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*1323 French Dominican friar [[w:Jordanus|Jordanus Catalani de Severac]] arrives in [[w:Kollam|Kollam]] (Quilon).
*1329 August 9, erection of the first Roman Catholic Diocese in India, in the state of Kerala, being the [[w:Roman Catholic Diocese of Quilon|Diocese of Quilon]] (or Kollam); re-erected on September 1, 1886.<ref group="note">Pope John XXII (in captivity in Avignon) erected Quilon as the first Diocese in the whole of Indies, as suffragan to the Archdiocese of Sultany in Persia, through the decree ''Romanus Pontifix''.</ref> French Dominican friar [[w:Jordanus|Jordanus Catalani de Severac]] is appointed as the first Bishop of Quilon.
*1490-1503 [[Assyrian Church of the East|East Syrian]] mission to India: two Chaldean bishops, John and Thomas, in Kerala.<ref group="note">Between 1490 and 1503 the [[Assyrian Church of the East|Church of the East]] responded to the request of a mission to Mesopotamia from the East Syrian Christians of the Malabar Coast of India for bishops to be sent out to them. In 1490 two Christians from Malabar arrived in [[w:Cizre|Gazarta]] to petition the patriarch Shemʿon IV (Basidi) to consecrate a bishop for their church. Two monks of the monastery of [[w:Mar Awgin |Mar Awgin]] were consecrated bishops and were sent to India. Shemʿon IV died in 1497, to be followed by the short-reigned Shemʿon V, who died in 1502. His successor Eliya V (1502-03) consecrated three more bishops for India in April 1503. These bishops sent a report to the patriarch from India in 1504, describing the condition of the East Syrian church in India and reporting the recent arrival of the Portuguese. Eliya had already died by the time this letter arrived in Mesopotamia, and it was received by his successor, Shemʿon VI (1504–38). (''MSS Vat Syr 204a and Paris BN Syr 25'')</ref>
*1494 June 7, [[w:Treaty of Tordesillas|Treaty of Tordesillas]]: division of the world and mission lands between Spain and Portugal.
