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2013 Event - Pope Francis canonizes a record-breaking number of new Catholic Church saints; Emeritus Pope Benedict XVI submitted the 813 'Martyrs of Otranto' who were beheaded by Ottoman soldiers for refusing to convert to Islam

2013 Event - Alfred Xuereb, an Honorary Prelate of the Roman Catholic Church, is selected by Pope Francis' to become his first private secretary

2013 Event - In Vatican City, Italy, Pope Francis delivers his first message at the Vatican, telling journalists wants "a poor Church, for the poor"

2012 Event - The Coptic Orthodox Church selects Bishop Tawadros as their new 118th pope

2012 Event - An internal investigation is launched by Pope Benedict XVI involving leaks of confidential documents that allege corruption, financial mismanagement and power struggles among senior church officials

2011 Event - According to the Catholic Church on the island, Cuba plans free to two more dissidents

2009 Event - The Russian Orthodox Church enthrones Patriarch Kirill I of Moscow as Patriarch of the Russian Orthodox Church

1995 Death - Alonzo Church, American Mathematician

1995 Death - Howard Hunter, U.S. leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87

1995 Death - S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89

1994 Event - Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed

1994 Death - Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94

1994 Death - D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96

1994 Event - President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death

1994 Event - Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed

1994 Event - Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests

1994 Event - Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed

1992 Event - Anglican Church and Church of England OK female priests

1992 Event - Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years

1992 Death - Flora SA Benson, U.S., wife of President Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies

1991 Event - Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen

1991 Event - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church

1991 Event - Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church

1991 Death - J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies

1991 Event - Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church

1990 Event - Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die

1990 Death - Pimen, Sergei Irzyekov, patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79

1989 Event - Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church

1989 Event - Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop

1988 Event - Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary

1987 Event - Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die

1987 Event - Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon

1986 Birthday - Charlotte Church, born in Cardiff, Wales, singer, songwriter, actress, classical crossover singer, host of 'The Charlotte Church Show', worth $20 million pounds

1986 Death - L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74

1985 Death - Spencer W. Kimball, U.S. head of mormon church, dies at 90

1984 Death - Frank Church, Senator-D-Ohio 1957 - 1981, dies at 59

1983 Event - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)

1982 Event - Seattle Baptist Church declares sanctuary for Central American refugees

1982 Event - 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1982 Event - 2,100 Unification church couples wed in New York City

1982 Event - Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at New York MSG

1982 Event - Unification Church founder Reverend Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion

1981 Event - 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany

1978 Event - Joseph Freeman, Jr. is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints

1978 Event - Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood

1978 Event - 118 Unification church couples wed in England

1978 Event - 16 Unification church couples wed in New York City

1977 Event - 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York City

1976 Event - 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City

1976 Event - Reverend Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ

1976 Event - Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and bishop

1975 Event - 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea

1974 Event - Episcopal Church ordained female priests

1974 Death - Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King, Jr., assassinated in church

1974 Birthday - Johnie Church, NFL defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks

1973 Death - Harold B Lee, U.S. head of Mormon Church, dies at 74

1973 Event - Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope

1970 Event - 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1970 Death - Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92

1970 Event - Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect

1969 Event - 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City

1968 Death - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65

1968 Death - Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister (World Rad of Church), dies

1968 Event - University church in Leipzig, East Germany, blown up

1968 Event - United Methodist Church forms

1968 Event - Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri

1968 Event - 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea

1966 Event - Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church

1966 Event - 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church

1964 Event - Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaces Latin with English

1964 Death - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80

1963 Event - 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham

1963 Event - 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1963 Event - Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church

1963 Event - John F. Kennedy speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt

1963 Birthday - Joel Osteen, born in Houston, Texas, pastor, Lakewood Church, ministry reaches over seven million viewers per week in the U.S., author of 'Your Best Life Now'

1962 Event - Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia

1962 Event - Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia

1961 Birthday - Ann Coulter, born in New York City, New York, conservative political commentator, author, 'Godless: The Church of Liberalism', 'How to Talk to a Liberal (If You Must)'

1961 Event - 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea

1959 Event - Presbyterian church accepts women preachers

1958 Event - Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers

1958 Death - John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75

1957 Event - John Lennon (16) and Paul McCartney (15) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group The Quarry Men perform at a church dinner

1956 Death - Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73

1956 Event - U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation

1955 Event - Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar

1955 Event - Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers

1955 Event - Argentine parliament accepts separation of church and state

1954 Death - Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90

1954 Death - Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73

1954 Event - HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)

1954 Birthday - Rick Warren, San Jose, California, Pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California

1952 Birthday - Joel Garner, born in Christ Church, Barbados, right-handed, fast bowler, nicknamed 'Big Bird', West Indian cricketer, played 1979 Cricket World Cup, 1983 Cricket World Cup

1952 Event - Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index

1952 Event - Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1 centuries

1951 Event - Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir

1950 Event - National Council of Church of Christ in U.S. forms

1950 Event - Polish Catholic church and government sign accord over relations

1950 Birthday - John Hartman, born in Falls Church, Virginia, rock drummer, Doobie Brothers

1948 Event - 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow

1948 Death - Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man', dies

1945 Event - Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church

1945 Death - Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52

1944 Event - Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem

1944 Birthday - Peter Akinola, born in Ogun, Nigeria, church leader in Nigeria

1943 Event - Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle

1942 Event - Meulenberg robs of church bells

1942 Death - Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67

1941 Birthday - Jeremiah Wright, born in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, Pastor Emeritus, former Pastor, Trinity United Church of Christ in Chicago, 8,500 member megachurch, former pastor of President Obama, known for politically charged, controversial sermons

1941 Death - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79

1941 Death - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67

1940 Event - German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms

1940 Event - Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest

1940 Event - German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)

1939 Birthday - Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage

1939 Event - Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha

1937 Death - John Gresham Machen, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church, dies of pneumonia at age 55

1936 Event - Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia

1935 Birthday - Ruth Clarke, Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reform Church

1933 Event - Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"

1933 Birthday - Margaret Laird, Commissioner, Third Church Estates

1932 Birthday - O. C. Smith, born in Mansfield, Louisiana, born Ocie Lee Smith, singer, pastor, "Save the Last Dance for Me" hit number one on Rhythm n' Beach Top 40, founded The City of Angels Church

1932 Birthday - Donald Hilton, Moderator, General Assembly of United Reformed Church

1932 Event - British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge

1931 Event - Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church and State

1931 Birthday - James Weatherhead, moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1930 Birthday - Simon Barrington-Ward, born in England, educated at Eton College, Cambridge, 7th Bishop of Coventry in the Church of England, 1985 - 1997, Bishop with pastoral care, University of Cambridge

1930 Event - Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Francisco to Cheyenne)

1929 Death - Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies

1929 Birthday - Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British church historian, 1 Sided Reciprocity

1928 Event - Turkey passes separation of church and state

1926 Event - Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico

1926 Death - Frederik Pijper, Dut vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67

1924 Birthday - Frank Church, born in Boise, Idaho, Senator-D-Idaho, 1957 - 1981

1924 Birthday - Lionel Dakers, director, Royal School of Church Music

1922 Birthday - John Heerbecq, Church commissioner

1921 Birthday - Adrian Cruft, born Adrian Francis Cruft, son of Eugene Cruft, born in Britain, composer, dubbed a performer's composer, composed church, chamber and orchestral works

1920 Event - Church disforms in Wales

1920 Birthday - James Whyte, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1918 Event - Separation of church and state begins in U.S.S.R.

1914 Birthday - Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist, Church and Emperor

1914 Birthday - Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian, Le Pontificat de Pie IX

1913 Birthday - Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner

1911 Birthday - J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president, Church and Peace

1910 Birthday - Gordon B. Hinckley, born in Utah, religious leader, president of The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints

1910 Event - Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers

1909 Birthday - Andrew Herron, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland

1909 Birthday - Robin Orr, born in Brechin, Scotland, musician, composer, professor of music, composed three operas, Full Circle, Hermiston, On the Razzle, among other symphonies, church music, chamber works

1907 Birthday - Howard William Hunter, Mormon Church Leader

1907 Birthday - Helmut Walcha, German organist, church music

1906 Death - Robert Rainy, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views, dies

1906 Event - Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy

1906 Event - Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht

1906 Birthday - Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist, Confessing Church

1906 Event - Pope encyclical against separation of church and state

1905 Event - French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state

1903 Birthday - Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian

1903 Birthday - Alonzo Church, American Mathematician

1902 Event - Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"

1899 Birthday - Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist, Church und Welt

1896 Death - John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67

1896 Death - Hendrik G Kleyn, church historian dies at 36

1896 Birthday - Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian

1895 Birthday - Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church

1890 Event - Mormon Church outlaws polygamy

1890 Event - President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned

1890 Event - Mormon Church renounces polygamy

1889 Birthday - Joan Collette, Dutch, male, painter, New Church, Delft

1886 Event - Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over "Doleantie"

1885 Birthday - Berthold Altaner, German church historian, Patrologie

1884 Death - Hans Rott, composer, organist at the Piarist church, praised by Anton Bruchnew, Gustav Mahler, dies at 25

1883 Birthday - Martin Albertz, German theologist, Church Jesus Christ

1882 Birthday - Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian, Netherlands Archives

1881 Birthday - John Gresham Machen, born in Baltimore, Maryland, Presbyterian theologian, professor, New Testament, Princeton Seminary, formed Orthodox Presbyterian Church

1880 Death - Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74

1880 Birthday - Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian, Willem of Orange

1880 Birthday - Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop, Confessional Church

1877 Birthday - Sergei U.S. Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church

1877 Death - Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies

1876 Birthday - Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist

1875 Birthday - Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian

1873 Birthday - David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th President of Mormon church

1873 Event - Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"

1870 Birthday - George A. Smith, born in Salt Lake City Utah, 8th President of Mormon church

1865 Death - John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59

1865 Event - Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)

1864 Event - Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia

1864 Event - Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church)

1864 Event - Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642

1864 Event - Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]

1864 Event - Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia

1864 Event - Battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia

1864 Event - Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia

1864 Event - Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia

1864 Event - Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia

1864 Event - Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured

1864 Event - Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia

1864 Event - 1st U.S. Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore

1863 Event - 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile

1863 Event - Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic

1863 Birthday - Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist

1863 Event - Battle of Chancellorsville - action at Salem Church

1863 Event - Battle of Salem Church, Virginia

1862 Event - Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tennessee (80 casualties)

1862 Event - Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular)

1862 Event - Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station)

1861 Birthday - Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist

1861 Event - Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats

1859 Death - Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66

1859 Birthday - Hendrik G. Kleyn, church historian

1859 Birthday - Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian, The Monasteries

1858 Birthday - Hans Rott, born in Braunhirschengrund, Austria, composer, organist at the Piarist church, praised by Anton Bruchnew, Gustav Mahler

1856 Birthday - Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church

1856 Event - Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos

1854 Birthday - Charles Fillmore, born in St. Cloud, Minnesota, mystic, co-founder, Unity, a New Thought movement church, created metaphysical interpretations of the Bible, promoted idea that God is good, God is available, God is in you, wrote, 'The Twelve Powers of Man'

1853 Event - Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops

1852 Event - San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist

1847 Event - Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo

1844 Event - Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death

1843 Event - United Free Church of Scotland forms

1839 Birthday - Dudley Buck, born in Hartford, Connecticut, organist/church composer

1838 Birthday - Joseph F Smith, 6th President of Mormon church

1832 Death - Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church

1831 Death - Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71

1830 Event - Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York

1829 Birthday - John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian

1826 Birthday - Frederick Church, U.S. romantic landscape painter, Hudson River Sch

1826 Birthday - Robert Rainy, born in Glasgow, Scotland, minister, professor of Church history at New College, theological seminary, principal of New College, argued against Dean Stanley's Broad Church views

1822 Event - James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church

1821 Event - African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (New York City)

1821 Event - African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York)

1817 Event - 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn

1816 Event - African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes in Philadelphia

1811 Birthday - Daniel A. Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church

1810 Event - French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine

1806 Birthday - Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian

1805 Birthday - Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, founder, Mormon Church

1805 Birthday - John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church

1804 Death - Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies

1803 Death - Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56

1802 Event - French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled

1801 Birthday - Brigham Young, religious leader of the Mormon church

1800 Event - Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City)

1797 Birthday - John Winebrenner, U.S., clergyman, founded Church of God

1796 Event - African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated

1796 Event - Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church

1794 Event - African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated

1794 Event - Richard Allen organizes Philadelphia's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church

1794 Event - Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, forms

1794 Event - Richard Allen founded AME Church

1793 Birthday - Nicolaas C. Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist

1792 Death - Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies

1789 Event - John Odell signs contract for 336 pounds to build St. Peter's church (Bronx)

1788 Event - Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga

1785 Event - Church of England organizes in New England

1784 Event - John Wesley charters Methodist Church

1780 Birthday - Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator, Free Church of Scotland 1843-47

1772 Event - 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion

1770 Event - General Church of New Jerusalem established

1769 Event - Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000

1768 Event - 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City)

1763 Birthday - Thomas Campbell, founder, Church of Disciples in America

1760 Birthday - Richard Allen, Philadelphia, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church

1751 Event - 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"

1748 Event - United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized

1746 Birthday - Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet, church songs

1738 Event - Methodist Church forms

1737 Event - Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy

1732 Event - 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia

1732 Event - Mass celebrated for 1st time at St. Joseph's Church in Philadelphia

1724 Event - Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church

1716 Birthday - Thomas Gray, English poet, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard

1711 Birthday - Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, found U.S. Lutheran church

1704 Birthday - August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America

1704 Death - Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies

1701 Birthday - Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan, bishop

1687 Event - King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church

1682 Event - Nationally Council accept independence of French church

1681 Death - Nikon, Nikita Minin, patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76

1664 Event - 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)

1652 Event - Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church

1646 Event - 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)

1646 Event - Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church

1640 Event - Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis

1629 Event - 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)

1623 Death - Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70

1605 Birthday - Nikon, Nikita Minin, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church

1601 Event - Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome

1600 Death - John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies

1595 Death - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69

1595 Birthday - Jacob van Campen, painter/architect, New Church, Amsterdam

1580 Event - Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published

1568 Event - Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire

1564 Death - Jean Caulvin, John Calvin, priest/church reformer, dies at 54

1560 Death - Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63

1560 Death - Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56

1558 Event - Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm

1557 Death - Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies

1552 Death - Laurentius Andreae, Lars Andersson, Swedish church reformer, dies

1549 Event - Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England

1548 Death - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44

1542 Death - Leo Judae, Swiss pastor/church reformer

1541 Death - Wolfgang Capito, Kopfel, German church reformer, dies at 63

1539 Event - St. Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning

1537 Event - King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"

1536 Event - King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church

1535 Event - Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church

1534 Event - English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader

1534 Event - English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope

1532 Event - English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome

1531 Death - Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies

1531 Event - Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England

1530 Death - Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43

1530 Event - King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church

1528 Event - Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor and church)

1526 Birthday - Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, Historia Martyrum

1525 Death - Johannes Pistorius, Bakker, RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26

1525 Death - John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake

1525 Event - Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague

1523 Death - Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1523 Death - John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake

1521 Event - Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church

1504 Birthday - Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer

1438 Event - French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges

1416 Event - Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church

1416 Death - Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church

1415 Death - Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany

1390 Death - Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67

1322 Birthday - Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian

1275 Death - Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies

1267 Event - Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb

766 Death - Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50

735 Death - Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62

673 Event - Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church

649 Death - Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies

609 Event - Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into Catholic church

430 Death - Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75

430 Death - Saint Augustine, saint and Doctor of the Church, patron saint of brweers, printers, and theologians, dies at age 75

354 Birthday - Saint Augustine, born in Souk Ahras, Algeria, saint and Doctor of the Church, patron saint of brweers, printers, and theologians

335 Event - Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem













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