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INDEX

 "Rulers are not a terror to good works, but to the evil."

-Romans 13:5-
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Dominican Republic --signs a Concordat declaring Roman Catholicism the official religion of the State, (June 16)

Domitian --boils the Apostle John in oil, and the subsequent exile of, to the Isle of Patmos, (Jan.27); restrains the Immorality of the theatre and checks public prostitution, (Sept.18); his persecution of the Church (Sept.18); demands worship as "Dominus et Deus", (Sept.18); his murder by his family, (Sept.18)

Donatists, (Jan.4)
Donne, John –(Mar.31)
Doolittle, Thomas --conversion of, (May 24); his meetinghouse seized and his subsequent flight, (May 24), Death of, (May 24)

Doppers –(Feb.10)

Dort, Council of --convenes (Nov.13); adopts the Belgic Confession, (Apr.29); the petition by the Remonstrants in the form of the Five Points of Arminianism is rejected as unscriptural, (Nov.13); see: (Oct.10)

Doshisha University --founded (Jan.23)
Douglas, George --his plot for the escape of Mary Stuart from Loch Leven Castle, (May 2); cf. (Feb.8)
Douglas, Robert –(Jan.1)
Douglas, Willie --assists Mary, Queen of Scots in her escape from Loch Leven Castle, (May 2); cf. (Feb.8)
Downgrade Controversy –(Oct.28)
Drake, Edmund --flees Devon, (Jan.25)

Drake, Sir Francis --the defeat of the Spanish Armada, of. (Jan.25); carries Foxe's Book of Martyrs, Bibles and Prayerbooks aboard his ships, (Apr.18); enforces Religious ser-vices aboard ship, (Jan.25); lands on the California coast, (Jan.25)

Draskovich, George --imports Jesuits into Hungary, (June 22)
"Draw Me Nearer" –(Mar.24)
Drisius --denies Lutherans have the right to worship, (June 6)
Drusius, Johannes --with Philips Van Marnix completes the Dutch translation of the New Testament, and the Dutch revision of the Septuagint, (Oct.10)

Dubourg, Mr. Anne --argues in the French Parliament with Henry II on account of his persecution of the Church, (Dec.23); his arrest and subsequent Death, (Dec.23)

Duchesne, William --el. (May 20)
Dudley, Thomas –(July 30); of. (Apr.7)

Duff, Alexander --Birth of, (Apr.12); student of Thomas Chalmers, (Feb.12); shipwrecked, (Feb.12); labors in India, establishing a school in Calcutta, (Feb.12); withdraws from the Church of Scotland to join the Free Church, (Feb.12)

Duffield, George –(Sept.1)
Duffield, George, Jr. – (Mar.30)

Duncan, John ("Rabbi") --student of Robert Haldane, (Feb.26); the conversion of by Caesar Malan, (Feb.26); brings Alfred Edersheim to Christ, (Feb.26)

Dunster, Henry --flees the tyranny of the Church of England, (Feb.27); changes his views on Baptism, and his subsequent resignation from the Presidency of Harvard College, (Feb.27); revises the Bay Psalm Book, (Feb.27); Death of, (Feb.27); of. (Feb.11), (Feb.19)

Duplessis, Armand -Jean du --(See: Cardin-al Richelieu)

Durer, Albrecht --Birth of, (May 21); the "Praying Hands," (Apr.6); a friend of the Reformation, (May 21); Death of, (Apr.6)

Duprat, Anthony --of. (Aug.18)
Dutch East India Company --founded, of. (May 15); settles Capetown, South Africa, (Apr.6)
Dutch Guiana --a refuge for those fleeing religious persecution, (May 1)

Dutch Reformed Church --the first national synod on Dutch soil, (June 2); the first General Synod, (Oct.4); sends Guido Herman Fri-dolin Verbeck to Japan, (Nov. 7); in Cape Colony, founded, (Apr.6)

Dutch West India Company --instructs the Governor of New Netherlands to engage the Indians in the event of an attack from New England, (Aug.15)

Dwight, Timothy --Birth of, (May 14); ordination of, (Nov.5); President of Yale College, (May 14); assists in the founding of Princeton Seminary, (Aug.12); teaches Lyman Beecher, (May 14); the Second Great Awakening, (May 14); marries the daughter of Jonathan Edwards, (May 14); preaches his last sermon, (Nov.3); Death of, (Jan.11); of. (Jan.7)

Dyar, Mary --Death of, (Oct.27)
Dzhugashvili, Joseph Vissarionovich --(See: Joseph Stalin)


 

 

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