This & Last Week in History

Since I've forgotten to do this recently, I thought I'd let you know some highlights from the dates of last week and this week in church history.

Aside from many interesting events that you can read about here, last week...

• Constantine defeated Maxentius at Milvian Bridge after having a "vision" of the symbol of Jesus, which paved the way for Rome to become a Christian empire (AD 312)
• The very important Council of Chalcedon (in modern Turkey) begins to address heresies about Christ that were not addressed at Nicea (451)
• Martin Luther posts his 95 Theses on the door of the Castle Church in Wittenberg, Germany (1517)
• The British Parliament passes the Supremacy Act officially making England Protestant (1534)
• George Muller converts to Christianity (1825)
• Jim Elliot writes in his journal "He is no fool who gives what he cannot keep to gain what he cannot lose" (1949)
• John Lennon ignites controversy when he tells reporters the Beatles are "more popular than Jesus" (1966)

And, click here to read that this week...

• Martin Luther is born in Eisleben, Germany (1483)
• The Massachusetts Bay Colony makes it a capital offense to deny that the Bible is the Word of God (1646)
• American journalist Henry Stanley finally finds Scottish missionary David Livingstone in Central Africa and utters his famous introduction, "Dr. Livingstone, I presume." (1871)
• Gideons International places its first Bible in a room at the Superior Hotel in Iron Mountains, Montana (1908)
  
• Evangelist Billy Graham is born in Charlotte, North Carolina (1918)