| | | League. Calvin creates | | | | | Presbyterianism. | | |1540 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+1540 | | | | RUSSIA: Ivan the Terrible. | | | | | Order of Jesuits formally | | | | | established. | | | | François Xavier in | GERMANY: Contest between | | | | Japan. | Charles V. and Protestant | | | | | princes of Germany ended | | | | | by compromise at Peace of | | | | | Augsburg. | | | | Restoration of Moguls, | ENGLAND: Protestant | | | | 1556. | Revolution (Edward VI.) | | | | | followed by Romanist | | | | | reaction (Mary), and | | | | | final establishment of | | | | | Protestantism (Elizabeth) | | | | | in England and Scotland. | | |1560 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+1560 | | | Rule of Akbar, 1556-1605.| SPAIN: Philip II. and the | | | | Toleration of Hinduism. | Inquisition. | | | | | Council of Trent defines | | | | | limits of Roman | | | | | Catholicism. | | | | | FRANCE: Series of civil | | | | | wars of religion, | | | | | 1562-95. | | | | | Revolt of Netherlands from | | | | | Spain. | | | | | Turkish advance checked at | | | | | Lepanto, 1571. | | | | | PORTUGAL absorbed by Spain. | | |1580 +--------------------------+-----------------------------+1580 | | | Mogul dominion | Gradual success of the | | | | established and | Netherlands revolt. | | | | organised throughout | English naval supremacy | | | | Northern India. | proved by the Armada 1588.| | | | | Decadence of Spain. | | | | | FRANCE: Toleration secured | | | | | by Henri IV. | | | | | Spenser, Marlowe, and | |