Fourth Lateran Council convenes in Rome
1215
Innocent III summoned the largest church council of the Middle Ages. Its canons ordered annual confession, forbade clergy from blessing ordeals, required Jews and Muslims to wear distinctive dress, and defined transubstantiation as dogma, reshaping daily Christian life. The council's seventy decrees touched every corner of medieval existence, from marriage and inheritance to preaching and the conduct of crusades.
In context
Also in 1215 (4 other events on record)
- Magna Carta sealed at Runnymede · Europe · Politics
- Mongols capture Zhongdu, Jin capital · East Asia · War
- Inuit Thule culture expands across Arctic · North America · Exploration
- Aquinas's father plans his religious career · Europe · Religion
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Era
High Middle Ages (1000–1300), one of 1,306 events from that era on Saeculum.