Calvin in Geneva

Name: Calvin in Geneva
Start: 1536

The Institutes of the Christian Religion make Geneva a centre of the European Reformation.

Meanwhile, elsewhere

Within twenty-five years of 1536 — the context national timelines leave out.

19 years earlier Luther’s 95 Theses Germany
same year Lutheran Reformation Denmark
2 years earlier Act of Supremacy United Kingdom
3 years later School of Salamanca Spain
10 years earlier Disaster of Mohács Hungary
12 years later The New Testament in Finnish Finland
13 years earlier Gustav Vasa Sweden
14 years later First books in Slovene Slovenia

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Which long period

Periods overlap: they are landmarks, not boxes.

Renaissance 1400 – 1600 Printing, humanism, and the opening of ocean routes.
Reformation and wars of religion 1517 – 1648 Christendom splits and Europe is redrawn.

Countries involved

Switzerland

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What was written of it

The powers of Europe are so bound to one another that they form an indissoluble system, in which none can be shaken without shaking the rest. All trade enough with one another to be unable to do without one another.

Jean-Jacques Rousseau 1761

Abstract of the Abbé de Saint-Pierre’s Project for Perpetual Peace

Translated by the site, not by the author.