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 Booth, William --Birth of, (Apr.10); leaves the Methodist to Found the "Salvation Army", (Apr.10); Death of (Aug.20); funeral of, (Aug.29)

Bora, Catherine Von --(Mrs. Martin Luther) Marriage of, (June 11); Death of, (Dec.20)
Borman, Frank –(Dec.25)
Boscawen, Vice Admiral –(July 3)
Boston Sermons --cf. (Aug.19), (Sept.30), (Nov.4)
Boston, Thomas --Birth of, (Mar.17); conversion of, (Mar.17); the Marrow Controversy, (May 20); Death of, (May 20); cf. (Jan.1)

Bothwell Bridge --Covenanters defeated, (June 22)
Botskai, Stephen --resists persecution in Hungary, (June 23)
Botticelli, Sandro –(May 17)
Bottome, Mrs. Margaret --founds the Inter-national Order of the King's Daughters and Sons, (Jan.13)

Boudinot, Elias --Birth of, (Apr.30); first President of the American Bible Society, (May 8); Director of the United States mint, (Oct.24); representative of New Jersey at the Continental Congress, (Oct.24); Death of, (Oct.24)

Bourbon, Constable of --captures Rome and the Roman Pontiff, (May 6)
Bourbon, Louis de --(Prince of Conde)--Birth of, (May 7); the conspiracy of Amboise, (May 7); his imprisonment and sentence of death, and Providential deliverance, (May 7)

Bowdoin College --of. (May 19)
Boxer Rebellion –(June 15); Herbert Hoover defends Chinese Christians, (Aug.10)

Boyle, Robert --Birth of, (Jan.25); conversion of, (Jan.25); re-establishes the Corporation for Promoting and Propagating the Gospel Among the Indians of New England, (May 20); Death of, (Dec.29)

Boyne, Battle of –(July 1)
Bradbury, William –(Mar.27)
Braddock, General Edward --defeated by the French and Indians, (July 9); cf. (Dec.20)
Bradford, William --of the Pilgrims, (July 22), (Dec.11)
Bradwardine, Thomas --awakens John Wycliffe (Aug.25); at the battles of Crecy and Calais, (Aug.25); his Death prohibits his assuming the Archbishopric of Canterbury, (Aug.25)

Brainerd, David --Birth of (Apr.20); conversion of, (July 12); his expulsion from Yale, (Apr.20); licensed to preach, (July29); ordination of, (June 11); marriage of, (Oct.9); his Death in the home of Jonathan Edwards, (Oct.9); his influence upon William Carey, (Oct.9); his influence upon Henry Martyn, (Oct.16); cf. (Aug.6), (Aug.8)

Bramante, Donate d'Agnolo --cf. (May 2)
Bray, Guy de --(See: Guido de Bres)

Brazil --colonization of by Huguenots encouraged by Gaspard Coligny, (Sept.1); the establishment and disintegration of a Huguenot colony, (Jan.15) of. (Sept.2)

Brenkelsz, Jan --proclaimed "King of Zion", (Feb.10)

Brenz, Johann --opposes the Augsburg Interim, (June 24); his escape and disguise as Joannes Witlingius and Huldrich Engster, (June 24); his flight from Halle before Charles V, (Dec.16); Death of (June 24); the desecration of his grave, (June 24)

Bres, Guido de --embraces Calvinism and his subsequent flight, (May 31); composes the Belgic Confession (May 31); burned in effigy and a price put upon his head, (May 31); his arrest and imprisonment, (May 31); the dying admonition to his mother, (May 31); his poverty, (May 31); his death and the resulting riot, (May 31)

Brethren In Christ --(See: Lollards)
Breuil, Pete du --his arrest, (Aug.8)
Brewster, Margaret --the trial of, (Aug.4)

Brewster, William --flees England with John Robinson, (Apr.10); sails with the Pilgrims, (Apr.10); conducts the first public worship service in Plymouth, (Jan.21); Death of, (Apr.10); cf. (Feb.12)

Brezhnev, Leonid --petitioned by oppressed Baptists protesting anti-religious legislation, (May 16)
Bridgman, Elijah Coleman --cf. (Jan.23)

Briessmann, Johann --marriage of, (June 12); assists in establishing Protestantism in Prussia, (July 5); introduces the first Prussian hymnbook, (Oct.1); recommends "lectio continua", (Oct.1); Death of, (Oct.1)

Bristol Assembly –(May 30)
British and Foreign Bible Society --founded, (May 4); the Apocrypha Controversy, (July 11); cf. (Apr.11)
British and Foreign Tract Society –(Oct.14)

British Organization of the Evangelical Alliance --writes Don Alfonso gratefully acknowledging his toleration of Evangelicals, (June 6)

Brooks, Philips –(Dec.27)
Brousson, Claude --his arrest, (Oct.30); Death of, (Nov.4)
Brown, David –(July 3)
Brown, Dr. John --cf. (Oct.13)
Brown, John --Thomas ("Stonewall") Jackson at his execution, (Dec.2)
Brown, John (of Edinburgh) –(Oct.13)
Brown, John (of Haddington) --the influence of William Guthrie, (Oct.10); taught by Ebenezer Erskine, (June 19); taught by James Fisher, (June 19); Death of, (June 19)

Browne, Robert --founds the Congregational Church, (June 2); his separation, (June 2); his imprisonment and subsequent death, (June 2)

Brownists –(June 2)
Bruce, Robert --the conversion of Alexander Henderson, (Aug. 19)
Brude, king of Picts --conversion of, (Dec.7)
The Bruised Reed and Smoking Flax --its influence upon Richard Baxter, (July 5)
Brunswick, Duke of --his cruelty in impressing soldiers for mercenary means, (May 4)

Bucer, Martin --Birth of, (Nov.11); invites John Calvin to Strasburg, (Apr.23); pens three catechisms and founds a seminary, (Nov.11); opposes the Augsburg Interim, (Feb.28); at the Conference of Marburg, (Oct.1); cf. (May 21); invited by Thomas Cranmer to England to assist in the revision of the Prayerbook, (Feb.28); cf. (June 9); his disputation with the English bishops, (Aug.6); Death of, (Feb.28); his remains exhumed and burned by Queen Mary after depriving him of his university honors, (Feb.6); his honors restored by Queen Elizabeth, (Feb.6); cf. (Feb.9)

Buchanan, ____________--pens Star in the East, (Jan.31)
Buchanan, Claudius –(Mar.12)
Buck, Pearl –(Mar.27)
Buet, Hugh --banishment of, (Dec.1)

Bugenhagen, Johann --Birth of, (June 24); performs the marriage of Martin Luther, (June 24); consults with Luther for a letter to the Elector Frederick, (Feb.8); preaches Luther's funeral, (Feb.22)

Bulfinch, Thomas --the scandal at King's Chapel, (Nov.18)
Bulkeley, Peter --cf. (Aug.30)

Bullinger, Heinrich --Birth of, (July 18); turns to the study of Scripture, (July 18); his influence upon Luther and Melancthon, (Sept.17); combats the Anabaptists, (Sept.17); assists in the preparation of the Second Helvetic Confession, (Sept.17); his care of the widow and children of Zwingli, (Oct.12); his influence upon John Hooper, (Oct.12); succeeds Zwingli as leader of the Reformation in Switzerland, (Dec.9); Death of (Sept.17)

Bunting, Jabez --cf. (Aug.23)

Bunyan, John --Birth of, (Nov.28); awakened, (Oct.26); licensed to preach, (May 9); ordination of, (Oct.24); arrested for unlicensed preaching, (Mar.4); confined to the Bedford Jail, (Nov.12); the influence of Foxe's Book Of Martyrs, (Apr.18); pens, Pilgrim's Progress, (Mar.4); Death of, (Aug.31)

The Bunyan of Wales --(See: Christmas Evans)
Buonarroti, Michelangelo --Birth of, (Mar.6); commissioned to work on St. Paul's Cathedral, (May 2)
Bure, Idelette de --(Mrs. John Calvin)--Marriage of, (Apr.23); a son is born, (July 28); Death of, (May 29)

Burgoyne, Gen. John --the surrender of, (Oct.18); the American colonies celebrate a general thanksgiving in celebration of his defeat, (Jan.1)

Burke, Edmund --of the Acadian persecution, (July 3); cf. (Jan.29)
Burns, William Chalmers --sails for China, (June 9); translates Pilgrim's Progress into Chinese, (June 9)
Burroughs, George --condemned for witchcraft, (Aug.19)
Burroughs, Jeremiah –(Nov.13)
Burrowes, George --Birth of (Apr.3); taught by Archibald Alexander and Charles Hodge, (Apr.3)
Butler, Henry --an open air service disrupted by soldiers, (Sept.13)

Butler, Joseph --his attack upon Deism and Rationalism, (June 16); pens the Analogy Of Religion Natural And Revealed, (June 16); Death of, (June 16)

Butten, William --cf. (Dec.11)

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