1212 — The Children’s Crusade sets out for the Holy Land
The Children’s Crusade is the name given to a variety of fictional and factual events which happened in 1212 that...
April 4, 2022
Religion
July 24, 1224 — Saint Christina the Astonishing dies
Christina Mirabilis was a Catholic saint and visionary. Born into a poor peasant family, she was orphaned by age 15....
March 29, 2022
May 15, 1252 — Pope Innocent IV authorizes the Inquisition to torture heretics
The Medieval Inquisition was a series of Inquisitions that slowly merged into a more or less continuous process of arrest...
March 24, 2022
October 17, 1483 — Tomás de Torquemada named a Grand Inquisitor
The most notorious of all members of the Holy Inquisition, Tomás de Torquemada’s fervour in punishing heretics and sinners –...
March 4, 2022
August 22, 1485 — Henry Tudor becomes King Henry VII of England
Born Henry Tudor, Henry became the King of England, inheriting from his cousin, the heirless Richard III. Henry would restore...
March 2, 2022
October 31, 1517 — Martin Luther nails his 95 Theses to the door of All Saints’ Church in Wittenberg
“The Ninety-five Theses” or, to give their full title “Disputation on the Power and Efficacy of Indulgences” (“Disputatio pro declaratione...
February 23, 2022
October 24, 1528 — Katherine of Aragon refuses to be sent to a nunnery
It must have seemed an elegantly simple solution to Henry VIII. Rather than divorcing his wife, he’d simply compel her...
February 16, 2022
July 18, 1529 — Pope Clement VII refuses to grant Henry VIII an annulment
Clement VII became the Pope in 1523, and held the role for almost eleven years. In that time, he often...
February 16, 2022
May 15, 1532 — Henry VIII breaks with Rome and founds the Church of England
While Henry was careful to frame his objections to the Catholic Church as primarily political, claiming that he could not...
February 16, 2022
May 23, 1533 — Henry VIII and Katherine of Aragon’s marriage is annulled
As the King of England, Henry VIII was used to getting his own way. So when he decided that he...
February 16, 2022
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