The Japanese Martyrs Are Crucified near Nagasaki: February 6, 1597
This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. Around the year 1540, a Portuguese ship, driven by a storm, landed on an island lying south...
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Jan 293 min read
The Reichstag Transfers All Powers to the Third Reich: January 30, 1934
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. With the power of the chancellor in his hands, Hitler began purging the...
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Jan 225 min read
James Wilson Marshall Discovers Gold in the American River: January 24, 1848
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. It was January 1848. The Treaty of Guadalupe Hidalgo had not yet been signed,...
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Jan 154 min read
Pope Gregory XI Returns to Rome at the Request of St. Catherine of Siena: January 17, 1377
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Boniface VIII’s successor, Benedict XI, made peace with King Philip the...
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Jan 81 min read
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At Catholic Textbook Project, our goal is to help educators like you form your students. To achieve that goal, we’re always upgrading our...
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Jan 83 min read
The Seven Provinces of the Austrian Netherlands Declare Independence: January 11, 1790
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Josef II was ambitious to extend his rule over more lands and to make his...
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Jan 23 min read
George Washington Marries Martha Dandridge Custis: January 6, 1759
This text comes from our book, From Sea to Shining Sea. Not long after he helped the British capture Fort Duquesne, George Washington...
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Dec 25, 20233 min read
St. Thomas Becket Is Martyred at Canterbury Cathedral: December 29, 1170
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Like the Norman kings before him, Henry II wanted to make England a united...
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Dec 18, 20234 min read
Pope Pius XI Issues the Encyclical “Ubi Arcano Dei Consilio”: December 23, 1922
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. “Gladly do We offer Our life for the Peace of the World!” These words were...
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Dec 11, 20233 min read
Ludwig van Beethoven Is Born: December 16, 1770
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. The Romantics we have spoken of to this point have all been literary...
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Dec 4, 20234 min read
Dorothy Day Is Baptized a Catholic: December 8, 1927
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. Most of the responses to the Great Depression had to do with government—what the...
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Nov 27, 20232 min read
King Tut’s Tomb Is Discovered: November 26, 1922
This text comes from our book, All Ye Lands. Some 1,000 years after construction of the Sphinx, an Egyptian prince, Thutmose IV, was...
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Nov 20, 20234 min read
Pope Pius IX Escapes from the Quirinal: November 24, 1848
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Pope Pius IX’s refusal to declare war on Austria had turned the Liberals of...
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Nov 13, 20233 min read
Congress Approves the Articles of Confederation: November 15, 1777
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Trying to get the states to agree on a constitution for the new national...
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Nov 6, 20231 min read
Theodosius Makes Christianity the Official Religion of the Roman Empire: November 8, 391
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. After the death of Valens, the Emperor Gratian realized he needed an able...
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Oct 30, 20234 min read
Martin Luther Nails His Ninety-Five Theses to the Door of the Castle Church: October 31, 1517
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part I. Typically, in those days, preachers were sent throughout Europe to offer the...
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Oct 23, 20233 min read
Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli Is Elected Pope: October 28, 1958
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Angelo Giuseppe Roncalli, the Patriarch of Venice, was 76 years old when his...
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Oct 16, 20233 min read
Thomas Edison Invents the Incandescent Light Bulb: October 21, 1879
This text comes from our book, Lands of Hope and Promise. Western cattle and the railroads changed the agricultural economy of the East....
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Oct 9, 20232 min read
France and Austria Sign the Treaty of Vienna: October 14, 1809
This text comes from our book, Light to the Nations, Part 2. Napoleon had let General Miollis handle the pope; he himself still had a war...
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Sep 28, 20233 min read
St. Katharine Drexel Is Canonized: October 1, 2000
This text comes from our book, The American Venture. “Why not become a missionary yourself, my child?” With these words, Pope Leo XIII...
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