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