37 events with tag "Freemasonry"
1717
ID: 478
June 24, 1717
Formation of first Grand Lodge in London at Goose and Gridiron alehouse, beginning modern organized Freemasonry
ID: 478
1723
ID: 486
James Anderson publishes Constitutions of Free-Masons establishing Deist principles and religious universalism
ID: 486
1723
ID: 488
Reportedly first Masonic lodge 'Fidelitas' founded at Girifalco in Calabria (documentation sparse)
ID: 488
1731
ID: 496
February 1731
Benjamin Franklin initiated into St. John's Lodge Philadelphia at age 24
ID: 496
1732
ID: 497
Lord Charles Sackville establishes first English Masonic Lodge in Italy - 'La Loggia degli Inglesi' in Florence
ID: 497
1734
ID: 500
Franklin elected Grand Master of Pennsylvania Masons at 28 - youngest in Masonic history
ID: 500
1737
ID: 506
June 1737
Inquisition condemns Florence Masonic lodge; Tommaso Crudeli arrested, tortured, dies from treatment
ID: 506
1738
ID: 508
April 28, 1738
Pope Clement XII issues 'In Eminenti' - first papal condemnation of Freemasonry, threatening excommunication
ID: 508
1749
ID: 532
Franklin appointed Provincial Grand Master by Thomas Oxnard with authority over all Pennsylvania lodges
ID: 532
1751
ID: 540
May 28, 1751
Pope Benedict XIV issues 'Providas Romanorum' strengthening condemnation of Freemasonry
ID: 540
1754
ID: 547
Baron von Hund establishes Rite of Strict Observance claiming Templar descent with occult elements
ID: 547
1760
ID: 557
Franklin's London Masonic activities - visits lodges as colonial agent, made honorary member in Edinburgh
ID: 557
1772
ID: 580
Duke Ferdinand of Brunswick begins organizing Wilhelmsbad Convention - attempt at unified 'Super-Masonry'
ID: 580
1773
ID: 583
July 21, 1773
Pope Clement XIV suppresses Jesuits - many ex-Jesuits join Masonic lodges bringing organizational skills
ID: 583
1776
ID: 594
Nine confirmed Freemasons among 55 Constitutional Convention delegates - Masonic principles influence founding documents
ID: 594
1778
ID: 599
Franklin joins Lodge of Nine Sisters Paris - most prestigious Enlightenment lodge with Voltaire, Condorcet, Danton
ID: 599
1779
ID: 603
Franklin becomes Venerable Master of Nine Sisters - first American to lead major European lodge
ID: 603
1780
ID: 606
Cagliostro establishes Egyptian Rite Masonry in Strasbourg - promises eternal youth, alchemy, spirit contact
ID: 606
1780
ID: 608
Nine Sisters Lodge coordinates American support - Lafayette uses Masonic connections for French military aid
ID: 608
1782
ID: 612
July 16, 1782
Congress of Wilhelmsbad at Rothschild's castle - Illuminist rationalism infiltrates Masonic lodges
ID: 612
1787
ID: 624
September 17, 1787
U.S. Constitution signed - 9 Freemasons among 55 delegates, Masonic principles influence document
ID: 624
1789
ID: 634
French Revolutionary clubs' occult origins - Jacobin Club evolves from Masonic Breton Club
ID: 634
1790
ID: 638
April 17, 1790
Franklin dies - largest funeral in American history, 20,000 mourners, Masonic procession leads
ID: 638
1807
ID: 688
July 4, 1807
Giuseppe Garibaldi born in Nice - will become prominent Freemason and Italian revolutionary
ID: 688
1814
ID: 708
August 15, 1814
Cardinals Consalvi and Pacca issue edict forbidding all secret societies in Papal States
ID: 708
1821
ID: 742
September 13, 1821
Pope Pius VII issues Ecclesiam a Jesu Christo - condemns Carbonari and Freemasonry, automatic excommunication
ID: 742
1844
ID: 845
Garibaldi regularizes Masonic position joining Les Amis de la Patrie in Montevideo
ID: 845
1860
ID: 926
June 1860
Garibaldi raised to degree of Master Mason in newly conquered Palermo
ID: 926
1862
ID: 937
Supreme Council of Scottish Rite gives Garibaldi title of Grand Master
ID: 937
1867
ID: 959
May 1867
Garibaldi appeals for Masonic unity - masonic unity will lead to political unity of Italy
ID: 959
1873
ID: 990
Pope Pius IX's Etsi multa claims Freemasonry motivating force behind Kulturkampf
ID: 990
1884
ID: 1051
April 20, 1884
Pope Leo XIII condemns Freemasonry in Humanum Genus - human race separated into two opposite parts
ID: 1051
1917
ID: 1253
Masonic Bicentennial Celebrations in Rome - 200th anniversary of Grand Lodge of London with anti-Catholic demonstrations
ID: 1253
1917
ID: 1254
October 1917
St. Maximilian Kolbe witnesses Masonic demonstrations in Rome - banners read: 'Satan must reign in the Vatican. The Pope will be his slave.'
ID: 1254
1917
ID: 1255
October 16, 1917
St. Maximilian Kolbe founds Militia Immaculatae in response to anti-Catholic Masonic demonstrations
ID: 1255
1925
ID: 1334
Fascist Suppression of Freemasonry - Mussolini dissolves Freemasonry in Italy entirely
ID: 1334
1939
ID: 1481
St. Maximilian Kolbe: 'Atheistic Communism seems to rage ever more wildly. Its origin can easily be located in that criminal mafia that calls itself Freemasonry'
ID: 1481