1123: The First Lateran Council opened in Rome. It was the Ninth
Ecumenical Council, and the first one to be held in the West. Lateran I settled the right
of investiture (i.e., the right to choose replacement clergy) by a treaty between Pope
Calixtus II and Holy Roman Emperor Henry V.
1314: 39
French Knights Templars were burned at the stake. Most church history experts agree that
these and other hostilities shown against the Knights Templars were caused by the greed
and cunning of Philip the Fair, who sought the great wealth this medieval military
religious order had amassed in the centuries following the Crusades.
1673:
Lord Berkeley of England sold his half of the American colony of New Jersey to the
Quakers.
1767:
Anglican clergyman and hymn writer John Newton wrote in a letter: 'The more you know him,
the better you will trust him; the more you trust him, the better you will love him; the
more you love him, the better you will serve him.'
1861:
The Metropolitan Tabernacle first opened in London. It was the church at which famed
English Baptist preacher Charles Spurgeon pastored.
Source: William D. Blake. Almanac
of the Christian Church, Minneapolis: Bethany House, 1987. Additional
information supplied by the author. Contact via E-mail: William D. Blake. (pilgrimwb@aol.com)
