Dominican Timeline

1170 Birth of St. Dominic

1215 Founding of the Order
1220 First General Chapter
1221 Death of St. Dominic
1231 Medieval Inquisition
1234 Canonization of St. Dominic
1267 Dominican Rite receives papal approval
1274 Council of Lyons II. Death of St. Thomas Aquinas.

1311 Council of Vienne
1323 Canonization of St. Thomas Aquinas
1327 Death of Meister Eckhart
1337 Hundred Years War
1348 Black Death
1373 Cardinal protector appointed
1378 Western Schism begins
1380 Death of St. Catherine of Siena

1414 Council of Constance
1417 Western Schism ends
1461 Canonization of St. Catherine of Siena

1517 Protestant Reformation
1545 Council of Trent

1700 Age of Enlightenment
1789 French Revolution

1854 Immaculate Conception defined
1869 Vatican I
1872 Death of Vincent Jandel

1918 Code of Canon Law
1960 Schillebeeckx's Old and New Style
1962 Vatican II
1978 Pope John Paul II
1983 Code of Canon Law
1987 Rule of the Lay Fraternities of St. Dominic
2005 Pope Benedict XVI