# John Calvin The first fact about John Calvin in a public catalog is a church order and a heresy burning, not a marble of systematic theology. The Meeter Center at https://calvin.edu/meeter-center holds a specialist collection. The International Museum of the Reformation at https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/ presents Geneva’s Reformation as a public museum. Archives d’État de Genève at https://www.ge.ch/organisation/archives-etat-geneve are the civic-register heading for councils and consistory. Britannica at https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin dates the offices. From 1542 that court sat. On 27 October 1553 Michael Servetus was burned at Champel: Britannica’s Servetus page at https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Servetus and the Genevan archival heading independently print a civic sentence. Calvin denounced, testified, and asked for the sword; the Small Council sentenced. Shared attribution is the honest type. Never affiliated_with Servetus. May 1555 ended the Perrin opposition inside the councils. Offsets are also URLs. CCEL’s Institutes at https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes carry the 1536 handbook as later English. The University of Geneva at https://www.unige.ch/en/ is a successor heading of the 1559 Academy, first rector Théodore de Bèze. Farel’s 1536 invitation and the 1538 expulsion are dated civic-church acts. Strasbourg under Bucer is teaching in exile. What the score must not say: that Calvin lit the Champel pyre as magistrate; that 1559 cancels 1553; that a later Presbyterian polity is this one city’s minute; that [Luther](/people/martin-luther)’s 1525 pamphlet is Geneva. Complex contribution is the honest type. Confidence is high on 1536, 1538, 1541, 1553, and 1559; medium on unique consistory case counts; low on later confessional welfare series. Related people are Farel, Beza, Bucer, and Luther as a prior evangelical stream — plus Servetus only as a conflict counterpart. 1536 is a book. 1541 is an ordinance. 1553 is a death. 1559 is a college. Keep them unmerged. Later museum rooms are evidence, not additional acts. The Cambridge Companion at https://www.cambridge.org/core/books/cambridge-companion-to-john-calvin/ independently frames consistory and 1555. A reader checking this Person should open Meeter Center, MIR, AEG, the Institutes carrier, Servetus as Britannica prints him, and the 1559 Academy heading, then stop. Remaining dated instruments kept after dropping later editions, museums, and split rows: 1536 Institutes; 1536 Farel call; 1538 expulsion; Strasbourg; 13 September 1541 return; 20 November 1541 Ordinances; 1542 consistory practice; preaching cycle; Company of Pastors letters; 1553 Servetus; 1555 Perrinists; 1559 Academy. Posthumous museums, university names, and later confessional reception are evidence, not additional acts. A consistory minute is still not a college. A college is still not Champel. Shared attribution on 1553 remains the honest line. Later museum rooms, consistory editions, and encyclopedia pages remain evidence, not additional lifetime acts. Shared work with Farel, Beza, Bucer, and unnamed elders remains named. He did not sit as the Small Council. Magistrates signed sentences. Dated instruments, not later museum captions, are the public file. Shared work remains named. ## Dated facts - Calvin dies in Geneva on 27 May 1564 after declining health. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-death-1564. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin, https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/. - The Geneva Academy opens in 1559 with Théodore de Bèze as first rector. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-academy-1559. Sources: https://www.unige.ch/en/, https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin. - The definitive Latin Institutes of 1559 expands the Reformed doctrinal manual. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-institutes-latin-1559. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin, https://www.ccel.org/ccel/calvin/institutes. - 1558: Geneva under Calvin’s ministry shelters Marian exiles and other Protestant refugees. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-rights-exile-welcome. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin, https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/. - 1556: Calvin’s circle uses legal and Consistory procedures against political enemies after 1555. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-colladon-legal-corr. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521816475, https://www.ge.ch/organisation/archives-etat-geneve. - The 1555 defeat of the Perrinists purges Calvin’s civic opponents. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-perrinists-1555. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521816475, https://www.ge.ch/organisation/archives-etat-geneve. - 1555: Refugee printing houses make Geneva a dated Reformed publishing centre under Calvin’s orbit. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-indus-printing. Sources: https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/, https://calvin.edu/meeter-center. - Michael Servetus is burned at Champel on 27 October 1553 after a civic trial Calvin advised. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-servetus-1553. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/Michael-Servetus, https://www.ge.ch/organisation/archives-etat-geneve. - 1553: Conflicts with Geneva’s Libertine opposition intensify before the 1555 purge. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-libertine-clash-1553. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521816475, https://www.ge.ch/organisation/archives-etat-geneve. - 1552: Predestination controversies with Bolsec and others harden Reformed polemics. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-predestination-polemic. Sources: https://doi.org/10.1017/ccol0521816475, https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin. - 1550: French refugee influx under Calvin’s ministry reshapes Geneva’s labour and craft economy. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-refugees-geneva-labour. Sources: https://www.britannica.com/biography/John-Calvin, https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/. - 1549: Calvin’s weekday preaching cycle makes scripture a dated public teaching instrument in Geneva. https://factrail.ai/facts/jc-preaching-scripture. Sources: https://www.musee-reforme.ch/en/, https://calvin.edu/meeter-center. ## Methodology https://factrail.ai/methodology Canonical: https://factrail.ai/people/john-calvin