On this day in March
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 1
March 1:
- 1457 - The Unitas Fratrum is established in the village of Kunvald, on the Bohemian-Moravian borderland. It is to date the second oldest Protestant denomination.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 2
March 2:
- 1939 - Cardinal Eugenio Pacelli is elected Pope and takes the name Pius XII.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 3
March 3:
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 4
March 4:
- 1215 - King John of England makes an oath to the Pope as a crusader to gain the support of Innocent III.
- 1833 - Ayya Vaikundar incarnated from the Sea of Tiruchendur as per the Akilattirattu Ammanai, the scripture of Ayyavazhi.
- 2007 - Purim.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 5
March 5:
- 2001 - In Mecca, 35 Muslim pilgrims are crushed to death during the annual Hajj pilgrimage.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 6
March 6:
- 1447 - Nicholas V becomes Pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 7
March 7:
- 308 - Saint Eubulus, Christian martyr, dies.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 8
March 8:
- 1948 - The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violated the Constitution.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 9
March 9:
- 1977 - Approximately a dozen armed Hanafi Muslims take over three buildings in Washington, DC, killing one person and taking more than 130 hostages. The hostage situation ends two days later.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 10
March 10:
- 1948 - The Indian Union Muslim League is founded, by remnants of the old Muslim League.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 11
March 11:
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 12
March 12:
- 1685 - George Berkeley, Irish theologian born. (d. 1753)
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 13
March 13:
- 483 - St. Felix becomes Pope.
- 874 - The bones of Saint Nicephorus are interred in the Church of the Apostles, Constantinople.
- 1138 - Cardinal Gregory is elected anti-pope as Victor IV, succeeding Anacletus II.
- 1639 - Harvard College was named for clergyman John Harvard.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 14
March 14:
- 1492 - Queen Isabella of Castille orders her 150,000 Jewish subjects to convert to Christianity or face expulsion.
- 1590 - Battle of Ivry: Henry of Navarre and the Huguenots defeat the forces of the Catholic League under the Duc de Mayenne during the French Wars of Religion.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 15
March 15:
- 1545 - First meeting of the Council of Trent.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 16
March 16:
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 17
March 17:
- 624 - A key victory by Muhammad over his Meccan adversaries in the Battle of Badr.
- 2007 - Saint Patrick's Day.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 18
March 18:
- 3952 BC - According to the Venerable Bede, the world was created.
- 731 - Saint Gregory III begins his reign as a Catholic pope.
- 1229 - Frederick II, Holy Roman Emperor declares himself King of Jerusalem during the Sixth Crusade.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 19
March 19:
- 2006 - Second World Congress of Imams and Rabbis for Peace convened in Seville, Spain.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 20
March 20:
- 1477 - Jerome Emser, German theologian, born. (d. 1527)
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 21
March 21:
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 22
March 22:
- 1638 - Anne Hutchinson is expelled from Massachusetts Bay Colony for religious dissent.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 23
March 23:
- 625 - Battle of Uhud takes place between Muslims and Pagans in Arabia.
- 752 - Stephen is elected Pope. He died three days later, before being ordained bishop, and is not considered a legitimate pope.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 24
March 24:
- 1832 - In Hiram, Ohio a group of men beat, tar and feather Mormon leader Joseph Smith, Jr..
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 25
March 25:
- 708 - Constantine is consecrated Pope.
- 1300 - Dante descends to the Inferno in The Divine Comedy.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 26
March 26:
- 1026 - Pope John XIX crowns Conrad II as Holy Roman Emperor.
- 1552 - Guru Amar Das becomes the Third Sikh Guru.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 27
March 27:
- 2002 - Passover Massacre: A suicide bomber kills 29 people in Netanya, Israel.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 28
March 28:
- 1725 - Andrew Kippis, English non-conformist clergyman and biographer, born. (d. 1795)
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 29
March 29:
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 30
March 30:
- 1492 - Ferdinand and Isabella sign the Alhambra decree aimed at expelling all Jews from Spain unless they convert to Roman Catholicism.
- 1533 - Thomas Cranmer becomes Archbishop of Canterbury.
Portal:Religion/On this day/March 31
March 31:
- 1717 - A sermon on "The Nature of the Kingdom of Christ" by Benjamin Hoadly, the Bishop of Bangor, provoked the Bangorian Controversy.
- 2007 - Jainism: Mahavir Jayanti, celebrates of the birth of Mahavira, the last Tirthankara.