| 1491 | Ignatius Loyola is born. | |
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| 1521 | Ignatius Loyola seriously wounded in battle at Pamplona. | |
| 1522 | Ignatius Loyola spends a year at Manresa. | |
| 1528 | Ignatius Loyola graduates from University of Paris. | |
| 1534 | August 15 | Ignatius Loyola and six others (including Francis Xavier) take vows of celebacy and poverty and commit to serving God. |
| 1540 | Ignatius of Loyola founds the Society of Jesus. | |
| 1548 | Ignatius Loyola's Spiritual Excercises first published in its entirety. | |
| 1556 | Ignatius Loyola dies. |