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document.write("<B>January 1, 379:</B> Early church father Basil the Great dies. Founder and financial supporter of a monastery in Annessi, which became a complex of hospitals, hostels, and schools, he also succeeded Eusebius as bishop of Caesarea. He is also known for his theological work explaining the Trinity and for healing the Antioch schism in the eastern church. His monastic rule remains the basis of the Rule followed by the Eastern Orthodox religious today.");
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document.write("<B>January 1, 1484:</B> Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli is born at Wildhaus, Switzerland."); 
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document.write("<B>January 1, 1622:</B> The Roman Catholic church adopts January 1 as the beginning of the year, rather than March 25.");
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document.write("<B>January 1, 1643:</B> English mathematician and physicist Sir Isaac Newton is baptized at St. John's Church in Colsterworth, England. Deeply interested in religion throughout his life, Newton (known especially for formulating the laws of gravitation) acknowledged Jesus as Savior of the world, but not God incarnate.");
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document.write("<B>January 1, 1802:</B> In a letter to the Danbury (Connecticut) Baptist Association, Thomas Jefferson coins the famous metaphor, ‘‘a wall of separation between Church and State.’‘ A recent exhibit at the Library of Congress has sparked argument over whether Jefferson used the term merely for political reasons or whether he meant it to explain the First Amendment.");
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document.write("<B>January 1, 1863:</B> American President Abraham Lincoln frees all slaves in Confederate states by issuing the Emancipation Proclamation. Churches throughout the North held candlelight vigils commemorating the event .");
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document.write("<B>January 1, 1937:</B> Presbyterian scholar J. Gresham Machen, fundamentalism's most gifted theologian, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 2, 1909:</B> Aimee Semple and her husband, Robert, are ordained by Chicago evangelist William H. Durham. Aimee, who married Harold McPherson after Robert died, would become the founder of the International Church of the Foursquare Gospel and one of America's most popular preachers of the twentieth century.");
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document.write("<B>January 2, 1921:</B> Pittsburgh radio station KDKA broadcasts the first religious program over the airwaves: a vesper service of Calvary Episcopal Church. The senior pastor, unimpressed by the landmark broadcast, didn't even participate in the service, leaving his junior associate to conduct it. The two KDKA engineers (one Jewish, the other Catholic), were asked to dress in choir robes to be less obtrusive. Today religious broadcasting is a multi-billion dollar industry.");
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document.write("<B>January 3, 1521:</B> Pope Leo X creates a bull of excommunication for Martin Luther that would have deprived him of civil rights and protection, but before its execution, Holy Roman Emperor Charles V allows Luther the opportunity to recant his beliefs at the Diet of Worms. When Luther instead affirms his beliefs, the bull is carried out.");
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document.write("<B>January 3, 1785:</B> The Methodist ‘‘Christmas Conference’‘ concludes at Baltimore, Maryland, having created the Methodist Episcopal Church in America and elected Francis Asbury and Thomas Coke its two first ‘‘general superintendents’‘.");
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document.write("<B>January 3, 1840:</B> Joseph de Veuster, who, as Roman Catholic Missionary Father Damien gave his life ministering to lepers in Hawaii, is born in Tremelo, Belgium.");
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document.write("<B>January 3, 1892:</B> Literature professor J.R.R. Tolkien, author of the Lord of the Rings trilogy and a devout Catholic, is born in Bloemfontein, South Africa."); 
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document.write("<B>January 4, 1581:</B> James Ussher, Archbishop of Armagh, Ireland, is born. Famous for a chronology of the Bible that was repeatedly printed in King James Versions, he was so highly esteemed that Oliver Cromwell gave him a state funeral and had him buried in Westminster Abbey.");
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document.write("<B>January 4, 1934:</B> The ‘‘Confessing Church,’‘ led by Karl Barth, Martin Niemoeller, and Dietrich Bonhoeffer in opposition to the Nazi ‘‘German Christian’‘ church, officially organizes in Barmen, Germany.");
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document.write("<B>January 4, 1965:</B> T.S. Eliot, the most influential English writer in the twentieth century and a devout Christian who wove his religious convictions into his work, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 5, 459:</B> Simeon Stylites, who lived at the top of a 60-foot pillar nonstop for 36 years, dies on it ‘‘dripping with vermin.’‘");
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document.write("<B>January 5, 1066:</B> Edward the Confessor, the only English king ever canonized a saint by the Roman Catholic Church, dies. Builder of Westminster Abbey, he was buried there January 6.");
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document.write("<B>January 5, 1527:</B> Swiss Anabaptist reformer Felix Manz is drowned in punishment for preaching adult baptism, becoming the first Protestant martyred by other Protestants.");
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document.write("<B>January 5, 1964:</B> Roman Catholic Pope Paul VI and Greek Orthodox Patriarch Athenagoras meet in Jerusalem, the first meeting of the two offices since 1439, more than half a millennium before.");
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document.write("<B>January 6, 548:</B> The Jerusalem church observes Christmas on this date for the last time as the Western church moves to celebrating the birth of Jesus on December 25.");
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document.write("<B>January 6, 1412 (traditional date):</B> Joan of Arc, the French peasant mystic Christian who became a national heroine and her country's patron saint, is born.");
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document.write("<B>January 6, 1832:</B> French artist Gustave Dore, known for his drawings and lithographs for the Bible, Dante's Inferno, and other works, is born in Strasbourg, France.");
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document.write("<B>January 6, 1850:</B> Charles Spurgeon, who would become one of the greatest preachers of all time, converts to Christianity after receiving a vision, ‘‘not a vision to my eyes, but to my heart. I saw what a Savior Christ was,’‘ he wrote, ‘‘I can never tell you how it was, but I no sooner saw Whom I was to believe than I also understood what it was to believe, and I did believe in one moment’‘.");
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document.write("<B>January 6, 1884:</B> Augustinian monk Gregor Mendel, founder of the science of genetics, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 6, 1412 (traditional date):</B> Joan of Arc, the French peasant mystic Christian who became a national heroine and her country's patron saint, is born."); 
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document.write("<B>January 6, 1494:</B> The first Roman Catholic mass in America is celebrated on Isabella Island, Haiti.");
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document.write("<B>January 7, 367:</B> Early church father Athanasius, famous for his battles against the Arian heresy, writes a letter containing a list of what he thinks should be considered the canon of Scripture. Over time, his list would be accepted by the church.");  
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document.write("<B>January 7, 1536:</B> Catherine of Aragon, whose divorce from Henry VIII was the catalyst for the English Reformation, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 7, 1844:</B> Bernadette Soubirous, whose visions of Mary led to the establishment of the Shrine of Lourdes, is born.");
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document.write("<B>January 8, 1438:</B> In an attempt to forge an alliance that would save Constantinople from the Turks, the Orthodox and Roman Catholic churches meet at the Council of Ferrara-Florence. A temporary union was reached, but Constantinople fell anyway in 1453, ending the Byzantine Empire.");
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document.write("<B>January 8, 1438:</B> Mathematician, physicist, astronomer, and devout Roman Catholic Galileo Galilei dies in Arcetri, Italy, under house arrest by the Inquisition."); 
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document.write("<B>January 8, 1956:</B> Missionaries Jim Elliot, Nate Saint, Roger Youderian, Ed McCully, and Pete Fleming are killed by Ecuadorean Indians they sought to evangelize. The story of the missionaries and their deaths along the Curaray River was publicized by Elliot's widow, Elizabeth, in Through Gates of Splendor, published the following year.");
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document.write("<B>January 9, 1569:</B> Philip of Moscow, primate of the Russian Orthodox Church, is murdered by Czar Ivan IV, also called Ivan the Terrible.");
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document.write("<B>January 10, 236:</B> Fabian is elected pope. He served until 250, when he became the first martyr under Decius, the emperor who initiated Empire wide persecution of Christians. After Fabian's death, Decius is reported to have said, ‘‘I would far rather receive news of a rival to the throne than of another bishop of Rome’‘.");
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document.write("<B>January 10, 1645:</B> The controversial archbishop of Canterbury and leader of the Church of England, William Laud, is beheaded. An enemy and persecutor of the Puritans and a staunch defender of the ‘‘divine right of kings’‘, he found himself on the wrong side of history when the Puritan revolution began in the 1640s.");
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document.write("<B>January 10, 1739:</B> George Whitefield, the preacher who sparked America's first Great Awakening, is ordained to the Anglican ministry. Whitefield took to open-air preaching after jealous ministers denied him the use of their pulpits, and he was perfectly suited to it—his booming voice, it was reported, could be heard a mile away."); 
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document.write("<B>January 11, 1759:</B> The first American life insurance company is incorporated in Philadelphia—the ‘‘Corporation of Poor and Distressed Presbyterian Ministers and of the Poor and Distressed Widows and Children of Presbyterian Ministers.’‘");
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document.write("<B>January 11, 1875:</B> The ‘‘Scandal of the Century’‘ goes public as journalist Theodore Tilton sues prominent liberal pastor Henry Ward Beecher for alienating his wife's affections (i.e. having an affair with her). The trial, which became a national sensation, finally ended with a hung jury.");
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document.write("<B>January 12, 1167:</B> Aelred, the Anglo-Saxon abbot who became one of the Middle Ages' best-known devotional writers, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 12, 1588:</B> John Winthrop, a lawyer who became the first governor of the Puritans in Massachusetts, is born in Suffolk, England.");
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document.write("<B>January 12, 1167:</B> Aelred, the Anglo-Saxon abbot who became one of the Middle Ages' best-known devotional writers, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 12, 1588:</B> John Winthrop, a lawyer who became the first governor of the Puritans in Massachusetts, is born in Suffolk, England."); 
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document.write("<B>January 13, 367 (traditional date):</B> Hilary of Poitiers, the leading orthodox church father during Arianism's heyday, dies. His writings about the Trinity and his organization of anti-Arian allies were influential in fighting the heresy but did not have their full effect until after his death.");
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1501:</B> Christianity's first vernacular hymnal is printed in Prague, containing 89 hymns in Czech."); 
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1616:</B> Flemish mystic Antoinette Bourignon is born. A mystical writer whose works were included by John Wesley in his Christian Library, she soon found herself estranged from mainstream Christianity, especially when she declared herself the ‘‘woman clothed with the sun’‘ of Revelation 12. Still, her ideas were so influential that, for 178 years, ministers of the Church of Scotland had to make an explicit denial of Bouringnonism before they could be ordained.");
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1635:</B> Philip Jacob Spener, founder of German pietism, is born in Rappolstein. His emphasis on new birth and holy living revitalized the German Lutheran Church and many later movements, including American evangelicalism."); 
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1691:</B> George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers), dies. Fox left the Anglican church to rely on the ‘‘Inner Light of the Living Christ.’‘");
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document.write("<B>January 13, 367 (traditional date):</B> Hilary of Poitiers, the leading orthodox church father during Arianism's heyday, dies. His writings about the Trinity and his organization of anti-Arian allies were influential in fighting the heresy but did not have their full effect until after his death."); 
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1501:</B> Christianity's first vernacular hymnal is printed in Prague, containing 89 hymns in Czech.");
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1616:</B> Flemish mystic Antoinette Bourignon is born. A mystical writer whose works were included by John Wesley in his Christian Library, she soon found herself estranged from mainstream Christianity, especially when she declared herself the ‘‘woman clothed with the sun’‘ of Revelation 12. Still, her ideas were so influential that, for 178 years, ministers of the Church of Scotland had to make an explicit denial of Bouringnonism before they could be ordained.");
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1635:</B> Philip Jacob Spener, founder of German pietism, is born in Rappolstein. His emphasis on new birth and holy living revitalized the German Lutheran Church and many later movements, including American evangelicalism."); 
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document.write("<B>January 13, 1691:</B> George Fox, founder of the Society of Friends (Quakers), dies. Fox left the Anglican church to rely on the ‘‘Inner Light of the Living Christ.’‘");
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document.write("<B>January 14, 1529:</B> Spanish diplomat and writer Juan de Valdes publishes his ‘‘Dialogue on Christian Doctrine,’‘ which paved the way for Protestant ideas in Spain.");
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document.write("<B>January 14, 1875:</B> Theologian, medical missionary, organist, musical historian, and winner of the 1952 Nobel Peace Prize Albert Schweitzer is born. His Quest of the Historical Jesus (1906) is considered a foundational work on that subject.");
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document.write("<B>January 14, 1892:</B> Lutheran pastor and political activist Martin Niemoller, who was imprisoned by Hitler for his leadership role in the Confessing Church, is born.");
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document.write("<B>January 15, 345 (traditional date):</B> Paul of Thebes, traditionally considered the first Christian hermit and an inspiration for Antony of Egypt and later Christian monasticism, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 15, 1535:</B> Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church.");
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document.write("<B>January 15, 1697:</B> Massachusetts citizens observe a day of fasting and repentance for the Salem witch trials of 1692, in which 19 suspected witches were hanged and more than 150 imprisoned. The day was declared ‘‘That so all of God's people may offer up fervent supplications unto him, that all iniquity may be put away, which hath stirred God's holy jealousy against this land; that he would show us what we know not, and help us, wherein we have done amiss, to do so no more’‘.");
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document.write("<B>January 15, 1844:</B> The University of Notre Dame, America's premiere Roman Catholic institution of higher learning, is chartered in South Bend, Indiana.");
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document.write("<B>January 15, 1929:</B> Baptist minister Martin Luther King, Jr., America's most visible civil rights leader from 1955 until his assassination in 1968, is born in Atlanta.");
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document.write("<B>January 15, 345:</B> Paul of Thebes, traditionally considered the first Christian hermit and an inspiration for Antony of Egypt and later Christian monasticism, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 16, 1543:</B> British Parliament prohibits any ‘‘women or artificer's prentices, journeymen, servingmen of the degree of yeoman, or under, husbandmen or labourers to read the New Testament in English.’‘");
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document.write("<B>January 16, 1545:</B> George Spalatin, Martin Luther's close friend and go-between with Frederick The Wise, is born.");
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document.write("<B>January 16, 1604:</B> Puritan John Rainolds suggests ‘‘ . . . that there might bee a newe translation of the Bible, as consonant as can be to the original Hebrew and Greek.’‘ England's King James I granted his approval the following day, leading to the 1611 publication of the Authorized (King James) version of the Bible.");
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document.write("<B>January 16, 1890:</B> Moody Bible Institute in Chicago is dedicated, 17 years after evangelist D.L. Moody and college administrator Emma Dryer first discussed the idea.");
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document.write("<B>January 16, 1920:</B> Largely the result of Christian activists, the Eighteenth Amendment to the U.S. Constitution goes into effect, prohibiting the sale of alcohol. Thirteen years later, Congress repeals the prohibition.");
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document.write("<B>January 17, 356 (traditional date):</B> Antony of Egypt, regarded as the founder of Christian monasticism, dies at age 105. Committed to a life of solitude and absolute poverty, he took two companions with him into the desert when he knew his death was near. They were ordered to bury him without a marker so that his body would never become an object of reverence.");
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document.write("<B>January 17, 1377:</B> Gregory XI moves the papal see from Avignon (where it had been for 72 years) back to Rome. However, when he died the next year, two men (one in Rome, the other in Avignon) both claimed to succeed him, creating ‘‘The Great Schism.’‘ (The break between eastern and western churches in 1054 is also called ‘‘The Great Schism.’‘)");
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document.write("<B>January 17, 1525:</B> The Zurich City Council arranges a public debate on the subject of infant baptism, which Ulrich Zwingli mandated but Conrad Grebel and Felix Manz (among others) opposed on the grounds that baptism symbolizes a believer's commitment to Christ. Grebel and Manz were defeated and eventually killed for their views.");
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document.write("<B>January 18, 1562:</B> The counter-reformation Council of Trent reconvenes after a 10-year break caused by the revolt of Protestant princes against Emperor Charles V. During the break, all hope of reconciliation between Catholics and Protestants had vanished.");
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document.write("<B>January 18, 1815:</B> Konstantin von Tischendorf, the biblical critic known for discovering and deciphering the ‘‘Codex Sinaiticus’‘ (a fifth-century manuscript of Paul's epistles), is born in Germany.");
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document.write("<B>January 18, 1830:</B> Baptism of Tauta'ahau Tupou. King of Tonga by a western missionary. Beginning of a strongly missionary Christian Kingdom.");
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document.write("<B>January 19, 1086:</B> Canute the Great, the king of Denmark, is killed by his subjects. Though Denmark was already nominally Christian when he became king, he went to great lengths to revitalize the faith. He built and restored churches and monasteries and created laws protecting the clergy. But his ‘‘new order,’‘ which included higher taxes and mandatory tithes, led to a revolt. Canute was reportedly killed in church while celebrating Mass, and he was declared a martyr and saint in 1101.");
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document.write("<B>January 19, 1563:</B> The Heidelberg Catechism, soon accepted by nearly all European Reformed churchess, is first published in Germany.");
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document.write("<B>January 19, 1649:</B> England's King Charles I, a devout Anglican with Catholic sympathies who staunchly defended the ‘‘divine right of kings’‘ while oppressing the Puritans, is executed after being convicted of treason under a Puritan-influenced Parliament.");
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document.write("<B>January 20, 1541:</B> A town meeting in Geneva ratifies John Calvin's plan to set up a church court that would meet weekly to judge offenders and maintain discipline.");
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document.write("<B>January 20, 1569:</B> Miles Coverdale, publisher of the first printed English Bible and the man who completed William Tyndale's translation of the Old Testament, dies at 81.");
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document.write("<B>January 20, 1918:</B> Following the Bolshevik Revolution, all church property in Russia is confiscated and all religious instruction in schools abolished.");
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document.write("<B>January 21, 1525:</B> Conrad Grebel (Ulrich Zwingli's former protege) rebaptizes George Blaurock, a former monk, in a secret, illegal meeting of six men in Zurich. This meeting is now considered the birth of the Anabaptist movement.");
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document.write("<B>January 21, 1549:</B> In the first of four Acts of Uniformity, the British Parliament requires all Anglican public services to exclusively use of The Book of Common Prayer.");
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document.write("<B>January 21, 1621:</B> Piligrims leave the Mayflower and gather on shore at Plymouth, Massachusetts, for their first religious service in America.");
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document.write("<B>January 22, 304 (traditional date):</B> Vincent of Saragossa, one of the most famous martyrs of the early church, is killed. Starved, racked, roasted on a gridiron, thrown into prison, and set in stocks, he refused to sacrifice. According toAugustine, his fame extended everywhere in the Roman Empire and ‘‘wherever the name of Christ was known’‘.");
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document.write("<B>January 22, 1899:</B> Pope Leo XIII warns James Cardinal Gibbons, senior hierarch of the Catholic church in America, against the ‘‘phantom heresy’‘ of Americanism—the attempt to adapt the traditional doctrines and practices of the church to a more independent modern world.");
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document.write("<B>January 22, 1973:</B> The United States Supreme court legalizes abortion in its Roe v. Wade decision.");
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document.write("<B>January 23, 1786:</B> John Carroll, who would become America's first Roman Catholic bishop, founds the Catholic academy that is now Georgetown University.");
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document.write("<B>January 23, 1893:</B> Episcopal minister Phillips Brooks, bishop of Massachusetts, staunch abolitionist, substitute evangelist for D.L. Moody, and author of ‘‘O Little Town of Bethlehem,’‘ dies. He was considered the most ‘‘considerable American preacher of his generation.’‘");
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document.write("<B>January 24, 1076:</B> Germany's Henry IV convenes the Synod of Worms to secure the deposition of Pope Gregory VII. The Synod charged the pope with serious crimes, called upon Rome to depose him, and issued other anti-papal statements. The pope quickly excommunicated Henry. One year later, Henry traveled to Canossa, Italy, and stood three days in the snow in an attempt to gain Gregory's forgiveness. Gregory granted it, but the two men soon fought again; Henry set up an antipope in Gregory's place.");
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document.write("<B>January 24, 1573:</B> English poet and preacher John Donne, dean of St. Paul's Cathedral in London, is born. One of the most prominent preachers of his day and one of the greatest English poets, he is known for such famous lines as ‘‘No man is an island,’‘ ‘‘For whom does the bell toll? It tolls for thee,’‘ and ‘‘Death be not proud.");
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document.write("<B>January 25, 98:</B> Upon the sudden death of Emperor Nerva, Trajan takes the throne. In 110, he asked Pliny the Younger to investigate a new superstition, ‘‘Christianity.’‘ Pliny's report of a relatively harmless though widespread cult led to moderate persecution—and the first recognition that Christians were distinct from Jews."); 
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document.write("<B>January 25, 1527:</B> Early Anabaptist leader Felix Manz, one of the first to be rebaptized, is executed by drowning by Zurich authorities. He was the first Anabaptist among many to be martyred, and the first Protestant to be martyred by Protestants.");
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document.write("<B>January 25, 1841:</B> Anglican clergyman John Henry Newman publishes Tract 90 (in a series begun in 1833), an argument for a catholic interpretation of the Thirty-nine Articles. It was the pinnacle of the Oxford Movement, but the last straw for the bishop of Oxford and others. Newman was forced to resign his parish, and he converted to Roman Catholicism four years later.");
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document.write("<B>January 25, 1907:</B> Social reformer and author Julia Ward Howe, composer of the ‘‘Battle Hymn of the Republic,’‘ becomes the first woman elected to the National Institute of Arts & Letters.");
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document.write("<B>January 25, 1959:</B> Ninety days after his election to the papacy, Pope John XXIII announces his intention to hold an ecumenical church council. The Second Vatican Council opened October 11, 1962, and was the Catholic church's most searching self-examination ever.");
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document.write("<B>January 25, 1627:</B> Noted physicist and chemist Robert Boyle is born in Ireland. After a lifetime of writing about science, religion, and harmony between the two, he underwrote an annual eight-lecture series defending Christianity against unbelievers."); 
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document.write("<B>January 26, 1564:</B> Pope Pius IV accepts and confirms the decrees of the Council of Trent by the bull Benedictus Deus. The product of the Counter Reformation, it improved church organization, strengthened the papacy, and blocked any reconciliation with Protestants."); 
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document.write("<B>January 26, 1859:</B> Millionaire inventor of the reaper, Cyrus McCormick, marries Nettie Fowler, a devoted Christian. Following Cyrus's death in 1884, Nettie used her enormous wealth to establish Chicago's McCormick Theological Seminary and to support the work of D.L. Moody, John R. Mott, and countless missionaries to Asia.");
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document.write("<B>January 26, 1906:</B> The Church of God (Cleveland, Tennessee), the oldest Pentecostal denomination, convenes its first General Assembly."); 
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document.write("<B>January 27, 398:</B> John Chrysostom, the greatest preacher of his age, is consecrated bishop of Constantinople.");
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document.write("<B>January 27, 417:</B> Pelagius, a British monk, is excommunicated for heresy. He denied original sin and claimed that men could become righteous by the exercise of free will.");
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document.write("<B>January 27, 1302:</B> On a trumped-up charge of hostility to the church and corrupt practices, Dante Alighieri is fined heavily and perpetually excluded from political office (he was a chief magistrate). Further condemned in March and driven out of Florence in April, Dante began writing The Divine Comedy, an epic poem in which he travels through hell, purgatory, and heaven.");
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document.write("<B>January 28, 814:</B> Charlemagne, the first Holy Roman Emperor, dies. He was, in his day, not only one of the greatest political rulers of all time, he was, in his day, more influential in church matters than the pope. He saw his task as secular ruler ‘‘to defend with our arms the holy Church of Christ against attacks by the heathen from any side and against devastation by the infidels.");
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document.write("<B>January 28, 1547:</B> England's Henry VIII, who split the church of England from Rome and presided over the founding of the Anglican church, dies.");
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document.write("<B>January 28, 1769:</B> Thomas Middleton, first Anglican bishop of Calcutta, is born in England. While he oversaw a vast diocese covering all the territories of the East India Company, the church made some great advances, including the establishment of Bishop's College in Calcutta(a training college for missionaries in Asia).");
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document.write("<B>January 29, 993:</B> Ulric (890-973), bishop ofAugsburg from 923, is formally canonized by Pope John XV, the first recorded canonization by a pope.");
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document.write("<B>January 29, 1499:</B> Katherine von Bora, a German nun who married Martin Luther in 1525, is born. At their wedding, she was 26 and he was 41."); 
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document.write("<B>January 29, 1523:</B> Before an audience of more than 600 people gathered at the first Zurich Disputation, Swiss reformer Ulrich Zwingli successfully defends his 67 theses. He appealed only to Scripture and rejected the authority of the pope, the sacrifice of the Mass, the invocation of saints, times and seasons of fasting, and clerical celibacy. But the city council nevertheless declared ‘‘that Master Ulrich Zwingli (may) continue to preach the Holy Gospel and the true divine Scripture as he has done until now for as long a time and to such an extent until he be instructed differently’‘.");
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document.write("<B>January 29, 1535:</B> The French royal family, church officials, and many other dignitaries join in an immense torch-lit procession from the Louvre to Notre Dame—an attempt to purge Paris from the defilement caused by overzealous Protestants and their placards (a man named Feret had nailed one of the most inflammatory placards to the king's bedroom door months before). The day ended with six Protestants being hung from ropes and roasted."); 
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document.write("<B>January 30, 1536:</B> Catholic priest Menno Simons leaves the Roman Catholic church over his doubts about transubstantiation and converts to the Anabaptist movement, which he would soon lead.");
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document.write("<B>January 30, 1877:</B> Responding to Henry Stanley's plea for ‘‘some pious, practical missionary’‘ to follow up David Livingstone's missionary foray into Uganda, three members of Alexander Mackay's Church Missionary Society team arrive at King Mutesa's court. Though missions saw few immediate results, the Ugandan church quickly strengthened and grew after the missionaries' deaths.");
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document.write("<B>January 30, 1912:</B> Evangelical missionary, philosopher, author, and lecturer Francis Schaeffer is born in Philadelphia. A leading figure in the resurgence of evangelicalism during the 1960s and 1970s, he blamed the rise of relativism for the decline of Western culture.");
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document.write("<B>January 31, 1561:</B> Anabaptist leader Menno Simons, for whom Mennonites are named, dies in Wustenfeld, Germany."); 
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document.write("<B>January 31, 1686:</B> King Louis XIV of France, having already revoked the Protestant-tolerating Edict of Nantes, orders all Waldensian churches burned. The Waldensians, members of a pre-Reformation tradition that stressed love of Christ and his word and a life of poverty, were soon devastated: 2,000 killed, 2,000 ‘‘converted’‘ to Catholicism, and 8,000 imprisoned."); 
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document.write("<B>January 31, 1737:</B> Jacob Duche, Episcopal clergyman and chaplain to the Continental Congress, is born in Philadelphia. He later had a change of heart about the war and asked George Washington to have Congress recall the Declaration of Independence. ");
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document.write("<B>January 31, 1892:</B> Baptist preacher Charles Haddon Spurgeon, one of the greatest public speakers of his day, dies at Mentone, France."); 
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