| Calvin moves to Geneva. | Calvin |
Magisterial Reformation |
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| Thomas More is beheaded in Tower of London for failing to take the Oath of Supremacy. | English Reformation |
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| Angela Merici founds the Ursulines. | Catholic Reformation |
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| Thomas More is executed. | More |
English Reformation |
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| Pope Gregory XIV is born. | Catholic Reformation |
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| April | Pieter Simons and several hundred radical anabaptists are captured after they seized the Oldeklooster monastery near Bolsward and are killed. | Radical Reformation |
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| April 27 | Council of Two Hundred passes a formal declaration that Geneva is a Protestant city. | Magisterial Reformation |
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| June 25 | Lutherans and Catholics storm Munster. Anabaptist leaders are tortured and executed. [More] | Simons |
Radical Reformation |