<Li> 1555 Peace of Augsburg gives religious freedom in Germany only to Lutheran Protestants </Li> <Li> 1556 - Dominican Gaspar da Cruz arrives in Guangzhou, China </Li> <Li> 1557 - Jesuit bishop André de Oviedo arrives in Ethiopia with five priests to convert the local Ethiopian Christians to Catholicism . </Li> <Li> 1558 - The Kabardian duke Saltan Idarov converts to Orthodox Christianity </Li>

The nation that considered itself the international defender of catholicism was