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2013 Event - In Rome, Italy, the papal inauguration ceremony for Pope Francis is held in St. Peter's Square; hundreds of thousands attend

2012 Event - John Hume, Ireland's former Social Democratic Party Leader, receives the papal knighthood at a special mass at St. Eugene's Cathedral in Derry

2011 Event - Pope Benedict XVI announces Roman Catholic bishops must obey a papal order allowing priests to say the old-style Tridentine Mass

1983 Event - Abp Hickey conducts papal investigation of Abp Hunthausen, Seattle

1980 Event - 1st papal visit to France since 1814

1968 Event - 1st papal visit to Latin America (Pope Paul VI arrives in Bogota)

1921 Birthday - Giovanni Benelli, archbishop, Florence, Papal candidate

1870 Event - Italy annexes Rome and Papal States; Rome made Italian capital

1850 Event - Papal Bull issued, establishes Roman Catholic hierarchy in England

1809 Event - Papal States annexed by France

1797 Event - 1/3 of papal domain ceded to France

1745 Event - Colley Cibbers "Papal Tyranny," premieres in London

1731 Event - All Hebrew books in Papal State are confiscated

1622 Event - Papal Chancery adopts Jan 1 as beginning of the year (was Mar 25)

1520 Event - Martin Luther publicly burned papal edict demands he recant

1499 Event - Louis XII of France after papal divorce marries Anne, Duchess of Brittany to keep duchy for the crown









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