Portal:Religion/On this day/January
On this day in January
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 1
January 1:
- 630 - Prophet Muhammad sets out toward Mecca with the army that will capture it bloodlessly.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 2
January 2:
- 533 - Mercurius becomes Pope John II, the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 3
January 3:
- 1431 - Joan of Arc is handed over to the Bishop Pierre Cauchon.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 4
January 4:
- 1999 - Gunmen open fire on Shiite Muslims worshipping in an Islamabad mosque, killing 16 people and injuring 25.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 5
January 5:
- 1527 - Felix Manz, a leader of the Anabaptist congregation in Zürich, was executed by drowning.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 6
January 6:
- 1494 - First Mass celebrated in the New World at La Isabela, Hispaniola.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 7
January 7:
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 8
January 8:
- 1198 - Innocent III becomes Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 9
January 9:
- 1349 - The Jewish population of Basel, Switzerland, is rounded up and incinerated, believed by the residents to be the cause of the ongoing bubonic plague.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 10
January 10:
- 236 - Saint Fabian begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 11
January 11:
- 314 - Pope Miltiades ends his reign as the Catholic Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 12
January 12:
- 1838 - In order to avoid prosecution under laws banning polygamy, Joseph Smith, Jr. and his followers leave Ohio for Missouri.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 13
January 13:
- 1938 - Church of England accepts theory of evolution.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 14
January 14:
- 1501 - Martin Luther, 17, enters the University of Erfurt.
- 1514 - Pope Leo X issues a papal bull against slavery.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 15
January 15:
- 588 BC - Nebuchadrezzar II of Babylon lays siege to Jerusalem under Zedekiah's reign. The siege lasts until July 18, 586 BC.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 16
January 16:
- 929 - Emir Abd-ar-rahman III of Cordoba declares himself caliph, thereby establishing the Caliphate of Cordoba.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 17
January 17:
- 1504 - Pope Pius V born. (d. 1572)
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 18
January 18:
- 336 - Saint Mark elected Catholic Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 19
January 19:
- Baháʼí Faith: Feast of Sultán (Sovereignty) — First day of the 17th month of the Baháʼí calendar.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 20
January 20:
- 250 - Emperor Decius begins a widespread persecution of Christians in Rome. Pope Fabian is martyred. Afterwards the Donatist controversy over readmitting lapsed Christians disaffects many in North Africa.
- 2007 – Islamic New Year.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 21
January 21:
- 1189 - Philip II of France and Richard I of England begin to assemble troops to wage the Third Crusade.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 22
January 22:
- 565 - Eutychius is deposed as Patriarch of Constantinople by John Scholasticus.
- 2008 - Tu Bishvat (Judaism)
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 23
January 23:
- 1579 - The Union of Utrecht forms a Protestant republic in the Netherlands.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 24
January 24:
- 1438 - The Council of Basel suspends Pope Eugene IV.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 25
January 25:
- 844 - Pope Gregory IV dies, ending his reign as Catholic Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 26
January 26:
- 1564 - The Council of Trent issued its conclusions in the Tridentinum, establishing a distinction between Roman Catholicism and Protestantism.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 27
January 27:
- 672 - St. Vitalian ends his reign as Catholic Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 28
January 28:
- 1077 - Walk to Canossa: The excommunication of Henry IV, Holy Roman Emperor is lifted.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 29
January 29:
- 904 - Sergius III comes out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.
- 2007 - Day of Ashura (Islam, est.)
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 30
January 30:
- 1925 - Government of Turkey throws Patriarch Constantine VI out of Istanbul.
Portal:Religion/On this day/January 31
January 31:
- 1550 - Henry I, Duke of Guise, French Catholic leader, born. (d. 1588)
- 1969 - Meher Baba, Indian spiritual leader, dies on this day at the age of 74. His followers observe Amartithi on this date in commemoration.