Protestant Reformation Timeline

By mrdgz
  • 1095

    Indulgences:

    Indulgences:
    A distinctive feature of the penitential system of both the Western medieval and the Roman Catholic Church that granted full or partial remission of the punishment of sin.
  • 1200

    The Inquisition:

    The Inquisition:
    had its start in the 12th-century Kingdom of France, with the aim of combating religious deviation (e.g. apostasy or heresy), particularly among the Cathars and the Waldensians.
  • 1400

    Humanism:

    Humanism:
    A Renaissance cultural movement which turned away from medieval scholasticism and revived interest in ancient Greek and Roman thought.
  • 1436

    Printing Press: S

    Printing Press: S
    Johann Guttenberg is credited with inventing the printing press in Europe. Asian countries had been using this technology for centuries by this point.
    This a cause as the printing press allowed for the mass production of books and pamphlets some of which criticized the Catholic church.
  • Dec 11, 1475

    Pope Leo X:

    Pope Leo X:
    Pope Leo X was head of the Catholic Church and ruler of the Papal States from 9 March 1513 to his death, in December 1521
  • Nov 10, 1483

    Martin Luther:

    Martin Luther:
    Martin Luther was a German priest, theologian, author, hymnwriter, professor, and Augustinian friar. He was the seminal figure of the Protestant Reformation, and his theological beliefs form the basis of Lutheranism
  • Jun 28, 1491

    Henry VIII:

    Henry VIII:
    remembered for the King's six wives and his legendary appetite.
  • Jul 10, 1509

    John Calvin:

    John Calvin:
    John Calvin was a French theologian, pastor and reformer in Geneva during the Protestant Reformation
  • Oct 31, 1517

    95 Theses: CE

    95 Theses: CE
    propositions for debate concerned with the question of indulgences, written (in Latin).This event came to be considered the beginning of the Protestant Reformation.
  • 1521

    Diet of Worm:

    Diet of Worm:
    Assembled by the emperor in order to discuss and examine the tenets of Martin Luther's protestations against the Catholic Church
  • Sep 7, 1533

    Elizabeth I:

    Elizabeth I:
    Elizabeth I was Queen of England and Ireland from 17 November 1558 until her death in 1603. She was the last monarch of the House of Tudor. Elizabeth was the only surviving child of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn
  • 1540

    Jesuits:

    Jesuits:
    Jesuits, is a religious order of clerics regular of pontifical right for men in the Catholic Church headquartered in Rome.
  • 1545

    Council of Trent:

    Council of Trent:
    The Council of Trent, held between 1545 and 1563 in Trent, now in northern Italy, was the 19th ecumenical council of the Catholic Church. Prompted by the Protestant Reformation at the time, it has been described as the embodiment of the Counter-Reformation
  • Sep 25, 1555

    Peace of Augsburg:

    Peace of Augsburg:
    Was a treaty between Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, and the Schmalkaldic League, signed on 25 September 1555 at the imperial city of Augsburg
  • 1572

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:

    St. Bartholomew's Day Massacre:
    was a targeted group of assassinations and a wave of Catholic mob violence directed against the Huguenots (French Calvinist Protestants) during the French Wars of Religion.

  • Edict of Nantes:

    Edict of Nantes:
    effectively ended the French Wars of Religion by granting official tolerance to Protestantism