modern world history Addison

  • Italian war
    1494

    Italian war

    This happened between the French and Spanish over the control of Italy territory. Later the Spanish won.
  • Martin Luther Wirtes 95 Theses
    1517

    Martin Luther Wirtes 95 Theses

    Martin took a public stand towards johan Tetzel about him selling indulgences. Indulgences are things that forgive your sins and like you go to heave. Martin thought that selling those was wrong because you shouldn't gain money over that.
  • John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion
    1520

    John Calvin’s Institutes of the Christian Religion

    The Institutes are books they were published by John Calvin. The books were about God, Salvation, and human nature.
  • Peasants War
    1524

    Peasants War

    This war was caused by the government rising taxes after the reformation. With the government doing that the peasants stormed castles and did many other things despite them.
  • Act of Supremacy in England
    1534

    Act of Supremacy in England

    The supremacy gave Henry VIII right to be the supreme head of the Church of England.
  • Jesuit order founded
    1540

    Jesuit order founded

    This was founded by Ignatius of Loyola, and he sent out missionaries to convert the people to Christianity.
  • Start of Roman Inquisition
    1542

    Start of Roman Inquisition

    The start of the roman inquisition was the roman government using force and torture to make people confess if they were fully catholic.
  • Council of Trent
    1545

    Council of Trent

    The church had 4 main rules

    1. The church is the official interrupter of the bible
    2. To go to heaven, you had to have good faith and good works
    3. The bible and the church only directed Catholics
    4. Indulgences are ok to buy to forgive sins but you can't sell them
  • Peace of Augsburg
    1555

    Peace of Augsburg

    This setlment was based on a prince agreing on having each ruler of an area would chose the religion that area would practice.
  • Reign of Elizabeth I
    1558

    Reign of Elizabeth I

    She reformed England to Protestantism. This spread across European countries and grew worldwide.
  • Scotland becomes Calvinist
    1560

    Scotland becomes Calvinist

    John Knox became the leader of Scottish reformation and then later turned the church into Calvinism.
  • St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre
    1572

    St. Bartholomew’s Day Massacre

    The Catholics started to disagree with the Huguenots and later hunting and killed many of them for months.
  • Edict of Nantes

    Edict of Nantes

    The Huguenots has been fighting with the Catholics for many years but then Henry of Navarre the leader of the Huguenots later converted, and the Catholics excepted him as king. Then 1598 henrys Edict of Nantes granted religious freedom to protestents.