Reformation/Counter Reformation Timeline
Reformation Timeline ? 1440 Lorenzo de Valla published a work which invalidated the Donation of Constantine. 1455, March Gutenberg had printed approximately 180 copies of the Bible in Mainz; 145 on paper and the rest on vellum. 1505, June ?Martin Luther encountered a thunderstorm, made vow for safety ("Help me, St. Anne! I will become a monk!"), and came through without harm; he wrote his father that the thunderstorm and vow were the will of God 1508 Julius pressured Michelangelo to paint the ceiling of the Sistine Chapel; 1509? Henry VIII and Catherine of Aragon are married. 1514 Erasmus published another edition of The Praise of Folly. 1515 Thomas Wolsey, Archbishop of York, became Lord Chancellor of England and a Cardinal. 1515 Francois I was King of France to 1547.