Reformation vs Counter-Reformation

The "Counter-Reformation" starts

1445

there were many Catholics who required a reaction from the Church to improve customs, correcting the abuses that had fueled the Protestant Reformation. To this reaction of the Catholic Church to Protestantism

The beginning of "The Reformation"

1520

The Reformation is known as the Christian religious movement, initiated in Germany in the sixteenth century by Martin Luther, which led to a schism of the Catholic Church to give rise to numerous churches grouped under the denomination of Protestantism.

The Protestant Reformation in countries

1550

There were "Protestant Reformation in some countries, but the most famous were in England, Switzerland and Hungary

The "Protestant Reformation" in England

1552

In England, Henry VIII opposed, however, the reform of the Church of England after decreeing the Act of supremacy in which the king himself became head of the Church of England. When his son Eduardo succeeded him with the name of Eduardo VI, with only 9 years of age, the first effective advances of the reform of the Church of England took place.