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Dominican Order

Roman Catholic religious order

30 dated entries naming Dominican Order, drawn from 29 separate years between 1170 CE and 2021 CE. Nothing here is written by us: each line is the sentence a Wikipedia year article used, and the link beside it opens the exact revision.

Also written as Dominican friar, Dominican order, Order of Preachers in the source articles; Wikipedia redirects those to the same subject, so their entries are on this page.

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12th century

  • 1170August 8 – Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order (died 1221)source

13th century

  • 1203Cecilia Cesarini, Italian Dominican nun and saint (died 1290)source
  • 1216December 22 – Honorius III officially approves the Order of Preachers (the Dominican Order), by the Papal bull Religiosam vitam.source
  • 1221August 6 – Dominic, founder of the Dominican Order, canonized (born 1170)source
  • 1224Dominican Order set up in Ireland. They are the first mendicant friars in Ireland. At about this date, Lucas de Netterville, Archbishop of Armagh, founds a Dominican friary in Drogheda.source
  • 1225Dominican Order founds the 'Black Abbey', lying just off Parliament Street in Kilkenny.source
  • 1225June 10 – Pope Honorius III issues the bull Vineae Domini custodes in which he approves the mission of two friars to Morocco. The bull is reissued in October when Honorius III exhorts the Dominican and Franciscan order to participate in that mission.source
  • 1229Council of Toulouse: The Catholic Church permanently establishes the Inquisition, in the charge of the Dominican Order in Rome.source
  • 1231James Salomoni, Italian Dominican priest and prior (died 1314)source
  • 1239March 20 – Gregory IX renews the excommunication of Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor, while he is at his court in Padua. Frederick responds by expelling the Franciscans and Dominicans from Lombardy.source
  • 1241Dominican friary at Athenry founded by the de Bermingham family.source
  • 1253Sligo Abbey, a Dominican monastery, is founded by Maurice FitzGerald, Norman chief governor of Ireland.source
  • 1256February 16 – Nicola Paglia, Italian Dominican priest (born 1197)source
  • 1279May 7 – Alberto da Bergamo, Italian Dominican friar (born 1214)source
  • 1283Galvano Fiamma, Italian Dominican friar and chronicler (died 1344)source

14th century

  • 1305Carlingford Abbey was founded by the Dominican Ordersource
  • 1321April 8 – In the Delhi Sultanate of India, European Dominican missionaries who have accompanied Jordan Catala are killed while stranded on Salsette Island. Jordan escapes and continues his ministry.source
  • 1382Aghaboe Abbey in County Laois is rebuilt by Fighin Fitzpatrick and granted to the Dominican Order.source
  • 1400Founding of a Dominican priory in Longford.source

15th century

  • 1480September 27 – The co-rulers of most of Spain, Ferdinand II of Aragon and Isabella I of Castile initiate the Spanish Inquisition to look for heretics and unconverted Jews, appointing the Dominican Order clerics Miguel de Morillo and Juan de San Martín to serve as the first two inquisitors.source
  • 1484An Irish province of the Dominican Order is established.source

16th century

  • 1501May 20 – Columba of Rieti, Italian Dominican tertiary Religious Sister and blessed (born 1467)source
  • 1502November 13 – Annio da Viterbo, Italian Dominican friar and scholar (born 1432)source
  • 1505June 18 – Osanna of Mantua, Italian Dominican tertiary and blessed (born 1449)source
  • 1549June 26 – Luis Cáncer, Spanish Dominican priest, missionary, martyr and servant of God (born 1500)source
  • 1576Approximate date – Anthony Lynch, Dominican (died after 1636)source
  • 1589August 1 – King Henry III of France is assassinated by a fanatical Dominican friar Jacques Clément, who approaches the King on the pretext of delivering a secret message. Henry tells his guards to stand aside, and Clément approaches and fatally stabs the King. Clément is subsequently killed by the guards. King Henry dies the next day.source

17th century

  • 1645Regarding the Chinese Rites controversy, Rome's Sacred Congregation for the Propagation of the Faith sided with the Dominicans over the Jesuit in 1645 by condemning the Chinese rites based on their brief, rendering them incompatible with Roman Catholic faithsource

18th century

  • 1706John O'Heyne's Epilogus chronologicus exponens (a history of the Dominican Order in Ireland) is published in Louvain.source

21st century

  • 2021March 12 – San Juan′s San José Church prepares for reopening after being closed in 1996 for restoration and repairs. The second-oldest church on the island, which was built in 1532 near the ocean on top of a Taíno settlement at the highest point of Old San Juan, was originally a Dominican convent where Bartolomé de las Casas lived.source

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