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| 1775 |
| | | Talleyrand begins an extremely varied career by becoming an abbot at the age of twenty-one | |
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| 1781 |
| | | Joseph II passes an Edict of Toleration, for the first time allowing Protestant worship in Habsburg territories | |
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| c. 1790 |
| | | A second great revivalist movement sweeps northeast America, inspired by the earlier example of Jonathan Edwards | |
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| 1795 |
| | | Thomas Paine publishes his completed Age of Reason, an attack on conventional Christianity | |
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| 1795 |
| | | A secret Protestant group, the Orange Society, is formed in Co. Armagh to resist Irish nationalism | |
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| 1797 |
| | | Pope Pius VI is seized by a French army in Rome and is taken off to captivity in France | |
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| 1801 |
| | | Napoleon mends France's fences with Roman Catholicism by agreeing a Concordat with Pope Pius VII | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Napoleon annexes the Papal States and is excommunicated by the pope, Pius VII | |
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| 1809 |
| | | Napoleon, in response to his excommunication, has pope Pius VII arrested and kept in captivity in northern Italy and then France | |
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| 1814 |
| | | The Jesuit Order is restored by Pius VII on his return to Rome | |
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