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| 1415 |
| | | John Huss, invited to Constance under a promise of safe conduct, is arrested, tried and burnt at the stake as a heretic | |
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| 1492 |
| | | Torquemada persuades Ferdinand and Isabella to expel from Spain all Jews (about 160,000) who will not convert to Christianity | |
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| 1516 |
| | | The original ghetto is established as a district to which the Jews of Venice are confined | |
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| 1520 |
| | | Luther's writings are burnt in Rome by order of the pope | |
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| 1520 |
| | | Eighty distinguished Swedish citizens are executed together on the main square, in what becomes known as the Stockholm Bloodbath | |
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| 1521 |
| | | Pope Leo X excommunicates Martin Luther after he has refused to recant | |
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| 1522 |
| | | Outlawed by the Edict of Worms, Luther lives secretly in the Wartburg as Junker Georg | |
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| 1525 |
| | | Muslims throughout Spain are ordered to convert to Christianity or to leave the kingdom | |
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| 1545 |
| | | 3000 Waldenses are massacred as heretics in the villages of Provence | |
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| 1546 |
| | | David Beaton, the archbishop of St Andrews, burns a leading Protestant, George Wishart, as a heretic and is murdered in retaliation | |
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