Renaissance History

Date	Event
1450-1626 AD	Reconstruction by hand of The Basilica of St. Peter in Rome began
1450-1456 AD	The Bible of the 42 lines or Gutenberg Bible Latin 1st book printed on movable type
1453 AD	Byzantine Empire Ended, Ottoman Empire begins
1453 AD	The so called "Orthodox Eastern Church" not in full communion with Rome
1455 AD	Nicholas V died Callistus III Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1458 AD	Callistus III died Pius II Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1464 AD	Pius II died Paul II Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1471 AD	Paul II died Sixtus IV Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1478 AD	The Spanish Inquisition established by Pope Sixtus IV
1483 AD	Martin Luther Born
1484 AD	Sixtus IV died Innocent VIII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1484 AD	Ulrich Zwingli born
1492 AD	Innocent VIII died Alexander VI Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1492 AD	Columbus lands on the Bahama Islands the "New World"
1503 AD	Alexander VI died Pius III Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1503 AD	Pius III died Julius II Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1505 AD	Martin Luther entered the Augustinian friars at Erfurt
1507 AD	Martin Luther ordained to the priesthood
1509 AD	John Calvin born
1512 AD	1st Catholic Episcopal See of America erected at Santo Domingo
1512-1517 AD	The 5th Ecumenical Council of the Lateran
1513 AD	Julius II died Leo X Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1517 AD	Luther nailed the "95 Theses" on the castle church door in Wittenburg Oct 31
1519 AD	The term "Lutheranism" coined
1520 AD	Martin Luther excommunicated
1521 AD	Leo X died
1522 AD	Adrian VI Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1523 AD	Adrian VI died Clement VII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1524 AD	The Diet of Worms
1524 AD	The Peasant's War
1525 AD	Anabaptists founded by Thomas Munzer
1526 AD	The 1st Diet of Speyer
1529 AD	The 2nd Diet of Speyer the followers of Lutheranism protested an abrogated agreement, they became known as "Protestants"
1529 AD	The false teaching of Protestantism by forbidding the Mass "no toleration for Catholics"
1530 AD	The Augsburg Confession, beginning of the Lutheran Church
1531 AD	Ulrich Zwingli died
1533 AD	Henry VIII of England excommunicated
1534 AD	Henry VIII of England had parliament pass an act appointing the King supreme head of the Church of England (The Anglican Church)
1534 AD	Clement VII died Paul III Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1536 AD	John Calvin wrote "Institutes of the Christian Religion"
1536 AD	John Calvin founded the Reformed Churches (Calvinism)
1545-1563 AD	The Ecumenical Council of Trent (counter-reformation, largest number of dogmatic and reformatory decrees, longest council to date)
1546 AD	Martin Luther died
1546 AD	The Vulgate Official Latin Translation of Bible
1549 AD	Paul III died
1550 AD	Julius III Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1552 AD	Martin Luther's New Testament published in German
1555 AD	Julius III died Marcellus II Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1555 AD	Marcellus II died Paul IV Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1555 AD	The Peace of Augsburg
1559 AD	Paul IV died Pius IV Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1560 AD	Scotch Presbyterian Church founded by John Knox
1565 AD	Pius IV died
1566 AD	Pius V Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1566 AD	John Calvin died
1572 AD	Pius V died Gregory XIII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1578-84 AD	Gregory XIII reformed the Christian calendar (fixed January 1 to be fist day of year)
1582 AD	Douai-Rheims Official Catholic English Translation of the Bible
1585 AD	Gregory XIII died Sixtus V Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1589 AD	Russia claimed independence from the Patriarch of Constantinople
1590 AD	Sixtus V died Urban VII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1590 AD	Urban VII died Gregory XIV Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1591 AD	Gregory XIV died Innocent IX Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1591 AD	Innocent IX died
1592 AD	Clement VIII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1592 AD	The Vulgate Revised
1596 AD	Ukrainian Catholic Church reunited with Rome
1605 AD	Clement VIII died Leo XI Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1605 AD	Leo XI died Paul V Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1607 AD	1st permanent British colony in North America Jamestown, Virginia
1609 AD	Baptists formed by John Smyth
1611 AD	The King James Version of The Holy Bible first printing
1620 AD	The "Mayflower" landed at Provincetown, Mass. Nov. 11
1621 AD	Paul V died Gregory XV Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1623 AD	Gregory XV died Urban VIII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1626 AD	November 18 Urban VIII dedicated the reconstructed Basilica of St. Peter in Rome
1634 AD	1st British Catholic colony in North America St. Mary's, Maryland
1638 AD	Calvinist formed
1640 AD	The false teaching of Jansenism
1644 AD	Urban VIII died Innocent X Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1647 AD	Quakers founded by George Fox
1648 AD	Peace of Westphalia
1655 AD	Innocent X died Alexander VII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1667 AD	Alexander VII died Clement IX Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1669 AD	Clement IX died
1670 AD	Clement X Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1676 AD	Clement X died Innocent XI Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1689 AD	Innocent XI died Alexander VIII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1691 AD	Alexander VIII died Innocent XII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1700 AD	Innocent XII died Clement XI Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1721 AD	Clement XI died Innocent XIII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1724 AD	Innocent XIII died Benedict XIII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1729 AD	Methodist formed by John Wesley
1730 AD	Benedict XIII died Clement XII Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ
1740 AD	Clement XII died Benedict XIV Bishop of Rome and Vicar of Jesus Christ