1534 Event Renaissance and Reformations United Kingdom
Act of Supremacy
Henry VIII breaks with Rome and declares himself head of the Church of England.
A shared history
European construction did not begin in 1950. This thread links the ancient inheritance, the Judeo-Christian matrix and the contemporary Union.
326
events
3600 BC
earliest marker
46
countries covered
0
already discussed
Event density
One century per bar before 1500, one decade after: archives are not evenly spread.
Ancient Greece
Early Middle Ages
Renaissance
Enlightenment
Concert of Europe
European integration
Rome
High and Late Middle Ages
Reformation and wars of religion
Age of revolutions
World wars
Cold War
1530
1534
1539
6 events
1500 1599
Renaissance 6 events1536 Religion Renaissance and Reformations Denmark
Lutheran Reformation
The Church becomes a state Church; universal religious instruction prepares national literacy.
1536 Event Renaissance and Reformations Switzerland
Calvin in Geneva
The Institutes of the Christian Religion make Geneva a centre of the European Reformation.
1536 Event Renaissance and Reformations Slovakia
Pressburg, capital of Hungary
After Mohács, Bratislava becomes capital and coronation city of the Hungarian kingdom.
1539 Institution Renaissance and Reformations Spain
School of Salamanca
Francisco de Vitoria founds modern international law by questioning the legitimacy of conquest.
1539 Text Renaissance and Reformations France
Ordinance of Villers-Cotterêts
Francis I imposes French in public acts: the vernacular supplants Latin in administration.