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Pope John XXIII

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8 dated entries naming Pope John XXIII, drawn from 6 separate years between 1410 CE and 1963 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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15th century

  • 1410May 17 – At Pisa, Cardinal Baldasare Cossa is elected by members of the Council of Pisa as the successor to the "antipope" Alexander V, who had died on May 4. On May 25, Cossa takes the name "John XXIII", a name that will be used more than 500 years later in 1958 when Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli is crowned as Pope John XXIII.source

19th century

  • 1881November 25 – Pope John XXIII (b. Angelo Roncalli), Italian pontiff (1958–1963) (d. 1963)source

20th century

  • 1958October 28 – Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII, as the 261st pope.source
  • 1959January 25 – Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.source
  • 1962January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba.source
  • 1962October 11 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.source
  • 1963April 11 – Pope John XXIII issues his final encyclical, Pacem in terris, entitled On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only.source
  • 1963June 21 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.source

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