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1988 North-Ireland Protestant fires on Catholic funeral, 3 killed
1981 Protestant gunmen shoot and wound Bernadette Devlin McAliskey and husband 1975 Henry P Van Dusen, U.S. protestant theologist, dies at 77 1974 Billy Fox, Protestant Dublin MP, assassinated 1970 Ralph W. Sockman, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S., dies at age 80 1970 John M Burgess installed as bishop of Protestant Episcopals (Mass) 1940 Protestant churches protest against dismissal of Jew civil servants 1938 Douglas Hyde (a protestant) becomes 1st president of Eire 1926 VPRO (Free thinking Protestant Radio Broadcast) forms 1924 Gaston Doumergue elected as 1st protestant French premier 1917 Oswald Chambers, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning, dies from a ruptured appendix 1892 Martin Niemoller, clergyman, German Protestant, ; imprisoned by Hitler 1889 Ralph W. Sockman, born in New York, New York, Protestant pastor, author, successful radio show, National Radio Pulpit, considered by Time magazine as the best Protestant preacher in the U.S. 1887 Willem De Merode, protestant poet 1874 Oswald Chambers born in Aberdeen, Scotland, Scottish Protestant Christian minister, teacher, author, wrote, 'My Utmost for His Highest', established local society dedicated to his favorite poet, Robert Browning 1871 Founding of Netherland Protestant Union in Dokkum 1853 Protestant church questions king Willem III RC bishops 1846 Adrian van de Ende, vicar/protestant reformer, dies at 77 1802 French Protestant church becomes state-supported and -controlled 1772 1st Protestant church west of Penn (in Ohio) holds communion 1700 Protestant West-Europe (except England) begin using Gregorian calendar 1690 Army of England's Protestant King William III defeats Roman Catholic King James II in Battle of Boyne in Ireland 1689 Orangeman's Day-Battle of Boyne, Protestant victory in Ireland 1646 1st Protestant church assembly for indians (Massachusetts) 1644 1st protestant ministry society in New England 1634 Battle at Nordlingen ends in Swedish/protestant German defeat 1633 Sweden and Protestant German monarchy form Union of Heilbronn 1628 Emperor Ferdinand II demands Austria Protestant convert to Catholicism 1613 Johan Sigismund of Brandenburg becomes protestant 1607 1st Protestant Episcopal parish in America established, Jamestown 1593 France's Protestant King Henri IV converts to Roman Catholic 1591 German monarchy forms Protestant Union of Torgau 1579 Union of Utrecht signed, forming protestant Dutch Republic 1570 Czar Ivan IV becomes Protestant 1567 Battle at Carberry Scot: Protestant troops beat Earl Bothwells army 1552 Andreas Osiander, Protestant Reformation theologist, dies at 53 1547 Protestant German monarch surrenders to Karel in Wittenberg 1540 Protestant count Philip of Hessen marries 2nd wife 1539 Charles, protestant German monarch, signs Treaty of Frankrfurt 1531 Battle at Kappel: Swiss RC kantons beat protestant 1530 Luther advises protestant monarch compromise 1528 Patrick Hamilton, Scottish protestant martyr, burned at stake 1526 Saxony and Hesse form League of Gotha (league of Protestant princes) 1524 Henry Van Zutphen, Dutch protestant martyr, burned at stake 1509 John Calvin, Protestant religious reformer/theologian 1498 Andreas Osiander, Germany, Protestant Reformation theologist 1497 Philipp Melanchthon, Germ, Protestant reformer, Augsburgse Confessie 1497 Philipp Melanchthon, German Protestant 1481 Huldrych Zwingli, Swiss Protestant reformer |
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