1995 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician
1995 Howard Hunter, U.S. leader of Mormon Church (1994-95), dies at 87
1995 S van der Linde, church historian, dies at 89
1994 Panic in church of Brazzaville: 142 killed
1994 Ezra Taft Benson, 13th head of Mormon Church, dies at 94
1994 D Nauta, theologist/church historian/lawyer, dies at 96
1994 President guard at Kigali Rwanda, chops 1,200 church members to death
1994 Church in Piedmont Alabama collapses in tornado, 19 killed
1994 Church of England ordains 1st 33 women priests
1994 Maronite church near Beirut bombed, 10 killed
1992 Anglican Church and Church of England OK female priests
1992 Roman Catholic church reinstates Galileo Galilei after 359 years
1992 Flora SA Benson, U.S., wife of President Ezra Taft B of mormon church, dies
1991 Irene the Icon of Greek Orthodox church returns after being stolen
1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 Lesbian priest Elizabeth Carl is ordained in Episcopal Church
1991 J de Graaf, ethicus/president church and peace, dies
1991 Alfaro Vive guerrilla group of Ecuador gives arms to Catholic church
1990 Soldiers opens fire on worshippers in Monrovian church, 200-600 die
1990 Pimen, [Sergei Irzyekov], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 79
1989 Barbara Harris becomes 1st female bishop of a U.S. Episcopal church
1989 Episcopal church appoints 1st female bishop
1988 Russian orthodox church celebrates 1,000th anniversary
1987 Shoot out at Jean-Bertrand Aristides' church in Haiti, 12 die
1987 Anglican Church envoy Terry Waite taken hostage in Beirut, Lebanon
1986 Charlotte Church, Welsh Musician
1986 L Ron Hubbard, novelist/founder (Church of Scientology), dies at 74
1985 Spencer W. Kimball, U.S. head of mormon church, dies at 90
1984 Frank Church, (Sen-D-Ohio, 1957-81), dies at 59
1983 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1982 6,000 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1982 2,100 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1982 Over 2000 Unification Church couples marry at New York MSG
1982 Unification Church founder Rev Sun Myung Moon convicted of tax evasion
1981 39 Unification church couples wed in Germany
1978 Joseph Freeman, Jr. is 1st black priest in Church Of Jesus Christ of Latter-Day Saints
1978 Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints (Mormons) strikes down 148 year policy of excluding black men from priesthood
1978 118 Unification church couples wed in England
1978 16 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1977 74 Unification Church couples wed in New York City
1976 35 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1976 Rev Joseph Evans elected president of United Church of Christ
1976 Episcopal Church approves ordination of women as priests and bishop
1975 1800 Unification church couples' wed in Korea
1974 Episcopal Church ordained female priests
1974 Alberta King, mother of Martin Luther King Jr, assassinated in church
1974 Johnie Church, NFL defensive end for the Seattle Seahawks
1973 Harold B Lee, U.S. head of Mormon Church, dies at 74
1973 Patriarch Shenuda II of Kopitisch church visits the pope
1970 777 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1970 Sergei U S Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-Orthodox church, dies at 92
1970 Revised calendar for Western (RC) Church goes into effect
1969 43 Unification church couples wed in New York City
1968 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 65
1968 Franklin C Fry, U.S. minister (World Rad of Church), dies
1968 University church in Leipzig German DR, blown up
1968 United Methodist Church forms
1968 Diocese of Rome announces that it "deplored the concept," but wouldn't prohibit rock and roll masses at Church of San Lessio Falconieri
1968 430 Unification Church couples wed in Korea
1966 Methodist Church and Evangelical United Brethren Church unite as United Methodist Church
1966 1st official meeting after 400 years of Catholic and Anglican Church
1964 Roman Catholic Church in U.S. replaces Latin with English
1964 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, dies at 80
1963 4 children killed in bombing of a black Baptist church in Birmingham
1963 124 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1963 Cardinal Montini elected Pope Paul VI, 262nd head of RC Church
1963 John F. Kennedy speaks at Pauls Church in Frankfurt
1962 Black church is destroyed by fire in Macon Georgia
1962 Shady Grove Baptist Church burned in Leesburg Georgia
1961 36 Unification church couples wed in Korea
1959 Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
1958 Dutch Reformed Church accepts women ministers
1958 John Lindeboom, Dutch vicar/church historian, dies at 75
1956 Martin Albertz, German theologist (Jesus Christ's Church), dies at 73
1956 John Lennon (15) and Paul McCartney (13) meet for 1st time as Lennon's rock group Quarrymen perform at a church dinner
1956 U.S. Methodist church disallows race separation
1955 Dutch Reformed Church condemns woman/wife as vicar
1955 Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1955 Argentine parliament accepts separation of church and state
1954 Mary Church Terrell, educator/civil rights leader, dies at 90
1954 Aart A van Schelven, church historian (Willem of Orange), dies at 73
1954 HSA-UWC Forms (Unification Church) (Moonies)
1954 Rick Warren, San Jose, California, Pastor of Saddleback Church in Southern California
1952 Catholic church puts Andre Gides "Labor" on the index
1952 Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1 centuries
1951 Dutch Reformed Church introduces new church choir
1950 National Council of Church of Christ in U.S. forms
1950 Polish Catholic church and government sign accord over relations
1950 John Hartman, born in Falls Church, Virginia, rock drummer, Doobie Brothers
1948 500th anniversary Russian orthodox church celebrated in Moscow
1945 Pope Pius XII encyclical Orientals omnes, about Rutheense church
1945 Johan Eykman, theologist (World Church), dies at 52
1944 Earl Claus von Stauffenberg visits RC church in Berlin-Dahlem
1943 Belgian church excommunicates nazi Leon Degrelle
1942 Meulenberg robs of church bells
1942 Hans Lietzman, German theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1941 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian, dies at 79
1941 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian, murdered at 67
1940 German Evangelist Church protests against euthanasia pogroms
1940 Goering says 100-200 church bells enough for Germany, smelt the rest
1940 German U-Boot torpedoes Dutch trade ship Arendskerk (Eagle's Church)
1939 Terry Waite, Anglican Church envoy/Lebanese hostage
1939 Catholic church beatified the 1st Native American, Kateri Tekakwitha
1936 Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1935 Ruth Clarke, Moderator, General Assembly of the United Reform Church
1933 Pope Pius XI encyclical "On oppression of the Church in Spain"
1933 Margaret Laird, Commissioner, Third Church Estates
1932 Donald Hilton, Moderator, General Assembly of United Reformed Church
1932 British Anglicans and Old-Catholic church merge
1931 Spanish Cortes agrees to separation of Church and State
1931 James Weatherhead, moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland
1930 Ellen Church becomes 1st airline stewardess, United (San Francisco to Cheyenne)
1929 Arthur H Mann, English composer (Church of England Hymnal), dies
1929 Peter Bingham Hinchcliff, British church historian, 1 Sided Reciprocity
1928 Turkey passes separation of church and state
1926 Pope Pius XI encyclical On persecution of Church in Mexico
1926 Frederik Pijper, Dut vicar/church historian (Monasteries), dies at 67
1924 Frank Church, Sen-D-Id, 1957-81
1924 Lionel Dakers, director, Royal School of Church Music
1922 John Heerbecq, Church commissioner
1920 Church disforms in Wales
1920 James Whyte, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland
1918 Separation of church and state begins in U.S.S.R.
1914 Hendrik Berkhof, Dutch theologist, Church and Emperor
1914 Roger Aubert, Belgium, church historian, Le Pontificat de Pie IX
1913 Ronald Harris, British 1st Church Estates Commissioner
1911 J de Graaf, Dutch ethicist/president, Church and Peace
1910 Pope's encyclical on Editae Saepe, against church reformers
1909 Andrew Herron, Moderator, General Assembly of Church of Scotland
1907 Howard William Hunter, Mormon Church Leader
1907 Helmut Walcha, German organist, church music
1906 Joseph Smith, leader of the Mormon Church, convicted of polygamy
1906 Calvinist Reformed Union in Netherlands Church forms in Utrecht
1906 Dietrich Bonhoeffer, German theologist, Confessing Church
1906 Pope encyclical against separation of church and state
1905 French Assembly National votes for separation of church and state
1903 Willem Kooiman, Dutch theologist/church historian
1903 Alonzo Church, American Mathematician
1902 Pope Leo XIII encyclical "On Church in US"
1899 Hanns Lilje, German Lutherian bishop/antifascist, Church und Welt
1896 John GR Acquoy, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1896 Hendrik G Kleyn, church historian dies at 36
1896 Jan N Bakhuizen van den Brink, theologist/church historian
1895 Spencer W. Kimball, 12th prophet of Mormon church
1890 Negro Methodist Episcopal Church founded in Jackson, TN
1890 Mormon Church outlaws polygamy
1890 President of Mormon Church in Salt Lake City issues a manifesto advising members that teaching and practice of polygamy should be abandoned
1890 Mormon Church renounces polygamy [1006-Truth Restored (Morman pub)]
1889 Joan Collette, Dutch, male, painter, New Church, Delft
1886 Rift at Dutch Reformed Church over "Doleantie"
1885 Berthold Altaner, German church historian, Patrologie
1883 Martin Albertz, German theologist, Church Jesus Christ
1882 Johannes Lindeboom, vicar/church historian, Netherlands Archives
1880 Bernard de Hair, vicar/poet/church historian, dies at 74
1880 Aart A van Schelven, Dutch church historian, Willem of Orange
1880 Otto Dibelius, German theologist/bishop, Confessional Church
1877 Sergei U.S. Aleksi, patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1877 Brigham Young, 2nd president of Mormon Church, dies
1876 Joseph Schmidlin, German church historian/antifascist
1875 Hans Lietzman, German theologist and church historian
1873 David O McKay, Huntsville, Utah, 9th President of Mormon church
1873 Pope Pius IX encyclical "On the Church in Armenia"
1870 George A. Smith, born in Salt Lake City Utah, 8th President of Mormon church
1865 John E Feisser, founder (1st Dutch baptist church), dies at 59
1865 Battle at Namozine Church, Virginia (Appomattox Campaign)
1864 Skirmish at Rocky Creek Church, Georgia
1864 Battle of Preble's Farm Virginia (Poplar Springs Church)
1864 Battle of Atlanta Georgia (Ezra Church)-second sortie US700 CS4642
1864 Battle at Ezra Chapel (Church), Georgia [Hood's Third Sortie]
1864 Skirmish at Gilgal Church, Georgia
1864 Battle of Bethesda Church, Virginia
1864 Cavalry fight at Old Church (Totopotomoy Creek) Virginia
1864 Skirmish at Salem Church (Haw's Shop), Virginia
1864 Battle of New Hope Church, Georgia
1864 Battle at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia, 1,400 killed or injured
1864 Skirmish at Ware Bottom Church, Virginia
1864 1st U.S. Catholic parish church for blacks dedicated, Baltimore
1863 2,500 reported killed at Church of La Compana, Santiago Chile
1863 Jesuit church in Chile catches fire, 2,500 die in panic
1863 Mary Church Terrell, civil rights activist
1863 Battle of Chancellorsville - action at Salem Church
1863 Battle of Salem Church, Virginia
1862 Skirmish at Jackson/Salem Church, Tenn (80 casualties)
1862 Skirmish at Union Church, Virginia (Peninsular)
1862 Battle of Hanover Court House, Virginia (Slash Church, Peake's Station)
1861 Johann Peter Kirsch, Luxembourg church historian/archaeologist
1861 Battle of Big Bethel Virginia (Bethel Church, Great Bethal)-Union retreats
1859 Nicolaas C Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist, dies at 66
1859 Hendrik G. Kleyn, church historian
1859 Frederik Pijper, Dutch vicar/church historian, The Monasteries
1856 Heber J Grant, Salt Lake City, 7th President of Mormon church
1856 Gunpowder in church explodes killing 4,000 in Rhodos
1853 Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops
1852 San Francisco Methodists establish 1st black church, Zion Methodist
1847 Bologna: church San Francisco dei Minori Conventuali initiated with premier of Rossini's Tantum ergo
1844 Brigham Young chosen Mormon Church head following Joseph Smith death
1843 United Free Church of Scotland forms
1839 Dudley Buck, born in Hartford, Connecticut, organist/church composer
1838 Joseph F Smith, 6th President of Mormon church
1832 Jan van Speyck, Dutch admiral, buried in New Church
1831 Richard Allen, AME Church Bishop, dies at 71
1830 Joseph Smith and 5 others organizes Mormon church in Seneca Co, New York
1829 John G R Acquoy, theologist/church historian
1826 Frederick Church, U.S. romantic landscape painter, Hudson River Sch
1822 James Varick becomes 1st bishop of Afr Meth Episcopal Zion Church
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion (AMEZ) Church organizes (New York City)
1821 African Methodist Episcopal Zion Church founded (New York)
1817 1st Evangelical church building dedicated, New Berlin, Penn
1816 African Methodist Episcopal Church organizes in Philadelphia
1811 Daniel A. Payne, Bishop/reformer/educator of AME Church
1810 French church annuls marriage of Napoleon I and Josephine
1806 Bernard ter Haar, Dutch vicar/poet/church historian
1805 Joseph Smith, Jr., Sharon Vt, founder, Mormon Church
1805 John E Feisser, theologist/founder 1st Dutch baptist church
1804 Barbara Hec, organized 1st methodist church in U.S., dies
1803 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet (church hymns), dies at 56
1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled
1801 Brigham Young, painter/religious leader, Mormon church, /polygamist
1800 Zion AME Church dedicated (New York City)
1797 John Winebrenner, U.S., clergyman, founded Church of God
1796 African Methodist Episcopal Church incorporated
1796 Bethel African Methodist Church of Philadelphia is 1st US-African church
1794 African Church of St. Thomas in Philadelphia, dedicated
1794 Richard Allen organizes Phila's Bethel African Meth Episcopal Church
1794 Bethel African Methodist Episcopal Church in Philadelphia, forms
1794 Richard Allen founded AME Church
1793 Nicolaas C. Kist, Dutch church historian/archivist
1792 Gottlieb August Spangenberg, founder (Moravian Church in Amer), dies
1789 John Odell signs contract for 336 pounds to build St. Peter's church (Bronx)
1788 Pioneer African Baptist church organizes in Savannah, Ga
1785 Church of England organizes in New England
1784 John Wesley charters Methodist Church
1780 Thomas Chalmers, 1st moderator, Free Church of Scotland 1843-47
1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion
1770 General Church of New Jerusalem established
1769 Gunpowder in Brescia Italy church explodes, killing 3,000
1768 1st Methodist church in U.S. initiated (Wesley Chapel, New York City)
1763 Thomas Campbell, founder, Church of Disciples in America
1760 Richard Allen, Philadelphia, 1st black ordained by Methodist-Episcopal church
1751 1st publication of Gray's "Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard"
1748 United Lutheran Church of U.S. organized
1746 Hieronymus van Alphen, Dutch attorney/poet, church songs
1738 Methodist Church forms
1737 Galileo's body moved to Church of Santa Croce in Florence, Italy
1732 1st mass celebrated in 1st American Catholic church, Philadelphia
1732 Mass celebrated for 1st time at St. Joseph's Church (Phila)
1724 Cornelis Steenoven is 1st archbishop of Old-Catholic church
1716 Thomas Gray, English poet, Elegy Written in a Country Church Yard
1711 Heinrich Melchior Muhlenberg, found U.S. Lutheran church
1704 August Gottlieb Spangenberg, founder of Moravian Church in North America
1704 Marc-Antoine Charpentier, French composer (church music), dies
1701 Johann N von Hontheim, German church historian/suffragan, bishop
1687 King James II orders his declaration of indulgence read in church
1682 Nationally Council accept independence of French church
1681 Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Rus-orthodox church, dies at 76
1664 1st Baptist Church organizes (Boston)
1652 Nikita Minin becomes patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1646 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts)
1646 Roger Scott was tried in Mass for sleeping in church
1640 Pierre de Fermat writes to Marin Mersenne about Fermat's church thesis
1629 1st non-Separatist Congregational Church in U.S. founded (Salem, MA)
1623 Paolo Sarpi, Italian church historian/politician, dies at 70
1605 Nikon, [Nikita Minin], patriarch of Russian-orthodox church
1601 Church authorities burn hebrew books in Rome
1600 John Craig, Scottish church reformer/James VI's court vicar, dies
1595 Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, dies at 69
1595 Jacob van Campen, painter/architect, New Church, Amsterdam
1580 Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1568 Abdij Church in Middelburg destroyed by fire
1564 Jean Caulvin, [John Calvin], priest/church reformer, dies at 54
1560 Philipp Melanchton (Schwazerd), church reformer, dies at 63
1560 Peder Palladus, Danish church reformer (Visitasbog), dies at about 56
1558 Westmunster Church in Middelburg destroyed by heavy storm
1557 Michael Agricola, Finnish theologist/church reformer/bishop, dies
1552 Laurentius Andreae, [Lars Andersson], Swedish church reformer, dies
1549 Book of Common Prayer is adopted by the Church of England
1548 Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer, dies at 44
1542 Leo Jud[ae], Swiss pastor/church reformer
1541 Wolfgang Capito, [Kopfel], German church reformer, dies at 63
1539 St. Jacobs Church burns after being hit by lightning
1537 King Christian III publishes "Ordinance on the Danish Church"
1536 King Henry VIII, orders bible be placed in every church
1535 Henry VIII declares himself head of English Church
1534 English parliament accepts Act of Supremacy: Henry VIII church leader
1534 English Parliament passes Act of Supremacy, making King Henry VIII head of the English church - a role formerly held by the Pope
1532 English parliament bans payments by English church to Rome
1531 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss church reformer (Zwinglianen), dies
1531 Henry VIII recognized as supreme head of Church in England
1530 Francois Lambert d'avignon, French church reformer, dies at about 43
1530 King Henry VIII's divorce request is denied by the Pope Henry then declares that he, not the Pope, is supreme head of England's church
1528 Treaty of Gorinchem (Emperor and church)
1526 Peter Opmeer, church historian/humanist, Historia Martyrum
1525 Johannes Pistorius, [Bakker], RC pastor/church reformer, burned at 26
1525 John Pistorius, church reformer, burned at the stake
1525 Church reformer John Pistorius caught in the Hague
1523 Hendrik Voes, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1523 John of Esschen, Flemish priest/church reformer, burned at stake
1521 Martin Luther is excommunicated from Roman Catholic Church
1521 Martin Luther excommunicated by Roman Catholic Church
1504 Caspar Cruciger, German church reformer
1438 French church/King Charles VII release Pragmatieke Sanctie of Bourges
1416 Jerome of Prague burned as a heretic by Church
1416 Jerome of Prague, burned as a heretic by Church
1415 Jan Hus, burned for heresy by the Church at Constance, Germany
1390 Peter van Herenthals, Dutch theologist/church historian, dies at 67
1322 Peter van Herenthals, South Netherlands theologist/church historian
1275 Raymundus of Penafort, Spanish church law scholar, dies
1267 Vienna's church orders all Jews to wear a distinctive garb
766 Chrodegang, church reformer/bishop of Mainz, dies at about 50
735 Beda Venerabilis, English speaking church historian, dies at about 62
673 Synod of Hertford opens; canons made for English Church
649 Maruta of Tagrit, theology/1st mafriaan Jakobitische church, dies
609 Pope Boniface I turns Pantheon into Catholic church
430 Aurelius Augustinus, church elder/thinker (Belijdenissen), dies at 75
335 Church of Heilig Grave initiated in Jerusalem
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