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Dec 31, 1384
Death of John Wycliffe
"The morning star of the reformation." Translated the Latin vulgate into English, early dissident of R.C. church. -
Jul 6, 1415
Death of Jan Hus
Czech dissident of Church. Paved way for later reformers. He was burned at the stake. -
Oct 31, 1517
Luther's 95 Theses
Martin Luther, an Augustinian monk, nails his 95 Theses to the door of the castle church of Wittenberg. This "started" the Protestant reformation. -
May 25, 1521
Edict of Worms
The Edict of Worms declared by HRE Charles V, officially calling Luther a heretic. -
Jan 21, 1525
Birth of Anabaptists
On this date, George Blaurock, Conrad Grebel, and Felix Manz, re-baptized each other, creating the anabaptist faith. They rejected infant baptism, and anything that did not have biblical support. The anabaptists were never large in number, being counter-cutural, they were pascifists. -
Nov 13, 1534
First Act of Supremecy, Creating the Church of England
Henry VIII officially started the church of England with his Act of Supremecy, making him the head of the Church of England. He wasnted a divorce from his wife Catherine (daughter, Mary Tudor) who prodeced no male heirs. He had an affair with Anne Boelyn (daughter Elizabeth I) which produced no male heirs, so she was beheaded. Now onto Jane Saymour, who finally had a son, Edward VI. She died and after her came two more Catherines. -
Jan 12, 1536
Menno Simons joins Anabaptist movement
On this date, Menno Simons left his position as a RC priest and joined the anabaptist faith. His followers would become known as Mennonites. -
Oct 15, 1536
"Institutes of the Christian Religion"
Monumental work which would be edited and added to many times by the French reformer John Calvin (b. 1509) who broke with the RC church around 1530. He was a systematic theologian whose main contribution to protestant thought is the idea of predestination. -
Dec 13, 1545
Council of Trent
Ecumenical council called by the Roman Catholic Church to defend church teaching against the heretical ideas of the Protestants. Ended December 4, 1563. -
Feb 18, 1546
Luther's Death
Martin Luther dies. -
King James Bible and the Church of England
Authorized bible translation for the Church of England promulgated by James I finished in 1611. Preceeding James I on the English throne was a long line of monarchs. After Henry VIII there was:
-- Edward VI - Prot. - English liturgy and the Book of Common prayer.v-- (Bloody) Mary - Catholic -- Elizabeth I - Prot - tries the "via media" -- then James I -- after him, Charle I -- Charles II (beheaded by Puritans) -- James II (closet Cath) - leaves Eng. has 2 Prot. daughters. -
Quakers
George Fox forms the "Society of Friends." -
Edict of Fontainebleau
Issued by Louis XIV, outlawing Protestantism (Calvinist Huguenots) in France, overturning the previous Edict of Nantes. -
First Great Awakening
Movement in Anerica in the 1730s and 1740s, which led individuals more towards personal relationships with God, rather than ritual. Important figures were Jonathan Edwards and George Whitefield. -
Wesley's Leave for America
John and Charles Wesley, who had founded a "Holy Club" in 1729 at Oxforsd University, sailed to Georgia to preach on a boat filled with Moravians. They were the beginings of the Methodist movement, which would evolve into the Methodist Church. -
Second Great Awakening
Movement that spread throughout America starting with the 1790s and peaking around 1840 which expressed mainly Arminian theology, stressing individual salvation. Baptist and Methodism grew rapidly during this time. -
Mormonism Founded
Joseph Smith Jr. had a visoin from the angel Moroni, he begins the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter Day Saints. He also published the Book of Mormon that year. -
Southern Baptist Convention
Currently, the largest denomination in the United States, is formed in Augusta, Georgia.
