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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 1

November 1:

• 1512 - The ceiling of the Sistine Chapel, painted by Michelangelo, is exhibited to the public for the first time.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 2

November 2:

• 676 - Donus became Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 3

November 3:

• 625 - Honorius I is elected as Pope.
• 644 - Umar ibn al-Chattab, the second Muslim caliph, is killed by a Persian slave in Medina.
• 1483 - Giuliano della Rovere is appointed as Bishop of Bologna.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 4

November 4:

• 1740 - Augustus Montague Toplady, author of hymn, "Rock of Ages", born. (d. 1778)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 5

November 5:

• 1556 - Second Battle of Panipat: Fifty miles north of Delhi, a Mogul Army defeats Hindu forces of General Hemu to ensure Akbar the throne of India.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 6

November 6:

• 1789 - Pope Pius VI appoints Father John Carroll as the first Catholic bishop in the United States.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 7

November 7:

• 1225 - Engelbert II of Berg, Archbishop of Cologne, dies.
• 1581 - Richard Davies, Welsh bishop and scholar, dies.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 8

November 8:

• 1519 - Hernán Cortés enters Tenochtitlán and Aztec ruler Moctezuma welcomes him with great pomp as would befit a returning god.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 9

November 9:

• 694 - Egica, a king of the Visigoths of Hispania, accuses Jews of aiding Muslims, sentencing all Jews to slavery.
• 1282 - Pope Martin IV excommunicates King Peter III of Aragon.
• 1697 - Pope Innocent VIII founds the city of Cervia.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 10

November 10:

• 1444 - Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary and Wladyslaw III of Poland) are crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II and Vladislaus is killed.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 11

November 11:

• 1215 - The Fourth Lateran Council meets, adopting the doctrine of transubstantiation, meaning that bread and wine are transformed into the body and blood of Christ.
• 1634 - Following pressure from Anglican bishop John Atherton, the Irish House of Commons passes "An Act for the Punishment for the Vice of Buggery".

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 12

November 12:

• 1615 - Richard Baxter, English clergyman, born. (d. 1691)
• 1651 - Sor Juana Inés de la Cruz, Mexican scholar, nun, and writer of the baroque school, born.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 13

November 13:

• 354 - Saint Augustine of Hippo, North African theologian, born. (d. 430)
• 1486 - Johann Eck, German theologian, born. (d. 1543)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 14

November 14:

• 1601 - Jean Eudes, French missionary, born. (d. 1680)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 15

November 15:

• 1515 - Thomas Wolsey invested as a Cardinal.
• 1791 - The first U.S Catholic college, Georgetown University, opens its doors.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 16

November 16:

• 1491 - An auto de fe, held in Brasero de la Dehesa outside of Ávila, concludes the case of the Holy Child of La Guardia with the public execution of several Jewish and converso suspects.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 17

November 17:

• 1681 - Pierre François le Courayer, French theologian, born. (d. 1776)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 18

November 18:

• 326 - The old St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.
• 1095 - The Council of Clermont, called by Pope Urban II to discuss sending the First Crusade to the Holy Land, begins.
• 1302 - Pope Boniface VIII issues the Papal bull Unam sanctam ("The One Holy").
• 1626 - St. Peter's Basilica is consecrated.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 19

November 19:

• 461 - St. Hilarius becomes Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 20

November 20:

• 1621 - Avvakum, Russian priest and writer, born. (d. 1682)
• 1660 - Daniel Ernst Jablonski, German theologian, born. (d. 1741)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 21

November 21:

• 164 BC - Judas Maccabaeus, son of Mattathias of the Hasmonean family, restores the Temple in Jerusalem. Events commemorated each year by the festival of Hanukkah.
• 235 - Anterus is elected Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 22

November 22:

• 498 - After the death of Anastasius II, Symmachus is elected pope in the Lateran Palace, while Laurentius is elected pope in Santa Maria Maggiore.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 23

November 23:

• 800 - Charlemagne arrives at Rome to examine the alleged crimes of Pope Leo III.
• 1248 - Conquest of Seville by the Christian troops under King Ferdinand III of Castile.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 24

November 24:

• 642 - Theodore succeeds John IV as Pope.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 25

November 25:

• 1501 - Yi Hwang, Confucian scholar, born. (d. 1570)
• 1883 - Harvey Spencer Lewis, American mystic, born. (d. 1939)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 26

November 26:

• 1607 - John Harvard, English-born clergyman, born. (d. 1638)
• 1842 - The University of Notre Dame is founded.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 27

November 27:

• 399 - St. Anastius I becomes Pope.
• 1095 - Pope Urban II declares the First Crusade at the Council of Clermont.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 28

November 28:

• 1095 - On the last day of the Council of Clermont, Pope Urban II appoints Bishop Adhemar of Le Puy and Count Raymond IV of Toulouse to lead the First Crusade to the Holy Land.

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 29

November 29:

• 1752 - Jemima Wilkinson, American preacher, born. (d. 1819)

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Portal:Religion/On this day/November 30

November 30:

• 539 - Gregory of Tours, French bishop and historian, born. (d. 594)