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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
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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
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
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