Archive for May, 2010
Monday, May 31st, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 0070 Rome captures 1st wall of the city of Jerusalem 1495 Emperor Maximilian, Pope Alexander VI, Milan, King Ferdinand, Isabella & Venice sign anti-French Saint League 1578 Italian archaeologist Antonio Bosio became the first man in modern times to rediscover the Christian catacombs in Rome. Researchers (e.g., Giovanni B. de Rossi) who […]
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Sunday, May 30th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 0339 Death of Eusebius, 74, Father of early church history. He attended the Council of Nicea in A.D. 325, and his “Historia Ecclesiastica” contains an abundance of detail on the first three centuries of the Early Church found nowhere else in ancient literature. 1100 Burchard becomes bishop of Utrecht 1431 French heroine […]
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Saturday, May 29th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 0757 St Paul I begins his reign as Catholic Pope 1138 Anti-Pope Victor IV (Gregorio) overthrows self for Innocentius II 1453 Constantinople falls to Muhammad II (Turks); ends Byzantine Empire. Constantinople, the capital of Eastern Christianity from A.D. 324, fell to the Turks. The city afterward became the capital of the Ottoman […]
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Friday, May 28th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 0640 Severinus begins his reign as Catholic Pope (elected in 638) 1349 60 Jews murdered in Breslau Silesia 1521 Pope Leo X signs treaty with German emperor Charles V 1533 England’s archbishop voids King Henry VIII & Anne Boleyn’s marriage 1664 1st Baptist Church is organized (Boston) 1725 English founder of Methodism […]
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Thursday, May 27th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 1529 30 Jews of Posing Hungary, charged with blood ritual, burned at stake 1664 Colonial theologian Increase Mather, 24, was installed as minister of Boston’s Second (Congregational) Church. He remained there until his death in 1723. 1799 Birth of George Washington Doane, American Episcopal clergyman. One of the foremost promoters of Episcopal […]
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Wednesday, May 26th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 1232 Pope Gregory IX sent the first Inquisition team to Aragon in Spain, after turning its details over to the Dominicans the previous year. 1328 William of Ockham forced to flee from Avignon by Pope John XXII 1521 Edict of Worms outlaws Martin Luther & his followers 1538 Genève throws out Calvin […]
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Tuesday, May 11th, 2010
On Holiday
Back around the 29th. I have no idea what internet I will have while traveling.
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Monday, May 10th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 1267 Vienna’s church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb 1278 Jews of England imprisoned on charges of coining 1427 Jews are expelled from Berne Switzerland 1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague 1559 Scottish Protestants under John Knox uprise against queen-mother Mary 1570 Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant […]
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Today in Anchorage
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Sunday, May 9th, 2010
Today In History
On this day… 1092 Lincoln Cathedral consecrated 1460 Court yard episcopal palace Atrecht has witch burnings 1619 In Holland, the six month long Synod of Dort ended. Confirming the authority of the “Heidelberg Catechism,” the decisions of the Synod led to some 200 Arminian clergy being afterward deprived of their offices. 1788 English parliament accepts […]