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Swiss Anabaptist Movement: Radical Religious Defiance (+ 7 more historical events on this day!)
A Daily Dose of History (21 Jan 2025)
Today's historical events:
The Swiss Anabaptist Movement is founded when Conrad Grebel, Felix Manz, George Blaurock, and about a dozen others baptize each other in the home of Manz's mother in Zürich, breaking a thousand-year tradition of church-state union.
Sweden and Prussia sign the Treaty of Stockholm.
The Teatro Filarmonico in Verona is destroyed by fire, as a result of a torch being left behind in the box of a nobleman after a performance. It is rebuilt in 1754.
Abdul Hamid I becomes Sultan of the Ottoman Empire and Caliph of Islam.
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