1536 - Events. February 2 - Spaniard Pedro de Mendoza founds Buenos Aires, Argentina. February 25 - Jacob Hutter burned at the stake for heresy May 19 - Execution of Anne Boleyn May 30 - Henry VIII of England marries Jane Seymour October 13 - The Pilgrimage of Grace, a rebellion in York, is "resolved" by Robert Aske October 29 - Coronation of Jane Seymour as the Queen of England Various religious buildings are closed as part of Henry VIIIs dissolution of ...

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1503 - Events. January 20 - Seville in Castile is awarded exclusive right to trade with the New World. April 21 - Battle of Cerignola. Aragonese forces under Gonzalo Fernández de Córdoba defeat the French under the Duc de Nemours, who is killed. Considered to be the first battle in history won by gunpowder small arms. May 10 - Christopher Columbus discovers the Cayman Islands and he names them Las Tortugas after the numerous sea turtles there. May 13 - Capture of Naples b ...

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1492 - Events. January 2 - Boabdil, the last Moorish King of Granada, surrenders his city to the army of Ferdinand and Isabella after a lengthy siege. March 30 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign a decree expelling all Jews and Black ladinos from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism. August 3 - Christopher Columbus first sails to the Americas August 3 - The Jews are expelled from Spain. October 12 - Christopher Columbus's expedition makes landfall in the Caribbean. Th ...

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1565 - Events. The pencil is first documented by Conrad Gesner March 1 - the city of Rio de Janeiro is founded April 27 - Cebu City is established becoming the first Spanish settlement in the Philippines. August 28 - St. Augustine, Florida (named after St. Augustine), established. It is the oldest remaining European settlement in the United States. September 4 - Spanish fleet of Pedro Menéndez de Avilés lands on modern-day Florida to oust the French under Jean Ribault. ...

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Background Christianity Protestant Reformation Apostolic Succession Roman Catholicism Episcopal structure People Thomas Cranmer Henry VIII Richard Hooker "Instruments of Unity" Archbishop of Canterbury Lambeth Conferences Anglican Consultative Council Primates' Meeting Liturgy and Worship Book of Common Prayer High Church · Low Church Broad Church Oxford Movement Thirty-Nine Articles< ...

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1587 was a common year starting on Thursday of the Gregorian calendar or a common year starting on Sunday of the Julian calendar. 1587 - Events. February 8 - Mary, Queen of Scots is beheaded at Fotheringhay Castle in England after she is implicated in a plot to murder her cousin, Queen Elizabeth I. July 22 - Colony of Roanoke: A group of English settlers arrive on Roanoke Island off of North Carolina to re-establish the deserted colony. August 19 - Polish and Lithuanian noble ...

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Protestant Reformation - Roots and precursors: 14th Century and 15th Century. Anti-hierarchical movements: Catharism, Waldensianism, and others Avignon Papacy ("Babylonian Captivity of the Church"), Avignon, Great Schism John Huss, John Wycliffe, William Tyndale Northern Renaissance Unrest in the Western Church and Empire culminated in the Avignon Papacy (1308–1378), and the papal schism (1378–1416), excited wars between princes, uprisings among the peasants, and widespread conce ...

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