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Time Line of The Reformation Part II 1535 - 1563 Oct. 26, 2007

Today Part 2 of Three on a Time Line of the Reformation.  Part 3 Will be posted on Monday.  So on Monday there will be 2 posts, the 2nd Week of our On-Line Bible Study and the conclusion of thsi time Line.

1535
King’s agent Henry Phillips arrives in Antwerp and “befriends” Tyndale, then arranges to have him arrested while Thomas Poyntz is out of town; Tyndale is cast into Vilvoorde prison near Brussels

Myles Coverdale, a close aide of Tyndale, translates the portions of the Old Testament not completed by Tyndale (relying heavily on Tyndale's early drafts) and publishes the "Coverdale Bible"; This is the first printing of the entire Bible in the English language

Thomas More and Cardinal Fisher beheaded for opposing Henry VIII 

Anabaptist uprising at Münster put down, and Anabaptists executed 

Charles V conquers Tunis and frees 20,000 Christian slaves; Emperor forms Catholic Defense League 

France makes pact with Suleiman I 

1536
Following a fifteen month imprisonment William Tyndale is strangled and burned at stake for heresy (6th October)

Luther agrees to Wittenberg Concord on the Lord’s Supper, in an attempt to resolve differences with other reformers, but the Zwinglians do not accept it 

Denmark and Norway become Lutheran; 

Erasmus dies 

Menno Simons breaks with Rome; becomes Anabaptist leader in Netherlands 

Calvin is persuaded by Farel to remain in Geneva;  publishes the first edition of Institutes of the Christian Religion 

Henry VIII dissolves 376 monasteries and nuneries 

1537
John Rogers, a close aide of Wm. Tyndale, publishes the second complete English Bible.    Because the major part of this Bible was the translation of Tyndale, whose writings had been condemned by the English authorities, it is published under the pseudonym "Thomas Matthew".  The "Matthew's Bible" is a composite made up of Tyndale's Pentateuch and New Testament (1534-1535 edition) and Coverdale's Bible and a small amount of Roger's own translation. 

1538
Landgrave Philip of Hesse arranges debate between Anabaptists and Bucer; results in Hessian Anabaptists returning to state church and state church deciding to excommunicate immoral Christians 

Calvin and Farel are banished from Geneva. Calvin goes to Strasbourg as pastor to the French-speaking congregation. 

Luther writes against the Jews in Against the Sabbatarians

1539
Thomas Cranmer, the Archbishop of Canterbury, at the bequest of the King Henry VIII commissions Myles Coverdale to publish a large pulpit Bible.  It became the first English Bible authorized for public use, distributed to every church and chained to the pulpit.  The Great Bible was approved by Henry VIII: “sent abroad among the people” to be read by all and “set forth with the king’s most gracious license”. 

This Bible — mostly comprised of Tyndale’s translation — was known as the "Great Bible" due to its great size: a large pulpit folio measuring over 14 inches tall.  Seven editions of this version were printed between April of 1539 and December of 1541.  Printers and sellers of books were encouraged to provide for the “free and liberal use of the Bible in our own maternal English tongue”.  By the decree of the king every church was to provide a reader so that the illiterate could hear the Word of God in their own tongue.  It would seem that William Tyndale's last prayer had been granted three years after his martyrdom. 

The Six Articles, against Lutheranism. Hugh Latimer, bishop of Winchester, resigns in protest. Henry VIII is still occasionally burning Lutherans and hanging Roman Catholics. 

Henry VIII marries and divorces Anne of Cleves, executes the now-unpopular Thomas Cromwell, and marries Katherine Howard. 

Cardinal Sadeleto writes letter to Geneva. Calvin is asked to respond on behalf of Geneva. 

Frankfurt Truce declared between Catholic and Protestant territories 

1539–40
Simons publishes the Foundation Book of Anabaptist faith 

1540
Pope recognizes order of Jesuits; will make them the chief agents of Counter Reformation 

Conferences at Hagenau and Worms fail to reconcile Protestants and Catholics 

1541
John Calvin establishes theocracy in Geneva 

John Knox establishes Calvinist Reformation in Scotland 

Peter Riedeman writes Hutterite Confession of Faith  

Henry VIII assumes titles of King of Ireland and Head of Irish Church  

At Conference of Regensburg, Melanchthon and Bucer reach agreement with Catholics on most doctrines, but Luther and Rome reject their work 

Calvin writes a treatise on free will against the Roman Catholic theologian Albert Pighius  

1543
Luther writes On the Jews and Their Lies 

Copernicus writes that earth revolves around sun 

Alliance between Henry and Charles V (Holy Roman Emperor) against Scotland and France 

1544
Ferdinand I and Suleiman I agree to truce 

Council of Trent, for reform of Catholic Church, opens 

Cranmer instructed to write prayers and a litany (for the army) in English.  He does this so well that he is asked to make a prayer book in English, based on the service at Salisbury Cathedral

1545
Henry VIII's last speech to Parliament; He says Papist, Lutheran, Anabaptist are names devised by the devil to sunder one man's heart from another 

Luther writes Against the Papacy at Rome, an Institution of the Devil  

Peace of Augsburg allows rulers to determine religion of their region 

1546
Luther dies

1547
Henry VIII dies 

1553
Edward VI dies; succeeded by Mary I (“Bloody Mary”)  

Servetus, Spanish theologian and physician executed in Geneva as a heretic 

1554
Mary I marries Philip (later Philip II of Spain);  Catholicism restored in England;  Elizabeth is imprisoned. During Mary’s reign, about 300 Protestants are burned, including 5 bishops, 100 priests, 60 women. John Rogers, Tyndale's close assistant (alias "Thomas Matthew"), is the first to burn. Protestants are forced into exile or hiding. An attempt by Cardinal Pole (Mary's archbishop of Canterbury) to restore monasticism fizzles when, among 1500 surviving monks, nuns, and friars, fewer than 100 are willing to return to celibacy.

In the 1550's the Church in Switzerland was very sympathetic to the reformer refugees and was one of only a few safe havens for a desperate people. Many of them gathered in Geneva, led by Myles Coverdale and John Foxe as well as Thomas Sampson and William Whittingham. Over 200 including 8 pastors and 2 bishops found refuge in John Knox’s congregation and there were many more English Protestants in exile elsewhere. There, with the protection of John Calvin, the Church of Geneva determined to produce a Bible that would educate their families while they continued in exile.

1555
Bishops Hugh Latimer and Nicholas Ridley are burned at the stake as Cranmer watches; Later John Hooper and John Bradford are also burned 

1556
Archbishop Thomas Cranmer, is forced to recant but later repudiates; He is burned at the stake 

1557
Publication of Geneva New Testament

1560
Publication of Geneva Bible (complete Old and New Testament); This is the first time a Bible is printed with verse divisions

1563
Thirty-Nine Articles drafted as a doctrinal statement by a convocation of the Church of England. 

John Foxe's publishes Acts & Monuments ("Foxe’s Book of Martyrs"); to this day it remains the only exhaustive reference work on the persecution and martyrdom of Early Christians and Protestants from the first century up to the mid-16th century 

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