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Period: Jan 1, 1500 to
Religion Timeline
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Jan 1, 1550
1 & 2
Spainards founded the first Catholic settlement in North America in St. Augustine, Florida -
3, 4, 5, 6, 7, & 8
Spanish Dominicans Antonio Montesino and Bartolome defend humanity. Francis Xavier baptized people in Goa and brought faith to India and Japan French Catholic missionaries came to the New World-land where they worked called "New France" stretched from Quebec in present-day Canada, through the American Midwest and down to New Orleans, Louisiana. -
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English came to Americca -
10 & 11
1618-1648 The Protestant Reformation was when the Protestants and Catholics were fighting. -
12, 13, 14, &15
Pilgrims who came from England seeking religious freedom, settled in Massachusettes. George Calvert, first lord of Baltimore, asked King Charles to establish a colony where English Catholics could worship freely. -
16
Pope Gregory XV founded the Foundation for the Propagation of the Faith. -
17, 18, &19
King granted permission and a group of sttlers set sail on the Ark and Dove and settled in Mary's land in honor of the king's wife, Henrietta Maria. -
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Protestents gained power in the colonies. -
21
The Peace of Westphalia series of treaties declared that the religion of the leader of an area would become the official religion of that area. -
21(#2) & 22
The absolute Monarchy age begun, gained complete or absolute power over all aspects of the lives of their people even deciding which religion to practice. It lasted thirty years. -
23
Catholics are denied the right to vote. -
24 & 25
Pennsylvania was founded by William Penn and became a place of religious freedom. -
26 & 27
Louis XVI had French bishops sign adocument, The Gallican Articles, which enabled him the church in France. King Joseph II, ruled in Austria, abolished monasteries and put the state in charge of seminaries. -
28 & 29
Leaders of the Enlightenment began to portray faith as a kind of weakness, a refusal to think for oneself, or even something childish, or secularization, the idea that religious faith had no place in society, science, or government. -
30 & 31
Pope Pius VI began to organize the Catholic Church in America. Father John Carroll became the "superior of the mission" in the United States. -
32
John Carroll was ordained the first bishop of Baltimore, Maryland- the first diocese of the Catholic Church in the U.S.
