• French Jesuit Pierre Nicolas d'Incarville introduced the Tree of Heaven (Ailanthus altissima) and Pagoda Tree (Styphnolobium japonicum) to Europe?
• William Vaux, 3rd Baron Vaux was imprisoned and fined £1,000 by Queen Elizabeth for harbouring the Jesuit Edmund Campion?
• William L. Reilly's twelve-year tenure as president of Le Moyne College was the longest in the Jesuit school's history?
• French Jesuit missionary and mathematician Guy Tachard was involved in embassies to Siam, which came as responses to embassies sent by the Siamese King Narai to France in order to obtain an alliance against the Dutch?
• Italian Jesuit priest Sabatino de Ursis moved to China in 1607 to assist Matteo Ricci in his astronomical research, and attempted to reform the Chinese calendar?
• the Ajacan Mission, a failed attempt by Spanish Jesuit priests to bring Christianity to the Native Americans of the Virginia Peninsula, predated the establishment of Jamestown by about 36 years?
• in 1686 Michael Shen Fu-Tsung, a Jesuit convert from Nanking, arrived at the court of James II and became the first recorded Chinese person to visit Britain?
• in 1669, the Jesuit missionary and astronomer Ferdinand Verbiest (pictured) persuaded the Kangxi Emperor to remove a month from the Chinese calendar?
• Nicolas Sarrabat, a French scientist and Jesuit, conducted experiments on the circulation of plants, argued that magnetism was caused by a fire at the Earth's centre, and discovered the largest comet ever recorded?
• James A. Martin was the world's oldest Jesuit priest at the time of his death at the age of 105 in 2007?
• Jesuit Louis J. Gallagher, who brought to Rome the relics of Andrew Bobola which were rescued from the Bolsheviks by Edmund A. Walsh, later published books about both men?
• Jesuit Filippo Salvatore Gilij proposed one of the earliest classifications of South American language families?
• Jesuit Donald Merrifield, the first president of Loyola Marymount University after its creation, worked as a consultant for NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory?
• Loyola College in Maryland, a Jesuit college with "little athletic tradition," has had 13 first-team All American honorees from the men's lacrosse team?
• Polish Jesuit and missionary Jan Mikołaj Smogulecki introduced the knowledge of logarithms to China in the mid-17th century?
• Francois Xavier d'Entrecolles, the French Jesuit Father who revealed to Europe in 1712 the manufacturing secrets of Chinese porcelain, has been described as an early "industrial spy"?
• Anthony Baldinucci, a Jesuit priest, often carried a cross and wore heavy chains while walking barefoot into towns where he was conducting missions?
• American Jesuit priest Walter Ciszek was imprisioned by the Soviet Union between 1941 and 1963, and sentenced to 15 years hard labor, six of which were spent in Moscow's infamous Lubyanka prison?
• Fr. Finn wrote the 1890 novel Tom Playfair, telling the adventures of a 10-year-old at an all-boys Jesuit boarding school, to illustrate his ideal of a genuine Catholic American boy?

Facts on topics related to Jesuit

Jesuits

• French-Canadian historian Charles-Honoré Laverdière (pictured) believed that the Jesuits had falsified some of the original works of Samuel de Champlain?
• Matsuura Takanobu was an early host and patron to the Jesuits, whom he hoped would influence an increase in trade between European traders and Japan?
• William C. McInnes, one of the first Jesuits to study business administration, simultaneously served as the president of both Fairfield University and the University of San Francisco for four months?