Modern Church History
16th Century
- 1512
- Michelangelo completes the Sistine Chapel
- 1517
- Luther's 95 theses
- 1521
- Diet of Worms
- 1522
- Ignatius Loyola writes Spiritual Exercises
- 1524
- Peasant's War
- 1525
- Anabaptist movement begins
- 1529
- Colloguy at Marburg
- 1530
- Augsburg Confession
- 1530
- St. Peter's Basilica rebuilt
- 1536
- Calvins Institutes first edition
- 1536
- Henry VIII and Act of Supremacy
- 1545
- Council of Trent and Counter Reformation
- 1549
- Book of Common Prayer
- 1549
- Xavier begins mission in Japan
- 1554
- Marian Persecution and flight to Geneva
- 1555
- Latimer and Oxford Martyrs
- 1559
- John Knox returns to Scotland
- 1559
- Calvin's Institutes final edition
- 1565
- Teresa of Avila writes The Way of Perfection
- 1572
- Huguenot St. Bartholomew's Day massacre
- 1576
- Pacification of Ghent
- 1595
- Ricci's The True Doctrine of God
- 1596
- Japanese persecute Christians
- 1598
- Edict of Nantes