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Jesuit

32 dated entries naming Jesuit, drawn from 24 separate years between 1552 CE and 2013 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.

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16th century

  • 1552December 3 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary and saint (b. 1506)source
  • 1570October 18 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Brazil (b. 1517)source
  • 1572September 30 – Francis Borgia, Italian Jesuit priest and saint (b. 1510)source
  • 1581December 1 – Alexander Briant, English Jesuit priest and saint (b. 1556)source
  • 1581December 1 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit priest and saint (b. 1540)source
  • 1581July 14 – English Jesuit Edmund Campion is arrested.source
  • 1582Jesuit Matteo Ricci is allowed to enter the country.source
  • 1587September 9 – In the Burgundian Netherlands (part of modern-day Belgium), the faculty at the University of Leuven publishes a condemnation of the 34 propositions drawn up by the Jesuit scholar Michel Baius, leading to a campaign by traditional Belgian Catholics against the Jesuits.source
  • 1597December 21 – Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit priest and saint (b. 1521)source
  • 1597June 9 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (b. 1534)source

17th century

  • 1602Copies are printed of the geographical map of East Asia created by Matteo Ricci, an Italian Jesuit stationed in Ming dynasty Beijing, China, with Chinese-written labeling and map symbols.source
  • 1607Missionary Juan Fonte establishes the first Jesuit mission among the Tarahumara, in the Sierra Madre Mountains of Northwest Mexico.source
  • 1610May 11 – Matteo Ricci, Italian Jesuit priest and servant of God (b. 1552)source
  • 1616Anti-Christian persecutions break out in Nanjing, China, and Nagasaki, Japan. The Jesuit-lead Christian community in Japan at this time is over 3,000,000 strong.source
  • 1616Jesuit astronomer Christoph Scheiner becomes the advisor to Archduke Maximilian, brother of Rudolf II, Holy Roman Emperor in Vienna. A lifelong enemy of Galileo, following a dispute over the nature of sunspots, Scheiner is credited with reopening the 1616 accusations against Galileo in 1633.source
  • 1616November 16 – The Tepehuán Revolt begins in Nueva Vizcaya with the attack of a Spanish wagon train that is on its way to Mexico City. It tests the limits of Spanish and Jesuit colonialism, in western and northwestern Durango and southern Chihuahua, Mexico.source
  • 1621August 13 – John Berchmans, Belgian Jesuit scholastic and saint (b. 1599)source
  • 1622May 25 – Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (b. 1564)source
  • 1622September 10 – Charles Spinola, Italian Jesuit missionary, martyr and blessed (b. 1564)source
  • 1624February 28 – A decree is issued in Norway making it illegal for Jesuits or Roman Catholic monks to be harbored in the country.source
  • 1632June 25 – Fasilides, Emperor of Ethiopia in succession to his father Susenyos, declares the state religion of the country again to be Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity, and confiscates the lands of the Jesuit missionaries, relegating them to Fremona.source
  • 1633Emperor of Ethiopia Fasilides expels Jesuit missionaries.source
  • 1634Suspecting that Patriarch Afonso Mendes played a part in the Portuguese assault on Mombasa, Emperor Fasilides expels him and several Jesuit missionaries from Ethiopia.source
  • 1634March 25 – Leonard Calvert arrives in Maryland, with Jesuit missionaries Andrew White, John Altham Gravenor, and Thomas Gervase, establishing St. Mary's as the fourth permanent settlement in British North America. In this year they also establish an institution of higher learning here, which later becomes Georgetown University, the United States's oldest university.source
  • 1660March 31 – The war in the West Indies between the indigenous Carib people, and the French Jesuits and English people who have colonized the islands, is ended with a treaty signed at Basse-Terre at Guadeloupe at the residence of the French Governor, Charles Houël du Petit Pré.source
  • 1660November 5 – Alexandre de Rhodes, French Jesuit missionary (b. 1591)source
  • 1664February 2 – Jesuit missionary Johann Grueber arrives in Rome after a 214-day journey that had started in Beijing, proving that commerce can be had between Europe and Asia by land rather than ship.source

18th century

  • 1761August 6 – The Parlement of Paris votes to close all colleges, associations and seminaries associated with the Jesuit Order, following a long campaign by Louis-Adrien Le Paige.source

19th century

  • 1859February 5 – Louis Cheikho, Lebanese Jesuit Chaldean priest and venerable (d. 1927)source
  • 1866October 14 – French troops under the command of Rear Admiral Pierre-Gustave Roze land at Ganghwa Island, Korea, as part of a punitive expedition against that kingdom for the execution of French Jesuit priests. It is the first military contact between Korea and a Western force.source

20th century

  • 1927November 23 – Miguel Pro, Mexican Jesuit and Roman Catholic priest, martyr and blessed (executed) (b. 1891)source

21st century

  • 2013March 13 – Cardinal Jorge Mario Bergoglio of Argentina is elected the 266th pope, whereupon he takes the name Francis and becomes the first Jesuit pope, the first pope from the Americas, and the first pope from the Southern Hemisphere.source

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