EARLY YEARS IN SCOTLAND
1514 Probable date of birth in Haddington
1536 Graduates from University of St. Andrews and is ordained a priest
1540 Becomes a notary (minor legal official) and a tutor
1543 Converted to Protestantism
1545 Becomes associate and bodyguard to George Wishart
1546 Wishart martyred; Cardinal Beaton murdered; Protestants at St. Andrews Castle put under siege
1547 Knox flees to the Castle; preaches his first Protestant sermon; Castle falls; imprisoned as galley slave in France for 19 months
INTERLUDE IN ENGLAND
1549 Begins pastoring in Berwick, England; establishes his preaching reputation
1550 Meets Mrs. Elizabeth Bowes and her daughter Marjory
1552 Moves to London; disputes practice of kneeling at Communion; refuses to become bishop of Rochester
1553 Forced into hiding when Catholic Mary Tudor becomes queen
EXILE IN EUROPE
1554 Flees to France, then Zurich and Calvin’s Geneva; pastors an English congregation in Frankfurt
1555 Dispute over the liturgy forces him to Geneva; pastors an English congregation there; returns to Scotland secretly; weds Marjory Bowes and does missionary work
1556 Condemned for heresy in Scotland; returns to Geneva with wife and mother-in-law
1558 Writes The First Blast of the Trumpet Against the Monstrous Regiment of Women, advocating rebellion against ungodly rulers
LATER YEARS IN SCOTLAND
1559 Returns to Scotland; preaches sermon condemning “idolatry”; it leads to a rebellion
1560 Reformation Parliament adopts Protestant “Scots Confession”; Knox’s wife, Marjory, dies
1561 Knox helps write First Book of Discipline; Catholic Mary Queen of Scots returns; Knox ministers at St. Giles’s in Edinburgh; first interview with Mary
1564 Marries Margaret Stewart
1566 Writes much of History of the Reformation of ...

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