Today in Presbyterian History
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Historical Events
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1638-02-28 - Scottish Presbyterians sign National Convent, Greyfriars, Edinburgh
1647-01-23 - Scottish Presbyterians sell captured Charles I to English parliament
1648-12-06 - Pride's Purge: Thomas Pride prevents 96 presbyterians from sitting in English parliament
1925-06-10 - Inaugural service for the United Church of Canada, a union of Presbyterian, Methodist, and Congregationalist churches held in Toronto Arena.
1930-06-02 - Sarah Dickson becomes 1st woman Presbyterian elder in US, Cincinnati
1936-06-11 - Presbyterian Church of America founded at Philadelphia
1955-05-23 - Presbyterian Church begins accepting women ministers
1959-05-23 - Presbyterian church accepts women preachers
Famous Deaths
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1603-12-27 - Thomas Cartwright, English Presbyterian publicist, dies at about 68
1666-10-29 - Edmund Calamy the Elder, English Presbyterian leader (b. 1600)
1688-02-17 - Rev James Renwick, hanged in Scotland for being a Presbyterian
1863-01-10 - Lyman Beecher, US Presbyterian clergyman, temperance movement leader (b. 1775)
