Year 805

Ludger becomes Bishop of Münster


Year 820

Adalung becomes Bishop of Eichstatt


Year 850

Gunther becomes Archbishop of Cologne.


Year 858

Franco becomes Bishop of Liege

Year 1086

Victor III becomes Pope; his name is Desiderius.


Year 1138

Victor IV becomes Antipope; his name is Gregorio Conti.


Year 1241

Rutger von Ammendorf becomes Bishop of Brandenburg


Year 1599

Bonaventura Hahn is forced to resign as Bishop of Wroclaw by the Pope

Year 1846

Bernard Georg Kellerman becomes Bishop of Münster.


Year 1862

The Diocese of Bolivar is established from the Diocese of Cuenca.


On 19 December

 
Year 1894
 
Elisabeth of Romania is born.


On 2 October

 
Year 1935
 
Michael Rackl becomes Bishop of Eichstätt.
 
 

Year 860

Rainelme becomes Bishop of Tournai and Noyon.

Year 901

Stephen becomes Bishop of Liege.

Eberhard II Duke of Franconia dies

 
Year 933
 
Starchand becomes Bishop of Eichstatt.
 
 

Year 250

Pope St Fabianus was killed in persecution of Decius.


Year 303

Apostasy of Marcellinus.


Year 629

Dagobert I becomes King of Burgundy.


Year 968

Dodilo becomes Bishop of Brandenburg.

Year 335

Maximinus II becomes Bishop of Trier.


Year 458

The Burgundians were permanently settled into the area now known as Burgundy.


Year 600

Remedius becomes Bishop of Cologne.


Year 848

Saint Eulogius visits San Pedro de Siresa monastery and found manuscripts of Virgil, Horace and Juvenal.

Year 1921

Ludwig Maria Hugo becomes Bishop of Mainz.

Year 1471

Sixtus IV becomes Pope; his name is Francesco della Rovere.

Year 748

Elisee becomes Bishop of Tournai and Noyon.

Palestine 3

The word Palestine is a Latin word.


Year 1967

In this year when the Israelis liberated the areas known as the “Occupied Territories” only then did these people in this area becomes Palestinians.

Palestine 2

Year 1956

At the United Nations, the Saudi representative said: “It is common knowledge that Palestine is nothing but Southern Syria”

Year 1967

After the 1967 war Zuheir Muhsin – then military commander of the PLO and member of the PLO executive council said:

“There are no differences between Jordanians, Palestinians, Syrians and Lebanese. We are all part of one nation. It is for political reasons that we carefully underline our Palestinian identity…yes, the existence of a separate Palestinian identity serves only tactical purposes. The founding of a Palestinian state is a tool in the continuing battle against Israel”

Palestine

December 2011

Newt Gingrich states that the Palestinian Arabs were “an invented people”.

And that is a correct statement.


Year 1937

The Arabs themselves repeatedly admitted this over the years.

Anui bey Abdul-Hadi, the Syrian Arab ruler to the British Peel Commission:

“There is no such country as Palestine.”

“Palestine is a term the Zionists invented.”

“There is no Palestine in the Bible.”

“Our country was for centuries part of Syria.”

“Palestine is alien to us.”

“It is the Zionists who introduced it.”

Year 653

Pope St Martin I is arrested by Emperor Charles II


Year 1295

Hugh of Chalon becomes Prince Bishop of Liege

5th Century

Early in this century the Rhine frontier was breached and much of Gaul was lost to barbarian tribes.


Year 361

Constantius II’s cousin Julian becomes Roman Emperor.