Renaissance
Main article: Medieval history of Christianity#Late Middle Ages (1300–1499) See also: Renaissance- 1308-1321 Divine Comedy (Divina Commedia), by Dante Alighieri; most consensual dates are: Inferno written between 1307–1308, Purgatorio from 1307-1308 to 1313-1314 and last the Paradiso from 1313-1314 to 1321 (year of Dante's death).
- 1307 The arrest of many of the Knights Templar, beginning confiscation of their property and extraction of confessions under torture.
- 1305-1378 Avignon Papacy, Popes reside in Avignon, France
- 1311-1312 Catholic Council of Vienne, disbanded Knights Templar
- 1313 Foundation of the legendary Order of the Rose Cross (Rosicrucian Order), a mystic Christian fraternity for the first time expounded in the major Christian literary work The Divine Comedy
- 1314 Jacques de Molay, last Grandmaster of Knights Templar, burned at the stake
- 1326 Metropolitan Peter moves his see from Kiev to Moscow
- 1341-1351 Orthodox Fifth Council of Constantinople
- 1342 Marsilius of Padua
- 1345 Sergii Radonezhskii founds a hermitage in the woods, which would grow into the Troitse-Sergiyeva Lavra
- 1378-1418 Western Schism in Roman Catholicism
- 1380-1382 Wyclif's Bible, by John Wycliffe, eminent theologian at Oxford, NT in 1380, OT (with help of Nicholas of Hereford) in 1382, translations into Middle English, 1st complete translation to English, included deuterocanonical books, preached against abuses, expressed anti-catholic views of the sacraments (Penance and Eucharist), the use of relics, and Clerical celibacy
- 1388 Twenty-five Articles of the Lollards
- 1408 Council of Oxford forbids translations of the Scriptures into the vernacular unless and until they were fully approved by Church authority
- 1409 Council of Pisa, declared Roman Pope Gregory XII and Avignon Pope Benedict XIII deposed, elected Pope Alexander V (called the Pisan Pope)
- 1414-1418 Catholic Council of Constance, asked Gregory XII, Benedict XIII, Pisan Pope John XXIII to resign their papal claims, then elected Pope Martin V; condemned John Wycliffe and Jan Hus who was burned at the stake
- 1423-1424 Council of Siena
- 1425 Catholic University of Leuven
- 1430? Andrei Rublev, the greatest of medieval icon-painters
- 1431 St. Joan of Arc, French national heroine, burned at the stake
- 1431-1445 Catholic Council of Basel-Ferrara-Florence
- 1439 Notre-Dame de Strasbourg, highest building in the world until 1874
- 1453 Fall of Constantinople, overrun by Ottoman Empire
- 1455 Gutenberg Bible, first printed Bible, by Johann Gutenberg
- 1473-1481 Sistine Chapel built
- 1478 Spanish Inquisition established by Pope Sixtus IV
- 1483 Birth of Martin Luther in Eisleben
- 1484 December 5, Summis desiderantes against Witchcraft issued by Pope Innocent VIII
- 1487 Persecution and crusade against the Waldensians instigated by Pope Innocent VIII
- 1492 Columbus opens new continents to Christianity
- 1498 Girolamo Savonarola, Dominican priest, Bonfire of the Vanities
- 1506 Pope Julius II orders the Old St. Peter's Basilica torn down and authorizes Donato Bramante to plan a new structure, demolition completed in 1606, Vatican Swiss Guard founded
- 1508-1512 Michelangelo frescoes the Sistine Chapel's vaulted ceiling
- 1512-1517 Catholic Fifth Council of the Lateran, condemned Conciliarism
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