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F R I E N D S o f W I L L I A M T Y N D A L E

A R e f o r m a t i o n T i m e L i n e

I. The Pre-Reformation Period (1215 1515)

II. The Reformation Period (1516 1563)

III. The Post-Reformation Period (1564 1689)

I. The Pre-Reformation Period (1215 1515)1215Signing of Magna Carta; English barons force King John to agree to a statement of their rights

1290

Edward I expells all Jews from England

1291Sacreans (Muslims) capture Accre, last Christian stronghold in Palestine; end of Crusades after

200 years

1294Kublai Khan dies after 35-year reign establishing Ming dynasty

1295Englands Model ParliamentEdward I summons bishops, knights, and burgesses from all

parishes for first representative parliament

1296

A Genoese prisoner, Marco Polo, writes about his travels to Orient

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Beginning of Hundred Years War between England and FranceEdward III assumes title of

King of France; French king Philip VI contests Englands claims to Normandy

1338Declaration of RhenseElectors of Holy Roman Empire can select emperor without papal

intervention

1341

English Parliament divided into Upper House (Lords) and Lower House (Commons)

1345Cathedral of Notre Dame completed in Paris after 182 years of construction

1346Battle of Crecy establishes England as military power; English longbowmen change face of

warfare

13471351The Black Death (bubonic plague) devastates Europe, killing as many as two-thirds of the

population in some parts

1348Black Death reaches England

1349Death of William of Ockham, English philosopher, who sowed seeds of independance of church

and state

1351

England removes Popes power to give English benefices to foreigners

1353Parliaments Statue of Praemunrie forbids appeals to the Pope

1356Edward, the Black Prince of Wales, destroys French army at Battle of Poitiers

The Golden Bull of Holy Roman Emperor Charles IV transforms empire from monarchy into

aristocratic federation to last 450 years

1359

First Swedish Riksdag (parliament); all classes represented

1360

First francs coined in France

1362English becomes the authorized language of the law courts; French still used for legal

documents

Piers Plowman written by English poet over next 30 years

Palace of Popes at Avignon completed after 28 years of construction


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1366Parliament refuses to pay feudal tribute to Pope

Statute of Kilkenny forbids marriage between Irish and English

1370Wycliffes First Presentation of his doctrine on the Eucharist; he clarifies a theme which is

later enshrined as a central doctrine of the Reformation

John Ball in England preaches mans natural equality

1374John of Gaunt returns from French wars to become leader of the state

1377Rioting ends Wycliffes trial at St. Pauls

Pope Gregory XI issues five bulls against Wycliffe

Wycliffe agrees to house arrest at Oxford

Leaving Avignon, Pope Gregory XI moves papal court to Rome; ending the Babylonian

Captivity

1378Queen Mother ends Wycliffes trial at Lambeth Palace

The Great Schism divides the Catholic Church for 39 years when two opposing popes are

electedPope Urban V in Rome and Pope Clement VII in Avignon{Avignon }

1378Pope Urban VI presides in Rome whilst Pope Clement VII presides in Avignon

1381

John Wycliffe publishes Confession, denying that the "substance" of bread and wine aremiraculously changed during the Eucharist; Wycliffe withdraws from public to

Lutterworth

The Peasant Revolt; 30,000 rioters converge on London; ends when Wat Tyler, their leader, is

betrayed and killed

13811384

Wycliffe, with the assistance of his aides, intensifies his work on an English translation ofBible (from the Latin Vulgate not the Biblical Greek and Hebrew); this is the firsttranslation of the Bible into the English tongue

1382Blackfriars Synod condemns Wycliffes writings, followed by purge of Wycliffites at Oxford.

1383Wycliffe, morning star of the Reformation, dies on New Years Eve

1387


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Chaucer begins work on The Canterbury Tales

1389Statute of Provisors makes papal appointments in England invalid

1393

Second Statue of Praemunrie prohibits introduction of papal bulls

1399John of Gaunt dies; Richard II confiscates his estates; John Gaunts son, Henry of Bolingbroke,

returns from exile and is acclaimed by Parliament as King Henry IV; Richard II dies a year later

in prison

1414Sir Jon Oldcastle (Lord Cobham), disciple of Wycliffe, burned at stake

1415The Council of Constance condemns Wycliffe on 267 different heresies

At Battle of Agincourt, Henry V leads English archers in victory over larger French cavalry

Council of Constance condemns Wycliffe of 267 heresies and demands that John Hus recant;

he refuses and is burned at the stake

1428

At papal command, remains of Wycliffe dug up, burned, and scattered on the river Swift

1431

Jeanne d'Arc (Joan of Arc) burned as a witch at Rouen

1452

Leonardo da Vinci born

1453Sack of Constantinople by the Turks; Christian refugees are welcomed into Florence

bring their libraries, including ancient copies of the Greek Septuagint, with them; thisencourages the revival of New Learning throughout western Europe and will make

possible Erasmuss ground breaking work on the Greek New Testament (the basis of theTextus Receptus)

End of Hundred Years War between England and France

1455

Gutenberg completes printing the Bible using movable type (first printing of the Bible inany language); the invention of the commercial printing press revolutionizes how

knowledge and information are shared; it proves to be an essential and powerful tool inspreading the Gospel

War of Roses begin in England

1463Turks capture Bosnia

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Erasmus born

1469Lorenzo de Medici rules Florence

Ferdinand and Isabella marry

1470

Portuguese explorers discover Gold Coast of Africa

1471Thomas Kempis, author of The Imitation of Christ, dies

1473Copernicus born

1476William Caxton sets up printing press at Westminster

1478

Spanish Inguisition Spanish Inquisition persecutes Jews, Muslims, and heretics

1480Ferdinand and Isabella appoint Inquisition against heresy among converted Jews

Ivan III styles himself Czar of the Russians

1482Portuguese explorers discover bananas on west coast of Africa

1483

Luther is born at Eisleben (November 10)

1484At Hammel in Saxony, on the 20th of June, 1484, the Devil, in the likeness of a pied piper,

carried away 130 children, that were never after seen.

Japans shogun Yoshimasa introduces the tea ceremony

Ulrich (Huldrych) Zwingli born at Wildhaus (Toggenburg) in Canton of St. Gall

1484Caxton prints Morte D'Arthur, the poetic collection of legends about King Arthur compiled by

Sir Thomas Malory

1485Treaty of Leipzig divides Saxony

Henry VII crowned first king of 117-year Tudor dynasty

1488Battle of Bosworth on August 22 ends Englands 15-year Wars of the Roses;

1489


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Symbols + and come into use

1490Beginnings of ballet at Italian courts

1491

Henry VIII born

1492Spanish forces conquer city of Granada, expelling Islamic Moors from Iberian peninsula

Christopher Columbus, with three ships and 78 men set sail on September 6 after first attempt

aborted; arrives in the Bahamas, thinking he has reached the East Indies

Lorenzo de Medici dies

Christopher Columbus introduces Europeans to the pineapple, parrots, Indians, peppers,

allspice, maize, and sweet potatoes

Nuremberg geographer Behaim constructs first terrestrial globe

Leonardo da Vinci draws a flying machine

Profession of publisher emerges, consisting of typefounder, printer, and bookseller

Inquisitor-general Torquemada gives Spanish Jews three months to convert or leave country;

200,000 Jews are expelled

1493

Maximilian I becomes Holy Roman Emperor

The pope divides the New World between Spain and Portugal

1494First mobile artillery firing iron cannon balls, used by Charles VIII in Italy

c.1494

William Tyndale is born

1495

First recorded outbreak of syphilis; infects army of Charles VIII at Naples

Leonardo da Vincis Last Supper

1496Menno Simons born

John Cabot reaches coast of Newfoundland; Vasco de Gama discovers west coast of India

1497The College of Cardinals discusses a church bill condemning licentious clergy, but the idea is

soon dropped

Melanchthon born


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Albrecht Durer paints Apocalypse

John Cabot discovers Newfoundland

1498Savonarola burned at the stake for heresy in Florence

Vasco de Cama establishes sea route between Portugal and India

1499War between Swabian League and Swiss Cantons. Swiss victory forces Treaty of Basel granting

Swiss independance

Granadas Moors revolt as Inquisitor de Cisneros introduces forced wholesale Christian

conversion

1500Pope Alexander VI proclaims a Year of Jubilee; imposes a tithe for crusade against Turks

First human Caesarian operation performed by Swiss pig gelder Jakob Nufer

Postal service between Vienna and Brussels established

1501

Music printed for the first time by use of movable type

Peace of Trent between France and Emperor Maximilian I recognizes French conquests in

Upper Italy

Erasmus Enchiridion promotes a Christianity based on the Sermon of the Mount

Michaelangelo completes Pieta

Papal bull orders the burning of any books questioning Churchs authority

1502University of Wittenberg established by Frederick, Elector of Saxony

1503Canterbury Cathedral completed after 436 years of construction

Da Vinci paints Mona Lisa

Pocket handkerchief comes into use

1504

Venice sends ambassadors to Sultan of Turkey, proposing construction of a Suez Canal

1505John Knox , the leader of the Scottish Reformation, is born

1506William Tyndale (age 12?) enters Magdalen College at Oxford; as a youth singularly


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addicted to the scriptures, he reads the Bible in English (translating from the Latin

Vulgate) to his fellow students (11 years prior to Luthers 95 Thesis).

Pope Julius orders work on St. Peters in Rome; Da Vincis Mona Lisa

1507Martin Luther ordained and celebrates first Mass

New geography by Waldseemller proposes the New World be called America after AmerigoVespucci

League of Cambrai formed by Margaret of Austria, the Cardinal of Rouen, and Ferdinand of

Aragon to despoil Venice

Diet of Constance recognizes unity of Holy Roman Empire

1508

Michelangelo begins painting Sistine Chapel ceiling

1509

Henry VIII assumes English throne and marries Catherine of Aragon

Luther visits Rome

First shipload of African slaves arrives in Hispaniola (Haiti)

John Calvin, the Swiss Reformer, is born in Noyon, France

Erasmus writes Praise of Folly at Thomas Mores home

1510

African slaves cross the Atlantic to work in Portuguese sugar plantations in Brazil

1511Pope Julius forms Holy League with Venice and Aragon to drive French out of city; Henry

VIII joins Holy League

1512

William Tyndale completes his B.A. at Oxford

Ponce de Leon discovers Florida

Copernicus publishes that the earth actually revolves around the sun

Forces of the Holy League meet defeat at Ravenna; coalition of Swiss, papal, and imperial

forces drive French and their German mercenaries out of Milan

1513

Giovanni de Medici becomes Pope Leo Xone of most severe trials to which God ever

subjected his church

Peasant and labor rebellions spread eastward from Switzerland

Henry VIII conducts brief invasion of France


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Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean

1515Tyndale completes his M.A. at Oxford and is ordained, but refuses to enter monastic

orders

Thomas Wolsey is appointed Cardinal and Lord Chancellor of England

II. The Reformation Period (1516 1563)

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(1215 - 1515) (1564 - 1689)151617

Erasmus publishes his edition of Greek-Latin New Testament,Novum Instrumentum; this

translation powerfully demonstrated the corruption of the Latin Vulgates text; Erasmuspromotes the translation of the Bible into vernacular tongues for reading by the plowboy

and the simplest woman

Pope Julius II convenes the Lateran Council to undertake reforms in abuses of Church in

Rome

Sir Thomas More writes Utopia

1517Martin Luther posts 95 theses in protest against saleable indulgences

Erasmus publishes anti-war tract

Tetzel hired by Albert of Mainz to sell indulgences

1518At meeting of Augustinians in Heidelberg, Luther defends his theology; later he appears before

Cardinal Cajetan at Augsburg, but refuses to recant; in December, Frederick the Wise protects

Luther from being handed over to Rome.

151822The Spanish carry out their conquest of Mexico

1519

Luther questions papal infallibility in a debate

Luther begins New Testament sermon series, signaling new era of Biblical preaching

Zwingli begins New Testament sermons; Swiss reformation is born

Cortes enters Aztec capital, Tenochtitlan

Charles V (of Spain) succeeds Maximilian as Holy Roman Emperor

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Papal bull Exsurge Domine gives Luther 60 days to recant or be excommunicated; writes 3

seminal documents: To the Christian Nobility, On the Babylonian Captivity of the Church, and

The Freedom of a Christian; burns papal bull and canon law

Suleiman I (the Magnificent) becomes sultan of the Ottoman Empire (Turks)

1521Cambridge students form a study-group at the White Horse Tavern Little Bilney, William

Tyndale, John Frith, and Thomas Cranmer are among them

Luther is Excommunicated by the papal bull Decet Romanum Pontificem; at Diet of Worms in

April, he refuses to recant writings, and edict (in May) condemns him as heretic and outlaw; he

is kidnapped and hidden at Wartburg Castle; begins translating the New Testament into

German

Religious unrest in Wittenberg: private masses abolished, Karlstadt serves Communion in both

elements, religious statues destroyed

Pope titles Henry VIII Defender of the Faith for attacking Luthers views of the sacraments

Lutheran books appear in England

Zwickau prophets, early Anabaptists, arrive in Wittenberg

Pope Leo X dies, succeeded by Hadrian VI

The Turks capture Belgrade

Carlstadt celebrates first Protestant communion at Wittenburg

Diet of Worms; Luther refuses to recant; gets backing of German princes; begins German

translation of Bible

15211523William Tyndale begins teaching at Little Sodbury; disputes with local clergy and isarraigned on charges of heresy; translates Erasmuss Enchiridion

1522Anabaptist movement begins in Germany

Stump and Reublin challenge paying of tithes

Luther introduces German liturgy in Wittenburg

1523Tyndale resides with Humphrey Monmouth in London

1524Tyndale seeks patronage of Bishop Tunstall and is rebuffed; then, assisted by Monmouth,

he travels to Germany and registers at the University of Wittenburg

1524Luther debates Karlstadt on the Lords Supper


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Erasmus publishes On Freedom of the Will

Peasant Wars breaks out in southern Germany

Diet of Nuremberg fails to enforce Edict of Worms condemning Luther

1525

In Cologne, Tyndale prepares to print an English New Testament; but he is discoveredand escapes with only a few printed portions

Anabaptist movement begins in Zrich, spreads to Germany; First Zrich disputation with those

opposed to infant baptism; First believers baptism in Zrich; Denck banished from Nuremberg

for views on Lords Supper; First Anabaptist congregation of 35 converts established in

Zollikon; First imprisonment of Anabaptists occurs in Zrich; they escape

Luther marries Katherine von Bora; writes Bondage of the Will (against Erasmus).

Charles V defeats Francis I; Elector Frederick the Wise dies;

France makes pact with Suleiman I

1526

Tyndale completes the printing of New Testament (in Worms); (It is the first printing ofthe New Testament in English and the first English translation of the scriptures from the

Biblical Greek); smuggled copies of his New Testaments are soon being circulatedthroughout England

Cardinal Wolsey presides at a massive burning of Lutheran books

Reformation spreads to Sweden and Denmark

League of Torgau formed; First Diet of Speyer postpones enforcement of Edict of Worms

Erasmus publishes the works of St. Augustine

1527Bishop Tunstall orders the purchase and burning of all the testaments; but this serves only

to finance Tyndales second edition of the New Testament

The German and Spanish Imperial troops of Charles V sack Rome

Basel orders corporeal punishment and confiscation of property for adult baptism and sheltering

Anabaptists

Luther pens A Mighty Fortress; writes against Zwinglis views on the Lords Supper

First Protestant university (Marburg) founded

Plague strikes Wittenberg

15271530

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1528Reformation established in Bern

Swabian League authorizes military division of 400 horsemen to scout for Anabaptists

Thomas Bilney, respected Cambridge preacher and Lutheran sympathizer, is dragged from

his pulpit and imprisoned

Simon Fish, a London attorney and amateur actor who has fled to Antwerp after spoofing the

clergy, writes "A Supplication for Beggars", which urges an end to taxes for Rome. (Henry VIII

really likes this book.)

1529

Tyndale publishes Obedience of a Christian Man; Sir Thomas More begins writing against

Tyndale and Luther (Dialogue)

Henry VIII dismisses Lord Chancellor Thomas Wolsey for failing to obtain the Pope's consent

to his divorce from Catherine of Aragon; Sir Thomas More appointed Lord Chancellor; Henry

VIII summons the Reformation Parliament" and begins to cut the ties with the Church of

Rome

Reformation becomes official in Basel

Diet of SpeyerLuthers followers name Protestants (first use of the term)

Luther and Zwingli attend Marburg Colloquy, but no agreement reached on the Lords Supper

Tyrolean Anabaptists flea homeland for Moravia

Diet of Speyer restores death penalty for rebaptizing

Turks lay siege to Vienna

1530Tyndales translation of the the first five books of the Old Testament appears in England

(printed in Worms); he also publishesPractice of Prelates

Hoffman baptizes 300 Anabaptists in Emden and sends lay preachers to Netherlands

Luther, as outlaw, cannot attend the Diet of Augsburg, held in attempt to end religious division

in the empire; Melanchthon presents Augsburg Confession, a statement of Lutheran beliefs

Protestants form Schmalkaldic League against Emperor Charles V

1531Tyndale meets Henry VIIIs agent Steven Vaughan, but declines the kings invitation to

return to England; Tyndales translation of theBook of Jonah and hisExposition of the

first Epistle of St. John are printed; Tyndale responds to Thomas MoresDialogue, with

An Answer

Thomas Bilney is burned at stake


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Bullinger succeeds Zwingli and publishes first book against Anabaptists

Zwingli angles for French support for the Reformation by allowing Swiss mercenaries to be

hired

Dressed in battle armor, Zwingli joins the forces on October 11 and is killed in battle

1532Thomas More responds to TyndalesAn Answerwith his Confutation; Tyndale, choosing

to spend his energies in more essential endeavors, breaks off debate with More

English clergy submit to Henry VIII

Calvin starts Protestant movement in France; publishes his first worka commentary on

Senecas De Clementia.

Diet of Regensburg and Peace of Nuremberg guarantee religious toleration in face of Turkish

threat

1533Tyndales translation of ErasmussEnchiridion and his revision of chapters five, six, and

seven of Matthews Gospel are printed; his beloved friend, John Frith, is burned at the

stake in Smithfield;

Thomas Cranmer appointed Archbishop of Canterbury; (This effectly ends clerical celibacy

among Anglicans, as Cranmer is twice-married)

The Act in Restraint of Appeals prohibits appeals to the bishop of Rome.

Henry VIIIs marriage to Catherine is declared void; Anne Boleyn crowned Queen

Calvin and Nicolas Cop flee Paris. At about this time Calvin undergoes a sudden conversion.

Hutter joins Moravian group who become known as Hutterites

Pizarro conquers Peru

Ivan the Terrible (age 3) ascends Russian throne

1534Tyndales revised New Testament is printed; he moves into Thomas Poyntzs English

merchants boarding house in Antwerp (English House)

Pope Paul III, the father of three illegitimate children, comes to power

Luther completes translation of Bible into German

Act of Supremacy Henry VIII establishes himself as Supreme Head of Church and Clergy of

England

Ignatius Loyola founds Society of Jesus to spread Counter Reformation

Strassburg decrees that Anabaptists must leave the city


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1535

Kings agent Henry Phillips arrives in Antwerp and befriends Tyndale, then arrangesto have him arrested while Thomas Poyntz is out of town; Tyndale is cast into Vilvoorde

prison near Brussels

Myles Coverdale, a close aide of Tyndale, translates the portions of the Old Testament not

completed by Tyndale (relying heavily on Tyndale's early drafts) and publishes the

"Coverdale Bible"; This is the first printing of the entire Bible in the English language

Thomas More and Cardinal Fisher beheaded for opposing Henry VIII

Anabaptist uprising at Mnster put down, and Anabaptists executed

Charles V conquers Tunis and frees 20,000 Christian slaves; Emperor forms Catholic Defense

League

France makes pact with Suleiman I

1536

Following a fifteen month imprisonment William Tyndale is strangled and burned at stakefor heresy (6th October)

Luther agrees to Wittenberg Concord on the Lords Supper, in an attempt to resolve differences

with other reformers, but the Zwinglians do not accept it

Denmark and Norway become Lutheran;

Erasmus dies

Menno Simons breaks with Rome; becomes Anabaptist leader in Netherlands

Calvin is persuaded by Farel to remain in Geneva; publishes the first edition of Institutes of the

Christian Religion

Henry VIII dissolves 376 monasteries and nuneries

1537John Rogers, a close aide of Wm. Tyndale, publishes the second complete English Bible.

Because the major part of this Bible was the translation of Tyndale, whose writings hadbeen condemned by the English authorities, it is published under the pseudonym "Thomas

Matthew". The "Matthew's Bible" is a composite made up of Tyndale's Pentateuch andNew Testament (1534-1535 edition) and Coverdale's Bible and a small amount of Roger's

own translation.

1538

Landgrave Philip of Hesse arranges debate between Anabaptists and Bucer; results in Hessian

Anabaptists returning to state church and state church deciding to excommunicate immoral

Christians

Calvin and Farel are banished from Geneva. Calvin goes to Strasbourg as pastor to the French-

speaking congregation.

Luther writes against the Jews in Against the Sabbatarians


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1539

Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the bequest of the King Henry VIIIcommissions Myles Coverdale to publish a large pulpit Bible. It became the first English

Bible authorized for public use, distributed to every church and chained to the pulpit.The Great Bible was approved by Henry VIII: sent abroad among the people to be read

by all and set forth with the kings most gracious license.

This Bible mostly comprised of Tyndales translation was known as the "GreatBible" due to its great size: a large pulpit folio measuring over 14 inches tall. Seveneditions of this version were printed between April of 1539 and December of 1541.

Printers and sellers of books were encouraged to provide for the free and liberal use ofthe Bible in our own maternal English tongue. By the decree of the king every church

was to provide a reader so that the illiterate could hear the Word of God in their owntongue. It would seem that William Tyndale's last prayer had been granted three years

after his martyrdom.

The Six Articles, against Lutheranism. Hugh Latimer, bishop of Winchester, resigns in protest.

Henry VIII is still occasionally burning Lutherans and hanging Roman Catholics.

Henry VIII marries and divorces Anne of Cleves, executes the now-unpopular Thomas

Cromwell, and marries Katherine Howard.

Cardinal Sadeleto writes letter to Geneva. Calvin is asked to respond on behalf of Geneva.

Frankfurt Truce declared between Catholic and Protestant territories

153940

Simons publishes the Foundation Book of Anabaptist faith

1540

Pope recognizes order of Jesuits; will make them the chief agents of Counter Reformation

Conferences at Hagenau and Worms fail to reconcile Protestants and Catholics

1541John Calvin establishes theocracy in Geneva

John Knox establishes Calvinist Reformation in Scotland

Peter Riedeman writes Hutterite Confession of Faith

Henry VIII assumes titles of King of Ireland and Head of Irish Church

At Conference of Regensburg, Melanchthon and Bucer reach agreement with Catholics on

most doctrines, but Luther and Rome reject their work

Calvin writes a treatise on free will against the Roman Catholic theologian Albert Pighius

1543

Luther writes On the Jews and Their Lies

Copernicus writes that earth revolves around sun


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Alliance between Henry and Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) against Scotland and France

1544Ferdinand I and Suleiman I agree to truce

Council of Trent, for reform of Catholic Church, opens

Cranmer instructed to write prayers and a litany (for the army) in English. He does this so wellthat he is asked to make a prayer book in English, based on the service at Salisbury Cathedral

1545Henry VIII's last speech to Parliament; He says Papist, Lutheran, Anabaptist are names devised

by the devil to sunder one man's heart from another

Luther writes Against the Papacy at Rome, an Institution of the Devil

Peace of Augsburg allows rulers to determine religion of their region

1546

Luther dies

1547

Henry VIII dies

1553Edward VI dies; succeeded by Mary I (Bloody Mary)

Servetus, Spanish theologian and physician executed in Geneva as a heretic

1554

Mary I marries Philip (later Philip II of Spain); Catholicism restored in England; Elizabeth isimprisoned. During Marys reign, about 300 Protestants are burned, including 5 bishops, 100

priests, 60 women. John Rogers, Tyndale's close assistant (alias "Thomas Matthew"), is the first

to burn. Protestants are forced into exile or hiding. An attempt by Cardinal Pole (Mary's

archbishop of Canterbury) to restore monasticism fizzles when, among 1500 surviving monks,

nuns, and friars, fewer than 100 are willing to return to celibacy.

In the 1550's the Church in Switzerland was very sympathetic to the reformer refugees and was

one of only a few safe havens for a desperate people. Many of them gathered in Geneva, led by

Myles Coverdale and John Foxe as well as Thomas Sampson and William Whittingham. Over

200 including 8 pastors and 2 bishops found refuge in John Knoxs congregation and there were

many more English Protestants in exile elsewhere. There, with the protection of John Calvin,

the Church of Geneva determined to produce a Bible that would educate their families while

they continued in exile.

1555Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake as Cranmer watches; Later

John Hooper and John Bradford are also burned

1556Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, is forced to recant but later repudiates; He is burned at the stake


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1557

Publication of Geneva New Testament

1560

Publication of Geneva Bible (complete Old and New Testament); This is the first time aBible is printed with verse divisions

1563Thirty-Nine Articles drafted as a doctrinal statement by a convocation of the Church of

England.

John Foxe's publishesActs & Monuments ("Foxes Book of Martyrs"); to this day it remains the

only exhaustive reference work on the persecution and martyrdom of Early Christians and

Protestants from the first century up to the mid-16th century

III. The Post-Reformation Period (1564 1689)

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(1215 - 1515) (1516 - 1563)1564The term Puritan first used

Calvin dies

William Shakespeare born

1577Alliance between England and Netherlands;

Francis Drake sails around the world (to 1580)

1587Mary I dies; succeeded by Elizabeth I

1588Defeat of Spanish Armada

1598

Boris Godunov seizes throne on death of Fyodor I of Russia

1600

Elizabeth I grants charter to East India Company

1603

Elizabeth I dies; James VI proclaimed King of England, Scotland, France and Ireland, as James

I

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"Gunpowder plot"; Guy Fawkes and other Roman Catholic conspirators fail in attempt to blow

up Parliament

1607Parliament rejects proposals for union between England and Scotland

Colony of Virginia is founded at Jamestown by John Smith;

Henry Hudson begins voyage to eastern Greenland and Hudson River (Hudson Bay discovered1610)

1611Publication of King James Bible; approximately 85% of the New Testament and the first

half of the Old Testament are rendered as Tyndale translated them

English and Scottish Protestant colonists settle in Ulster

1620Separatists (Pilgrims) land at Plymouth Rock on Cape Cod, Massachusetts, in the

"Mayflower"; found New Plymouth

1643Scots adopt the Solemn League and Covenant

1647Westminster Assembly drafts Westminster Confession of Faith and the Larger and Shorter

Catechisms

1648Scots invade England and are defeated by Cromwell at battle of Preston Pride's Purge

1664England siezes New Amsterdam from the Dutch, change name to New York

1665Great Plague in London

1666Great Fire of London

1667John Milton publishes Paradise Lost

1670Secret Treaty of Dover between Charles II of England and Louis XIV of France to restore

Roman Catholicism to England

Hudson's Bay Company founded

1679

Act of Habeas Corpus passed, forbidding imprisonment without trial

1687

James II issues Declaration of Liberty of Conscience, extends toleration to all religions


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1688England's 'Glorious Revolution'; William III of Orange is invited to save England from Roman

Catholicism, lands in England, James II flees to France

1689

Convention Parliament issues Bill of Rights; establishes a constitutional monarchy in Britain;

bars Roman Catholics from the throne; William III and Mary II become joint monarchs of

England and Scotland (to1694),

Toleration Act grants freedom of worship to dissenters in England

Select a Time Period: < Pre-Reformation > < Reformation > < Post Reformation >

(1215 - 1515) (1516 - 1563) (1564 - 1689)

Visit our William Tyndale Galleries:

Gallery 1: A Brief Introduction

Gallery 2: The "Crimes" of William Tyndale

Gallery 3: Tyndale's Importance as a Translator

Gallery 4: Prison Letter and Portrait

Gallery 5: Characters in Tyndale's Life

An Account of Tyndale's Life by John Foxe

Death of the Great Reformer of England by dAubigne

Sir Thomas More's Controversy with Tyndale

Tyndale's Pathway to Scriptures

Tyndale's A Brief Declaration of the Sacraments

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A Timeline: William Tyndale & the Reformation

Why Were Our Reformers Burned?

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