On this day in June
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 1
June 1:
- 1480 - Tiedemann Giese, Polish Catholic bishop, born. (d. 1550)
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 2
June 2:
- 575 - Benedict I becomes Pope.
- 657 - St. Eugene I becomes Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 3
June 3:
- 1098 - First Crusade: Antioch falls to the crusaders after an eight-month siege.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 4
June 4:
- 1663 - William Juxon, Archbishop of Canterbury, dies. (b. 1582)
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 5
June 5:
- 1305 - Pope Clement V is elected.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 6
June 6:
- 1844 - The Young Men's Christian Association (YMCA) is founded in London.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 7
June 7:
- 1099 - The First Crusade: The Siege of Jerusalem begins.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 8
June 8:
- 536 - St. Silverius becomes Pope (probable date).
- 632 - Mohammed dies in Medina.
- 1191 - Richard I arrives in Acre thus beginning his crusade.
- 1405 - Richard le Scrope, Archbishop of York and Thomas Mowbray, Earl of Norfolk, executed in York on Henry IV's orders.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 9
June 9:
- 1856 - 500 Mormons leave Iowa City, Iowa and head west for Salt Lake City, Utah carrying all their possessions in two-wheeled handcarts.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 10
June 10:
- 1190 - Third Crusade: Frederick I Barbarossa drowns in the Saleph River while leading an army to Jerusalem.
- 1692 - Salem witch trials: Bridget Bishop is hanged at Gallows Hill near Salem, Massachusetts, for "certaine Detestable Arts called Witchcraft & Sorceries".
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 11
June 11:
- 1774 - Jews in Algiers escape the attacks of the Spanish army.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 12
June 12:
- 1429 - Hundred Years' War: Joan of Arc leads the French army in their capture of the city and the English commander, William de la Pole, 1st Duke of Suffolk in the second day of the Battle of Jargeau.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 13
June 13:
- 1525 - Martin Luther married Katharina von Bora, against the celibacy doctrine decreed by the Roman Catholic Church on priests.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 14
June 14:
- 1648 - Margaret Jones is hanged in Boston for witchcraft in the first such execution for the Massachusetts colony.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 15
June 15:
- 1520 - Pope Leo X threatens to excommunicate Martin Luther.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 16
June 16:
- 1846 - The Papal conclave of 1846 concludes. Pope Pius IX is elected pope, beginning the longest reign in the history of the papacy (not counting St. Peter).
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 17
June 17:
- 1839 - In the Kingdom of Hawaii, Kamehameha III issues the Edict of Toleration which gives Roman Catholics the freedom to worship in the Hawaiian Islands. The Hawaii Catholic Church and the Cathedral of Our Lady of Peace is later established as a result.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 18
June 18:
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 19
June 19:
- 1269 - King Louis IX of France orders all Jews found in public without an identifying yellow badge to be fined ten livres of silver.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 20
June 20:
- 1005 - Ali az-Zahir, caliph, born. (d. 1036)
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 21
June 21:
- 1002 - Pope Leo IX born. (d. 1054)
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 22
June 22:
- 1633 - The Holy Office in Rome forces Galileo Galilei to recant his scientific view that the Sun, not the Earth, is the center of the Universe.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 23
June 23:
- 1794 - Empress Catherine II grants Jews permission to settle in Kiev.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 24
June 24:
- 1535 - The Anabaptist state of Münster is conquered and disbanded.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 25
June 25:
- 1530 - The Augsburg Confession is presented at the Diet of Augsburg to the Holy Roman Emperor by the Lutheran princes and Electors of Germany..
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 26
June 26:
- 684 - Benedict II becomes Pope.
- 1409 - Western Schism: The Roman Catholic church is led into a double schism as Petros Philargos is crowned Pope Alexander V after the Council of Pisa, joining Pope Gregory XII in Rome and Pope Benedict XII in Avignon.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 27
June 27:
- 678 - Saint Agatho begins his reign as a Catholic Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 28
June 28:
- 1098 - Fighters of the First Crusade defeat Kerbogha of Mosul.
- 1243 - Innocent IV becomes Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 29
June 29:
- 1786 - Alexander Macdonell and over five hundred Roman Catholic highlanders leave Scotland to settle in Glengarry County, Ontario.
Portal:Religion/On this day/June 30
June 30:
- 1688 - The Immortal Seven issue the Invitation to William, beginning the struggle for English independence from Rome which would culminate in the Glorious Revolution.