Religion & Belief in the 20th century

1,109 sourced entries, 1900 CE to 1999 CE, oldest first. Also see Religion & Belief across every century or everything else in the 20th century.

19006 January – In Merionethshire, for the first time in centuries, the sword of the Gorsedd bards is solemnly unsheathed. "The chief bard invoked the blessing of God on British arms in South Africa, and announced that the sword would not be sheathed again till the triumph of the forces of righteousness over the hordes of evil."Wales source
19003 May — The first Roman Catholic seminary in New Zealand, Holy Cross College, Mosgiel, is established.New Zealand source
19008 May — Sankt Lukas Stiftelsen is founded by Isabelle Brockenhuus-Løwenhielm and pastor Vilhelm Kold from Indre Mission.Denmark source
1900May – Two spiritualist newspapers, La Luz del Porvenir and Unión Espiritista Kardecista de Cataluña merge to form the paper Luz y unión.Spain source
1900June 25 – Taoist monk Wang Yuanlu discovers the Dunhuang manuscripts, a cache of ancient texts that are of great historical and religious significance, in the Mogao Caves of Dunhuang, China, where they have been sealed since the early 11th century.source
1900August 9 – Funeral of King Umberto I; he was buried in the Pantheon in Rome.Italy source
190031 October – the United Free Church of Scotland is formed by union of the United Presbyterian Church of Scotland and the Free Church of Scotland.Scotland source
1900Bernt Julius Muus, Lutheran minister (born 1832)Norway source
1900Date unknown – The Swedish branch of the Woman's Christian Temperance Union is organized by Emilie Rathou.Sweden source
1901January 1 – Pentecostalism is born, at a prayer meeting at Bethel Bible College in Topeka, Kansas.United States source
1901January 18 – Pope Leo XIII issues the encyclical Graves de communi re on Christian Democracy.Italy source
1901January – Samuel Thomas Evans becomes the last QC appointed by Queen Victoria.Wales source
1901March 18 – The province of Masbate is founded.Philippines source
1901March 22 — Gabrielle Roy, a prominent French Canadian author, was born. She would go on to become one of Canada's most celebrated writers.Canada source
190122 May – The foundation stone for St John's Cathedral, Brisbane, is laid by The Duke of Cornwall and York (later George V). the church celebrated 100 years of construction in 2006 and is the only gothic-style stone building under construction anywhere in the world.Australia source
190125 July – Bishop Antoon Stillemans consecrates Church of St Anthony of Padua, GhentBelgium source
1901Union of the Synod of Otago and Southland with the Northern Presbyterian Church to form the Presbyterian Church of Aotearoa New Zealand.New Zealand source
1902January - Alfred Loisy writes L'évangile et l'Eglise, which inaugurates the crisis of modernism in the Catholic Church.France source
19022 June – The centenary of the Congregation of Christian Brothers was celebrated with High Mass in the Holy Name Cathedral, Chicago.Ireland source
190229 July – St Lawrence's Church, Dingwall (Roman Catholic) opens.Scotland source
19022 August – A. G. Edwards, Bishop of St Davids, is appointed Honorary Chaplain to the Denbighshire Yeomanry.Wales source
1902August 9 – Coronation of Edward VII as King of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, Emperor of India at Westminster Abbey in London.source
19029 August – coronation of Edward VII and Alexandra at Westminster Abbey by Archbishop Frederick Temple.United Kingdom source
190219 August – Antoon Stillemans, bishop of Ghent, consecrates the new abbey church of Dendermonde Abbey, built in Gothic Revival style.Belgium source
1902Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1902Heavyweight – J. Fitzsimmons (Timaru)New Zealand source
190322 February – The Fríkirkjan í Reykjavík is consecrated in Reykjavik.Iceland source
1903March 12 – Andries Dreyer, an archivist of the Dutch Reformed Church, is ordained as a missionary of the congregation for the Hanover Street area in Cape Town.South Africa source
1903Zhang Shizhao was hired as the chief editor of the Su BaoChina source
1903July 31 – Start of the Papal conclave after the death of Pope Leo XIII. Giuseppe Melchiorre Sarto was elected on August 4 as Pope Pius X. Pius X's papacy would feature vigorous condemnation of what he termed 'modernists' and 'relativists' whom he regarded as dangers to the Catholic faith (see for example his Oath Against Modernism).Italy source
1903August 4 – Pope Pius X succeeds Pope Leo XIII as the 257th pope.source
1903November 17 – The Russian Social Democratic Labour Party splits into two groups: the Bolsheviks (Russian for "majority") and Mensheviks (Russian for "minority").source
1903Théo van Rysselberghe, The ReadingBelgium source
1903Featherweight – A. Parker (Christchurch)New Zealand source
1903"Hector the Hero", a classic lament, composed by James Scott SkinnerScotland source
1903Llyfe Mormon (translation of the Book of Mormon)Wales source
190413 January – The flag of South Australia is officially gazetted as the current design.Australia source
1904April 6 – Joseph F. Smith announces the Second Manifesto in General Conference of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints in Utah Territory, prohibiting the practice of polygamy, which has continued to be sanctioned by some of its leaders in violation of the 1890 Manifesto officially banning the practice.source
190416 April – FC Einigkeit Braunschweig established.Germany source
19047 August – The reinauguration of Ribe Cathedral.Denmark source
1904September 16 – Start of the 1904 Italian general strike, making it the first general strike in Italian history. The strike was called by the Chambers of Labour in several cities in response to killings of striking workers in the preceding weeks. Prime Minister Giovanni Giolitti refuses to intervene and this attitude prevents the movement to take revolutionary dimensions while the strike petered out. In response, Pope Pius X gives tacit permission to Catholic candidates to stand in parliamentary to counter the red menace.Italy source
1904December 27 – The Abbey Theatre in Dublin opens.source
1904The Evangelical Lutheran Church of Brazil is founded in Rio Grande do Sul.Brazil source
1904Lightweight – T. Rickards (Christchurch)New Zealand source
1904Johan Christian Heuch, bishop and politician (born 1838)Norway source
1904The Swiss Federation of Jewish Communities is established.Switzerland source
1905January 11 – Under the supervision of five editors, work begins on the comprehensive Catholic Encyclopedia, subtitled "An International Work of Reference on the Constitution, Doctrine, Discipline, and History of the Catholic Church." The first volume will appear in 1907.source
190531 January – 1904–1905 Welsh Revival: Rev Peter Price writes to the Western Mail, criticising the "so-called" revival led by Evan Roberts.Wales source
1905March 2 – Russia's Committee of Ministers votes to grant religious freedom to the subjects of the Russian Empire.source
190512 May – The first meeting of the Australian Council of Defence takes place between the Minister for Defence, the Treasurer, the Inspector-General Army, the Chief of Intelligence, and the Director of the Naval Forces.Australia source
1905June 11 – Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Il fermo proposito, which establishes Azione Cattolica as a non-political lay organization under the direct control of bishops. It was established after an earlier similar organization, Opera dei Congressi was disbanded in 1904 because many of its members were siding with modernism. Catholics were allowed by the pope to vote "to help the maintenance of the social order", but without lifting the Non Expedit of 1868 that prohibited Italian Catholics to participate in political elections in the Kingdom of Italy and, by extension, in Italian national political life. (Because of the Catholic opposition to the unification of Italy and capture of the Papal States).Italy source
190512 October – First stone of the Basilica of the Sacred Heart, Brussels laid.Belgium source
1905October 13 O.S: The Saint Petersburg Soviet holds its first meeting, the first elected workers' Soviet (council) in Russia.Russia source
1905October – John W. Taylor and Matthias F. Cowley resign from the Quorum of Twelve in protest, disputing the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints' stance against polygamy that was reaffirmed in the Second Manifesto (following the Reed Smoot hearings).United States source
1905Bantamweight – E. Baird (Christchurch)New Zealand source
1905St Paul's Cathedral, Dundee, raised to cathedral status in the Episcopal Church.Scotland source
1906January 16–April 7 – The Algeciras Conference convenes, to resolve the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.source
190616 January - Algeciras Conference begins, to mediate the First Moroccan Crisis between France and Germany.France source
190630 January – The proclamation of Frederick VIII as King of Denmark.Denmark source
1906February 11 – Pope Pius X publishes the encyclical Vehementer Nos, denouncing the 1905 French law on the Separation of the Churches and the State.source
1906April 14 – The Azusa Street Revival, the primary catalyst for the revival of Pentecostalism this century, opens in Los Angeles.source
190622 June – Haakon VII and Maud of Wales are crowned monarch and consort of Norway in the Nidaros Cathedral.Norway source
19061 August – The Catholic Hierarchy ruled out any scheme for mixed religious education at Trinity College Dublin.Ireland source
1906Construction begins on the modern-day Great Mosque of Djenné.source
190615 to 19 August – Seventeenth International Eucharistic Congress held in Tournai.Belgium source
1906Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1906Middleweight – A. Nash (Christchurch)New Zealand source
1906David Vaughan Thomas - The Knight's BurialWales source
19071 January – Cardiff beat the touring South Africa national team, 17 - 0.Wales source
1907June 5 – Shastri Yagnapurushdas consecrates the murtis of both Sahajanand Swami and Gunatitanand Swami in a single central shrine, thus establishing the Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, later a United Nations affiliate organization.source
19075 June – Bochasanwasi Shri Akshar Purushottam Swaminarayan Sanstha, a sect of Hinduism, is established by Swami Yagnapurushdas.India source
19078 July – Sophus Bugge, philologist (born 1833)Norway source
1907August 15 – Ordination in Constantinople of Fr. Raphael Morgan, first African-American Eastern Orthodox priest, "Priest-Apostolic" to America and the West Indies.United States source
1907September 8 – Pope Pius X promulgates the encyclical Pascendi Dominici gregis, opposing modernism in the Catholic Church.source
1907November 21 − Ernest Nathan is appointed the first Jewish mayor of Rome, after a victory of anti-clericals at the municipal elections.Italy source
1907Louis Tytgadt, After Mass in the Church of the Onze-Lieve-Vrouw Ter Hoye Beguinage in GhentBelgium source
1907China Centenary Missionary ConferenceChina source
1907St Paul's Church in Dunedin is consecrated by Bishop Churchill Julius.New Zealand source
190829 June – the Apostolic constitution Sapienti consilio, issued by Pope Pius X, brings the Roman Catholic Church in Britain under regular canon law rather than being missionary territory.United Kingdom source
1908October 13 – The Church of the Nazarene is organized officially at Pilot Point, Texas as the Pentecostal Church of the Nazarene. This is the official "birthday" of the denomination.United States source
190814 October – John Ballinger is appointed first librarian of the National Library of Wales.Wales source
1908Isaac Albéniz - Iberia, Livre 4France source
1908Þórhallur Bjarnarson became the sixth Bishop of Iceland, succeeding Hallgrímur Sveinsson in the position.Iceland source
1908Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1908Heavyweight – M. Ryan (Invercargill)New Zealand source
1908St Mary's Episcopal Church in Glasgow is raised to the status of St Mary's Cathedral, Glasgow, within the Scottish Episcopal Church.Scotland source
1909March 21 – The remains of the Báb are placed in the Baháʼí Shrine of the Báb on Mount Carmel in Haifa, at this time within the Ottoman Empire.source
19091 April – Lennox Robinson's first play, The Cross Roads, was performed at the Abbey Theatre in Dublin; he became the theatre manager later in the year.Ireland source
1909April 11 – The city of Tel Aviv (known in its first year as Ahuzat Bayit) is founded by the Jewish community, on the outskirts of Jaffa (at this time in the Ottoman Empire).source
1909April 18 – Joan of Arc is beatified in Rome.source
19099 July – Vilhelm Andreas Wexelsen, bishop and politician (born 1849)Norway source
19091 August - Tour de France ends, won by François Faber of Luxembourg.France source
190923 November – Otto Sinding, painter (born 1842)Norway source
190920 December – Thomas Thomas is awarded the first Lonsdale Belt at middleweight.Wales source
1909Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1909Heavyweight – M. Ryan (Invercargill)New Zealand source
1909Middleweight – S. Monaghan (Ohakune)New Zealand source
1910January 10 – Le Devoir first publishedCanada source
1910February 14 — Establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of Central Chi-Li.China source
1910March 10 – Nazareth Baptist Church, an African-initiated church, is founded by Prophet Isaiah Shembe.South Africa source
1910June 14–23 – Edinburgh Missionary Conference is held in Scotland, presided over by John Mott, launching the modern ecumenical movement and the modern missions movement.source
191031 August – Gafanha da Nazaré is founded by Prior Sardo and becomes the last Portuguese town to receive a foral (royal charter) from the monarchy, granted by King Manuel II.Portugal source
191011 December – Lars Olsen Skrefsrud, missionary and language researcher in India (born 1840).Norway source
1910Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1910World Peace Foundation established.United States source
1910Thomas Carrington - Hen weddi deuluaidd fy nhadWales source
1911June 22 – George V and Mary are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, at Westminster Abbey in London.source
191122 June – Coronation of George V and Queen Mary at Westminster Abbey, London.United Kingdom source
191119 July – Thistle Chapel, designed by Robert Lorimer, dedicated in St Giles' Cathedral, Edinburgh.Scotland source
191129 August – The Diocese of Kottayam was erected on this day (Kerala, India) for the Knanaya Catholic people of the Syro-Malabar Church. In 2005 the diocese was raised to the rank of Archdiocese.India source
1911October 28 – The Rosicrucian Fellowship's international headquarters opens at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California (preceded by its formal constitution on August 8, 1909, at Seattle, Washington).United States source
1911Jean de La Hire - Le Mystère des XVFrance source
1911Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1911Establishment of Lusitano G.C.Portugal source
1911Rugby league - Merthyr Tydfil RLFC fold after four seasons.Wales source
19126 January - Due to a violation of article 379 of the Penal Code, Bishop of the Algarve was prohibited from residing in his diocese for two years by Ministry of Justice António Macieira.Portugal source
1912January 18 (Old Style January 5) – Prague Conference: Vladimir Lenin and the Bolshevik Party break away from the rest of the Russian Social Democratic Labour Party.source
1912May 1 – ʻAbdu'l-Bahá lays the cornerstone for the Bahá'í House of Worship in Wilmette, Illinois.United States source
191215 May – The proclamation of Christian X as King of Denmark.Denmark source
19121 August – Jens Jonas Jansen, priest (born 1844)Norway source
191217 September – The Pentecostal church in Skövde is founded as one of the first Pentecostal churches in Sweden.Sweden source
1912Wilfrid Voynich discovers the eponymous manuscript in the Villa Mondragone.source
1912On December 29, India obtained its first Anglican bishop. Vedanayakam Samuel Azariah (1874–1945), the son of an Indian clergyman, educated at Madras Christian College, was consecrated as the First Indian Anglican bishop in St. Paul's Cathedral, Calcutta. There were present 11 British Anglican bishops, and the Governor of Bengal. In ten days Azariah took office in the newly created diocese of Dornakal.India source
1912Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1912St. Macarius II Mikhail Nevsky assumed the role of Metropolitan and Archbishop of Moscow.Russia source
191311 February – The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Miguel was established with Juan Antonio Dueñas y Argumedo as Ordinary. The Roman Catholic Diocese of Santa Ana was also established.El Salvador source
191312 March — Canberra is named by Gertrude DenmanAustralia source
191319 March – The renovation project of Wufeng Temple was completed, and Governor Sakuma Mata personally presided over the ceremony. (the monument was built on 24 October 1914.)Taiwan source
191323 October – Kristian Vilhelm Koren Schjelderup, Sr., bishop (born 1853)Norway source
191310 December – Nobel Peace Prize awarded to Henri La Fontaine, head of the International Peace Bureau.Belgium source
1913December 30 – Italy returns the Mona Lisa to France.source
1913The Ahmadiyya Muslim Community is established in Bengal Province (modern-day Bangladesh).source
1913The first Bjargtangar Lighthouse was established.Iceland source
1913Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1913Matchplay: B.B. Wood (Christchurch) — 2nd titleNew Zealand source
1914March 31 – Octavio Paz, writer, poet, and diplomat, and the winner of the 1990 Nobel Prize in LiteratureMexico source
1914April 6 — Establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of Kiaotsu, in GuangdongChina source
1914April 23 – The Afrikaans language receives official recognition, when Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven addresses the English caucus of the Cape Provincial Council.source
1914July 2 – The German Kaiser announces that he will not attend the funeral of Archduke Franz Ferdinand.source
19145 July – The German Kaiser announces that he will not attend the Archduke's funeral.Germany source
1914July 7 – Austria-Hungary convenes a Council of Ministers, including Ministers for Foreign Affairs and War, the Chief of the General Staff, and Naval Commander-in-Chief; the Council lasts from 11:30 am until 6:15 pm.source
1914July 27 – Felix Ysagun Manalo registers the Iglesia ni Cristo (Church of Christ) with the government of the Philippines.source
1914July 27 – Iglesia ni Cristo is registered to the government by Felix Manalo.Philippines source
1914September 3 – Pope Benedict XV (Giacomo della Chiesa) succeeds Pope Pius X.source
191418 September - Welsh Church Act, disestablishing the Church in Wales, receives Royal Assent, but simultaneously with the Suspensory Act which delays its coming into effect.Wales source
1914Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1914St Andrew's Cathedral, Aberdeen, raised to the status of cathedral within the Episcopal Church.Scotland source
191529 January – Ole Andres Olsen, Seventh-day Adventist minister and administrator (born 1845)Norway source
1915March 28 – The first Roman Catholic Liturgy is celebrated by Archbishop John Ireland at the newly consecrated Cathedral of Saint Paul in Saint Paul, Minnesota.United States source
19158 August - Establishment of the Catholic Centre Party.Portugal source
191528 October – The opening of Kagi Shrine in Tainan Prefecture.Taiwan source
1915Sir Jamsetjee Jejeebhoy Baronetcy ActIndia source
1915Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1915Auckland Trotting Cup – Cathedral ChimesNew Zealand source
1915John Gwenogvryn Evans (ed.) - Poems from the Book of Taliesin, amended and translatedWales source
19167 February – The Roman Catholic archdiocese of Cardiff is established.Wales source
191616 September – William Jolliffe is appointed New Zealand's first censor (on his birthday)New Zealand source
191621 September – Establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of Eastern HonanChina source
191619 October – Cardinal Mercier protests the deportation of forced labourers to Germany.Belgium source
1916November 5 – Honan Chapel, Cork, Ireland, a product of the Irish Arts and Crafts movement (1894–1925), is dedicated.source
1916The National Research Council of Canada is established.Canada source
1916Hindu Disposition of Property ActIndia source
1916Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1916Erik V. Vullum, politician and author (born 1850)Norway source
191718 January – "Manifiesto de la Liga Antigermanófila" ('Manifesto of the Anti-Germanophile League') published in La España.Spain source
191712 February – Reverend William Campbell returns to China.Taiwan source
1917February 25 – At a national congress of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) in Rome the division between reformists and hard-liners increases; only the approval of an agenda proposed by Costantino Lazzari manages to avoid fracture.Italy source
1917March 10 – The Province of Batangas is formally founded, as one of the Philippines' first encomiendas.source
19171 May – Emilius Seghers consecrated as bishop of GhentBelgium source
1917May 13 – Nuncio Eugenio Pacelli, the future Pope Pius XII, is consecrated Archbishop by Pope Benedict XV.source
1917May 27 – Pope Benedict XV promulgates the 1917 Code of Canon Law.source
1917August 13 – Rafael Moreno Valle, military physician, politician (PRI), Governor of Puebla (1969-1974) (died 2016).Mexico source
1917October 13 – The Miracle of the Sun is reported at Fátima, Portugal.source
191713 October – Miracle of the Sun near FátimaPortugal source
1917November 8 (N.S.) (October 26, O.S.) – Following the October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai is appointed People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the Council of People's Commissars of the Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, the first woman cabinet minister in Europe.source
1917The True Jesus Church is established in Beijing.source
1917Jón Helgason became the seventh Bishop of Iceland, following the death of Þórhallur Bjarnarson the previous year.Iceland source
1917Following the October Revolution, Alexandra Kollontai is appointed People's Commissar for Social Welfare in the Council of People's Commissars of the Government of the Russian Soviet Federative Socialist Republic, making her the first woman cabinet minister in Europe.Russia source
1918February 16 – The Council of Lithuania adopts the Act of Independence of Lithuania, declaring Lithuania's independence from Germany, Russia or any other state.source
191826 February – Otto Jensen, bishop, politician and Minister (born 1856)Norway source
19188 May – First Muslim-Christian Association meets in Jaffa.British-administered Palestine source
191818 November - Admiral Alexander Kolchak seizes power from the Ufa Directory which moved to Omsk month before. The council of ministers appointed him to the post of the Supreme Ruler of Russia (chosen to avoid the words "president" and "regent", believing that the form of government will be determined by the Constituent Assembly after the end of the civil war)Russia source
1918December 1 – A council of Transylvanian Romanians declare union 26 counties of the Kingdom of Hungary until the Tisza river with Romania in Gyulafehérvár (now Alba Iulia)Hungary source
1918Oct 15 - Shirdi Sai Baba's deathIndia source
1918Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1918New Zealand Trotting Cup – Author DillonNew Zealand source
1918The Native American Church is formally founded.United States source
1919January 18 – Foundation of the Italian People's Party by Luigi Sturzo, a Sicilian Catholic priest. The PPI was backed by Pope Benedict XV to oppose the Italian Socialist Party (PSI). The party supported various social reforms, including the foundations of a welfare state, women's suffrage and Proportional representation voting.Italy source
191919 January – The Sunday Post first published under this title in Glasgow.Scotland source
191926 February – The first official meeting of the Zionist General Council.British-administered Palestine source
191929 June – Ernesto Corripio y Ahumada, cardinal (died 2008)Mexico source
1919August 17 – Council of Germans in Németújvár (now Güssing) declare for AustriaHungary source
1919September 1 – In a three-way splintering of the Socialist Party of America, the leadership of the 60,000 alien members of the Left Wing form the Communist Party of America at a separate convention in Chicago on September 1, 1919.United States source
1919December 22 – Toronto Arenas become the Toronto St. PatricksCanada source
1919Men – H. E. Crosse (Napier) (second title)New Zealand source
1920January 16 – Albert Apponyi speaks in front of the Paris Peace ConferenceHungary source
1920February 12–24 – Conference of London: Leaders of the United Kingdom, France and Italy meet to discuss the partitioning of the Ottoman Empire.source
19209 April – The Times publishes a special "Belgian number" (pages 33-54) with contributions by many prominent Belgians.Belgium source
1920May 16 – Canonization of Joan of Arc: Over 30,000 people attend the ceremony in Rome, including 140 descendants of Joan of Arc's family. Pope Benedict XV presides over the rite, for which the interior of St. Peter's Basilica in Rome is richly decorated.source
1920June 2 – Francisco Plancarte y Navarrete, archaeologist and archbishop of Monterrey, 1911–1920 (born 1856)Mexico source
1920June – The Catholic Women's League is formed in Montreal.Canada source
192017 July – Christopher Bruun, Norwegian priest and educator.Norway source
1920July 31 – Irish-born Australian Catholic Archbishop Daniel Mannix is detained on board ship by British authorities off Queenstown and prevented from landing in Ireland or from speaking in the main Irish Catholic communities elsewhere in the United Kingdom.source
1920September 12 – The position of Patriarch of the Serbs is re-established as the authority over the Serbian Orthodox Church, almost 156 years to the day after it was abolished by the Ottoman Empire in 1766.source
19207 October - The establishment of the Jewish National Council, the main national institution of the Jewish community (Yishuv) within the British Mandate of Palestine.British-administered Palestine source
1920November 2 – Meiji Shrine, one of many landmark spots in Tokyo, is officially built in Japan.source
1920November 11 – In London, The Cenotaph is unveiled and The Unknown Warrior is buried in Westminster Abbey; while in Paris the Tomb of the Unknown Soldier is consecrated beneath the Arc de Triomphe.source
1920November 17 – The council of the League of Nations accepts the constitution for the Free City of Danzig.source
1920December 15–22 – The Brussels Conference establishes a timetable for German war reparations, intended to extend for over 42 years.source
1920December 25 – The Rosicrucian Fellowship's spiritual healing temple The Ecclesia is dedicated at Mount Ecclesia, Oceanside, California.source
1920The first edition of the Poems of the English war poet Wilfred Owen, killed in action in 1918, appears in London, introduced by his friend Siegfried Sassoon. Only five of Owen's verses having been published in his lifetime, the collection introduces his work to many readers. It includes the 1917 poems "Anthem for Doomed Youth" and "Dulce et Decorum est", two of the best-known poetic condemnations of war.source
1920Charitable and Religious Trusts ActIndia source
1920Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1921January 15-21 – The XVII Congress of the Italian Socialist Party (PSI) was held at the Carlo Goldoni Theatre in Livorno from 15 to 21 January 1921. After tumultuous proceedings the congress resulted in a split in the party.Italy source
1921February 21 – Conference of London of 1921–1922 convenes in an attempt to resolve problems arising from the dissolution of the Ottoman Empire.source
19217 March - Francis Edward Mostyn is appointed Roman Catholic Archbishop of Cardiff.Wales source
192112 March – Start of Cairo Conference which agrees that the administration of Transjordan should be separated from that of Palestine.Mandatory Palestine source
192128 March - Easter Crisis: Charles IV negotiates with Horthy in Budapest. Horthy refuses to resign power. Charles IV returns to Szombathely.Hungary source
19218 April – Permanent Advisory Council of Princes inaugurated; Council of State and Legislative Assembly inaugurated.India source
192128 July – Church of Scotland Act 1921 given Royal Assent, recognising the Church's Articles Declaratory and thus its status as the national church in Scotland but independent from the state in spiritual matters.Scotland source
19218 August – Establishment of the Vicariate Apostolic of NganhoeiChina source
1921August 16 – The Times newspaper in London begins a series of articles, written by its Constantinople correspondent Philip Graves, exposing The Protocols of the Elders of Zion as a forgery.source
1921Johannes Giesberts (Centre) – Minister of the PostGermany source
19229 January – Haj Amin al-Husseini, who had become the Mufti of Jerusalem the previous year, is elected head of the Muslim community (Rais al-'Ulama').Mandatory Palestine source
1922January–March - Two "Craig–Collins Pacts" fail to resolve sectarian differences between North and South.Northern Ireland source
1922February 6 – Pope Pius XI (Achille Ratti) succeeds Pope Benedict XV, to become the 259th pope.source
19226 February – Pope Pius XI is elected on the Papal conclave's fourteenth ballot.Italy source
1922April 22 – The Lambda chapter of the Alpha Kappa Alpha sorority (the first chapter of a black sorority in New York State) is chartered.United States source
1922May 30 – In Washington, D.C., United States, the Lincoln Memorial is dedicated.source
1922September 11 – The Mandate of Palestine is approved by the Council of the League of Nations.source
192215 October – Ferdinand is crowned King of Romania at Coronation Cathedral, Alba Iulia.Romania source
19222 November – William Watson appointed Lord Advocate, replacing Charles David Murray.Scotland source
1922November 19 – Abdülmecid II, Crown Prince of the Ottoman Empire, is elected Caliph.source
192221–23 June – The foundation stone for the Dante Column on Danttes Plads in Copenhagen is set.Denmark source
1922The Light of the East, a monthly review is founded at Calcutta.India source
19234 March – The far-right National-Christian Defense League (Liga Apărării Național Creștine, LANC) is founded.Romania source
1923April 26 – Wedding of Prince Albert and Lady Elizabeth Bowes-Lyon: The future King George VI of the United Kingdom marries the future Queen Elizabeth the Queen Mother in Westminster Abbey.source
192326 September – The British Mandate for Palestine, a legal instrument for the administration of Palestine, confirmed by the Council of the League of Nations on 24 July 1922, comes into effect.Mandatory Palestine source
1923November 11 – The Fredericton Cenotaph was dedicated in Fredericton, New Brunswick.Canada source
1923December 20 – BEGGARS Fraternity (the second social fraternity at a Jesuit college in the United States) is founded by nine men, who have secured permission to do so from the Pope.United States source
192327 December – Establishment of the Prefecture Apostolic of TingchowChina source
1923Agitation against separate dining and prayer halls for Brahmins and Non-Brahmins in Gurukulam ran by V. V. S. Aiyar at Cheranmadevi.India source
1923The Church of Ireland parish church of St. Anne in Enniskillen is raised to the dignity of the cathedral church of St. Macartin.Northern Ireland source
1923The town of Mo i Rana is founded.Norway source
192429 February – Last public appearance of the caliph Abdülmecit IITurkey source
1924March 3 – The Ottoman Caliphate, a remnant of the Ottoman Empire abolished on November 1, 1922, and one of the historical claims of succession to the Islamic State of Muhammad, comes to an end with the deposition of Abdülmecid II, Caliph of the Ottoman dynasty. This marks the end of an era, giving way to the drastic political transformations of Turkey under President Atatürk's reforms.source
19243 March — Executive Bureau of the Central Committee of the Khorezm Communist Party approved the initiative on the national delimitation of the Central AsiaSoviet Union source
19243 March – The Ministry of Sharia and the Foundations was abolished; the Directorate of Religious Affairs and the Directorate General of Foundations were establishedTurkey source
192411 April – Minda Ramm, novelist, translator and literary critic (born 1859).Norway source
1924May 3 – The Aleph Zadik Aleph, the oldest Jewish youth fraternity, is founded in Omaha, Nebraska.United States source
19243 July – The Minister for Education, Eoin MacNeill, announced that the teaching of Irish was to be made compulsory in all schools.Ireland source
1924August - Artist and designer Eric Gill moves with some of his artistic community from Ditchling in England to the disused Llanthony Abbey at Capel-y-ffin.Wales source
1924October 19 – Abdul Aziz, founder of Saudi Arabia, declares himself protector of holy places in Mecca.source
192422 November – Roman Catholic Diocese of Lancaster erected.United Kingdom source
192511 February – Establishment of the Prefecture Apostolic of TsingtaoChina source
192512 February – The Romanian Orthodox Church becomes a patriarchate, with Miron Cristea elected the Patriarch of All Romania.Romania source
1925May 1 – In the Destruction of early Islamic heritage sites in Saudi Arabia, the al-Baqi' mausoleums are destroyed by King Ibn Saud.source
19251 May – The founding of the kibbutz Givat HaShlosha by group of Jewish immigrants from Poland.Mandatory Palestine source
19252 June – Foundation stone for the west front of St Anne’s Cathedral, Belfast, is laid by Governor of Northern Ireland, the Duke of Abercorn.Northern Ireland source
192526 June – Natal – Eshowe to Extension, 74 ch.South Africa source
192513 October – Gaston-Antoine Rasneur, bishop of Tournai, consecrates the new abbey church of Chimay Abbey.Belgium source
192530 November – Tekkes, traditional institutions were closedTurkey source
1925December 11 – Pope Pius XI's encyclical Quas primas, on the Feast of Christ the King, is promulgated.source
192524 December – The Decree on the Powers of the Head of the Government is passed, giving Mussolini sole executive power over parliament and solidifying the one party, police state of Fascist Italy. Mussolini's title is formally changed from "president of the Council of Ministers" to "head of the government". From here on, he is known as Il Duce, the supreme leader.Italy source
1925Islamic Bektashi Order lodges in Turkey are closed down by order of the country's President, Atatürk, and the leadership moves to Albania.source
1925Ernest Blythe, Minister for Finance in the Irish Free State, arranges an annual government subsidy of £850 for the Abbey Theatre in Dublin, making it the first state-supported theatre in the English-speaking world.source
1926January 8 – Ibn Saud is crowned ruler of the Kingdom of Hejaz.source
192613 January – Mathilde Schjøtt, writer, literary critic, biographer and feminist (born 1844).Norway source
19262 February – Spelling of the town of Carnarvon changed to Caernarvon (modern-day Caernarfon); the county makes the same change on 1 July.Wales source
1926February 12 – The Irish minister for Justice, Kevin O'Higgins, appoints the Committee on Evil Literature.source
1926April 6 – Aarón Joaquín has a vision in the Nuevo León state of Mexico, origin of La Luz del Mundo, a nontrinitarian charismatic restorationist Christian church.source
1926War cemeteries at Ramleh and Jerusalem are formally dedicated by Field-Marshal Viscount Allenby.Mandatory Palestine source
1926September 11 – Aloha Tower is officially dedicated at Honolulu Harbor in the Territory of Hawai'i.United States source
1926October 23 – The Fazal Mosque, the first purpose-built in London and the first Ahmadiyya mosque in Britain, is completed.source
192624 November – Sri Aurobindo retires, leaving Mirra Alfassa to run the Sri Aurobindo Ashram in Pondicherry.India source
192631 December – Hadow report on The Education of the Adolescent published.United Kingdom source
1926Monarch – Victor Emmanuel III (1900–1946)Italy source
1926The Chatham Cup is won by Sunnyside (Christchurch)New Zealand source
192720 March – Mahad Satyagraha lead by B. R. Ambedkar for Dalit rights.India source
19271 May – Dioceses of Guildford and of Portsmouth are created in the Church of England.United Kingdom source
19273 May – The Australasian Council of Trade Unions is formed at the All-Australian Trade Union Congress in Melbourne.Australia source
19277 May – General Allenby lays the foundation stone of St Andrew's Church, JerusalemMandatory Palestine source
1927July 10 – Timothy Coughlan, Bill Gannon and Archie Doyle, members of the anti-Treaty Irish Republican Army, shoot dead Kevin O'Higgins, Vice-President of the Executive Council of the Irish Free State and Minister for Justice, as O'Higgins is walking to Mass in Dublin.source
1927July 13 (Wednesday, Tamuz 13, 5687): 12:30 – Rebbe Yosef Yitzchak Schneersohn is freed from the imprisonment which began on June 15 (Wednesday, Sivan 15, 5687) at 02:15 in exile, in the Russian town of Kostroma.source
192715 September – Belgium loses its seat on the permanent council of the League of Nations.Belgium source
1927The Evangelical Presbyterian Church breaks away from the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.Northern Ireland source
1927The Church of Scotland introduces the Church Hymnary, revised edition.Scotland source
1927Edward Tegla Davies - Hen FfrindiauWales source
192818 January – Nordahl Rolfsen, writer, educationalist and teacher, journalist, translator and speaker (born 1848)Norway source
1928March 15 – Chinese warlord Shi Yousan sets fire to the Shaolin Monastery in Henan, destroying some of its ancient structures and artifacts.source
1928March 22 – The Muslim Brotherhood is founded in Egypt by Islamic scholar and schoolteacher Hassan al-Banna.source
192810 April – State declared secular. ( see Secularism in Turkey)Turkey source
1928May 31 – The Legislative Council of Nova Scotia is abolishedCanada source
1928June 29 – At the 1928 Democratic National Convention in Houston, Governor of New York Al Smith becomes the first Catholic nominated by a major political party for President of the United States.source
1928October 2 – Josemaría Escrivá founds Opus Dei.source
1928December 4 – Cosmo Gordon Lang is enthroned as the Archbishop of Canterbury, the first bachelor to be appointed in 150 years.source
19284 December – The founding of the kibbutz Beit HaShita by members of "Kvuzat HaHugim" and members of "Tnuat HaMahanot HaOlim" from Haifa and Jerusalem.Mandatory Palestine source
1928Oswald de Andrade - Manifesto AntropófagoBrazil source
1928Reconstruction of Paisley Abbey completed.Scotland source
1928The Protestant Episcopal Church in the United States of America ratifies a new revision of the Book of Common Prayer.United States source
1928The community of Benedictine monks leaves Caldey Island for Prinknash Abbey. They are replaced at Caldey by a Cistercian order in 1929.Wales source
1929January 6 – Albanian missionary sister Agnes Gonxha Bojaxhiu, later known as Mother Teresa, arrives in Calcutta from Ireland to begin her work in India.source
19296 January - The abbey on Caldey Island is handed over by the Benedictine order to its new owners, Belgian Cistercians.Wales source
192923 May – The religious Zionist youth movement Bnei Akiva is founded in Jerusalem.Mandatory Palestine source
1929June 21 – Cristero War: The Mexican government and Archbishop Leopoldo Ruiz y Flóres sign an agreement which allowed worship to resume in Mexico and granted three concessions to the Catholics, bringing an end to the Cristero War.Mexico source
192923 July – The Pro-Wailing Wall Committee is established by Joseph Klausner, Professor of Modern Hebrew Literature at the Hebrew University, to defend Jewish rights at the Western Wall.Mandatory Palestine source
1929July 25 – Pope Pius XI emerges from the Apostolic Palace, and enters St. Peter's Square in a huge procession witnessed by about 250,000 persons, thus ending nearly 60 years of self-imposed status by the papacy as Prisoner in the Vatican.source
19292 October – the Union between the Church of Scotland and the United Free Church of Scotland takes place.Scotland source
192911 November: Edmonds Band Rotunda is formally opened in Christchurch.New Zealand source
192919 November – Torleiv Hannaas, philologist (born 1874)Norway source
192915 December – Beatification of the One Hundred and Seven Martyrs of England and Wales by Pope Pius XI.United Kingdom source
1929December 27 – Soviet General Secretary Joseph Stalin orders the "liquidation of the kulaks as a class".source
19305 June – The papal bull Solemni conventione defines the boundaries of the Catholic Church in Romania,Romania source
1930June 29 – Eight Jesuit martyrs become the first Canadian saintsCanada source
1930July 5 – The Seventh Lambeth Conference of Anglican bishops opens. This conference approves the use of birth control in limited circumstances, a move away from the Christian views on birth control expressed by the Sixth Conference a decade earlier.source
193016 July - Our Lady of Aparecida is proclaimed the Patroness of Brazil, by decree of Pope Pius XI.Brazil source
193013 August – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Berlin is established.Germany source
1930September 20 – The Eastern Catholic Rite Syro-Malankara Catholic Church is formed.source
193011 November – The Shrine of Remembrance in Brisbane is dedicated.Australia source
1930November 18 – the Buddhist religious movement Soka Gakkai is formed by educator Tsunesaburō Makiguchi.Japan source
1930December 31 – The Papal encyclical Casti connubii, issued by Pope Pius XI, stresses the sanctity of marriage, prohibits Roman Catholics from using any form of artificial birth control, and reaffirms the Catholic prohibition on abortion.source
1930Kowhai Gold, an anthology of New Zealand poetry edited by Quentin Pope published in London and New YorkNew Zealand source
1930The Education (Northern Ireland) Act restores 50% government funding to Voluntary (chiefly Catholic) schools and allows religious instruction in controlled schools.Northern Ireland source
193120 January – Margrethe Munthe, childten’s writer and songwriter (born 1860).Norway source
19311 May – National Trust for Scotland established and acquires its first property, Crookston Castle (donated by Sir John Stirling-Maxwell, 10th Baronet).Scotland source
1931May 15 – Pope Pius XI issues the encyclical Quadragesimo anno, on the "reconstruction of the social order".source
193119 May – An Order in Council is issued by King George V relating to the Western Wall. This legally enshrined the Wall's status: Muslim ownership is affirmed, but Jews are guaranteed free access for prayer under specific conditions.Mandatory Palestine source
193112 June – The Christian Marxist Hewlett Johnson is installed as Dean of Canterbury, being transferred from Manchester.United Kingdom source
193112 October – The statue of Christ the Redeemer, overlooking Rio de Janeiro, is consecrated.Brazil source
19316 November – Indian spiritual leader Meher Baba arrives in America for the first time.India source
1931December 5 – The original Cathedral of Christ the Saviour in Moscow (1883) is demolished, by order of Joseph Stalin.source
1931Auckland Trotting Cup – Royal SilkNew Zealand source
1931John Jenkins (Gwili) - Hanfod Duw a Pherson CristWales source
193222 January: First time ezan in Turkish instead of traditional Arabic.Turkey source
1932February 11 – Pope Pius XI meets Benito Mussolini in Vatican City.source
19325 July – The Chapel of the Holy Spirit in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast is dedicated.Northern Ireland source
1932September 11 – A bronze statue of Youssef Bey Karam is erected in his memory outside the Cathedral of Saint Georges, Ehden in Lebanon.source
1932December 3 – Hindenburg names Kurt von Schleicher as German chancellor after he ousts Papen. Papen is deeply angry about how his former friend Schleicher has brought him down and decides that he will do anything to get back into power.source
1932December 4 – Chancellor Schleicher meets with Gregor Strasser and offers to appoint him Vice-Chancellor and Reich Commissioner for Prussia out of the hope that if faced with a split in the NSDAP, Hitler will support his government.source
1932December 18: inauguration of Littoria.Italy source
1932Anchieta Entre o Amor e a ReligiãoBrazil source
1932Iraqi Red Crescent Society was founded in BaghdadIraq source
1932The founding of kibbutz Afikim by Russian Jews affiliated with the Hashomer Hatzair movement.Mandatory Palestine source
1932Edinburgh Synagogue is opened.Scotland source
1932T. H. Parry-Williams – Canu Rhydd CynnarWales source
19332 March – The completion of Ōgon Shrine in Taihoku Prefecture.Taiwan source
1933March – John Andrew Rice and other staff are dismissed (or resign) from Rollins College in a dispute over academic tenure, going on to found Black Mountain College.United States source
1933May 29 – The first consignment of 10,000 Afrikaans Bibles arrives at Cape Town from London on the Union-Castle Line's Carnarvon Castle.South Africa source
193311 June – Romania wins the Balkan Cup for the third time, with Gheorghe Ciolac and scoring the most goals in the tournament.Romania source
193310 July – Vilhelm Krag, author (born 1871)Norway source
1933July 20 – Reichskonkordat: Vatican state secretary Eugenio Pacelli (later Pope Pius XII) signs an accord with Germany.source
193313 November – The founding of the moshav Elyashiv by Jewish immigrants from Yemen, which was the first settlement to be established by Yemenite Jews.Mandatory Palestine source
1933The first dated Inter-School Christian Fellowship group is started in Australia at North Sydney Boys High School, with the group continuing into the 21st century.source
1933Walter Krickeberg – Los totonaca contribución a la etnografía histórica de la América Central (translation of German work)Mexico source
1933Scottish Democratic Fascist Party founded by William Weir Gilmour and Major Hume Sleigh to oppose Irish Catholic emigration to Scotland.Scotland source
19345 January – Eddy Pieters Graafland, football goalkeeper (died 2020)Netherlands source
193423 February – Leopold III sworn in as King, following the death of his father Albert I, on 17 February.Belgium source
193429 May-31 May — The Confessional Synod of the German Evangelical Church meets in Barmen, Germany to write the Barmen Declaration.Germany source
1934May 31 – The Barmen Declaration, largely drafted by Karl Barth, is signed by Christians in Nazi Germany who are opposed to the pro-Nazi German Christian movement.source
193411 November – The Shrine of Remembrance in Melbourne is dedicated.Australia source
193418 November – Sara Japhet, Israeli biblical scholar.Mandatory Palestine source
1934December 12 – Guadalupe Robledo (José Lothario), wrestler and manager (NWA, WWE, CWF).(died 2018)Mexico source
193425 December – dedication of the permanent St Columba's Cathedral at Oban, Mother Church of the Roman Catholic Diocese of Argyll and the Isles.Scotland source
1934Edward Tegla Davies - Y Llwybr ArianWales source
1935April 17 – Sun Myung Moon, a teenage Presbyterian convert in Korea under Japanese rule, claims to have a revelation from Jesus, telling him to complete his mission from almost 2,000 years ago.source
193519 May – canonization of Cardinal John Fisher and Sir Thomas More by Pope Pius XI. This year also, Bede is sanctified by the Catholic Church.United Kingdom source
193516 July – The antisemitic and authoritarian National Christian Party is founded by the merger of the National Agrarian Party and the National-Christian Defense League.Romania source
193526 October – Lord Edward Carson, the Dublin-born unionist leader and barrister, is buried in St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast.Northern Ireland source
1935December 5 – Mary McLeod Bethune founds the National Council of Negro Women.United States source
1935December 27 – In Germany, Regina Jonas becomes the first woman ever to receive semikhah (ordination) as a rabbi within Judaism. She will be killed in Auschwitz concentration camp in 1944 and the next such ordination will be in 1972.source
1935Érico Veríssimo – A Vida de Joana D'ArcBrazil source
1935A split occurred between traditional Zionists and Revisionists, who endorsed the use of violence to establish a Zionist state.Mandatory Palestine source
1935Nordahl Grieg – Vår ære og vår maktNorway source
1935Ivor Novello – Glamorous NightWales source
1936January – Remains of Father Damien shipped to Belgium for reburialBelgium source
193625 April – The Arab Higher Committee is established on the initiative of the Mufti of Jerusalem Hajj Amin al-Husayni, to oppose British rule and Jewish claims in Palestine.Mandatory Palestine source
193624 May – Romania wins the Balkan Cup for the third time, with Sándor Schwartz scoring the most goals in the tournament.Romania source
19367 June – First outdoors radio broadcast in Gaelic, a religious service from Iona Abbey, transmitted by the BBC.Scotland source
193614 July – Egil Børre Johnsen, writerNorway source
1936August 19–24 – Trial of the SixteenSoviet Union source
193612 November - Temple Entry Proclamation in Travancore.India source
193626 November – The completion of Zhongshan Hall in Taihoku Prefecture.Taiwan source
1937February 19 – Yekatit 12: During a public ceremony at the Viceregal Palace (the former Imperial residence) in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia, two Eritrean nationalists attempt to kill viceroy Rodolfo Graziani with a number of grenades. Italian security guards fire into the crowd of Ethiopian onlookers. Authorities exact further reprisals, which include indiscriminately slaughtering native Ethiopians over the next 3 days, detaining thousands of Ethiopians at Danan and slaughtering almost 300 monks at the Debre Libanos Monastery.source
1937March 10 (dated March 14 (Passion Sunday)) – The encyclical Mit brennender Sorge ("With burning concern") of Pope Pius XI is published in Germany in the German language. Largely the work of Cardinals von Faulhaber and Pacelli, it condemns breaches of the 1933 Reichskonkordat agreement signed between the Nazi government and the Catholic Church, and criticises Nazism's views on race and other matters incompatible with Catholicism.source
193710 March — The Encyclical Mit brennender Sorge of Pope Pius XI is published in Nazi Germany.Germany source
193711 March – Nicolae Bălan's report to the Romanian Orthodox Church leads to Freemasonry in Romania dissolving itself.Romania source
1937March 19 – The encyclical Divini Redemptoris of Pope Pius XI, critical of communism, is published.source
1937April – A Crucifix was hung in the Montreal city council at the initiative of Joseph-Émile Dubreuil. The crucifix would hung there until 2019.Canada source
1937May 12 – George VI and Elizabeth are crowned King and Queen of the United Kingdom and the British Dominions, and Emperor and Empress of India at Westminster Abbey, London.source
193712 May: Kemal Atatürk dedicated his farms to the treasuryTurkey source
193724 June – The Commonwealth Literature Censorship Board replaces the Book Censorship Advisory Committee, and temporarily lifts the ban on Ulysses by James Joyce.Australia source
193730 June – The founding of the kibbutz Tirat Zvi as part of the tower and stockade settlement enterprise. The founders were Jews from Poland, Romania and Germany.Mandatory Palestine source
1937September 17 – Abraham Lincoln's head is dedicated at Mount Rushmore.source
1937Cyro dos Anjos - O Amauense BelmiroBrazil source
19371937 Swiss freemasonry referendumSwitzerland source
1938March 30 – Italy's Duce Benito Mussolini is granted equal power over the Italian military to that of King Victor Emmanuel III, as First Marshal of the Empire.source
193830 March – Prime minister Benito Mussolini is granted the same level of power over the Italian military as that of King Victor Emmanuel III, taking the title First Marshal of the Empire.Italy source
1938May 20 Romanian prime minister, Patriarch Miron Cristea, comes to Poland. A transport of bears from the Soviet Union comes to Białowieża Forest. Some of Josephine Baker's possessions are stolen during her stay in Lwów,Poland source
193825 September – Paul Olaf Bodding, missionary, linguist and folklorist (born 1865)Norway source
19381 November – Catalogue wins the Melbourne Cup.Australia source
19389 November – A technical British committee, known as the Woodhead Commission, rejected the Peel Commission partition plan mostly on the grounds that it could not be achieved without a large forced transfer of Arabs. It proposed "a modification of partition which, ...seems, subject to certain reservations, to form a satisfactory basis of settlement", if the U.K is prepared to provide a "sufficient assistance to enable the Arab State to balance its budget".Mandatory Palestine source
193823 November – Opening of the Temple of Peace and Health in Cathays Park, Cardiff.Wales source
1938December 16 – The cornerstone of the Voortrekker Monument is laid.South Africa source
1938Majlis Khuddam-ul Ahmadiyya is established by Khalifat-ul Masih II, Mirza Basheer-ud-Din Mahmood Ahmad, the second Caliph of the Ahmadiyya Muslim Community.source
1938Iona Community established by Rev. George MacLeod in Glasgow.Scotland source
19392 January – The Muslim League at Patna disapproves the Federation scheme which has already been disapproved by Congress.India source
193913 January – Guri Vesaas, translator and publishing house editor.Norway source
193929 January: (Sunday) Opening of St Peter's College, Auckland by Bishop J M Liston.New Zealand source
19397 February – 17 March – The London Conference at St. James's Palace is held in an attempt to resolve the future of the British Mandate over Palestine. The conference ends without making any progress.Mandatory Palestine source
1939March 2 – Pope Pius XII (Cardinal Pacelli) succeeds Pope Pius XI to become the 260th pope, holding office until 1958.source
1939May 18 – The Hòa Hảo religious sect is established in Vietnam, by Huỳnh Phú Sổ.source
1939September 1 – The Reichstag passes a statement, stating that Adolf Hitler's second-in-command Reichsmarschall Hermann Göring should be appointed as Hitler's successor as Führer, should Hitler die during the war. Rudolf Hess is to be appointed in Göring's place, should anything befall Göring.source
1939September 8 – The Little Sisters of Jesus is founded in Algeria, by Little Sister Magdeleine.source
19395 December – The Imperial Mausoleum is officially inaugurated at the Cathedral of Petrópolis.Brazil source
1939Sigurgeir Sigurðsson became the eighth Bishop of Iceland, succeeding Jón Helgason.Iceland source
1939Minister of Religious Beliefs and Public Enlightenment – Wojciech Świętosławski,Poland source
1939Grace Williams - Four Illustrations for the Legend of RhiannonWales source
194018 January – Explosion at Waltham Abbey Royal Gunpowder Mills (five killed).United Kingdom source
1940February 22 – In Tibet, province of Ando, 4-year-old Tenzin Gyatso is proclaimed the tulku (rebirth) of the 13th Dalai Lama.source
194016 March – Bernardo Bertolucci, Italian writer and film directorItaly source
1940September 25 – Occupation of Norway by Nazi Germany: German Reichskommissar Josef Terboven appoints a provisional council of state from the pro-Nazi Nasjonal Samling party, under Vidkun Quisling, as a puppet government for Norway.source
194028 September – Vidkun Quisling becomes head of the German-appointed provisional councillors of state in Norway.Norway source
194023 October – Fouad Twal, the Roman Catholic archbishop and Latin Patriarch of Jerusalem since June 2008Mandatory Palestine source
194027 December – John McQuaid was consecrated as Roman Catholic Archbishop of Dublin and Primate of Ireland, an office he held for more than thirty years.Ireland source
1940The Mission sui juris of Portuguese Guinea was separated from the Catholic diocese of Santiago de Cabo VerdeCape Verde source
1940Publication of The Golden Treasury of Scottish Poetry edited by Hugh MacDiarmid.Scotland source
1940John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower (U.S. publication)Wales source
1941January 3 – A decree (Normalschrifterlass) promulgated in Germany by Martin Bormann, on behalf of Adolf Hitler, requires replacement of blackletter typefaces by Antiqua.source
19413 January — A decree in Germany outlaws the use of Blackletter Gothic typefaces in favour of Antiqua, thus putting an end to the Antiqua–Fraktur dispute.Germany source
194115 May – The Palmach is established.Mandatory Palestine source
1941June 6 – WWII: The Commissar Order is issued by Oberkommando der Wehrmacht, requiring all Soviet political commissars identified in Operation Barbarossa among captured forces to receive summary execution.source
1941June 12: Timoshenko ordered the military councils of boundary districts to start the advancing of troops from rear closer to the state frontierSoviet Union source
194120 June – Odd Bondevik, bishopNorway source
1941July 12 - The Cathedral of Tucuman is declared a National Historic Monument.Argentina source
1941July 13 – Clemens August Graf von Galen, Catholic Bishop of Münster in Germany, preaches the first of 3 sermons against Nazi brutality.source
19412 November – The kibbutz of Ramat HaShofet is established.Mandatory Palestine source
1941December 19 – Hitler becomes Supreme Commander-in-Chief of the Nazi Army.source
1941Donagh MacDonagh's Veterans, and other poems was published.Ireland source
1941John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower (first published in the USA)Wales source
1942January 20 – The Holocaust: Nazis at the Wannsee Conference convened by Reinhard Heydrich in Berlin decide that the "Final Solution (Endlösung) to the Jewish problem" is deportations to extermination camps.source
194217 February – Singapore is renamed Shōnan ("Light of the South").Japan source
194218 February – Bernt Oftestad, historian and theologianNorway source
194224 March – Karenus Kristofer Thinn, judge (born 1850)Norway source
1942April 23 – Exeter-born William Temple is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury.source
194223 April – Exeter-born William Temple is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury (being translated from York) in succession to Cosmo Gordon Lang.United Kingdom source
194227 May – Decree obliging Jews to wear an identifying Star of David.Belgium source
19427 June – first mass held at the new Roman Catholic Cavan Cathedral (dedication 27 September).Ireland source
194226 November – El Monumento al Divino Salvador del Mundo was constructed in San Salvador.El Salvador source
1942John Cowper Powys - Owen Glendower (U.K. publication)Wales source
194313 January – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning terrorism.Belgium source
194315 March – Cardinal van Roey issues a pastoral letter condemning the seizure of church bells.Belgium source
19431 May – Johan Oscar Smith, Christian leader, founder of the Brunstad Christian Church (born 1871)Norway source
194312 May: The founding of the kibbutz Gvulot.Mandatory Palestine source
1943July 25 – Benito Mussolini, Fascist Prime Minister of Italy since 1922, is arrested after the Grand Council of Fascism withdraws its support. "Il Duce" is replaced by General Pietro Badoglio.source
1943September 30 – Pope Pius XII issues the encyclical Divino afflante Spiritu calling for Catholic scholars to produce new Bible translations based on the source languages.source
1943October 16 – The Holocaust: Raid of the Ghetto of Rome – Over a thousand Jews are rounded up in Rome by the Gestapo; only 16 will survive their deportation to Auschwitz concentration camp. The public silence of Pope Pius XII on the raid becomes a matter of historical controversy.source
1943November 15 – Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in Nazi concentration camps".source
194315 November – Porajmos: German SS leader Heinrich Himmler orders that Gypsies and "part-Gypsies" be put "on the same level as Jews and placed in concentration camps."Germany source
1943November 29 – The second session of AVNOJ, the Anti-Fascist Council of National Liberation of Yugoslavia, is held in Jajce, Bosnia and Herzegovina, to determine the post-war ordering of the country.source
1943December: The founding of the kibbutz Yad Mordechai.Mandatory Palestine source
1943The National Film Institute, a predecessor of the Irish Film Institute, is founded under the influence of the Catholic Church to counter perceived moral corruption in imported films.Ireland source
1943Sir Emrys Evans - Ewthaffron: Criton (translation from Plato)Wales source
1944March 15 – WWII: The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.source
194415 March – The National Council of the French Resistance approves the Resistance programme.France source
194415 March – New Zealand General Freyberg orders the destruction of the monastery at Cassino using 775 aircraft, 1250 tons of bombs, and 200,000 shells. At the end of the battle, New Zealand has lost 1050 men, one of the worst days in its history.New Zealand source
1944May 30 – Princess Charlotte Louise Juliette Louvet Grimaldi of Monaco, heir to the throne, resigns in favor of her son Prince Rainier Louis Henri Maxence Bertrand Grimaldi, who later reigns as Prince Rainier III of Monaco.source
194418 June – Ailo Gaup, Sámi shaman and authorNorway source
1944August 2 – The First Assembly of ASNOM (the Anti-Fascist Assembly for the People's Liberation of Macedonia) is held in the Prohor Pčinjski monastery.source
1944October 16 – WWII: American bombing of Salzburg destroys the dome of the city's cathedral and most of a Mozart family home.source
19449 November – The House of the Binns (near Linlithgow) becomes the first estate house given to the National Trust for Scotland (by Eleanor Dalyell).Scotland source
1944November – The founding of the city Giv'at Shmuel.Mandatory Palestine source
194419 December – Council of Industrial Design established.United Kingdom source
1944Oswald de Andrade - Meu TestamentoBrazil source
1944James Kitchener Davies - Meini GwageddWales source
194513 February - Henrietta Szold (born 1860), American-born Zionist leader, founder of Hadassah.Mandatory Palestine source
1945March 22 – The Cathedral and the historic centre of Hildesheim in Germany are destroyed in a bombing of the city.source
19451 April – Per Kværne, tibetologist and historian of religion.Norway source
1945May 12 – Argentinian labour leader José Peter declares the Meat Industry Workers Federation dissolved.source
1945May - Bishop Carlos Duarte Costa, an outspoken critic of the regime of President Getúlio Vargas and of the Vatican's alleged relationship with fascist regimes, gives newspaper interviews accusing Brazil's Papal nuncio of Nazi-Fascist spying, and accusing Rome of having aided and abetted Hitler. Shortly afterwards he establishes the Brazilian Catholic Apostolic Church.Brazil source
194525 June – Muslim League and congress were invited to the Simla ConferenceIndia source
194518 August – Opening of the founding conference of the Christian Social Party.Belgium source
1945October 2 – George Albert Smith becomes president of the Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints.source
1945October 10 – Kim Il Sung founds the North Korean Branch Bureau of the Communist Party of Korea.North Korea source
1945December 27 - A misreport regarding the results of the Moscow conference of 1945 happens causing mass confusion among the issue of trusteeship.South Korea source
1945Establishment of Caritas PortugalPortugal source
1946January 1: Emperor Shōwa renounces his divinity, known in Japanese as the Human DeclarationJapan source
1946January 10 – The first meeting of the United Nations is held, at Methodist Central Hall Westminster in London.source
1946January 17 – The United Nations Security Council holds its first session, at Church House, Westminster in London.source
1946January – The founding of the kibbutz Ami'ad.Mandatory Palestine source
194618 February – The Archbishop of Sydney, Dr. Norman Gilroy, becomes Cardinal Gilroy, the first Australian born member of the College of CardinalsAustralia source
194622 April – Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej attends a meeting of Jewish organizations, calling for the creation of a Jewish Democratic Committee within the Romanian Communist Party.Romania source
1946September 19 – The idea of the Council of Europe is introduced in a speech by Winston Churchill at the University of Zurich.source
1946December 10 – John Peters Humphrey, main author of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights, becomes Director of the United Nations Division of Human Rights.source
194614 December – All-Malaya Council of Joint Action (AMCJA) was founded (dissolved in 1948).Malaya source
1946Institute of Theology of Estonian Evangelical Lutheran Church was established.Estonia source
1946Auckland Trotting Cup – Loyal NurseNew Zealand source
1946Establishment of G.C. AlcobaçaPortugal source
19477 January – The founding of the kibbutz Mivtahim.Mandatory Palestine source
194717 January – William Dargie wins the Archibald Prize with his portrait of Marcus Clarke.Australia source
194727 February - United Nations Security Council Resolution 19 is passed. It creates a three-member subcommittee to examine the dispute over the Straits of Corfu between the United Kingdom and Albania and to make a report on these facts.Albania source
194728 April – Eugène Rodenbourg is appointed to the Council of State, replacing Jacques Delahaye and Robert Als.Luxembourg source
19477 June - Establishment of the Toraja Mamasa ChurchIndonesia source
194722 September – Bronze Soldier of Tallinn was unveiled.Estonia source
194723 October – Sigurd Christiansen, novelist and playwright (born 1891).Norway source
1947November 20 – Wedding of Princess Elizabeth and Philip Mountbatten, Duke of Edinburgh: Princess Elizabeth (later Elizabeth II), the daughter of George VI of the United Kingdom, marries The Duke of Edinburgh at Westminster Abbey in London.source
1947Mario de Andrade - Contos Novos (posthumously published)Brazil source
194818 February – Keeper of the Rulers' Seal was established.Malaya source
1948March 8 – McCollum v. Board of Education: The United States Supreme Court rules that religious instruction in public schools violates the U.S. Constitution.source
194826 April – King George VI and Queen Elizabeth celebrate their silver wedding anniversary with a service at St Paul's Cathedral followed by a 22-mile motor procession around London.United Kingdom source
1948May 25 – The United Church of Christ in the Philippines (UCCP) is founded at Ellinwood Malate Church in Manila.source
194830 May – Inga Ravna Eira, Northern Sami language poet, children's writer and translatorNorway source
1948July 13 – The Coptic Orthodox Church of Alexandria and Ethiopian Orthodox Tewahedo Churches reach an agreement, leading to the promotion of the Ethiopian church to the rank of an autocephalous Patriarchate. Five bishops are immediately consecrated by the Patriarch of Alexandria and the successor to Abuna Qerellos IV is granted the power to consecrate new bishops, who are empowered to elect a new Patriarch for their church.source
19484 August – Émile Raus, Lambert Schaus, and André Origer are appointed to the Council of State, replacing Michel Rasquin and Pierre Frieden.Luxembourg source
1948August 23 – The World Council of Churches is established in Amsterdam, the Netherlands.source
1948September 20 – The city of Rabwah is established in Pakistan.source
1948September 22 – The Provisional State Council of Israel passes the Area of Jurisdiction and Powers Ordnance, 5708-1948, annexing all territory that Israel had captured since the war began, and declaring that from then on, any part of Palestine captured and secured by the Israel Defense Forces would automatically be annexed to Israel.Israel source
194831 October - Establishment of the Protestant Church in West IndonesiaIndonesia source
1948November 1 – Athenagoras I is elected the 268th Ecumenical Patriarch of Constantinople.source
1948November 17 – Whittaker Chambers produces secret government papers, handwritten and typewritten by Alger Hiss, during pretrial examination.source
194810 December – Turkey became a member of UNESCOTurkey source
1948The Council for Wales and Monmouthshire is established as an advisory body.Wales source
19495 January – Chen Cheng became a Chairperson of Taiwan Province Provincial Government.Taiwan source
19491 February: The Roman Catholic Diocese of Macapá is established as Territorial Prelature of Macapá from the Territorial Prelature of Santarém.Brazil source
194912 May - Establishment of the Apostolic Prefecture of HollandiaIndonesia source
1949June 6 – With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.source
19496 June – With the passage of the Bodh Gaya Temple Act by the Indian government, Mahabodhi Temple is restored to partial Buddhist control.India source
19498 August: Turkey admitted to Council of Europe.Turkey source
194917 August – The remains of Theodor Herzl are buried in Mount Herzl in Jerusalem.Israel source
1949August 21 – The Vatican announces that bones uncovered in its catacombs could be those of the apostle Peter; 19 years later, Pope Paul VI announces confirmation that the bones belong to this first pope.source
1949August 29 – The Council of Europe meets for the first time.source
1949September 25 – U.S. Christian evangelist Billy Graham starts his Los Angeles Crusade, his first great evangelistic campaign. It runs for eight weeks during which Graham speaks to 350,000 people and the event is subsequently described as the greatest revival since the time of Billy Sunday. After this, Graham becomes a national figure in the United States.source
1949December 16 – The Voortrekker Monument is officially inaugurated in Pretoria.South Africa source
1949New Zealand Trotting Cup – Loyal NurseNew Zealand source
1950The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Karachi, originally known as the Diocese of Karachi, erected on 20 May 1948, was elevated as the Archdiocese of Karachi on 15 July 1950.Pakistan source
1950June 4: The Diocese of Toluca is erected.Mexico source
1950June 6 – In Turkey, the Adhan (call to prayer) in Arabic is permitted by law after a ban of 18 years.source
195016 July – Ezan (call for prayer) which had been translated into Turkish during the CHP governments was restored to traditional Arabic.Turkey source
1950August 12 – In his encyclical Humani generis, Pope Pius XII requires Catholic theologians to defer to the teachings of the Church as a whole but declares evolution to be a serious hypothesis that does not contradict essential Catholic views.source
1950August 22 – The Immaculate Heart of Mary Seminary is founded in Tagbilaran City, Philippines.source
195023 October – Wirtgen Ferdinand is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1950October 29 – Upon the death of Gustaf V of Sweden, he is succeeded as king by his 68-year-old son Gustaf VI Adolf.source
1950November 1 – Pope Pius XII witnesses the "Miracle of the Sun" at the Vatican and defines a new dogma of Roman Catholicism, the Munificentissimus Deus, which says that God took Mary's body into Heaven after her death (the "Assumption of the Blessed Virgin Mary").source
1950November 17 – Tenzin Gyatso, 15, is formally enthroned as the 14th Dalai Lama, becoming temporal ruler of Tibet.source
195019 November – Alexandru Todea is secretly consecrated bishop of the Romanian Greek Catholic Church.Romania source
1950November 29 – The National Council of the Churches of Christ in the USA is founded.source
1950The founding of kibbutz Ein HaShloshaIsrael source
1950Sultan of Kedah : Sultan BadlishahMalaya source
1950The Grace Assembly of God is founded.Singapore source
19514 January – Minister of Religious Affairs, Rabbi Yehuda Leib Maimon, resigns from the government over the crisis in education in the ma'abarot.Israel source
195124 February – The establishment of Yilan County Council.Taiwan source
1951March 6 – Fort Santiago is declared a National Shrine.Philippines source
195117 March – Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster formed in Crossgar, County Down, by Ian Paisley.Northern Ireland source
1951April 11 – After its clandestine removal from Westminster Abbey on Christmas Day, 1950, the Stone of Scone resurfaces at Arbroath Abbey in Scotland.source
195125 April – Prince Jean is appointed to the Council of State, replacing Prince Felix.Luxembourg source
195124 September – At the behest of the Ministry of Information, Broadcasting and National Heritage, Fatima Jinnah's original speech gets re-broadcast in light of public outcry against censorship.Pakistan source
195125 October – The International Federation of Association Football (FIFA) disaffiliates Colombia.Colombia source
1951Sultan of Kedah : Sultan BadlishahMalaya source
19522 May – Hubert Clement is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1952May 6 – Farouk of Egypt has himself announced as a descendant of the Islamic prophet, Muhammad.source
195211 August - Crown Prince Hussein, was proclaimed King of the Hashemite Kingdom of Jordan.Jordan source
195214 October: The National Conference of Bishops of Brazil is founded in Rio de Janeiro.Brazil source
195211 November – Ole Robert Sunde, writer.Norway source
195220 November - The Order of the Red Star (Albania) is established.Albania source
1952Thomas B. Costain: The Silver ChaliceCanada source
1952The founding of the kibbutz Lahav.Israel source
1952The Chatham Cup was shared by the finalists North Shore United and Western (Christchurch) after the extra time score (1–1) and all criteria for deciding a winner at that time were equal.New Zealand source
19539 March – The Patriarch of All Romania, Justinian, lays flowers on Joseph Stalin's tomb during the funeral of the Soviet leader.Romania source
19539 April – Princess Joséphine Charlotte of Belgium (1927–2005) marries Prince Jean of Luxembourg (1921–2019), with civil registration in the Grand Ducal Palace and a nuptial mass in Notre-Dame Cathedral, LuxembourgBelgium source
195312 May – Albert Goldmann is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1953June 2 – Elizabeth II is crowned Queen of the United Kingdom and the other Commonwealth realms, at Westminster Abbey.source
19532 June – Elizabeth II's coronation as Queen of Australia takes place at Westminster AbbeyAustralia source
19532 June – Elizabeth II crowned as Queen of New Zealand at Westminster Abbey in LondonNew Zealand source
195319 August – Yad Vashem, Israel's official memorial to the Jewish victims of the Holocaust, is established in Jerusalem through the Yad Vashem Law passed by the Knesset.Israel source
195310 November – Atatürk’s body was transferred to its final resting place (Anıtkabir) on his death dayTurkey source
1953Finnish Footballer of the Year award (Football Association of Finland)Finland source
195425 January – David Grossman, Israeli author.Israel source
195422 March – Jayendra Saraswathi becomes the 70th Shankaracharya of Kanchi.India source
1954May 1 – The Unification Church is founded in South Korea.source
1954June 14 – The words "under God" are added to the United States Pledge of Allegiance.source
195415 August – The old Salt Cathedral of Zipaquirá is inaugurated.Colombia source
195421 September - Clarin is founded, edited in Santiago and directed by Darío Sainte Marie.Chile source
195429 September – the Governor-General of Pakistan, Ghulam Mohammad declared a state of emergency, dissolved the Constituent Assembly and appointed a new Council of Ministers on the grounds that the existing one no longer represented the people of Pakistan.Pakistan source
1954Ásmundur Guðmundsson became the ninth Bishop of Iceland, following the death of Sigurgeir Sigurðsson the previous year.Iceland source
1954Auckland Trotting Cup – CaduceusNew Zealand source
1954Establishment of CA Macedo de CavaleirosPortugal source
19551 March – Paul Thibeau is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
195520 March – Zerrin Güngör, president of the Council of StateTurkey source
195519 April – The city of Ofakim is founded.Israel source
1955July 25-August 4: Bishops from all over Latin America meet in Rio de Janeiro for the first Episcopal Conference of Latin America.Brazil source
1955September 14 – Pope Pius XII elevates many of the apostolic vicariates in Africa to Metropolitan Archdioceses.source
19555 November – Convention establishing the Interparliamentary Consultative Council of the Benelux.Belgium source
1955November 27 – Fred Phelps establishes the Westboro Baptist Church in Topeka, Kansas.United States source
1955Yje Danish Lanugage Council is established.Denmark source
1955Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan : Tuanku Abdul Rahman ibni Almarhum Tuanku MuhammadMalaya source
19569 February – The report of the Pospelov Commission is presented to the presidium.Soviet Union source
1956February 25 – Nikita Khrushchev attacks the veneration of Joseph Stalin, in a speech "On the Cult of Personality and Its Consequences", at a secret session concluding the 20th Congress of the Communist Party of the Soviet Union. This is not officially made public in the Soviet Union at this time but becomes known in the West in June.source
1956March 9 – The British deport Archbishop Makarios from Cyprus to the Seychelles.source
1956March 23 – Pakistan becomes the first Islamic republic, and a national holiday is observed in the country, including the state of East Pakistan.source
19561 May – Finance Minister, Levi Eshkol, approves the establishment of the city of Ashdod.Israel source
1956May 2 – The United Methodist Church in America decides, at its General Conference, to grant women full ordained clergy status. It also calls for an end to racial segregation in the denomination.source
1956May 2 – The Methodist Church in the U.S. decides, at its General Conference, to grant women full ordained clergy status. It also calls for an end to racial segregation in the denomination.United States source
1956June 13: in an interview to Nuovi Argomenti, Palmiro Togliatti comments the publication of Khruschev's secret speech; the PCI secretary criticize the cult of personality but expresses several doubts about the de-Stalinization politicy.Italy source
195629 July – Olav Øygard, Lutheran prelateNorway source
1956The first interfaith dialogue between Christians, Jews and Muslims with over 850 participants takes place at the monastery of Toumliline in Azrou, Morocco.source
195622 October - His Majesty King Bhumibol Adulyadej enter monkhood for 15 days.Thailand source
1956Leonard Cohen – Let Us Compare MythologiesCanada source
1956Unknown date – Catholic High School, Petaling Jaya is founded by Rev. Bro. Philippe Wu of the Marist Brothers.Malaya source
1957January 14 – Kripalu Maharaj is named fifth Jagadguru (world teacher), after giving seven days of speeches before 500 Hindu scholars.source
1957February 4 – A coal gas explosion at the giant Bishop Coal Mine in Bishop, Virginia, United States, kills 37 men.source
1957March 1 – Arturo Lezama becomes President of the National Council of Government of Uruguay.source
1957May 2 – "Die Stem van Suid-Afrika", written by Cornelis Jacobus Langenhoven, becomes the South African national anthem, replacing "God Save the Queen", which is retained as a royal anthem.source
1957May–September – Fethard-on-Sea Ne Temere boycott: a Roman Catholic priest and some of his parishioners organised a boycott of Protestant-owned local businesses.Ireland source
1957June 25 – The United Church of Christ is formed in Cleveland, Ohio, by the merger of the Congregational Christian Churches and the Evangelical and Reformed Church.United States source
1957July 11 – His Highness Prince Karim Aga Khan IV becomes the 49th Imam of the Shia Ismaili Muslims at age 20. His grandfather Sir Sultan Mohammed Shah Aga Khan III appoints Prince Karim in his will.source
195712 July – James Maroni, theologian and priest, Bishop of the Diocese of Agder (born 1873)Norway source
195728 July - Christian Democratic Party is founded.Chile source
195730 December – Asher ze'ev Werner (born 1894), Ashkenazi Chief Rabbi of Tiberias, Chief Rabbi of Poalei Agudat Yisrael and a member of Moetzes Gedolei HaTorah.Israel source
1957Balbir Singh Sr. became the first hockey player to be awarded the Padma Shri.India source
1957Yang di-Pertuan Besar Negeri Sembilan: Tunku Munawir (Regent)Malaya source
1957National Trust for Scotland agrees to accept the bequest of the islands of St Kilda.United Kingdom source
1958April 6 – Soraya Esfandiary-Bakhtiari is divorced by the Shah of Iran, Mohammad Reza Pahlavi, after she is unable to produce any children.Iran source
1958April 19: The Archdiocese of Aparecida is established by Pope Pius XII.Brazil source
1958May 7 – Joseph Cordeiro was appointed the first Pakistani Archbishop of Karachi.Pakistan source
195812 August – Louis Hencks is appointed to the Council of State, replacing Albert Wagner, who resigned in July.Luxembourg source
195819 August – The first International Bible Contest is held - in the International Convention Center in Jerusalem.Israel source
1958October 28 – Pope John XXIII succeeds Pope Pius XII, as the 261st pope.source
195824 November – The Syariah Court is established to tighten divorce processes and safeguard marriages.Singapore source
19581 December – Francis Walder awarded the Prix Goncourt for his Saint-Germain ou la négociation.Belgium source
1958Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tunku Munawir (Regent)Malaya source
1959January 25 – Pope John XXIII announces that the Second Vatican Council will be convened in Rome.source
195920 February – Sultan Abdul Halim Muadzam Shah was installed as Sultan of KedahMalaya source
1959March 1 – Archbishop Makarios returns to Cyprus from exile.source
1959March 28 – The Kashag, the government of Tibet, is abolished by an order signed by Chinese premier Zhou Enlai. The Dalai Lama is replaced in China by the Panchen Lama.source
19592 May – Sanna Grønlid, biathlete.Norway source
1959May 23 – Pope John XXIII creates the dioceses of Tlaxcala and San Andrés Tuxtla.Mexico source
19592 July – Marriage of Prince Albert and Donna Paola Ruffo di Calabria in the Cathedral of St. Michael and St. Gudula, BrusselsBelgium source
195928 October – The Grand National Assembly adopts Decree No 410 which abolishes many monasteries, including Radu Vodă Monastery.Romania source
195930 December – Paul Wilwertz is re-appointed to the Council of State, having previously been a member from 1945 to 1954.Luxembourg source
1959Sigurbjörn Einarsson became the tenth Bishop of Iceland, succeeding Ásmundur Guðmundsson in the position.Iceland source
1959William Theodore Heard is elevated to cardinal, the first Scot to hold such an office since the Reformation.Scotland source
19601 January – The Chilean escudo is placed in circulation.Chile source
196027 January – Construction begins of the Baitul Mukarram mosque in Dacca, East Pakistan.Pakistan source
196010 February – Sultan Ismail was crowned as Sultan of Johor.Malaya source
196013 April – The opening of the new building of Taipei Grand Mosque in Daan District, Taipei.Taiwan source
1960June 5 – The First Vatican Council, adjourned in 1870, is officially closed.source
19604 July – The completed grounds of the Luxembourg American Cemetery and Memorial are dedicated.Luxembourg source
196015 October – Ya'akov Moshe Toledano (born 1880), Israeli politician and rabbi.Israel source
1960December 19: José María Castellanos Urrutia, educator and politician in Colima (born 1887)Mexico source
1960René Magritte, Les mémoires d'un saintBelgium source
19615 February - Cachar Gana Sangram Parishad formed against imposition of Assamese language in Barak Valley by Bimala Prasad Chaliha government.India source
1961February 26 – Hassan II is pronounced King of Morocco.source
1961March 3 – Hassan II is crowned King of Morocco.source
196121 March – The State Council of Romania is created and the first election for the President of the State Council, the de facto head of state, is held in the Great National Assembly with a single candidate, Gheorghe Gheorghiu-Dej, who is duly elected.Romania source
1961March – Ingrid Bjerkås, ordained as first female minister in the Church of NorwayNorway source
1961April 5 – The New Guinea Council of Western Papua is installed.source
196117 April – Tuanku Munawir of Negeri Sembilan was installed as the ninth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri SembilanMalaya source
196124 June - Raúl Silva Henríquez takes office as Archbishop of Santiago in the Archdiocese of Santiago.Chile source
196128 August - Victor Bodson is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1961September 8: The National Congress of Brazil approves the constitution of the first Council of Ministers.Brazil source
1961September 14 – The religious Focolare Movement opens its first North American center in New York (state).source
1961Morley Callaghan: A Passion in RomeCanada source
1962January 3 – The office of Pope John XXIII announces the excommunication of Fidel Castro for preaching communism and interfering with Catholic churches in Cuba.source
196228 January – Brit Bildøen, writer.Norway source
196213 February – Saunders Lewis gives the Welsh Home Service’s Annual Lecture, entitled Tynged yr Iaith (The Fate of the Language).Wales source
196212 March – the Church of the Good Shepherd in Ayr (1957) is elevated to the Good Shepherd Cathedral for the Roman Catholic Diocese of Galloway.Scotland source
1962April 30: Roman Catholic Diocese of Apatzingan established.Mexico source
1962May 25 – The new Coventry Cathedral is consecrated in England. On 30 May, Benjamin Britten's War Requiem is premiered here.source
196210 July – Yehuda Leib Maimon (born 1875), Russian (Bassarabia)-born Israeli rabbi and government minister.Israel source
19625 October – The Beatles' first single in their own right, Love Me Do, is released by Parlophone. This version was recorded on 4 September at Abbey Road Studios in London with Ringo Starr as drummer.United Kingdom source
1962October 11 – Second Vatican Council: Pope John XXIII convenes the first ecumenical council of the Roman Catholic Church in 92 years.source
1962December 8 – The first period of the Second Vatican Council closes.source
1962December 9 – Petrified Forest National Park is established.United States source
1962Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya PetraMalaya source
196324 March – Peder Holt, politician (b.1899)Norway source
1963April 11 – Pope John XXIII issues his final encyclical, Pacem in terris, entitled On Establishing Universal Peace in Truth, Justice, Charity and Liberty, the first papal encyclical addressed to "all men of good will", rather than to Roman Catholics only.source
1963April 21–23 – The first election of the Supreme Institution of the Baháʼí Faith (known as the Universal House of Justice, whose seat is at the Baháʼí World Centre on Mount Carmel in Haifa, Israel) is held.source
196323 April – Yitzhak Ben-Zvi (born 1884), Russian (Ukraine)-born Labor Zionist leader and the second President of Israel.Israel source
19636 May – Switzerland joins the Council of Europe.Switzerland source
1963May 8 – Huế Phật Đản shootings: The Army of the Republic of Vietnam opens fire on Buddhists who defy a ban on the flying of the Buddhist flag on Vesak, the birthday of Gautama Buddha, killing 9. Earlier, President Ngô Đình Diệm allowed the flying of the Vatican flag in honour of his brother, Archbishop Ngô Đình Thục, triggering the Buddhist crisis in South Vietnam.source
1963June 17 – In Abington School District v. Schempp, the US Supreme Court ruled that compulsory prayer and Bible-reading violated the First Amendment.source
1963June 21 – Pope Paul VI (Giovanni Battista Montini) succeeds Pope John XXIII as the 262nd pope.source
1963September 29 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council in Rome opens.source
196318 October – Governor of East Pakistan Abdul Monem Khan lays the foundation stone of Jhenaidah Cadet College.Pakistan source
196326 October – Sultan Idris Al-Mutawakil Alallahi Shah was installed as the 33rd Sultan of Perak.Malaysia source
1963November 16: Santos FC becomes the first Brazilian club to win a second Intercontinental Cup (football).Brazil source
1963December 4 – The second period of the Second Vatican Council closes.source
196315 December - Kendriya Vidyalaya Sangathan established following recommendations of Second Pay Commission.India source
1963The Chatham Cup was won by North Shore United who beat Nomads of Christchurch 3–1 in the final.New Zealand source
1964January 5 – In the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic and Orthodox churches since the fifteenth century, Pope Paul VI and Patriarch Athenagoras I of Constantinople meet in Jerusalem.source
19645 January – Pope Paul VI arrives in Israel, marking the first visit to Israel by the head of the Roman Catholic Church.Israel source
196415 January – 31 January London Conference over the issue Cyprus (no consensus)Turkey source
1964February - Mid-West Region legislative election takes place with National Council of Nigerian Citizens winning the majority of seatsNigeria source
196421 July - Victor Bodson resigns from the Council of State to take up his seat in the Chamber of Deputies.Luxembourg source
1964July 22 – The second meeting of the Organisation of African Unity is held.source
19644 August – Alexandru Todea has his life sentence remitted and is released from prison. He goes on to become Archbishop of Făgăraș and Alba Iulia.Romania source
1964August 29 - The far right Hindu outfit, Vishva Hindu Parishad was founded.India source
1964September 14 – The third period of the Second Vatican Council opens.source
1964November 21 – Second Vatican Council: The third period of the Catholic Church's ecumenical council closes. Lumen gentium, the Dogmatic Constitution on the Church, is promulgated.source
1964The Vishva Hindu Pariṣad is founded in India.source
1964Yang di-Pertua Negeri (Governor) of Malacca: Tun Haji Abdul Malek bin YusufMalaysia source
1964Synagogue for Belfast Hebrew Congregation designed by Eugene Rosenberg of Yorke, Rosenberg and Mardall.Northern Ireland source
1965January 30 – The state funeral of Sir Winston Churchill takes place in London with the largest assembly of dignitaries in the world until the 2005 funeral of Pope John Paul II.source
196526 February - Fernand Georges is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1965March 7 – Mass in the Catholic Church worldwide is said in local languages (rather than Latin) for the first time.source
1965March 7 – Canadian Roman Catholic churches celebrate mass in the vernacular for the first time due to the reforms of Vatican IICanada source
1965March 18 – A United States federal judge rules that the Southern Christian Leadership Conference (SCLC) has the lawful right to march to Montgomery, Alabama to petition for 'redress of grievances'.United States source
1965April 18 – Consecration of Saint Clement of Ohrid Macedonian Orthodox Cathedral in Toronto, Canada.source
19654 June – Sigmund Mowinckel, theologian (born 1884).Norway source
196527 August – The National Mosque of Malaysia in Kuala Lumpur was officially opened.Malaysia source
1965September 14 – The fourth and final period of the Second Vatican Council opens.source
196523 September – Roma Mitchell is appointed a judge of the Supreme Court of South Australia, the first woman to become a judge in Australia.Australia source
1965October 4 – Pope Paul VI makes the first papal visit to the United States. He appears for a Mass in Yankee Stadium and makes a speech at the United Nations.source
1965October 8 – The 7 Fundamental Principles of the Red Cross and Red Crescent are adopted at the XX International Conference in Vienna, Austria.source
1965Full date unknown – Shlomo Dykman (born 1917), Polish-born Israeli translator and classical scholar.Israel source
1965Publication of Ten Poems by Michael Longley and Twelve Poems by Derek Mahon.Northern Ireland source
19661 January - Start of The Troubles as retrospectively defined by the UK Northern Ireland Troubles (Legacy and Reconciliation) Act 2023 for the purposes of the act.Northern Ireland source
1966March 4 – In an interview with London Evening Standard reporter Maureen Cleave, John Lennon of the Beatles states: "We're more popular than Jesus now."source
196623 March - Sheikh Mujibur Rahman formally announces the Six Point Program.Pakistan source
1966March 24 – Pope Paul VI meets Michael Ramsey, the Archbishop of Canterbury, in Rome, and gives him an episcopal ring.source
1966April 27 – Pope Paul VI and Soviet Foreign Minister Andrei Gromyko meet in the Vatican (the first meeting between leaders of the Roman Catholic Church and the Soviet Union).source
196613 May – Belgian bishops issue a declaration rejecting calls to remove the French-language section of the Catholic University of Leuven from the city of Leuven.Belgium source
196622 May - Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1966June 14 – The Vatican abolishes the Index Librorum Prohibitorum.source
19665 July – The Australian Workers' Union affiliates with the Australian Council of Trade Unions.Australia source
1966August 11 – the Beatles hold a press conference in Chicago, during which John Lennon apologizes for his "more popular than Jesus" remark, saying, "I didn't mean it as a lousy anti-religious thing."source
196624 August – The National Pledge is recited for the first time, which is written by S. Rajaratnam.Singapore source
1966October 5 – UNESCO signs the Recommendation Concerning the Status of Teachers. This event is to be celebrated as World Teachers' Day.source
1966October – Shmuel Yosef Agnon receives the Nobel Prize in Literature, becoming the first Israeli Nobel laureate.Israel source
1966The World Buddhist Sangha Council is convened by Theravadins in Sri Lanka, with the hope of bridging differences and working together.source
1966Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya PetraMalaysia source
1967March 1 - City of Hatogaya, Saitama founded.Japan source
1967March 28 – Pope Paul VI issues the encyclical Populorum progressio.source
1967April 17: The Order of Canada is createdCanada source
1967June 13 – Solicitor General Thurgood Marshall is nominated as the first African American justice of the United States Supreme Court.source
196717 June – The Israeli government transfers day-to-day control of the Temple Mount site to the Islamic Waqf.Israel source
1967June 26 – Pope Paul VI ordains 27 new cardinals (one of whom is the future Pope John Paul II).source
1967October 23 – Charles de Gaulle becomes the first French Co-Prince of Andorra to visit his Andorran subjects. In addition to being President of France, de Gaulle is a joint ruler (along with Spain's Bishop of Urgel) of the tiny nation located in the mountains between France and Spain, pursuant to the 1278 agreement creating the nation.source
196730 October - The Science Council of Singapore is formed to develop Singapore's capabilities in science and technology.Singapore source
196717 November – Mons Ivar Mjelde, footballerNorway source
1967St Christopher's Hospice, the world's first purpose-built secular hospice specialising in palliative care of the terminally ill, is established in South London by Dame Cicely Saunders with the support of Albertine Winner.source
1967Albania is officially declared an atheist state by its leader, Enver Hoxha.source
1967The newly founded Cronulla-Sutherland team finish in last position in the New South Wales Rugby League competition, claiming the wooden spoon.Australia source
1967Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya PetraMalaysia source
1967The Chatham Cup is won by North Shore United who beat Christchurch City 2–1 in the final.New Zealand source
19688 April – Tuanku Jaafar was installed as the tenth Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan.Malaysia source
1968April 23 – The United Methodist Church is created by the union in Dallas, Texas, of the former Methodist and Evangelical United Brethren churches.source
196824 June – Split of the Catholic University of Leuven announcedBelgium source
19681 July – The Islamic Religious Council of Singapore (known as MUIS) is established.Singapore source
1968July 25 – Pope Paul VI publishes the encyclical Humanae vitae, reaffirming the Catholic Church's opposition to artificial birth control.source
196811 August – A group of 9 priests, 3 nuns and 200 lay people identified with the Christians for Socialism current take over the Metropolitan Cathedral of Santiago as a protest against the visit of Pope Paul VI to the International Eucharistic Congress in Bogotá (Colombia), the prohibition of contraceptives and the construction of the Votive Temple of Maipú. On the altar, the group places posters of Che Guevara and Camilo Torres, while outside they display a canvas with the legend "For a church next to the people and their struggle"Chile source
196822 November – Terence O'Neill announces five point plan to ease Catholic grievances on housing allocation and electoral law.Northern Ireland source
196814 December – Yotam Ottolenghi, chefIsrael source
196816 December – Paul Wilwertz resigns from the Council of State to take up his seat in the Chamber of Deputies.Luxembourg source
1968Date unknown — Rubén Díaz Alcántara, Catholic priest, (died 2018).Mexico source
1969January 27 – Reverend Ian Paisley, Northern Irish Unionist leader and founder of the Free Presbyterian Church of Ulster is jailed for three months for illegal assembly.source
1969February 14 – Pope Paul VI issues Mysterii Paschalis, a motu proprio, deleting many names from the Roman calendar of saints (including Valentine, who was celebrated on this day).source
1969March 28 – Pope Paul VI increases the number of Roman Catholic cardinals by one-third, from 101 to 134.source
1969April 3 – The Mass of Paul VI is promulgated in the Catholic Church by the Pope.source
196922 June - Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
1969South Africa's Atomic Energy Board creates a commission to evaluate the technical and economic aspects of peaceful nuclear explosives for use in mines.South Africa source
19691 July - Maurice Sevenig is appointed President of the Council of State, replacing Félix Welter, who resigned the position the previous day.Luxembourg source
1969July 22 – Spanish dictator and head of state Francisco Franco appoints Prince Juan Carlos to be his successor as head of state following his death.source
1969July 31 – Pope Paul VI arrives in Entebbe, Uganda for the first visit by a reigning Pope to Africa.source
1969November 19: Pelé scores his 1,000th goal for Santos, beating Vasco da Gama 2–1 at the Maracanã Stadium.Brazil source
1969The founding of the moshav Ohad.Israel source
1969Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya PetraMalaysia source
1969Auckland Trotting Cup: Leading LightNew Zealand source
1969Publication of John Hewitt's collection The Day of the Corncrake: Poems of the Nine Glens with paintings by Charles McAuley.Northern Ireland source
197011 January – Sinn Féin splits into Provisional and Official wings over a disagreement on abstentionism.Northern Ireland source
197018 January – Hanoch Yelon (born 1886), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli linguist and leading Talmudic researcher.Israel source
1970March 2 - Keith Spicer is appointed as the first Official Languages CommissionerCanada source
1970May 23: Roman Catholic Territorial Prelature of Cancún-Chetumal established.Mexico source
1970September 27 – Pope Paul VI names Saint Teresa of Ávila (died 1582) as the first female Doctor of the Church.source
1970October 3 – Pope Paul VI names Saint Catherine of Siena (died 1380) as the second female Doctor of the Church.source
197011 November - Alfred Loesch is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1970December 5 – The Asian and Australian tour of Pope Paul VI ends.source
1970Pope Paul VI visits Australia.Australia source
1970Sultan of Kelantan: Sultan Yahya PetraMalaysia source
1970Loxene Golden Disc Soloist Award: Craig Scott – "Let's Get A Little Sentimental"New Zealand source
1971February 7 – Władysław Gomułka is expelled from the Central Council of the Polish Communist Party.source
197113 February – Jean Hengen replaces the retiring Léon Lommel as Bishop of Luxembourg.Luxembourg source
197121 April – The Codex Regius of the Poetic Edda (Icelandic:Konungsbók Eddukvæða) and the Codex Flateyensis (Icelandic:Flateyjarbók) is returned from Denmark.Iceland source
197128 August – Reuvein Margolies (born 1889), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli author and Talmudic scholar.Israel source
197117 September – Formation of Malik ministry in East Pakistan.Pakistan source
197127 September – Prime ministers Edward Heath, Jack Lynch and Brian Faulkner meet at Chequers to discuss the Northern Ireland situation.Northern Ireland source
1971November 14 – Pope Shenouda III of Alexandria is enthroned.source
1971Municipality of Santa Cruz on the island of Santiago establishedCape Verde source
1971Leslie Claudius (field hockey player) is awarded the Padma Shri.India source
1971Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
197210 January – Sheikh Mujibur Rahman, the "Bangabandhu" and "Father of Bangladesh", returned to Dhaka at 1:30 pm to a hero's welcome.Bangladesh source
1972January 31 – King Birendra succeeds his father as King of Nepal.source
197226 February – Yosef Sapir (born 1902), Israeli politician and Knesset member.Israel source
1972March 2 – The Club of Rome presents the research results leading to its report The Limits to Growth, published later in the month.source
1972March 4 – The Organisation of the Islamic Conference Charter is signed (effective February 28, 1973).source
1972June 3 – Sally Priesand becomes the first American woman (and the second known woman anywhere) to be ordained as a rabbi within Judaism.source
1972June 12 – Popeyes was formed in Arabi, Louisiana, a suburb of New Orleans, Louisiana, in St. Bernard Parish.source
197216 July – Demetrios I elected as patriarch.Turkey source
1972Publishers Chino Roces and Teodoro Locsin Sr.;Philippines source
1972October 5 – The United Reformed Church in England is founded out of the Congregational and Presbyterian Churches.source
197224 October – Robert Schaack is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1972Worship of Norse gods is revived and officially approved.Iceland source
1972Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
1972Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Ignacio Ramos PraslowMexico source
197324 April – Chipko movement in Garhwal division against logging under the leadership of Chandi Prasad Bhatt.India source
197320 June – Ernest Arendt is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
19736 July – St Andrew's Cathedral, Singapore, is gazetted as a national monument.Singapore source
1973Michael Lapsley, an Anglican priest, arrives in South Africa.South Africa source
1973September 18 - The Archbishop of Santiago Raúl Silva Henríquez performs the traditional Te deum of national holidays where General Augusto Pinochet and former presidents Jorge Alessandri, Gabriel González Videla participate. and Eduardo Frei Montalva.Chile source
1973October – The Likud party is founded by Menachem Begin in an alliance with several right-wing and liberal parties.Israel source
19731 November – James Flanagan, first and only Roman Catholic Chief Constable of the Royal Ulster Constabulary, replaces Graham Shillington.Northern Ireland source
1973December 18 – The Islamic Development Bank is created as a specialized agency of the Organisation of the Islamic Conference (OIC) (effective August 12, 1974).source
1973Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
197410 January – Paul Beghin is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1974March 18 – Members of the World Council of Churches's Executive or Central Committee are banned from South Africa.South Africa source
1974October 16 - The Colegio de Profesores de Chile is created, replacing the Single Union of Education Workers, which functioned between 1970 and 1973.Chile source
1974Shantinagar Club won the Dhaka Third Division Football League, earning promotion to the Second Division.Bangladesh source
1974Construction of the Basilica of the Eternal Father, Trindade was completed.Brazil source
1974The founding of the kibbutz Kfar Haruv.Israel source
1974Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
1974Junior Orange Institution is formed; a branch of the Orange Order which only accepts boys under the age of 16.Northern Ireland source
197528 January – Ola Raknes, psychoanalyst and philologist (b.1887)Norway source
197526 February - Sahitya Akademi recognizes Konkani language.India source
197520 April – Cantonal elections in Ticino. Benito Bernasconi (SPS), Ugo Sadis (FDP), Argante Righetti (FDP), Flavio Cotti (CVP), and Fabio Vassalli (CVP) are elected to the Council of States in the first round of votingSwitzerland source
1975April 21: Paulino do Livramento Évora became the first Cape Verdean born bishop of Santiago de Cabo VerdeCape Verde source
197515 June – The South Australian Australian Labor Party conference gives Prime Minister Gough Whitlam a mixed reception. The Australian Workers' Union, in particular, is offended by his recent demotion of Clyde Cameron, for decades a leading figure in South Australia's Labor and Industrial Affairs.Australia source
197521 July - Annette Schwall-Lacroix is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
197512 August – Pinchas Sapir (born 1906), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli politician.Israel source
1975September 15 – The French department of Corse, comprising the entire island of Corsica, is divided into two departments: Haute-Corse (Upper Corsica) and Corse-du-Sud (Southern Corsica).source
1975September 20 – The term of Tuanku Al-Mutassimu Billahi Muhibbudin Sultan Abdul Halim Al-Muadzam Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Badlishah, as the 5th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, ends.source
1975September 21 – Sultan Yahya Petra ibni Almarhum Sultan Ibrahim Petra of Kelantan, becomes the 6th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.source
1975Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
1976January 5 - The Archbishop of Santiago, Raúl Silva Henríquez, creates the Vicariate of Solidarity.Chile source
197612 May – Islamic Conference opens.Turkey source
1976July 19 – Sagarmatha National Park in Nepal is created.source
197619 September – Yehezkel Abramsky (born 1886), Russian (Belarus)-born eminent Israeli Orthodox rabbi.Israel source
197615 December - Georges Thorn is appointed to the Council of State, replacing Norbert Droessaert, who resigned in November.Luxembourg source
1976dissolution of Mariscal Santa CruzBolivia source
1976Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
1976Ruth Patterson becomes the first woman to be ordained to the ministry of the Presbyterian Church in Ireland.Northern Ireland source
1976Literature: Antonia Palacios for "The Long Day Now Sure" (narrative). Juan Sánchez Peláez for "Common Features" (poetry). Orlando Araujo for "Counterpoint of Life and Death: Essay on the Poetry of Alberto Arvelo Torrealba" (essay).Venezuela source
197718 January – Lucien Kraus is appointed to the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1977February 23 – Óscar Romero, an outspoken opponent of violence, becomes Archbishop of San Salvador, El Salvador.source
1977April 13: Roman Catholic Diocese of Nuevo Casas Grandes established.Mexico source
1977May 4 – The United States Conference of Catholic Bishops rule that divorced Catholics, including those who remarried outside the Church, are no longer automatically excommunicated and can still attend Mass but if they remarry without obtaining a Church annulment, cannot receive Holy Communion and confession.United States source
197722 June – The Uniting Church in Australia is formed following the union of the majority of Presbyterian, Methodist and Congregational Union churches in Australia.Australia source
19775 August – Gunvor Galtung Haavik, interpreter charged with espionage (b.1912)Norway source
1977September - Rev. Ian Paisley launches the Save Ulster from Sodomy campaign to oppose the decriminalisation of homosexuality.Northern Ireland source
1977The founding of the kibbutz Beit Rimon.Israel source
1977Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
197828 February – Rabbi Shlomo Yosef Zevin (born 1888) Russian (Belarus)-born Orthodox rabbi, founded the Encyclopedia Talmudit.Israel source
197828 June - The ashes of Atiśa Dipankara Shrijnana are brought to Bangladesh from Tibet.Bangladesh source
1978August 26 – Pope John Paul I succeeds Pope Paul VI as the 263rd Pope.source
197826 August – Cardinal Albino Luciani, the patriarch of Venice, elected pope – John Paul I. So far, 2026, last Italian pope.Italy source
19781 October – Roger Maul is appointed President of the Council of State to replace Ferdinand Wirtgen.Luxembourg source
1978October 16 – Pope John Paul II succeeds Pope John Paul I as the 264th pope, resulting in the first Year of Three Popes since 1605. He is the first Polish pope in history, and the first non-Italian pope since Pope Adrian VI (1522–1523).source
1978October 31 - General Augusto Pinochet asks the Council of State to study the draft of the new Political Constitution of the Republic proposed by the study commission led by Enrique Ortúzar, minister of state of the former president Jorge AlessandriChile source
1978December – Holy Name Seminary, Christchurch (Catholic) closed.New Zealand source
19786–10 December – Evangelist Billy Graham visits Singapore for a crusade.Singapore source
1978Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
19791 January – People's Republic of China's Standing Committee of the National People's Congress published the Message to the Compatriots in TaiwanTaiwan source
197920 January – Octavio Ortiz, Catholic priest (born 1944)El Salvador source
1979January 25 – Pope John Paul II arrives in Mexico City for his first visit to Mexico, mainly for 1979's Latin American Episcopal Conference (CELAM) or Conference of Puebla.source
1979February 3 – Ayatollah Khomeini creates the Council of the Islamic Revolution.source
1979February 5: Roman Catholic Diocese of Cuautitlán established.Mexico source
1979March 13 – Maurice Bishop leads a successful coup in Grenada. His government will be crushed by American intervention in 1983.source
1979April 14 – Holy Saturday (additional holiday)Philippines source
1979April 19 – The Church in Ytri-Njarðvík was opened.Iceland source
1979June 2 – Pope John Paul II arrives in his native Poland on his first official, nine-day stay, becoming the first Pope to visit a Communist country. This visit, known as nine days that changed the world, brings about the solidarity of the Polish people against Communism, ultimately leading to the rise of the Solidarity movement.source
1979September 1 – Sri Lanka Army Women's Corps is formed.source
197929 September – Pope John Paul II, in Drogheda at the start of a 3-day visit to Ireland, appeals for an end to violence in Northern Ireland. Plans for him to extend his visit to Northern Ireland have been abandoned.Northern Ireland source
1979October 1–7 – Pope John Paul II makes a six-city visit to the United States, starting in Boston.source
1979October 2 – Pope John Paul II arrives in New York City for his first papal tour where he addresses the U.N. General Assembly against all forms of concentration camps and torture.source
1979October 7 – Pope John Paul II ends his first U.S. papal visit in Washington, D.C., with his first-ever visit to the White House.source
197916 November – Rachel Yanait Ben-Zvi (born 1886), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli author, educator, and a leading Labor Zionist.Israel source
1979December 3 – Ayatollah Ruhollah Khomeini becomes the first Supreme Leader of Iran.source
1979Hànyǔ Pīnyīn is widely adopted as the official romanization system for Standard Chinese, leading to changes in Western spelling of Chinese toponyms.source
1979Sultan Mahmud Al-Muktafi Billah Shah (from 20 September)Malaysia source
198022 January – Yitzhak Baer (born 1888), German-born Israeli historian and an expert in medieval Spanish Jewish history.Israel source
1980March 12 – The Nederduits Gereformeerde Kerk and its three sister churches announce that they have no objection to reconsideration of the Immorality- and Mixed Marriages Acts.South Africa source
1980April 1 – The Southern African Development Coordination Conference (SADCC) is formed in Lusaka, Zambia.source
1980May - the Federal Shariat Court was establishedPakistan source
1980July 9 – Pope John Paul II visits Brazil; seven people are crushed to death in a crowd waiting to see him at afternoon Mass at the stadium in Fortaleza.source
1980July 9: On the 10th day of Pope John Paul II's visit to Brazil, in an effort to get good seats, the crowd at the Castelao Stadium broke down an unguarded gate and trampled those killed in the rush.Brazil source
1980September 22 – The command council of Iraq orders its army to "deliver its fatal blow on Iranian military targets", initiating the Iran–Iraq War.source
1980October – Letter of 40 intellectuals.Estonia source
1980December 12 – During a meeting in the Vatican City, Pope John Paul II announces to the representatives of Chile and Argentina his proposed resolution of the Beagle Conflict.Chile source
1980December 28–30. Council of Association of Polish Writers convenes in Warsaw, electing Józef Szczepański as president,Poland source
1980Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
1981January 15 – Pope John Paul II receives a delegation led by Polish Solidarity leader Lech Wałęsa at the Vatican.source
1981February 17–22 – Pope John Paul II visits the Philippines.source
1981February 17–22 – First papal visit of Pope John Paul II in the country; during the visit, he beatified Lorenzo Ruiz.Philippines source
1981April 2–6. First council of Independent Students’ Association takes place in Kraków.Poland source
19812 June - Completion of St Anne's Cathedral, Belfast, after 82 years.Northern Ireland source
198112 June - Abdus Sattar handed the key of historical 32 Dhanmondi House to Sheikh HasinaBangladesh source
198114 June – Haim Shirman (born 1904), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli scholar of medieval Spanish Jewish poetry.Israel source
1981July 29 – A worldwide television audience of over 750 million people watch the Wedding of Prince Charles and Lady Diana Spencer at St Paul's Cathedral in London, UK.source
198115 September – Christian Calmes is appointed Grand Marshal of Luxembourg.Luxembourg source
1981November 12 – The Church of England General Synod votes to admit women to holy orders.source
1981Scots songwriter and singer, Dick Gaughan recorded Scottish poet, Robert Burns 1783 poem Now Westlin' Winds"source
1981The State Council of the People's Republic of China lists the cities of Beijing, Hangzhou, Suzhou and Guilin as those where the protection of historical and cultural heritage, as well as natural scenery, should be treated as a priority project.source
1981Pétur Sigurgeirsson became the eleventh Bishop of Iceland, succeeding Sigurbjörn Einarsson in the position.Iceland source
1981Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Ahmad ShahMalaysia source
1982May 12 – Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the shrine at Fátima.source
198212 May – Spanish priest Juan María Fernández y Krohn tries to stab Pope John Paul II with a bayonet during the latter's pilgrimage to the shrine at Fátima, Portugal.Spain source
198231 May–1 June – Pope John Paul II's visit to the United Kingdom embraces Edinburgh and Glasgow.Scotland source
1982June 12 – The Nuclear Disarmament Rally, an event against nuclear weapon proliferation, draws 750,000 to New York City's Central Park. Performers include Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Linda Ronstadt. An international convocation at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine features prominent peace activists from around the world and afterward participants march on Fifth Avenue to Central Park for the rally.source
1982June 12 – A rally against nuclear weapons draws 750,000 to New York City's Central Park. Jackson Browne, James Taylor, Bruce Springsteen and Linda Ronstadt attend. An international convocation at the Cathedral of St. John the Divine features prominent peace activists from around the world and afterward participants march on Fifth Avenue to Central Park for the rally.United States source
19824 August – Hallvard Rieber-Mohn, writer and Dominican priest (born 1922)Norway source
19828 August – The Dalai Lama visits Australia to mark the 30th anniversary of the establishment of Buddhism in the country.Australia source
1982October 31 – Marguerite Bourgeoys becomes Canada's first female saint.Canada source
1982The founding of the moshav Ein Tamar.Israel source
1982Mayor of Christchurch – Hamish HayNew Zealand source
1983January 6 – Pope John Paul II appoints a bishop over the Czechoslovak exile community, which the Rudé právo newspaper calls a "provocation." This begins a year-long disagreement between the Czechoslovak Socialist Republic and the Vatican, leading to the eventual restoration of diplomatic relations between the two states.source
1983January 26 – 1983 Code of Canon Law: Pope John Paul II revises Roman Catholic canon law, the first such revision since 1917. Among the changes is a reduction in the number of offenses qualifying for automatic excommunication, from 37 to only seven.source
198328 January – Parliamentary Assembly of Council of Europe considers expulsion of Turkey because of alleged human rights violations.Turkey source
198321 February – The Australian Council of Trade Unions (ACTU) endorses the Prices and Incomes Accord drawn up jointly with the Australian Labor Party.Australia source
1983March 15 – Reform rabbis in the U.S. vote to affirm both patrilineal and matrilineal descent for determining Jewish identity. While Jewish tradition defines a Jew as someone with a Jewish mother, this decision by the Central Conference of American Rabbis amends this principle to mean one Jewish "parent."source
198316 March – Two Chinese newspapers, the Nanyang Siang Pau and Sin Chew Jit Poh, merged to become Lianhe Zaobao and Lianhe Wanbao.Singapore source
1983March 25 – Sweden re-establishes diplomatic ties with the Vatican after a 450-year interruption. Sweden broke off relations in 1534 in keeping with the rise of Lutheranism.source
198310 June – Juan Francisco Fresno assumes as Archbishop of Santiago after the resignation of Raúl Silva Henríquez.Chile source
19831 July – Bank Islam Malaysia (BIMB), Malaysia's first Islamic bank was founded.Malaysia source
198311 November – Menachem Mendel Kasher (born 1895), Russian (Poland)-born Israeli rabbi and author.Israel source
1983November - The first Ekatmata Yatras held by Vishva Hindu Parishad.India source
1983December 2: The Church of Latter Day Saints founds its Mexico City Mexico Temple.Mexico source
1983December 27 – Pope John Paul II visits Rebibbia prison to forgive his would-be assassin Mehmet Ali Ağca.source
198413 February – The Legislative Council of Brunei is dissolved; as a result, a Cabinet is created.Brunei source
198424 February – Luxembourgish is declared to be the 'national language' of Luxembourg, and one of the three official languages, alongside French and German.Luxembourg source
1984February 25: The League of Communists in the Netherlands is established after a rift in the Communist Party of the NetherlandsNetherlands source
198425 March - Pope John Paul II consecrates the world to the Immaculate Heart of Mary, in Fátima, Portugal.Portugal source
19849 May – Miriam Yalan-Shteklis (born 1900), Russian (Ukraine)-born Israeli writer and poet famous for her children's books.Israel source
1984November 3: Roman Catholic Diocese of Atlacomulco establishedMexico source
1984Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
198412–17 June – Pope John Paul II tours SwitzerlandSwitzerland source
19853 February – Roger Vangheluwe consecrated as bishop of Bruges by Cardinal Godfried DanneelsBelgium source
1985February 16 – The ideology of Hezbollah is declared in a program issued in Beirut.source
1985March 25 – The Organization Commune Africaine et Malgache is officially dissolved.source
19855 April – A fire erupts at Notre-Dame Cathedral, in Luxembourg City, destroying the belfry and damaging the roof of the nave.Luxembourg source
198524 April – Yitzhak Kahan (born 1913), Austro-Hungarian (Galicia)-born Israeli jurist, sixth President of the Supreme Court of Israel.Israel source
19858 July – The new Tabung Haji building at Jalan Tun Razak, Kuala Lumpur was officially opened by Prime Minister Mahathir Mohamad.Malaysia source
198512 October – Canon Arthur Malcolm becomes the first Aboriginal Bishop in Australia.Australia source
198520 November – Archbishop Paul Reeves appointed Governor General.New Zealand source
19859 December – The Roman Catholic Diocese of San Vicente del Caguán is established in San Vicente del Caguán, Caquetá.Colombia source
1985December 20 – Pope John Paul II announces the institution of World Youth Day for Catholic youths.source
1985Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – María Lavalle UrbinaMexico source
198630 March – The founding of Hitron.Taiwan source
1986April 13 – Pope John Paul II officially visits the Great Synagogue of Rome, the first time a modern Pope has visited a synagogue.source
198614 April – Bangladesh Krira Shikkha Protishtan was inaugurated.Bangladesh source
198612 May – The Council of Ministers of the USSR introduces the State Acceptance of Production (gospriyomka).Soviet Union source
198629 June – St Peter's Cathedral, Belfast (Catholic) is elevated from serving as a Pro-Cathedral.Northern Ireland source
1986July 23 – In London, the then Prince Andrew, Duke of York (later Andrew Mountbatten-Windsor) marries Sarah Ferguson at Westminster Abbey.source
1986September 7 – Desmond Tutu becomes the first black Anglican Church bishop in South Africa.source
198626 September – Prince Jean renounces the right of succession for himself and his descendants.Luxembourg source
1986December 27 – Corazon Aquino is named as Time magazine's woman of the year.Philippines source
1986The Colegio Cristiano El-Shaddai is founded in Barranquilla.Colombia source
1986Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
198720 April: The Palestine National Council begins a week-long meeting in Algiers to try and reconcile the schisms between the different PLO factions.Palestine source
198717 May – 1986–87 Serie A ends: SSC Napoli, under the leadership of captain Diego Maradona, wins 1st title. (→ 1986–87 SSC Napoli season)Italy source
19871 August – The establishment of Council of Labor Affairs.Taiwan source
1987August 26 – Smith v. Board of School Commissioners of Mobile County decision: The U.S. Eleventh Circuit Court of Appeals overturns the earlier ruling of a lower court which found that certain public school textbooks promoted the "religion" of secular humanism; in this final ruling, the court finds that the plaintiffs have not proven that the state is presenting secular humanism as a religious ideology.source
1987September 17 – Religious leaders, including Desmond Tutu, hold talks with the African National Congress in Zambia.South Africa source
1987October 18 – Canonization of San Lorenzo Ruiz, the first Filipino saint.Philippines source
1987December 30 – Pope John Paul II issues the encyclical Sollicitudo rei socialis (On Social Concern).source
1987Mohammedan SC also won the Bangladesh Federation Cup title.Bangladesh source
1987Anim ancient synagogue discovered in the Yatir Forest.Israel source
1987Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tuanku JaafarMalaysia source
198811 January – Turkey signs Council of Europe’s convention on “Prevention of Torture and Inhuman or Degrading Treatment or Punishment.”Turkey source
1988January 26 – Upon request of Hubert Michon, archbishop of Rabat, two Trappist monks come to Fez and start a community that will later become the Priory of Our Lady of the Atlas.source
198820 February – Council of People's Deputies of the Nagorno-Karabakh Autonomous Oblast (NKAO) declares the secession of the oblast from the Azerbaijan SSR, triggering the First Nagorno-Karabakh War.Soviet Union source
198822 February – The Cuibul cu barză Church is translated.Romania source
198811 March – The Sultan Salahuddin Abdul Aziz Mosque in Shah Alam, Selangor was fully constructed. This is the largest mosque in Malaysia.Malaysia source
1988May 4 – Josefa Edralin Marcos, mother of former Pres. Ferdinand Marcos, dies in Manila, aged 95. Her son's request to return to the Philippines for her funeral would be later denied twice.Philippines source
1988June 30 – Roman Catholic Archbishop Marcel Lefebvre consecrates four bishops at Écône, Switzerland, for his apostolate, along with Bishop Antonio de Castro Mayer, without a papal mandate.source
198812 October - As Pope John Paul II addresses the European Parliament, Ian Paisley heckles and denounces him as the Antichrist.Northern Ireland source
198829 December – The establishment of Ritek.Taiwan source
1988Mohammad Yeasin, the promoter of Deedar Comprehensive Village Development Cooperative Society, was awarded the Ramon Magsaysay Award.Bangladesh source
1989February 11 – Barbara Harris is the first woman consecrated as a bishop of the Episcopal Church in the United States of America (and also the first woman to become a bishop in the worldwide Anglican Communion).source
1989February 24 – The Satanic Verses controversy: Iran places a $3,000,000 bounty on the head of The Satanic Verses author Salman Rushdie.source
1989March 31 – The famous alleged Marian apparition in Agoo, La Union to Judiel Nieva, a teenager who later become a transgender took place. It was said that the Blessed Virgin appeared on a guava tree, delivering messages and prophecies to Judiel. It became a highly sensational event for many Filipino Catholics as millions of pilgrims came to Agoo to see the phenomena like the "sun dancing", a statue of the Virgin Mary crying tears of blood, etc. The events in Agoo drew the attention of Catholic hierarchy in Rome, which conducted a thorough investigation on the events. In 1993, the events of Agoo apparitions are declared "non constat de supernaturalitate" (condemned) by the Catholic Bishops Conference of the Philippines and the judgment of Bishop Salvador L. Lazo of San Fernando diocese who was its Ordinary during the phenomena.Philippines source
19892 April – 1989 Palestinian presidential election: The Central Council of the Palestine National Council, the governing body of the PLO, elects Yasser Arafat as President of Palestine.Palestine source
1989April 26 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu, Sultan of Perak, becomes the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia, succeeding Baginda Almutawakkil Alallah Sultan Iskandar Al-Haj ibni Almarhum Sultan Ismail.source
1989June 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Norway, Iceland, Finland, Denmark and Sweden.source
1989September 19 – The Catholic Church calls for removal of the Carmelite convent located near the former Auschwitz concentration camp, whose presence has offended some Jewish leaders.source
198930 October - Apparently as a reaction to the laying of the foundation of Ram temple adjacent to the disputed structure in Ayodhya in India, Hindu shops were looted and set on fire in Chittagong, in spite of a curfew. Hindu men and women were attacked and molested.Bangladesh source
19891 November – The National Youth Council is formed as a division of the People's Association to work on youth matters.Singapore source
1989November 5 – Nasrallah Boutros Sfeir is attacked by Maronite demonstrators loyal to Michel Aoun and who reject the nomination of Rene Moawad as president of the country. One of the demonstrators asks the Patriarch to kiss the picture of General Aoun raised above his head, and many follow him saying: "Kiss the picture, kiss the picture". The Patriarch refuses. The scene is hysterical and tragic to the point that Archbishop Bechara Boutros al-Rahi leaves the Patriarch's side and heads to the church of the Patriarchate because he can no longer bear the sight.source
1989December 1 – In a meeting with Pope John Paul II, General Secretary of the Soviet Union Mikhail Gorbachev pledges greater religious freedom for citizens of the Soviet Union.source
1989December 1 — In a meeting with Pope John Paul II, Mikhail Gorbachev pledges greater religious freedom for Soviet citizens.Soviet Union source
1989December 6 – Egon Krenz resigns as Chairman of the State Council of the German Democratic Republic, and is replaced by Manfred Gerlach, the first non-Communist to hold that post.source
198922 December – Army units defect to the side of the demonstrators while the Ceaușescus flee and the Council of the National Salvation Front announces that it has overthrown the government.Romania source
1989Ólafur Skúlason became the twelfth Bishop of Iceland, succeeding Pétur Sigurgeirsson in the position.Iceland source
1989The founding of the kibbutz Neot Smadar.Israel source
19909 January – Shlomo Pines (born 1908), French-born Israeli scholar of Jewish and Islamic philosophy.Israel source
1990January 25 – Pope John Paul II begins an eight-day tour of Cape Verde, Guinea-Bissau, Mali, Burkina Faso and Chad.source
1990February 5 – The Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Washington, D.C. excommunicates George Augustus Stallings for starting the controversial Imani Temple congregation.source
1990February 21 – Spain grants Protestantism and Judaism legal equality with the Roman Catholic Church.source
1990March 8 – Admiral José Toribio Merino accepts his resignation as the Commander in Chief of the Chilean Navy.Chile source
199021 March – Romania applies to join the Council of Europe; the request was accepted on 7 October 1993.Romania source
1990March 25 – Archbishop of Canterbury Robert Runcie announces his intention to retire at the end of the year.source
19907 April – Hamas declines the invitation to participate in the Preparatory Committee for Restructuring the PNC.Palestine source
199024 April - Brian Friel's Dancing at Lughnasa opens at the Abbey Theatre, Dublin.Northern Ireland source
1990May 1 – The former Episcopal Church in the Philippines (supervised by the Episcopal Church) is granted full autonomy and raised to the state of an Autocephalous Anglican province and renamed the Episcopal Church of the Philippines.source
1990June 7 – Metropolitan Alexy of Moscow is elected Russian Orthodox Patriarch of Moscow and all Rus'.source
1990June 7–8 – 1990 Local Council of the Russian Orthodox ChurchSoviet Union source
1990June 24 – Kathleen Margaret Brown and Irene Templeton are ordained as priests in St Anne's Cathedral in Belfast, becoming the first female Anglican priests in the United Kingdom.source
1990July 25 – George Carey, Bishop of Bath and Wells, is named as the new Archbishop of Canterbury in the Church of England.source
1990September 1–10 – Pope John Paul II visits Tanzania, Burundi, Rwanda and Ivory Coast.source
1990September 29 – Washington National Cathedral is finished.source
1990September 30 – The New Revised Standard Version of the Bible is officially introduced.source
1990October 1 – The Soviet Union enacts a law permitting religious freedom, ending government interference in religious activity and permitting Soviet citizens to engage in private religious study in their homes.source
1990November 9 – The Parliament of Singapore enacts the Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act.source
1990November 12 – Akihito is enthroned as the 125th emperor of Japan following the death of his father on January 7, 1989.source
1990November 16 – Autonomous Region in Muslim Mindanao is officially founded.Philippines source
1990Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Azlan ShahMalaysia source
19915 February – Pedro Arrupe, priest (born 1907)Spain source
19917 February – André-Joseph Léonard appointed Bishop of Namur by Pope John Paul IIBelgium source
1991March 30 – French woman and supercentenarian Jeanne Calment surpasses the final age achieved by Easter Wiggins (1874–1990) of 116 years, 36 days and becomes the oldest verified person in history.source
1991April 19 – George Carey is enthroned as Archbishop of Canterbury, the spiritual leader of the worldwide Anglican Communion.source
199110–13 May – Pope John Paul II visits Portugal. The Pope visited Lisbon, Fátima, the Azores and Funchal.Portugal source
1991September 5 – Dissolution of the Soviet Union: The Congress of People's Deputies of the Soviet Union self-dissolves, being replaced by Supreme Soviet of the Soviet Union and State Council of the Soviet Union.source
199112-21 October: Pope John Paul II makes a ten-day visit to Brazil.Brazil source
19911 November – Jean Dupong is appointed President of the Council of State.Luxembourg source
1991November 2 – Bartholomew I is enthroned as Patriarch of the Ecumenical Patriarchate of Constantinople, thus becoming the new spiritual leader of the Eastern Orthodox worldwide.source
199116 December – United Nations General Assembly Resolution 4686 revokes UN General Assembly Resolution 3379, which had equated Zionism with a form of racism. Israel had made revocation of resolution 3379 a condition for Israel's participation in the Madrid Peace Conference of 1991.Israel source
1991Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Azlan ShahMalaysia source
19911991 – Retirement of the famed International Pakistani hockey player, Zahid Shareef.Pakistan source
1992January 1 – Boutros Boutros-Ghali of Egypt replaces Javier Pérez de Cuéllar of Peru as United Nations Secretary-General.source
19921 January - Iván Balliu, footballerSpain source
199213 January – Croatia is officially recognized by the Holy See.Croatia source
1992March 31 – The Maintenance of Religious Harmony Act of Singapore comes into force.source
19921 May – The National Council of Social Service is formed to coordinate Voluntary Welfare Organisations in Singapore.Singapore source
1992?? August — FORD split into two factions, FORD-Asili and FORD-KenyaKenya source
1992October 3 – After performing a song protesting against alleged Catholic Church child sexual abuse, Irish singer-songwriter Sinéad O'Connor rips up a photograph of Pope John Paul II on the US television programme Saturday Night Live, causing huge controversy.source
1992October 11 – The Catechism of the Catholic Church is promulgated by Pope John Paul II with his apostolic constitution, Fidei depositum.source
1992October 12 – In the Dominican Republic, Pope John Paul II celebrates the 500th anniversary of the meeting of two cultures.source
1992October 31 – Pope John Paul II issues an apology and lifts the 1633 edict of the Inquisition against Galileo Galilei.source
199231 October – the Catholic Church rehabilitates the Italian scientist Galileo Galilei, convicted in 1633.Italy source
1992November 11 – The Church of England votes to allow women to become priests.source
199212 December – At a Council of Ministers meeting in Edinburgh, it is decided that Luxembourg City will remain one of the three seats of the European Union.Luxembourg source
1992Date unknown - The Scientology Task Force of the Hamburg Interior Authority is formed.Germany source
1992Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Azlan ShahMalaysia source
199319 January - João Mário, footballerPortugal source
199327 January – Burial service of Uğur MumcuTurkey source
199323 February – The National Council of the country was founded.Namibia source
1993Pope John Paul II makes an official visit to Albania, accompanied by Mother Teresa. He counsels Albanian Catholics against supporting nationalist violence in Kosovo.source
199310 September – Pope John Paul II visits Estonia and Latvia.Estonia source
199315 October – The establishment of Council of Asian Liberals and Democrats in Taipei.Taiwan source
1993December 26–28 – Four separate grenade attacks occur in Davao City. The first one, during an evening mass at San Pedro Cathedral, kills 6–7 people and injures more than 130 others. In the following two days, three mosques are likewise attacked, injuring six in the second one.Philippines source
1993Yang di-Pertuan Agong: Sultan Azlan ShahMalaysia source
1993Musical bands La Gusana Ciega and Hocico are founded.Mexico source
1994February 25 – Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims before worshippers beat him to death.source
199425 February – Cave of the Patriarchs massacre: Israeli Kahanist Baruch Goldstein opens fire inside the Cave of the Patriarchs, Hebron, in the West Bank; he kills 29 Muslims.Palestine source
1994March 12 – The Church of England ordains its first female priests.source
199426 March – The 1994 Mackellar by-election is won by Bronwyn Bishop whose leadership ambitions stalled when she suffered a 5% swing.Australia source
199424 April – The Crans Montana Forum ends after 4 days. Shimon Peres of Israel and Yasser Arafat of the Palestine Liberation Organization take part.Romania source
1994April 25 – Sultan Azlan Muhibbudin Shah ibni Almarhum Sultan Yusuff Izzudin Shah Ghafarullahu-lahu ends his term as the 9th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.source
1994April 26 – Tuanku Jaafar ibni Almarhum Tuanku Abdul Rahman, Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan, becomes the 10th Yang di-Pertuan Agong of Malaysia.source
1994May 22 – Pope John Paul II issues the Apostolic Letter Ordinatio sacerdotalis from the Vatican, expounding the Catholic Church's position requiring "the reservation of priestly ordination to men alone".source
199418 October – Turkic Council in IstanbulTurkey source
1994December 10 – Yitzhak Rabin, Shimon Peres and Yasser Arafat receive the Nobel Peace Prize.Israel source
1994Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tunku Naquiyuddin (Regent)Malaysia source
1994Belisario Domínguez Medal of Honor – Jaime SabinesMexico source
1994Construction of the Basilica of Christ of José was completed.Venezuela source
1995January 12–16 – Second pastoral and state visit of Pope John Paul II in the country, coinciding with the 10th World Youth Day (WYD) and marking the fourth centenary of the Archdiocese of Manila and the Dioceses of Cebu, Caceres and Nueva Segovia. On Jan 15, the Mass he led in Luneta, marking the end of WYD, draws a crowd of an estimated 4-million, the largest gathering at such papal Mass at that time. —"Pope John Paul II to visit the Philippines in 1995" UCA News. July 14, 1993.Philippines source
199511 April – The Council of Australian Governments (COAG) meeting is held. The assembled Premiers and territory leaders endorse a program of reforms envisaged by Professor Fred Hilmer's National Competition Policy Review.Australia source
1995June – Pope John Paul II visits Belgium.Belgium source
1995July 20 – In Hill v. Church of Scientology of Toronto the Supreme Court upholds Canada's largest ever libel award.Canada source
1995July – The Tengku Tengah Zaharah Mosque in Kuala Terengganu was fully constructed. This was the first floating mosque in Malaysia.Malaysia source
199521 September – Reports of the Hindu milk miracle surface.India source
1995October 12: The bishop of the Universal Church, Sérgio von Helder, kicks a statue of Our Lady of Aparecida, the country's patron saint; during two programs on Rede Record.Brazil source
1995December 8 – Five-year-old Gyaincain Norbu is enthroned as the 11th reincarnation of the Panchen Lama at Tashilhunpo Monastery.source
1995Best Cover: Alec Bathgate / Chris Knox - 3 EPs (Tall Dwarfs)New Zealand source
1996April 3 – About 1,000 Muslim clergymen elect Taliban leader Mohammed Omar as amir al-momineen (commander of the faithful), denouncing Rabbani as unfit to lead the Islamic nation.Afghanistan source
1996July 22 – The first Gethsemani Encounter takes place at the abbey of Our Lady of Gethsemani. This event, hosted by the DIMMID, is the first intermonastic dialogue between Buddhist and Christian monks and is attended by the Dalai Lama and Bishop Joseph John Gerry.source
19965 November – Saintly wins the Melbourne Cup giving Bart Cummings his 10th win as a trainer.Australia source
19961 December – The establishment of the Council of Aboriginal Affairs.Taiwan source
19966 December – A series of events are held marking the 500th anniversary of the expulsion of Jews from Portugal by Manuel I. Speaking in the National Assembly, President Jorge Sampaio describes the 1496 expulsion as "iniquitous act with deep and disastrous consequences", and joins Dan Tichon, the Speaker of the Knesset in Israel, and leaders of the Portuguese Catholic Church in a session of prayers at the Lisbon Synagogue.Portugal source
1996Trillium Book Award French: Nancy Vickers (Canadian writer), Le Pied de Sappho and Alain Bernard Marchand, Tintin au pays de la ferveurCanada source
1996The founding of the West Bank settlement of Modi'in Illit.Israel source
1996Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tunku Naquiyuddin (Regent)Malaysia source
1996Best Male Vocalist: Jon Toogood – ShihadNew Zealand source
1997March 13 – India's Missionaries of Charity chooses Sister Nirmala, to succeed Mother Teresa as its leader.source
1997April 23 – Thirty-one branches of Monte de Piedad, the Asia's oldest thrift bank formerly owned by the Archdiocese of Manila, go on "bank holiday" after being declared insolvent by the BSP. Church officials, including Cardinal and archbishop Sin, have been accused of causing the collapse of the bank. The bank reopens on May 8 under the Singaporean conglomerate Keppel Group.Philippines source
19978 June – Queen Jadwiga of Poland was canonized by Pope John Paul II in Kraków.Poland source
19971 July – Luxembourg assumes the rotating Presidency of the Council of the European Union for the following six months.Luxembourg source
1997September 6 – The funeral of Diana, Princess of Wales, takes place at Westminster Abbey, London, UK, watched by over two billion people worldwide.source
1997October 26 - The Taliban change the name of the country to Islamic Emirate of Afghanistan, underlining the importance of Taliban leader Mullah Mohammad Omar, who is known as amir al-momineen (Leader of the Faithful), although his constitutional position remains unclear. Although controlling about two-thirds of the country, the Taliban have only been recognized by three countries - Pakistan, Saudi Arabia, and the United Arab Emirates - as the legitimate rulers of Afghanistan. Afghanistan's seat in the UN is occupied by representatives of the administration of Burhanuddin Rabbani that has been ousted from Kabul 13 months ago, while the Organization of the Islamic Conference declared Afghanistan's seat vacant.Afghanistan source
1997Muktijoddha Sangsad KC won 1997–98 Dhaka Premier Division League title while Mohammedan SC became runner-up.Bangladesh source
1997The Mosque of Omar Ibn Al-Khattab, the third-largest mosque in Latin America, completes construction in Maicao, La Guajira.Colombia source
1997The Synod of the Evangelical Church of Gabon was formed.Gabon source
1997The Al-Aqsa Islamic Bank was established.Palestine source
1998January 21 - Pope John Paul II begins a 5-day visit to Cuba; Fidel Castro releases 300 political prisoners in a gesture of goodwill.source
199825 January - Miss Chinese International Pageant 1998Hong Kong source
199810 March – Rabbi Hayim David HaLevi (born 1924), Chief Rabbi of Tel Aviv.Israel source
199828 April – Construction starts on the Umm al-Qura Mosque, one of the largest mosques in Iraq.Iraq source
199824 May – Taça de Portugal FinalPortugal source
19981 August – The establishment of Fisheries Agency of the Council of Agriculture.Taiwan source
1998Karl Sigurbjörnsson became the thirteenth Bishop of Iceland, succeeding Ólafur Skúlason in the position.Iceland source
1998Yang di-Pertuan Besar of Negeri Sembilan: Tunku Naquiyuddin (Regent)Malaysia source
1998Super 12 - was won by the Canterbury Crusaders who defeated the Auckland Blues 20–13 in the final. Season summaryNew Zealand source
199927 January – Gonzalo Torrente Ballester, writer (born 1910)Spain source
199914 February – over 250,000 Orthodox Jews demonstrate in Jerusalem over a Supreme Court ruling that Reform and Conservative congregations should have representatives on local religious councils.Israel source
1999March 15 – The Santer Commission of the EU resigns over allegations of corruption.source
199915 March – The Santer Commission, under the leadership of Luxembourger Jacques Santer, resigns in the face of corruption allegations.Luxembourg source
19996 April – The AIADMK withdraws two of its representatives from the Council of Ministers.India source
199921 June – SingPost and CISCO signed an agreement to create a new certification authority for e-commerce, thereby increasing security.Singapore source
1999September 12: Nuestra Belleza México 1999Mexico source
1999October 31 – The Catholic Church and several Lutheran Church leaders sign the Joint Declaration on the Doctrine of Justification, attempting to resolve a centuries-old doctrinal dispute over the nature of faith and salvation.source
1999December 5 – Shenyang Haishi won Chongqing Longxin by 2-1 in the Chinese Jia-A League, which later led to a match-fixing controversy.China source
1999Top Female Vocalist: Betty-Anne Monga (Ardijah)New Zealand source