1368 - Collapse of the Franciscan mission in China
1582 - Jesuits begin mission work in China, introduce Western science, mathematics, astronomy
1792 - William Carey[?] writes Enquiry into the Obligations of Christians to use means for the conversion of the heathen and forms the Baptist Missionary Society[?] to support him in establishing missionary work in India.
... from 1559 until the Edict of Nantes (1598), the effect of which was to establish regions in which Protestants could live unmolested. These areas became centers of ...