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Pope Benedict XIV

pope of the Catholic Church from 1740 to 1758

7 dated entries naming Pope Benedict XIV, drawn from 6 separate years between 1675 CE and 1758 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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17th century

  • 1675March 31 – Pope Benedict XIV (d. 1758)source

18th century

  • 1740August 17 – Pope Benedict XIV succeeds Pope Clement XII, as the 247th pope.source
  • 1743April 1 – Pope Benedict XIV issues a new bill, barring agreements by spouses not to appeal annulments of marriagessource
  • 1745November 1 – Pope Benedict XIV issues the encyclical Vix pervenit, referred to in English as "On Usury and Other Dishonest Profit", to the bishops of Italy, condemning the charging of interest on loans as a sin against the Roman Catholic Church.source
  • 1757April 16 – The works of astronomer Galileo Galilei espousing heliocentrism are removed (with the approval of Pope Benedict XIV) from the Index Librorum Prohibitorum list of books banned by Roman Catholic Church, along with "all books teaching the earth's motion and the sun's immobility". Other works of heliocentrists Galileo, Nicolaus Copernicus, Johannes Kepler, Diego de Zúñiga and Paolo Foscarini remain on the list.source
  • 1758July 6 – Pope Clement XIII succeeds Pope Benedict XIV, as the 248th pope.source
  • 1758May 3 – Pope Benedict XIV (b. 1675)source

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