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Part Two

 

1000 C.E. to 1776 C.E.

1000 Approximate founding of Yezidi cult by Sufi Sheikh Adi in Iraq. Abode of Learning active in Cairo. Spread of Cathari Manicheism throughout Europe. Leif Ericson explores North America.
1034 to 1124 Life of Hasan-e Sabbah, founder of the Assassins of Persia. Member of the Ismaili sect, Hasan seized fortress of Alamut in Daylam in 1090; split with Fatimid dynasty in 1094; Assassins flourished for next several centuries.
1050 Approximate date of founding of the Order of Hospitallers in Jerusalem.
1058 Member of the Abode of Learning sect gains temporary control of Bagdad.
1092 Assassins murder Persian minister Nizam al-Mulk.
1095 First Crusade.
1100 Approximate date Sufi Gilani founds Arabic school of Illuminati, Kadiri Order of Sebil-el-ward, in Bagdad. Assassins infiltrate Thug cult of India. Bogomil leader Basil burned in Constantinople. Albigensian Cathari sect flourishes near Albi, France. Avengers and Beati Paoli active in Italy. Joachim of Floris founds primitive Christian sect, Illuminated Ones. Robin Hood active in England.
1119 Knights Templar founded in Palestine.
1123 Abode of Learning suppressed by Turkish Vizier Afdal.
1140 Rapid growth of Cathari sect begins.
1149 First Cathari bishop established.
1162 to 1227 Life of Genghis Khan, conquerer of China and Russia, invader of Europe and Islamic Empire, destroyer of Assassin power. Approximate beginnings of the wandering of the Gypsies of North India.
1167 Cathari council near Toulouse.
1170 Assassination of Thomas a Becket.
1171 Last Fatimid caliph dies.
1176 Peter Waldo founds the Poor Men of Lyons. Sultan Saladin invades Assassin territory, gains truce.
1184 Waldenses excommunicated, suppressed.
1200 to 1300 House of Wisdom in Cairo, roots of the Afghan Roshaniya. Origin of the Mafia in Sicily.
1208 Albigensian Crusade begins suppression of Cathari heresy.
1212 The Children's Crusade. Genghis Khan invades China.
1233 Founding of the Inquisition to suppress Cathari and other heresies.
1235 to 1315 Life of Dr. Illuminatus, Ramon Llull (Raymond Lully) in Spain.
1241 Mongols invade Europe through wise use of intelligence information and strategy, introduce gunpowder from Asia.
1244 Massacre of Cathari at Montsegur, France.
1250s Approximate beginning of Holy Vehm in Westphalia. Approximate time of Hulagu Khan's defeat of the Assassins.
1254 to 1324 Life of Marco Polo, early European traveler in China, Persia.
1258 Hulagu Khan destroys Bagdad; Mongols destroy Mesopotamia, the mother of civilization.
1260 Mongol invasion of Islamic Empire turned back.
1270s Cathari hierarchy fades.
1275 Assembly of travelling mason guilds in Frankfort. Zohar, second book of the cabala, compiled by Moses de Leon in Spain.
1280 Roger Bacon, deviser of early eyeglasses, independently invents gunpowder.
1291 Hospitallers retreat to Cyprus.
1300 White Lotus Society founded in China. Inquisition begins suppression of witches and other pagan groups.
1307 Philip IV of France suppresses Knights Templar for witchcraft and heresies; Jacques de Molay imprisoned in the Temple in Paris.
1308 Assassination of Holy Roman Emperor Albert I.
1309 Hospitallers acquire the isle of Rhodes.
1313 Knights Templar dissolved by papal decree.
1314 De Molay and others burned in Paris.
1327 Assassination of King Edward II in England.
1329 First appearance of the Tarot in Germany.
1360 Approximate date of the earliest known Satanic cults; black masses celebrated in France.
1369 Timurlane becomes Great Khan.
1375 Another assembly of travelling mason guilds in Frankfort.
1379 to 1482 Alleged life of Christian Rosenkreuz, fictitious founder of Rosicrucianism.
1390 Gypsies begin to appear in Europe.
1400s Cathari sect dies out. Concave lenses developed.
1404 King Robert revises code of Holy Vehm.
1410 Secret society formed in Italy which eventually joins with Rosicrucianism.
1437 Assassination of King James I of Scotland.
1456 Gutenberg Bible begins modern printing.
1458 Abramelin's Book of Sacred Magic translated from Hebrew to French according to followers of the cult of the Guardian Angel.
1471 Assassination of King Henry VI of England.
1472 University of Ingolstadt founded. Fernando Poo discovers Fernando Poo.
1483 Assassination of King Edward V of England.
1492 Rodrigo Borgia, head of the powerful Borgia family, becomes Pope Alexander VI. Columbus sails the ocean blue.
1493 to 1541 Life of Paracelsus, possible founder of Roscrucianism; discover of zinc around 1530; model of the Faust legend.
1500 Approximate date of Roshaiya, Illuminated Ones, in Afganistan. Beginning of Alumbrados in Spain and Charcoal- Burners in Scotland. Cesare Borgia has his brother-in-law assassinated.
1502 Cesare Borgia arrests and executes enemies who have conspired against him.
1503 to 1566 Life of Nostradamus, visionary prophet.
1507 Fra Dolcino's version of Joachim's Illuminism suppressed by the Bishop of Vercueil.
1510 Beginning of systematic importation of African slaves into the West Indies.
1513 Machiavelli's The Prince published.
1519 Spanish conquest of Mexico, enslavement of Amerindians.
1522 Hospitallers lose Rhodes to the Turks.
1530 Hospitallers given Isle of Malta by Charles V, become Knights of Malta.
1537 Assassination of Alessandro de Medici, Duke of Florence.
1568 First Inquisition edict against the Alumbrados.
1574 Second edict against Alumbrados.
1575 Approximate date of founding of British Intelligence services.
1575 to 1624 Life of Jakob Bohme, visionary mystic, illuminated one.
1584 Assassination of William I of Orange in England.
1587 English colony established at Roanoke Island, Virginia; no trace of the "lost colony" was found when supply ships returned three years later.
1589 Assassination of King Henry III of France.
1590 Janssen makes first compound microscope in Europe.
1597 Anonymous alchemist seeks to start Rosicrucian-like society in Europe.
1605 Rosicrucian constitution published.
1607 Italian secrect society headed by Count Bernard of Germany merges with Rosicrucianism. First permanent English settlement in America, Jamestown, Virgina.
1608 Apprentice to Dutch spectacle-maker Lippershey discovers principle of focusing lenses; Lippershey builds first telescope.
1609 Galileo independently builds telescope, begins study of astonomy. Spanish settlement at Santa Fe, New Mexico, founded.
1610 Assassination of King Henty IV of France.
1614 Fama Fraternitatis published, fictional story of Rosenkreuz by Johann Valentin Andrea.
1619 First slave ship in America, Jamestown, Virginia.
1620 Plymouth Colony, second English settlement, arrives on Mayflower.
1622 Posters appear in Paris warning that the Rosicrucians are "amongst you...visibly and invisibly."
1623 Final papal edict against Alumbrados; Guerinets appear in France. First submarine built by Cornelius van Drebbel in England.
1638 Milton meets Galileo.
1640 Beginning of subliminal persuasion when Rembrandt imbeds the word "sex" in a painting.
1642 Civil War in England between King Charles and Parliament.
1646 Earliest known Masonic Lodge to allow non-professional or "free" masons, in Warrington, England.
1647 Alleged correspondence between Cromwell and Ebeneezer Pratt plotting the overthrow of King Charles.
1649 King Charles convicted and beheaded by Parliament.
1654 Illuminated Guerinets come to public notice in France.
1667 Milton's Paradise Lost published.
1675 Leeuwenhoek discovers "animalcules" through the microscope.
1676 Sperm discovered by Leeuwenhoek's student Ham.
1680 Madame Le Voisin, innovator of modern Satanism, executed in Paris.
1682 Tamanend, sachem and chief of the Lenni-Lenape tribe, welcomes William Penn to America, traditionally considered the beginning of the Tammany Society.
1689 William III of Orange becomes king of England, allegedly through the plotting of the Illuminati.
1694 Bank of England founded.
1700 Quietism of Fenelon and others.
1701 Earliest record of "operative" or professional Masonic Lodge in Alnwick, England.
1702 First daily newspaper in England.
1717 Founding of modern Freemasonry with the Grand Lodge of London by Desaguliers. Voltaire imprisoned in the Bastille.
1721 British King George I cracks down on the flourishing Hell Fire Clubs, popular Satanistic cults.
1723 Anderson's Constitutions of the Freemasons published. Ebrietatis Enconium and other early anti-Masonic works published.
1724 Publication of the anti-Masonic Grand Mysteries of the Freemasons Discovered.
1731 Benjamin Franklin initiated into Freemasonry.
1734 Franklin elected Grand Master of Pennsylvania.
1736 Death of the last leader of the Afghan Illuminated Ones.
1749 Rousseau's spontaneous "enlightenment" launches the Romantic Movement.
1750 Hell Fire Clubs continue to flourish in Dublin and London. Fictional alchemist Joseph Curwen writes letter stating "I laste Nighte strucke on ye Wordes that bringe up Yooge-Sothothe," perhaps the real power behind the Illuminati.
1754 Six year old Adam Weishaupt is orphaned and goes to live with the Jesuits.
1757 First year of Swedenborg's "New Era."
1759 Voltaire's Candide published.
1760 St. Germain founds chemical dye factory in Holland, fore- runner of I.G. Farben; disappears with 100,000 guilders. Franklin invents bifocals.
1761 St. Germain discovered living in Russia. Chinese Emporer issues edict against secret societies.
1762 Illumines of France founded. Sandwich invented.
1763 Swedenborg's Doctrine of Life for the New Jerusalem published.
1764 Voltaire's Philosophical Dictionary published; he begins a prodigious attack on dogmas of church and state.
1765 British Stamp Act imposed to help pay for the French and Indian War debt. Sons of Liberty clubs formed to resist the tax.
1767 Townshend Revenue Act, another British tax on the colonies. Kunta Kinte kidnapped into American slavery.
1768 Virginia's legislature dissolved for its opposition to the Townshend Act. Weishaupt graduates from the University of Ingolstadt, becomes tutor and catechist. Macfarguhar, Ball and Smelie begin compiling the Encyclopaedia Britannica. Mesmer commissions 12 year old Mozart's first opera, Bastien and Bastienne.
1770 Boston Massacre: British troops fire into a crowd. Townshend Act repealed.
1771 Encyclopaedia Britannica published.
1772 Weishaupt becomes professor at University of Ingolstadt.
1773 British Tea Tax on colonies. Boston Tea Party in protest. Weishaupt marries. Alleged meeting of Meyer Rothschild and others to plan a world revolution. Suppression of the Jesuits. Franklin's Rule by Which a Great Empire May Be Reduced to a Small One published.
1774 Britain's "Intolerable Acts" designed to punish rebellious colonies. First Continental Congress. Washington begins training troops. Louis XVI becomes king of France. Casanova becomes secret agent for the Inquisitors of Venice. Catherine II shuts down satiric journals in Russia. Jefferson's Summary View of the Rights of British Americans published.
1775 Second Continental Congress authorizes naval warships, sets up secret committee to procure weapons, names Washington commander-in-chief of the new American Army. George III proclaims America in open rebellion. Initial battles of the Revolutionary War: Lexington, Bunker Hill, Toconderoga. Bushnell's first experimental submarine and torpedo tested. Prince Hall lodges (for blacks) chartered by Grand Lodge of London, rejected by American lodges.
1776 Illuminati founded by Weishaupt. American Declaration of Independence, written by Jefferson, adopted by Continental Congress. Battles of Long Island, White Plains and Trenton. Nathan Hale executed as spy by British. Franklin becomes ambassador to France, is affiliated with French Masonic lodges. Opening of Freemasons' Hall, permanent headquarters of English Masonry. Cagliostro initiated into Masonry. Saigon captured by Tay Son brothers. Aaron Burr serves as assistant to Benedict Arnold. Thomas Paine's Common Sense and The Crisis widely read. Adam Smith's Wealth of Nations published.