October 11
1424: Demise of John Ziska, a clever military officer, in Bohemia. He defeated several armies that had tried to suppress the Bohemian reformation...
October 8
451 Opening of the Council of Chalcedon, which dealt with the view of the Eutychians, who taught that Christ's divinity swallowed up his humanity...
October 6
1520: Martin Luther publishes his famous writing "Prelude on the Babylonian Captivity of the Church," attacking the entire sacramental system in the Catholic...
October 5
869 - Opening of the Fourth Council of Constantinople, which in six sessions, condemned iconoclasm and anathematized Constantinople's Patriarch Photius, who held the...
October 4
1535: Miles Coverdale, a London printer, publishes an English version of the Bible. He later served in two other translation committees, and was...
October 2
829: Passing away of the eastern emperor Michael II, "the Stammerer." Although an iconoclast, he had tried to moderate the rivalry between factions,...
