Jesuit missions in China
1582–1773 · Event
Matteo Ricci and successors establish Jesuit presence at the Ming and Qing courts; remarkable cultural exchange in astronomy, mathematics.
On these timelines: Master, China, Christianity, Major Religions, The Papacy
Around 1582
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Thirty Years' War (1618)
- English Reformation (1533)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- William Shakespeare (1564)
- Edo period (1603)
- Tokugawa Ieyasu (1543)
- Reign of Elizabeth I (1558)