Today in Lutheran History
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Historical Events
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0870-08-08 - Kings Charles the Bare & Louis the German divide Lutherans
0939-10-02 - Battle at Andernach: King Otto & Hermann of Zwaben beat Eberhard of France & Giselbert of Lutherans
1101-12-25 - Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
1106-05-13 - Henry I of Limburg becomes duke of Neth-Lutherans
1521-04-07 - Inquisitor-general Adrian Boeyens bans Lutheran books
1525-05-17 - Battle at Zabern: duke of Lutherans beats rebels
1526-06-01 - Parliament of Spiers: Lutheran monarchy freed of their belief
1529-04-19 - 2nd Parliament of Spiers bans Lutheranism
1548-06-30 - Emperor Charles V orders Catholics to become Lutherans
1552-08-02 - Treaty of Passau: Emperor Charles V accepts Lutheran religion
1557-09-11 - Catholic & Lutheran theology debated in Worm
1568-10-21 - 2nd Altenburger sermon: Philippisten/Gnesiolutheranen
1580-06-25 - Book of Concord, standards of Lutheran Church, 1st published
1593-03-01 - The Uppsala Synod is summoned to confirm the exact forms of the Lutheran Church of Sweden.
1638-03-29 - 1st permanent white settlement in Delaware (Swedish Lutherans)
1673-08-30 - Leopold I, Spain, Netherlands & Lutherans form anti-French covenant
1703-11-24 - 1st Lutheran pastor ordained in America, Justus Falckner at Phila
1732-02-02 - King Frederik Willem I moves Lutherans towards East-Prussia
1748-08-15 - United Lutheran Church of US organized
1748-08-26 - The first Lutheran denomination in North America, the Pennsylvania Ministerium, is founded in Philadelphia, Pennsylvania.
1934-04-06 - 418 Lutheran ministers arrested in Germany
1937-11-01 - Stalinists executed by shooting Pastor Paul Hamberg and seven members of Azerbaijan's Lutheran community (including three women).
1952-01-31 - Dutch Lutheran Church reunites after 1½ centuries
1983-12-11 - 1st visit to Lutheran church by a pope (John Paul II in Rome)
1999-10-31 - Roman Catholic Church and Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, ending a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.
Famous Birthdays
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1494-02-20 - Johan Friis, chancellor (Denmark, helped formed Lutheranism)
1496-10-20 - Claude de Lutherans, duke of Guise
1582-10-17 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (d. 1637)
1682-07-10 - Bartholomaeus Ziegenbalg, German Lutheran missionary to India (d. 1719)
1686-01-31 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (d. 1758)
1711-09-06 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (d. 1787)
1714-01-01 - Kristijonas Donelaitis, Lutheran pastor, Lithuanian poet (The Seas)
1886-10-22 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (d. 1970)
1898-01-13 - Kai Munk, Danish playwright and Lutheran pastor, martyr (d. 1944)
1900-08-30 - Franklin C Fry, US minister (Lutheran World Relief)
Famous Deaths
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0900-08-13 - Zwentibold, king of Lutherans (895-900), dies in battle at 29
0939-10-02 - Giselbert, duke of Lutheran, drowns at about 49
0965-10-11 - Bruno I, archbishop of Cologne/duke of Lutheran, dies at about 40
1023-09-26 - Godfried I, duke of Neth-Lutherans, dies
1065-08-28 - Frederik van Luxembourg, duke of Neth-Lutherans (1046-65)
1069-12-24 - Godfried II, with the Beard, duke of Neder-Lutherans, dies
1139-07-16 - Walram II, duke of Limburg/Neth-Lutherans, dies
1541-12-24 - Andreas R Bodenstein von Carlstadt, radical Lutheran, dies at about 61
1573-10-27 - Laurentius Petri, first Lutheran Archbishop of Sweden (b. 1499)
1586-04-08 - Martin Chemnitz, Lutheran reformer and theologian (b. 1522)
1637-08-10 - Johann Gerhard, German Lutheran leader (b. 1582)
1690-03-18 - Charles, duke of Lutherans, dies
1758-11-05 - Hans Egede, Norwegian Lutheran missionary (b. 1686)
1766-02-23 - Stanislaw Leszcynski, duke of Lutherans/king of Poland, dies
1787-10-07 - Henry Muhlenberg, German-born founder of the U.S. Lutheran Church (b. 1711)
1887-05-07 - C. F. W. Walther, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1811)
1932-07-07 - Henry Eyster Jacobs, American Lutheran theologian (b. 1844)
1954-11-21 - Prof Werner Elert, German Lutheran theologist, dies at 69
1970-04-26 - Erik Bergman, Lutheran pastor (b. 1886)
2008-04-15 - Krister Stendahl, Swedish Lutheran theologian and bishop (b. 1921)
