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Jul 31, 1481
Birth of Ignatius
Ignacio López de Loyola was born in the municipality of Azpeitia at the castle of Loyola in today's Basque Country of Gipuzkoa, Spain. -
Period: Jul 31, 1491 to
Jesuits
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Aug 3, 1492
Christopher Columbus
On the evening of 3 August 1492, Columbus departed from Palos de la Frontera with three ships; one larger carrack, Santa María, nicknamed Gallega , and two smaller caravels, Pinta and Santa Clara, nicknamed Niña after her owner Juan Niño of Moguer. They were property of Juan de la Cosa and the Pinzón brothers , but the monarchs forced the Palos inhabitants to contribute to the expedition. Columbus first sailed to the Canary Islands -
Oct 16, 1521
Battle of Pampolona
while defending the city of Pamplona from the French Inigo is hit by a canon ball and severely injured -
Sep 20, 1523
Ignatius raches the Holy Land
In September 1523, Loyola reached the Holy Land to settle there, but was sent back to Europe by the Franciscans. -
Aug 15, 1534
Formation of the Jesutis
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Sep 27, 1540
The Socity of Jesus is formed
with the papal document Regimini Militantis Ecclesiae ('To the Government of the Church Militant')Pope Paul III officially establishes the Society of Jesus -
Jul 31, 1556
Ingatius Dies
Ignatius Loyola, Superior General of the Society of Jesus, dies in Rome of 'Roman fever', a form of malaria -
Ignatius is beatified
Ignatius of Loyola is Beatified by Popr Paul V -
Ignatius of Loyola
Ignatius of Loyola is Canonized by Pope Gregory XV -
The Jesuits are supressed
The Suppression of the Jesuits in Portugal, France, the Two Sicilies, Parma and the Spanish Empire by 1767 was troubling to the Society's defender, Pope Clement XIII. A decree signed under secular pressure by Pope Clement XIV in July 1773 suppressed the Order. The suppression was carried out in all countries except Prussia and Russia, where Catherine the Great had forbidden the papal decree to be executed. -
American Reveolution
The America Reveolution began as war between the Kingdom of Great Britain and thirteen British colonies in North America, and ended in a global war between several European great powers. -
America gains independence from Britain
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The Jesuits are restored
The Society was restored 41 years after the Suppression in 1814 by Pope Pius VII. Although many of the men had died by then, the memory of their educational triumphs had not, and the new Society was flooded with requests to take over new colleges: in France alone, for instance, 86 schools were offered to the Jesuits. Since 1814 the Society has experienced amazing growth and has since then surpassed the apostolic breadth of the early Society in its educational, intellectual, pastoral and missiona -
Six Jesuits priests matered
Six prominent Jesuit priests, including the rector and vice rector of El Salvador's most prestigious university, were killed early today along with two other persons at the house where they slept in the capital.
