It Didn't Take That Long

In tracking the history of Presbyterianism to write an earlier post here (link), I made a quick timeline to orient myself, thus trying to see where Calvin, who was the father, you might say, of Presbyterianism, appears in time. Herewith that timeline:

1517	Luther Issues The Ninety-Five Theses
1521	Diet of Worms declares Luther a heretic
1522	Luther's Translation of New Testament appears
1525	Anabaptism appears in Switzerland
1530	Diet of Augsburg founds Lutheran Church
1531	Zwingli, the Swiss Reformer, dies
1534	Church of England secedes from Catholic Church
1534	Loyola Writes Spiritual Exercises, founding Jesuits
1536	Calvin writes Institutes of the Christian Religion

This made me realize with something of a start that all of the institutional seeds of the Reformation were pretty much sewn and blooming in a mere 20 years—along with the seeds of the Catholic Counter-Reformation.