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1378-1417 1505 Great Schism Luther becomes friar at Erfurt between rival popes 1509 1384 Birth of John Calvin Death of John Wycliffe, Henry VIII becomes king English reformer of England
1415 1517 Jan Hus of Prague burned at stake, Luther posts 95 Theses sparks Hussite Revolt in Wittenberg 1453 1519 Fall of Constantinople Charles V becomes Holy Roman Emperor 1456 Printing of first Gutenberg Bible 1520 Luther excommunicated 1478 Spanish Inquisition is founded 1521 Diet of Worms 1483 Birth of Martin Luther 1522 Luther publishes translation of the New Testament 1484 Zwingli hosts Lenten Birth of Huldrych Zwingli sausage meal in Zurich 1497 1523-1526 Birth of Philip Melanchthon Reformation of Zurich 1504 Birth of Heinrich Bullinger
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1524 1536 First Protestant hymnal produced by Publication of Calvin’s Luther and Johan Walter Institutes, Bullinger’s First Helvetic Confession 1524-1525 Peasants’ War in Germany 1538-1541 Calvin serves as minister 1525 in Strasbourg Luther marries Katharina von Bora 1541 Calvin returns to Geneva 1526 William Tyndale publishes New 1547 Testament in English Death of Luther Death of Henry VIII 1529 First religious war in Switzerland 1553 Burning of Servetus in Geneva 1530 Augsburg Confession published 1556 Abdication of Charles V 1531 Zwingli killed in battle, 1559-1560 Bullinger succeeds him Religious revolution in Scotland as minister of Zurich 1560 1532-1535 Death of Melanchthon Henry VIII breaks with Publication of Geneva Bible Rome and becomes head Publication of Scots Confession of Church of England 1563 1534 Publication of Heidelberg Catechism Calvin flees France, settles in Geneva
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1564 1619 Death of Calvin Synod of Dort develops Canons of Dort 1566 Second Helvetic 1641 Confession published Catholic rebellion in Ireland 1572 1642 St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre Civil War in England in Paris 1643-1649 1575 Westminster Assembly develops Death of Heinrich Bullinger Westminster Standards 1582 1648 Gregory XIII reforms Treaty of Westphalia the calendar ends Thirty Years War 1589 1649 Huguenot Henry of Execution of Charles I Navarre becomes king of England Henry IV of France 1660 1593 Restoration of Charles II Henry IV converts to Catholicism and Church of England 1598 1685 Edict of Nantes declares Edict of Nantes revoked limited tolerance for by Louis XIV Huguenots in France 1618 1688-1689 Thirty Years War begins “Glorious Revolution” deposes James II in Britain and Ireland, Establishes toleration for Protestant non-Anglicans www.history.pcusa.org | www.presbyterianfoundation.org • 4