Reformation and Catholic Reform

• Christian humanism and Erasmus's "philosophy of Christ" (late 15th – early 16th c.)
• Spanish and Portuguese colonization of the Americas and the defence of Indian rights (1500–1594)
• Martin Luther: the path to his "theological discovery" (1505–1519)
• The early years and conversion of John Calvin (1509–1536)
• Teresa of Avila and the Discalced Carmelite reform (1515–1591)
• Luther's Ninety-Five Theses on indulgences (31 October 1517)
• The Heidelberg Disputation (April 1518)
• The Leipzig Disputation between Luther and Eck (July 1519)
• Huldrych Zwingli and the Reformation in Zurich (1519–1531)
• Luther's three reformation treatises and the bull "Exsurge Domine" (1520)
• The Diet of Worms and the Wartburg (1521–1522)
• Ignatius Loyola and the founding of the Society of Jesus (1521–1556)
• The origins of Anabaptism and the Schleitheim Confession (1523–1527)
• The German Peasants' War (1524–1525)
• The Erasmus–Luther debate on free will (1524–1525)
• The diets of Speyer and the Augsburg Confession (1526–1530)
• The English Bible: Tyndale, Coverdale and the Great Bible (1526–1539) (1526–1539)
• Henry VIII's break with Rome and the Act of Supremacy (1527–1536)
• The Scottish Reformation and John Knox (1528–1560)
• The Marburg Colloquy (1–4 October 1529)
• The Kappel Wars and the death of Zwingli (1529–1531)
• The Schmalkaldic League, the Schmalkaldic War, and the Peace of Augsburg (1531–1555)
• The Münster Anabaptist Kingdom (1534–1535)
• The beginning of Catholic reform under Paul III (1534–1549)
• Menno Simons and the revival of peaceful Anabaptism (1536)
• Calvin and the reform of Geneva (1536–1542)
• Calvin's "Institutes of the Christian Religion" (1536–1559)
• Francis Xavier's mission to India and Japan (May 1542 – 1552)
• The Council of Trent (1545–1563)
• Protestant reforms under Edward VI (1547–1553)
• The Heidelberg Catechism and the rise of Reformed orthodoxy (1552–1582)
• The execution of Michael Servetus in Geneva (1553)
• Mary Tudor's Catholic restoration (1553–1558)
• The Elizabethan Settlement and the Thirty-Nine Articles (1558–1571)
• The Geneva Academy and the death of Calvin (1559–1564)
• The French Wars of Religion: from the Vassy massacre to the Edict of Nantes (1559–1598)
• The Formula of Concord and the "Book of Concord" (1577 (published 1580))
• Matteo Ricci's mission to China and the method of cultural accommodation (1583–1615)
• The Union of Brest (1596)
• Matteo Ricci and the Chinese Rites Controversy (1601–1742)
• The Arminian Controversy, the Remonstrance, and Socinianism (1603–1610)
• The Hampton Court Conference and the King James Bible (1603–1611)
• Religious Diversity in the American Colonies and the Road to the First Amendment (1607–1791)
• English Separatists: Holland, the first Baptist church and the Mayflower (1608–1620) (1608–1620)
• Gallicanism, Febronianism, Josephinism, and the French Revolution's Assault on the Church (1615–1799)
• The Galileo Affair and the Condemnation of Heliocentrism (1616–1630s)
• The Synod of Dort (1618–1619)
• The Thirty Years' War (1618–1648)
• Continental Rationalism: Descartes, Grotius, Spinoza, and Leibniz (1619–1716)
• English Deism, Locke, and Hume's Critique; the French Enlightenment (1624–1780)
• The English Civil War, Cromwell's Protectorate, and the Glorious Revolution (1625–1689)
• Confessions of Faith in the Orthodox East: Lucaris, Mogila, and Dositheus (1629–1672)
• The Crushing of the Huguenots and the Revocation of the Edict of Nantes (1629–1787)
• The Jansenist Controversy (1640–1713)
• The Westminster Assembly and the Westminster Confession (1643–1649)
• The Peace of Westphalia (1648)