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| 1309 |
| | | Clement V moves the papacy to Avignon, in a move which is expected to be temporary but which lasts for nearly seventy years | |
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| c. 1376 |
| | | John Wycliffe, writing mainly in Oxford, is critical of the contemporary church and can find no basis for the pope's authority | |
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| 1377 |
| | | The papal curia returns to Rome in what would seem a conclusive move if there were not, two years later, two popes - one of them elected back in Avignon | |
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| 1379 |
| | | The French cardinals, objecting to the new Italian pope, elect their own man as Clement VII - and thus inaugurate the Great Schism of the papacy | |
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| c. 1400 |
| | | The followers of Wycliffe, after his death, become known as Lollards or 'mutterers' | |
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| 1402 |
| | | John Huss, known for his radical approach to Christianity, is put in charge of the Bethlehem Chapel in Prague | |
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| 1409 |
| | | The Council at Pisa elects a new pope, Alexander V, without persuading the other two to resign - bringing the total to an unprecedented three | |
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| 1414 |
| | | A council is called at Constance, to consider the radical views of John Huss and to deal with the present excess of popes | |
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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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| 1433 |
| | | The Compacts of Prague, agreed with the papacy in 1433, allow the Hussite laity to receive the sacrament in both kinds | |
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