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Second Act of Dissolution; Henry VIII intervenes to halt the doctrinal reformation 1540, 6 January Henry marries Anne of Cleves: 1540, 9 July Henry's marriage to Anne of Cleves is annulled 1540, 28 July Thomas Cromwell is beheaded 1540, 30 July Robert Barnes is burned at the stake 1540, 30 July Thomas Abel is hanged, drawn and quartered. 1543
Protestant Reformation (Europe, 16th century) Classicism (Europe, 16th – 18th centuries) Industrious Revolution, (Europe, 16th – 18th centuries) Petrine Era (Russia, 1689–1725) Age of Enlightenment (or Reason) (Europe, 18th century) Scientific Revolution (Europe, 18th century) Long nineteenth century (1789–1914)
1545–1563 Catholic Council of Trent: Counter-Reformation against Protestantism, clearly defined an official theology and biblical canon; 1549 Original Book of Common Prayer of the Church of England written by Thomas Cranmer; 1551 The Stoglav Church Council (One Hundred Chapters) Moscow, Russia
Protestant Reformers were theologians whose careers, works and actions brought about the Protestant Reformation of the 16th century.. In the context of the Reformation, Martin Luther was the first reformer, sharing his views publicly in 1517, followed by Andreas Karlstadt and Philip Melanchthon at Wittenberg, who promptly joined the new movement.
The Reformation, also known as the Protestant Reformation and the European Reformation, [1] was a major theological movement or period or series of events in Western Christianity in 16th-century Northwestern Europe that posed a religious and political challenge to the papacy and the authority of the Catholic Church.
1517: Martin Luther posted The Ninety-Five Theses on the door of All Saints' Church, Wittenberg, launching the Protestant Reformation. 1526: African religious systems were introduced to the Americas, with the commencement of the trans-Atlantic slave trade.
As a result, the theological debates surrounding the reformation are largely alien to the Orthodox church. Neither Reformation nor Counter-Reformation, in the Western sense, are present in the Orthodox Church's historical theology. The new Ottoman government that arose from the ashes of Byzantine civilisation was neither primitive nor barbaric.
The English Reformation Parliament, which sat from 3 November 1529 to 14 April 1536, established the legal basis for the English Reformation, passing major pieces of legislation leading to the break with Rome and increasing the authority of the Church of England.