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| 1 August 1845 | The Franconians opened their colony in Michigan. |
| 2 August 1846 | Concordia Theological Seminary, Ft. Wayne, Indiana, was founded. |
| 3 August 1841 | The first fund-raising drive by a Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod congregation was held. The congregation used the money to build Trinity Lutheran Church, St. Louis. |
| 4 August 1931 | A.L. Barry was born. Barry was the president of The Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod from 1992 to 2001. |
| 5 August 1530 | The Catholics presented their Confutation of the Augsburg Confession to the Lutherans. The Confutation was the Church's critical response to the Lutheran Confession. |
| 6 August 1521 | In a letter to Georg Spalatin, Martin Luther swore that "they will never force a wife on me." Four years later, he married Katerina von Bora. |
| 7 August 1409 | The Council of Pisa ended. The papacy convened the Council to find a solution to the Great Schism (1378-1417), caused by the election of two rival popes, one in Avignon, France, the other in Rome. The Council's solution was to depose the two popes as heretics and elect a new pope, Alexander V. The schism continued, and Alexander dissolved the council. |
| 8 August 1518 | Pope Leo X summoned Martin Luther to Rome to be questioned regarding his Ninety-Five Theses. |
| 9 August 1524 | Martin Luther published his Lectures on Joel. |
| 10 August 1866 | The Fraternal Address was sent out to all Lutherans subscribing to the Unaltered Augsburg Confession in America. The Address was an invitation to form a national synod. The senders believed that the current General Synod could not unite all Lutherans and wanted to create a new synod based on the traditional Lutheran beliefs express in the Confession. |
| 11 August 1930 | The American Lutheran Church was organized. |
| 12 August 1849 | The congregation of Trinity, Altenburg (Perry County), Missouri, donated the log cabin school to The Lutheran Church—Missouri Synod, provided it be moved to St. Louis. |
| 13 August 1777 | Martin Stephan was born. Stephan led the Saxon Immigration to America before being ousted by his followers. |
| 13 August 1994 | J.A.O. Preus II died. Preus served as the eighth president of The Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod. |
| 14 August 1919 | The Lutheran Deaconess Association was organized at Ft. Wayne, Indiana. |
| 15 August 1534 | Ignatius of Loyola founded the Jesuit Order of the Roman Catholic Church. The Jesuits played a major role in the Counter-Reformation. |
| 15 August 1456 | Johannes Gutenberg completed the Mazarin Bible, the first book printed his movable type printing process, which allows for books and pamphlets to be printed very quickly and inexpensively. This contributed to the spread of the Reformation. |
| 16 August 1876 | The Saxon Free Church was organized. |
| 16 August 1527 | Leonhard Kaiser, a Bavarian vicar who supported Luther but recanted his support after being arrested, was burned at the stake as a heretic. |
| 17 August 1643 | The Scottish General Assembly accepted the Solemn League and Covenant. The Covenant, which promised the maintenance of Presbyterianism in Scotland and the reformation of the Church of England, was the Puritans' reward for the Scots, who helped the Puritans stop Charles I's attempt to impose episcopacy upon the Puritans. |
| 17 August 1836 | The Leipzig Evangelical Lutheran Church was founded. |
| 18 August 1572 | Huguenot leaders attended the wedding of Henri de Navarre (the future Henri IV of France) and Margaret de Valois, unaware that the bride's mother, Catherine de Médicis, was planning to massacre the Huguenots less than a week later. |
| 18 August 1520 | Martin Luther published his Open Letter to the Christian Nobility, laying the groundwork for the Reformation. |
| 19 August 1531 | In Norwich, England, Thomas Bilney, an Lutheran Pastor, was burned at the stake as a heretic. |
| 20 August 1527 | The Diet of Odensee sanctioned Lutheranism in Denmark. |
| 21 August 1577 | The Lutherans signed the Formula of Concord at Gotha. The Formula confessed the Scripture as the only rule of faith and dealt with various doctrinal controversies. |
| 22 August 1524 | Martin Luther debated Andreas Karlstadt. |
| 23 August 1932 | The first Lutheran Church -- Missouri Synod service in Belo Horizonte, Minas Gerais, Brazil, took place. |
| 24 August 1572 | The Bartholomew's Day Massacre began. For the next two days, thousands of Huguenots were killed throughtout France. The massacre was most likely on the orders of Catherine de Médicis, the queen mother of France. |
| 24 August 1854 | The Evangelical Lutheran Synod of Iowa and Other States was organized. In 1930 the synod merged with the Ohio Synod and the Buffalo Synod to form the American Lutheran Church. |
| 24 August 1560 | A month after the signing of the Treaty of Edinburgh, which ended the war between Scottish Protestants and French Catholics in Scotland, Parliament outlawed Catholicism in Scotland. |
| 25 August 325 | The first Council of Nicaea ended. Convened in June by Constantine I, the council rejected Arianism (the heresy of denying the deity of Christ) and formulated the basis of today's Nicene Creed. |
| 25 August 1900 | Friedrich Nietzsche died. Nietzsche, the son and grandson of Saxon Lutheran pastors, was a philosopher, known for his theory of the "Will to Power" (Wille zur Macht). |
| 26 August 1748 | The Pennsylvania Ministerium was organized. This was the first Lutheran synod in the United States. |
| 27 August 1431 | The Council of Basel began. One of the primary responsibilities of the Council was the unification of all Christiandom. |
| 28 August 1532 | Suliman the Magnificent withdrew his Turkish army from from the German Habsburg lands. |
| 29 August 1530 | Philipp Melanchthon began writing his Apology of the Augsburg Confession. |
| 30 August 1850 | In Sheboyank, Michigan, the Lutheran Indian Mission chapel was dedicated. |
| 31 August 1518 | Martin Luther published his Explanations of the Ninety-Five Theses attacking papal authority. |
Dates and facts compiled by Jason Todd with assistance from Tom Baden.
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