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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 1

March 1:

• 1457 - The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 2

March 2:

• 1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 3

March 3:

• 1431 - Eugene IV becomes Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 4

March 4:

• 1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
• 1833 - Ayya Vaikundar incarnated from the Sea of Tiruchendur as per the Akilattirattu Ammanai, the scripture of Ayyavazhi.
• 2007 - Purim.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 5

March 5:

• 2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 6

March 6:

• 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 7

March 7:

• 308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr, dies.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 8

March 8:

• 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 9

March 9:

• 1977 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 10

March 10:

• 1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 11

March 11:

• 1513 - Leo X is elected Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 12

March 12:

• 1685 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian born. (d. 1753)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 13

March 13:

• 483 - St. Felix becomes Pope.
• 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople.
• 1138 - Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
• 1639 - Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 14

March 14:

• 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
• 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 15

March 15:

• 1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 16

March 16:

• 1190 - Crusaders start to massacre the Jews of York.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 17

March 17:

• 624 - A key victory by Muhammad over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.
• 2007 - Saint Patrick's Day.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 18

March 18:

• 3952 BC - According to the Venerable Bede, the world was created.
• 731 - Saint Gregory III begins his reign as a Catholic pope.
• 1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 19

March 19:

• 2006 - Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace convened in Seville, Spain.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 20

March 20:

• 1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian, born. (d. 1527)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 21

March 21:

• 1556 - In Oxford, Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Cranmer is burned at the stake.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 22

March 22:

• 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 23

March 23:

• 625 - Battle of Uhud takes place between Muslims and Pagans in Arabia.
• 752 - Stephen is elected Pope. He died three days later, before being ordained bishop, and is not considered a legitimate pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 24

March 24:

• 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 25

March 25:

• 708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope.
• 1300 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 26

March 26:

• 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
• 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 27

March 27:

• 2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 28

March 28:

• 1725 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, born. (d. 1795)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 29

March 29:

• 537 - Vigilius is consecrated and enthroned as Pope, replacing Silverius.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 30

March 30:

• 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
• 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/March 31

March 31:

• 1717 - A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
• 2007 - Jainism: Mahavir Jayanti, celebrates of the birth of Mahavira, the last Tirthankara.