On this day in July
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 1
July 1:
- 1097 - Battle of Dorylaeum: Crusaders under Bohemond of Taranto defeat a Seljuk army under Qilich Arslan I.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 2
July 2:
- 1489 - Thomas Cranmer, Archbishop of Canterbury, born. (d. 1556)
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 3
July 3:
- 1250 - Louis IX of France is captured by Baibars' Mamluk army at the Battle of Fariskur while he is in Egypt conducting the Seventh Crusade; he later has to ransom himself.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 4
July 4:
- 993 - Saint Ulrich of Augsburg canonized.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 5
July 5:
- 1865 - William Booth founds The Christian Mission (later renamed The Salvation Army).
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 6
July 6:
- 1348 - Papal bull of Pope Clement VI protecting Jews during the Black Death.
- 1415 - Jan Hus is burned at the stake.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 7
July 7:
- 1456 - A retrial verdict acquits Joan of Arc of heresy 25 years after her death.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 8
July 8:
- 1099 - First Crusade: 15,000 starving Christian soldiers march in religious procession around Jerusalem as its Muslim defenders mock them.
- 1283 - War of the Sicilian Vespers: Battle of Malta.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 9
July 9:
- 1828 - Luigi Oreglia di Santo Stefano, Italian Catholic churchman, born. (d. 1913)
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 10
July 10:
- 1925 - Meher Baba begins his silence of 44 years. His followers still observe Silence Day on this date in commemoration.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 11
July 11:
- 1740 - Pogrom: Jews are expelled from Little Russia.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 12
July 12:
- 1191 – Saladin's garrison surrenders, ending the two-year siege of Acre. Conrad of Montferrat, who has negotiated the surrender, raises the banners of the Kingdom of Jerusalem and of the Third Crusade leaders Richard I of England, Philip II of France, and Leopold V of Austria on the city's walls and towers.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 13
July 13:
- 1590 - Pope Clement X born. (d. 1676)
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 14
July 14:
- 1827 - The first Roman Catholic Mass is celebrated in the Hawaiian Islands by Fathers Abraham Armand and Alexis Bachelot of France and Patrick Short of the United Kingdom, members of the Congregation of the Sacred Hearts of Jesus and Mary. It would be the foundation of the present-day Diocese of Honolulu.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 15
July 15:
- 1099 - First Crusade: Christian soldiers take Church of the Holy Sepulchre in Jerusalem after a difficult siege.
- 1207 - John of England expels Canterbury monks for supporting Archbishop of Canterbury Stephen Langton.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 16
July 16:
- 622 - Muhammad begins his Hijra from Mecca to Medina. This marks the beginning of the Islamic calendar.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 17
July 17:
- 180 - Twelve inhabitants of Scillium in North Africa executed for being Christians. This is the earliest record of Christianity in that part of the world.
- 1048 - Damasus II appointed Pope.
- 1203 - Fourth Crusade captures Constantinople by assault; the Byzantine emperor Alexius III Angelus flees from his capital into exile.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 18
July 18:
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 19
July 19:
- 1759 - Seraphim of Sarov, Russian Orthodox Saint, born. (d. 1833)
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 20
July 20:
- 514 - Pope Hormisdas assumes the papacy of the Roman Catholic Church.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 21
July 21:
- 356 BC - A young man called Herostratus set fire to the Temple of Artemis in Ephesus, one of the Seven Wonders of the World.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 22
July 22:
- 1099 - First Crusade: Godfrey of Bouillon elected first Defender of the Holy Sepulchre of The Kingdom of Jerusalem.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 23
July 23:
- 1992 - A Vatican commission, led by Joseph Ratzinger, establishes necessary to limit rights of homosexual people and not-married couples.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 24
July 24:
- 1216 - Cencio Savelli is consecrated as Pope Honorius III.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 25
July 25:
- 1593 - Henry IV of France publicly converts from Protestantism to Roman Catholicism.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 26
July 26:
- 1030 - Stanislaus of Szczepanów, St. Stanislaw, born. (d. 1079)
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 27
July 27:
- 1549 - Jesuit priest Francis Xavier's ship reached Japan.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 28
July 28:
- 1057 - Pope Victor II dies.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 29
July 29:
- 1849 - Max Nordau, Austrian author, philosopher, and Zionist leader, born. (d. 1923)
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 30
July 30:
- Pa Drengen Changchop Simpa, Tibetans ancestor
- 578 - Jacob Baradaeus, Bishop of Edessa, dies.
- 579 - Pope Benedict I dies.
- 2007 - Patriarch Teoctist Ist, Patriarch of the Romanian Orthodox Church, dies in Bucharest succumbing to a post operatory heart attack.
Portal:Religion/On this day/July 31
July 31:
- 431 - Election of Pope Sixtus III.
- 1009 - Pietro Boccapecora becomes Pope Sergius IV.