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Abbott, Jacob --Birth of, (Nov. 14); Death of, (Oct. 31)
Abeel, Rev. David –(Feb. 16)
Abelard, Peter --opposed by Bernard of Clairveaux, (Aug. 20)
"Abide With Me" –(Sept. 3)

Abington vs. Schenipp --the United States Supreme Court rules as unconstitutional the reading of the Bible, or the recitation of the Lord's Prayer in public schools, (June 17)

Abridgement of Christian Divinity – (Oct. 28)
Absence from Church --the English Parliament imposes a fine for, (Jan. 16)
Acadia --patent granted, (Nov. 8); British persecution of its French inhabitants, (July 3); Edmund Burke of,    (July 3); George Bancroft of, (July 3)

Acts
          Emancipation – (Feb.17)
          Indemnity – (June 14)
          Intolerance –(March 1)
          Six Articles –(June 28)
          Toleration –(May 24)

Uniformity --First: passed and its subsequent repeal, (Jan 21); Second: passed, (April 6); Third:   passed, (April 28); Fourth: passed, (May19), cf. (Mar. 24)

           Conventicle Acts—First (July 1), cf. (Dec. 24) Second: (March 2), Felt, (May 10), cf. Dec.24)
           Corporation Act-passed, (Dec. 24); cf. (May 24), (Aug.1)
           Cruelty to Animals Act --passed, (June 29)
           De Haeretico Comburendo –(Feb. 18)
           Five Mile Act --passed, (March 24); cf. (Dec. 24)
           Irish Church Act –(July 26)
           New Supremacy Act –(April 29)
           Prohibition Act--passed, (Oct. 28); abolished, (Dec.5)
           Test Act--passed, (Aug. 1); cf. (May 24)
 Acts and Monuments --(See: Book of Martyrs)
Adalbert of Prague --his murder, (Apr. 23)

Adams, John --Birth of, (Oct. 19); Second President of the United States, (Oct. 19); of Liberty and  Tyranny, (Oct. 19)

Adams, John Quincy --of the American people, (July 4); his epitaph, (July 4)

Adams, Samuel --Birth of, (Sept. 27); his godliness and penury, (Sept 27.); his opposition to the Stamp Tax, (Sept. 27); his address to the Congress of the United States, (Dec. 12)

 Adeodatus –(Nov. 13)
 Adjar --(See: Samuel Crowther)
 Adlischweiler, Anna --(Mrs. Heinrich Bullinger) –(Oct. 11)

Adolphus, Gustavus --Birth of, (Dec. 9); raises Sweden from insignificance to the head of Lutheran Europe, (Dec. 9); Defeats Tilly at Breitenfeld, (Sept. 7); grants a charter to South Company to colonize and evangelize in the New World, (June 14); encourages German colonization in the New World, (Nov. 6); Death of, and the subsequent jubilation of Urban VIII, (Nov. 8)

Adrian VI --cf. (Nov. 18)
 Advent Christian Church --Founded, (Oct. 21); cf. (March 21)
 Adventism --denounced by Marcus Whitman, (Nov. 5)
 Adventists – (March 21)           

Aedesius --publicly accuses and strikes Hierocles for outrages committed against the Church, (Feb. 23); his subsequent death, (Feb. 23)

Afra – (Aug. 5)
African Institution --Founded (July 29)
African Methodist Episcopal Church --founding of, (Nov. 6)
African Orthodox Church --founded, (Sept. 2)
Agassiz, Louis --Birth of, (May 28); his views on Creation, (May 28); Death of, (Dec. 14)
Age Of Reason – (Jan. 29)
Aitken, Robert --prints the first Bible in the New World, (Sept. 21); its examination by Congress, (Sept. 1)
 Alaric --leads the Visigoths in the sack of Rome, (Aug. 24)
Albert, Cardinal of Mentz --cf. (March 6)
Albert, Charles --secures permanent rights for the Waldensians, (Feb. 17)
Albigensians --(See: Cathari)--the Council of Toulouse called against, (Aug. 22); War of, cf. (Feb. 12); the murder of the Inquisitor Peter Martyr of Verona, (April 6)

Albret, Jeanne D' –(Aug. 24)
Aldgild --cf. (Nov. 6)
Alembert, Jean le Rend D' –(Oct. 5)
Alexander I (of Russia) --assists the Waldensians, (Aug. 1); introduces Bible selections into Russian schools, (Nov. 16)

Alexander III --submission of Henry II of England, (Dec. 29)
Alexander V --empowers Archbishop Sbinko to proceed against the Bohemian Wycliffites, (Dec. 20)
Alexander VI --his licentiousness, (May 12); summons Savonarola to Rome, (July 25); prohibits Savonarola to preach, (Oct. 16); excommunicates Savonarola, (May 12); the murder of illegitimate son, and his professed Repentance, (June 14); Pius II of, (May 12)

Alexander, Archibald –(Aug. 12); on the duty of professors, (Nov. 12); teaches George Burrowes, (April 3); Death of, (Nov. 12); cf. (March 5)

Alexander, Mrs. Cecil –(Nov. 30)
Alexander, James --barred from representing John Peter Zenger, (Nov. 17)
Alexander, Joseph Allison --cf. (March 5), (Aug. 12)
Alexander of Parma --forces the surrender of Antwerp, (Aug. 17)
Alexius, Emperor --calls for aid against the Moslems, (Nov. 7)
Alexius, Patriarch --cf. (Nov. 29)
Alfonso VI --takes Toledo from the Mohammedans renaming it New Castile, (May 25)
Alfonso XIII (Don) --grants toleration in Spain to Evangelicals, (June 6)
All Saints' Day --(Greek)—(Nov. 1)
All Souls' Day –(Nov. 2)
Alleine, Joseph –(Nov. 17)
Allenby, General Edmund --captures Jerusalem, (Dec. 10)
Allende, Salvador –(Sept. 11)
Al-Mahdi --(See: Muhammed Ahmad) "Almost Persuaded" –(Dec. 29)
Alstyne, Frances Jane Van --(See: Fanny Crosby)
Altar Call --instituted, (Aug. 29)
Alva --emigrates when the Netherlands accepts Protestantism, (July15); arrives in the Netherlands to repress heresy with the sword, (Aug. 22)

Alypius –(Nov. 13); baptism of (April 25)
Amadeus, Duke Victor II (of Savoy) --commands Catholicism be accepted by the French people, (June 20); forbids the Reformed from religious associations with the French people, (July 1) orders the French inhabitants to quit the country, (July 1); cf. (Sept. 30)

"Amazing Grace" –(July 24)
Ambrose, Bishop of Milan --reared by his sister, Marcellina, (April 4); influenced by Basil, (Jan.1); awakens Augustine, (Nov. 13); baptizes Augustine and Alypius, (April 25); withstands the Empress, (April 4); withstands the Emperors--Theodosius, (April 4); Gratian, (April 4); Valentinian II, (April 4); preaches the funeral of Valentinian, (Jan. 23); Death of, (April 4)

American Anti-Slavery Society --the constitution and Declaration of Sentiments drafted, (Dec. 6)
American Baptist Missionary Union -Adoniram Judson affiliates himself with, (April 25)
American Bible Society --organized, (May 8); conclusion of, (May 13)
American Bible Union –(Jan. 20)
American Board of Commissioners for Foreign Missions –(Feb. 11)
American Civil Liberties Union --attempts to prohibit the United States Armed Forces chaplains from using references to God in lectures on morality, (March 28)

American Council of Christian Churches --founded, (April 7)
American Education Society –(Sept. 28)
American Home Missionary Society –(Sept. 28)
American Seal --approved by Congress, (June 20)
American Seamen's Friend Society --organized, (Feb. 16)
American Temperance Society --founded, (Feb 13); cf. (Sept. 28)
American Tract Society --cf. (June 13), (Sept. 28)
American Unitarian Association –formation of, (July 19)
Ames, William (Amesius) --Death of, (Nov. 14); of. (July 7), (Oct. 28)
Amin, General Idi --prohibits church services in Uganda, (Feb. 20); bans twenty-seven religious organizations while tolerating Moslems, Anglicans, Roman Catholics, and the Uganda Orthodox, (Sept. 20)

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