| Menni Simons becomes an Anabaptist leader. | Simons |
Radical Reformation |
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| William Tyndale burned at stake. | English Reformation |
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| Calvin publishes the first edition of his Institutes of the Christian Religion. | Calvin |
Magisterial Reformation |
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| Teresa of Avila enters Carmelite convent in Avila. | Teresa |
Catholic Reformation |
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| Gasparo Contarini asked by pope Paul III to lead papal reform commission. | Catholic Reformation |
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| Thomas Cromwell secures the Act of Dissolution which closes monasteries. | Cromwell |
English Reformation |
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| Robert Barnes returns to England. | Barnes |
English Reformation |
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| Heinrich Bullinger authors First Helvetic Confession. | Bullinger |
Magisterial Reformation |
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| Anna Bijns opens a one-room school. | Bijns |
Catholic Reformation |
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| Berchtold Haller dies. | Haller |
Magisterial Reformation |
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| Jan of Leiden is tortured and killed. | Radical Reformation |
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| Pope Clement VIII is born. | Catholic Reformation |
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| Henry VIII begins suppressing monasteries. | Henry |
English Reformation |
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| Catharine of Aragon dies. | Henry |
English Reformation |
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| Anne Boleyn executed. | Henry |
English Reformation |
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| Henry VIII marries Jane Seymour. | Henry |
English Reformation |
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| Pilgrimage of Grace begins. [More] | Henry |
English Reformation |
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| February 25 | Jacob Hutter burned at the stake. | Radical Reformation |