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In 1491, St.Ignatius of Loyola was born the youngest of thirteen children. He was born in a region of Northern Spain called Basque.
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First flush toilets appear.
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Columbus begins his forth and final jurney to the Carribean.
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He started to work as a page at Arevalo.
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Columbus dies in Spain.
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St.Ignatius went into the military service for the Duke of Navarre
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Peter Henlein invents the first pocket watch.
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In 1521 St.Ignatius gets hit with a cannonball at Pamplona
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Undergoes intense spiritual coversion after reading De Vita Christi during his recuperation.
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St.Ignatius goes on a pilgrimage to the Holy Land
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St.Ignatius wrote The Spiritual Excercises while working on his own spiritual formation.
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St.Ignatius began his studies at the University of Alcala in Toledo.
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St.Ignatius is arrested in Salamanca.
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St.Ignatius transfered to the University of Paris to study Philosophy and Theology.
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Ignatius and his folowers take vows of poverty and chastity.
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Ignatius and his folowers are ordained after failing to complete the pilgrimage to the Holy Land.
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Ignatius gathered his companions in Rome
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Order of the Jesuits sactioned by the Pope.
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St.Ignatius founded the Society of Jesus
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Ignatius elected first General Secretary of the Jesuits.
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The Spiritual Excercises were published and promulgated.
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St.Ignatius wrte the Jesuit Constitutions.
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St.Ignatius of Loyola died in 1556.
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Conrad Gesner invents the garphite pencil.
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Bottled beer invented in London,