1177 Saladin repulsed before Jerusalem. 1178 The Albigenses take their rise. 1189 The kings of England and France go to the Holy Land. 1192 Richard Coeur de Lion defeats Saladin at Ascalon. 1215 Magna Charta signed by King John. 1233 The inquisition trusted to the Dominicans. 1283 Wales conquered by Edward the First. 1369 John Wickliffe began to teach in England. 1414 The council of Constance. 1415 John Huss and Jerome of Prague, seized, tried, and burnt for their opinions. 1510 John Calvin born. 1517 Martin Luther writes against indulgences in Germany, which was the origin of the Reformation. 1519 Zuinglius began the Reformation in Switzerland. 1529 A diet at Spires, in Germany; the protesting against which gave rise to the appellation Protestant. 1533 Henry VIII. withdraws his allegiance from the pope, and proclaims himself supreme head of the Church of Eng land. 1545 The council of Trent begins. 1553 Michael Servetus burnt by the instigation of Calvin, at Geneva, for the denial of the Trinity. 1572 The massacre of Bartholomew at Paris, when upwards of 70,000 Protestants perished! 1582 Pope Gregory introduces the new stile. 1588 The destruction of the Spanish Armada, whose object was to re-establish popery throughout England. 1598 Henry IV. passes the Edict of Nantz in favour of the Pro testants.' 1618 The synod of Dort begins. 1621 The civil war with the Hugonots in France. 1649 King Charles beheaded. 1653 Oliver Cromwell died. 1660 The restoration of Charles the Second. 1662 Bartholomew Act, or Act of Uniformity, passed, by which 2000 ministers were ejected from the Church of England. 1685 The revocation of the Edict of Nantz, by which the exercise of the Protestant religion was prohibited in France. 1688 The revolution of KING WILLIAM, when the family of the Stuarts were banished for attempting to introduce Popery and arbitrary power into England. 1691 The battle of the Boyne in Ireland, when King William defeated James the Second, and established the Protest ant religion. 1709 Dr. Sacheverel tried and suspended. 1715 Suppression of a rebellion in Scotland, when the Pretender attempted to recover the throne of these kingdoms. 1722 Bishop Atterbury banished. 1722 Young Tching, Emperor of China, banished the Jesuits and other Papist missionaries, and imprisoned those of his subjects that refused to renounce Christianity. 1733 The Jesuits expelled from Paraguay, in South America. 1746 Suppression of the rebellion in Scotland, the object of which was, by the return of the Stuart family, to restore arbitrary power and Papacy in these kingdoms. 1757 Damien, a religious fanatic, attempts to assassinate the French king. 1763 The Jesuits expelled France. 1766 The Jesuits expelled from Bohemia and Denmark. 1767 The Jesuits expelled from Spain, Venice, and Genoa, 1768 The Jesuits expelled Naples, Malta, and Parma. 1773 The society of the Jesuits suppressed by the pope. 1775 American war commences. 1779 The Protestant Dissenters in England relieved from cer tain grievances under which they laboured. 1780 Riots in London, occasioned by the extension of civil rights to the Papists. 1733 The termination of the American war, by which the United States became independent of Great Britain. 1789 French revolution commences, by which both church and state were overturned and destroyed. 1791 Riots at Birmingham, in which the houses and property of Dissenters were destroyed. 1793 Lewis XVI., king of France, beheaded. 1794 Missions established by the Calvinists, both of the Church of England and amongst the Dissenters, with the view of converting the inhabitants of the South Sea Islands, and other remote parts of the earth. 1798 Pope Pius VI. dethroned by the French at Rome. 1806 Bonaparte assembles the Jews at Paris for civil purposes, though at the time it was thought by some that he meant to restore them to the PROMISED LAND. 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