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Pope Constantine died.
1024
Pope Benedict VIII died.
1217
Peter of Courtenay is crowned Latin Emperor of Constantinople at Rome by Pope Honorius III.
1241
Battle of Wahlstatt (Polish: Legnickie Pole): A Crusade against the Mongols is proclaimed after the Teutonic Knights and Henry II the Pious, duke of Poland, are defeated by the Mongols. Mongol leader Batu Khan, son of Ghengis Khan, is only stopped from continuing into the heart of Europe by the news of his father's death, causing him to immediately return home.
1349
Philosopher and theologian William of Ockham died.
1555
Marcellus II was elected pope.
1754
German Enlightenment philosopher Christian Wolff died in Halle, Prussia (now Germany).
1794
Richard Allen, the first black ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, opened the Bethel African Church.
1799
With the help and leadership of Richard Allen, the first black ordained in the Methodist Episcopal Church, the African Methodist Episcopal (AME) Church was created in Philadelphia by six black Methodist congregations.
1870
Friedrich Nietzsche was promoted to the position of "ordinarius" at the University of Basel.
1909
The first recorded instances in America of groups speaking in tongues occurred in Los Angeles under the leadership of black evangelist William J. Seymour. This event marked the beginning of the three-year-long "Azusa Street Revival," key in the development of Pentecostalism.
1944
Pope Pius XII issued the encyclical "Orientalis ecclesiae decus," an attempt to encourage better relations between Catholic, Eastern Orthodox and Uniat churches.
1945
German theologian Dietrich Bonhoeffer is executed by hanging in Flossenburg Prison.
1973
Muslim terrorists stage a failed attack on the residence of the Israeli ambassador to Cyprus and an attempted hijacking of an Israeli airliner at Nicosia airport.
1992
In the newspaper Catholic New York, Cardinal John O'Connor wrote that: "[I]f the Church's authority is rejected on such a crucial question as human life [in the debate over abortion], ...then questioning of the Trinity becomes child's play, as does the divinity of Christ or any other Church teaching."
2003
Baghdad falls to the U.S. forces which had invaded Iraq. in January.
2004
On this Good Friday, Ruben Enaje is crucified for the 18th time in San Pedro Cutud, Philippines.
2006
Palm/Passion Sunday is celebrated in Western Christendom. On this date Christians commemorate of the entry of Jesus into Jerusalem. The day also marks the beginning of Holy Week, a period of worship celebrations, fasting, and penitence.
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