A community-edited reference article on the eighteenth century campaign against the Jesuit order across Catholic Europe and its colonies, covering King Charles III of Spain's 2 April 1767 decree expelling the Society of Jesus from Spain and the entire Spanish Empire, the secret orders sent to provincial viceroys with a threat of summary execution for any Jesuit left behind, the roughly 5,000 to 6,000 Jesuits deported (678 from Mexico alone, three quarters of them Mexican-born), the 1766 Esquilache Riots blamed on the order as pretext, the wider Bourbon Reforms context, the harsh conditions of the deportation journey, the crown's auction of confiscated Jesuit properties, and the order's wider 1773 papal suppression that followed across the Catholic world.
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Reliability TierCommunity-edited reference page, tier 3. Its account of the 1767 Spanish decree, the Esquilache Riots pretext and the deportation figures is consistent with the standard historiography of the Bourbon Reforms and the wider Jesuit suppression. Citation
URLhttps://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Suppression_of_the_Society_of_Jesus 1 Cross-Tradition Connections
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