Here is a smattering of events that might matter to a Lutheran that occurred on St. Martin of Tours feast day. Oh, and the third one down might be the most interesting of all but, as important as Armistice Day was, it might not be the most consequential of these events. You will have to judge. Anyway, it is interesting from time to time to think about what happens on a particular day and how it might have changed things if they had not occurred.
887 The end of the Carolingian Empire: King Charles III resigns as Emperor after a revolt led by his nephew Arnulf, the empire is then split up
1208 Otto IV, nephew of Richard the Lionheart of England, is elected Holy Roman Emperor at Frankfurt
1215 The Fourth Lateran Council was convened by Pope Innocent III (ca. 1161–1216), meeting until 30 November.
1417 The Council of Constance, by making Martin V (ca. 1368–1431) pope, ended the long-lasting Western papal schism.
1483 Martin Luther was baptized.
1491 Martin Bucer, German Protestant theologian and reformer, was born (d. 28 February 1551).
1561 Hans Tausen, Danish Lutheran leader, died (b. 1494).
1620 The Mayflower Compact was adopted by the Pilgrims.
1679 Firmin Abauzit, French Reformed scholar of Huguenot parentage, was born in Uzes, Languedoc (d. 1767).
1778 Anne Steele, hymnist, died (b. May 1716).
1793 Missionary William Carey (1761–1834) arrived at Calcutta.
1843 Samuel Alfred Ort was born in Lewistown, Pennsylvania (d. 6 January 1911).
1855 Søren Aabye Kierkegaard, Danish Lutheran theologian and philosopher, died at Copenhagen (b. 5 May 1813).
1868 Richard Wilhelm Heintze librarian at Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis, Missouri) from 1926 to 1936, was born in Berlin, Germany (d. 23 March 1937).
1893 Paul Martin Bretscher, professor at Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis, Missouri) from 1941 until 1969, was born in Wausau, Wisconsin (d. 10 August 1974).
1908 The Synod of Central Canada was organized at Toronto.
1917 The United Lutheran Church in America was approved by the United Synod in the South at Salisbury, North Carolina. The merger occurred in 1918.
1921 P. T. (Peter Taylor) Forsyth (b. 1842), English Congregational clergyman and theologian, died.
1947 Martin Dibelius (b. 14 September 1883), German Lutheran New Testament scholar, died.
1985 Philip Fry, president of the Manitoba and Saskatchewan District of the Missouri Synod from 1970 to 1978, died in Regina, Saskatchewan. He had also been vice-president in that district and in Nebraska. Fry graduated from Concordia Seminary (Saint Louis) in 1937 and was also pastor of congregations in Fort Saskatchewan, Alberta; Yorkton and Saskatoon, Saskatchewan; and Beatrice, Nebraska. He retired in 1978. In his earlier years, Fry was a district Walther League president.
1992 The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.
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