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Reformation and Restoration - AD 1,400-1,700

AD 1328-1384: John Wycliffe, English reformer and Bible translator
ca. AD 1350: English begins to emerge as the national language of England;
Rise of the Muslim Ottoman Dynasty in Turkey
AD 1371: Battle of Maritsa - the Ottoman Turks take Bulgaria
AD 1380: The New Testament translated into English by John Wycliff. Wycliffe also preached against abuses of the Church and against celibacy of the clergy. His teaching were condemned by Church authorities
AD 1382: Completion of the whole Bible in English (including the Deuterocanonical Books) by John Wycliff and Nicholas of Hereford
AD 1389: Battle of Kosovo - the Ottoman Turks take Serbia
AD 1397: Ottoman Turks capture Thessaloniki and Athens, and besiege Constantinople. Then they went to the Peloponese (Greek mainland) and forced 30,000 Greeks into exile in Asia. Turkoman and Tartar colonies settled in Lakonia, Messinia, Achaia, and the Argolis
ca.AD 1400: The Zohar, Jewish Kabalistic book
AD 1400: Tamurlane (Tamburlane, Timerlane, Timur the Lame) sacks Damascus
AD 1402: Mongols and Tartars from central Asia, led by Tamurlane, wipe out Ottoman army near Ankara
AD 1408: Council of Oxford forbids translations of the Scriptures into the vernacular unless and until they were fully approved by Church authority, sparked by Wycliffite Bible, Sir Thomas More said: "It neither forbiddith the translations to be read that were already well done of old before Wycliffe's days, nor damneth his because it was new but because it was naught; nor prohibiteth new to be made but provideth that they shall not be read if they be made amiss till they be by good examination amended."
AD 1412-1431: Joan of Arc, French national heroine and saint
AD 1413: Tamurlane's Empire breaks up and the Turks recover control
AD 1415: Council of Florence condemned all of Wycliffe's works, but the actual Bibles continued to be used after having the heretical prologue removed, and were used by religious houses and the nobility and were tacitly accepted by Roman Catholics
AD 1439: Council of Florence - John VIII unsuccesfully attempts the union of Roman Catholic and East Orthodox Churches under Papal supremacy
AD 1453, May 29: Fall of Constantipole to Sultan Mehmed II "the Conqueror" and the Ottoman Turks
AD 1456: Invention of the printing press. Printing of the Gutenberg Bible
AD 1466-1536: Desiderius Erasmus, Dutch scholar, produces an edition of the Greek NT which was used as the source for many of the 16th century translations
AD 1471-1484: Pope Sixtus IV
AD 1473-1481: Sistine Chapel built, under supervision of Giovanni de Dolci
AD 1478: The Inquisition established by Pope Sixtus IV
AD 1483-1530: Babur begins his conquest of India
AD 1483-1546: Martin Luther, German reformer, taught that only faith in Jesus Christ leads to salvation, without the mediation of clergy or good works; recommended individual personal study of the Bible
AD 1488: First printing of a complete Hebrew Bible (equivalent to the Old Testament in Hebrew)
AD 1488-1569: Miles Coverdale, Augustinian friar who left the Order and became the first Protestant Bishop of Exeter
AD 1491-1556: Ignatius of Loyola, founder of the Jesuit order
AD 1492: The Muslim Moors driven out of Spain;
The Ottoman Empire gives asylum to Sephardic Jews from Spain;
Christopher Columbus' first voyage, discovers San Salvador - begins Spanish colonization of the New World
AD 1493: Jews expelled from Spain
AD 1489-1556: Thomas Cranmer, English reformer, becomes Archbishop of Canterbury under Henry VIII, writes the Book of Common Prayer, then is killed by Mary I
AD 1494-1536: William Tyndale, English reformer and Bible translator, betrayed and killed in Holland during the reign of Henry VIII of England
AD 1500-1800: Safavid Shiite Muslim Dynasty of Iran;
Mughal Muslim Dynasty of India
AD 1505-1572: John Knox, Protestant reformer in Scotland
AD 1506: Pope Julius II orders the Old St Peter's Basilica torn down and authorizes Donato Bramante to plan a new structure, demolition completed in 1606
AD 1506-1552: Francis Xavier, missionary to India and Japan
AD 1508-1512: Michaelangelo paints the frescoes of the Sistine Chapel
AD 1509-1547: Henry VIII King of England
AD 1509-1564: John Calvin, French reformer, settles in Geneva and founds Christian communities based on a "Presbyterian" model (rule by Elders)
AD 1513-1522: Pope Leo X
AD 1517: Luther posts his 95 Theses for discussion, on the door of the church in Wittenberg
AD 1517: Selim I (Muslim Ottoman Turk) takes Egypt
AD 1517-1917: Ottoman Turks rule Palestine
AD 1518-1532: Terese of Avila, Spanish mystic and saint
AD 1520: Luther excommunicated
AD 1520-1566: Sulayman I (Sulayman the Magnificent, Suleman the Great)
AD 1522: Luther's translation of the New Testament into German, using the words for "elder" instead of "priest", and "congregation" instead of "church"
AD 1524: "The Peasants' Revolt" in Germany, expected Luther to support them, but he did not. This was the start of 150 years of Religious Wars in Europe
AD 1525-1609: The Maharal of Prague (Judah Loew ben Bezalel), Jewish talmudist and mathematician, makes the "Golem" (a giant man of clay, to protect the Jews from the Christians)
AD 1530: The "Augsburg Confession" - foundation of the Lutheran Church
AD 1531: "The Virgin of Guadalupe" - The Virgin Mary appears to a Mexican peasant, miraculous events follow
AD 1534: Henry VIII breaks away from the Roman Catholic church, dissolves the monasteries and confiscates their property. Independence of the Church of England (The Anglican or Episcopal Church)
AD 1534: Loyola founds the Jesuit order which re-envangelised large areas of Poland, Hungary, and Germany and sent missionaries to the New World, India, and China
AD 1534-1572: The Ari (the Lion), Isaac ben Solomon Luria, Jewish Tamud and Kabbalah scholar
AD 1535-1537: Coverdale's Bible, used Tyndale's (1525) translation along with Latin and German versions, placed the Apocrypha at the end of the OT, as was done by Luther and also in later English versions. 1537 edition received royal license, but was banned in 1546
AD 1536: Tyndale, in hiding in Holland, was betrayed and put to death, left his OT translation in manuscript. English ecclesiaastical authorities ordered his Bible burned because it was thought to be part of the Lutheran reform. Tyndales prayer as he died was "O Lord, open Thou the King of England's eyes."
AD 1536-1541: Michaelangelo's painting of the Last Judgment
AD 1537-1541: Suleiman the Magnificent rebuilds and redecorates the city wall of Jerusalem and the Dome of the Rock
AD 1537-1551: The Matthew Bible, translation by John Rogers (1500-1555), based on Tyndale's and Coverdale's translations, received royal license but was not authorized for use in public worship, went through numerous editions, the 1551 edition contained offensive notes (based on Tyndale)
AD 1539-1569: The Great Bible, produced by Thomas Cromwell. The first English Bible to be authorized for public use in English churches. Based on Tyndale's NT of 1534-1535, corrected by reference to a Latin version of the Hebrew OT, the Latin Bible of Erasmus, and the Complutensian Polyglot.
AD 1542: Francis Xavier starts missionary work in India
AD 1543: Parliament bans Tyndale's translation as a "crafty, false and untrue translation"
AD 1545-1563: The Council of Trent, Roman Catholic Reformation, or Counter-reformation, to meet the Protestant challenge
AD 1546: Francis Xavier starts missionary work in Malaya;
Henry VIII forbids anyone to have a copy of Tyndale's or Coverdale's New Testament
AD 1547: Ivan the Terrible becomes ruler of Russia, and drives the Jews out of Russia
AD 1547-1553: Edward VI King of England, brought up as a Protestant, favors the Protestant reformation
AD 1549: The "Book of Common Prayer" of the Church of England (Episcopal Church);
Francis Xavier starts missionary work in Japan
AD 1553-1558: Mary I Queen of England. Mary was the daughter of Henry VIII and Katharine of Aragon, and was a staunch Roman Catholic. She tried to force England to go back to Roman Catholicism, and was called "Bloody Mary" because of the number of Protestants who were killed during her reign. Publication of English Scriptures ceased, and many Protestant clergy left England
AD 1555: The Peace of Augsburg - German princes were allowed to choose whether their lands (and people) would be Lutheran or Roman Catholic
AD 1556: Beza's Latin New Testament
AD 1558-1603: Elizabeth I Queen of England. Elizabeth was the daughter of Henry VIII and Anne Boleyn. She had been brought up as a Protestant, but was liberal towards Roman Catholics until the Pope excommunicated her and said that anyone who killed her would not be guilty of sin
AD 1560: The Geneva Bible, NT a revision of Matthew's version of Tyndale with use of Beza's NT, OT a thorough revision of the Great Bible, appointed to be read in Scotland (but not England), ran for at least 140 editions;
John Knox disagrees with the Lutheran Church over the Sacraments and Church government, and founds the Presbyterian Church in Scotland
AD 1560-1618: Dutch wars of independence (from Spain)
AD 1563: The "Thirty-nine Articles" of the Church of England - articles of faith agreed upon by a panel of Bishops
AD 1564: Shulhan Arukh (Code of Jewish law) published
AD 1569: "The Kabalist" written by Isaac Luria in Safed (in the Galilee, northern Palestine)
AD 1571: The Turks tried to invade and conquer Christian Europe. At the Naval Battle of Lepanto, Spain, Venice, Genoa, and the Roman Papacy sent a combined armada and destroyed the Turkish navy. The sailors attributed their victory to their prayers to Our Lady of the Rosary
AD 1572-1606: The Bishop's Bible, a revision of the Great Bible checked against the Hebrew text, the first to be published in England by episcopal authority
AD 1573-1645: William Laud, became Archbishop of Canterbury, was executed during the English Civil War
AD 1582: Rheims NT, based on Coverdale, Bishops', Geneva, follows Wycliffe
AD 1585: Joachim Ganz, first known Jew to come to America, lands at Roanoke
AD 1588: England under Elizabeth I defeats the Spanish Armarda, resists re-introduction of Roman Catholicism
AD 1588-1679: Thomas Hobbes, English philosopher
AD 1589: Creation of the Patriarchate of Moscow
AD 1590: Michelangelo completes the dome in St Peter's Basilica in Rome
AD 1596: The Ukranian Catholic Church formed when Ukranian subjects of the king of Poland were reunited with Rome, resulting in the largest Byzantine Catholic Church
AD 1596-1650: Rene Descartes, French philosopher and mathematician
AD 1598: The Edict of Nantes (in France) gave religious toleration to the Huguenots (Protestants) in some parts of France, while other parts remained Roman Catholic
AD 1598-1611: George Chapman translates Homer's "Iliad" into English
AD 1599-1658: Oliver Cromwell, Puritan leader, eventually becomes "Lord Protector" of England
AD 1603-1625: James I of England and VI of Scotland - James styled himself "King of Great Britain"
AD 1604: The Hampton Court Conference, called by James I to attempt to settle differences between Puritan and High Church factions in the Church of England. One result of this conference was the decision to produce a new translation of the Bible - this became the King James Version, also known as the Authorized Version. Another result was that small groups of Puritans decided to worship separately from the Church of England - the start of the &quor;Separatist" movement
AD 1606: Carlo Maderno redesigns St Peter's Basilica in Rome into the shape of a Latin cross
AD 1607: Founding of the Colony of Virginia, first colonists at Jamestown
AD 1607-1676: Paul Gerhardt, German hymn writer
AD 1608: "Separatist" groups leave England, to live and worship in Holland
AD 1609: John Smyth founds the Baptist Church, due to objections to infant baptism and the demands for separation of Church and State
AD 1609-1610: Rheims-Douay Bible, first Roman Catholic English translation, OT published in two volumes, based on an unofficial Louvain text corrected against the Sistine Vulgate of 1590, NT is Rheims text of 1582
AD 1611: The King James (Authorized) Version of the Bible, including the Apocrypha;
James I dissolves Parliament, and rules without it for 10 years
AD 1613: Elizabeth, daughter of James I, marries Frederick V of the Palatinate (the leading Calvinist prince of Germany). After the death of Queen Anne in 1714 the succession to the throne of England was traced through Elizabeth's daughter Sophia of Hannover, to Sophia's son George I
AD 1614-1642: Martyrdom of the Japanese Christians
AD 1618-1648: The Thiry Years' War, between Protestants and Roman Catholics in Europe
AD 1620: Puritans begin emigrating to America. The Pilgrim Fathers sail in the Mayflower and land at Plymouth Rock
AD 1621: The World's Great Restoration, or Calling of the Jews by Sir Henry Finch, treatise calling for the restoration of Jews to their homeland
AD 1622-1629: Persian Jews are forced to become Moslems
AD 1625-1649: Charles I King of England and Scotland. His reign ended in civil war, the capture of the King, his trial and execution by beheading
AD 1626-1676: Shabbatai Zvi, Jewish Messianic leader
AD 1630: The Massachusetts Bay Company - Puritans start to settle in Boston
AD 1632-1677: Baruch (Benedict) Spinoza
AD 1636: Rhode Island grants religious liberty to Jews
AD 1643-1649: The Westminster Assembly produces the Westminster Confession of Faith, intended to replace the 39 Articles of Religion in the Church of England
AD 1644: The "Long Parliament" directed that only the Hebrew canon of the Old Testament be read in the Church of England (removed the Apocropha and Deuterocanonical books from public reading)
AD 1645: Execution of William Law, Archbishop of Canterbury
AD 1648: The Peace of Westphalia - German princes were allowed to choose Lutheranism, Calvinism, or Roman Catholicism as their "state Church", and were also allowed to tolerate members of other denominations
AD 1649: Execution of Charles I
AD 1653-1658: Oliver Cromwell "Lord Protector" of England
AD 1655: Oliver Cromwell allows Jews to return to England
AD 1657: Jews granted the rights of Citizens in America
AD 1658-1712: Richard Cromwell (son of Oliver Cromwell) inherits the position of Lord Protector, but does not lead well
AD 1660: The Restoration of the Monarchy in England and Scotland;
The future James II, son of Charles I, marries Anne Hyde. Their daughters, Mary and Anne, became Queens of England. Charles II (James II brother) insisted that the girls be brought up as Protestants, although both Charles II and James II favored Roman Catholicism
AD 1660-1685: Charles II, reversel of the decision of the Long Parliament, reinstated the Apocrypha and Deuterocanonical books, but the decision was not accepted by the non-conformists (those who did not accept Parliament's Act of Conformity)
AD 1666: The Great Plague, followed by the Great Fire of London
AD 1674-1748: Isaac Watts, English hymn-writer
AD 1678: John Bunyan's The Pilgrim's Progress
AD 1682-1791: The Hundred Years War between the Hapsburg Monarchy and the Ottoman Empire
AD 1683: Second siege of Vienna (unsuccessful) by the Ottoman Turks. The Ottoman Empire begins to decline
AD 1685: Louis XIV revokes the Edict of Nantes - French protestants go into exile
AD 1685-1688: James II of England. James became a Roman Catholic, appointed Roman Catholic officers in the army, had controversies with parliament, and fled the country in 1688 (The Bloodless Revolution). After the death of Anne Hyde, his first wife, he married a Roman Catholic princess, Mary of Modena. After he fled the country their reputed son, Charles, was brought up in Europe, and later tried to invade England and Scotland. He was know as "The Old Pretender". Charles' son, known as "Bonny Prince Charley" or "the Young Pretender", also tried to invade England and Scotland, but was eventually driven back to continental Europe
AD 1688-1689: Parliament invites William and Mary of Orange (Holland) to come to Britain as King and Queen. Mary (and Anne) were daughters of James II and Anne Hyde, daughter of the English Earl of Clarendon
AD 1689: The Act of Toleration allowed English Presbyterians, Congregationalists, Baptists, and Quakers to worship as they wished
AD 1689-1694: William and Mary rule England and Scotland together
AD 1694-1702: After Mary's death, William of Orange rules alone, as William III
AD 1701: Parliament passes the Act of Settlment, ruling that no Roman Catholic could become monarch of England, and that all monarchs after William III must become members of the Church of England
AD 1702-1714: Queen Anne, daughter of James II and Anne Hyde. Queen Anne had had ten miscarriages, had given birth to four children who died as infants, and a son who died in 1700. On coming to the throne she knew that she would not have another child to follow her
AD 1707: "Act of Union" : Scotland, Wales, and England are united as "Great Britain"
AD 1714-1727: George I king of England. George was the great-grandson of James I through James' daughter Elizabeth, and her daughter Sophia (see 1613)

Main Sources : Simsothian Timelines of Ancient History, The Timetables of History (Bernard Grun)

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