Edmund Campion
1540–1581 · Person
Brilliant Oxford scholar turned Jesuit who led the secret mission to English Catholics in 1580 and was hanged, drawn and quartered at Tyburn.
On these timelines: England, The Reformation, Christianity, Master, People
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- Anglo-Saxon settlement of Britain (450)
- Roman conquest of Britain (43)
- Victorian era (1837)
- Domesday Book (1086)
- Reign of William the Conqueror (1066)
- Acts of Union 1707 (1707)
- Battle of Hastings (1066)
Around 1540
- Eighty Years' War / Dutch Revolt (1568)
- Spanish Armada (1588)
- Spanish conquest of the Aztec Empire (1519)
- Columbus reaches the Americas (1492)
- French Wars of Religion (1562)
- Spanish conquest of the Incas (1532)
- English Reformation (1533)
- The Reformation (1517)
- Mona Lisa (1503)
- Magellan-Elcano circumnavigation (1519)