Pope Pius IV issued a Papal bull confirming the decrees of the Council of Trent that defined Catholic doctrine in the face of the Protestant Reformation.
21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow
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The Parliament of England passed the First Act of Supremacy which made Henry VIII the head of the Church of England.
31st October 1517: Martin Luther reputedly nails his Ninety-five Theses to a church door in Wittenberg, laying the foundations of the Protestant Reformation
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Martin Luther’s particular concern was the Catholic church’s practice of selling indulgences with a promise that a buyer’s sins would be absolved.
The Pope granted the Latin title Fidei defensor to Henry after he published a book in which he defended Catholic doctrine against the criticisms levelled at it by Martin Luther in his Ninety-five Theses during the early stages of the Protestant Reformation.
By the 16th Century a sizable drift had developed between the Julian calendar, the lunar calendar, and the real moon which the new calendar sought to resolve.
By the time it was abolished, up to 150,000 people had been tried by the Spanish Inquisition, of whom somewhere between two and five thousand were executed.
The belief was that God would intervene to protect Savonarola from the flames, but he and his opponents squabbled for so long that a rainstorm eventually led to the cancellation of the event.
Abbot Robert Fuller surrendered the abbey and its property on 23 March 1540, and within just a few years all the buildings except for the parish nave had been demolished or had collapsed due to neglect.
Cranmer’s execution in 1556 for heresy was intended to act as way to discredit Protestantism.
The Knights Templar was formally abolished by Pope Clement V, but Molay’s execution secured his place as one of the Order’s most famous members.
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11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed
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9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall
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