Anniversaries for Spring

Here we present a selection of Anniversaries of church and world events for you to enjoy and contemplate over Spring. Perhaps you may wish to delve a little deeper into an item of particular interest.

March

3rd	1945	Sir Nicolas Bratza – British lawyer and a former President of the European Court of Human Rights
9th	1814	Taras Shevchenko – Ukrainian poet & artist (9.3.1814 – 10.3.1861)
15th	44 BC	Julius Caesar assassinated
17th		St Patrick
20th		Vernal equinox – astronomical Spring begins
20th		Cuthbert, Bishop of Lindisfarne
21st	1556	Martyrdom of Archbishop Cranmer
24th	1980	Oscar Romero, Archbishop of San Salvador, Martyr
31st	1631	John Donne, priest and poet
31st	2024	Easter Sunday

April

10th	1347	William of Ockham, friar and philosopher
11th	1878	George Selwyn – first Bishop of New Zealand
14th	1865	President Lincoln assassinated
23rd		St George
23rd	1616	Shakespeare (23.4.1616 – 26.4.1564)
25th	1915	Anzac Day: landing at Gallipoli
25th		Mark, the Evangelist
26th	1859	Wedding of William Morris & Jane Burden at St Michael’s

May

1st		Philip & James, Apostles
4th	1493	Papal Bull dividing the New World between Spain & Portugal
21st	330	Helena, Empress & mother of Constantine the Great
24th	1791	John Wesley
24th	1788	Charles Wesley
25th	735	The Venerable Bede
26th	1564	John Calvin
26th	1595	Philip Neri, founder of the Oratorians
29th	1453	Fall of Constantinople to the Ottomans