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History is really His Story. God is at work throughout history. This today in history site is compiled by Tamera Lynn Kraft. It isn't complete but highlights interesting events in history from a Christian perspective.Date in History
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Today in HisStory – March 5
Christian witness Adrianus was thrown to a lion in Palestine then slain with the sword. (310 AD) Roman Emperor Julian moved from Antioch with an army of 90,000 to attack the Sassanid Empire in a campaign which would bring about … Continue reading →
Posted in 03 March, AD 0310, AD 0363, AD 1496, AD 1558, AD 1616, AD 1623, AD 1643, AD 1766, AD 1770, AD 1776, AD 1797, AD 1815, AD 1821, AD 1834, AD 1836, AD 1841, AD 1858, AD 1864, AD 1872, AD 1904, AD 1933, AD 1934, AD 1946, AD 1953, AD 1960, AD 1963, AD 1977, AD 1995, AD 2018, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory March 3
Congress established the US Mint. (1791) First US internal revenue act was enacted. It taxed distilled spirits and carriages. (1791) Richard Allen founded the African Methodist Episcopal Church. (1794) First impeachment trial of a US federal judge, John Pickering, began. … Continue reading →
Posted in 03 March, AD 1791, AD 1794, AD 1803, AD 1805, AD 1812, AD 1813, AD 1815, AD 1817, AD 1820, AD 1829, AD 1837, AD 1842, AD 1845, AD 1847, AD 1849, AD 1853, AD 1855, AD 1861, AD 1862, AD 1863, AD 1865, AD 1871, AD 1873, AD 1879, AD 1885, AD 1887, AD 1891, AD 1899, AD 1900, AD 1903, AD 1904, AD 1910, AD 1921, AD 1923, AD 1931, AD 1933, AD 1939, AD 1943, AD 1959, AD 1972, AD 1991, AD 2013, AD 2017, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – February 26
Robert Drury, a Catholic priest, was hanged, drawn, and quartered in England for refusing to condemn his faith. (1607) Spanish Inquisition delivered an injunction to Galileo demanding he give up his belief in heliocentrism. (1616) Author Victor Hugo was born. … Continue reading →
Today in HisStory – February 17
Holy Roman Emperor Maximilian II agreed to pay tribute to the Ottoman Empire for peace. (1568) Giordano Bruno became the last heretic to be burned at the stake by the Roman Inquisition. (1591) Myles Standish was elected as the first … Continue reading →
Posted in 02 February, AD 1568, AD 1591, AD 1621, AD 1688, AD 1801, AD 1815, AD 1821, AD 1828, AD 1858, AD 1865, AD 1870, AD 1876, AD 1878, AD 1880, AD 1889, AD 1897, AD 1898, AD 1904, AD 1909, AD 1926, AD 1933, AD 1936, AD 1947, AD 1969, AD 1972, AD 1989, AD 2001, AD 2008, AD 2017, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – February 6
The first Spanish Inquisition was held when six men and six women, who refused to repent of alleged backsliding, were burned at the stake. (1481) Maximilian I was proclaimed Holy Roman Emperor. He was first Emperor in centuries not to … Continue reading →
Posted in 02 February, AD 1481, AD 1508, AD 1564, AD 1756, AD 1778, AD 1788, AD 1812, AD 1815, AD 1819, AD 1833, AD 1843, AD 1857, AD 1862, AD 1865, AD 1870, AD 1891, AD 1899, AD 1911, AD 1918, AD 1924, AD 1928, AD 1933, AD 1935, AD 1937, AD 1943, AD 1948, AD 1951, AD 1952, AD 1956, AD 1974, AD 1985, AD 1987, AD 1989, AD 2012, AD 2017, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – February 3
Anskar, an early English or Irish missionary who had tried repeatedly to evangelize Scandinavia, died. (865 AD) Mongols surrounded the city of Vladimir, whose citizens, including Orthodox Christians, vowed to resist to the last man to defend God’s churches. (1238) … Continue reading →
Posted in 02 February, AD 0865, AD 1238, AD 1377, AD 1451, AD 1468, AD 1480, AD 1509, AD 1690, AD 1738, AD 1743, AD 1783, AD 1788, AD 1809, AD 1815, AD 1836, AD 1855, AD 1863, AD 1864, AD 1870, AD 1882, AD 1889, AD 1913, AD 1917, AD 1930, AD 1931, AD 1933, AD 1941, AD 1943, AD 1944, AD 1945, AD 1947, AD 1950, AD 1959, AD 1962, AD 1966, AD 1998, AD 2005, AD 2018, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 30
Bathilde died. She was a Christian slave who rose to become queen and regent of France and worked to end slavery in France. (680 AD) Jews at Freilsburg, Germany were massacred. (1349) Gunther of Schwarzburg was chosen at the German … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 0680, AD 1349, AD 1487, AD 1607, AD 1647, AD 1649, AD 1661, AD 1750, AD 1781, AD 1790, AD 1806, AD 1815, AD 1825, AD 1835, AD 1873, AD 1888, AD 1913, AD 1933, AD 1934, AD 1937, AD 1939, AD 1945, AD 1948, AD 1956, AD 1963, AD 1965, AD 1966, AD 1969, AD 1972, AD 1973, AD 1977, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 15
Nebuchadnezzar II of Babylon laid siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah’s reign, (588 BC) Paul of Thebes died at age of 113. He had been one of the earliest Christian hermits and friend of Antony of the Desert, and inspired many … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 0341, AD 1535, AD 1549, AD 1557, AD 1559, AD 1697, AD 1702, AD 1777, AD 1780, AD 1782, AD 1785, AD 1797, AD 1815, AD 1831, AD 1844, AD 1852, AD 1861, AD 1870, AD 1889, AD 1895, AD 1904, AD 1910, AD 1915, AD 1919, AD 1929, AD 1934, AD 1936, AD 1943, AD 1944, AD 1945, AD 1955, AD 1961, AD 1962, AD 1970, AD 1973, AD 2001, AD 2015, BC 0588, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 8
Severinus, missionary to Austria, died (482 AD) Explorer Marco Polo died. (1324) In the bull Romanus Pontifex, Pope Nicholas V transferred Africa’s harbors, rivers, islands, and seas to Portugal’s rulers and granted Portugal the authority to sell infidels into slavery. (1455) … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 0482, AD 1324, AD 1455, AD 1539, AD 1642, AD 1656, AD 1672, AD 1708, AD 1790, AD 1800, AD 1806, AD 1815, AD 1825, AD 1835, AD 1867, AD 1877, AD 1894, AD 1912, AD 1916, AD 1918, AD 1925, AD 1926, AD 1935, AD 1945, AD 1946, AD 1956, AD 1969, AD 1975, AD 1996, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – December 23
In the Byzantine-Arab Wars, Byzantine troops stormed city of Aleppo and recovered the tattered tunic of John the Baptist. (962 AD) Philip of Moscow, leader of the Russian Church, was martyred for speaking out against Ivan the Terrible’s mass executions. … Continue reading →
Posted in 12 - December, AD 0962, AD 1569, AD 1648, AD 1652, AD 1688, AD 1690, AD 1776, AD 1779, AD 1783, AD 1788, AD 1790, AD 1815, AD 1823, AD 1862, AD 1873, AD 1888, AD 1907, AD 1912, AD 1919, AD 1920, AD 1922, AD 1925, AD 1930, AD 1944, AD 1948, AD 1951, AD 1954, AD 1968, AD 1996, AD 1997, AD 2002, Date, Year
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