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
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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 15, 1940 — Holland surrenders to Germany
At the outbreak of World War Two in 1939, Holland had declared itself neutral, just as it had done during...
February 22, 2019
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