Huguenots in France

French Huguenots Huguenot History • 1436 Printing press invented by Johann Gutenberg. • 1517 Sales of Indulgences by Pope Leo X (Johannes Tetzel) o Spanish Inquisition, Priests discourage reading of the bible, suppress lay people. • 1517 Martin Luther posted his 97 theses in front of the castle church in Wittenberg. • 1523 First French translation of Bible • (1509-1564) John Calvin organized the first French church in Strasbourg about 1538. He settled definitively in Geneva in 1541. • 1559 First national Huguenot Synod in Paris. • 1660’s Louis XIV (une foi, une loi, un rois). • 1562 The massacre of Vassy • 1572 Massacre of Saint Barthélemy (24 August 1572). • 1598 Edict of Nantes was signed. • 1685 Revocation of the Edict of Nantes by Louis XIV • 1685 – 1785 “Period of the Desert” • 1787 Edict of Tolerance