{"slug": "roman-catholicism", "label": "Roman Catholicism", "wikipedia": "https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Roman_Catholicism", "wikidata": null, "qid": null, "description": null, "entries": 7, "years": 7, "span": [588, 1950], "span_label": ["588 CE", "1950 CE"], "topics": [{"title": "Religion & Belief", "count": 6}, {"title": "Culture & Society", "count": 1}], "related": [{"slug": "italy", "label": "Italy", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "kingdom-of-the-lombards", "label": "Kingdom of the Lombards", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "authari", "label": "Authari", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "sweden", "label": "Sweden", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "riksdag-of-the-estates", "label": "Riksdag of the Estates", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "lutheranism", "label": "Lutheranism", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "ethiopia", "label": "Ethiopia", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "parliament-of-england", "label": "Parliament of England", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "vatican-city", "label": "Vatican City", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "god", "label": "God", "shared": 1}, {"slug": "pope-pius-xii", "label": "Pope Pius XII", "shared": 1}], "items": [{"year": 588, "year_label": "588 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The Lombard Kingdom (Italy) is converted to Roman Catholicism under the rule of King Authari (approximate date).", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1364753170#Europe", "title": "588", "revid": 1364753170, "section": "Events › By place › Europe"}}, {"year": 1000, "year_label": "1000 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": null, "text": "The papacy during this time was in a period of decline, in retrospect known as the saeculum obscurum (\"Dark Age\") or \"pornocracy\" (\"rule of harlots\"), a state of affairs that would result in the Great Schism between Roman Catholicism and Eastern Orthodoxy later in the 11th century.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1373370885#Christendom", "title": "AD 1000", "revid": 1373370885, "section": "Events › Christendom"}}, {"year": 1492, "year_label": "1492 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 31", "text": "March 31 – Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra Decree, expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366150846#January—March", "title": "1492", "revid": 1366150846, "section": "Events › January—March"}}, {"year": 1527, "year_label": "1527 CE", "section": "Culture & Society", "date": "June 17", "text": "June 17 – The Protestant Reformation begins in Sweden. The Riksdag of the Estates in Västerås adopts Lutheranism as the state religion, in place of Roman Catholicism. This results in the confiscation of church property and dissolution of Catholic convents in accordance with the Reduction of Gustav I of Sweden.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1366980186#April–June", "title": "1527", "revid": 1366980186, "section": "Events › April–June"}}, {"year": 1581, "year_label": "1581 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "March 18", "text": "March 18 – The Parliament of England's Act against Reconciliation to Rome imposes heavy fines, for practising Roman Catholicism.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1362478489#January–March", "title": "1581", "revid": 1362478489, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1626, "year_label": "1626 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "February 11", "text": "February 11 – Emperor Susenyos of Ethiopia and Patriarch Afonso Mendes declare the primacy of the Roman See over the Ethiopian Church, and Roman Catholicism the state religion of Ethiopia.", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1367580131#January–March", "title": "1626", "revid": 1367580131, "section": "Events › January–March"}}, {"year": 1950, "year_label": "1950 CE", "section": "Religion & Belief", "date": "November 1", "text": "November 1 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the \"Miracle of the Sun\" at the Vatican and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism, the Munificentissimus Deus, which says that God took Mary's body into Heaven after her death (the \"Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary\").", "cite": {"url": "https://en.wikipedia.org/w/index.php?oldid=1371638577#November", "title": "1950", "revid": 1371638577, "section": "Events › November"}}]}