Today in HisStory
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 13
Ruderic and Salomon are executed in Cordoba on the charge of apostatizing from Islam. (857 AD) German king Koenraad II von Hohenstaufen was crowned. (1138) Hernán Cortés landed in Mexico. (1519) Cambridge College was renamed Harvard for clergyman John Harvard. … Continue reading →
Today in HisStory – February 28
Coronation ceremony of Liu Bang as Emperor Gaozu of Han took place. This initiated four centuries of the Han Dynasty’s rule over China. (203 BC) George Wishart, a Scottish reformer, was arrested by Roman Catholic authorities, and would be burned … Continue reading →
Posted in 02 February, AD 1546, AD 1638, AD 1646, AD 1704, AD 1708, AD 1736, AD 1751, AD 1759, AD 1763, AD 1778, AD 1784, AD 1827, AD 1847, AD 1854, AD 1859, AD 1861, AD 1879, AD 1915, AD 1939, AD 1944, AD 1947, AD 1953, AD 1958, AD 1961, AD 1972, AD 1983, AD 1991, AD 1993, AD 1997, AD 2007, AD 2013, AD 2018, BC 0203, 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 – January 31
Athanasius returned to Alexandria where he spent the last seven years of his life after having been exiled five times for his faith. (366 AD) Guy Fawkes, a chief conspirator in the plot to blow up the British Parliament building, … Continue reading →
Today in HisStory – January 20
Fabian, Bishop of Rome for fourteen years, was the first martyr by Emperor Decius who determined to smash Christianity. Almost 2,000 years later, Christianity is still strong. (250 AD) Bishop Simeon of Beth Ashram, from Arabia, traveled from the Lakhmid … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 0250, AD 0524, AD 1265, AD 1569, AD 1669, AD 1788, AD 1801, AD 1813, AD 1841, AD 1869, AD 1870, AD 1887, AD 1903, AD 1908, AD 1918, AD 1920, AD 1921, AD 1929, AD 1930, AD 1935, AD 1937, AD 1942, AD 1943, AD 1944, AD 1945, AD 1949, AD 1952, AD 1953, AD 1954, AD 1961, AD 1971, AD 1980, AD 1981, AD 1989, AD 1993, AD 2009, AD 2017, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 18
Nika uprising against Emperor Justinian in Constantinople failed. 30,000 were killed by troops loyal to the Emperor. (532 AD) The Zurich Council mandated that all infants must be baptized within eight days. Persecution of Anabaptists who believed in adult baptism … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 0532, AD 1525, AD 1591, AD 1644, AD 1671, AD 1678, AD 1776, AD 1777, AD 1778, AD 1779, AD 1788, AD 1809, AD 1817, AD 1846, AD 1862, AD 1891, AD 1903, AD 1911, AD 1915, AD 1916, AD 1917, AD 1919, AD 1920, AD 1930, AD 1936, AD 1943, AD 1944, AD 1951, AD 1962, AD 1964, AD 1969, AD 1977, AD 1993, AD 2018, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 5
Anabaptist reformer Felix Manz was drowned in punishment for preaching adult baptism. This was the first Protestant in history to be martyred at the hands of other Protestants. (1527) The first legal divorce in the American colonies was when Anne … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 1527, AD 1643, AD 1709, AD 1743, AD 1776, AD 1781, AD 1825, AD 1836, AD 1846, AD 1859, AD 1861, AD 1875, AD 1886, AD 1895, AD 1904, AD 1919, AD 1921, AD 1922, AD 1930, AD 1933, AD 1939, AD 1940, AD 1943, AD 1945, AD 1949, AD 1959, AD 1968, AD 1971, AD 1972, AD 1993, AD 1998, AD 2005, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – January 3
Joan of Arc was handed over to Bishop Pierre Cauchon. (1431) Leonardo da Vinci unsuccessfully tested a flying machine. (1496) Martin Luther was excommunicated from the Catholic Church. (1521) Shogunate warriors defeated Christian and peasant rebels who retreated to Shimabara where … Continue reading →
Posted in 01 January, AD 1431, AD 1496, AD 1521, AD 1638, AD 1653, AD 1749, AD 1777, AD 1823, AD 1825, AD 1831, AD 1834, AD 1840, AD 1842, AD 1853, AD 1861, AD 1870, AD 1872, AD 1888, AD 1889, AD 1892, AD 1899, AD 1912, AD 1925, AD 1930, AD 1934, AD 1938, AD 1944, AD 1946, AD 1959, AD 1961, AD 1963, AD 1977, AD 1988, AD 1990, AD 1993, AD 1999, Date, Year
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Today in HisStory – December 30
John Wycliffe, Bible scholar and translator, died. (1384) Wearing masks at balls was forbidden in Boston. (1809) Abraham Mills’ commission declared Abner Doubleday invented baseball. (1853) A dinner party was held inside a life-size model of an Iguanodon, ornithopod dinosaur, … Continue reading →