I didn't know this wow.

The link above that someone posted has a short list - amazing - amazing what is NOT in the history books -

So this is from this link posted up thread - wow -
[link to www.toughissues.org]

VI. A sampling of expulsions of Jesuits from various nations (hopefully listed chronologically according to the 1st year of expulsion by various nations; in some cases the monarch who ordered the expulsion is listed):

1579, 1581, 1586, and 1602 – Elizabeth I, Queen of England

1604 – James I, King of England [This was the 5th expulsion of the Jesuits from England!]

1614 – Japan

1618 – the Kingdom of Bohemia

1716, 1783 – China

1719 – Peter the Great of Russia

1759 – King Joseph I of Portugal [He believed the Jesuits attempted to assassinate him in 1758.]

1764 – King Louis XV of France

1816 – Russian Czar Alexander I [He expelled the Jesuits from Moscow and St. Petersburg.]

1820 – Russian Czar Alexander I [He expelled the Jesuits from all of Russia.]

1820, 1835, 1868 – Spain

1834 – Portugal [2nd expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal]

1848 – Switzerland

1848, 1859 – Italy

1872 – Guatemala

1872 – German-Prussian Empire

1873 – Mexico

1874 – Brazil

1875 – Ecuador and Columbia

1880, 1901 – France [2nd and 3rd expulsions of the Jesuits from France]

1884 – Costa Rica

1901 – Portugal [3rd expulsion of the Jesuits from Portugal]

NOTE: The Jesuits were expelled from England five times! The Jesuits were also expelled three times from predominantly Roman Catholic Spain, three times from predominantly Roman Catholic Portugal, and three times from predominantly Roman Catholic France! The Jesuits were also expelled numerous times from various predominantly Roman Catholic countries in South and Central America. Why were the Jesuits expelled so many times from so many nations of the world? Let us here repeat a quotation by Canadian author and historian J.E.C. Shepherd that was given earlier in this newsletter – a quotation that provides us with the answer: