c. 400              Augustine, Against Faustus the Manichean.

    400              Augustinewrites Against the Letter of Parmenian (Contra epistolam Parmeniani),  Responses to Januarius

(Ad inquisitiones Januarii) and  On the Work of Monk (De opere monachorum.)

c. 400              Apostolic Constitutions gathered from previous sources indicating African influence on shaping

of early canon law.

c .400               Codex Bobiensis provides evidence showing that the first Latin translation of the gospels came out of Africa (Carthage) containing the shorter ending of Mark.

c. 400               African saints and martyrs include Antonius Honoratus, bishop of Constantina in Numidia; Faustinianus, bishop of Timgad in Numidia; Palladius, bishop of Tebessa in Algeria; Perseverantius, Donatist bishop of Tebessa, Algeria; Pomerius Julianus of Mauretania; Potentius and Renatus, bishops of Tipasa in Mauretania; Secundus, bishop of Timgad; Urbanus, bishop of Sicca Veneria; Urbicus, bishop of Tebessa; Victor, bishop of Constantine in Numidia; Victor of Cartenna in Mauretania.

    400–401      Augustine writes On Baptism and Against the Donatist (De baptismo contra Donatistas.)

    400–419      Augustine writes The Trinity (De Trinitate.)

    401              Augustine writes On the Good of Marriage (De bono conjugali) and Holy Viriginity (De sancta virginitate.)

    401–405      Augustine writes Against the Letters of Petilian the Donatist (Contra litteras Petiliani). Augustine’s polemical writings against Manichees, Donatists, and Pelagians dominate subsequent Western Christian thought .

    401–414      Augustine writes On the Literal Interpretation of Genesis (De Genesi ad litteram.)

    401–404      Rufinus writes Explanation of the Apostles’ Creed and History of the Church.

    402–405      Augustine writes To Catholic Members of the Church (Ad catholicos fraters.)

    403              Augustine preaches in Carthage at intervals.

    405–406      Augustine writes On the Unity of the Church (De unitate ecclesiae), To Cresconius, a Donatist Grammarian (Ad Cresconium grammaticum partis Donati.)

    406–411      Augustine writes On the Divination of Demons (De divinatione daemonum.)

    407–417      Augustine begins On John’s Gospel (Tractatus in Joh. Ev.)

    408–409      Augustine writes Six Questions against Pagans (Quaestiones expositae contra paganos.)

    408–412      Augustine writes On the Advantage of Fasting (De utilitate jejunii.)

    410              Rome is sacked by Alaric; Roman refugees flee to Africa; Pelagius passes through Hippo; arrival of Marcellinus; in ill health, Augustine retires to a villa outside Hippo for the winter.

    410              Neoplatonic Philosopher Synesius of Cyrene (370-414) in Libya becomes bishop of Ptolemais in Libya,

wrote Hymns and Prayers.

    410                          Augustine attends the Council of Carthage XV, which withdraws toleration for Donatists; it is a huge Conference (Collatio) with 285 Donatist and 286 Catholic bishops taking part; judgment is rendered against Donatists by the imperial tribune, Marcellinus.

    411              Augustine preaches regularly at Carthage, then to Cirta and back to Carthage; Marcellinus reports that Pelagian views were spreading in Carthage.

    411–412      Augustine writes A Summary of the Meeting with the Donatists (Breviculus collationis contra Donatistas), De gratia Testamenti Novi and On Merit and the Remission of Sins (De peccatorum meritis et remissione.)

    412              Augustine writes On the Spirit and the Letter (De spiritu et litter.a)

    412              Staggered by the vulnerability of Rome under siege, Augustine began his City of God.  

    412              Caelestius the Pelagian condemned at Carthage.

    412              Rise of Pelagianism, Pelagius writes In Favor of Free Will, against inherited sin, arguing that Adam’s sin harmed only himself.

    413              Augustine writes On Faith and Works (De fide et operibus) and (De videndo Deo ad Paulinam.)

    413              Pelagius writes Letter to Demetrias.

    413–415      Augustine writes On Nature and Grace (De natura et gratia), On the Good of Widowhood (De bono viduitatis.)

    415              Augustine writes To Orsius (Ad Orosium contra Priscillianistas et Origenistas), On the Origin of the Soul (De origine animae et de sentential Jacobi ad Hieronymum), Tractatus in peistolam Joannis ad Partho and On the Perfection of Human Righteousness (De perfectione justitiae hominis.)

    416              Pelagius writes Free Will.

    416              Paulus Orosius arrives in Africa and brings St. Stephen’s relics with him.

    416              Visigoths in Spain.

    416, 418, 419          Pelagius condemned in Councils of Carthage.

    417              Orosius’ Historiae, attempts Christian universal history from the flood to 417.

    417              Augustine writes On the Correction of the Donatists (De correctione Donatistarum), Letter 185.

    418–420      Augustine writes On Continence (De continentia.)

    418–452 fl. Marius Mercator (390-452), African born geographer and theological writer.

    418              Case of Apiarius, excommunicated bishop of Sicca, who appeals to Rome on basis of Nicene canons.

    419              Council of Carthage assembles to discuss the claim of Rome to have jurisdiction over North Africa.

    419–420      Augustine writes Against Adversaries of the Law and the Prophets (Contra adversarium legis et prophetarum), On Adulterous Marriages (De adulterinis conjugiis), On the Soul and Its Origin, (De anima et eius origine), Questions on the Heptateuch and Sayings in the Heptateuch.

    420              Augustine writes Against Two Letters of the Pelagians; finishes On the Trinity (De Trinitate), his principal dogmatic work on the Trinitarian mystery in the life of grace.

    421              Augustine writes The Enchiridion of Faith, Hope, and Love (Enchiridion ad Laurentium.)

    421              Augustine attends XVIII Council of Carthage and writes Against Julian (Contra Julianum.)

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    421–424      Augustine writes On the Care of the Dead (De cura pro mortuis gerenda),  On Eight Questions from Dulcitius, (De octo Dulcitii quaestionibus)and Against Gaudentius (Contra Gaudentium Donatistarum episcopum.)

    424              Eraclius builds memoria to St. Stephen at Hippo.

    426              Augustine completes City of God, (De civitate Dei) setting forth the Christian understanding of universal history and human destiny, his apologetic and dogmatic masterpiece.

    426–427      Augustine writes On Grace and Free Will (De gratia et liberto arbitrio) On Admonition and Grace (De     correptione et gratia), Reconsiderations (Retractationes), Against Maximus (Contra Maximinum Arianorum episcopum,De haeresibus ad Quodvultdeum.)

    426              Augustine visits Milevis to regulate succession of Bishop Severus by Eraclius.

    427              Nestorian controversy; Nestorius bishop of Constantinople condemns those who call Mary Theotokos, against long liturgical tradition; Cyril’s Letter to the Monks of Egypt emphasizes the unity of Christ as divine and human as justification for Theotokos.

    427              Rebellion of Boniface, governor in Africa.

    427–437      Capreolus bishop of Carthage.

    428–429      Augustine writes The Predestination of the Saints; The Gift of Perseverance; Prosper of Aquitaine writes

Letter to Augustine.

    429              Death of Aurelius, bishop of Carthage.

    429              Vandals invade Africa from Spain, approaching along the coast of Mauretania; Darius comes to Africa to reconcile Boniface and the Empress.

    429–430      Augustine writes Tractatus adversus Judaeos and Contra secundam Juliani responsionem opus imperfectum.

    430              Defeat of Boniface in Africa; siege of Hippo by the Vandals, while St. Augustine is still living; Vandals ravage of Numidia.

    430              Death of Augustine at Hippo (28^th Aug.), during siege.

    434              Vincent of Lerins writes Right Remembering, (Commonitorium), articulates method for ecumenical teaching.

    435              The Theodosian Code prohibits, among other things, the construction of new synagogues; sacrifices prohibited.

    439              Vandals under Genseric (Gaeseric) capture Carthage.

c. 450              Arnobius the Younger, an African monk living in Rome.

    451              Council of Chalcedon, Fourth ecumenical.

    453              Death of Quodvultdeus (fl. 430), bishop of Carthage.

c. 454              All of North Africa and Gaul now occupied by the Franks, Visigoths and Vandals, (ethnically Gothic, religiously Arian), who persecute the Catholics of Africa.

    455              Sack of Rome by the Vandals, who soon occupy all the African provinces and the islands (Sicily,

Sardinia and Corsica.)

    455-476       Disintegration of Western Roman Empire.

    456              Deogratias is bishop of Carthage.

    468              Vandals defeat Imperial fleet.

    477              Death of Genseric (Gaiseric.)

    483-484       Another outbreak of Vandal persecutions of Orthodox Christians in North Africa.

    484              Catholic bishop Vigilius of Thapsus called before Huneric, writes Dialogus contra arrianos, Contra Eutychetem, defending Chalcedon against Arian and Monophysite arguments.

    484              Death of Huneric, king of the Vandals, succeeded by Thrasmund.

    484              Acacian Schism; failure of talks between Catholics and Vandals, flight of Catholic leadership.

    484-489       Victor of Vita, priest of the church of Carthage, writes his History of the Persecution in the Province of Africa (Historica persecutionis Africanae provinciae.)