<Tr> <Td> Catholicism portal </Td> </Tr> <Tr> <Td> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> </Td> </Tr> <Ul> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> <Li> </Li> </Ul> <Ul> <Li> 1773: Suppression of the Jesuits by Pope Clement XIV, already excluded from many states . Only in the Russian Empire are they able to remain . </Li> <Li> 1789: John Carroll becomes the Bishop of Baltimore, the first bishop in the United States . </Li> <Li> 1789: Georgetown University is founded as Georgetown College . It is the oldest Catholic university in the United States and the first of 28 colleges and universities founded by the Jesuits in the US . </Li> <Li> 1791: Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart composes Ave verum corpus and his unfinished Requiem . </Li> <Li> 1793: French Revolution institutes anti-clerical measures . </Li> <Li> 1798: Joseph Haydn, Austrian composer and teacher of Beethoven, composed The Creation (Haydn), an oratorio that celebrates and portrays the creation as recounted in the Book of Genesis . </Li> <Li> 1798: Pope Pius VI taken prisoner by the armies of Napoleon I, dies in captivity in France . </Li> </Ul>

Region where the catholic church had major holdings during the 1600s