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A Daily Dose of History: Events on this Day in History

Revolutionary Baptism: Birth of Swiss Anabaptists (+ 3 more historical events on this day!)

4 min • 21 januari 2024

A Daily Dose of History (21 Jan 2024)

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 RMS Tayleur sinks off Lambay Island on her maiden voyage from Liverpool to Australia with great loss of life.
  • American Civil War: Jefferson Davis resigns from the United States Senate.

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