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January

Date	Blurb	Reason
6 January	Epiphany (Gregorian calendar);	7 CNs
9 January	Saint Stephen's Day (Eastern Christianity)	refimprove
9 January	Feast of the Black Nazarene in the Philippines	refimprove sections
16 January	1120 – The Council of Nablus was held, establishing the earliest surviving written laws of the Crusader Kingdom of Jerusalem.	refimprove section
18 January	The Week of Prayer for Christian Unity begins	3 CNs
19 January	Theophany (Julian calendar)	refimprove section
21 January	Feast day of Saint Agnes (Christianity);	many paragraphs without citations
23 January	1656 – Under the pseudonym Louis de Montalte, French mathematician, physicist, and religious philosopher Blaise Pascal published the first of his Lettres provinciales, attacking the Jesuits and their use of casuistic reasoning.	refimprove
24 January	1438 – The Council of Basel suspended Pope Eugene IV and pronounced him deposed the following year, giving rise to a new schism by electing Amadeus VIII of Savoy as an antipope.	needs more footnotes
25 January	1554 – Jesuit missionaries José de Anchieta and Manoel da Nóbrega established a mission at São Paulo dos Campos de Piratininga, which grew to become São Paulo, Brazil.	refimprove section
28 January	1077 – Pope Gregory VII lifted the excommunication of Henry IV after the Holy Roman Emperor made his trek from Speyer to Canossa Castle to beg the pope for forgiveness for his actions in the Investiture Controversy.	refimprove
28 January	1521 – Emperor Charles V and the estates of the Holy Roman Empire convened at the Diet of Worms to discuss Martin Luther and the effects of the Protestant Reformation.	unreferenced section
28 January	1573 – The Warsaw Confederation was signed, sanctioning religious freedom in the Polish–Lithuanian Commonwealth.	refimprove section
30 January	Balthild |d|680|	date is probably not the date of her death; see [1]

February

Date	Blurb	Reason
2 February	Candlemas (Western Christianity)	unreferenced section
2 February	962 – Pope John XII crowned Otto the Great as Holy Roman Emperor, the first in nearly 40 years.	refimprove section
3 February	Feast day of Dom Justo Takayama in Japan and the Philippines;	citation check
6 February	António Vieira |b|1608|	missing page numbers
8 February	1849 – The Roman Republic was proclaimed, temporarily replacing the government of the Papal States.	refimprove
9 February	1621 – Alessandro Ludovisi became Pope Gregory XV, the last Pope elected by acclamation.	multiple issues
10 February	Feast of Saint Paul's Shipwreck in Malta	refimprove
11 February	1858 – Fourteen-year-old peasant girl Bernadette Soubirous reported the first of eighteen Marian apparitions in Lourdes, France, resulting in the town becoming a major site for pilgrimages by Catholics.	refimprove
11 February	1929 – To help settle the "Roman Question", Italy and the Holy See of the Roman Catholic Church signed the Lateran Treaty to establish Vatican City as an independent sovereign enclave within Italy.	refimprove section
12 February	881 – Pope John VIII crowned Charles the Fat as Holy Roman Emperor.	lots of CN tags
15 February	Candlemas (Eastern Christianity);	refimprove sections
17 February	1600 – Italian philosopher Giordano Bruno, best-known as a proponent of heliocentrism and the infinity of the universe, was burned at the stake as a heretic for his denial of several core Catholic doctrines by the Roman Inquisition.	lots of CN tags (10)
17 February	1872 – Three priests collectively known as Gomburza were executed in Manila, Philippines, by Spanish colonial authorities on charges of subversion arising from the Cavite mutiny.	refimprove
21 February	1245 – Pope Innocent IV accepted the resignation of Thomas, the first known bishop of Finland, after he confessed to torture and forgery.	sourcing issues
22 February	Feast of Cathedra Petri (Catholicism)	refimprove section
24 February	1582 – Pope Gregory XIII issued the papal bull Inter gravissimas to promulgate the Gregorian calendar, a modification of the Julian calendar in use since 45 BC.	unreferenced section
25 February	1570 – Pope Pius V issued the papal bull Regnans in Excelsis to excommunicate Queen Elizabeth I and her followers in the Church of England.	unreferenced section
27 February	2004 – The initial version of the John Jay Report, with details about the Catholic sexual abuse scandal in the United States, was released.	unreferenced section
28 February	870 – The Fourth Council of Constantinople, the eighth Catholic Ecumenical Council, ended.	refimprove

March

Date	Blurb	Reason
1 March	1562 – Troops of Francis, Duke of Guise, massacred Huguenots in Wassy, France, starting the French Wars of Religion.	massacre: refimprove section; wars: refimprove section
2 March	1939 – Italian Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli was elected as Pope and took the name Pius XII.	neutrality issues
3 March	1431 – Gabriel Condulmer became Pope Eugene IV, succeeding Martin V.	date not cited
3 March	Ascanio Sforza |b|1455|	>10 {cn} tags
5 March	1616 – Nicolaus Copernicus's De revolutionibus orbium coelestium, describing his heliocentric theory of the Solar System, was prohibited by the Roman Catholic Church.	refimprove section
11 March	Sophronius of Jerusalem |d|638|	unref'd section
12 March	515 BCE – Construction of the Temple in Jerusalem was completed.	unreferenced section
12 March	1622 – Ignatius of Loyola and Francis Xavier, founders of the Jesuits, were canonized by Pope Gregory XV.	Ignatius: lots of CN tags; Xavier: unreferenced section
13 March	874 – The remains of Saint Nicephorus were brought back to Constantinople to be interred at the Church of the Holy Apostles.	refimprove
14 March	1590 – French Wars of Religion: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeated the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne at the Battle of Ivry in Ivry, France.	refimprove section
18 March	1229 – Sixth Crusade: Holy Roman Emperor Frederick II crowned himself King of Jerusalem, despite the fact that his infant son Conrad was the rightful heir.	refimprove section
18 March	1314 – King Philip IV of France had Jacques de Molay, the last Grand Master of the Knights Templar, burned alive.	refimprove section
21 March	630 – Byzantine emperor Heraclius restored the True Cross to Jerusalem.	lots of CN tags (6) and sentences that are uncited
21 March	1800 – After being elected as a compromise candidate after several months of stalemate, Pope Pius VII was crowned in Venice with a temporary papal tiara made of papier-mâché.	refimprove
25 March	Feast of the Annunciation (Christianity);	refimprove section
25 March	1409 – The Council of Pisa, an unrecognized ecumenical conference of the Roman Catholic Church held in an attempt to end the Western Schism, opened in Pisa.	refimprove sections
25 March	1634 – Lord Baltimore, his younger brother Leonard Calvert, and a group of Catholic settlers founded the English colony of Maryland.	refimprove section
26 March	1027 – Pope John XIX crowned Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.	refimprove
27 March	1329 – Pope John XXII issued a papal bull declaring that some of the works of German theologian and mystic Meister Eckhart were heretical.	Too many CN tags (12), expansion
31 March	1492 – The Catholic Monarchs of Spain issued the Alhambra Decree, ordering all Jews to convert to Christianity or be expelled from the country.	refimprove section

April

Date	Blurb	Reason
5 April	Feast day of Vincent Ferrer	unreferenced section
5 April	1242 – Northern Crusades: In the Battle on the Ice, Novgorod forces led by Alexander Nevsky rebuffed an invasion attempt by the Teutonic Knights at Lake Peipus on the present-day border of Estonia and Russia.	refimprove
5 April	1566 – A covenant of nobles in the Habsburg Netherlands presented Governor Margaret of Parma a petition to suspend the Spanish Inquisition in the Netherlands.	unreferenced section
8 April	1093 – Winchester Cathedral at Winchester in Hampshire, one of the largest cathedrals in England, was dedicated by Bishop Walkelin.	lots of CN tags (8), could use more
14 April	1434 – The foundation stone of the Cathedral of St. Peter and St. Paul in Nantes, Brittany, France, was first laid, but the building was not completed until more than four centuries later in 1891.	refimprove
16 April	Feast day of Saint Bernadette Soubirous (Catholicism)	too many citations needed
18 April	1506 – Construction of the current St. Peter's Basilica in Vatican City, to replace the old basilica built in the 4th century, began.	refimprove section
19 April	2005 – Joseph Alois Ratzinger was elected Pope Benedict XVI on the second day of the papal conclave.	refimprove section
20 April	1303 – Pope Boniface VIII issued a bull establishing what is now Sapienza University of Rome, today one of the largest universities in Europe.	refimprove section
20 April	1884 – Pope Leo XIII published the encyclical Humanum genus, denouncing Freemasonry as well as a number of beliefs and practices purportedly associated with it such as popular sovereignty and the separation of church and state.	lots of assorted inline maintenance tags
23 April	Saint George's Day in various countries;	refimprove section
varies	Palm Sunday	refimprove
varies	Holy Week begins	citation needed
25 April	Feast day of Mark the Evangelist (Christianity);	refimprove section
26 April	; Feast day of Our Lady of Good Counsel (Roman Catholic Church)	refimprove section
28 April	1192 – Third Crusade: Conrad of Montferrat, the elected King of Jerusalem, was fatally stabbed by members of the Hashshashin.	needs more footnotes
28 April	1611 – The University of Santo Tomas in Manila, one of the oldest existing universities in Asia and one of the world's largest Catholic universities in terms of enrollment, was founded.	section needs to be summarized
30 April	Walpurgis Night in various European countries	refimprove section
30 April	1598 – King Henry IV of France issued the Edict of Nantes, granting freedom of religion to the Huguenots.	Date is not mentioned in target article.

May

Date	Blurb	Reason
5 May	St George's Day (Palestinians);	multiple CN tags (10)
5 May	553 – The Second Council of Constantinople, considered by many Christian churches to have been the fifth Christian Ecumenical Council, began to discuss the topics of Nestorianism and Origenism, among others.	refimprove section
6 May	Saint George's Day in Bulgaria	refimprove
6 May	1527 – Spanish and German troops sacked Rome, marking the symbolic end of the Italian Renaissance.	Sack of Rome: refimprove; Italian Renaissance: refimprove section
6 May	1984 – Pope John Paul II canonized 103 of the Korean Martyrs, who were the subjects of religious persecution against Christians in 19th-century Korea.	lead too short, inappropriate tone
7 May	1274 – The first session of the Second Council of Lyon was held to discuss, among other issues, the pledge by Byzantine Emperor Michael VIII Palaiologos to end the Great Schism and reunite the Eastern church with the West.	refimprove section
7 May	2007 – A team of Israeli archaeologists discovered the tomb of Herod the Great, the 1st century BC ruler of Judea.	refimprove section
8 May	1429 – French troops led by Joan of Arc lifted the English siege of Orléans and turned the tide of the Hundred Years' War.	unreferenced section, numerous other paragraphs without citatinos
8 May	Pope Boniface IV |d|615	date of death uncertain
9 May	1092 – Lincoln Cathedral in Lincolnshire, England, was consecrated.	refimprove
13 May	1917 – Ten-year-old Lúcia Santos and her cousins Francisco and Jacinta Marto reportedly began experiencing a Marian apparition near Fátima, Portugal, now known as Our Lady of Fátima.	refimprove section
13 May	1981 – Pope John Paul II was shot and critically wounded in St Peter's Square, Vatican City.	lots of CN tags (8), refimprove section
15 May	1252 – Pope Innocent IV issued the papal bull Ad extirpanda, authorizing the use of torture on heretics during the Medieval Inquisition.	short
15 May	1891 – Pope Leo XIII issued the encyclical Rerum novarum, which addressed the condition of the working classes and is considered to be the foundation of modern Catholic social teaching.	primary sources
16 May	1204 – Fourth Crusade: Count Baldwin IX of Flanders was crowned the first Latin Emperor in Constantinople.	refimprove
16 May	1532 – Sir Thomas More resigned as Lord Chancellor of England.	saved for July 6
18 May	1268 – Baibars and his Mamluk forces captured Antioch, capital of the crusader state, the Principality of Antioch.	needs more footnotes, confusing
20 May	325 – The First Council of Nicaea, the first ecumenical council of the Christian Church, was formally opened in present-day Iznik, Turkey.	refimprove section
21 May	996 – Pope Gregory V crowned Otto III as Holy Roman Emperor.	refimprove section
23 May	1498 – Girolamo Savonarola, the de facto ruler of Florence was executed for heresy, uttering prophecies, sedition, and other crimes.	refimprove section
23 May	1618 – In the Second Defenestration of Prague, Protestant members of the Bohemian aristocracy threw Catholic regents of Emperor Ferdinand II out the third-storey window of Prague Castle, precipitating the Thirty Years' War.	refimprove
24 May	; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in Bulgaria, Macedonia, and Russia	refimprove section
25 May	1420 – Henry the Navigator became governor of the Order of Christ, the Portuguese successor to the Knights Templar.	needs more footnotes
25 May	1521 – The Diet of Worms declared Protestant Reformer Martin Luther an outlaw and a heretic, banning his literature, and requiring his arrest.	unreferenced section
29 May	1167 – A 1,600-man force of the Holy Roman Empire led by Christian of Buch and Rainald of Dassel defeated a 10,000-man Papal States army.	refimprove
29 May	David Beaton |d|1546|	referencing issues
30 May	1434 – Taborite forces led by Prokop the Great were decisively defeated in the Battle of Lipany, effectively ending the Hussite Wars in Bohemia.	Battle: no footnotes; Wars: needs more footnotes

June

Date	Blurb	Reason
2 June	1615 – The first Recollect missionaries arrived in Quebec City in New France (now in Quebec, Canada) from Rouen.	refimprove
3 June	1770 – Mission San Carlos Borromeo de Carmelo, a historic Catholic mission church in present-day Carmel-by-the-Sea, California, and the site of the first Christian confirmation in Alta California, was established.	unreferenced section
5 June	Feast day of Saint Boniface (Christianity)	refimprove section
5 June	1305 – Raymond Bertrand de Got became Pope Clement V, succeeding Benedict XI who died one year earlier.	lots of CN tags (6)
7 June	879 – Pope John VIII officially recognised Croatia as an independent state, and Branimir as its Duke.	lots of CN tags (4) relative to length
7 June	1099 – Members of the First Crusade reached Jerusalem and began a five-week siege of the city against the Fatimids.	refimprove; lead too short
7 June	1494 – Ferdinand II of Aragon and John II of Portugal signed the Treaty of Tordesillas, dividing the Americas and Africa between their two countries.	refimprove section
7 June	1929 – Vatican City became a sovereign state after the Lateran Treaty came into effect.	refimprove section
7 June	Pope Vigilius |d|555	refimprove
9 June	Feast day of Saint Columba (Christianity)	lots of CN tags (7)
11 June	1429 – Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc's first offensive battle, the Battle of Jargeau, began.	no footnotes
15 June	1219 – Northern Crusades: According to a popular Danish legend, the Dannebrog (Flag of Denmark), today one of the oldest state flags in the world still in use, fell from the sky and gave the Danish forces renewed hope to defeat the Estonians at the Battle of Lyndanisse.	unreferenced section
15 June	1670 – The first stone of Fort Ricasoli in Kalkara, Malta, was laid by the Order of Saint John.	"Order of St John" not sourced
16 June	1846 – Giovanni Maria Mastai-Ferretti was elected as Pius IX; he became the longest-reigning elected pope in the history of the Catholic Church.	lead too long
18 June	1053 – Humphrey of Hauteville led the armies of the Normans in the Battle of Civitate against the combined forces of Pope Leo IX and the Holy Roman Empire.	unreferenced section
22 June	1633 – Galileo Galilei was forced to recant his heliocentric view of the Solar System by the Roman Inquisition, after which, as legend has it, he muttered under his breath, "And yet it moves."	refimprove section
23 June	St John's Day and Victory Day in Estonia	both: refimprove
23 June	Saint Jonas' Festival in Lithuania;	tagged as stub
23 June	1858 – Edgardo Mortara, a six-year-old Jewish boy, was seized by papal authorities and taken to be raised as a Roman Catholic, sparking an international controversy.	neutrality issues
24 June	Nativity of Saint John the Baptist (Christianity);	refimprove
24 June	Saint-Jean-Baptiste Day in Quebec, Canada;	refimprove section
24 June	1535 – Count Franz von Waldeck took Münster from the Anabaptists, ending the Münster rebellion.	needs more footnotes
25 June	1530 – The Augsburg Confession, the primary confession of faith of the Lutheran Church, was presented to the Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor, at the Diet of Augsburg.	needs more footnotes
26 June	1409 – In an attempt to end the Western Schism, during which Gregory XII in Rome and Benedict XIII in Avignon simultaneously claimed to be the true pope, the Council of Pisa instead ended up electing a third one, Alexander V.	unreferenced section
26 June	Juliana Morell |d|1653	refimprove section
29 June	1776 – Lieutenant José Joaquin Moraga and Father Francisco Palóu founded Mission San Francisco de Asís, the oldest surviving building in San Francisco.	lots of CN tags in one section (4)

July

Date	Blurb	Reason
4 July	Feast day of Ulrich of Augsburg (Roman Catholicism);	refimprove section
4 July	1187 – Saladin defeated Guy of Lusignan, King of Jerusalem, at the Battle of Hattin and captured the True Cross.	refimprove section
5 July	; Saints Cyril and Methodius Day in the Czech Republic and Slovakia	needs more footnotes
6 July	1415 – The Council of Constance executed Jan Hus, founder of the Christian Hussite reform movement, for committing heresy.	Jan Hus and Hussites both need more footnotes
6 July	1535 – Thomas More, an opponent of the Protestant Reformation, was executed for treason for refusing to accept Henry VIII as the Supreme Head of the Church of England.	refimprove section
7 July	1585 – The Treaty of Nemours was first signed, forcing Henry III of France to give in to the demands of the Catholic League and revoking all edicts granting concessions to the Huguenots.	refimprove section
7 July	1946 – Mother Frances Xavier Cabrini became the first American to be canonized as a saint.	refimprove section
7 July	2007 – Pope Benedict XVI issued the Apostolic Letter Summorum Pontificum, removing restrictions on celebrating the old Latin Mass.	refimprove section
8 July	1579 – Our Lady of Kazan, a holy icon of the Russian Orthodox Church, was discovered underground in Kazan, present-day Tatarstan, Russia.	refimprove section
9 July	1572 – Nineteen Catholic friars and clerics were hanged in Gorkum during the 16th-century religious wars in the Low Countries.	single source section
12 July	1493 – The Nuremberg Chronicle, one of the best-documented early printed books, was first published.	refimprove section
12 July	1790 – The Civil Constitution of the Clergy was passed, a law that subordinated the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.	unreferenced section
15 July	1823 – A fire, accidentally started by a workman who was repairing the lead of the roof, destroyed the ancient Basilica of Saint Paul Outside the Walls in Rome. The church was restored by 1840.	refimprove
16 July	Feast day of Our Lady of Mount Carmel (Roman Catholic Church);	refimprove section
17 July	Feast day of the Scillitan Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church);	date not cited
18 July	Feast day of Bartolomé de las Casas (Episcopal and Lutheran churches)	unreferenced date
18 July	1870 – The First Vatican Council declared that the Pope is infallible when he solemnly declares a dogmatic teaching on faith as being contained in divine revelation.	citation style
18 July	Boniface of Savoy |d|1270	date of death uncertain - some sources say 14 July, others say 18 July
22 July	Feast day of Saint Mary Magdalene (Christianity);	unreferenced section
22 July	1099 – First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon was elected the first Protector of the Holy Sepulchre in the Kingdom of Jerusalem.	needs more footnotes
23 July	Warner of Grez |d|1100	uncertain if he died on July 22 or 23
30 July	1419 – Hussite Wars: Jan Žižka and others threw several town councillors out of the window at the First Defenestrations of Prague.	featured on May 23, date of second defenestration
31 July	Feast day of Saint Ignatius of Loyola (Catholicism and Anglicanism)	lots of {{cn}} tags (10)

August

Date	Blurb	Reason
3 August	435 – Nestorius, the originator of Nestorianism, was exiled by Byzantine Emperor Theodosius II to a monastery in Egypt.	refimprove section
4 August	1903 – Italian cardinal Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elected to become Pope Pius X.	unreferenced section
6 August	Feast of the Transfiguration (Gregorian calendar);	refimprove
9 August	1483 – The first mass in the Sistine Chapel in the Vatican City was celebrated.	refimprove
10 August	Feast day of Saint Lawrence (Roman Catholic Church)	in popular culture, lots of inline tags
13 August	1624 – Cardinal Richelieu became the chief minister to King Louis XIII, and transformed France's feudal political structure into one with a powerful central government.	refimprove section
15 August	Feast of the Assumption (Christianity);	refimprove section
15 August	Feast of the Dormition (Orthodox Christianity)	refimprove
15 August	1534 – In Montmartre, Ignatius of Loyola and six others took the vows that led to the establishment of the Society of Jesus.	multiple issues
19 August	Feast of the Transfiguration (Julian calendar)	Refimprove
22 August	Feast day of the Queenship of Mary (Roman Catholic Church);	citation style
23 August	1572 – French Wars of Religion: The St. Bartholomew's Day massacre, a wave of Catholic mob violence against Protestant Huguenots, began, resulting in an estimated tens of thousands deaths across France over several months.	unreferenced section
25 August	1248 – Ommen in the Netherlands received city rights and fortification rights from Otto III, the Archbishop of Utrecht, after the town was pillaged at least twice by a local robber baron.	unreferenced section
26 August	1978 – Pope John Paul I was elected as successor of Pope Paul VI.	unreferenced section
28 August	Feast of the Assumption (Julian calendar);	refimprove section
28 August	Feast of Dormition (Julian calendar)	refimprove section
30 August	St. Rose of Lima's Day in Peru	refimprove, date not cited

September

Date	Blurb	Reason
1 September	Start of the liturgical year (Eastern Orthodox Church);	unreferenced section
1 September	1831 – Pope Gregory XVI established the Order of St. Gregory the Great to recognize high support for the Holy See or for the Pope.	lots of CN tags (19)
2 September	1649 – Forces loyal to Pope Innocent X destroyed the ancient Italian city of Castro, ending the Wars of Castro.	refimprove section
3 September	301 – San Marino, one of the smallest nations in the world and the world's oldest republic still in existence, was founded by Saint Marinus.	refimprove section
4 September	1479 – The Catholic Monarchs of Castile and Aragon signed the Treaty of Alcáçovas with Afonso V of Portugal and his son, John to end the War of the Castilian Succession.	refimprove
8 September	Our Lady of Meritxell Day in Andorra;	refimprove
8 September	1504 – David, a marble sculpture by Michelangelo portraying the biblical King David in the nude, was unveiled in Florence, Italy.	refimprove section
12 September	1963 – The Roman Hinton St Mary Mosaic, containing a likely fourth-century depiction of Jesus, was discovered.	refimprove
14 September	Feast of the Cross (Christianity)	refimprove sections
14 September	1975 – Elizabeth Ann Seton became the first native-born citizen of the United States to be canonized.	refimprove section
15 September	1530 – According to the Dominican Order, three mysterious women brought the painting of Saint Dominic in Soriano to a friary in Soriano Calabro, Italy.	lots of CN tags (8)
15 September	1644 – Giovanni Battista Pamphili was elected Pope Innocent X.	unreferenced section
16 September	1810 – Miguel Hidalgo, the parish priest in Dolores, Guanajuato, delivered the Cry of Dolores to his congregation, instigating the Mexican War of Independence against Spain.	unreferenced section
17 September	Hildegard of Bingen |d|1179	external links
20 September	Feast day of the Korean Martyrs (Roman Catholic Church)	multiple issues
20 September	1378 – Papal Schism: Unhappy with Pope Urban VI, a group of cardinals started a rival papacy with the election of Antipope Clement VII, throwing the Roman Catholic Church into turmoil.	unreferenced section
20 September	1870 – The Bersaglieri entered Rome through the Porta Pia, ending the temporal power of the Pope and completing the unification of Italy.	refimprove section
23 September	1123 – Pope Callixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V agreed to the Concordat of Worms to put an end to the Investiture Controversy.	needs more footnotes
23 September	Francesco Barberini |b|1597|	lots of citations needed (7)
25 September	Feast day of Sergius of Radonezh (Eastern Orthodox Church)	refimprove
25 September	1555 – Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor and the forces of the Schmalkaldic League signed the Peace of Augsburg, ending the religious struggle between the two groups and made the legal division of Christendom permanent within the Holy Roman Empire.	refimprove
27 September	1540 – Pope Paul III issued the papal bull Regimini militantis, approving the formation of the Society of Jesus, a Christian religious order of the Roman Catholic Church, by St. Ignatius of Loyola.	already featured on August 15

October

Date	Blurb	Reason
1 October	Feast day of St. Thérèse of Lisieux (Catholicism);	refimprove sections, external links
2 October	829 – Theophilos ascended to the throne of the Byzantine Empire, the last emperor to support iconoclasm.	unreferenced section
2 October	1187 – Ayyubid forces led by Saladin captured Jerusalem, prompting the Third Crusade.	needs more footnotes
2 October	1928 – Spanish priest Josemaría Escrivá founded Opus Dei, a worldwide organization of the Catholic Church.	primary sources, page numbers needed
4 October	Feast day of St. Francis of Assisi (Catholicism);	refimprove section
5 October	Giovanni Visconti |d|1354	unreferenced section (Ancestry)
7 October	Feast day of St. Osyth	needs more footnotes
7 October	1571 – A Western Christian coalition inflicted a significant defeat upon the Ottoman Navy near the Gulf of Corinth in the Battle of Lepanto, the first major Ottoman loss to European powers.	lots of CN tags (7)
8 October	451 – The Council of Chalcedon, a Christian ecumenical council, opened, and went on to repudiate the Eutychian doctrine of monophysitism and set forth the Chalcedonian Creed.	lead too short
9 October	1845 – Anglican priest John Henry Newman, who wished to return the Church of England to many Catholic beliefs, was formally received into the Roman Catholic Church.	unreferenced section
11 October	1962 – Pope John XXIII convened the Second Vatican Council, the first Roman Catholic ecumenical council in 92 years.	refimprove section
12 October	Our Lady Aparecida's Day and Children's Day in Brazil	Our Lady: unreferenced section; Children's Day: cleanup required, refimprove section
12 October	Feast day of Our Lady of the Pillar in the Philippines and Spain;	Refimprove section
15 October	Feast day of Saint Teresa of Ávila (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)	lots of CN tags
17 October	1456 – The University of Greifswald in present-day Greifswald, Germany, was founded with the approval of the Holy Roman Empire and Pope Callixtus III.	advertisement, unreferenced sections
17 October	2010 – Mary MacKillop was canonised to become the first Australian to be recognised by the Roman Catholic Church as a saint.	lots of CN tags (6), especially in one section
18 October	1009 – Under orders from the Fatimid caliph Al-Hakim bi-Amr Allah, the Church of the Holy Sepulchre, a Christian church now within the walled Old City of Jerusalem, was destroyed.	lots of CN tags
18 October	1386 – A special Pontifical High Mass in the Church of the Holy Spirit commemorated the opening of Heidelberg University, the oldest university in Germany.	refimprove section
19 October	Mother Teresa Day in Albania	date not cited
19 October	John Juvenal Ancina |b|1545|	too many unreferenced paragraphed, at least 8 {cn} tags
24 October	1260 – The Chartres Cathedral in Chartres, France, was dedicated in the presence of King Louis IX.	unreferenced section
26 October	Feast day of Demetrius of Thessaloniki	unreferenced section
27 October	1553 – Condemned as a heretic for preaching nontrinitarianism and anti-infant baptism, Michael Servetus was burned at the stake outside Geneva.	refimprove section
28 October	Feast day of Simon the Zealot	unreferenced section
28 October	1965 – Nostra aetate, the "Declaration on the Relation of the Church with Non-Christian Religions" of the Second Vatican Council, was promulgated by Pope Paul VI, absolving the Jews of the killing of Jesus, and calling for increased relations with all non-Christian religions.	needs more footnotes
30 October	1270 – An agreement between Charles I of Naples, King of Sicily, and Muhammad I al-Mustansir, ruler of the Hafsid dynasty in Ifriqiya, ended the Eighth Crusade and opened up free trade between the Christians and Tunis.	refimprove section

November

Date	Blurb	Reason
1 November	All Saints' Day (Western Christianity);	many citations needed
2 November	Day of the Dead in Mexico	refimprove section
8 November	St. Demetrius' Day (Coptic Church and Serbian Orthodox Church);	refimprove section
10 November	1444 – The Ottoman Empire under Sultan Murad II defeated the Polish and Hungarian armies under Władysław III of Poland and John Hunyadi at the Battle of Varna in the final battle of the Crusade of Varna.	refimprove
11 November	St. Martin's Day in various Europe nations;	refimprove section
16 November	1491 – Several Jews and conversos were executed in Toledo, Spain, for the alleged ritual murder of an infant, who was later revered as the Holy Child of La Guardia.	unreferenced section
16 November	Edmund of Abingdon |d|1240|	needs more footnotes
18 November	1302 – Pope Boniface VIII issued the Papal bull Unam sanctam, proclaiming "there is one holy Catholic and Apostolic Church, outside of which there is neither salvation nor remission of sins".	refimprove section
18 November	1626 – St. Peter's Basilica, one of four major basilicas of Rome, was consecrated on the anniversary of that of the previous church in 326.	already featured on April 18
19 November	1095 – Council of Clermont	Moved to November 27
19 November	1493 – Christopher Columbus became the first European to land on Puerto Rico, naming it San Juan Bautista after John the Baptist.	too long, refimprove section
19 November	1816 – The University of Warsaw, the largest university in Poland, was established as Congress Poland found itself a territory without a university.	unreferenced section
22 November	Feast of Christ the King (Catholicism, 2020)	too many {cn} tags This is also a movable feast, the last Sunday before Advent
23 November	St George's Day in Georgia;	lots of CN tags (10)
24 November	Feast day of Vietnamese Martyrs (Roman Catholicism)	unreferenced section
24 November	1190 – Conrad of Montferrat became de jure uxoris King of Jerusalem after marrying Queen Isabella I.	needs more footnotes
24 November	Junípero Serra |b|1713	refimprove
25 November	1177 – Troops led by King Baldwin IV of Jerusalem destroyed forces led by Saladin at the Battle of Montgisard, saving the Crusader states from invasion.	needs more footnotes
26 November	and John Berchmans	refimprove section
26 November	, and Stylianos of Paphlagonia (Eastern Orthodox Church)	refimprove

December

Date	Blurb	Reason
1 December	1958 – A fire in the Our Lady of the Angels School in Chicago killed ninety-two students and three nuns.	refimprove
2 December	1980 – Four American missionaries were murdered by a military death squad in El Salvador.	Quite a few citation needed tags
4 December	771 – Austrasian King Carloman I died, leaving his brother Charlemagne king of the now complete Frankish Kingdom.	unreferenced section
5 December	1590 – Niccolò Sfondrati became Pope Gregory XIV, succeeding Pope Urban VII who died two months earlier.	refimprove section
7 December	Day of the Little Candles in Colombia;	unreferenced section
7 December	1724 – In Toruń, Royal Prussia, Polish authorities executed the city's mayor and nine other Lutheran officials following tensions between Protestants and Catholics.	lots of CN tags (5) for length
7 December	1965 – East–West Schism: Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople and Pope Paul VI issued a declaration, simultaneously lifted mutual excommunications that had been in place since 1054.	summarize section, refimprove section
8 December	1609 – Milan's Biblioteca Ambrosiana opened its reading room to the public, becoming the second public library in Europe.	refimprove section
9 December	1425 – Pope Martin V issued a papal bull establishing what later became the Catholic University of Leuven, the largest, oldest and most prominent university in Belgium.	needs rewrite, unreferenced section
12 December	Feast day of Our Lady of Guadalupe (Catholicism);	lots of unreferenced
13 December	; Saint Lucy's Day in Italy and Scandinavia	refimprove section
13 December	1545 – The Council of Trent, an ecumenical council convoked by Pope Paul III in response to the growth of Protestantism, opened in Trent, Bishopric of Trent (now in modern Italy).	refimprove
14 December	Feast day of Saint John of the Cross (Catholicism, Anglicanism, Lutheranism)	CN tags
17 December	O Antiphons begin (Christianity)	unreferenced section
22 December	1216 – Pope Honorius III issued the papal bull Religiosam vitam to establish the Dominican Order.	refimprove
24 December	Christmas Eve (Gregorian calendar)	unreferenced section
24 December	1294 – Boniface VIII began his papacy, replacing St. Celestine V, who had declared that it was permissible for a Pope to resign, and then promptly did so.	refimprove section
25 December	800 – In Rome's St. Peter's Basilica, Frankish King Charlemagne was crowned Imperator Augustus by Pope Leo III} as a rival of the Byzantine Emperor in Constantinople.	refimprove section
26 December	Saint Stephen's Day (Western Christianity);	refimprove
26 December	1790 – French Revolution: Louis XVI of France gave his royal assent to the Civil Constitution of the Clergy, subordinating the Roman Catholic Church in France to the French government.	needs more footnotes
27 December	537 – The current Hagia Sophia building in Istanbul, originally built as a church before it later became a mosque in 1453 and then a museum in 1935, was inaugurated.	refimprove section
28 December	Day of the Holy Innocents (Western Christianity);	lots of CN tags (7)
29 December	1170 – Archbishop of Canterbury Thomas Becket was slain in his own cathedral by four knights of Henry II of England.	refimprove section
30 December	1916 – Emperor Charles I of Austria and Empress Zita were crowned as the last King and Queen of Hungary.	refimprove section

Resolved

Date	Blurb
2 January	533 – Mercurius, a Roman priest, was elected Pope John II; he was the first pope to adopt a new name upon elevation to the papacy.
2 January	Feast day of Saint Basil of Caesarea
3 January	1521 – Pope Leo X issued Decet Romanum Pontificem, excommunicating Martin Luther for refusing to retract 41 alleged errors found in his 95 Theses and other writings.
12 January	1777 – Mission Santa Clara de Asís, a Spanish mission in California that formed the basis of both the city of Santa Clara and Santa Clara University, was established by the Franciscans.
22 January	1506 – The first contingent of 150 Swiss Guards arrived at the Vatican in Rome to serve as security for the Pope.
25 January	; Dydd Santes Dwynwen in Wales
29 January	904 – Sergius III, whose pontificate was marked with feudal violence and disorder in central Italy, came out of retirement to take over the papacy from the deposed antipope Christopher.