Calendarium 2018

Calendarium (important anniversaries) 2018

28. 10. 1918	100^th anniversary of constitution of independent Czechoslovakia
18. 12. 1918	100^th anniversary of uniting of Czech evangelic congregations AC and HC into the Evangelic Church of Czech Brethren
January
5. 1. 1628	John Amos Comenius left his fatherland and came to Polish Leszno
5. 1. 1968	Alexander Dubček elected to be the head of the Communist Party of Czechoslovakia (the so-called Prague Spring’s beginning)
10. 1. 1158	prince Vladislav II became the second Czech king
15. 1. 2008	† Jan Heller, theologian
February
1. 1. 1618	in Broumov there was in contradiction with the Charter of Rudolph II closed down a Lutheran church – one of causes of the Thirty Years’ War
1. 2. 1918	revolt of navy in Bay of Kotor
3. 2. 1468	† Johannes Gutenberg, inventor of leterpress
25. 2. 1948	communistic putsch (takeover of the power) in Czechoslovakia (“Victorious February”)
March
2. 3. 1458	George of Poděbrady elected as the Czech king
6. 3. 1458	† Friedrich Reiser, German Waldensian and Hussite (burnt to death)
7. 3. 1968	† ThDr. Viktor Hájek, Synodial Senior of ECCB (in 1950–1968)
10. 3. 1948	† Jan Masaryk, Foreign Minister of Czechoslovakia, son of T. G. M., diplomat and politician
22. 3. 1808	† Václav Matěj Kramerius, publisher, national revivalist
April
4. 4. 1968	† Martin Luther King, baptist preacher (murdered)
7. 4. 1348	the Charles University of Prague established
13. 4. 1598	French king Henry IV of Navarra permitted in his Edict of Nantes Calvinism in France
20. 4. 1468	† Martin Lupáč, Hussite bishop
22. 4. 1418	Church Council in Constance concluded
25. 4. 1548	members of the Unity of Brethren John Augusta and Jacob Bílek jailed
May
3. 5. 1728	the Daily Watchwords began to be published
4. 5. 1548	the Unity of Brethren expelled from Bohemia (so-called first exile)
7. 5. 1458	George of Poděbrady crowned as the Czech king
20. 5. 1938	Czechoslovak Government declared partial mobilization
22. 5. 1968	† Adolf Novotný, author of Bible Dictionary
23. 5. 1618	3rd Prague Defenestration (beginning of the Thirty Years’ War)
25. 5. 1868	May Laws reduced concordat from 1855
June
4. 6. 1848	Slavic Mass at Horse Market (Slavic Congress in Prague)
7. 6. 1938	† ThDr. Josef Souček, Synodial Senior of ECCB (in 1918–1938)
14. 6. 1798	* František Palacký, Czech politician and historian
20. 6. 1628	last Protestants expelled from Bohemia (only personally free citizens; serves were not allowed to leave by no means!)
21. 6. 1621	the execution of the 27 representatives of the Czech Estate’s revolt at the Old Town Square in Prague
July
1. 7. 1628	Restitution of the Land Order declared for Moravia
6. 7. 1415	Master John Huss burnt to death in Constance
15. 7. 1588	† Jiří Israel, Unity of Brethren bishop for Poland
18. 7. 1658	Leopold I. elected to be Roman Emperor
30. 7. 1718	† William Penn, philanthropist, protector of Quakers and the Unity of Brethren, founder of the American state Pennsylvania
30. 7. 1968	sentences of Milada Horáková and other illegally accused in 1950’s were canceled
August
8. 8. 1488	first Czech printed edition of (the so-called Prague) Bible
10. 8. 1518	Mikuláš Klaudyán, physician in Mladá Boleslav, writer, member of the Unity of Brethren, issued the oldest map of Bohemia
11. 8. 1948	* Jan Palach, Protestant Christian, member of ECCB’s congregation in Libiš near Neratovice
15. 8. 1388	† Vojtěch Raňkův of Ježov, predecessor of the Reformation, besides other things also the rector of Sorbonne in Paris
21. 8. 1968	Czechoslovakia occupied by the Warsaw Pact’s forces
September
3. 9. 1658	† Oliver Cromwell, statesman, leader of the English Revolution
8. 9. 1948	state funeral of the Czechoslovak president Edvard Beneš
9. 9. 1828	* Lev Nikolajevič Tolstoj, Russian writer and philosopher
14. 9.0 258	† Cyprian, bishop, north-African theologian (executed)
17. 9. 1938	† Antonín B. Svojsík, founder of Czech scouting
28. 9. 1978	† John Paul I, pope
30. 9. 1938	Munich Agreement made (i.e. annex of Czech peripheries to Germany)
October
11. 10. 1424	† Jan Žižka of Trocnov and Kalich, brilliant Hussite commander
24. 10. 1648	Peace of Westphalia made, the end of the Thirty Years’ War
25. 10. 1918	† colonel Josef Jiří Švec, legionary in Russia (suicide)
26. 10. 1948	† František Urbánek, Brethren Church preacher
28. 10. 1918	constitution of independent Czechoslovakia
31. 10. 1517	the World Reformation Day (Martin Luther nailed his 95 thesis up to the church’s door at Wittenberg)
November
3. 11. 1918	Virgin Mary Column at Old Town Square in Prague – political symbol of Hapsburg’s absolutism – demolished
8. 11. 1620	White Mountain Battle
17. 11. 1808	† David Zeisberger, Moravian, apostle of Indians
23. 11. 1918	† ThDr. Čeněk Dušek, superintendent HC (in 1910–1918), founder of the Unity of Constance
25. 11. 1888	† Jan Balcar, founder of the Brethren Church
29. 11. 1378	† Charles IV, Czech king, Holy Roman emperor, “Father of Fatherland”
December
1. 12. 1118	† Dětmar of Merseburg, Saxonian bishop and chronicler
9. 12. 1608	* John Milton, English religious poet
10. 12. 1918	noblemen titles canceled in Czechoslovakia
10. 12. 1968	† Karl Barth, theologian, co-founder of the Confessors’ Church in Hitler’s Germany
11. 12. 1528	† Luke of Prague, theologian and important bishop of the Unity of Brethren
18. 12. 1918	uniting of Czech evangelic congregations AC and HC into the Evangelic Church of Czech Brethren