November 10
627
Justus, fourth Archbishop of Canterbury, died. A Roman
by birth, he was one of the missionaries sent to England, by
Pope Gregory II at the request of
St. Augustine of Canterbury in 601.
1444
Battle of Varna: The crusading forces of King
Vladislaus III of Varna (aka Ulaszlo I of Hungary
and Wladyslaw III of Poland, b. 31 October 1424) were
crushed by the Turks under Sultan Murad II, and Vladislaus
was killed
1483
Martin
Luther was born in Eisleben, Germany (d. 18 February
1546).
1549
Pope Paul III died (b. 29 February 1468).
1565
Laurentius Paulinus Gothus, Swedish theologian,
astronomer and Archbishop of Uppsala, was born (d. 29
November 1646).
1734
Bartholomaeus Crasselius, hymnist, died at Duesseldorf,
Germany (b. 21 February 1667, Wernsdorf, Saxony).
1735
Granville Sharp, English lawyer and abolitionist, was
born (d. 6 July 1813).
1766 Queen’s
College was chartered in New Brunswick, New Jersey, under
the Dutch Reformed Church. In 1825 the school was renamed
Rutgers College. The present name of
Rutgers University
was adopted in 1924.
1777
Solomon Henkel, printer and physician, was born (d. 31
August 1847).
1844
Henry Eyster Jacobs, leading theologian of the General
Council, was born (d. 7 July 1932).
1851 The
Texas Synod was organized at Houston by six pastors
under the leadership of C. Braun, who had been sent to Texas
by William A. Passavant.
1852
Henry
van Dyke, American Presbyterian clergyman and professor
of English literature at Princeton University, was born in
Germantown, Pennsylvania (d. 10 April 1933).
1857
Henry William Behrens
(1827–1900), South
African missionary, was sent by the Hermannsburg Mission
Society to Africa, where he worked among the Zulu Kaffir in
Natal for six years, then among the Bechuanas.
1861
Philip Martin Ferdinand Rupprecht, house editor at
Concordia Publishing House, was born in North Dover, Ohio
(d. 5 July 1942).
1864
Karl Graul, Lutheran scholar and director of the
Dresden-Leipzig Missionary Society, died in Erlangen (b. 6
February 1814).
1871
Henry Morton Stanley (1841–1904)
located missing missionary and explorer
David Livingstone (1813–1873)
in Ujiji, near Lake Tanganyika in present-day Tanzania.
1873 Bishop
George David Cummins
(1822–1876) of Kentucky withdrew
from the Protestant Episcopal Church and began the formation
of the
Reformed Episcopal Church.
1877
Oscar Carl Kreinheder, president of Valparaiso
University, was born in Buffalo, New York (d. 26 March
1946).
1889
Edwin
Hatch (b. 4 September 1835), Anglican Old Testament
scholar, died.
1910 The
Gideons placed their first Bible in the Superior Motel
in Iron Mountain, Montana.
1933
James Rowe (b. 1 January 1865), English-American writer
and hymnist, died.
1946 The first Lutheran Protestant Synod of West
Germany met at Lebenstadt, near Brunswick.
1946
Kirsopp Lake
(b. 1872), British-American archeologist and biblical
historian, died.
1952 The first Hong Kong Lutheran Hour Rally took
place.
