Jesuits founded
The pope approves Ignatius of Loyola’s Society of Jesus
On 27 September 1540 Pope Paul III approved the Society of Jesus with the bull Regimini militantis Ecclesiae; it had been founded by the Basque Ignatius of Loyola and six fellow students at the University of Paris. The Jesuits became the Church's largest male order, famed for schools and missions; a pope suppressed them in 1773, until 1814.
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Eastern Europe & Russia
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Middle East
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Africa
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Asia
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Americas
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- Elizabeth I (aged 7)
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- Hernán Cortés (aged 55)
- Francysk Skaryna (aged 50)
- Henry VIII (aged 49)
- Suleiman the Magnificent (aged 46)