CHRONOLOGICAL TABLE. After Christ. 110. The sign of the cross first used. 117. Altars instituted by Sixtus First. 154. Hygenus, Bishop of Rome, first takes the title of Pope. 157. Penance first inflicted as a punishment. A sect called Abstinets arose who abstained from wine, flesh and marriage. 250. Purgatory invented. 357. Pope Liberius was an Arian. 364. Marriage in Lent forbidden. 432. St. Patrick preached the Gospel in Ireland. 450. Extreme Unction comes into practice. 511. Purgatory introduced. 588. Offerings first instituted by Pope Pelagius II. 606. Phocas, a murderer, Emperor of Constantinople, assists Boniface the Third to procure the title of Universal Bishop or Pope: hence the rise of Antichrist. 634. The first Romish Altar erected in Britain. 666. The Apocalyptic number. Pope Vitælian orders prayers to be said in the Latin tongue. 708. The custom of kissing the Pope's toe introduced. 712. The worship of Images introduced. 727. Tax called Peter-pence imposed to support a college at Rome. 752. Pope Zacharias begins to dispose of kingdoms. Charles the Great kisses the steps of the Altar as he goes up to the Pope. 770. Monasteries dissolved in the east by Constantine. 817. College of Cardinals founded by Pope Paschal. 820. Claude, Bishop of Turin, propagates the truth in opposition to Popery. Multitudes about Savoy and Piedmont embrace and adhere to it. 821. Pope Leo is murdered, and Michael II. succeeds. 840. Transubstantiation introduced. 891. Pope Formosus is guilty of perjury. 896. Pope Stephen VII. is guilty of every vice, and dies by the rope. 956. Pope John XII. was found guilty of blasphemy, perjury, sacrilege, adultery, incest and murder. After Christ. 968. Baptism and Consecration of Bells introduced. 975. Pope Boniface VII. is deposed and banished for his crimes. 1015. Marriage of priests forbidden. 1033. Benedict IX. created at the age of twelve years, spends his days in debauchery, rapine and murder, and sold the See of Rome for £1500 to Gregory VI. 1041. The first sermon preached at the Coronation of Edward the Confessor. 1044. Three Popes call themselves Popes of Rome-viz., Sylvester, Gregory and Benedict. 1054. Leo IX. the first Pope that kept up any army. 1075. The Pope compels Henry IV., Emperor of Germany, to walk barefooted in the depth of winter, and to stand three days at his gate to implore pardon. 1132. Concubines allowed to the Priests. 1160. The Waldenses in Savoy, Piedmont and the South of France oppose Popery, on which account upwards of a million of them are afterwards murdered by the Papists. 1172. Henry II. King of England, having received a BULL to that effect from the Pope, takes possession of Ireland, which from that period has been governed by a Viceroy. 1182. Pope Alexander III. compels the Kings of England and France to hold the stirrups of his saddle when he mounted his horse. 1201. Prostration at the Elevation of the Host first required. 1204. The Inquisition begun. 1250. First appearance of Augustin Friars in England. 1253. The Dominicans receive full power over the Inquisition. 1294. Boniface VIII. denied the Trinity, the Incarnation, and the Immortality of the Soul. He entered the Popedom like a Fox, reigned like a Lion, and died like a Dog! 1297. Crusade against the Albigenses. 1308. The holy See translated to Avignon, where it remained sixty-eight years, and until restored to Rome by Gregory XI. 1314. The Cardinals set fire to the conclave and burn it. They then separate, and for two years the Papal chair is vacant. 1334. The first Consecrated Altar by Pope Sylvester. 1364. The Triple Crown, or Tiara, first worn by Pope Urban V. 1369. Wickliffe first began the Reformation. 1370. Wickliffe becomes famous for his firm and decided oppo sition to Popery. John Huss and Jerome of Prague and their followers commence their opposition to Popery, are terribly persecuted, and at last put to death. After Christ. 1415. The Battle of Agincourt between the French and British, gained by Henry V. 10,000 French killed, and 14,000 taken prisoners, the English only losing 40! In the French army there were four times as many men as in the English. 1462. The first book printed, which was the Vulgate Bible. 1492. Pope Alexander VI. died of poison, which he had prepared for others, and drank by mistake. 1517. Luther began the Reformation. 1520. Henry VIII. entitled "Defender of the Faith" for his writings in support of Popery. 1525. Gustavus Vasa establishes the Reformed religion in Sweden. 1529. Luther and his illustrious adherents, at the Diet of Spires, make their celebrated Protest against Popery: hence the term PROTESTANT! 1534. The Reformation takes place in England. Canada is settled. 1536. The Pope excommunicates Henry VIII. 1539. The first authorized edition of the Bible published. 1553. October 1-Mary of bloody memory was crowned. 1554. February 12-Lady Jane Grey beheaded. 1556. Archbishop Cranmer, Bishops Hooper, Ridley, Latimer, &c. with about three hundred other clergy and lay Protestants, are put to death by fire, and numbers perished in prison. Establishment of the order of Jesuits by Ignatius Loyola. 1558. Queen Mary dies of a dropsy. Queen Elizabeth succeeds her, and Protestantism is established. 1559. The Romanists rebel against Elizabeth. 1567. About 600,000 Protestants deserted their homes in the Netherlands and fled to other countries, owing to the terrible cruelty of the Duke of Alva, who boasted that besides those slain in battle he cut off 18,000 by the hand of the public executioner. 1572. August 24-Massacre of St. Bartholomew's, Paris. Upwards of 10,000 Protestants, with Admiral Coligny, &c. were inhumanly and cruelly butchered at the instance of the Pope. From the Palace of the Luxembourg the King (Charles IX.) amused himself by firing upon his Protestant subjects. The Seine was literally red with blood. A messenger was sent to Rome with the news. The Pope ordered the cannons to fire from the Castle of St. Angelo, the bells of the churches to ring, made the messenger a rich present, and bonfires, processions, &c. took place. After Christ. 66 1588. To reclaim England to Popery an immense naval armament, consisting of 130 ships and 50,000 men, was fitted out in Spain, with the intention of invading England. The Pope came down to the sea shore to behold it, and baptised it the Invincible Armada." Sir Francis Drake met it in the English Channel and defeated it. However, to God only be the praise, for the very elements of heaven fought against the invaders. On Michaelmas day, in this year, Queen Elizabeth being at dinner, and having a cup of wine before her, proposed as a toast, "Destruction to the Spanish Armada!" Soon after a messenger arrived with the news of the total defeat of that proud fleet. 1591. The University of Dublin (T. C. D.) founded. 1598. The Edict of Nantz gained by the Protestants. 1605. November 5-The Gunpowder Plot discovered. This was a scheme of the Jesuits to blow up King James I., his Queen, the Royal Family and both houses of Parlia ment. 1610. King Henry IV. is murdered at Paris by Ravaillac, a Jesuit. 1618. The Emperor of Germany commences a war of extermination against the Protestants of Bohemia and of the Palatines of the Rhine. 1628. The Thirty-nine Articles of Religion published. 1641. Sir Phelim Roe O'Neill and his brutal followers rise in rebellion and massacre about 300,000 Protestants in Ireland. 1648. The treaty of Westphalia confirms liberty to the Palatine Protestants. 1649. Oliver Cromwell subdues the Irish rebels. 1677. Prince William of Orange and Nassau married to the Princess Mary, daughter of the Duke of York, (afterwards James II.) 1685. The Edict of Nantz infamously revoked by Louis XIV. and the Protestants cruelly persecuted. 50,000 fly to England. These introduce the arts, sciences, &c. with such effect as to make England the workshop of the world. Charles II. dies, and his brother, the Duke of York, suc- In a week after his coronation King James goes openly to 1687. He receives the Pope's Nuncio. 1688. Formation of secret societies in favour of the Prince of Orange. Messengers are sent to the Hague stating the |