326 AD	St. Helena, mother of the Emperor Constantine, discovers the True Cross in Jerusalem.
335 AD	Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre, the Church of the Resurrection, is dedicated.
614 AD	Jerusalem falls to the Persians and the True Cross is lost.
629 AD	Byzantine Emperor Heraclius reconquers Jerusalem and retrieves the True Cross.
638 AD	Muslim rule comes to the Holy Land.
1070 AD	The Church of the Holy Sepulchre and other Christian churches in the Holy Land are burned and pilgrimages hindered by the Muslims.
1095 AD	Pope Urban II preaches the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont to the cry of "Deus lo vult!" (God wills it) and Godfrey de Bouillon, Duke of Lower Lorraine, takes the Cross.
1099 AD	The First Crusaders capture Jerusalem. Godfrey becomes Protector of the Holy Sepulchre, establishes religious canons at the Church of the Resurrection and dubs knights at the Holy Sepulchre.
1100 AD	Godfrey dies and is buried along with his brother in the Church of the Holy Sepulchre.
1113 AD	Pope Pascal II recognizes an Order of Knights who received their investiture at the Holy Sepulchre.
1122 AD	Pope Callixtus II recognizes a lay religious community to guard the Basilica of the Holy Sepulchre.
1291 AD	The Latin Kingdom of Jerusalem falls to the Moslems and the last Knights of the Holy Sepulchre leave the Holy Land.
1342 AD	Pope Clement VI commits the care of the Holy Land to the custody of the Franciscans, with the power to dub knights at the Empty Tomb.
1480 AD	Friar Felix Fabri, O.P., witnesses John of Prussia conferring knighthood at the Holy Sepulchre and records the ceremony.
1489 AD	Pope Innocent VIII unites the Order with the Hospitaller Order of Saint John of Jerusalem, of Rhodes and Malta (commonly called Knights of Malta).
1496 AD	Pope Alexander VI reestablishes the independence of the Order.
1847 AD	Blessed Pius IX re-establishes the Latin Patriarchate of Jerusalem and gives the Patriarch the power to bestow knighthood at the Holy Sepulchre.
1871 AD	Contessa Maria Francesca di Tomas becomes the first Lady of the Holy Sepulchre.
1888 AD	Pope Leo XIII formally enables Ladies to become members of the Order.
1929 AD	The American Lieutenancy is established with Cardinal Dougherty of Philadelphia as the first Grand Prior.
1930 AD	The Holy See rules that the Order is an "Equestrian" rather than a "Military" Order.
1935 AD	Sir Albert Mayrhofer, the first Knight in the western United States of whom we have a record, is admitted to the Order in San Diego.
1940 AD	Two U.S. Lieutenancies are created - the Eastern and the Western.
1962 AD	Blessed John XXIII places the Equestrian Order under the personal protection of the Holy Father, although not as a "Pontifical Order."
1964 AD	The Western Lieutenancy is split into two lieutenancies called the Southern and the Northern Lieutenancies.
1973 AD	The Western Lieutenancy is established from the Western Delegation of the Southern Lieutenancy.
1977 AD	Pope John Paul II reorganizes the Order as it is presently constituted.
1980 AD	Pope John Paul II beatifies Blessed Bartolo Longo, KGCHS, the "Herald of the Blessed Virgin Mary's Rosary."
1988 AD	His Beatitude Michel Sabbah, the first Palestinian Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem, becomes Grand Prior of the Equestrian Order.
1993 AD	The Northwestern Lieutenancy is created out of the Western Lieutenancy.
1994 AD	Pope John Paul II confides the Equestrian Order to the special care of Our Lady Queen of Palestine.
1996 AD	Pope John Paul II appoints His Eminence Carlo Cardinal Furno as Grand Master of the Equestrian Order.
1999 AD	As a result of the work of the 1998 Consulta in Rome, the Grand Magisterium adopts Guidelines for the Renewal of the Equestrian Order of the Holy Sepulchre of Jerusalem for the Third Millennium.
2000 AD	The Al-Asqa Intifada begins in Palestine.
2007 AD	Pope Benedict XVI appoints His Eminence John Patrick Cardinal Foley as Grand Master of the Equestrian Order, the first American prelate to be named to this position.