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| 1309 |
| | Clement V moves the papacy to Avignon, in a move which is expected to be temporary but which lasts for nearly seventy years | |
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| c. 1376 |
| | John Wycliffe, writing mainly in Oxford, is critical of the contemporary church and can find no basis for the pope's authority | |
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| 1377 |
| | The papal curia returns to Rome in what would seem a conclusive move if there were not, two years later, two popes - one of them elected back in Avignon | |
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| 1379 |
| | The French cardinals, objecting to the new Italian pope, elect their own man as Clement VII - and thus inaugurate the Great Schism of the papacy | |
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| c. 1400 |
| | The followers of Wycliffe, after his death, become known as Lollards or 'mutterers' | |
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| 1402 |
| | John Huss, known for his radical approach to Christianity, is put in charge of the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague | |
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