{"slug": "augustine-of-hippo", "label": "Augustine of Hippo", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Augustine_of_Hippo", "wikidata": "https://www.wikidata.org/wiki/Q8018", "qid": "Q8018", "description": "Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)", "entries": 18, "years": 15, "span": [332, 1565], "span_label": ["332 CE", "1565 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 12}, {"title": "Births", "count": 3}, {"title": "Deaths", "count": 2}, {"title": "Conflict & Security", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "christianity", "label": "Christianity", "shared": 2}, {"slug": "roman-empire", "label": "Roman Empire", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "carthage", "label": "Carthage", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "algeria", "label": "Algeria", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "theology", "label": "Theology", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vandals", "label": "Vandals", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "north-africa", "label": "North Africa", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "mediterranean-sea", "label": "Mediterranean Sea", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "genseric", "label": "Genseric", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "africa-roman-province", "label": "Africa (Roman province)", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "donatism", "label": "Donatism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "baptism", "label": "Baptism", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 332, "year_label": "332 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Saint Monica, Christian saint and mother of Augustine of Hippo (d. 387)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1332406433#Births", "title": "332", "revid": 1332406433, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 333, "year_label": "333 CE", "section": "Births", "date": null, "text": "Saint Monica, Christian saint and mother of Augustine of Hippo (approximate date)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1372731369#Births", "title": "333", "revid": 1372731369, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 354, "year_label": "354 CE", "section": "Births", "date": "November 13", "text": "November 13 – Augustine of Hippo, North African bishop (d. 430)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1267529595#Births", "title": "354", "revid": 1267529595, "section": "Births"}}, {"year": 371, "year_label": "371 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine of Hippo, age 17, travels to Carthage to continue his education in rhetoric.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1283531136#Religion", "title": "371", "revid": 1283531136, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 386, "year_label": "386 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine converts to Christianity. He ends his marriage plans after hearing a sermon on the life of Saint Anthony.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1280220103#Religion", "title": "386", "revid": 1280220103, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 387, "year_label": "387 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine is baptized on Easter Vigil by Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205014#Religion", "title": "387", "revid": 1349205014, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 387, "year_label": "387 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": null, "text": "Saint Monica, mother of Augustine of Hippo", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1349205014#Deaths", "title": "387", "revid": 1349205014, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 395, "year_label": "395 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine, age 40, becomes bishop of Hippo Regius (modern Algeria). His assignment is the reunification of the Roman Catholic Church in Africa, primarily focusing on the Donatist movement led by Primianus of Carthage.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1334185587#Religion", "title": "395", "revid": 1334185587, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 397, "year_label": "397 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine of Hippo begins his Confessions, an autobiography that recounts his intellectual and spiritual development.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744022#Religion", "title": "397", "revid": 1364744022, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 398, "year_label": "398 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine of Hippo completes his Confessions, an autobiography that recounts his intellectual and spiritual development.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364744112#Religion", "title": "398", "revid": 1364744112, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 405, "year_label": "405 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "In the Roman province of Africa, Augustine of Hippo opposes Donatism as a heresy.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367640804#Religion", "title": "405", "revid": 1367640804, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 413, "year_label": "413 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine of Hippo, age 59, begins to write his spiritual book De Civitate Dei (City of God), as a reply to the charge that Christianity was responsible for the decline of the Roman Empire.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366415001#Religion", "title": "413", "revid": 1366415001, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 426, "year_label": "426 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Augustine of Hippo publishes the De Civitate Dei, City of God.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1300994457#Religion", "title": "426", "revid": 1300994457, "section": "Events › By place › Religion"}}, {"year": 430, "year_label": "430 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Spring – The Vandals under King Genseric extend their power in North Africa along the Mediterranean Sea, and lay siege to Hippo Regius (where Augustine has recently been bishop).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370135052#Roman_Empire", "title": "430", "revid": 1370135052, "section": "Events › By place › Roman Empire"}}, {"year": 430, "year_label": "430 CE", "section": "Conflict & Security", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – Augustine dies during the siege of Hippo Regius at age 75, leaving behind his monumental work The City of God and other works that will have influence on Christianity.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370135052#Religion", "title": "430", "revid": 1370135052, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 430, "year_label": "430 CE", "section": "Deaths", "date": "August 28", "text": "August 28 – Augustine of Hippo, bishop and theologian (b. 354)", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1370135052#Deaths", "title": "430", "revid": 1370135052, "section": "Deaths"}}, {"year": 1298, "year_label": "1298 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "Ambrose, Augustine, Jerome and Pope Gregory I are named the first Doctors of the Church. They are known collectively as the Great Doctors of the Western Church.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1363071319#Religion", "title": "1298", "revid": 1363071319, "section": "Events › By topic › Religion"}}, {"year": 1565, "year_label": "1565 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "September 8", "text": "September 8 – St. Augustine, Florida (named after Augustine of Hippo), is established by Pedro Menéndez de Avilés, becoming the oldest surviving European settlement in the modern-day United States, and a mass of Thanksgiving is said.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1323811827#July–September", "title": "1565", "revid": 1323811827, "section": "Events › July–September"}}]}