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Augustine of Hippo

Christian theologian, philosopher, and saint (354–430)

18 dated entries naming Augustine of Hippo, drawn from 15 separate years between 332 CE and 1565 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

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4th century

  • 332Saint Monica, Christian saint and mother of Augustine of Hippo (d. 387)source
  • 333Saint Monica, Christian saint and mother of Augustine of Hippo (approximate date)source
  • 354November 13 – Augustine of Hippo, North African bishop (d. 430)source
  • 371Augustine of Hippo, age 17, travels to Carthage to continue his education in rhetoric.source
  • 386Augustine converts to Christianity. He ends his marriage plans after hearing a sermon on the life of Saint Anthony.source
  • 387Augustine is baptized on Easter Vigil by Saint Ambrose, Bishop of Milan.source
  • 387Saint Monica, mother of Augustine of Hipposource
  • 395Augustine, 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.source
  • 397Augustine of Hippo begins his Confessions, an autobiography that recounts his intellectual and spiritual development.source
  • 398Augustine of Hippo completes his Confessions, an autobiography that recounts his intellectual and spiritual development.source

5th century

  • 405In the Roman province of Africa, Augustine of Hippo opposes Donatism as a heresy.source
  • 413Augustine 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.source
  • 426Augustine of Hippo publishes the De Civitate Dei, City of God.source
  • 430Spring – 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).source
  • 430August 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.source
  • 430August 28 – Augustine of Hippo, bishop and theologian (b. 354)source

13th century

  • 1298Ambrose, 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.source

16th century

  • 1565September 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.source

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