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Birth of Teresa in Avila   March 28, 1515  
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Council of Trent   1545-1563  
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Martin Luther posts his 95 theses in Wittenburg, Germany   October 31, 1517  
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Charles V, King of Spain and ruler of the Holy Roman Empire   1500-1558  
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Catherine of Aragon, daughter of Ferdinand and Isabella marries Henry VIII   1509  
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Copernicus suggests that the earth moves around the sun.   1514  
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Birth of John de Yepes (of the Cross) in Fontiveros   June 24, 1542  
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Death of Teresa of Jesus in Alba de Tormes under the care of an oppositional prioress. Gregorian calendar is introduced.   October 15, 1582  
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Death of John of the Cross in Ubeda under the care of an oppositional friar   December 14, 1591  
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John meets Teresa for the first time in Medina del Campo a the time of saying his first Mass   1567  
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King Philip II of Spain, also ruled Portugal, Naples, Sicily, Milan, Netherlands, (while he was married to Queen Mary of England) King of England and Ireland, and Spanish colonies all over the world.   1527-1598  
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Queen Isabella I of Castille died and Christopher Columbus made his last voyage   1504  
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First report of African slaves   1502  
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Magellan becomes the first to circumnavigate the Earth   1519-1522  
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Ivan the Terrible, prince of Moscow, then tsar of all of Russia   1533-1547 1547-1584  
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Henry VIII declares himself the head of the Church in England   1535  
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Ignatius of Loyola forms the Society of Jesus or Jesuits   1539  
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John of the Cross is kidnapped and placed in a monastery prison in Toledo, where he writes the Spiritual Canticle and other poems.   1577-1578  
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Teresa begins the reform movement by opening the monastery of St. Joseph in Avila using the primitive rule of the Order of Mt. Carmel.   August 24, 1562  
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The Pope declares the Discalced Carmelites a separate province in the Order of Carmel.   1580  
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The Discalced Carmelites are completely separated from the Ancient Observance Carmelites and are now a separate Order.   1593  
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King Philip of Spain marries Mary Tudor of England   1554  
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El Greco moves to Toledo   1577  
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Debates in Valladolid about the value of indigenous people   1550  
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Battle of Lepanto--Holy League vs. Ottoman Empire   1571  
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Raphael dies and is buried in the Pantheon in Rome   1520  
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Peace of Augsburg allowed rulers to select the religion of their domain   1555  
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Balboa discovers the Pacific Ocean from Panama   1513  
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Shakespeare writes Romeo and Juliet   1595  
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Sack of Rome by mercenaries considered to be the end of the Italian Renaissance   1527  
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