Encyclopedia of the Renaissance and the Reformation

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1534 Barbarossa captures
Tunis

1535 Battle of Tunis

1536 French occupy
Savoy-Piedmont; Cartier
claims Canada for France

1540 Spaniards discover
California; Perugian Salt
War

1542 English defeat Scots
at Solway Moss

1544 English capture
Boulogne

1547 Battle of Mühlberg

1550 Peace of Boulogne
between England, France,
and Scotland

Secular Events Religion Rulers Sciences Arts and Literature

1533 Henry VIII of

England

excommunicated

1534 Ignatius Loyola

founds Jesuits; Henry VIII

supreme head of Church

in England; Paul III pope;

Anabaptists seize control

of Münster; first

Confession of Basle

1535 Ursuline Order

founded

1536 Dissolution of

English monasteries

begins; first Helvetic

Confession; death of

Erasmus; Pilgrimage of

Grace; Calvin’s

Christianae religionis

institutio published

1541 Colloquy of

Regensburg; Calvin’s

Ecclesiastical Ordinances

at Geneva; Xavier begins

missionary journey to

East

1542 Roman Inquisition

reestablished

1545 First session of the

Council of Trent

1546 Death of Luther

1548 Interim of

Augsburg; Ignatius

Loyola’s Ejercicios

espirituales published

1549 Zürich Agreement;

first Book of Common

Prayer

1550 Julius III pope

1533 Catherine de’

Medici marries the future

Henry II of France

1542 Accession of infant

Mary, Queen of Scots

1544 William I the Silent

prince of Orange

(→1584)

1545 Pierluigi Farnese

created first duke of

Parma

1547 Edward VI king of

England (→1553); Henry

II king of France

(→1559)

1543 Vesalius’s De

humani corporis fabrica

and Copernicus’s De

revolutionibus published;

first botanic garden

founded (Pisa)

1544 Münster’s

Cosmographia universalis

published

1546 Fracastoro’s De

contagione published

1550 First volume of

Ramusio’s Delle

1532 Machiavelli’s II

Principe and the first

novel in Rabelais’s

Gargantua and

Pantagruel cycle

published

1536 Bibliotheca

Marciana, Venice, begun

1541 Michelangelo’s Last

Judgment in Sistine

Chapel

1545 Cellini’s Perseus

and Medusa begun

1546 Lescot designs

Louvre, Paris

1550 First edition of

Vasari’s Vite published

1540

1550