Council of Trent
The Catholic Church answers the Reformation
The council at Trento met on and off from 1545 to 1563 as the Catholic Church's answer to the Reformation. It reaffirmed the doctrines the Protestants rejected, condemned abuses of indulgences and required dioceses to open seminaries for priests — the Counter-Reformation began.
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Meanwhile around the world (±25 years)
Whole world
- 1526–1867 Atlantic slave trade — 19 years earlier
Eastern Europe & Russia
- 1547 Ivan IV crowned Tsar — 2 years later
- 1555–1561 Saint Basil's Cathedral — 10 years later
- 1556 Russia annexes Astrakhan — 11 years later
- 1558–1583 Livonian War — 13 years later
- 1569 Union of Lublin — 24 years later
Middle East
- 1520–1566 Reign of Suleiman the Magnificent — 25 years earlier
Africa
- 1529–1543 Ahmad Gragn invades Ethiopia — 16 years earlier
Asia
- 1526 First Battle of Panipat — 19 years earlier
- 1556 Shaanxi earthquake — 11 years later
- 1556 Akbar and the Second Battle of Panipat — 11 years later
Americas
- 1521 Fall of Tenochtitlan — 24 years earlier
- 1532 Capture of Atahualpa at Cajamarca — 13 years earlier
- 1542 Orellana sails down the Amazon — 3 years earlier
- 1545–1548 Cocoliztli epidemic — same year
Alive at the time
- Michelangelo (aged 70)
- Martin Luther (aged 62)
- Ivan the Terrible (aged 15)
- Elizabeth I (aged 12)
- Akbar the Great (aged 3)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (aged 2)
- Bartolomé de las Casas (aged 61)
- Hernán Cortés (aged 60)
- Francysk Skaryna (aged 55)
- Henry VIII (aged 54)