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INDEX

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Fabre, Jean – (Jan.1)

Fagius, Paul --his remains are burned by Queen Mary after depriving him of his University honors, (Feb.6); his honors restored by Queen Elizabeth, (Feb.6)

Famous Five –(May 25)
Faneuil, Peter – (Mar.29)
Faneuil Hall –(Mar.29)

Farel, William --threatens John Calvin with a curse, (Apr.23); exiled with Calvin from Geneva, (Apr.23); accompanies Theodore Beza on a visit to the persecuted Waldensians, and later to the Huguenots, (Oct.13); the attempted poisoning of, (Apr.4); the ordination of Pierre Viret, (Apr.4); condemned by the French Parliament, (Aug.28)

Farewell Addresses –(Apr.6)
Farrer, Robert --Death of, (Mar.30)
Father and Saviour of the Sudan –(Jan.26)
Father of American Religious Freedom –(Oct.9)
Father of Humanism –(July 19)
Father of the English Bible –(Oct.6)
Father of the English Hymn –(July 17)
Father of Medieval Mysticism –(Nov.13)
Father of Methodism in America –(Mar.31)
Father of Modern Chemistry –(Jan.25)
Father of Modern Day Open Air Preaching – (Feb.17)
Father of Modern Missions –(Oct.2)
Father of Modern Optics –(Dec.27)
Father of Protestant Missions to China –(Jan.5)
Father of the Oratorio –(Feb.23), (Apr.14)
Father of the Organ –(Nov.5)
Father of Scholasticism –(Nov.13)
Fausset, A. R. –(July 3)
Fawcett, John --Birth of, (Jan.6); converted under George Whitefield, (Jan.6); Death of, (July 25)
Fawkes, Guy –(Nov.5)
Feast of Reason –(Nov.10)

Federal Council of Churches of Christ In America --founded, (Nov.21); first meeting of, (Dec.2); the request to provide a teacher for the crown prince of Japan, and the Council's response in sending a woman who denies the reality of the new birth, (July 26)

Felicitas --Death of, (Mar.7)

Fenelon, Francois de Salinac de la Mothe --Birth of (Aug.6); his correspondence with Madame Guyon, (Aug.6)the condemnation of, (Mar.12); his persecution of the Huguenots, (Aug.6)

Fenelon, La Mothe --snubbed by the English Court as ambassador of France on account of the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre, (Aug.24)

Fenton, Ferrar --his opposition to Higher Criticism as "wild delusion or deliberate swindle," (Dec.4)
Ferdinand I --opens the Third Imperial Diet of Spires, (Feb.9); declares the Religious Peace of 1555, (Mar.6)
Ferdinand II --issues the Edict of Restitution against the toleration of Protestants, (Mar.6)
Ferdinand III (Hungary) –(Oct.20)
Ferdinand (Brunswick) --cf. (Dec.5)
Ferdinand (Czechoslovakia) --effects bitter persecution against Protestants, (May 23)
Ferdinand (Spain) --with Queen Isabella decrees unconverted Jews to banishment, (Oct.31)
Fifth Emergency Decree –(July 20)
Fifth Lateran Council --the doctrine of Papal Infallibility, (Aug.9)
Fillmore, Millard --cf. (Oct.24)
Fines, Charles --cf. (Apr.7)
Fink --cf. (Sept.13)

Finney, Charles Grandison --Birth of, (Aug.29); Awakened and Converted, (Aug.29); institutes the Altar Call, (Aug.29); his theology, (Aug.29); his Lectures On Revivals introduced into England and their assessment by John Angell James, (Oct.1); opposed by Asahel Nettleton and Lyman Beecher, (Aug.29)

First Act to decree the abolition of slavery, (Feb.4)
First Adult Baptism in Zurich –(Jan.21)
First Adult Bible class in France –(Jan.17)
First Baptist Church founded in America, (Oct.9)
First Bible Printed in North America –(Sept.1)
The First Blast Of The Trumpet Against The Monstrous Regimen (t) Of Women, (Aug.19)
First City Mission in modern times --founded, (Jan.17)
First Continental Congress –(Jan.9), (Sept.13), (Oct.25), (Dec.12)
First Day Society --3990400
First Director of the United States Mint – (Feb.18)
First Doctorate in Music conferred in the United States –(Jan.8)
First Independent Church formed within the Anabaptist movement –(Jan.18)
First Industrial School in France –(Jan.17)
First Martyr of the Reformation –(July 1)
First Missionary to China in modern times – (Jan 5)
The First of Elizabeth –(July 1)
First Paper Mill in America –(Feb.18)
First Protestant Martyr of France –(Apr.17)

First Protestant Missionary Enterprise in the New World, (Jan.15); the commissioning of Pierre Richer and Guillaume Chattier, (Jan.15)

First Protestant Service conducted in America –(Aug.13)
First Public Worship Service at Plymouth, Massachusetts –(Jan.21)
First Religious Newspaper in the United States –(Sept. 28)
First Sunday School in Germany –(Jan.9)
First World War --cf. (Apr.25)
Fisher, Edward --pens The Marrow Of Divinity, (May 20)
Fisher, James --teaches John Brown of Haddington, (June19)
The Five Articles of Perth --adopted, (Aug.25); voided, (Aug.25)
The Five Mile Act --passed, (Mar.24)
The Five Points of Arminianism –(Oct.10)
The Five Points of Calvinism –(Nov.13)

Flavel, John --ordination of, (Oct.17); moderator at the Exeter Assembly, (June 23); flees Dartmouth by ship, (July 10); flees Devonshire, (Aug.15); arrested with William Jenkyn, (Sept.2); Death of, (June 26)

Flavianus --breaks into Church compelling Athanasius to flee, (Oct.5)
Fleetwood Marriages –(June 6)
Fleming, Peter --Death of, (Jan.8)
Fletcher, Rev. Frances –(Jan.24)

Fletcher, John William --defends the Arminianism of John Wesley, (Aug.14); opposes the American War for Independence, (Aug.14); piety of, (Aug.14)

Florida --the founding of St. Augustine, (Sept.2); the Spanish under Menendez attack the Huguenot settlement in Georgia, and the subsequent attack by Dominique de Gourges, (Sept.2); the Spanish invasion of Georgia, and its subsequent failure, (July 24)

Flower, Sarah –(Aug.11)
Foljambe, Rev. S. W. –(Jan.5)
Formosa Christian College (India) –(Apr.6)
The Formula Of Concord—(June 25)
The Forty-One Articles -{See: Thirty-NineArticles)

Fosdick, Harry Emerson --Birth of, (May 24); his early rebellion against the separation from worldliness, (May 24); the influence of Colgate College, Colgate-Rochester Divinity School, and William Newton Clarke, (May 24); his ordination as a Baptist while a Presbyterian pastor, (May 24); this thorough departure from the Faith, (May 24); his resignation from the First Presbyterian Church of New York, (May 24); pastors the Park Avenue Baptist Church in New York, (May 24); his use of Unitarian literature while serving as pastor of the Riverside Church in New York, (Apr.6); John R. Straton of, (May 24)

The Four-Fold State –(May 20)); cf. (Jan.1)
Fox, William –(Sept.7)
Foxe, George --conversion of, (Jan.13); the influence of Jacob Boehme, (Nov.17); Death of, (Jan.13)
Foxe, John --pens Acts And Monuments (Book Of Martyrs), (Apr.18); defends the right to persecute, (July 15); Death of, (Apr.18)

France --the introduction of Christianity under Lothair II and Dagobert I, (Nov.5); the resistance to Christianity by Prince Radbod, (Nov.5); the protection of Willibrord by Pippin, (Nov.5); the assistance of Charles Martel of Willibrord, (Nov.5); the baptism of Clovis and three thousand of his soldiers, (Dec.25); the first Protestant martyr of France, (Apr.17); limited rights acknowledged to the Waldensians, (Aug.18); the St. Bartholomew Day Massacre, (Aug.24); Parliament decides against Lutheranism, (May 20); France delivered to Leo X in a Concordat by Francis I, (Aug.18); the Convention of the Notables , (Aug.26); the Religious Conference of Poissy, (Sept.9). THE HUGUENOT WARS: First War of Religion, (Mar.19). Second War of Religion, (Mar.13). Third War of Religion, (Mar.13); ends, (Aug.2). Fifth War of Religion –(Sept.15); the Edict of Beaulieu, (Sept.15). Sixth War of Religion, (Sept.15); the Edict of Poitiers, (Sept.15). Seventh War of Religion, (Apr.15). Eighth War of Religion, (Oct.20). Cardinal Richelieu and his opposition to the Huguenots, (Sept.5); Samuel de Champlain, (Dec.25); renewal of Re-strictions upon Protestants, (May 14). THE FRENCH REVOLUTION: the early days of fermentation, (Oct.5); Samuel Smiles on, (Sept.2); the French National Convention abolishes slavery, (Feb.4); the Revolutionary Assembly transfers the Registry of births, marriages, and deaths from the Church to Civil authorities, (Sept.20); confiscates all Church property, (Apr.22); burns the Pope in effigy, (May 4); the deposition of Nonjuring priests, (May 27); the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, (July 12); expatriates forty thousand Roman Catholic priests, (Aug.23); decrees divorce possible by simple declaration, and later amended to common agreement, (Aug.30); changes the Calendar, (Oct.5); places Church property at the disposal of the State, (Nov.2); the State guarantees the salaries of Clergymen, (Nov.2); requires bishops to swear an Oath of Obedience, (Nov.27); the apostasy and death of Archbishop Gobel, (Nov.7); the apostasy and death of Julien of Toulouse, (Nov.7); proclaims the Feast of Rea-son in celebration of the abolition of Religion, (Nov.10); assures pensions to all Clergymen renouncing their duties, (Nov.22); the National Convention urged by Robespierre to acknowledge the existence of God, and the Immortality of the Soul, (May 7). Napoleon releases Roman Catholic Church officials banished or imprisoned, (Dec.28); his declaration that it is the duty of the State to protect the Protestant minority, (Mar.9); his declaration guaranteeing Protest-ants freedom of conscience, (May 13); his Concordat with Pius VII committing France to the Pope, (May 13); a law is passed separating Church and State, (Dec.11)

Francis I --his capture by Charles V, (Feb.24); the French Parliament votes against Lutheranism, (May 20); delivers France to Pope Leo X in a Concordat, (Aug.18); cf. (Mar.18); dismisses the Senate, (Aug.18)

Francis II --the imprisonment and condemnation of the Prince of Conde, (May 7); Death of, (May 7)
Francke August Hermann –(Mar.10)
Fraternal League --issues a declaration of war against the Archbishop of Treves, (Aug.13)

Frederick I (Barbarossa) --pledges his sup-port for the suppression of heresy, (June 10); the Third Crusade and his subsequent Death (June 10)

Frederick II --refuses to join a crusade and its subsequent defeat, (Sept.29); his beginning and termination of, and his subsequent excommunication by Gregory IX, (Sept.29); captures Jerusalem and proclaims himself King of the Holy Land and the Successor of King David, (Mar.17); sanctions the cruelties of the Inquisition, (June 17); forces the Pope to flee Rome, (Sept.29); his second excommunication, (Mar.24)

Frederick III –(Jan.10)
Frederick V --chosen by the Bohemian evangelicals for their king as opposed to the Jesuit-trained Ferdinand, (May 23)

Frederick William I --his character, and the war of survival for evangelical Christianity, (Dec.5); receives banished Austrian Lutherans, (Mar.23)

Frederick, Elector of Saxony --his dream, (Oct.31); his questioning of Erasmus of Luther, (Dec.5); cf. (Feb.8)
Free Church of France --founded, (Sept.1)
Free Church of Scotland --founded, cf. (May 18)
Free Evangelical Church –(May 18)
Freedom Charter –(Dec.5)
Freedom of the Will –(Oct.10)
Freeman, James --the scandalous ordination of, (Nov.18); cf. (June19)
Freemasonry --condemned by Pius IX, (Dec.8)

French and Indian War --cf. (Nov.17); the defeat of General Edward Braddock and the marvelous preservation of George Washington, (July 9)

French Prophets –(May 18)
French Revolution --(See: France)
Freundsberg, General George –(Apr.16)
Friesland --grants free asylum and full citizenship to those fleeing religious persecution, (May 1)
Frith, John –(July 4)
Fry, Elizabeth – (May 21).

Fuller, Andrew --Birth of, (Feb.6); his conversion and subsequent baptism, (Feb.6); the Baptist Foreign Missionary Society, (May 2); cf. (Oct.2); the influence of John Gill, (Feb.6); the influence of John Owen, (Feb.6); the influence of Jonathan Edwards, (Feb.6); Death of (May 2)

The Fundamental Laws of West New Jersey –(Mar.3)
The Fundamental Orders of Connecticut -- cf. (May 31), (July 7)
Fundamentalism --attacked by Harry Emerson Fosdick, and the ensuing controversy, (May 24)

 

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