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Today is Wednesday, December 11, 2024; it is now 10:02 (UTC)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 1

January 1:

• 630 - Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 2

January 2:

• 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 3

January 3:

• 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 4

January 4:

• 1999 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 5

January 5:

• 1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 6

January 6:

• 1494 - First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 7

January 7:

• 1566 - Pius V becomes Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 8

January 8:

• 1198 - Innocent III becomes Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 9

January 9:

• 1349 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 10

January 10:

• 236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 11

January 11:

• 314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 12

January 12:

• 1838 - In order to avoid prosecution under laws banning polygamy, Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers leave Ohio for Missouri.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 13

January 13:

• 1938 - Church of England accepts theory of evolution.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 14

January 14:

• 1501 - Martin Luther, 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
• 1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 15

January 15:

• 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 16

January 16:

• 929 - Emir Abd-ar-rahman III of Cordoba declares himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Cordoba.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 17

January 17:

• 1504 - Pope Pius V born. (d. 1572)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 18

January 18:

• 336 - Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 19

January 19:

• Baháʼí Faith: Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) — First day of the 17th month of the Baháʼí calendar.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 20

January 20:

• 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred. Afterwards the Donatist controversy over readmitting lapsed Christians disaffects many in North Africa.
• 2007 – Islamic New Year.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 21

January 21:

• 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 22

January 22:

• 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
• 2008 - Tu Bishvat (Judaism)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 23

January 23:

• 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 24

January 24:

• 1438 - The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 25

January 25:

• 844 - Pope Gregory IV dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 26

January 26:

• 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 27

January 27:

• 672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 28

January 28:

• 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 29

January 29:

• 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
• 2007 - Day of Ashura (Islam, est.)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 30

January 30:

• 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/January 31

January 31:

• 1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader, born. (d. 1588)
• 1969 - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader, dies on this day at the age of 74. His followers observe Amartithi on this date in commemoration.