1963 Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds John XXIII.
1965 Pope Paul VI visits the United States. He appears for a Mass in Yankee Stadium and makes a speech at the United Nations.
1965 Pope Paul VI announces that the ecumenical council has decided that Jews are not collectively responsible for the killing of Christ.
1966 Pope Paul VI and Arthur Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, meet in Rome - the first official meeting for 400 years between the Roman Catholic and Anglican Churches.
1966 Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican - the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union.
1967 Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical ''Populorum Progressio''.
1967 Pope Paul VI ordains 276 new cardinals (one of them Karol Wojtyla).
1968 Pope Paul VI announces an encyclical entitled ''Humanae Vitae'', condemning birth control. Many American Catholics ignore or defy it.
1970 Pope Paul VI begins an Asian tour.
1970 Bolivian artist Benjamin Mendoza tries to assassinate Pope Paul VI during his visit in Manila.
1978 Pope Paul VI dies at age of 80.