| 257.Aug.30 | | Saint Sixtus II becomes the Catholic Pope |
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| 306.Nov.30 | | St Marcellus I begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 399.Nov.27 | | St Anastasius I becomes Catholic Pope |
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| 418 | | Etalius begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 440.Aug.19 | | St Sixtus III ends his
reign as Pope |
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| 590 | | Gregory the
Great became Pope |
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| 597 | | St Augustine lands in Kent |
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| 682.Aug.17 | | St Leo II begins his
reign as Pope |
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| 689 | | King Caedwalla of Wessex, accompanied by
St Aldhelm, baptized by Pope Sergius I |
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| 707.Oct.18 | | End of the reign of Pope John John VII |
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| 741.Nov.28 | | St Gregory III ends his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 741.Dec.03 | | St Zachary begins his reign as Catholic Pope |
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| 800 | | Charlemagne crowned as Holy Roman Emperor
by Pope Leo III |
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| 904.Jan.29 | | Sergius III crowned as Pope - start of The Pomocracy |
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| 983 | | Death of Pope Benedict (ASC) |
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| 1061 | | Tostig, his wife Judith and Gyrth recieved on pilgrimageto Rome by Pope Nicholas II
Theparty are robbed as they return |
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| 1073.Apr.22 | | Hildebrand elected as Pope Gregory VII |
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| 1074 | | Pope Gregory VII excommunicated married priests.
He sent legates to France to reform the Church there |
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| 1075 | | Dictatus Papae published detailing Pope
Gregory VIIs vision of Papal powers |
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| 1076 | | At
Lent, Pope Gregory VII excommunicated Henry IV of Saxony |
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| 1076.Jan.24 | | The Council of Worms:
Held by Henry IV in repsonse to a letter threatening his excommunication by Pope
Gregory VII. The German bishops renounce their allegiance to the Pope |
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| 1077 | | Henry IV submitted to Pope Gregory VII at Canossa and was absolved of
his excommunication |
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| 1078 | | Pope Gregory VII ordered all bishops to
found cathedral schools |
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| 1080 | | Death of Pope
Gregory VII |
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| 1095 | | A Europe roused by the
preachings of Peter the hermit was commanded to save the Holy Land from the
infidel by Pope Urban II |
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| 1095.Nov.27 | | Pope Urban praches at Clermont, France, and launching the First Crusade
He preached of relieving the pressure by the Seljuk Turks on the Eastern Roman Empire and securing free access to Jerusalem for Christian pilgrims |
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| 1105 | | Henry I reaches a compromise with the Church after Pope Paschall threatened the King with excommunication |
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| 1136.Apr | | Recognition of Stephen as King of England by Pope Innocent II |
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| 1139.Jan | | Pope Innocent II declares the legitimacy of Stephen\'s rule after hearing charges of his usurpation of the Crown |
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| 1143.Sep.24 | | Death of Pope Innocent II. The pro-Angevin Celestine II becomes pope |
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| 1144.Mar.08 | | Death of Pope Celestine II. Lucius II becomes pope
Unlike Celestine II, Lucius II supports King Stephen |
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| 1145.Feb.15 | | Death of Pope Lucius II. Pro-Angevin Eugenius III becomes pope |
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| 1145.Dec.01 | | Pope Eugene III sends papal bull to Louis VII of France and the French proclaim the Second Crusade
Led by Louis and Emperor Conrad III from 1147-1149, the crusade fails to accomplish its goals |
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| 1154.Dec.04 | | Nicholas Breakspear begins his reign as the only English Catholic Pope Adrian IV |
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| 1215 | | The
Fourth Lateran Council
The power of the medieval Church and the Pope at
their height |
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| 1215 | | The Pope recognizes the Dominicans |
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| 1223 | | The Pope recognizes the Franciscans |
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| 1312 | | Suppression of the Knights Templars by order of the Council of Vienne |
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| 1435 | | Castile and Portugal requested the Pope
to settle their rights to the Canary Islands |
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| 1436 | | The Pope settled the
possession of the Canary Islands between Castile and Portugal |
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| 1484 | | Papal Bull Summis desiderantes; pope Innocent VIII provides his blessing and encouragement to witchhunting, confirming witches as the minions of the devil |
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| 1494 | | Treaty of Tordesillas between Spain and Portugal; arranged at the urging of Ferdinand and Isabella by Pope Alexander VI
Places an imaginary dividing line through the Atlantic Ocean, intersecting South America slightly west of the Cape Verde Islands; Spain is given rights of commerce and colonization to lands west of this line, while Portugal is granted the territories to the east
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| 1498.Aug.25 | | Michelangelo, aged only 23, commissioned in by Pope Alexander VI to carve the Piet� (The Body of Christ in His Mother�s Arms)
Michelangelo completed the Pieta in 1501 |
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| 1501 | | Michelangelo completes the Pieta commissioned by Pope Alexander VI in 1498 |
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| 1513 | | Accession of Pope Leo X
The Renaissance Papacy at its zenith |
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| 1521 | | Henry VIII wrote a
book attacking the Protestant reformers (for which the Pope gave him the title
Defender of the Faith |
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| 1522 | | Adrian
VI elected Pope
Last non-Italian Pope |
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| 1540.Jul.18 | | Society of Jesus (the
Jesuits), founded by Ignatius of Loyola and his followers, recognised by the Pope
The religious order is dedicated to education and missionary work in the newly explored regions of Asia and the New World |
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| 1570.Feb.25 | | Elizabeth I anathematised (excommunicated) by Papal Bull of Pope Pius V
An outcast of the Catholic Church, it became the duty of all Catholics to bring down her reign thus making religious toleration impossible |
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| 1582 | | Gregorian or New Style calendar
introduced by Pope Gregory XIII |
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| 1592.Jan | | Election of Pope Clement VIII |
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| 1605 | | Death of Pope Clement VIII |
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| 1605.Apr.01 | | Election of Pope Leo XI
He dies before the year is out |
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| 1605.Apr.27 | | Death of Pope Leo XI |
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| 1605.May.16 | | Election of Pope Paul V |
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| 1854.Dec.08 | | Pope Pius IX proclaims Immaculate Conception - which declares the Virgin Mary free of Original Sin |
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| 1878.Dec.28 | | Pope Leo XIII issues an encyclical on socialism
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| 1886 | | Margaret, Countess of Salisbury and last of the
Plantagenets was beatified by Pope Leo XIII |
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| 1968.Aug.22 | | Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota
(First Papal visit to Latin America) |
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| 1970 | | Canonization of Cuthbert Mayne by Pope Paul VI |
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| 1970.Nov.27 | | Pope Paul VI is wounded in the chest during a visit to Philippines by a Bolivian painter disguised as a priest and wielding a dagger |
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| 1978.Aug.06 | | Death of Pope Paul VI
died at Castel Gandolfo, aged 80 |
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| 1978.Aug.06 | | Death of Pope Paul VI, aged 80 |
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| 1978.Aug.11 | | Funeral of Pope Paul VI in the Vatican City attended by heads of state and
dignitaries from around the world |
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| 1978.Aug.12 | | Pope Paul VI buried in St Peters Basilica |
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| 1978.Aug.26 | | Election of Cardinal Albino Luciani of Venice as the 264th Pope John Paul I
Pope John Paul I died less than a month later |
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| 1978.Aug.26 | | Cardinal Albini Luciano elected as Pope John Paul
He died only 33 days later |
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| 1978.Sep.29 | | Death of Pope John Paul
He had been elected only 33 days previously |
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| 1978.Oct.16 | | Polish Cardinal Karol Wojtyla, Archbishop of Krakow, elected as Pope John Paul II to succeed Pope John Paul I
Pope John Paul II is the first non-Italian Pope to be elected in more than 400 years |
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| 1981.Aug.12 | | Pope John Paul II leaves a Rome hospital 3 months after being
wounded in an attempt on his life |
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| 1989.Dec.01 | | USSR Pres. Mikhail S Gorbachev meets Pope John Paul II at the Vatican |
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| 2000.Aug.29 | | Pope John Paul II presents moral guidelines for medical research into the 21st century
The guidelines endorse organ donation and adult stem cell study but condemning human cloning and embryo experiments |
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