Persecutions by Christians against non christians

Statue de Constantin Ier, Musée du Capitole, Rome (Photo credit: Wikipedia)

Persecutions by Christians

• 304 Destruction of 2 Indian Temples in the Canton of Jaron on the upper Euphrates
• 314 Council of Ancyra
• 324 Emperor Constantine declares Christianity the only official religion of the Roman Empire
• 326 Emperor Constantine destroys temples
• 330 Constantine steals the treasures and statues of the Pagan Temples
• 335 Constantine Orders Sacking of Temples and Execution of Magicians
• 335 Constantine sacks many Pagan Temples
• 341 Emperor Constans persecutes "all the soothsayers and the Hellenists"
• 346 Large-scale persecutions of the Gentiles in Constantinople
• 353 Constantius decrees the death penalty for all forms of worship involving sacrifice and "idols"
• 354 Constantius orders the closing of all Pagan Temples
• 356 Constantius orders the destruction of the Pagan Temples and the execution of all "idolaters"
• 357 Constantius outlaws all methods of Divination
• 359 Christians organise the first death camps for the torture and execution of arrested Gentiles
• 364 Confiscation of all properties of Pagan Temples (December 23)
• 364 Confiscation of all properties of Pagan Temples (February 4th)
• 364 Confiscation of all properties of Pagan Temples (September 9th)
• 364 Death penalty for all Gentiles that worship their ancestral Gods or practice Divination
• 364 Emperor Flavius Jovianus orders the burning of the Library of Antioch
• 365 Edict forbids Gentile officers of the army to command Christian soldiers
• 370 Persecution of Gentiles throughout the Eastern Empire
• 372 Order to exterminate the Hellenes and destroy all writings of their wisdom
• 373 New prohibition of all methods of Divination
• 375 Temple of Asclepius is closed down
• 380 Christianity becomes the exclusive religion of the Roman Empire
• 381 Theodosius deprives Christians who return to the Pagan Religion of all their rights
• 384 Order to destroy the Temples of the Gentiles in Northern Greece and Asia Minor
• 385 Destruction of the temple of Jupiter at Apamea in Syria by Cynegius
• 385 Systematic destruction of pagan temples, shrines and altars
• 386 Destruction of the Temple at Edessa in upper Mesopotamia
• 386 Emperor Theodosius outlaws the care of sacked Pagan Temples
• 388 Christian mob sacked the Jewish Synagogue in Callinicum
• 388 Public talks on religious subjects are outlawed
• 389 Mob violence against non-Christians
• 391 Edict prohibits looking at vandalised statues
• 392 Destruction of a Mithraeum in Alexandria
• 392 Outlaws all non-Christian rituals
• 393 Olympic Games are outlawed as idolatry
• 395 Two new edicts lead to new persecutions against the Pagans
• 396 Paganism is to be treated as high treason
• 397 All remaining Pagan Temples are to be demolished
• 398 Prohibits the study of Pagan books
• 399 Orders all remaining Temples, mainly in the countryside, to be immediately demolished
• 400 Forced baptism in Vesai
• 401 Christian mob of Carthage lynches Gentiles and destroys temples and idols
• 401 Final Destruction of the Temple of Artemis at Ephesus
• 401 Saint Porphyrius sends his followers to lynch Gentiles in Gaza
• 401 The 15th Council of Chalcedon orders excommunication for Christians who still keep good relations with their gentile relatives
• 402 Destruction of 8 Pagan Temples in Gaza under Saint Porphyrius
• 405 John Chrysostom sends his hordes of monks to destroy idols
• 406 John Chrysostom collects funds from rich Christian women
• 406 Persecutions on Cyprus
• 407 A new edict outlaws once more all non-christian acts of worship
• 408 New persecutions, including book burnings
• 409 Another edict orders Astrology and all methods of Divination to be punishable by death
• 415 Mobs in Alexandria murder Hypatia
• 416 Hypatius exterminates the last Gentiles of Bithynia
• 423 Theodosius II declares the religion of the Gentiles is nothing more than demon worship
• 429 Parthenon sacked and Athenian Pagans are persecuted
• 435 Death penalty for all "heretics" and "pagans" of the Empire
• 438 Theodosius II blames pagan idolatry for a plague
• 440 to 450 Christians demolish all the monuments, altars and temples of Athens, Olympia, and other Greek cities.
• 448 Theodosius II orders all non-Christian books burned
• 450 All the Temples of Aphrodisias are demolished and its libraries burned down
• 451 Edict by Theodosius II emphasizes that "idolatry" is to be punished by death
• 457 to 491 Sporadic persecutions against Gentiles of the Eastern Empire
• 482 The majority of the Gentiles of Asia Minor are exterminated
• 486 Underground pagan priests are killed in Alexandria, Egypt
• 515 Obligatory Baptism and the Massacre of Gentiles in Zoara
• 526 Closing of the last functioning Eqyptian temple (on Philae)
• 528 Emperor Jutprada (Justinianus) executes diviners and prohibits all pagan teachings
• 529 Emperor Justinianus outlaws the Athenian Philosophical Academy
• 532 The inquisitor monk Ioannis Asiacus leads a crusade against the Gentiles of Asia Minor.
• 542 Conversion of pagans of Phrygia, Caria and Lydia
• 546 Hundreds of Gentiles are put to death in Constantinople by the inquisitor Ioannis Asiacus
• 556 Emperor Justinianus orders the extermination of pagans in Antioch
• 562 Persecution of pagans in Athens, Antioch, Palmyra and Constantinople
• 578 to 582 Exterminate the last Gentiles of Heliopolis (Baalbek)
• 580 Christian inquisitors attack a secret Temple of Zeus in Antioch
• 583 New persecutions against the pagan Greeks by the Emperor Mauricius
• 590 A new wave of torture and executions erupts
• 692 Banning of remaining pagan festivals
• 804 The Greeks of Laconia, Greece, resist successfully the attempt to convert them to Christianity
• 950 to 988 Violent conversion of the last Gentile Hellenes of Laconia by the Armenian "Saint" Nikon

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