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CWC II - 50 Dates
Dates to be memorized for final
| Question | Answer |
|---|---|
| Great Papal Schism [beginning of Late Medieval period] | 1378 |
| Wycliffe supervises Bible trans., leaving first complete English Bible | 1380 |
| Constantinople falls to Turks, ending millennium of Christianity in Byzantine Empire | 1453 |
| Gutenberg produces first printed Bible | 1456 |
| Spanish Inquisition begins [end of Late Medieval period] | 1479 |
| Luther posts his Ninety-Five Theses [beginning of Reformation period] | 1517 |
| Zwingli called as priest to Zurich, begins break with Catholic practices | 1518 |
| Diet of Worms | 1521 |
| Anabaptist Movement begins | 1525 |
| Colloquy of Marburg, separation of Lutheran & Reformed churches | 1529 |
| Act of Supremacy | 1534 |
| Calvin publishes Institutes of Christian Religion | 1536 |
| Loyola receives approval for Society of Jesus | 1540 |
| Council of Trent begins | 1545 |
| Cranmer drafts Book of Common Prayer | 1549 |
| Edict of Nantes officially ends persecution of French Protestants | 1598 |
| Separatist John Smyth baptizes himself and other adults, starting modern Baptist denominations | 1609 |
| Publication of King James Bible | 1611 |
| Papal Rome forces Galileo to recant his belief in the Copernican Theory [end of Reformation period] | 1633 |
| George Fox founds Society of Friends (Quakers)[beginning of Reason period] | 1652 |
| Jakob Philipp Spener's Pia Desideria launches Pietist movement | 1675 |
| Bunyan writes Pilgrim's Progress | 1678 |
| Isaac Watt's Hymns & Spiritual Songs transforms worship singing | 1707 |
| First Moravian missionaries launch modern missionary movement | 1732 |
| John and Charles Wesley experience conversions | 1738 |
| The Great Awakening | 1740 |
| U.S. Declaration of Independence leads to separation of church and state | 1776 |
| French Revolution leads to de-Christianization of France | 1789 |
| William Wilberforce's efforts lead to abolition of British slave trade (!!!) | 1807 |
| Richard Allen becomes bishop of African Methodist Episcopal church | 1816 |
| John Keble's sermon launches Oxford Movement | 1833 |
| Charles Finney's Lectures of Revivals published | 1835 |
| Kierkegaard's Philosophical Fragments published | 1844 |
| Phoebe Palmer writes The Way of Holiness | 1845 |
| Marx & Engels publish Communist Manifesto | 1848 |
| Darwin publishes On the Origin of Species | 1859 |
| First Vatican Counsel declares papal infallibility [end of Reason period] | 1870 |
| Nietzsche writes Genealogy of Morals [beginning of Postmodern period] | 1889 |
| Freud publishes The Interpretation of Dreams | 1900 |
| Azusa Street Revival begins, spreading Pentecostalism | 1906 |
| Edinburgh Missionary Conference births the modern ecumenical movement | 1910 |
| The Fundamentals signals the rise of fundamentalism | 1910 |
| Karl Barth's Commentary on Romans breaks with liberalism for a "neo-orthodoxy" | 1919 |
| Rudolf Bultmann calls for demythologization of NT | 1941 |
| Bonhoeffer's Letters & Papers from Prison call for costly discipleship | 1945 |
| World Council of Churches is constituted | 1948 |
| United Methodists grant full ordination to women | 1954 |
| Second Vatican Council | 1962 |
| MLK Jr. leads march on Washington | 1963 |