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Conquest of Canaan --cf. (Jan.11)

Conrad of Marbury --a Papal Bull authorizes him as Inquisitor-General to extirpate heresy in Germany, (June 17)the assassination of, (July 30)

Constance, Council of --Emperor Sigismund summons John Huss, (Oct.11); declares itself superior to kings and popes, (Apr.6); declares laity may partake of but one element in the Lord's Supper, (June 15); condemns the work of John Wycliffe, exhumes his hones and burns them, (May 4); John Huss denied safe conduct, (Oct.11); Huss is burned, (July 6)

Constans II --champions Monothelitism, (Aug.13); issues the Typus forbidding discussion of the one or two wills of Christ, (Aug.13); Death of, (Aug.13)

Constantine –(Oct.28); summons the Council of Nicea, (May 20); advises Maximinus to cease his persecution of the Church, (Apr.30); orders Athanasius to receive Arius into communion, and banishes him when he refuses, (Nov.23); brings the sword of persecution into the Church, (May 22); initiates State support of ministers, (May 22); Death of, (May 22)

Constantino –(Dec.22)
Constitutions of Arundel –(Feb.19)
Constitutions of Clarendon –(Jan 30)
Constitutions of Stephen Langton –(Apr.17)
Conte, Bois le –(Jan.15)
Contessee, Gabriel –(Sept.4)
Continental Congress --(See: United States)
Coode, John --forms the Association in Arms for the Defense of the Protestant Religion, and usurps the government of Maryland, (Aug.23)

Cook, Captain James --his influence upon William Carey, (Aug.10)
Cooke, Henry --Birth of, (May 11); forces the anti-Trinitarians to secede from the Synod of Ulster, (May 11)
Cooke, Mary --(Mrs. Adam Clarke)—(Apr.17)
Coolidge, President Calvin –(Aug.3)
Cop, Nicholas --with John Calvin flees France following his stirring sermon, (Nov.1)

Corey, Martha --imprisoned for denying the reality of witchcraft, (Mar.21); visited by Matthew Parris and her subsequent excommunication, (Sept.22); Death of, (Sept.22)

Corguilleray, Philippe de –(Jan.15)
Cornbury, Governor --his harassment of Dissenters, (June 3)

Cornwallis, General Charles –his surrender to General George Washington, (Oct.19); the Congress of the United States renders thanks to God, (Oct.19)
Coronation Oath --broken by Charles II, (June 22); cf. (Feb.13)
Corporation Act –(Dec.24); cf. (May 24), (Aug.1)

Corporation For Promoting And Propagating The Gospel Among The Indians Of New England --reestablished by Robert Boyle, (May 20); supports John Eliot, (May 20)

Cory, Giles --condemned for witchcraft, (Sept.9)
Cosby, Governor William --his tyranny, (Nov.17)

Cotton, John --at the Westminster Assembly, (July 1); flees England and arrives in Boston, (Sept.4); cf. (July 7); publishes the Creed Of John Davenport, (June 26); at the Cambridge Synod, (June 8), (Dec.23); the Bloody Tenent of Persecution controversy, (July 15); his Reasons for opposing Roger Williams, (Sept.4); the prosecution of Roger Williams, (Oct.9); his opposition of the Half-Way Covenant, (June 26); assists in the publication of the Bay Psalm Book, (Dec.23); condemns the Presbyterian government advocated by the Westminster Assembly, (Dec.23)

Cotton, Maria --(Mrs. Increase Mather)—(Aug.23)

Councils

American Council of Christian Churches—(Apr.7)
Council of Basel (1433) –(Jan.4)
Council of Chalcedon (451) –(Oct.1), (Nov.25)
Council of Clermont {1095) –(July 7), (Nov.18)
Council of Constance (1414) --convenes (Nov.1); opens (Nov.5); See: (Apr.6), (May 4)
Council of Dort (1618) --convenes (Nov.13); adopts the Belgic Confession, (Apr.29)
Council of Ephesus (400) –(Feb.26); (431) – (June 22)
International Council of Christian Churches –(Apr.7)
Fifth Lateran Council –(Aug.9)
National Council of Churches --of India, (Apr.6)
Nicea (325) –(May 20)
Orange (529) –(June 3)
Oxford (1408) –(Aug.22)
Paris (1414) –(Feb.23)
Savoy (1661) –(Apr.15)
Toulouse (1229) –(Aug.22)
Trent (1545} --convenes (Dec.13); See: (Jan.26), (Apr.18)
World Council of Churches (1948) – (Aug.22)
 

Court, Antoine – ordination of, (Nov.21); assembles the first Huguenot synod to re-establish the “Church in the Desert”, (Aug.21); chosen General Deputy by the National Synod of the Huguenot Church, (June 18); returns from self-imposed exile to restore peace to a strife-ridden church, (June 2); Death of (June 15)

Courtenay, William—summons the assembly to expunge “false doctrine” from the land, (May 21); John Wycliffe summoned to appear before, (Feb.19); the occurrence of an earthquake, (May 21)

Cousin, A.R. – (Mar.30)

Covenanters – Origin of, (Feb.28), (Sept.25); persecution under Charles I, (Feb.28); the defeat of the Royalists at Drumclog, (June 1); defeated by the Royalists at Bothwell Bridge, (June 22); defeated by the Royalists at Rullion Green, (Dec.4); the murder of Archbishop James Sharp, (May 3)

Coverdale, Miles – completes the translation of the Bible from Dutch and Latin, (Oct.4); publishes the first complete English Bible, (Feb.19); Superintends the printing of the Great Bible, (Feb.19); cf. (Dec.17); edits

Cranmer’s Bible, (Feb. 19); Death of (Feb. 19); cf. (Feb.4)

Cowper, William –Birth of, (Nov.26); assists John Newton in his Olney Hymns, (Apr.25); the influence of Thomas Scott, (Dec.21); his influence on William Wilberforce, (Dec.21); Death of, (Apr.25)

Cradle of Liberty – (Mar.29)

Craig, John – conversion of, (Sept.29); his imprisonment and subsequent escape, (Sept.29); succeeds John Knox as leader of the Scottish Church, (Sept.29); rebuked by Andrew Melville, (Sept. 29); Death of, (Sept. 29)

Craig, Lewis –(June 4)
Cranach, Lucas --witnesses Luther's marriage (June 11); depicts Rome as Babylon, (Mar.28)
Cranfield, Governor Edward --attempts to extort taxes and to regulate religion in New Hampshire, (Jan.14)

Cranmer, Thomas --Birth of, (July 2); the influence of Nicholas Ridley, (Oct.16); the first Protestant Archbishop of Canterbury, (Mar.30); pens the Forty-One Articles, later to be reduced to Thirty-Nine Articles, (Oct.16); invites Martin Bucer to England to assist in the revision of the Prayerbook, (Feb.28); denounces the preaching of George Wishart, (Mar.1); witnesses the martyrdom of Nicholas Ridley and Hugh Latimer, (Oct.16); his recantations and subsequent retraction of those recantations, (Oct.16); his heroic Death, (Mar.21); cf. (Oct.16), (Feb.9)

Cranmer's Bible --cf. (Feb.19)
Crapsey, Algemon Sidney --his trial for heresy and his subsequent unfrocking, (Apr.18)
"The Creation" --the first performance of, (Apr.29); cf. (Nov.26)
The Creed of John Davenport –(June 26)
Crimean War --cf. (Aug.23)
Cromwell, Earl of Essex --cf. (Dec.17)

Cromwell, Oliver --Birth of, (Apr.25); his "Iron-sides", (Aug.30); the Battle of Marston Moor, (July 2); submits the Heads of the Proposals to the king, (Apr.25); appointed as Captain-General, (June 26); installed as Lord Protector, (Dec.16); cf. (June 26); tries Charles I for treason and his subsequent execution, (Jan.30); opposed by Sir Henry Vane, (June 14); rescues Waldensians from destruction, and institutes a collection for them, (Aug.1), (Dec.16); Death of, (Aug.30); Philip Schaff of, (Aug.30)

Cromwell, Thomas --advises Henry VIII to break with Rome, (July 22); his intrigues and Death, (July 22)
The Crook in the Lot –(May 20)
Crosby, Fanny --Birth of, (Mar.24); blinded, (Mar.24); pens her first hymn, (Feb.5); marries Alexander Alstyne, (Mar.24)
"Crossing The Bar" –(Aug.6); cf. (Oct.6)
Crowther, Samuel --(Adjar)--his capture and enslavement, and subsequent conversion, (Dec.11)
Cruden, Alexander --Birth of, (May 31); pens his Concordance, (Nov.1); Death of, (Nov.1)
Cruelty to Animals Act --passed in the United States, (June 29); the Greek Society for the Prevention of Cruelty to Animals, (June 29)

Crusades --the Council of Clermont (1095), (Nov.18). THE FIRST CRUSADE: instigated by Pope Urban II and Peter the Hermit, (Nov.18); the fall of Antioch to the crusaders (1098), (June 3); defended against the Sultan of Mosul, (June 3); Jerusalem falls to the crusaders (1099), (July 15); Edessa falls to the Emir of Mosul (1144), (Dec.25); the effects of the First Crusade, (July 7); the Death of Peter the Hermit, (July 7). THE SECOND CRUSADE: preached by Bernard of Clairveaux, cf. (Aug.20). THE THIRD CRUSADE: the Normans of Sicily capture Thessalonica from the Turks (1185), (Aug.15); Saladin defeats the Christian forces (1187), (July 5); Frederick I, (Barbarossa) drowns (1190), (June 10). THE FIFTH CRUSADE: a treaty with the Sultan Kamil turns Jerusalem over to the crusaders (1229), (Feb.18). THE SIXTH CRUSADE: Louis IX and his entire army captured by the Mohammedans, (June 3). THE SEVENTH CRUSADE: the Death of Louis IX, (June 3); Philip III makes a treaty with the Emir, (June 3). The Results of the Crusades, (Nov.18).

Cuba --open persecution of Protestants by Communists under Fidel Castro, (May 13); Communist oppression of Roman Catholics, (July 17)

Culpepper Minutemen –(Dec.8)
"Cum Tanto Divino" --Pope Julius II declares Popes may err, and pronounces papal elections secured by bribery are nullified, (Feb.10)

Cummins, George –(Dec.3)
Curione, Cello Secondo --Birth of, (May 1); his escape into exile, (May 1)
Cushman, Robert –(Dec. 11)
Cyclopedia of Biblical Literature –(Dec.4)

Cyprian --taught by Tertullian, (Sept.14); his refusal to sacrifice to the Roman gods and his subsequent condemnation, (Aug.30); his murder, (Sept.14)

Cyprian of Toulon –(June 3)
Cyril, Archbishop --defends Christianity to Julian the Apostate, (June 27); closes the church of the Novatians, (June 22); Death of (June 22)

Czechoslovakia --Wenceslaus establishes Christianity as the state religion (935), and his treacherous murder, (Sept.28); John Trocznowski and the Hussite Wars, (Oct.11); persecution of the Waldensians, (July 25); the Code of 1541, (July 25); persecution under Ferdinand, (May 23); limited Religious liberty granted by Rudolph II, (May 23); Bohemia ceded to Matthias and the subsequent renewal of restrictions, (May 23); the beginning of the Thirty Years War, (May 23); Protestants elect Frederick V as king and expel the Jesuits,
(Nov.8); Thirty thousand Lutheran families exiled, (Nov.8); Joseph II issues the Edict of Toleration, (Oct.29)


 

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