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
More from Italy (post-476 CE)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) (1859)
- Italian unification (Risorgimento) begins (1859)
- Galileo's telescope and Sidereus Nuncius (1610)
- Kingdom of Italy proclaimed (1861)
- Benito Mussolini (1883)
- Galileo's trial by the Inquisition (1633)
- Italian Republic founded (1946)
- Italy enters WW1 on Entente side (1915)
Around 1542
- The Reformation (1517)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- Luther's 95 Theses (1517)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Reign of Henry VIII (1509)
- English Reformation (1533)
- Mughal Empire (1526)
- Sistine Chapel ceiling (1508)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)