Enlightenment · Europe · Religion

1767

Jesuits Expelled from Spanish Empire

1767

Following Portugal and France, Spain's Charles III expelled the Society of Jesus from his vast empire in one coordinated night. Soldiers arrested priests in their beds from Paraguay to the Philippines. The reasons remained murky - the king's Bourbon reformers distrusted the order. Education and missions across three continents staggered.

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Before and after in Europe

Before: 1766: Cavendish Isolates Hydrogen
After: 1768: First Partition Negotiations on Poland Begin

Before and after in Religion

Before: 1754: Jonathan Edwards's Freedom of the Will
After: 1769: First Spanish Mission in Alta California

Era

Enlightenment (1651–1800), one of 696 events from that era on Saeculum.