Chronological Outline

Date		Events
1506		† Christopher Columbus.
1511		Establishment of first American bishoprics.
1512		Eighteenth General Council—Lateran V.
1517		Publication of Theses of Luther.
1520		Excommunication of Luther.
1521		Diet of Worms.
1525		Revolt of the peasants.
1527		Rome sacked by troops of Charles V.
1529		Diet of Spires. Publication of Luther's Catechism.
1531		League of Smalkald.
1532		Cranmer pronounces divorce between Henry and Catherine.
1535		† Blessed John Fisher. Blessed Thomas More.
1545		Nineteenth General Council—Trent.
1546		† Martin Luther.
1552		Forty-two Articles of Church of England.
1552		† St. Francis Xavier.
1554		England's reunion with Holy See.
1555		Religious Peace of Augsburg.
1556		† St. Ignatius of Loyola. Thomas Cranmer.
1560		Suppression of Catholicism in Scotland.
1562		Ratification of the Thirty-nine Articles in England.
1563		Close of the Council of Trent.
1571		Battle of Lepanto. Edicts of persecution against Catholics in England.
1572		St. Bartholomew's Day. † St. Francis Borgia. John Knox.
1579		Foundation of English seminary in Rome.
1582		Reform of the calendar. † St. Teresa.
1587		† Mary Stuart. Persecutions in Japan.
1595		Henry IV. of France absolved by Clement VIII.
1595		† St. Philip Neri.
1600		The great Jubilee.
1605		Gunpowder Plot in London.
1611		Reductions in Paraguay
1618		Thirty Years' War
1622		Congregation de Propaganda Fidei founded.
1622		† St. Francis of Sales.
1632		Colony of Maryland founded.
1637		Suppression of Christianity in Japan.
1647		Presbyterian Confession of Scotland.
1648		Peace of Westphalia.