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INDEX

"All power is vested in, and consequently derived from the people. Magistrates are their Trustees and Servants, and at all times amenable to them."

-The Virginia Declaration of the Rights of Man-

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Gadsby, William --Death of, (Jan.27); J. C. Philpot of, (Jan.27)
Galerius Maximus --sentences Cyprian to Death, (Sept.14)
Gales, Pedro --imprisonment and Death of, (Apr.17); his remains exhumed and burned, (Apr.17)

Galileo --(Galileo Galilei) --forced by the Inquisition to abjure the Copernican view of the solar system, (June 22)

Gallican Confession --adopted by the First National Synod of France, (Apr.2)
Gano, John –(Sept.8)
Gardiner, Bishop Stephen --deposed, (July 20)
Gardiner, James –(Jan.11)

Gardner, Captain Allen --labors among the South American Indians, (Dec.5); founds the Patagonian Missionary Society, (Dec.5); Death of, (Dec.5)

Garret, __________--his Death at Smithfield, (July 30)
Gates of Paradise –(Dec.1)
Gaussen, Louis –(Feb.28)

Gavrilo, Patriarch --protests the policy of persecution under Marshal Tito, (Nov.29); his banishment and submission, (Nov.29)

Gayhan, John –(June 6)
Geddes, Jenny –(July 23)
General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church In The Confederate States of America ~-organized, (Dec.4)
General Assembly of the Reformed Church of Scotland –(Dec.20)
Geneva Convention –(Aug.22)

Genseric --his Vandal army sacks Carthage, (Oct.19); "vandalizes" Rome, (Oct.19); his intolerance to Christianity, (Oct.19)

Gensfleish, John --(See: John Gutenberg)
George I --cf. (Apr.9)

George II --grants a charter to New Jersey for a college, (Oct.22); grants a charter to New York for a college, (Oct.31); decrees the boundaries for the Province of Georgia to be in trust for the poor, (June 9); refuses to aid Protestant Prussia under Frederick William I, (Dec.5)

George III --his authority repudiated by Rhode Island, (May 4); his impressment of soldiers and hiring of German mercenaries, (May 4); calls for the encouragement of piety and the prevention of immorality, (Oct.30); his insanity, (May 4); cf. (Apr.14)

George of Freundsberg –(Apr.16)
George of Saxony --of Martin Luther, (Oct.16)
George, John --his imprisonment and fine for absenting himself from Anglican worship, (Apr.17)

Georgia-- the destruction of a Huguenot settlement by the Spanish under Menendez, (Sept.2); boundaries of decreed to be in trust for the poor, (June 9); Jews welcomed, while Roman Catholics barred, (June 9); slaves, rum, and lawyers prohibited, and land ownership forbidden, (June 9); General James Oglethorpe refuses a petition requesting the admission of slaves, (Oct.20); Charles Wesley made chaplain of the city of Frederic, (Dec.18); the invasion by the Spanish and their subsequent defeat at St. Simon, (July 24); the failure of the Spanish attack upon Fort William, (July 24); Lutherans banished from Austria welcomed, (Mar.23); banished Acadians attempt to return to their homes, (July 3); a Religious test required to hold public office, (July 19)

Gerard, Balthazar --his murder of William of Orange, cf. (Aug.24)
Gerhardt, Paul –(Mar.12)
German Evangelical Church --the first Diet of, and the subsequent Revival, (Sept.21-23)
German National Party –(Nov.5)

Germany --Emperor Charles V demands the cessation of Protestant preaching in the city of Augsburg, (June 18); three national weaknesses confronting Charles V, (Sept.21); Bishop Franz Waldeck demands the removal of evangelical pastors from the city of Muenster and restores Catholicism, (June 28); the Governor of the city of Treves renews the interdiction against preaching, (Sept.14); Elector Johann himself returns to the city of Treves to suppress evangelical preaching, (Sept.16); the Elector leaves Treves to return with an army to force its submission, (Sept.28); the city of Muenster embraces the Reformation, (June 28); the first War of Religion, (Aug.13); Count Palatine Wolfgang raises an army to assist the Huguenots, (Sept.18); an ordinance calls for the weekly catechetical examinations of children and adults throughout the country, (Feb.24); the city of Leipsic forbids conventicles and private assemblies, (Mar.10); Lutherans granted full religious liberty in Brandenburg, (May 6); the city of Hamburg grants freedom of worship to the Reform-ed, to Roman Catholics, and to Mennonites, (Sept.19); private devotional meetings permitted, (Oct.10); the sale of mercenaries, and the condemnation of by the German Diet, (May 4); the Battle of Rossbach, (Dec.5); the persecution of Lutherans in Prussia, (Apr.4); Prussia recognizes the Lutheran Church on German soil, (July 23); the secularization of church property, (Feb.25); the German National Party and the secession from Rome, (Nov.5); assists the Waldensians, (Aug.1-4); the Kneeling Controversy, (Aug.14); the Civil Constitution of Hamburg recognizes religious liberty for all, (Sept.28); the German Reichstag declares the State to be supreme over the church, (Mar.12). Hitler signs a Concordat with the Vatican guaranteeing religious liberty for Catholics in Germany, (July 20); the Fifth Emergency Decree, (July 20); Nazi attacks upon the Confessing Church, (Oct.6); Nazi atrocities committed against the Orthodox Church in Yugoslavia, (Apr.17)

Ghiberti, Lorenzo –(Dec.1)
Ghislieu, Michele (Pius V) --his massacre as Grand Inquisitor of Waldensians attempting to administer the
Sacraments, (Nov.11)

Gill, John --Birth of, (Nov.23); publicly confesses Christ, (Nov.29); baptism of, (Nov.4); preaches his first sermon, (Nov.4); begins his ministry, (Nov.11); his influence upon Andrew Fuller, (Feb.6); Death of, (Oct.14)

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