Chapter 15 Christianity in Brazil

  • 1476

    Reconquista

    The reconquering of iberia from the muslim who invaded in 711. Viewed as a crusade to save christian land from the infidels.
  • 1492

    Missions

    The papacy assumed responsibility for sending missions to native peoples.
  • 1494

    The Treaty of Tordesillas

    The new world was split between the two spanish colonizing forces, Spain and Portugal.
  • 1506

    Christopher Columbus

    Landed in America
  • 1510

    First Dominicans

    The first dominicans arrived in haiti and cuba
  • 1510

    The requerimento

    A text read to native peoples to encourage them to follow the true faith and recognize the authority of the king.
  • 1512

    The laws of Burgos

    Mitigated the abuses of the native people
  • 1516

    Catholic Monarch Ferdinands

    last Muslim Kingdom of Granada surrendered in January the same year
  • 1519

    The Conquest of Mexico

    And other south american regions was followed by increased evangelization efforts
  • 1524

    The 12 apostles of mexico arrive in the americas

    The had great success and baptized many native american's
  • 1543

    viceroyalty of Peru

    The viceroyalty of Peru was established after the fall of the Inca empire
  • 1548

    Juan de Zumarraga

    was appointed as the first bishop of Mexico (1527)
  • 1560

    Taki onquy

    A revitalization movement of a belief focused on old gods vanquishing the new christian gods
  • 1570

    Bishops

    The crown ordered missionary orders to hand over their towns to the bishops
  • Thirty Year War

    Along with seven years war
  • First Praying town

    First praying town in Natick by Puritan John Eliot
  • John Harrison Chronometer

    Correct determination of longitude at sea
  • Seven Years War

    Took place in Europe, same time as French and Indian War took place at same time, Military mapping in the Americas gained importance of increased sustainability.
  • Expulsion of Jesuits

    An order to remove the jesuits from the spanish empire
  • Mexican Pentecostal church

    Romana Valenzuela established the first Mexican Pentecostal church in Chihuahua in
  • Mexico’s largest Protestant church

    founded in Guadalajara in the (1920s.)
  • Iglesia Apostólica

    The Iglesia Apostólica de la Fe en Cristo Jesus had grown to 130,000 members