1135: Birth of Moses Maimonides, medieval Jewish scholar. Considered
the foremost Talmudist of the Middle Ages, his most important writing was Guide to the
Perplexed (1190), in which he tried to harmonize Rabbinic Judaism with the
increasingly popular Aristotelianism of his day.
1492:
The Jews were expelled from Spain by Inquisitor-General Tom's Torquemada (Spanish
Inquisition).
1771: English
founder of Methodism John Wesley wrote in a letter: "Suffer all, and conquer
all."
1863:
Ownership of Wilberforce University in Ohio was transferred to the African Methodist
Episcopal Church. The school had been founded seven years earlier by the Methodist
Episcopal Church.
1917:
All imperial lands, as well as lands belonging to monasteries, were confiscated by the
Russian provisional government.
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)
