Chapter 13 Timeline

By Ben Sweeney
  • 1492

    First Voyage of Christopher Colombus

    Spain and Portugal launched explorations that lead into the Caribbean and Americas.
  • Period: 1492 to 1503

    Pope Alexander VI's Pontificate

    Pope Alexander VI asked explorers to evangelize, or proclaim, the Good News of Christ to people everywhere.
  • 1542

    Francis Xavier Arrives in India

    Francis Xavier arrived in India and baptized many people in Goa. He also traveled to Japan and taught and baptized many people there.
  • Period: 1564 to

    Galileo Galilei

    Galilei proved the theory that the earth revolves around the sun.
  • Period: 1579 to

    George Calvert's Lifetime

    (Lord Baltimore) George Calvert was a convert to the Catholic faith. He asked King Charles I for permission to establish a colony where Catholics were English Catholics could worship freely. This place was approved in 1634 and given the name Mary's Land of Maryland.
  • Period: to

    Thirty Years' War

    A war between the Protestant and Catholic religions.

  • Pope Gregory Finds the Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith

  • Period: to

    King Louis XIV Lifetime

    King Louis XIV was an example of a Catholic absolute monarch.

  • Peace of Westphalia

    A series of treaties that declared that declared that the religion of the ruler would also become the religion of the people of that area.
  • Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn

    Pennsylvania is founded by William Penn

    William Penn found this place as a place for religious refuge.
  • Period: to

    King Joseph II's Rule

    King Joseph II abolished monasteries and put the state in charge of the seminaries.

  • John Carroll is Ordained the First Bishop of Baltimore, Maryland

    This was the first diocese of the Catholic Church in the United States