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Protestant
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 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

1892 Martin Niemoller, clergyman, German Protestant, ; imprisoned by Hitler

1887 Willem De Merode, protestant poet

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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