassinated by John Wilkes Booth
1866	Congress passed the Contraction Act, retiring some of Lincoln's greenbacks
1869	One year after the passage of the Fourteenth Amendment, Gould and Fisk cornered the Gold market, known as black Friday.
1870	Pope Pius IX announces dogma of the infallibility of the pope.
1873	Coinage Act ended the minting of silver.
1881	President Garfield assassinated
1900	Congress passed the Gold Standard Act and created a gold reserve of one hundred and fifty billion dollars
1907	J.P. Morgan is authorized to print $200 million from nothing, which he then used to help the economy
1907	A Financial Panic occurs in the U.S.
1908	President Roosevelt passes the National Monetary Commission Bill
1908	Aldrich-Vreeland Bill is shot down by the Senate
1910	Meeting of the nation's leading financiers @ Jekyll Island
1913	The Sixteenth Amendment is passed, and the Federal Reserve Act or Glass-Owen Bill is passed.
1913-1934	Inscriptions on Federal Reserve Notes. = = "redeemable in gold on demand at the united states treasury or in lawful money, at any federal reserve bank." & "will pay to the bearer on demand one dollar."
1914	WWI - 1918
1915	The Lusitania is sunk
1917	Communism set up in Russia.
1917	British General Allenby liberates Jerusalem from Turkish empire
1917	The War Powers Act is passed
1920	League of Nation created
1920	The independent treasury was created
1920-1921	^{Agricultural Depression}
1921	The United States abolished the U.S. Treasury. allowing the Fed to becoming the U.S.'s fiscal agent.
1922	Stalin rise to power in Russia
1922	Benito Mussolini rise to power in Italy
1928-1932	Five years of the Geneva conventions.
1929	Benito Mussolini gives pope full authority over state of Vatican + 108 acres. Pope now monarch as well as priest, fulfillment of Rev 13:3.
1929-1933	The Federal Reserve contracted the amount of currency in circulation by one-third.
1929	U.S. Stock Market crash
1930	Bank of International Settlements (BIS) opens in Switzerland
1933	Adolph Hitler rise to power
1933	America accepts fiat money, via the Federal Reserve (Notes).
1933	Americans could no longer legally own and trade gold
1933	House Joint Resolution 192 was passed to suspend the gold standard and abrogate the gold clause in the national constitution.
1933	1933 the U.S. declared bankruptcy, as expressed in Roosevelt's Executive Orders 6073, 6102, 6111, and 6260, House Joint Resolution 192 of June 5, 1933 confirmed in Perry v. U.S. (1935) 294 U.S. 330-381, 79 LEd 912, as well as 31 United States Code (USC) 5112, 5119 and 12 USC 95a.
1934	U.S. citizens become co- sureties of the debt as defined by the Federal Insurance Contribution Act
1934-1968	Inscriptions on Federal Reserve Notes. = = "this note is legal tender for all debts public and private and is redeemable in lawful money at the united states treasury, or any federal reserve bank." & "will pay to the bearer on demand one dollar."
1936	Spain Civil war begins
1937	Japan invades China
1937	Ft. Knox opens for Business
1938	WWII - 1945
1938	Supreme Court decision of Erie R.R. v. Thompkins, 304 U.S. 64 (1938) (no cases are allowed to be cited that are prior to 1939.)
1941	U.S. enters WWII after bombing of Perl Harbor by Japan
1944	U.S. approved its full participation in the IMF and the World Bank.
1944	IMF & World Bank opens in Washington D.C.
1945	Ratification of the U.N. Charter.
1945	The second League of Nations was approved under the new name 'The United Nations'.
1948	Israel re-established as a nation
1951	Harry Truman tries to nominate ambassador to Vatican but public protest causes this to be withdrawn.
1953	Internal Revenue Service (IRS) was created and established. Reorganizing & renaming the Bureau of Internal Revenue.
1963	Kennedy issued Executive order #11.110 it called for the issuance of a new currency (United States Note) & (reducing the FEDs power to loan money to the U.S. at interest)
1963	President Kennedy is assassinated by Lee H. Oswald
1963	Washington D.C. adopted the Uniform Commercial Code, six weeks after Kennedy was assassinated.
1964	House Committee on Banking & Currency, Subcommittee on Democratic Finance - issues Money Facts, explaining the FED.
1968-1995	Inscriptions on Federal Reserve Notes. = = "this note is legal tender for all debts, public and private"
1969	IMF begins issuing SDRs. (Special Drawing Rights)
1970	Americans could again legally own and trade gold
1982	Lewis Vs U.S. (federal reporter, 2nd series, vol. 680, pages 1239,1241) explains the privet Federal Reserve System
1982	President Reagan's Gold Commission states that all the Gold in Ft. Knox was sold to the Federal Reserve Bank.

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