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It set the right for Henry VIII to be the head of the Catholic Church and not the Pope and for people to accept Henry over the Pope. -
King Charles of France invaded Italy. Officially ended in 1559. The cross culture lead to the Italian renaissance. -
Luther took stand against Frair Johann Tetzel who was selling indulges and using the money for the rebuilding St. Peters Cathedral. He wrote down 95 complaints about the Catholic Church and posted it to the door of a Catholic Church. He gained many followers due to the new invention of the printing press causing his words to spread everywhere.
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Caused by high taxes and lack of power. Martin Luther was accused of rejecting church teachings which stopped eventually stopped social revulution. -
John Calvin had a big impact in spreading protestantism. He wrote "Institutes of the Christian Religion," this discussed the topic of Salvation, human nature, and most importantly God. His book was heavily influenced by Luthers idea that humans cannot earn salvation. He also talked about the doctrine called Predestination. This book is one of the foundations of later religion named Calvinism. -
Pope Paul III wanted to reform the Catholic Church the Jesuit order was one of the ways he did that -
Catholic Church way of stopping the spread of Protestantism and imposed religious uniformity of the Catholic Church. Caused torture, deaths, and people fleeing if they weren't Catholic -
The Council of Trent was one of the things Paul III did to reform the Catholic Church. Catholic Bishops and Cardinals agreed on several doctrines that strengthened the churches power -
Charles V a roman emporer called together the German Princes. Even though he was strictly against the protestant religion he called them along with the Christian princes to meet in Augsburg. There it was established that each Prince could chose the religion of their their state. This is called the Peace of Augsburg
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Parliament helped Elizabeth set Anglican Church with her as the head (only legal church in England). Decided to establish state church that Catholics and Protestants agreed on. -
John Knox Brought Calvinism to Scotland in 1559 from Switzerland. Quickly became Scotlands official religion. They got rid of there Catholic Queen. -
Calvins followed fought with catholics. Catholics murdered Protestants for 6 months. Roughly 12,000 Huguenots were killed. Didn't stop until Huguenot leader converted -
Huguenots leader Henry of Navarre converted to catholic ending the massacre which lead christians to accept him as king. The Edict of Nantes granted the Protestants with religious freedom.