Events in history
Changes in religious tradition, religious persecutions, religious organizations
- Mar 31st 1492, King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella of Spain issued an edict expelling Jews from Spanish soil, except for those willing to convert to Christianity. - Uranus/Oculus
- April 22 1509, Henry the Eighth ascended the throne of England following the death of his father, Henry the Seventh. He later introduced the new Protestant religion to England. - Neptune/Dorsum
- Martin Luther excommunicated by Diet of Worms, April 17 1521 - Saturn /Nashira
- Universal Inquisition established in Rome, July 21 1542 - Pluto /Nashira
- Jan 17th 1562, French Protestants were recognized under the Edict of St. Germain. - NNode /Nashira
- Cromwell becomes Lord Protector of the Commonwealth, and persecuted Catholics. Dec 16 1653 - Jupiter/Castra
- March 1 1692: Sarah Goode, Sarah Osborne, and a West Indian slave woman known as Tituba were arrested in Salem, Massachusetts, and charged with the crime of witchcraft. - NNode /Deneb Algedi
- Separation of church and state in France, Dec 9 1905 - Chiron/Bos
- Second Vatican Council opens, Oct 11th 1962 and brought changes to Catholicism. - Saturn and South Node/Oculus
- Mar 26th 1997 The bodies of 39 members of the Heaven's Gate techno-religious cult who'd committed suicide were found inside a mansion in Rancho Santa Fe, California. - Jupiter occulting/Dorsum
Changes in political tradition
- Mar 10th 1629, England's King Charles the First dissolved Parliament; he did not call it back for eleven years. - Jupiter/Bos
- British monarchy restored, May 8th 1660 - Uranus/Oculus
- May 29th 1660 Charles 11 returned to England from exile to take his position as king. - Uranus/Alshat
- Jan 14th 1784, the United States ratified a peace treaty with England ending the Revolutionary War. - Pluto/Armus
- Feb 4th 1789, electors unanimously chose George Washington to be the first president of the United States. - Pluto/Castra
- April 30th 1789, George Washington took office in New York as the first president of the United States. - Pluto/Nashira
- April 24th 1916, some 1600 Irish nationalists launched the Easter Rising by seizing several key sites in Dublin, including the General Post Office. (put down by British forces, believed to be the beginning of the end of British rule.) - NNode/Alshat
- Mar 4th 1917, Republican Jeannette Rankin of Montana took her seat as the first woman elected to the House of Representatives. - Uranus/Nashira
- Russia proclaimed a Republic, Sept 14th 1917 - Uranus /Nashira
- National Socialist Party founded in Germany, Jan 5 1919. Mars /Dorsum
- Mar 23rd 1933, the German Reichstag adopted the Enabling Act, which effectively granted Adolf Hitler dictatorial legislative powers. - Saturn occulting/Dorsum
- Mar 4th 1933, Franklin D. Roosevelt was inaugurated president, pledging to lead the country out of the Great Depression. - Saturn/Armus
- Jan 23 1950, the Israeli Knesset approved a resolution proclaiming Jerusalem the capital of Israel. - Jupiter /Armus
- February 21 1972: A new era in Chinese policy when President Richard M. Nixon arrived in China for an eight-day official visit. - NNode/Alshat
- Jan 20th 1997 President Clinton and Vice President Gore were sworn in for second terms of office. - Uranus/Alshat
- May 2nd 1997 Tony Blair, whose new Labor Party crushed John Major's long-reigning Conservatives in a national election, became at age 44 Britain's youngest prime minister in 185 years. - Jupiter/Castra
Events
- April 6th 1917, Congress approved a declaration of war against Germany. - Uranus/Deneb Algedi
- February ninth, 1943, the World War Two battle of Guadalcanal in the southwest Pacific ended with an American victory over Japanese forces. - SNode/Alshat
- April 17th, 1961, about 1500 CIA-trained Cuban exiles launched the disastrous Bay of Pigs invasion of Cuba in a failed attempt to overthrow the government of Fidel Castro. - Jupiter/Bos
- Russia attacked by Japan, war declared Feb 10 or Feb 8th 1904, the Russo-Japanese War began. - Saturn occulting/Dorsum
- War declared on Turkey by Greece Apr 18 1897 - North Node/Armus
- May 2nd 1670, the Hudson Bay Company was chartered by England's King Charles the Second. - Neptune/Bos
- Feb 22nd 1879, Frank Winfield Woolworth opened a five-cent store in Utica, New York. NNode/Bos, - Jupiter/Deneb Algedi
- April 19th 1943, during World War Two, tens of thousands of Jews living in the Warsaw Ghetto began a valiant but futile battle against Nazi forces. - SNode/Deneb Algedi
- Mar 24th 1944, in occupied Rome, the Nazis executed more than 300 civilians in reprisal for an attack by Italian partisans the day before that killed 32 German soldiers. - SNode/Bos
- Jan 30th 1972, 13 Roman Catholic civil rights marchers were shot to death by British soldiers in Northern Ireland on what became known as "Bloody Sunday." - NNode/Bos
- Jan 9th 1964, anti-US rioting broke out in the Panama Canal Zone, resulting in the deaths of 21 Panamanians and three US soldiers. - Saturn /Nashira
- May 4th 1776, Rhode Island declared its freedom from England, two months before the Declaration of Independence was adopted. - SNode/Dorsum
- Columbus sighted land.Oct 21st 1492. - Saturn /Castra
- Mar 27th 1512, Spanish explorer Juan Ponce de Leon sighted Florida. - Neptune/Castra
- Jan 20 1841, the island of Hong Kong was ceded to Great Britain. (It returned to Chinese control in July 1997.) - NNode /Nashira