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Valdes, Juan – (Jan.14)

Valens, Emperor --reverses the Edict of Julian, (Oct.5); resisted by Basil I, (Aug.9); banishes Athanasius, (May 2); his Arianism and persecution of Orthodoxy, (Aug.9); defeated by the Visigoths at Adrianople and his subsequent Death, (Aug.9)

Valentine --Death of, (Feb.14)

Valentinian I --issues an edict denouncing the immorality of the clergy and the monks, and threatening them with punishment, (July 30); his profession of Christianity, cf. (Aug.9)

Valentinian II --grants protection to the Arians, (Jan.23); withstood by Ambrose, (Apr.4)
Valentinian III --declares the Primacy of Rome, (June 6); petitions Genseric for toleration of Christianity, (Oct.19)

Valerian --prohibits Christians to assemble and banishes their pastors, (Aug.10); orders the immediate murder of bishops, presbyters and deacons, and the arrest and degradation of the wealthy, (Aug.10)

Vandals --Genseric sacks Carthage, (Oct.19); and "Vandalizes" Rome, (Oct.19); his intolerance to Christianity, (Oct.19); the fall of North Africa, (Nov.13)

Vane, Sir Henry – (May 1); espouses Puritanism, (June 14); at the Westminster Assembly, (June14); emigrates to Massachusetts, (Aug.27); his protection of Anne Hutchinson and his argument for the toleration of Unitarians, Quakers, and Roman Catholics, (June14); leaves the Calvinistic connection, (Aug.24); ostracized by Presbyterians and his defense of their right to admittance to the House of Commons, (June 14); opposes the absolutism of Oliver Cromwell, (June 14); his trial and subsequent Death, (June 14); the inhabitants of Rhode Island of, (Aug.27)

Vasa, Gustavus --encourages the Christianization of Lapland and Finland, (June 6)

Vassy, Massacre of –(Mar.1); instigates the First War of Religion in France, (Mar.19); the Prince of Conde seizes the city of Orleans, (May 7); cf. (Apr.15); the Protestants of Rouen seize the government, (Oct.31)

Vaudois --(See: Waldensians)
Vaughan, William –(May 1)
Venezuela --delivered up to the Pope in a Concordat with Pius IX, (July 26)

Venn, Henry --Birth of (Mar.2); preaches the funeral of William Grimshaw, (Apr.7); Death of, (June 24); the testimony of his son, (June 24)

Verbeck, Guido Herman Fridolin --labors in Japan, (Nov.7); Death of, (Mar.10)
Verjus, Andrew --cf. (May 20)

Vermigli, Pierre Matire --Birth of, (Sept.8); summoned to Genoa to answer for a tract he has published questioning the doctrine of Purgatory, and his subsequent flight, (Sept.8)

Vernoux, Massacre of –(Dec.12)

Vermont --the Convention of acknowledges all men to be freeborn with inalienable rights, (July 2); forbids slavery and the debtor's prison, (July 2); provides for a school in each town and a University in the state, (July 2)
Vespasian, Titus Flavius --seizes control of the Roman Army, (July 1); lays siege to the city of Jerusalem, (July 1); erects the Colosseum, (July 1)

Villegagnon, Nicolas Durand de --founds the first Protestant mission work in the New World, (Jan.15); the dispute over the Lord's Supper and the subsequent breaking up of the Huguenot colony in Brazil, (Jan.15)

A Vindication of the Government of the New England Churches – (Apr.8)

Vins, Georgi – (May 17)
Vio, Jacopo de –(See: Thomas Cajetan)
Viret, Pierre --his ordination by William Farel, (Apr.4); his dismissal from his pastorate, (Apr.4); the attempted poisoning of, (Apr.4); Death of, (Apr.4)

Virginia --the testimony of Captain John Smith of the beginnings of Jamestown, (June 10); Sir James Yeardley arrives as Governor of Jamestown, and the subsequent implementation of laws, (Apr.19); King James sends convicts and orphans, (June 10); a Royal Charter granted, (Apr.10); Jamestown warned by a converted Indian of an impending Indian attack, (Mar.22); a refuge for those fleeing religious persecution, (May 1); preaching prohibited by all except those ordained by the Church of England, (Mar.2); the Act of Intolerance passed against Quakers, (Mar.2); passes legislation against all Separatists, (Sept.12); the expulsion of John Porter from the Assembly on account of his favorable attitude toward Quakers, (Sept.12); the arraignment of Quakers, (Apr.4); the General Assembly first meets, (Oct.7); the General Committee of Baptists petition President George Washington in behalf of Religious freedom, (Aug.8); Thomas Jefferson introduces his “Bill for the Establishing Religious Freedom", (June 12); forbids a mandatory tax for the support of ministers, (July 19); the Hanover Presbytery argues with the Assembly for full religious freedom, (Oct.24); adopts the Declaration Of The Rights Of Man, (June 12); repeals the Acts of Parliament, (Dec.5); condemns slavery, (Aug.8); the Battle of Norfolk, (Dec.8)

Virginia Military Institute --cf. (Dec.2)
Visigoths --defeat Valens in the Battle of Adrianople, (Aug.9); sack Rome, (Aug.24)
Voes --Suffers as a first martyr of the Reformation, (July 1)
Vollraths, Richard Von Greiffenblau Zer -- an enemy of the Gospel, (Aug.13)
Volkerts, Jan --founds the first Dutch Mennonite community, and his subsequent beheading, (Dec.5)

Voltaire, Francois Marie Arouet de --his agnosticism, (May 30); an Encyclopedist, (Oct.5); his defense of religious freedom, (May 31); his attack on priestcraft, (Dec.5); of the Lord's Day, (July 2); Samuel Smiles of, (May 30); his confession and Death, (May 30); cf. (Dec.5)

Vulgate – (Sept.30)

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