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4th February 1555: John Rogers became the first Protestant martyr under ‘Bloody’ Mary I of England

4th February 2022
Tagged as: Bible, Catholicism, England, Heresy, John Rogers, London, Mary I, Persecution, Protestantism, Smithfield, Tudor, William Tyndale

John Rogers became the first English Protestant martyr under Mary I after he was burnt at the stake.

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23rd February 303: Start of Emperor Diocletian’s ‘Great Persecution’

23rd February 2020
Tagged as: Ancient, Christianity, Diocletian, Persecution, Roman Empire

Emperor Diocletian ordered the destruction of the new church in the ancient city of Nicomedia, marking the start of the ‘Great Persecution’ of Christians.

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4th February 1555: John Rogers became the first Protestant martyr under ‘Bloody’ Mary I of England

23rd February 303: Start of Emperor Diocletian’s ‘Great Persecution’

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21st June 1919: The German High Seas naval fleet is scuttled at Scapa Flow

HistoryPod Extra: The Myth of Gavrilo Princip’s Sandwich

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

2nd August 1934: Hitler becomes Führer after President Hindenburg dies

22nd May 1849: Abraham Lincoln becomes the first and only President to be awarded a patent

21st May 1927 and 1932: Charles Lindbergh makes the first solo non-stop flight across the Atlantic, followed five years later by Emilia Earhart as the first woman

20th May 1882: Establishment of the Triple Alliance between Germany, Austria-Hungary and Italy

19th May 1536: The execution of Anne Boleyn, Henry VIII’s second wife and mother of the future Elizabeth I

28th June 1914 & 1919: Trigger and end of the First World War

11th November 1918: WW1 Armistice of Compiègne is signed

9th November 1989: East Germany opens the Berlin Wall

1st September 1939: Nazi Germany invades Poland

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