Today in 1208 Pope Innocent III placed an interdict on the whole of England prohibiting clergy from conducting religious services. It...

Today in Andertons Hotel in Fleet Street, London, a meeting was held which led to the formation of the football league. Organised by a...

Today we remember the revivalist preacher Jonathan Edwards who died today in 1758. His legacy is significant and the ripples from his...

Today in an extra-ordinary ceremony Pius VII was crowned Pope in a Benedictine Monastery with a temporary papal tiara made of...

Today we go back to year 687 and travel to Lindisfarne in the North of England and remember the life of St Cuthbert who died today....

Today we remember how in 1860 the Taiping rebels succeeded in taking the city of Hangzhou in China, in what would become the bloodiest...

Today in 1861 the famous Baptist preacher, Charles Haddon Spurgeon moved his growing congregation to the Metropolitan Tabernacle in...

On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1842 and travel to Illinois when today the Relief Society of The Church of Jesus...

Today we travel to Washington where the Senate ratified the first Geneva Convention of 1864, legitimatizing the International Red Cross...

Today in 1875, Henry Edward Manning was made a cardinal at a consistory convoked by Pope Pius IX, and unusually for Cardinals in the...

On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1871 and travel to the Democratic Republic of Congo in Africa where today the...

Today we remember how Harvard College was established in 1636 by vote of the Great and General Court of the Massachusetts Bay Colony. It...

Today in Ireland in 1685 Anglican bishop and philosopher George Berkeley was born. His philosophy is sometimes referred to as idealism...

On this day in Christian History we go back to year 1812 and travel to West Bengal in India. Today a fire broke out in missionary...

Today in 1969, James A Ray confessed to the assassination of the Reverend Martin Luther King. He had been arrested two months after...

Its 320, the final years of the Roman Empire and we travel to Turkey, remembering how today 40 Roman Soldiers froze to death rather than...

Today in 1983 in Orlando, Florida, American president Ronald Reagan in an address to the National Association of Evangelicals used the...

Today, Pope Paul VI celebrated the first Mass in Italian (rather than Latin) , facing the people, at the church of All Saints in the Via...

Michelangelo was born today, in 1474. His achievements as a sculptor, painter, architect and poet mean that he is often considered to be...

Today in 1631 on Rhode Island the first Baptist church in America was established by Roger Williams, a Puritan minister born in London. ...