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1159
Pope Alexander III was born.
1191
Battle of Arsuf: Richard I Lionheart and Hugh, Duke of Burgundy, are ambushed by Saladin in Arsuf, a small town near Jaffa about 50 miles from Jerusalem. Richard had prepared for this and the Muslim forces are defeated.
1303
Pope Boniface VIII was placed under arrest at Anagni, Italy by King Philip IV of France.
1533
Queen Elizabeth I of England was born. As the daughter of Henry VIII, Elizabeth took important steps towards making the Anglican Church the state church of England.
1785
The Sunday School Society was formed in London, offering weekly Christian tutoring for the poor. Their success lead to the development of a similar organization in the United States in 1824.
1807
Protestant Christianity first arrived in China with English missionary Robert Morrison.
1909
Sigmund Freud gave the first of his five daily lectures at Clark University. In this first lecture, Freud discussed the famous case of "Anna O."
1913
Carl Jung publicly broke with Freud by presented his typology system to the Fourth International Congress of Psychoanalysis in Munich.
1947
Pope Pius XII appeals on Catholics around the world to organize and fight the foes of the Roman Catholic Church.
1947
Fighting between Muslims and Hindus in India spreads to the capital, New Dehli.
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