Roman Inquisition established
1542 · Event
Pope Paul III sets up a Holy Office of the Inquisition based in Rome to combat heresy; central institution of Counter-Reformation.
On these timelines: Christianity, Italy (post-476 CE), Major Religions, Master, The Papacy
More from Italy (post-476 CE)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Kingdom of Italy proclaimed (1861)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Mussolini's rule of Italy (1922)
- Galileo's trial by the Inquisition (1633)
- Italian Republic founded (1946)
- Italy enters WW1 on Entente side (1915)
Around 1542
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)