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Jesuits

male religious institute of the Roman Catholic Church

86 dated entries naming Jesuits, drawn from 68 separate years between 1506 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

  • 1506April 13- Peter Faber, French Catholic priest and co-founder of the Society of Jesus (d.1546)source
  • 1526Edmund Tanner (died 1579 in Ireland), Irish Jesuit, Roman Catholic Bishop of Cork and Cloyne, from 1574 to 1579.source
  • 1534August 15 – Ignatius of Loyola and six others take the vows that lead to the establishment of the Jesuits (the Society of Jesus), in Montmartre, near Paris.source
  • 1540September 27 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is approved by Pope Paul III, in his bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae.source
  • 1542February–March – first Jesuit mission to Ireland.source
  • 1546Possible date – Thomas Field, Jesuit explorer (died 1625)source
  • 1549Probable date – Thomas Field, Jesuit explorer (died 1625)source
  • 1550July 21 – The Society of Jesus (Jesuits) is approved by Pope Julius III.source
  • 1552December 3 – Francis Xavier, Spanish Jesuit missionary and saint (born 1506)source
  • 1554Approximate date – Richard Field, Jesuit (died 1606)source
  • 1556The first printing press in India is introduced by Jesuits, at Saint Paul's College, Goa.source
  • 1559Christopher Holywood, Jesuit (died 1626)source
  • 15642 April – William Bathe, Jesuit priest and linguist (died 1614)source
  • 1565First ever Jesuit school is established at Limerick by David Wolfe, apostolic visitor of the Roman Catholic Church, but this is dispersed by the royal authorities in October.source
  • 1570September 10 – A party of ten Spanish Jesuit missionaries land on the Virginia Peninsula of North America to establish the Ajacán Mission, which will be massacred in February 1571.source
  • 1570October 18 – Manuel da Nóbrega, Portuguese Jesuit missionary in Brazil (born 1517)source
  • 1571February 4 – The Spanish Jesuit missionaries of the Ajacán Mission, established on the Virginia Peninsula of North America in 1570, are massacred by local Native Americans.source
  • 1574Stephen White, Jesuit scholar (died 1646)source
  • 1575March 16 – Edmund O'Donnell is hanged, drawn and quartered in Cork as a traitor, the first Jesuit executed by the English government.source
  • 1581July 14 – English Jesuit Edmund Campion is arrested.source
  • 1581December 1 – In England, Jesuit priest Edmund Campion is executed for treason.source
  • 1581December 1 – Edmund Campion, English Jesuit priest and saint (born 1540)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
  • 1591The first of the Conimbricenses commentaries on Aristotle, by the Jesuits of the University of Coimbra, is published.source
  • 1591Michael Wadding, Jesuit theologian and missionary priest (died 1644)source
  • 1593In Lisbon, John Houling, SJ, and Fr. Peter Fonseca establish the College of St. Patrick for the education of young Irish Roman Catholics.source
  • 1594St. Paul's College is founded in Macau by Jesuits, being the first western style university in the far east.source
  • 1594December 27 – French university student Jean Châtel attempts to assassinate King Henry IV of France, after gaining entrance into the King's office. Châtel attacks the monarch with a knife and causes a minor injury. After court jester Mathurine de Vallois intervenes, she detains Châtel until the King's bodyguard can carry out the arrest. Two days later, Chatel is executed by dismemberment. The Collège de Clermont, the Jesuit institution, where Châtel was a student, is closed, and the order of the Jesuits is temporarily banned.source
  • 1597June 9 – José de Anchieta, Spanish Jesuit missionary (born 1534)source
  • 1597December 21 – Petrus Canisius, Dutch Jesuit priest and saint (born 1521)source

17th century

  • 16025–18 June – Nine Years' War: The English defeat Irish rebels at the siege of Dunboy. The Jesuit chaplain Dominic Collins is arrested, tortured and hanged by the English at Youghal.source
  • 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
  • 16044 December – Hiring anyone who had attended Jesuit schools in positions in schools and churches was made illegal.source
  • 1605July 4 – A proclamation commands all Roman Catholic seminary priests and Jesuits to leave Ireland by December 10 and directs the laity to attend Church of Ireland services.source
  • 16054 July – a proclamation commands all Roman Catholic seminary priests and Jesuits to leave the country by 10 December and directs the laity to attend Church of Ireland services.source
  • 1606February 21 – Richard Field, superior of the Irish Jesuit mission (born c.1554)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 (born 1552)source
  • 1614June 17 – William Bathe, Jesuit priest and linguist (born 1564)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
  • 1616February – English merchants of the East India Company complain that the great troubles and wars in Japan since their arrival have put them to much pains and charges. Two great cities, Osaka and Sakaii, have been burned to the ground, each one almost as big as London, and not one house left standing, and it is reported above 300,000 men have lost their lives, “yet the old Emperor Ogusho Same hath prevailed and Fidaia Same either been slain or fled secretly away, that no news is to be heard of him.” Jesuits, priests, and friars are banished by the emperor and their churches and monasteries pulled down; they put the fault on the arrival of the English; it is said if Fidaia Same had prevailed against the emperor, he promised them entrance again, when without doubt all the English would have been driven out of Japan.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
  • 1620February 15 – James Archer, Jesuit (born 1550)source
  • 1621August 13 – John Berchmans, Belgian Jesuit scholastic and saint (born 1599)source
  • 1622May 25 – Pedro Páez, Spanish Jesuit missionary in Ethiopia (born 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
  • 1624February 28 – A decree made it explicitly illegal for Jesuits and monks to appear in the country.source
  • 162428 February – A decree made it explicitly illegal for Jesuits and monks to appear in the country, with death penalty as a consequence for offenders.source
  • 1624August – Portuguese Jesuit priest António de Andrade becomes the first European to enter Tibet, arriving at Tsaparang.source
  • 1625The first members of the Society of Jesus move to Quebec, Canada.source
  • 1631Membership of the Walloon Province (Provincia Gallo-Belgica) of the Society of Jesus peaks at 856.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
  • 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
  • 1645The Society of Jesus establishes a school in Galway, the predecessor of Coláiste Iognáid.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
  • 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
  • 1667China Illustrata, a book written by the Jesuit Athanasius Kircher (1602-1680) is published. It compiles the 17th century European knowledge on the Chinese Empire and its neighboring countriessource
  • 1667March 27 – In North America (Canada), explorer René-Robert Cavelier, Sieur de La Salle is released from the Society of Jesus (Jesuits).source
  • 1669September 23 – Leopold I, Holy Roman Emperor grants the status and privileges of a university to the Jesuit Academy in Zagreb, the precursor to the modern University of Zagreb.source
  • 1673May 17 – In America, trader Louis Joliet and Jesuit missionary-explorer Jacques Marquette begin exploring the Mississippi River and the Great Lakes.source
  • 16786 September – Titus Oates first presents sworn allegations of the "Popish Plot", a supposed Catholic conspiracy to assassinate King Charles II. On 28 September before the Privy Council he makes allegations against numerous Jesuits and Catholic nobles. Oates applies the term Tory to those who disbelieve his allegations.source
  • 1692March 22 – The Kangxi Emperor of the Qing dynasty issues the Edict of Toleration, recognizing all the members of the Roman Catholic Church, not just the Jesuits, and legalizing missions and their conversion of Chinese people to the Christian Faith.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
  • 1767September 29 – The Spanish Empire's Governorate of the Río de la Plata and Governorate of Paraguay begin the process of expulsion of the 456 members of the Society of Jesus (the Jesuits) from southern South America, placing them on five ships bound for Spain.source
  • 1769February 2 – Pope Clement XIII dies, the night before preparing an order to dissolve the Jesuits.source
  • 1773July 21 – Under pressure from the Bourbon courts, Pope Clement XIV suppresses the Society of Jesus (brief Dominus ac Redemptor). Joseph II, Holy Roman Emperor, expels the order from his territories.source
  • 1776April 29 – Benjamin Franklin, Samuel Chase and Rev. John Carroll, a Jesuit, urge Canadians to send delegates to Congress, promising toleration. Franklin brings a printer and press, for a newspaper, to mould public opinion. Canadians regard Franklin as an enemy, and the priests remind Father Carroll that, unlike some of the Provinces, Britain tolerates the Romish Church.source
  • 1788Attorney-General Monk and Solicitor-General Williams are of opinion that, as the Jesuits have no civil existence as a Canadian corporation, their estates accrue to the Crown.source

19th century

  • 1814August 7 – Pope Pius VII decrees the bull Sollicitudo omnium ecclesiarum, reestablishing the Society of Jesus (Jesuits) all over the world, after having approved their survival and existence in Russia.source
  • 1816January 6 – (December 25, 1815 on the Russian Julian calendar): Tsar Alexander I of Russia signs an order, expelling the Jesuits from St. Petersburg and Moscow.source
  • 1841June 21 – St. John's College, later Fordham University, is founded in The Bronx by Jesuits.source
  • 1841June 21 – Fordham University is opened in The Bronx by the Society of Jesus as St. John's College.source
  • 1848September 20 – Opening of the Jesuits' College, Montreal.source
  • 1856St. Paul's School, Belgaum, is founded by the Jesuits in Belgaum, India.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
  • 1867Jesuits destroy the ruins of the Chudamani Viharasource
  • 1872July 4 – The Society of Jesus is pronounced illegal in the German Empire.source
  • 1878September 2 — Creighton University, a Jesuit university in Omaha, Nebraska, is founded.source
  • 188418 February – English Jesuit poet Gerard Manley Hopkins takes up a post as professor of Greek and Latin at University College Dublin on St Stephen's Green, where he will remain until his death in 1889 and write his "terrible sonnets".source

20th century

  • 19515 November - Jul Bonati - Jesuit, scholar, translator and one of the 38 martyrs of Albania killed during Enver Hoxha's reignsource

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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