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Publication of the King James Version of the Bible
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Tokugawa Ieyasu bans Christianity from Japan.
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Protestant/Catholic conflict in Germany (Thirty Years War)
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Pope Gregory XV makes Armand Jean du Plessis de Richelieu a cardinal upon the nomination of King Louis XIII of France – becoming Cardinal Richelieu
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Battle of Vienna
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Pope Innocent XII declares against nepotism and simony
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Pope Clement XI rules against the Jesuits in the Chinese Rites controversy.
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The 'Great Awakening' - A revival movement among Protestants in the USA
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Passionist religious institute granted full rights by Pope Clement IV
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John Carroll becomes the Bishop of Baltimore, the first bishop in the United States.
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Pope Pius VI taken prisoner by the armies of Napoleon I, dies in captivity in France
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Napoleon crowns himself Emperor of the French in the Cathedral of Notre Dame, Paris, in the presence of Pope Pius VII.
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First Vatican council. Dogma of Papal infallibility proclaimed
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World mission conference held in Edinburgh
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Holy Year proclaimed by Pope Pius XI
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Persecution of the Church in Spain It is estimated that in the course of the Red Terror (Spain), 6,832 members of the Catholic clergy were killed
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Encyclical of Pope Pius XII Mystici corporis defining the Catholic Church as the Body of Christ
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Formation of the World Council of Churches
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Signing of the Joint Declaration on Justification by the Lutheran and Roman Catholic Churches
