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Sigismund, Johann (of Brandenburg) --acknowledges freedom of conscience in matters of Religion, while opposing strict Lutheranism, (Dec.18)

"Silent Night" –(Dec.24)
Sillman, Benjamin --of Yale, (May 14)
Silvias, Aeneas (Piccolomini) --(See: Pius II)
Simeon, Charles --preaches the funeral of John Berridge, (Jan.22)
Simons, Menno – (Jan.13)
Singer, Elizabeth –(July 17)
"Sinners In The Hands Of An Angry God" –(July 8)
Sistine Chapel –(Mar.6)
Six Articles –(Jan.28)
Six Nations --cf. (Dec.1)
Sixtus IV --appoints Thomas de Torquemada as Inquisitor-General, (Sept.16)
Sixtus V --promises aid for the equipping of the Spanish Armada, (Aug.27); Death of, (Aug.27)
Slarvata – (May 23)

Slavery --the Synod of Orleans (511), (July 10); prohibited in the colony of Georgia, (June 9); General Oglethorpe refuses a petition re-questing the admission of slaves into the colony of Georgia, (Oct.20); prohibited in Vermont, (July 2); condemned by Virginia Baptists, (Aug.8); forbidden by Virginia in the Bill For the Establishing Of Religious Freedom, (Jan.16); opposed by Methodism, (Apr.24); the Methodist Anti-Slavery Convention meets, (Jan.18); the First Continental Congress forbids the importation of slaves into any of the thirteen colonies, (Apr.6); abolished by the French National Convention, (Feb.4); abolished by England, (Mar.25); cf. (July 29); the slave uprising in Santo Domingo; (July 29); the Nebraska Protest sent to Congress, (Aug.13); the Missouri Compromise, cf. (Aug.13); the Methodist Episcopal General Conference warns against the modern abolition movement, (June 17); the sermon preached by Rev. Benjamin Morgan Palmer, (Nov.29); the Declaration of Sentiments and the Constitution of the American Anti-Slavery Society, drafted, (Dec.6); opposed by David Livingstone, (Mar.1); opposed by General James Oglethorpe, (June 9); the institution of slavery defended by Robert Dabney, (Mar.5); defended by James Thornwell, (Mar.5); David Nitchmann and Leonard Dober labor with Negro slaves in Africa, (Dec.13)

Smeaton, George --his recommendation of Brownlow North, (Mar.14)
Smiles, Samuel --of the Encyclopedia, (Oct.5)

Smith, Eli --Birth of, (Sept.15); his labors in the Near East, (Sept.15); his Arabic translation of nearly the complete Bible, (Sept.15)

Smith, George Charles –(Mar.18); organizes the first prayer meeting for Seamen, (June 22)

Smith, Hezekiah --founds the first Baptist Church at Haverhill, Massachusetts, and his subsequent persecution, (May 9)

Smith, Rev. John --the persecution of, (Mar.13)

Smith, John --his capture by Powhatan and his subsequent rescue, (May 6); writes The General History of Virginia, (May 6); of the beginnings of Jamestown, (June 10)

Smith, Rodney (Gipsy) --Birth of, (Mar.31); conversion of, (Mar.31); affiliates himself with the Christian Mission of London, later known as the Salvation Army, (Mar.31)

Smith, Rev. S. H. –(Apr.8)
Smith, Samuel Francis --Birth of, (Oct.21); pens “My Country 'Tis Of Thee", (Oct.21)
Smith, Shergold –(Jan.30)
Snyder, Siche Freerks –(Mar.20)
Socialism --condemned by Pius IX, (Dec.8); condemned by Pius XI, (May 15)

Society For The Propagation Of The Gospel--contributions made by Parliament, (June 9); its attempts to establish Episcopacy in America, (June 16); invites Lutherans exiled from Austria to settle in Georgia, (Mar.23); supported by Robert Boyle, (Dec.30)

Society of Friends (Quakers) --cf. (Jan.13)

Society for the Support and Encouragement of Sunday Schools in England --(See: The Sunday School Society)

Society of Jesus --founded, (May 20); resisted by Paolo Sarpi, (Oct.5); resists the circulation of the Bible in Hungary, (Nov.1); expelled from Czechoslovakia, (Nov.8); persecution of the Plymouth Brethren in Switzerland, (Nov.18)

Society People –(June 22)
Solemn League --drafted, (Aug.19); sworn to, (Sept.25); Henry Hallem of, (Sept.25)
Soliloquies –(Nov.13)
"Sons of Light" –(Apr.25)

Soto, Ferdinand de --the storming of Cuzco, (Apr.25); accompanies Pizarro, (Apr.25); his exploration of the Mississippi River, (Apr.25); his claim to Divinity as the Child of the Sun, (Apr.25)

Soubise, Prince de Rohan --cf. (Dec.5)
South Africa --the defiance Campaign and the Freedom Charter, (Dec.5)

South Carolina --welcomes exiled Huguenots, (Mar.29); grants Huguenots full citizenship, (May 1); receives the banished Acadians, (July 3); requires a religious test for public officials as well as for voters, (July 19); demands an oath of allegiance, (July 19); acknowledges religious liberty to all Christians, except Roman Catholics, (Mar.10); seeks accommodation with Britain, (Mar.26).

South Company --a charter is granted by Gustavus Adolphus for the colonization and evangelization of the New World, (June 14); Peter Minuit and the building of Fort Christiana, (June 14)

The Sovereignty And Wisdom Of God Displayed In The Afflictions Of Men --(See: The Crook In The Lot) –(May 20)

Spafford, Horatio –(Nov.30)

Spain --an auto da fe takes place in Seville, (Sept.24); Thomas de Torquemada, the Inquisitor-General,(Sept.16); the burning of Julian Hernandez and other Evangelicals, (Dec.22); a Concordat is concluded with Pius XII, (Aug.27)

Spangenberg, Augustus A. --his report on the Moravian work in Pennsylvania, (June 11); his influence upon John Wesley, (June 11)

Spanish Armada --defeat of, (Nov.29)
Spaulding, Henry –(Feb.25)
Speratus, Paul --assists in founding Protestantism in Prussia, (July 5)
Speyers, Diets of --(See: Spires, Diets of)
Spiera, Francesco --the tragic end of an apostate, (Dec.26)
Spires Diets of --The First Diet of, (Aug.27). The Second Diet of, the Reformers first called Protestants, (Apr.24). The Third Imperial Diet, opens, (Feb.9)
Spiritual Exercises –(May 20)
Sprague, William B. --the introduction into England of his Lectures On The Revivals Of Religion, (Oct.1); cf. (Mar.22)
Spratt, John –(Feb.16)
Springfield Presbytery --the Dissolution of, (June 28)

Spurgeon, Charles Haddon --Birth of, (June 19); conversion of, (Jan.6); baptism of, (May 3); marriage of, (Jan.8); receives the first contribution for the building of the Metropolitan Tabernacle, (June 19); the laying of the first cornerstone, (Aug.15); the first service held in the Tabernacle, (Mar.18); the first sermon preached in the Tabernacle, (Mar.25); affirms himself to be a Five-point Calvinist, (Aug.15); preaches a funeral in the open air, (July 10); founds the Pastor's College and the Stockwell Orphanage, (Jan.31); edits the Sword And Trowel, and publishes Our Own Hymnbook, (Jan.31); publishes his monumental work on the Psalms, The Treasury Of David, (Jan.31); preaches in Wales, (July 20); censored by the Baptist Union, (Jan.18); withdraws from the London Baptist Association, (Apr.11); withdraws from the Baptist Union, (Oct.28); preaches his last sermon in the Metropolitan Tabernacle, (June 7); of Andrew Bonar, (Dec.30); Death of, (Jan.31)

Spurgeon, James --his labor to draw up a declaration of evangelicalism for the Baptist Union, (Apr.23)

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